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[briantrumpet]

"Bugger it lads, that didn't work, but I'm sure I remember someone saying that she'd moved a pawn the wrong way in a game of chess when she was 13... get on it now!!!

 

[briantrumpet]

I mean, if this bombshell doesn't bring her down, I don't know what will. Chris Mason will be weighing in in the morning, for sure, with his wisdom.

 

[Beebo]

The joke is that there are currently far more serious issues being made about what Farage got up to in his school days. Which are being completely ignored by the Press.

 

[CXRAndy]

Top civil servant James Bowler approved the OBR letter confirming LCR knew of a more favourable state of the UK finances

 

[secretsqirrel]

The joke is that there are currently far more serious issues being made about what Farage got up to in his school days. Which are being completely ignored by the Press.

Yebbut what’s the fun in stalking Farage.

The Guardian is trying to keep Farage on the front page, bless ‘em.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Telling it like it is…….

 

[briantrumpet]

Reeves gets surprising support in the Telegraph in the confected #chessgate story.

I wonder what the next line of attack will be. Picking her nose in public when she was 9?

 

[briantrumpet]

Mr Edmans' views get passed onto the next generation. I'm not that his interest is in the finer points of chess.

 

[Pblakeney]

Mr Edmans' views get passed onto the next generation. I'm not that his interest is in the finer points of chess.

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Is this the other side of the coin "Maggie"?
That one drags with people who weren't even born when she was in power till today.

 

[briantrumpet]

I guess they want to accuse her of using the Oxford comma incorrectly.

 

[PurplePenguin]

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I guess they want to accuse her of using the Oxford comma incorrectly.

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It is a bit tedious, but it happens to all politicians and I'm sure she has played the game too.

 

[icowden]

It is a bit tedious, but it happens to all politicians and I'm sure she has played the game too.

I'm not sure it does. There is a nasty air of misogyny about the attacks on Reeves and Rayner.
I don't recall anyone looking for Liz Truss' thesis.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I'm not sure it does. There is a nasty air of misogyny about the attacks on Reeves and Rayner.
I don't recall anyone looking for Liz Truss' thesis.

You think Liz Truss escaped criticism?

 

[Pblakeney]

You think Liz Truss escaped criticism?

I do not remember anyone digging into her background.
The well deserved criticism she got was for her time in power, and for best best pay-off in UK political history.

 

[briantrumpet]

I do not remember anyone digging into her background.
The well deserved criticism she got was for her time in power, and for best best pay-off in UK political history.

To be fair, I think there was some digging, just to see if she'd always been as nuts as her lettuce era.