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HanoiVillan Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Very often makes it on to my top ten films list. Classic. Oh, absolutely! I certainly can't think of ten films that are more fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Rory Stewart to stand down at next election and has resigned from the Tory party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted October 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 I think it's a genuine shame that someone who has (other than the made-up percentage on the radio - last year?) largely sought to take interviews and respond to questions asked with more than just the party line, and seemed to try to tackle issues in his ministerial portfolio(s) with a seriousness often absent in recent times, feels that they cannot continue in national politics. That's from someone who doesn't share much, if any, of his politics. And we're left (in the Tory party) with the likes of Francois, Baker, Dorries, Raab, et al. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 4, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 4, 2019 20 minutes ago, snowychap said: And we're left (in the Tory party) with the likes of Francois, Baker, Dorries, Raab, et al. We're left counting individual brain cells, I'm not sure the braincell count is higher than the number of MPs 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, snowychap said: Rory Stewart to stand down at next election and has resigned from the Tory party. I saw yesterday that he's planning to launch a 'Macron-style' centrist party, or so it was claimed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, snowychap said: Rory Stewart to stand down at next election and has resigned from the Tory party. going to be running for London mayor was the rumour . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted October 4, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: going to be running for London mayor was the rumour . Appears to be the correct answer. Running for as an Independent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) When looking at Stewart's voting record, there's a very small amount of things I agree with him on. However that said there was something somewhat likeable about him. He comes across pretty genuine and passionate, ready to put his neck on the line (going outside the party line at times and I seem to remember him promising to resign if he didn't hit his 'targets' when prisons minister) and always made time to communicate his views to the press and not appear especially disingenuous when doing so. If you look at all the shitheads that have infiltrated the Tory party these days it's clear the party is worse off without him. Edited October 4, 2019 by Dr_Pangloss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 48 minutes ago, peterms said: I appreciate this Eton report has been doing the rounds for a while now and causes much merriment but are we now citing a headmasters report of an 18 year old as evidence that someone isn't fit for office , or are we just using it as evidence that Stewart is acting like a petulant child who didn't get his way ? I'm sure the world is full of plenty of people who have moved on since their school days , heck even my school reports say I was lazy , argumentative and played the fool and clearly I've changed a lot since then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: I appreciate this Eton report has been doing the rounds for a while now and causes much merriment but are we now citing a headmasters report of an 18 year old as evidence that someone isn't fit for office , or are we just using it as evidence that Stewart is acting like a petulant child who didn't get his way ? I'm sure the world is full of plenty of people who have moved on since their school days , heck even my school reports say I was lazy , argumentative and played the fool and clearly I've changed a lot since then I was thinking this as well, me at school is a massively different version of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, tonyh29 said: are we now citing a headmasters report of an 18 year old as evidence that someone isn't fit for office ... I'm sure the world is full of plenty of people who have moved on since their school days The reason it's amusing is that the character traits described are so plainly still evident. 2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: my school reports say I was lazy , argumentative and played the fool and clearly I've changed a lot since then Yes. Yes, I can see that... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WhatAboutTheFinish Posted October 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 The biggest shock for me about this letter is that the headmaster of Eton would start a letter ‘Dear Stanley’...how terribly informal! Obviously once I was over that, I was then disappointed it didn’t continue ‘I wrote you but you still ain’t calling, I sent you two carrier pigeons but you must not have got ‘em’. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, WhatAboutTheFinish said: The biggest shock for me about this letter is that the headmaster of Eton would start a letter ‘Dear Stanley’...how terribly informal! Obviously once I was over that, I was then disappointed it didn’t continue ‘I wrote you but you still ain’t calling, I sent you two carrier pigeons but you must not have got ‘em’. Before Ringo Bicks turns up , can I be McCartney to your Lennon and suggest "I sent Jeeves around in the Bentley but you must not have got ‘em’ " you can still have your name first on the song credits 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 4, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, tonyh29 said: Before Ringo Bicks turns up PfE & PoP in one short statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: I appreciate this Eton report has been doing the rounds for a while now and causes much merriment but are we now citing a headmasters report of an 18 year old as evidence that someone isn't fit for office , or are we just using it as evidence that Stewart is acting like a petulant child who didn't get his way ? I'm sure the world is full of plenty of people who have moved on since their school days , heck even my school reports say I was lazy , argumentative and played the fool and clearly I've changed a lot since then Plenty of people who have interacted with Johnson since his days at Eton have said pretty damning things about him. Max Hastings was pretty scathing at the Telegraph. Claimed Boris was not to be trusted and was one of the most self centred individuals he had ever known. Edited October 4, 2019 by meregreen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 19 minutes ago, meregreen said: Plenty of people who have interacted with Johnson since his days at Eton have said pretty damning things about him. Max Hastings was pretty scathing at the Telegraph. Claimed Boris was not to be trusted and was one of the most self centred individuals he had ever known. Hastings also described Brown as " wholly psychologically unfit to be PM" , maybe he just has a thing about PM's i get the whole Johnson character thingy I was curious as a to why they wheeled Rory Stewart out to a crowd to read it as much anything. I suppose he was 18 at the time so pretty much an adult , I'm just not entirely sure a school report should be used in this way , but should he become PM I'll eagerly await Corbyn's nursery teachers assessment of him and how although he pulled a girls pigtails its only by pulling pigtails that you can truly bring about peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: I'm just not entirely sure a school report should be used in this way It absolutely shouldn't be used to form an opinion on someone as an adult. You're quite right in saying people change massively from 18 onwards. I think the only reason it was brought up is because it's uncanny how similar it is to how he demonstrably acts now. It's not 'he was like this as a kid so must be a bastard' so much as it's interesting how relevant the report is to his current demeanour. Considering the front page of the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago was an article slagging Corbyn off for attending the wedding of a man falsely accused that he always insisted was innocent and was eventually found to be, I'm sure anything remotely damaging in his school reports will already have been dug up and be waiting in reserve! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 4, 2019 Moderator Share Posted October 4, 2019 14 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: i get the whole Johnson character thingy I was curious as a to why they wheeled Rory Stewart out to a crowd to read it as much anything. He thinks Johnson's a word removed He's supposedly on the same side of the political devide (in terms of Left / Right) He's currently newsworthy as he used it to resign from the Tory Party He DGAF about Johnson or the Tories opinion of him any more Did I mention that he thinks Johnson is a word removed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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