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Imagine Doris, Cleverly, Patel and Rees-Mogg are pissed

Certainly Dorries (allegedly).

What ever happened to Mark Francois? Seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet.

And Raab? He was deputy PM six or so weeks ago, wasn't he?

The Tories are going to do anything within their power to avoid a GE as they'd (based on
current polling) lose in a manner that is conceivably historically notable.

This.
Remember that it was the Parliamentary Conservative Party who forced BoJo to quit, but it's not beyond belief that 100 of them might nominate him (if he puts himself forward from the beach he's currently on) only in the hope of saving their own jobs.
Charles Walker did an impassioned interview on the Beeb last night which sounded really good until you ask 'why did he wait until now to say it'? And he only talked about the damage being done to the Tory party, not the country. He as been complicit in everything his party has done in Parliament in his 17 years as a backbench MP.

Who is the deputy PM today?

It was Raab at some point, wasn't it? What's he up to at the moment? I haven't seen his name for a while - is he just biding his time... ?

I could well be wrong (as I've been shown to be on the royalty thread recently), but I seem to remember seeing a quote from someone saying that you can't change an amendment to the US constitution. Deep irony there.

'The Constitution needs to be protected, not changed...'

Supports the Second Amendment.

So how much has this state funeral cost us?

on top of the £102 million this year to keep the royal family housed, fed, serviced

I don't want to be an apologist for the Royal Family, but they are generally net contributors to the country's finances. The profits from the Crown Estate are paid to the government each year and 25% of this is returned as the 'Sovereign Grant' to the Queen/King. Apparently, the payments to the government have totalled around £3bn over the last 10 years.

I thought I'd seen a graphic on this thread showing how this works, but I can't find it. There's a long winded version here, though https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063719/Report_of_the_Royal_Trustees_on_the_sovereign_grant_2022-23.pdf

It's not a charity, it's a union.

Wasn't Gordon Taylor the highest paid union Chief Exec (earning up to £2m pa)? He left last year with a bonus of £1.4m. Maybe that's why they are selling the Lowry?

Guess Boris had a speech written ready he found whilst unpacking and dusted off

He probably had two speeches written.

Nah, he probably wrote it months ago.

He'd have been hoping upon hope that he'd be able to be all Churchillian as the sitting PM during the lying in state/funeral stuff.

Was it the same as he tweeted?

The noise they make is very distinguishable.

The Chinook sound always reminds me of the saying: 'Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission'.

If the parked Tesla was up against the wall/fence next to the tracks, it could have launched the Range Rover over it? There was a lot of energy in the accident with a heavy car moving at high speed.
Incredible escape for the man in the Tesla! RIP the passenger.

Lack of rain doesn't stop the flooding - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62463771

The people in the article are younger and still working so not the stereotypical pensioner.

Edit: haha, just had a look at a documentary about a British pensioner

Joe, the main interviewee, is shown as 64 so, although he might be receiving some personal or occupational pension income, it's doubtful whether he is getting any UK state pension.

So, he retired early, relocated to Portugal and voted for Brexit.

Presumably, he got the Brexit he didn't vote for (tm).

All this eggy crisp talk has sent me on a mission to Deptford to buy some salted egg crisps.
Incredible things.

Spotted today in Wing Yip Cricklewood.

I can't imagine he'll be very enthusiastic about sitting on the backbenches and holding Saturday surgeries for his constituents in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Carrie might enjoy attending church fetes though.

Probably several factors used to show it off in a dramatic way:

Very light
Fire by wire protections turned off
High speed at rotation meant plenty of kinetic energy (speed) to trade off as potential energy (height) - notice how it levelled off pretty soon after take off when the speed would have fallen off towards the stall speed.
Test pilots!

This will be forgotten as quickly as the Chilcott Report. Anyone remember that?

The Standard repeatedly ran Corbyn antisemitism stories during the last GE campaign. Maybe this will give some anti Labour ammunition to the aspirants to the Tory party leadership? Convenient time for them to release the report if it does...

I think these were the kit bag bats at school. Had a perfectly flat face? Always looked very
awkward and unforgiving.

I seem to remember that the face was flatter than the others, with thick edges. It was also quite heavy and/or the balance wasn't quite right for me.

Must have been a golden age for watching and playing at both levels!

I grew up in Rochdale with a dad who was a big cricket fan and we were both Lancs CC members in the golden days of the Sunday League. We also went around the Central Lancs and Lancs league grounds. I saw Gary Sobers and Joel Garner play for Littleborough years ago!
https://www.littleboroughcc.co.uk/about/professionals-from-the-past/

Later on, I played myself (not at that level!) and my first serious bat was an SS Jumbo (a Viv tribute) and my last one was a GN Powerspot (early 90's original version) that a few of the Lancs players used at the time (Atherton?) which was wonderful. There was a DF Magnum (Gooch tribute) somewhere in the middle that I didn't really get on with.

"Shake up the system", deliver Brexit, stick it to the 'elite'"??
He was the system, he'd like to think that he was part of the 'elite'. And, as for Brexit...

I thought Raab already lots of sound bites as slogans? There are quite a few to chose from, but the 'Dover Calais Crossings' quote made when in 2018 he was actually the Tory Brexit minister seemed give an insight to his stupidity.

There should be a ban on three word political haikus:

Get Brexit done
Hard working families
Ready for Rishi (obvs)
Education, education, education
Oven ready deal
Take back control
Hands face space
etc,etc

I thought it was a good speech. However, there were a few vox pops after Bojo's resignation where people said that they would never trust Starmer.

Admittedly, this is London centric, but I can't forget the constant ad hominem attacks against Corbyn in the Metro and Standard in 2019 (e.g. anti semitism and pro IRA) which were just thrown out with no context or background.

What's the betting that Starmer won't get the same treatment? How about his non-involvement in the Savile prosecution? I can't see that not being raised in the right wing media disinformation.

There was a post a couple of hours before yours !

I'd assumed he wanted to beat the length of May's term to move a place up in the shortest serving PM league table.

If it is about some sort of bash at Chequers, I sincerely hope that he's crowd funding it from his Tory and Russian backers and that 'hard working families' and tax payers won't be picking up the tab. Still, the guest list might be a little shorter than it would have been at the weekend!