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Topic Originator: sammer
Date: Sat 1 Jul 03:57
Last Saturday P, the blogger who works off a James Bond casino logo for reasons undetermined, was taunting me to appear and say everything was ‘tickety boo’ in Moscow. I replied as quick as I could and told him that everything was as before and that the putsch would fail, much to his disappointment. Events have proven my response to be correct. Which is as you might expect, since I live in Moscow and most of the western excitement came from those who have never entered the country.
This Saturday there is on going, serious political turmoil in Paris, not for the first time, yet P has so far remained mute. As mute in fact as Scholz of Germany when his pipeline was blown up. P often gives well grounded advice to be concise, but saying nothing is an abuse of that advice in my view. So I would welcome his comments.
My own view is that Putin will outlast most of the European leaders who have bowed before US foreign policy in a Pavlovian response to the Ukraine war. Vote Sunak, vote Macron, vote Scholz has little life left. But vote Starmer, vote Le Pen vote AfD is more alarming.
sammer
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sat 1 Jul 06:26
Of course Putin will outlast those leaders. Those leaders require reelection to remain in power and the people will turf them out sooner or later by going to schools and community centres and putting a mark on a wee slip of paper. The closest Putin has come to being removed from power was seven days ago when a group of mercenaries shot down several military aircraft. Even the rioters in France haven`t gone that far. Of course that hasn`t stopped hundreds ,if not thousands,of those rioters being arrested and yet those who shot down those aircraft in Russia had all charges dropped.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Sat 1 Jul 08:51
Tell me you live in a dictatorship, without telling me you live in a dictatorship.
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Topic Originator: P
Date: Sat 1 Jul 11:36
Wow get under your skin did I sammer? My very own thread too - I feel quite privileged. Good to see you have dispensed with the reasonable argument component and went straight to the paragraphs of drivel though - highly entertaining. Drinking into the wee small hours is magic though isn’t it 👍🏼
I take it you see retaining a single leader forever to be a good thing, not often you come across someone so keen on dictatorship but fair enough or is it that there is no one else in the whole of Russia that is as capable of leading as your hero?
Not entirely sure what you expect me to say about the Paris riots though and that is a particularly weird flex but it in answer to where I was at 357am I was in my bed 🤷🏻♂️
Post Edited (Sat 01 Jul 11:37)
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Topic Originator: Andrew283
Date: Sat 1 Jul 22:24
My dictator has lasted longer than an elected head of state guys 😂😂😂
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Topic Originator: sammer
Date: Sun 2 Jul 00:34
I did not realise that Wikipedia had been de-platformed inside GB. Here are the results from the 2018 Russian Federation for President. Unlike in the UK, the Head of state is an elected position. As winner, Vladimir Putin remains President until 2024. My own preferred candidate came second by the way.
I will list the top three candidates.
Vladimir Putin Independent 77.53 %
Pavel Grudinin Communist 11.90 %
Vladimir Zhirinovsky LDP 5.71 %
So, unlike King Charles, Vlaldimir Putin is an elected Head of State. As a side note, neither Liz Truss nor Rishi Sunak were ever elected PM by the UK public.
sammer
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Topic Originator: Andrew283
Date: Mon 3 Jul 10:27
Cor, that`s one very, totally not fudged result right there buddy. Oooof
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Topic Originator: Tad Allagash
Date: Mon 3 Jul 14:43
‘As a side note, neither Liz Truss nor Rishi Sunak were ever elected PM by the UK public.’
OK, but Liz Truss got punted after about 5 mins. Boris Johnson actually did win an election, but he was also punted in his first term.
So any UK PM’s jacket is on a shoogly peg from day one.
The UK system is actually pretty good at removing leaders, which is the most important function of a democracy.
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Topic Originator: DBP
Date: Mon 3 Jul 15:20
Am I being pedantic to say that no one was ever elected as prime minister?
We elect mps and the party who can secure a majority (party with largest number of mps first) take power and their leader assumes the position of pm.
The leader of the party is elected by that party, so while we may believe we are voting for a pm, we’re not
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