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[Ant]

There are loads of people who'd be a good PM, few of them would actually want the job

Bring Back Boris!!!!!!!

[Greenman]

There are loads of people who'd be a good PM, few of them would actually want the job

Because they have no pride in themselves!

Putting yourself out there at something you think you will excel at is a must if we are all to evolve.

If we all just follow money we are all fucked as a race!

[ZRX61]

Because the pay and conditions are shite compared to any similar job which takes "wrangling" to get to.

Why would anyone of any real ability want to deal the shit the comes with being a politician when they can earn 10 times more as the unknown CEO of Firmyouveveverheardof Plc.

Civic duty? Any one with any actual civic mindedness would have all of that sucked out of them by the other cunts and the civil service. We've all seen Yes, Minister

My stepdad was an inspector for the Inland Revenue back in the day & his office was responsible for Westminster area. He said every damn one of them (MP's/Lord etc) weren't to be trusted when it came to financials. He could barely recall an instance where he looked into someones taxes & accepted them as filed.

[Mussels]

Because the pay and conditions are shite compared to any similar job which takes "wrangling" to get to.

Why would anyone of any real ability want to deal the shit the comes with being a politician when they can earn 10 times more as the unknown CEO of Firmyouveveverheardof Plc.

Civic duty? Any one with any actual civic mindedness would have all of that sucked out of them by the other cunts and the civil service. We've all seen Yes, Minister

My stepdad was an inspector for the Inland Revenue back in the day & his office was responsible for Westminster area. He said every damn one of them (MP's/Lord etc) weren't to be trusted when it came to financials. He could barely recall an instance where he looked into someones taxes & accepted them as filed.

HMRC inspectors aren't to be trusted either nowadays, I don't know what it was like back then,

[Mr. Dazzle]

Can we have a list of who we're allowed to trust?

Lords, politicians, HMRC inspectors and Daytime TV presenters are off, obviously.

[Greenman]

Can we have a list of who we're allowed to trust?

Lords, politicians, HMRC inspectors and Daytime TV presenters are off, obviously.

Ask yourself!

[Ant]

I prefer Squarepusher.

[ZRX61]

HMRC inspectors aren't to be trusted either nowadays, I don't know what it was like back then,

This would have been about 40 years ago. My sis just retired after running the same office.

[ZRX61]

Looks like Trump may be truly fucked this time... & mostly because he couldn't STFU. Barr threw him under the bus on Fox this morning.

[wheelnut]

There are loads of people who'd be a good PM, few of them would actually want the job

The desire to become a politician should bar someone from ever becoming one.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I saw a documentary years ago about "what does parliament actually do?" sort of thing. One of the people they followed around was a Labour MP for somewhere in Liverpool. He was an ex Bricky who would still do a bit of Chimney repair at weekends to de-stress.

He seemed like a decent sort. They followed him trying to introduce a bill to address the use of really old tyres on coaches. One of his constituent's kid's died on a coach which crashed cause of mega old tyres.

Actually quite soul destroying watching how much he had to do to get an "honest" bill considered.

[Horse]

There are loads of people who'd be a good PM, few of them would actually want the job

A survey about 25-30 years suggested Sir John Harvey-Jones for PM.

At the time, he was in a BBC programme called 'Troubleshooter', visiting businesses* to try and help them

* including one police force

[ZRX61]

Local weather guessers have switch from "California entering it's fourth year of mega drought" (which was the story for about three months before we got 2 or 3 years worth of rain & snow in a month) to reporting on the forthcoming "monsoon season".. which hasn't ever been mentioned before AFAIK.

[Horse]

Over here it's a long-standing government tradition to create a 'minister for drought'. That will usually, within days, trigger months of torrential rain.

[Count Steer]

Isn't a lot of weather forecasting based on the patterns of weather data from what's gone before? If the predictions are getting a bit iffy it might be that the patterns are changing ie the climate is changing.

[Screwdriver]

Isn't a lot of weather forecasting based on the patterns of weather data from what's gone before? If the predictions are getting a bit iffy it might be that the patterns are changing ie the climate is changing.

One pattern that isn't changing is El Niño. Having said that, it is scheduled to be a pretty extreme version this year.

Hot, hot, hot...

[JackyJoll]

Over here it's a long-standing government tradition to create a 'minister for drought'. That will usually, within days, trigger months of torrential rain.

They should appoint the minister at an earlier stage!

[Horse]

Over here it's a long-standing government tradition to create a 'minister for drought'. That will usually, within days, trigger months of torrential rain.

They should appoint the minister at an earlier stage!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_ ... Efficiency

[JackyJoll]

Anyway, I’d appoint the Minister for Drought right at the start of the drought.

[Horse]

Anyway, I’d appoint the Minister for Drought right at the start of the drought.

You'd need to improve radically the accuracy of weather forecasting