So come on, pick Boris's successor.

[Pat ex]

About 16,000 foreigners, non-UK citizens, who are members of the Tory party are allowed to vote in the next PM election.
Membership of the Tory party is not restricted to UK citizens or even UK electorate. Only members of the Tory party are allowed to vote in the next leader election.
How can that possibly be acceptable?

The Conservatives Abroad website states that by doing this “you are entitled to all the benefits of party membership, including participation in the Conservative Policy Forum, attendance at party conferences and a vote in the election of the party leader.”

It also specifies that “you do not have to be a voter or a UK citizen” to join Conservatives Abroad.

Who can vote in the Conservative leadership contest? – Full Fact

We’ve taken a look at the membership rules for the leadership contest, to see who could be eligible to vote in the upcoming vote.

fullfact.org

 

[ajohn]

What an opportunity to Starmer to be saying we should take the French (etc) approach to power prices to get the strain off the individual. Yes I would slash the energy cos' profits to pay for some of it.

1981 United Kingdom budget - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ajohn]

One of the water companies' CEOs got a bonus of 450k on top of his 750k salary. "We're working on the leaks".
BONUS??? FFS.
Seen as a tory thing, though it's probably not.

There are growing concerns about the effects of water privatisation in a number of countries.

 

[ajohn]

Wars 1 & 2.
Where the yanks came to the rescue.

it and others are involved in a proxi war currently. The dam things have a habit of cropping up.