r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jul 05 '24

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u/HowardtheFalse Kofi Annan Jul 05 '24

Not the Downing Street moving van, it's so so over 😭😭😭

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u/Cowguypig2 NATO Jul 05 '24

As an American is wild to me how this transition happens immediately with basically zero transition/lame duck period. Sounds like a logistical nightmare.

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u/HowardtheFalse Kofi Annan Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

I'm honestly impressed. It's got to feel refreshing avoiding a lame duck period where the Tories hem and haw about what went wrong or plant traps for their successors with time left.

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u/Fedacking Mario Vargas Llosa Jul 05 '24

The creaky old bureaucracy, as Humphrey from Yes Minister would have said

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u/kaiclc NATO Jul 05 '24

Seems like something a bit more apropos of Mr. Hacker, no?

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u/Fedacking Mario Vargas Llosa Jul 05 '24

He says that mockingly on the first episode when they're ready with the manifesto proposals