I suspect that contrary to usual practice, the US customary Johnson (Lyndon) is larger than the Imperial Johnson (Boris).
One does wonder what the corresponding SI unit is. Probably the Merkel? Not so imposing yet still quite potent. And being an inherently smaller unit of measure, the bragging numbers are larger. SI for the win again!
Has there been a fiasco comparable to Truss in the entire history of democratic politics ? There have been plenty of short lived governments in Italy and Japan among others but I don’t know if any of them created the kind of self-inflicted disaster that Truss did so quickly. At the start , her chances of staying for two years till the election were high. The Tory majority is large and the Tories were going to be extremely reluctant to remove yet another leader. To destroy that position in just seven weeks requires a truly perverse genius for self-destruction.
I am a bit confused about the new rules. So the party members won’t get the final choice this time? How did they change the rules so quickly? Anyway it probably means that Sunak will become PM. He has obviously been vindicated by the Truss disaster and the Tories will want a competent economic manager to give them a chance in two years or more realistically limit the damage.
According to the expert in the measurement: Anthony Scaramucci mocks UK's humiliated PM Liz Truss on her resignation after 44 days with tweet | Daily Mail Online
Because it sounds like “noose”, a word we often tend to avoid. Or you have a weird accent and are saying “news”.
I will, of course it did. The Tory leadership has always been willing to overlook such “regrettable disabilities” if the person was someone they otherwise thought would be useful, while the party faithful are a lot more…conservative.
That said, I think its a matter of time until the latter stops seeing this as a DQ issue.
If you haven’t already seen it…As this thread winds to a close, here’s a moment of cheer - grab it before it changes. Those of you who read articles in The Guardian Online will surely know that (a) they’re free; and (b) they appeal for your support. Check out their current appeal - here’s a handy article for you:
If the appeal for support has changed by the time you read this, it begins “A message for the tofu-eating wokerati…”
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Thank you for my daily dose of laugh out loud.
Braverman knows my soul. I read the Guardian and have a weekly delivery of locally made tofu.
I’m also a dirty Europhile and citizen of nowhere.
It’s all true. I finally feel truly understood.
Yes, apparently nous is considered very formal and is almost never used in ordinary communication. Instead the use the third-person singular pronoun on. So essentially they say one instead of we.
So, just what does it take before the Tories lose out to some other party?
But the nous refered to in the first quotation is this, is it not?
It is classical Greek, not French!
Or I am being whooshed? Whooshing myself, even? 
Except in Canada, where the Mooch is used everywhere except for road speeds, because no matter how fast you are driving you can never scare a moose.
My post links to this definition already. My point was that before today, the only nous I knew of was the French nous.
Ah, OK. Well, if this is not whooshing myself, it comes close. Fine.
If Boris Johnson comes back as PM, that ruins my joke that the queen stayed alive just long enough to see him out of office.
Perhaps she’ll come back, as well.
In a mere six weeks she presided over the death of the longest-reigning British monarch of all time, and she nearly did in England along with her.
Quite the premiership.
They might… but only if there are two candidates who get nominations from at least 100 MP’s each. If only one candidate gets the required 100 nominations from MP’s, then that person is the PM, and the party members get no vote. And if the party gets to vote on 2 choices, it must be wrapped up by Friday Oct 28.
How many MPs are voting?