RSCCA
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What is the first film you think of when you see MICHAEL CAINE?
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@MASKEDMANIACXXX 10. You simply can't score it on today's expectations. It was the trailblazer and allowed so much good sci-fi to follow.
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On a Scale of 1 To 10 How Do You Rate the Original STAR TREK?
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What is your favorite movie from the late, great Tony Scott?
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Cast the worst possible person that could play Dr. Who...
I'll Start: Zendaya
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@RSCCA Hi - yes, you'll be able to do this at no extra cost. ^JT
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Hi @Se_Railway , I am due to travel Rochester > City on Thameslink tomorrow morning. Will my ticket be accepted in Southeastern services to Cannon Street instead? Thanks.
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I am told that the PM has not yet definitively decided that he will announce his departure. “It is looking that way,” says a source, “but it is not 100%.”
The prediction, among Keir Starmer’s close colleagues, is that he will decide to stay in post until just before Labour conference in late September. “In those circumstances of a delayed exit, history will probably be kinder to him,” said a colleague. “But of course we understand the instinct just to have done with it and walk away.”
As for the timing of any such announcement, that could still be Tuesday rather than Monday.
On whether there should be a formal leadership contest or an uncontested coronation of Andy Burnham, I am told the mood of MPs is polarised, but the majority would prefer “the men and women in grey suits” to fix it for Burnham, without a potentially fractious completion.
Apart from anything else, even close friends of Burnham say he is not yet ready to govern. “He definitely needs time to work out his team and programme,” says an ally of his.
So Starmer would be doing Burnham a favour by staying in post another three months - though he would do Burnham a favour through gritted teeth that would risk them falling out.
Robert Peston@Peston
Peter Kyle was explicit just now on the BBC that he does not want a coronation of Andy Burnham, that a leadership contest that debates how Labour can best hold Reform at bay would be preferable, but that the transition from Keir Starmer to a new prime minister must be “functional” and orderly. The implication of this - and of conversations I have had with other ministers - is that Starmer will announce a date for his departure tomorrow. Their working assumption is that he will exit Number 10 some time around Labour conference in late September, though no one knows for sure. That said, the question of whether or not there will be a proper leadership contest will be open for a few days. The settled position of Labour MPs and members is that Andy Burnham is likely to be the UK’s next prime minister. But that is absolutely not the same thing as saying that they are overwhelmingly against a contest. What they are considering is the risk of appointing Burnham by acclamation without subjecting him to proper scrutiny in a leadership contest, versus the risk that such a contest will undermine “functional” government for weeks and paint their government as no less chaotic than the previous Tory government. To put it another way, can MPs genuinely trust that Burnham has a credible plan for economic renewal if he is left to formulate it in semi privacy? And what kind of image about today’s Labour Party is projected if the party simply appoints another white middle aged man as leader without any kind of challenge? The uncertainty brought by a contest versus the perception of arrogance and mono-culture that would be the result of a Burnham coronation? It is by no means an easy decision.
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What movie moment filled you with so much adrenaline that you wanted to cheer, applaud, or scream “F*** YEAH!” in the theater?
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4 ROBERT RODRIGUEZ films, 1 choice. Which is your favourite?
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