House of Cards was based on a British show...

@smiler2012 In recent years, the regicide is getting ridiculous though. Cameron straight-up resigned.

May, Johnson and now (almost certainly) Truss have all been removed by plotting.

@Burnley123 May was removed because she was incompetent. Johnson, though plotted against, because he was a liar.

@Burnley123 as i said the treachery party

@supersnipe To me, its pretty obvious that Hunt has a deal with Sunak.

Sunak as PM and Hunt as Chancellor would not be a surprising outcome of this parade, put it that way.

@SunshineGirl It didn't. I tried re-watching the UK version recently and it is dated. Fantastic premise.

The US show was fantastic for the first two seasons, average for a third and then fell apart at the end with a Spacey-shaped hole in the middle.

@Axelerator The British one was good at the time but it's really not aged well. Kevin Spacey was an incredible actor before he got exposed as a sleaze. The final series badly missed him. It was like the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger.

@Burnley123 “Kevin Spacey was an incredible actor before he got exposed as a sleaze.” Come off it. If he was an incredible actor, he still is. If he’s a sleaze, he’s a sleaze. Completely separate things.

@SomeMichGuy It did lol.

Strange that Hunt and Braverman brought down Truss and then get the jobs from Sunak. It's as though they all had a prior conversation about it or something! 😂

@Burnley123 I'm sure people whonsay such things are reading far too much into entirelt random, uncorrelated actions by independent beings who could *not* have been acting in collusion to pull the hand brake on the train as it jumped the tracks and was hurtling towards Disaster after being renamed the Crazy Express.

I mean, to think that some rational people might wonder how it is that a fresh PM of HM Government would in just weeks create chaos for the UK's economy & society by trying to overhaul and invert the entire basis of how the UK works--esp. in the continuing aftermath of TDKAB (The Debacle Known as 'Brexit')--and, being concerned, confused, alarmed at how the country seemed to be foundering under obviously utterly incompetent "leadership"...to think that such persons would act in concert to both stop the diastrous clown show which made no friends of Britain laugh, and to create leadership under...ANYone else...and reassert & reaffirm the previous course of Britain's basic fiscal & social policies...to provide reassurance to markets which were rapidly sending Sterling into old ruble territory...

Well, ANYone who would make such WILDLY speculative claims simply sounds crazy, sir! Are you Ms. Truss?! 😉🤣

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Its really not. We get a lot of US TV and a lot of it is really great tbh.

There are a few famous Americanised shows though, the Office being the most famous.

@Burnley123 Might also just be that I noticed a few more than usual like Skins, and Shameless also got redone for American audiences. Apparently Veep is a reworking of In The Thick of It.

@Northwest A few days. She could survive this but it's not likely. The vultures have landed on the rock next to her.

@Burnley123 As I read this, I saw a newsflash that Braverman resigned. Tick tock.

@SomeMichGuy lol

@SW-User Our actual politics is a bad clone of the show. That is more embarrassing.