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Aston owned by Ford with Mercedes.
Nah, Ford sold ages ago. Private equity something or other these days from memory.
Alongside the obviously awful standard of the design by the work experience kid, the claims being made have more than a whiff of the tractor production figures at the fag end of communism.
Nice to see the level of professionalism on display though. They failed to do the requisite checks on legal use of image rights, that wouldn’t have made it past a sub-ed on a regional newspaper.
I kind of expect political stuff to be economical with the truth, but the sheer level of amateurish incompetence is stunning, even after all these years.
Given how much these charlatans and their friends in the press have blurred the lines between editorial content and marketing/propaganda over recent years, I'm not remotely surprised they no longer know where those legal boundries are.
Whats incredible is that they're publishing (because thats what it is) shit like that without running it past any kind of legal tells you everything you need to know about the clown show presently running Tory central office
Nah… publish and quietly retract. They know the rules, and they no that transgressing them in this way will have bugger all come back on them. It’s social media anyway, there’s no need to have it up more than a day to two. It’s not like they’ve put it up on billboards. The digital space is dirty… and you can be sure they’ll take full advantage of that this year.
I think it's often the case they know exactly what they were doing with that design - it does its job, then it's pulled.
It's often simply about reach and not persistence.
Either way that's not an endorsement - political parties are all pretty terrible at this sort of thing.
I mean the whole drone shots over Britain and NHS workers in portrait slo-mo has become totally grating.
'For the many not the few' was the absolute best and simplest campaign. (But then again I couldn't believe Get Brexit Done was so successful either.)
Back to the drawing board.
Back to the drawing board
The perfect campaign slogan right there
They're already using 'Back to square one with Labour ' and wondering why the public seem quite enthusiastic about that.
After all, when you have people prepared to go back to a warzone to access basic services, square one is starting to look decent.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-68683444
What a shameful joke.
Rishi’s latest Tech Bro interview photoshoot has just caused the head of the Adidas marketing department to head out for a walk, carrying a bottle of whisky and a service revolver…
Adidas Sambas were this year’s coolest shoes – until Rishi Sunak got a pair
I mean, like a lot of middle-aged blokes, I was as surprised as anyone to discover that my trainer choices are now fashionable again, but we’ve all been wearing them since we were 18.
Rishi pairing his glowing white, box fresh pair with a crisp white shirt and his weird, 2 sizes too small trousers, because he read that what da kidz are wearing, is just tragic. I wonder what he thinks he looks like?
Nah, Ford sold ages ago. Private equity something or other these days from memory.
Saudi Arabia and Geely are the other two owners.
Its another ‘Mini/MG’ use the heritage for the marketing but 100% non uk owners.
I suppose the argument is that’s the nature of business.
Oh jeez. Am I still OK with Gola Harriers, or are they tainted as well now?
I think you should be safe with your Gola’s
These are the official pictures that have been put out. Clearly he thinks he looks cool as ****!
Dear lord!
Obviously there’s nobody to take him to one side and have a quiet word or Mrs Sunak delivering a line that I’m sure most of us would get from our significant others…. ‘and you’re going to do the interview dressed like that, are you?’
These are the official pictures that have been put out. Clearly he thinks he looks cool as ****!
Remember when Boris took his flight in a Eurofighter? Walking out to the plane clearly thinking he was a Top Gun extra but he actually looked like a sack of shit wrapped in a flight suit.
Theresa May doing her ill-advised dancing thing on stage at the Tory Party Conference.
The "power stance" thing they all adopted a few years ago.
I'm convinced that it's not actually serious - somewhere there must be a group of advisors absolutely pissing themselves laughing every time. They cannot genuinely believe that the "advice" they're giving is good, it must all be one great big long-running joke to see how far they can take it...?
"...and I told him to wear Adidas trainers cos he'd look cool and...HE FELL FOR IT! Looked like a right balloon!"
"that's nothing mate, I told Theresa May she should do a little boogie and she thought she was in a ****ing Abba musical, oh how we laughed!"
You'd think they'd try to not make him look tiny. That chair just makes him look so small (I'm 5'5") surely you just find one that's a bit smaller.
In other news, the Guardian are reporting that Rishi is getting pressure off the wife to go for an early election as she fancies leaving for California ASAP and can’t see the point of hanging around til the autumn
Let's not focus on the fact that he is a bit short, can we not ridicule him for being a complete weapons grade ****?
Does that make me woke?
I'm not ridiculing him for being short it was more a commentary on the optics generated by the photograph and the sub conscious imagery of power or lack of. You want a leader that fills the chair and so dominates the situation as opposed to someone who can barely reach the floor.
Anyone else seeing this when seeing that chair picture above?
Im seeing this -
Let’s not focus on the fact that he is a bit short, can we not ridicule him for being a complete weapons grade ****?
I feel like I have the versatility to do both. 🙂
He should have been clocking a pair of white crocs if he wanted to connect with da youths.. amazingly they seem to have gone full circle and are now cool 🙈
Are those shoes tied differently in each photo? The first one looks like they are tied the way they come out of the box?
I don't believe he saw those shoes until 2 minutes before the interview..
He should have been clocking a pair of white crocs if he wanted to connect with da youths.. amazingly they seem to have gone full circle and are now cool 🙈
Nah, a pair of balenciaga sliders with white socks
TBH I reckon he’d be better sporting Balenciaga Mule Hardcrocks.
So after days of Sunak and Co defending Willy Wragg and insisting he’s done nothing wrong, because sending random strangers photos of your nads and the phone numbers of MPs is apparently perfectly normal, the inevitable…
William Wragg resigns Tory whip after divulging MPs’ phone numbers
How very Johnsonesque
I see that Rwanda Air declined to fly any asylum seekers to Rwanda due to concerns that...it might damage their brand!
You really couldn't make this up.
There's also a picture on the BBC website of sunak and Paul Kagame on steps of Downing Street; lil rish! is looking up at Kagame - who is tall - with a look of admiration and hero worship on his little face.
It portrays anything but statesmanship - pathetic.
I see that Rwanda Air declined to fly any asylum seekers to Rwanda due to concerns that…it might damage their brand!
From a country that sponsors Arsenal....
"So after days of Sunak and Co defending Willy Wragg and insisting he’s done nothing wrong, because sending random strangers photos of your nads and the phone numbers of MPs is apparently perfectly normal, the inevitable…"
I missed the defending him part, got a link or reference?
I missed the defending him part, got a link or reference?
The Lil fella has been silent on the issue himself, which chimes with his standard level of weakness and cowardice. Jeremy Hunt came out the day after and said that Willy Wragg was ‘very courageous’ in speaking out about what had happened. Other ministers have parroted the same line, so it’s safe to assume this was briefed from number ten.
Sunak is now so weak that he can’t even withdraw the whip from someone who’s been massively compromised having been sending out photos of his cobblers to random strangers
If you are called Rhonda and live in the Rhondda you have to open a chippy. What name would you choose?
A Fish Called Rhonda
It'd work for Tory MPs too, you just spell it phish and say that if they send intimate pics they can come back to your plaice.
😉
Meanwhile, after Rishi meeting his Rwandan counterpart to recreate the cover of Twins with Danny Devito and Arnie, it’s been revealed that the Rwandan government has sold off all the flats that were built to house asylum seekers from the UK
They’re clearly not expecting anyone anytime soon then?
it’s been revealed that the Rwandan government has sold off all the flats that were built to house asylum seekers from the UK
Probably to a Tory chum who will rent them to the government at 10x market rate
He had an absolute mare on LBC this morning.
I have never seen a senior politician who comes across as bad.
There was loads on my Twitter feed, this is just one example.
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1777955882929725842
it’s been revealed that the Rwandan government has sold off all the flats that were built to house asylum seekers from the UK
Are Armando Iannucci and Jesse Armstrong advising the Rwandan government?
Where has this been revealed...?
"A Fish Called Rhonda"
Nice. There used to be on or two "Rhondda's Plaice", but I am not sure they still exist.
Where has this been revealed…?
Check out the foaming-at-the-mouth right wing headbanger news source of your choice - The Mail, Express, Telegraph, GB News etc.
They’re all (somewhat predictably) absolutely apoplectic. Most of us cottoned on to the fact that the Rwandan government were extracting the urine (and half a billion quid) quite some time ago, but it seems the nutters have only just realised and they’re not happy. 😂
So that you don’t have to click on any of those links, even the Bracknell News have covered it.
Suella Braverman disappointed that Rwanda properties earmarked for migrants are sold
The latest lining for the cat litter tray just landed from tiny-majoritied, mekon-headed Angela Rayner obsessive James Daly
All the various electoral bumph we’ve had so far has had no Tory party branding. No logo’s, no mention of the conservatives or the Tory party whatsoever
Today they’ve gone a step further and everything is now red. They’ve even ditched the Tory blue now. As all this crap comes straight from central office, I presume the new colour change applies nationally
^ only taken them 14 years to decide to make the streets safer?
Nice.
I can bet that in most cases the ‘local people tell James Daly their top priorities’ feature will mainly have been ‘get rid of you’
Funnily enough, I was just about to search for a postcode in his constituency to propose some priorities on behalf of one of my noms de plume to the link in the qr code.
binners
Full Member
I can bet that in most cases the ‘local people tell James Daly their top priorities’ feature will mainly have been ‘get rid of you’
Lol, I bet. Not had a Tory leaflet here but I may well have just picked it up and auto binned it.
Had Labour leaflet and door knock. Or council flipped to Labour from Tory last year and I'm genuinely hoping we rid ourselves of our Tory MP too.
My lad lives in a different constituency, Tory, and I had a chat with him today to remind him how important it is to vote. Not my place to say who he should vote for (though I know...) but it is my place to remind him that the locals and the GE will decide the type of country, social care, schooling and health care his (now) two children will inherit.
mekon-headed Angela Rayner obsessive James Daly
You certainly have a way with words @binners!
I love the little (and empty) sound bite at the bottom right "the government has passed tough new laws to force tech bosses to make childrens safety a priority or they could face fines of billions" HmmHmmm...
Mrs fadda was standing in our hallway and watched as our local tory MP (the Welsh Secretary, no less) posted a card through the letter box saying "I knocked but you weren't in when I called".
She was standing about 4 feet behind that very door, so I can only imagine that he knocked VERY quietly...
everything is now red. They’ve even ditched the Tory blue now.
our Tory mp’s rag was green and had loads of gumpf about stopping building on greenbelt and no Conservative logo
One for binners.
James Daly the Tory MP who complained about Labour's Angela Rayner to police refuses to say what he thinks she's done wrong
Pressed by Sky News in this vid, he doesn't seem to know what she's done wrong.
He’s an absolute muppet. Apparently he won’t say publicly what he’s accusing her of as he’d leave himself open to being sued.
He’s going to look like an even bigger dick than he looks already when she’s cleared of whatever it is he’s made up. I hope they do him for wasting police time
If only the Tefal-bonced cockwomble was as committed to representing his constituents as he is to being a really creepy stalker of Angela Rayner,
I hope they do him for wasting police time
Probably way too much to hope for but that would be delicious!
We had our local Tory MP's bumf through too, it's all 'purple' and pretty much the only reason to vote for him is to keep the SNP out - that's his full 'agenda'.
Anyway, what's Rishis take on this, given the attacks on Rayner
BBC News - Tory MP Mark Menzies suspended over alleged misuse of campaign funds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68841840
Mark Menzies anyone? 🤣
Using campaign money to "pay bad people".... getting summarily kidnapped at 3am. I'd love to know the full story of that one!
he certainly like to party
so his entry on the tory whips blackmail list is no surprise
it reads like a scene from peep show
https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1780722361513247179?t=dRavd2VYjUhJ5kAn3GzFhg&s=19
Tom Sharpe in today's World. I think he would manage but his books are now almost documentaries.
(Little known fact: Blott was based on the gardener at the Lancing College boarding house which was evacuated to the big house by my grandparent's farm. I am for now part owner of their cricket pitch)
is to keep the SNP out – that’s his full ‘agenda’.
Won't work in East Lothian - Pro independence vote split due to us now having an Alba cuckoo so their opponents are Labour. They are going to have to do some work here unlike Fluffy. Don't know who their creature is going to be - that nice Mr Hoy again?(He actually is by their standards)
Well, I suppose Angela Rayner knew she wouldn't have to wait to long for the inevitable Tory sleaze to appear! I bet this ain't get reported fault by The Express though...
He was a prime ministerial trade envoy to Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Argentina
This probably came in handy for his erm, other leisure activity.
What a shit shower the Tories are.
Using campaign money to “pay bad people”…. getting summarily kidnapped at 3am. I’d love to know the full story of that one!
As I said to my mate this morning, probably strapped down to a rent-bears pain table when his credit card got declined, so Daddy got the polaroid out and told him to phone a friend or he'd start snapping away.
I'm guessing the £14,000 campaign funds he used for "private medical treatment" tell an interesting story too.
To be clear, using campaign funds for "personal usage" is illegal or just against party rules?
Just want to clarify my thoughts here, I couldn't give a damn about his sexuality. That's irrelevant. What's not irrelevant is being in a position of power and allegedly using prostitutes over the last decade whilst in office. In addition, funding that at least partially with campaign funds. I'm not even getting into him almost killing sometimes pet dog by getting it drunk...
Now... How long will Sunak lie for before he admits he's known all this for 3 months...?
In more news!
Five women make assault claims against Tory council leader Jonathan Nunn
A council leader is facing allegations that he kicked, punched, spat at and throttled women.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-68829156
lock her up! lock her up! lock er ? lock, lo, lock him up! lock him up!
pm & chum
A council leader is facing allegations that he kicked, punched, spat at and throttled women.
Denying the allegations strenuously seems ambitious given that he has prior convictions and most of his former partners have lined up to corroborate and detail their own experiences of abuse. He's even crying about being harrassed himself. Utterly without shame or remorse, a true sociopath.
Always worth dipping into a John Crace summary of the week so far!
sobriety
Free MemberAs I said to my mate this morning, probably strapped down to a rent-bears pain table when his credit card got declined
How hard can it be, as a tory MP, to find someone that'll tie you up and hurt you? I'll do it for free, I feel it's my civic duty.
just as with Menzies that tory councillor has been a known wrongun for years, their getting process appears to be non existent
Why are there so many **** Tory sexual freaks?
When was puritanism a lefty thing?
Perverts are people too, except furries but that's their choice.
^^^user name checks out
somafunk
Full Member
Why are there so many **** Tory sexual freaks?, is it because they suckled from nanny’s teat till their teenage years?
We need to be careful with this one as its got nothing to do with his sexuality, not that you said that of course.
Do Tories tend to be more likely to indulge in paying for prostitutes, sexual harassment, being bullies with women (verbally or physically) and more likely to indulge in financial oddities? Possibly. I suspect that someone somewhere has actually quantified the numbers too.
My own working assumption is that amongst the current crop of Tory MP's you have a large dose of entitlement, a sense that others are only there to be used and that if discovered you won't be held to the same petty rules that others follow.
Just an assumption but there is fundamentally something malignant at the heart of the Tory party that seems to metastasis amongst it's members.
Reading that story about Menzies & the rent boy 10 years ago- he said he was going to sue/clear his name. Did he?
I suppose this is what happens when your formative sexual experiences involve a grim initiation ceremony with an older boy in boarding school, rather than fingers and tops with Louise in the park after a load of alcopops?
This is starting to resemble the fag end of John Majors government more and more by the day. In fact it’s far worse!
never did I think we’d get to the stage where Neil Hamilton’s & Johnathan Aitkins’ misdemeanours look trivial
isn't there usually inserted fruit involved when it comes to tory peccadillos ? e.g. oranges