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Does anyone know yet what Miriam Cates is under investigation for?
Some newspaper reports suggest its to do with a lockdown drinks party. Bernard Jenkins and Eleaner Laing are also under investigation for same thing with a report suggesting it was in the latters office.
I think we’re going to be hearing quite a bit about Sunak’s behaviour during the financial crisis of 2008 during the election campaign
Couldn't really be any easier for Starmer/Labour could it? He's failed at almost everything he's tried to do (and the one thing he can talk about - inflation - is not down to him), he has a public image that makes Ed Miliband look like a towering colossus, his MPs openly deride him and are plotting against him, and he's an evil hedge funder who profited from everyone else's suffering in 2008/9. Starmer's going to look pretty stupid if the predictions of a landslide/total wipeout don't come to fruition. He'd probably prefer it if Sunak was a bit better than he actually is.
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1239968681360121856?t=sZSAUumms-Y5rcw-HrRxbA&s=19
Dunt tweet back in 2020 always makes me giggle.
Tories never surprisingly useless, especially with the economy.
I'm not cutting too much Labour slack here but the myth that Tories have to fix screwed economies after Labour have been in power should be totally buried.
Forever.
It should be they leave the economy in tatters and only do okay at selling state stuff off cheap
Interesting/depressing piece on Radio 4 PM about how Rishi's decision to scrap HS2 has upended the development that the private sector have being screaming ahead with to move freight off roads and onto rail to meet carbon emission targets set by... the government.
The whole HS2 cancellation and various other recent (literal) scorched earth policies is starting to feel a lot like the political vandalism we saw with the deindustrialisation of the north in the 80’s.
A pre-emotive punishment beating for those areas that are about to kick them out
Same old playbook Binners, snouts in the trough for so long, leave things literally crumbling as you say then Labour have to come along and stump up the cash to rebuild schools/hospitals etc. etc. and bingo 'Labour the party of tax and spend', everyone forgets the past 13 years and lo and behold Tories back in after one term away.
Though if they're not even the official opposition this time after a (hopeful) bloodbath and veer off towards Reform then maybe the cycle can finally be broken.
We now are being presented with a policy of "British homes for British workers" How much more clear dog whistle racism can you get?
It’s like they’ve given up on even becoming UKIP and now they’re emulating the National Front, circa 1978.
I wonder if Rishi will do an official press conference policy launch tomorrow dressed in oversize oxblood DMs (he likes his big boots doesn’t he?), bomber jacket, bleached jeans and Fred Perry polo shirt?
Maybe he’ll shave his head?
I just saw the halfwit Chris Phipps on tv talking about knife crime...he used the "Labour will take us back to square one" line again...They've decided its a great attack line, not realizing that a lot of people would vote to back to square one in a heartbeat!
On another note, how does Phipps have a ministerial job....he seems to be as thick as the back of an axe.
They’ve decided its a great attack line, not realizing that a lot of people would vote to back to square one in a heartbeat!
I guess they are hoping for things to noticeably improve before the GE and hence give a sense of moving from square one?
I do like Sunak taking credit for inflation falling from the insane high and then almost in the same breath with the increase last month announcing that was external factors and nowt to do with him.
And Lee regret voting against Rwanda bill and would like his old job back
On another note, how does Phipps have a ministerial job….he seems to be as thick as the back of an axe.
Its staggering, isn't it? Yet unsurprising.
Since 2016 the primary qualification to be a government minister is a blind belief in a nationalist populist project that is inherently stupid. What this has unsurprisingly delivered is a procession of thicko's. As they have been sacked over the years, the standard of the replacement thicko's has diminished yet further and we're now well and truly through the bottom of the barrel
To illustrate how bad it now is, both Theresa Coffey and Grant Shapps have held a succession of senior ministerial roles, They've had to bring Call-Me-Dave back as Foreign Secretary, Oliver Dowden is deputy PM, and the pick of the bunch has to be Victoria Atkins as Health Minister. The woman running the NHS looks like she'd struggle to run a bath. If you saw the interview posted with Culture Minister Lucy Frazer posted earlier this week, she looks like she'd struggle to find her own arse using both hands.
Can anyone think of a single government minister over the last ten years you'd actually trust with your car keys, let alone the countries economy?
And Lee regrets voting against Rwanda bill and would like his old job back
Talking of thicko's.... 30p Lee is absolutely priceless. So he resigned so he could rebel against the Rwanda bill, then didn't because the big boys were laughing at him and now he's sorry he resigned and wants to unresign and forget the whole thing. The laughable thing is that Rishi is so weak, he'll probably get it too
Can anyone think of a single government minister over the last ten years you’d actually trust with your car keys, let alone the countries economy?
difficult for sure. May?
James Brokenshire, perhaps? Temporal issues trusting him now though.
On another note, how does Philp have a ministerial job….he seems to be as thick as the back of an axe.
Yeah theres a fair few skeletons in his closet
Can anyone think of a single government minister over the last ten years you’d actually trust with your car keys, let alone the countries economy?
The problem is that I have remembered all the wrong ones, for all the wrong reasons, so need to go back and think who I would trust...
Difficult to argue with Nichola Sturgeons assessment of them all from her WhatApps...
https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1750486431871480106?s=20
mad as a box of frogs
Maybe. But that plan would probably save a few more Conservatives their seats than the current "plan".
binners
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Difficult to argue with Nichola Sturgeons assessment of them all from her WhatApps…
Harsh but fair.
Nicola saying what everyone things.
*appluads*
And Lee regret voting against Rwanda bill and would like his old job back
I didnt think he did?
He said he would but when he went into the no lobby the nasty lefties laughed at him so he walked back out to vote for aye.
Insert comments about snowflakes here.
Nothing to see here. Just Rishi’s bizarre and desperate appointment as Foreign Secretary, ‘Sir’ Dave, under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
What was it he said about “integrity, professionalism and accountability”?
David Cameron’s activities at Greensill a ‘matter of interest’ in wider fraud inquiry
You do all realise Sturgeon never said that right? It's a satire account.
What do you do when parties fail the country? You ask people to die in a war!
https://twitter.com/Tazman_London/status/1751144247666020857?t=2FBIktDoWLv1RvOOahG8vg&s=19
Not bad from someone who hid in a fridge.
How long is a 20pt poll deficit sustainable for a leader ?
Until May, would appear to be the general consensus.
After that the only questions are how big the Labour majority is and which of the bald women gets the comb of the leadership of the smouldering wreckage of the tory party
So in all this psychodrama how much are drugs implicated? Its clear Johnson was at the nose candy - those telling mood shifts from contrite to bombastic and even more arrogant. Kwartang clearly was off his face at the royal funeral, After Truss had an away day at one of the grace and favour houses coke was all over the place. Coke has been found all over the HOC, Pob clearly like a bit of the stuff, Osbourne was clearly off his face in the HOC.<br /><br />cocaine usage leads to arrogance and areshole behaviour then withdrawal on comedown
cocaine usage was heavily implicated in the boom and bust years in the square mile
I'd love mandatory drug testing of parlimentarians
So in all this psychodrama how much are drugs implicated?
My lads Tory insider mate said a year or so back that there are pics of drug use at the lockdown parties. Everything else he's ever told us has proven to be correct. I'm somewhat surprised that they if the pics exist, the press has not used them.
Yet.
he’s ever told us has proven to be correct. I’m somewhat surprised that they if the pics exist, the press has not used them.
that kind of kompromat is far too valuable, but then you know that the journalists will be similarly compromised
and yes, friend of a friend said that the partying whilst Johnson was mayor was wild and drugs a plenty
They were falling over themselves to claim drug use in one of the leadership elections when they thought it made them look edgy.
Gove probably got sold an asprin, but went out raving because of the placebo affect and has no experience of normal peoples lives and how they need to escape the drudgery.
but then you know that the journalists will be similarly compromised
this is the only reason I can think of why this has not been made more of
I’d love mandatory drug testing of parlimentarians
Honestly if half the rules that apply to normal people in normal workplaces applied to MPs, there'd be no-one left!
Hmmmm. Not exactly seeing the downside of this. I personally think that people in positions of power should be held to either the same or better standards than the general populace. How else do they expect us proles to respect them?
Hmmmm. Not exactly seeing the downside of this. I personally think that people in positions of power should be held to either the same or better standards than the general populace. How else do they expect us proles to respect them?
The problem is they are dragging us down to their level
A politician outright saying which age group he's appealing to (the SAGA generation) a few months before an election is just desperate stuff, and terrible politics to boot.
Even politicians who are clearly just out for the blue-rinse vote tend to make vague promises to help 'hard-working families' and create opportunities for the youth. Some in those groups even believe it, and vote for them.
Plus, I'm over 50, and he can **** right off.
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Plus, I’m over 50, and he can **** right off.
MoreCashThanDash
Full MemberThe problem is they are dragging us down to their level
Practically nobody can afford to be dragged down to that level- we have to pay for our own champagne, and post-brexit Britain is the 8th most expensive place in the world to buy coke.