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What do you reckon for Corbyn? some nice sensi? I bet he is a mushroom man
Pot brownies, made with fair trade organic chocolate and dope that's cost three Mexicans their heads. He seems the sort.
There's a leadership debate on BBC next Tuesday
Bet you a fat bag of weed Johnson won't show, there's no way he wants the conversation going in that direction.
In fact should test a urine sample from each of them just for giggles
Rory Stewart is the outstanding candidate. A genuinely fascinating person who seems willing to put party politics aside in order to tackle things sensibly.
This x1000. He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life. I have read some of his books and he remarkable. His achievements should embarrass the other candidates. He is eloquent, intelligent, diplomatic, measured, has lived an incredible life and actually listens to people.
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life.
This x1000. He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life. I have read some of his books and he remarkable. His achievements should embarrass the other candidates. He is eloquent, intelligent, diplomatic, measured, has lived and incredible life and actually listens to people.
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life
Which means that like Ken Clarke, we will never get him as PM. He's too good for the UK electorate and especially the Tory party. We get the politicians we deserve etc.
there’s no way he wants the conversation going in that direction.
Drugs would be the least part of the problem. He is being kept nicely hidden away from making any gaffes. Wonder who is paying for his rather professional team.
Unsurprisingly so far the people who will do best out of his policies are wealthy pensioners.
He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life.
Eddie Redmayne surely?
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what [Rory Stewart] has done with his life.
You could start with his actual voting record, so you can see if Mr Caring And Sharing is what he claims to be, or just another Nasty Tory.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24964/rory_stewart/penrith_and_the_border/votes
Wonder who is paying for his rather professional team.
hes being so uncharacteristically shy & retiring at the moment that theres definately some outside influence
Goves confession must so he can dish more dirt on Boris Johnston.
You could start with his actual voting record, so you can see if Mr Caring And Sharing is what he claims to be, or just another Nasty Tory.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24964/rory_stewart/penrith_and_the_border/votes/blockquote >
Definitely votes like a Tory...
Stewart is yet another toryboy old Etonian who has had a life of privilege and opportunities handed to him. Bit Common People (Pulp as opposed to the proletariat) for me Don’t really get the stw love in for him, tbh -maybe that’s what they teach you to develop at Eton?
I think we're going for 'least worst' rather than full fanboi. It's not like we're getting any non-Tory alternatives, so expecting anything more than a smattering of conscience and common sense is pushing it.
In a line-up containing McVey, Loathsome, Bojo, Pob and Mad Raab, Stewart is positively stellar.
Not that he has any chance, obviously.
Don’t really get the stw love in for him
He's less awful than the others.
Not full fanboy;
Rory Stewart is the outstanding candidate. A genuinely fascinating person who seems willing to put party politics aside in order to tackle things sensibly.
Similar to the boris is so funny and witty and not a vile, duplicitous individual old guff that helped get us in this situation 😉
I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life.
I think there are some who suggest that Rory Stewart has rather over egged the Rory Stewart story, probably more a result of the standard public school belief in one's own abilities and importance more than anything more malicious.
Still, he does seem the best of the bunch.
If you examine rory's voting record it becomes apparent that he is merely another blue blood riddled tory in an ill fitting skin suit, and i say that despite admiring his writing as an author.
Generally voted for reducing <b>housing benefit</b> for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
Consistently voted against raising <b>welfare benefits</b> at least in line with prices
Almost always voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to <b>illness or disability</b>
Almost always voted for making local councils responsible for helping those in <b>financial need</b>afford their <b>council tax</b> and reducing the amount spent on such support
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on <b>welfare benefits</b>
Generally voted against spending public money to create <b>guaranteed jobs for young people</b>who have spent a long time unemployed
voting record here , his voting record would suggest the usual tory polices of slash n' burn are at the heart of his beliefs.
On another note, i see Boris Johnson is going after the money vote in his election bid, Boris looks after his core support , ****ing ignorant ****ts the lot of them.
The drugs issue is clearly the thing that the others are going to torpedo boris on - remember the George Osbourne parties ? apparently Boris was there and
his voting record would suggest the usual tory polices of slash n’ burn are at the heart of his beliefs.
Yup. The maybot came out with some good lines (not in the Boris and Gove sense) but needless to say didnt quite live up to those words.
In other news its good to see McVey going for the return power to the UK by saying she wont allow Westminster a chance to vote.
The drugs issue is clearly the thing that the others are going to torpedo boris on
I doubt it will matter.
Boris will just bluster a bit and then it will be ignored. People are often willing to set aside some beliefs if they think another more important belief will be supported. See the Christian fundamentalists support for trump as an example.
Natalie Rowe on twitter
Natalie Rowe has been banging on about Johnson's drug & infidelity habits for a while, and was right about his latest affair and marriage break up b4 it hit the press.
But yeah the party membership dont care , they think he can deliver the one true brexit so will become the next PM even tho his history of incompetence as Mayor & Foreign Sec throw up the same red flags May's time at the Home Office shouldve done.
McVey is particularly scary I cant decide whether shes a full on crackhead or worryingly straight & never touched anything
wonder what Lorraine Kelly thinks?
On another note, i see Boris Johnson is going after the money vote in his election bid, Boris looks after his core support , **** ignorant ****ts the lot of them.
Well, that didn't last long did it. His campaign team have been trying desperately to keep him away from journalists, and the public in general, and it's not difficult to see why. To be honest, I couldn't even see the party membership going for that one.
On the BBC’s Daily Politics the Tory minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who is on the programme as a Boris Johnson supporter, has just offered what might be the first hint of a climbdown by Johnson on tax cuts for the wealthy. Faced with complaints about Johnson’s policy being a handout to the rich, Kwarteng said Johnson’s Telegraph column today (paywall) does not include a commitment to increase the higher rate tax threshold to £80,000. His column just talks about the need to raise thresholds “so that we help the huge numbers that have been captured in the higher rate by fiscal drag”.
Also this
Damn. Imagine if they had had a kid. Hopefully his wife will dump him and he will lose access to all the cash from her family.
In other news the one candidate pushing for a second referendum has dropped out.
Someone I know had an affair with Boris. Never had the nerve to ask her to dish the dirt on him, especially as she's never mentioned it (perhaps for obvious reasons - not sure what possessed her).
JP
Gove has done this to set up Boris.
So, what has BoJo done?
I'm going for lines of coke out of the crack of his unconscious illegal immigrant kid's nanny's ass whilst dressed as a Nazi.
Boris knows that the moneyed pensioners (who have large incomes but don’t pay national insurance) who make up the Tory membership will lap this shit up. That’s why he said it. Nobody ever won the leadership of the Tory party by underestimating the rapacious greed of its membership
At this point, nobody else’s votes matter, so we will all be treated accordingly. He’ll serve their interests to the total exclusion of everyone else. Obviously they’re also hard Brexiteers, as they’re al safely financially insulated from the fallout
As a side-note, hats off to the ever brilliant Marina Hyde in the Guardian for referring to Boris as ‘a fly-tipped sofa’
+ 1 JP
This is an enlightening read on the ‘war’ on drugs and the current legislations. Lots of mitigating factors, notably racism and the big hitting cotton dudes.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream
So theyre voting today
If they don't kick out miss verbal incontinents , who's obviously mashed her brain with years of hard drug abuse, then we're all doomed
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1138748219826028547?s=19
I hope LyingBloHard gets it.
The vacuum caused by the appointment would be heard from Neptune.
This is an enlightening read on the ‘war’ on drugs and the current legislations. Lots of mitigating factors, notably racism and the big hitting cotton dudes.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream/blockquote >
Also worth catching his interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.
WTF has happened in the last week or so?
Last week Boris was the most hated person in the Commons, loved by the Membership, hated by everyone else and his colleagues were ready, willing and able to throw their careers away to stop him getting into the final two.
Now, it's seems increasingly like a forgone conclusion he's going to win.
In other news, My wife, an NHS nurse who'd couldn't say Jeremy Hunt without 'accidentally' getting his surname wrong for years, thinks he's 'least worse' now.
It really is the end of times isn't it ha ha.
Boris was always going to be one of the final two. There would be howls from the membership if not.
There have been plenty of Tory MPs who have said publically that they'll resign from the party if he becomes PM. Does anyone believe for a single second that any of them actually will?
The BBC is reporting that it looks like Rory Stewart is out. No surprises there as he was always far too sane and realistic, and nowhere near Brexity enough. Happily, it looks like Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom are both out too
Let's face it, there are no good options here. Its all just about degrees of shit. The only thing that may save us from what Boris will want to do when he wins is the fact that he's so legendarily incompetent when it comes to actually getting anything done
Now, it’s seems increasingly like a forgone conclusion he’s going to win.
Its simple enough. The priority order is:
MP own job, the party, the country
Note under the first category you also have future jobs and any favours to those bribing them, sorry, contributing to campaign funds.
So since Boris looks like he is doing well they are all lining up for jobs.
Where did we get to with regards to drugs and other things.
Has anything more come out about Raabs nondisclosure agreement? Especially good since one of his main backers was saying how bad they are.
Does anyone believe for a single second that any of them actually will?
I reckon there is a fairly good chance one or two will walk but not many more. Not enough to really change the results.
Not enough to really change the results.
Given their numbers in parliament 1 or 2 really could change the numbers.
WTF has happened in the last week or so?
Lots and lots of phone calls and 1 to 1 meetings with MPs promising jobs in the new cabinet I imagine. Given his willingness to ignore numbers I'd imagine the same jobs have been promised lots of times and some very unhappy supporters after it becomes apparent that Boris "thought" there were 350million home secretaries jobs and he should give them to his friends instead.
I can just about imagine a Boris victory being the cause of a GE about an hour after its announced, with a few very pissed tories happy to burn their bridges behind them, well aware they've been stitched up and aren't being returned under PM BJ at the next GE and I can't see him keeping the DUP on side well enough to prop him up.
I can hope.
Of course the down side is a GE in which we'll likely end up with no decisive winner (especially if JC wins)
There have been plenty of Tory MPs who have said publicly that they’ll resign from the party if he becomes PM. Does anyone believe for a single second that any of them actually will?
There's a sense amongst the 2 main parties that no one wants to go first. The Indies didn't have an easy ride of it and with the possibility of a GE around the corner they don't want to be Party-less.
But, a trickle could turn into a flood. I would imagine the biggest hurdle for Left leaning Tories is where to go? Become an independent and gamble on the wind changing before the next GE, Join Change UK, they're mostly ex-Tory now, but largely forgotten. Cross the Commons? Not while Magic Grandpa is in charge, they hate him more than Boris.
I would imagine the biggest hurdle for Left leaning Tories is where to go?
I imagine who would have them is more the issue. The anti tory vitriol from most other quarters would mean switching to another main stream party would be near impossible even if they suddenly started spouting marx in cabinet meetings.
BJ is going to be our next Prime Minister.
What on earth is going on? WTF has actually happened?
This is Cameron's idea of reigning in the loonies. His head should be on a spike.
This is Cameron’s idea of reigning in the loonies. His head should be on a spike.
I can't blame him for this, had I known the sort of triple faced, backstabbing, loons he had for colleagues I'd have been more sympathetic if anything.
114 votes?
Is there that many morons in the Tory party? Who knew..
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Well I suppose one shred of comfort I can take is that McVey and Leadsome fell at the first fence.
It's not much though, is it? The Blond Buffoon is still top contender.
So their handful of swivel-eyed loon votes get added to Johnson's stack.
No stopping him now. Brace yourselves for our international reputation to sink even lower.