Kemi Badenoch’s time is up!

[Sue]

I once had a twitter spat with that Ben Obese-Jecty when he was a councillor somewhere in North London, I think. Told me that Goldsmith's London mayoral campaign against Khan (in which the vermin said that Khan would steal their gold jewellery) was not racist. Cunt.

He sounds like a great bloke.

 

[moochedit]

KemiKaze has finalised her Shadow Cabinet. Here are all the whips she's allocated, suggesting a lot of back scratching.

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Do they normally have that many whips? Seems a lot.

 

[PR1Berske]

Do they normally have that many whips? Seems a lot.

Not at all, and certainly feels out of proportion given how free MPs they have. My feeling is they've all been rewarded for supporting Madam BadEnough

 

[brogdale]

Not at all, and certainly feels out of proportion given how free MPs they have. My feeling is they've all been rewarded for supporting Madam BadEnough

Isn't the theory that she's deliberately emasculated the '22 by restricting the number of backbenchers?

 

[JimW]

Circular whipping squad.

 

[PR1Berske]

Isn't the theory that she's deliberately emasculated the '22 by restricting the number of backbenchers?

Aaaah yes!

 

[brogdale]

My goodness, he really doesn't like Badenoch, does he!

 

[Petcha]

Just watching PMQ's. My god, shes awful.

 

[not a trot]

Just watching PMQ's. My god, shes awful.

Bargain Hunt is much better. Red team won, but no profit.

 

[Petcha]

It's her smirk... the arrogance. It's reminiscent of Osborne.

 

[rasputin]

Isn't the theory that she's deliberately emasculated the '22 by restricting the number of backbenchers?

If that's true, I'm not sure it's an effective tactic. Every Tory MP, including Whips and Government members, has the right to send in a letter of no-confidence in the leader; and all Tory MPs have the right to vote in a leadership election.

 

[Petcha]

Does anyone here remember the Blair/Brown days? The relative competence...? I'm sure there's many of you who went on the stop the war marches, like me, but god... wouldn't a government who, in general, know what the fuck they're doing be great? Maybe I have rose tinted glasses but the government seemed to be operating quite well in those days.

The idiots they're rolling out the morning media rounds now, Eagle, McFadden etc... they'd never be allowed through the door back in those days.

 

[Rompipalle]

Does anyone here remember the Blair/Brown days? The relative competence...? I'm sure there's many of you who went on the stop the war marches, like me, but god... wouldn't a government who, in general, know what the fuck they're doing be great? Maybe I have rose tinted glasses but the government seemed to be operating quite well in those days.

The idiots they're rolling out the morning media rounds now, Eagle, McFadden etc... they'd never be allowed through the door back in those days.

You're not wrong... but might be in the wrong thread.

I'm not sure that the Labour Party has got quite so bad yet that Ms Badenough has any influence on them.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Does anyone here remember the Blair/Brown days? The relative competence...? I'm sure there's many of you who went on the stop the war marches, like me, but god... wouldn't a government who, in general, know what the fuck they're doing be great? Maybe I have rose tinted glasses but the government seemed to be operating quite well in those days.

The idiots they're rolling out the morning media rounds now, Eagle, McFadden etc... they'd never be allowed through the door back in those days.

Wrong thread but no. The credit crunch was a worldwide phenomenon but Blair/Brown did all they could to encourage it and make its impact on the UK much more severe. Brown boasted when house prices were going up by more than 10% a year. Basic competence would have seen him worried about all that ficticious capital and its inevitable consequences.

Brown also boasted about prison numbers going up. Boasting about things you should be worried by.

So aside from the wars, they were also domestically incompetent. Politically and economically incompetent.

 

[brogdale]

Wrong thread but no. The credit crunch was a worldwide phenomenon but Blair/Brown did all they could to encourage it and make its impact on the UK much more severe. Brown boasted when house prices were going up by more than 10% a year. Basic competence would have seen him worried about all that ficticious capital and its inevitable consequences.

Brown also boasted about prison numbers going up. Boasting about things you should be worried by.

So aside from the wars, they were also domestically incompetent. Politically and economically incompetent.

Yes, the fervent deregulation of the Brown Chancellorship undoubtedly stoked the impact of 2008 and the rampant development of housing asset values (to 2008) was also central to the perception of 'good times'. New Labour were also pretty fortunate in gaining power whilst the macro-economic environment was still very much in "Goldilocks" territory. There were, of course, improvements in public service funding but so much of that record is besmirchrd by the subsequent revelations about the post-2008 costs of the PFI that funded so much of the investment.

This academic resource is a surprisingly good overview:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/215661/economics/economic-record-of-new-labour-1997-2010/

 

[PR1Berske]

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'What's decompressing, what's that?' she grins. Does she break for lunch? 'What's a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps. I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There's no time... Sometimes I will get a steak... I'm not a sandwich person, I don't think sandwiches are a real food, it's what you have for breakfast.'

Soggy bread is a no-no: 'I will not touch bread if it's moist.'

 

[krtek a houby]

She's taking the piss, surely. Otherwise who the hell is she trying to appeal to?

 

[Lotte]

She's like some kind of Bizarro Alan Partridge. Who eats sandwiches for breakfast?

 

[Smangus]

Another tory psycho.

 

[two sheds]

I bet she relaxes by making models of buses and painting happy passengers onboard

 

[krtek a houby]

She's like some kind of Bizarro Alan Partridge. Who eats sandwiches for breakfast?

Me! When on the move, not every day...

 

[Rompipalle]

She's like some kind of Bizarro Alan Partridge. Who eats sandwiches for breakfast?

She probably has them with razor blades and caustic soda as her preferred filling, 'cos she's well 'ard!

 

[PR1Berske]

As a quote it really comes across as very hyper masculine, "greed is good", Apprentice contestant conservatism from an earlier age. It makes no sense for anybody with a genuine desire to be Prime Minister to come out with "anyone who eats lunch is a wimp". It's so OTT, before we even consider how cloth-eared it is, unless people who scramble together a meal deal should be aiming a little higher in her books.

 

[moochedit]

She's like some kind of Bizarro Alan Partridge. Who eats sandwiches for breakfast?

I do sometimes tbf.

 

[Rompipalle]

As a quote it really comes across as very hyper masculine, "greed is good", Apprentice contestant conservatism from an earlier age. It makes no sense for anybody with a genuine desire to be Prime Minister to come out with "anyone who eats lunch is a wimp". It's so OTT, before we even consider how cloth-eared it is, unless people who scramble together a meal deal should be aiming a little higher in her books.

I think it's more people who stop for a lunch break, as opposed to people just eating lunch.

She should try living the experience of many nurses and midwives who often work 13+ hour-long shifts and scarcely get a chance to go to the bloody toilet, let alone stop to eat anything.

 

[moochedit]

She probably has them with razor blades and caustic soda as her preferred filling, 'cos she's well 'ard!

Only soft woke snowflakes have sarnies without razer blades

 

[krtek a houby]

As a quote it really comes across as very hyper masculine, "greed is good", Apprentice contestant conservatism from an earlier age. It makes no sense for anybody with a genuine desire to be Prime Minister to come out with "anyone who eats lunch is a wimp". It's so OTT, before we even consider how cloth-eared it is, unless people who scramble together a meal deal should be aiming a little higher in her books.

The Gordon Gekko vibes are strong with this one. Bloody 80s nostalgia.

 

[brogdale]

As a quote it really comes across as very hyper masculine, "greed is good", Apprentice contestant conservatism from an earlier age. It makes no sense for anybody with a genuine desire to be Prime Minister to come out with "anyone who eats lunch is a wimp". It's so OTT, before we even consider how cloth-eared it is, unless people who scramble together a meal deal should be aiming a little higher in her books.

It also comes across as supremely out of touch. That

Sometimes I will get a steak... (for lunch)

really does cast her as the epitome of the pampered political class with their lunch-breaks long enough to enjoy the tax-payer subsidised luxury foods of the Parliamentary estate.

 

[Pickman's model]

It also comes across as supremely out of touch. That

really does cast her as the epitome of the pampered political class with their lunch-breaks long enough to enjoy the tax-payer subsidised luxury foods of the Parliamentary estate.

Their lunch breaks can be longer than many people's holidays

 

[brogdale]

Their lunch breaks can be longer than many people's holidays

Who would notice?