brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Thick cunt.
Tory London mayor hopeful says basic income would be used for 'lots of drugs'
Shaun Bailey tells London Assembly the universally-paid sum would be misused by citizenswww.theguardian.com
Single mums ‘should not be acceptable’ says Shaun Bailey, Tory Mayor of London candidate
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Tory London mayor hopeful says basic income would be used for 'lots of drugs'
Shaun Bailey tells London Assembly the universally-paid sum would be misused by citizens
Not lots of drugs, because I have to feed myself, pay my bills etc. but definitely some drugs.
I had a flier through the other day from him. It was big on how he grew up poor, ended up homeless etc etc. He' appears to be a full on pull yourself up by the bootstraps type so his comments about drugs and poor people are probably more to do with that then his current consumption habits.
I also saw an advert for that Brian Rose twat the other day. It was like some sort of weird US style presidential pitch.
The London Mayoral election is a crowded field of unpleasant nutters this time around.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Grrr I had a thought and checked and saw somewhere that he went teetotal so I edited but you beat me to itI had a flier through the other day from him. It was big on how he grew up poor, ended up homeless etc etc. He' appears to be a full on pull yourself up by the bootstraps type so his comments about drugs and poor people are probably more to do with that then his current consumption habits.
I also saw an advert for that Brian Rose twat the other day. It was like some sort of weird US style presidential pitch.
The London Mayoral election is a crowded field of unpleasant nutters this time around.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
He thinks he deserves those things; and that people who want them must deserve them, too. Which gives him a nice position of (artificial) superiority from where he can feel entitled to "other" them and suggest that their behaviours, were they to have the same money he has, would be utterly different - worse, obviously.
The tragedy is that there are still rather too many people who also think like he does. And, of course, the neoliberal Tory ideology has managed to quite successfully persuade a lot of people who themselves might not be that far above the horizon of Bailey's disdain that they, too, should be punching down like he is. And voila! Evil scumsucking Tories are wandering around with a 40% approval rating
Little Piranha
Small or far away?
It's such pathetic, backward thinking. It makes zero sense that were a universal income to be introduced it would be the people who need money most that would spend it on drugs. Surely if that's what he's worried about it would be the people who are already comfortable who would spend it on extras, be that weed or beaujolais.
I think a lot of this is to do with the idea that poor people shouldn't have anything fun or nice, and that it's therefore up to the rich to police their behaviour in a way that they wouldn't dream of doing to wealthy people. Poorer people should just be working and feeling bad until they've got rich enough to stop needing support and start trying to avoid giving it instead.
I think a lot of this is to do with the idea that poor people shouldn't have anything fun or nice, and that it's therefore up to the rich to police their behaviour in a way that they wouldn't dream of doing to wealthy people. Poorer people should just be working and feeling bad until they've got rich enough to stop needing support and start trying to avoid giving it instead.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
All of that and the fact that Bailey is a thick, racist, misanthropic bigot.
It would be fine in South Kensington but what about in South Shields?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It's reinforcement for people who were going to vote Tory anyway IMO - "look Beryl, we can't be the nasty party if someone like that is the candidate" - but no, he doesn't come across as someone who's a big coke-snorting hypocrite, just somebody who completely hasn't thought it through. I have no idea of his "youth worker" record but even if he was dedicated he could still be earnestly convinced that entirely wrong things were in fact right.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Is an element of this that everyone assumes Khan is a shoo-in this time so nobody else is taking it that seriously? Maybe the tories are trying out ideas to see how far they might push things in 'real' contests?The London Mayoral election is a crowded field of unpleasant nutters this time around.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Maybe and much more likely they've a duff candidate. You're outing yourself here as something of a 'loon
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
After the debacle of Goldsmith's racist campaign and in the context of Khan's polling, they obviously couldn't muster a credible candidate and picked the gullible dumbo Bailey thinking that it would convince Londoners that they knew a black person.
Yeah as other say I think its more to do with the weakness of Bailey as a candidate. There are more than a few who have sniffed an opportunity to muscle in on the space vacated by the tories and those voters disillusioned with Khan.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yes, I guess we shouldn't underestimate general cluelessness as a major factor in play here.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Nah, British politicians (of all stripes) are for the most part not that bright. He either a) genuinely thinks that way and is struggling to keep up the pretence otherwise, b) dogwhistling for votes he already knows he has.
Possibly the latter more than the first, no matter what public face he puts on it, he must realise that we might as well just give Khan the job and cancel the election to save money in these troubled times perhaps he just doesn't want to lose by the margin he expects to.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what a great picture to show how seriously he's taking the current situation
is that the outskirts of barnard castle where they are?
And now you know him better, I guess he can count on your vote...?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Tory London mayor hopeful says basic income would be used for 'lots of drugs'
Shaun Bailey tells London Assembly the universally-paid sum would be misused by citizens
Bailey is even more of a surplus cunt than his idol Johnson is. You've got to be a ten gallon cunt, to do that.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Unfair to thick cunts.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I had a flier through the other day from him. It was big on how he grew up poor, ended up homeless etc etc. He' appears to be a full on pull yourself up by the bootstraps type so his comments about drugs and poor people are probably more to do with that then his current consumption habits.
I also saw an advert for that Brian Rose twat the other day. It was like some sort of weird US style presidential pitch.
The London Mayoral election is a crowded field of unpleasant nutters this time around.
TBF, there have been a fair few fruitloops at every London Mayoral election, from the Jeebus-wallahs, to the "Naatural Law" wankers, to pricks like David Kurten.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's looking increasingly mainstream lately, though...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's looking increasingly mainstream lately, though...
Unfortunately true.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I have to say, every time I see this thread pop up to the top of my watched threads list, I'm appalled by the quote "Single mums should not be acceptable". Talk about sweeping judgements. Hateful cunt.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I would gladly spend my UBI on drugs tbh.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Is that the same Karren Brady who was famously a Director of pornographer David Sullivan's Sport newspapers and other business interests interviewing Bailey for that piece of self-promotion?
Not sure how that squares with his socially ultra conservative pro-family stance, or maybe it doesn't matter now she's a member of the House of Lords...
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Is the public meant to be won over by his moobs?
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
They're pecs. He spends his time between the gym and finding ways to offend thinking members of the voting public.
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