The grand tory 'civil war' thread

[brogdale]

Warm the cockles of your ideological heart and post up all the fun & games from the internecine conflict.
I suppose we can all look forward to Smith's commons resignation speech, if only for the look on the front-bench faces!

 

[brogdale]

Looks like the right hand does not know what the right is doing...

Stephen Crabb, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, spoke to Radio Pembrokeshire this morning.

In a short clip he said......we're still running a deficit that's too large for our nation but we are clear those cuts to personal independence payments, we wont be taking those forward."

 

[Sprocket.]

Would it have been appropriate to start this thread at 16:42?

 

[brogdale]

Would it have been appropriate to start this thread at 16:42?

Just one fucking thing after another, innit?

 

[andysays]

Just one fucking thing after another, innit?

bit of a cavalier response...

 

[Pickman's model]

Would it have been appropriate to start this thread at 16:42?

being as it's been going on hotter and colder since the 1980s, no.

 

[Santino]

It's like Game of Thrones, but with cunts instead of thrones.

And also cunts instead of a game.

 

[Flanflinger]

Just one fucking thing after another, innit?

That should be Camerons response.

 

[brogdale]

That should be Camerons response.

He will soon enough be history himself.

 

[DotCommunist]

It's like Game of Thrones, but with cunts instead of thrones.

And also cunts instead of a game.

simon danczuk has had to join the Shites Watch after his indiscretions etc

cba to think of any tory based ones

 

[Pickman's model]

It's like Game of Thrones, but with cunts instead of thrones.

And also cunts instead of a game.

but the same number of tits

 

[brogdale]

It's like Game of Thrones, but with cunts instead of thrones.

And also cunts instead of a game.

That makes it 'cunt of cunts', then? Might be a useful thread title for the leadership campaign, tbh.

 

[Buckaroo]

He will soon enough be history himself.

Nah, brexit fail and he gets a third term.

 

[brogdale]

Nah, brexit fail and he gets a third term.

Huge assumption.

 

[DotCommunist]

Nah, brexit fail and he gets a third term.

he's off at the end of this term, he's said so, and the hungry dogs behind him will hold him to that

 

[brogdale]

One part of Smith's performance today...worth dwelling on these words...just hugely damaging.

“It looks like we see benefits as a pot of money to cut because they don’t vote for us.”

 

[Pickman's model]

he's off at the end of this term, he's said so, and the hungry dogs behind him will hold him to that

in the same way that thatcher said she'd resign at a time of her choosing

 

[Buckaroo]

he's off at the end of this term, he's said so, and the hungry dogs behind him will hold him to that

He's a liar and the dangerous dogs act will see to the "bastards". If he wins the referendum, what happens?

 

[brogdale]

U75's favourite libertarianloon joins the fray...

Baroness Altmann’s short time in Government has not been a happy one. Last July she had to deny that she was prejudging a Government consultation on pension tax relief, after attacking ideas floated by the Treasury. In September it emerged that she was a member of the Labour Party – an unusual position for a Conservative minister. For some months, Downing Street has reportedly been uncomfortable about her speaking publicly.But last night she eclipsed these rumbling issues with a jaw-dropping public statement about Iain Duncan Smith, her now former boss.

Ros Altmann should be sacked | Conservative Home

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I thought Altmann's statement had the whiff of No.10/CCHQ about: part of a rearguard action to try to knife IDS and shore up the Government's (PM & Chancellor's) position. She's not been told off by No.10, so I assume they were more than happy for her to make that statement.

 

[brogdale]

I thought Altmann's statement had the whiff of No.10/CCHQ about: part of a rearguard action to try to knife IDS and shore up the Government's (PM & Chancellor's) position. She's not been told off by No.10, so I assume they were more than happy for her to make that statement.

Agreed; a useful (expendable) idiot.

 

[brogdale]

tory wars; love it.

 

[brogdale]

The image was at the top of the latest piece on 'ConservativeHome' by editor Paul Goodman...

Imagine for a moment that you are a Conservative MP in a marginal constituency. What would you think while staring drop-jawed, over the last few days, at open civil war within the Government? A resigning Iain Duncan Smith launches a hellfire missile at George Osborne. One of the Chancellor’s allies, Ros Altmann, takes a popgun shot back. Three fellow Ministers in the same department – Priti Patel, Justin Tomlinson and Shailesh Vara – turn their guns on her in return. Tory Parliamentarians pour onto Twitter to take sides and open fire. I can’t speak for you but I know what I would say – to my Association Chairman, to the Whips, to my spouse (or whatever), to whoever was willing to listen. Pardon my language, but it would be: “All this risks losing me my seat. Why can’t they all shut the f**k up?”

In which he calls for Gove to be made deputy PM.
Strange days.

 

[stavros]

It's all a bit reminiscent of The Thick of It, and no doubt Tucker's Law will come into play for either or both sides.

 

[brogdale]

Looks like 'Fatty' has finished off the case this evening...

 

[teqniq]

*registers interest*

The Tory government is descending into civil war. Here's the proof

 

[J Ed]

I wish it was a literal civil war with actual shooting

 

[stavros]

Looks like 'Fatty' has finished off the case this evening...

"Consevative"? Intentional?

 

[8115]

I wish it was a literal civil war with actual shooting

With actual knives in actual backs. I was literally just thinking that earlier.

 

[brogdale]

"Consevative"? Intentional?

Nah, I expect he's just a little 'Rowley Birkin' this pm.