The New Tories - Ruthlessly Incompetent. Post Examples of Tory Stupidity Here

[cupid_stunt]

They have just lost their mayoral candidate for Manchester to Reform, with under four weeks to find another sucker to stand and lose, opps.

Tory mayoral candidate Dan Barker defects to Reform UK

Dan Barker had been set to run the Manchester race under the Conservative flag, but has now confirmed he will fight for the former Brexit Party.

news.sky.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

More problems for them, apparently the West Yorkshire police are now investigating Frank Hester, that donor, for his comments.

 

[Silas Loom]

More problems for them, apparently the West Yorkshire police are now investigating Frank Hester, that donor, for his comments.

Problems for them? Hardly.

Police forces have to open an investigation whenever lots of complaints are made. Hester’s remarks will not meet any kind of threshold for prosecution and his lawyers would be very unlikely to accept an out of court disposal. Then when WYP announce that they are taking no further action, Tories questioned about the affair will blank questions about whether Hester is an acceptable donor by saying that the police found nothing criminal.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Problems for them? Hardly.

Police forces have to open an investigation whenever lots of complaints are made. Hester’s remarks will not meet any kind of threshold for prosecution and his lawyers would be very unlikely to accept an out of court disposal. Then when WYP announce that they are taking no further action, Tories questioned about the affair will blank questions about whether Hester is an acceptable donor by saying that the police found nothing criminal.

The problem for them, is that it has brought the story back into the news, just when it was dying out, and it will continue to bounce around for an extended period now.

 

[Silas Loom]

The problem for them, is that it has brought the story back into the news, just when it was dying out, and it will continue to bounce around for an extended period now.

Nah. WYP won’t say anything further for ages, and Tories have the current get-out that they cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.

 

[Elpenor]

Into the purdah period too as of a few days ago ahead of the local / PCC elections

 

[stavros]

Zac "Lord" Goldsmith banned from driving after seven speeding offences.

 

[two sheds]

‘An Assault on Democracy’: Rishi Sunak Backs Bill to Overturn Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ Extension

The Conservatives are seeking to overturn the London Mayor's flagship clean air scheme, despite being more than 20 points behind him in the race for City Hall.

bylinetimes.com

from Bluesky

twats

 

[magneze]

All they have is culture war shit.

 

[Dogsauce]

All they have is culture war shit.

That and ‘the real victims in society are people driving massive polluting cars’

 

[magneze]

That's culture war shit too. All they have. There's literally nothing else.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

'100k a year doesn't go far', jeremy cunt

Jeremy Hunt doubles down on ‘£100k a year doesn’t go far’ claim

UK chancellor defends remarks about high salaries after being criticised for being out of touch

www.theguardian.com

 

[Silas Loom]

'100k a year doesn't go far', jeremy cunt

Jeremy Hunt doubles down on ‘£100k a year doesn’t go far’ claim

UK chancellor defends remarks about high salaries after being criticised for being out of touch

www.theguardian.com

His only political objective this year is to show that he is on the same side as his well-heeled constituents in Haslemere. Which is slightly worrying, given that he is chancellor.

 

[magneze]

'100k a year doesn't go far', jeremy cunt

Jeremy Hunt doubles down on ‘£100k a year doesn’t go far’ claim

UK chancellor defends remarks about high salaries after being criticised for being out of touch

www.theguardian.com

He's also utterly missing the point that even if that were true, that's still their fuck-up.

 

[Hollis]

The worrying thing about this video, is I expect some folk outside London believe it:



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[wemakeyousoundb]

The worrying thing about this video, is I expect some folk outside London believe it:



[sorry, can't find it non-twitter]

so that's the edited version of the one they had to pull out earlier

 

[Hollis]

Without being too wanky, I'm trying to get the production reference - is it a general 1950s/60s US 'nuclear threat/space aliens' type voiceover, or is there something more specific..

 

[Elpenor]

The worrying thing about this video, is I expect some folk outside London believe it:



[sorry, can't find it non-twitter]

Surely inspired by this

 

[cupid_stunt]

The worrying thing about this video, is I expect some folk outside London believe it:



[sorry, can't find it non-twitter]

The Commissioner is accountable in law for exercising police powers and to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and is held to account for the delivery of policing by the Home Secretary and the Mayor of London. Both have a role in appointing the Commissioner, with the decision taken by the Home Secretary following consultation with the Mayor. MET LINK

Funny how they totally ignore the Home Secretary's oversight.

 

[bluescreen]

I assumed it was satire at first, it was so OTT. What a ridiculous load of hogwash.

 

[GarveyLives]

The shape of things to come:

"The Conservatives have deleted an online video that used scenes of a panicked crowd at a New York subway station to criticise Sadiq Khan’s record on crime in London.

The attack ad, posted on X in support of Susan Hall – Khan’s rival for the London mayoralty, showed people panicking and rushing through New York’s Penn station after false reports of gunfire in 2017 ..."

Tories delete Sadiq Khan attack ad showing New York instead of London

 

[gentlegreen]

some of the video here :-

Tories delete 'London crime' video using footage of New York Metro

The advert used US footage and insinuated it was from London.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's Trumpian:

Khan was elected in a democratic process...

In the original black-and-white video, the scenes of a stampede at New York's Penn Station in 2017 were overlaid with a US-accented narrator making alleged claims, including: "A 54% increase in knife crime since the Labour mayor seized power has the metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos.

He 'seized power'

The video also warned of "squads of Ulez-enforcers dressed in black, faces covered with masks, terrorising communities at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master, who has implemented a tax on driving, forcing people to stay inside or go underground".

Khan has implemented a tax on driving now. Road fund licence, fuel duty, VAT etc. But no, Khan's implemented the tax.



I would have hoped the Electoral Commission would have the teeth to deal with this kind of shit, it's personal and inflammatory and really has no place in democratic politics.

 

[brogdale]

It's Trumpian:

Khan was elected in a democratic process...



He 'seized power'






Khan has implemented a tax on driving now. Road fund licence, fuel duty, VAT etc. But no, Khan's implemented the tax.



I would have hoped the Electoral Commission would have the teeth to deal with this kind of shit, it's personal and inflammatory and really has no place in democratic politics.

They know they've got a useless, thick, media-dunce for a candidate and this is all they have. Desperate doesn't cover it.

 

[stavros]

From an article about two more ministers stepping down:

It is certainly not a bombshell blow to the PM - but the resignations are part of a trend. Of the 98 MPs who have announced they will not stand at the next election, most are Conservatives.

Some, like Theresa May and Dominic Raab, are veterans. Others, like Dehenna Davison and Nicola Richards, relatively young and new to the Commons.

All of them want to do something else with their lives.

Suggestions welcome.

 

[eatmorecheese]

From an article about two more ministers stepping down:


Suggestions welcome.

Ballast for sea defences?

 

[Calamity1971]

Christ on a bike !

 

[Silas Loom]

Christ on a bike !

There are a lot of toxic arseholes in the Conservative party and it’s nice for them that there’s a deliberate policy to ensure that at least one of the deputy chairs will be a representative of the toxic arsehole community.

 

[hash tag]

I did not see this coming ( Pologies for the link,)

Guests served sushi off half-naked models at party of crypto firm chaired by Philip Hammond

A cryptocurrency firm - chaired by former Chancellor Philip Hammond - served guests sushi from the bodies of scantily clad models, new images show.

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

I did not see this coming ( Pologies for the link,)

Guests served sushi off half-naked models at party of crypto firm chaired by Philip Hammond

A cryptocurrency firm - chaired by former Chancellor Philip Hammond - served guests sushi from the bodies of scantily clad models, new images show.

www.lbc.co.uk

It beggars belief that in this day and age, companies think that sort of thing is expectable.