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

[brogdale]

Lots of earnest liberal, Hoxton types, etc, involved in the BSN,

and...

 

[killer b]

it's ok TL, we're all for putting them to the sword too.

 

[Quartz]

Maybe somebody like Andrew Pelling would fill his boots.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1563667/Tory-MP-Andrew-Pelling-arrested-over-assault.html

I'd be very careful there. I know too many people who were accused by their wives and later exhonorated.

 

[killer b]

'many' people? really?

 

[brogdale]

I'd be very careful there. I know too many people who were accused by their wives and later exhonorated.

Pelling's case is well known and documented locally; he was investigated but no charges were brought against him. His then party, (the vermin), decided to withdraw the whip however. What is there to be careful about?

 

[Quartz]

Pelling's case is well known and documented locally; he was investigated but no charges were brought against him. His then party, (the vermin), decided to withdraw the whip however. What is there to be careful about?

Ah, I hadn't spotted the date - I thought it was new.

 

[butchersapron]

I'd be very careful there. I know too many people who were accused by their wives and later exhonorated.

Make it end.

 

[Quartz]

The Telegraph has a panegyric on Esther McVey, with this comment about IDS:

Helping claimants instead of denigrating them is in keeping with the approach of her boss, Iain Duncan Smith, who has fought for years for a compassionate Conservative tone on welfare.

Umm... really? Does anyone believe that?

 

[killer b]

It's the Telegraph house style. And yes, people do believe it. Even some people here seem to think that Smith is inspired by some sort of wrongheaded compassion.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Esther McVey who's own business had to be bailed out.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-minister-esther-mcveys-firm-3909162

 

[William of Walworth]

Astrology FFS. This guy's on the health committee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464009

Just seen the above story.

The MP recently spoke about his beliefs at the Glastonbury Festival, sharing a platform with Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer.

Recalling the experience in the House of Commons, he said he had been invited to take part because of his "radical agenda" on complementary medicine

Cainer's fliers for his talks** were all over the Green Fields area this year. Have no collection of any MP also being mentioned on the fliers/programme as being there though ...

Has any other Tory MP, former Wells MP David Heathcoat-Amory aside, ever attended Glastonbury ever?

**I'm sure Urban regulars need no reminder that even! some of us Glastonbury veterans, more sensible hippies included , point and laugh at such stuff -- to dig out the ancient saw, when we hear the word 'workshop', we tend to head for the Cider Bus ...

 

[el-ahrairah]

I'd be very careful there. I know too many people who were accused by their wives and later exhonorated.

no, you don't.

 

[Quartz]

no, you don't.

Unfortunately I do.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

The Telegraph has a panegyric on Esther McVey, with this comment about IDS:



Umm... really? Does anyone believe that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

 

[Hocus Eye.]

This bit amazed me: "Helping claimants instead of denigrating them is in keeping with the approach of her boss, Iain Duncan Smith, who has fought for years for a compassionate Conservative tone on welfare."

Where do these Telegraph writers come from?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

PR industry?

 

[William of Walworth]

This bit amazed me: "Helping claimants instead of denigrating them is in keeping with the approach of her boss, Iain Duncan Smith, who has fought for years for a compassionate Conservative tone on welfare."

Where do these Telegraph writers come from?

Planet Zog, given that some of those self same writers have been all too keen to be IDS's own mouthpiece, recycling all the spin doctored myths of the DWP ....

 

[Quartz]

This bit amazed me: "Helping claimants instead of denigrating them is in keeping with the approach of her boss, Iain Duncan Smith, who has fought for years for a compassionate Conservative tone on welfare."

Mentioned just a few posts ago.

 

[stowpirate]

Unfortunately I do.

Are they Tories? If so maybe "name and shame" them?

 

[el-ahrairah]

Unfortunately I do.

No, you don't. Fayknights, no returns.

 

[treelover]

The Telegraph has a panegyric on Esther McVey, with this comment about IDS:



Umm... really? Does anyone believe that?

How on earth can they can get away with that?, I've noticed decent contributors on the Wright Stuff like Janet Ellis say the same thing.

 

[Quartz]

How on earth can they can get away with that?, I've noticed decent contributors on the Wright Stuff like Janet Ellis say the same thing.

As Bernie Gunther said, it's the Big Lie, isn't it? Of course, we could all be massively deluded and IDS really is a cuddly teddy-bear guy cruelly oppressed by Dave & Gideon. But if he were, surely he would resign on principle? Oh wait, 'principle'? He's a politician...

 

[Betsy]

Tory David Ruffley, Suffolk MP for Bury St Edmunds might with luck or a push from women's domestic violence groups fall on his sword? BBC Local News this morning was saying he is now under pressure from the church to resign, albeit they are using smoke screen language like he should consider his future!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28451998
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-28405617

Local man defends David Ruffley MP

There is no reason why a man who assaults his girlfriend should not be an MP.

That's according to Bernard Sergeant, a senior member of the Bury St Edmunds Conservative Association, who said he could not see any issue with local MP David Ruffley keeping his job. Ruffley accepted a police caution for common assault last March after admitting attacking his ex-partner.

"It was a private matter, and as in most domestic issues, I suggest it was six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. Nobody really knows what went on."
Here what he says in full here..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023rgg6

 

[Dogsauce]

Tory councillor that called cyclists a danger on the roads caught drink driving and banned:

http://road.cc/content/news/125268-anti-cycling-dales-councillor-banned-drink-driving

 

[Quartz]

Tory councillor that called cyclists a danger on the roads caught drink driving and banned:

http://road.cc/content/news/125268-anti-cycling-dales-councillor-banned-drink-driving

The comments are delicious.

 

[brogdale]

C4 reporting Roughly to 'stand down' at next election.

 

[brogdale]

...though, still in defence mode, a representative of his local vermin association made a complete twunt of himself live on Vine's R2 programme....

Seven million listeners will have heard Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 phone-in on David Ruffley this lunchtime, many in Bury St Edmunds. The discussion was most notable for the bizarre comments made by Bernard Sergeant, an important local Conservative figure. Asked if Ruffley should resign, Sergeant laughed and replied: “We do have these odd female organisations that look for equality and I think they’ve got it these days.” Pressed further by Vine on whether “you can have as a candidate a man who beats up his girlfriend”, Sergeant replies: “Well why not?”

There's one that won't be voting for May, then.

Source = the loathsome staines (don't feel compelled to click link)

Govey's response...

“David Ruffley MP has given a huge amount to Parliament both on the Opposition Front Bench and as an outstanding member of the Treasury Select Committee. I am sorry that he will be standing down at the General Election in May 2015, but fully respect his reasons.”

 

[brogdale]

Vermin are really going for the female vote....

 

[stowpirate]

Local man defends David Ruffley MP

There is no reason why a man who assaults his girlfriend should not be an MP.

That's according to Bernard Sergeant, a senior member of the Bury St Edmunds Conservative Association, who said he could not see any issue with local MP David Ruffley keeping his job. Ruffley accepted a police caution for common assault last March after admitting attacking his ex-partner.

"It was a private matter, and as in most domestic issues, I suggest it was six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. Nobody really knows what went on."
Here what he says in full here..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023rgg6

To me Bernard Sergeants sounds like thug supporting a thug/thief? The interview does highlight how condescending/dismissive Conservatives are of Women's groups? He also has a strange outlook on politics, as nobody likes MP's etc.. it is just a necessary evil in having to vote for something you believe in. I never liked any candidate in my local elections?


From DM Comic

He claimed £1,674 for a sofa and £2,175 for a 46in Sony widescreen high-definition television, bought from Harrods. He spent a further £6,765 at the upmarket And So To Bed furnishing store on items including a £3,350 ‘lightly distressed’ solid limewood Cezanne Socle bedstead, a £1,000 traditional bedstead and two bedside cabinets, each costing £799.

But his claims were challenged by Commons officials who told him they would pay only £750 towards the television set, £1,000 towards the bed and £100 for each bedside cabinet. He also charged £230 for household materials, claiming for rubbergloves, fabric whitener and a 99p cleaning brush.

The good news is that the vile mp has fallen on his sword

Local activists in his Suffolk constituency had been due to discuss Mr Ruffley's future at a meeting on Thursday and a petition calling on him to stand down had attracted more than than 40,000 signatures.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28528285

 

[treelover]

Tories want rich and poor to pay 31% flat tax, claims Ed Balls
Oliver Letwin reported as saying discussion of uniform tax rate may 'open up' once public finances improve

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/30/tories-rich-poor-pay-31-percent-ed-balls

Kite-flying, but revealing