Tory Death Spiral
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Gaia
Urban's Village Idiot
They've transcended cuntism. It's like they've reached cunt Nirvana or summat. They have evolved into something beyond cunt, something so far beyond it doesn't yet have a name. Corbyn, now there's a cunt, definitely still a cunt, but Boris…?
Oh speaking of things Beyond Cunt, he wants to bring Priti Patel back as Home Secretary. Now she's really summat else - the daughter of Indian immigrants (i.e. an ethnic minority) who gets off on destroying the life of immigrants, particularly BAME. If her parents are still alive, I'd love to know what they think of her, Asians tend to be (very) liberal.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Yeah those Asians.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Definitely no electing of right wing nationalist governments going on in Asia.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I suggest we could make an effort towards this end and attempt to launch him into orbit. Perhaps we could get Britain’s strongest man to stand on top of Britain’s tallest building and throw him really really hard, as hard as he can. Should do it. Because we’re humane we’ll give him a spacesuit and space food and everything, wouldn’t want anything bad to happen up there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh but we're going to lock the food and the spacesuit in a pod on the outside of the spacecraft because we don't want to make things easy for him.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
ruffneck23
front left
Tory minister quits over 'grave concerns' about Boris Johnson pursuing no-deal Brexit
and another one gone..
and another one gone..
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Please tell me it's not true. Not... <checks notes> Anne Milton?
If there's one thing Brexit and the Tory Clusterfucks* have been good for, it's been giving 15 seconds of fame to no-mark politicians.
* Did B & the T CFs play as backing for Ruddy Yurts during his ill-advised foray into post-punk, or did I dream that?
If there's one thing Brexit and the Tory Clusterfucks* have been good for, it's been giving 15 seconds of fame to no-mark politicians.
* Did B & the T CFs play as backing for Ruddy Yurts during his ill-advised foray into post-punk, or did I dream that?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
What I genuinely don't get is how politicians with a track record of severe unprofessionalism in their field for which they've had to resign or apologize profusely are able to ascend to the highest of posts in very short order. If I'd say been fired as a teaching assistant for rule-breaking I wouldn't expect to get another job as one.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I've been pondering on this lately too, for obvious reasons.
It seems to be sort of like football managers; everyone seems to just sort of accept that there's a certain group of people whose names will always be in the mix, and those are the ones to pick from. And I genuinely feel that comparison is harsh on football managers.
As you say, in a "normal" job it wouldn't be this easy. No wonder they're confused by unemployment.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
It feels like it's gotten worse post 2000, I remember growing up with the conservatives having scandals weekly in the 90s but at least most of those involved fucked their chances up for at least a few years.
Fast forward and we're getting Priti and the others bowing out for 6 months and still remaining relevant even on the backbenches.
Always struck me as odd that the UK has never had a non-monarchist party of capital. It's like capital is happy with the semi-feudal parliamentary system; after the move to services and financial capitalism who cared about vastly concentrated land ownership anyway, so why upset the apple cart?
Even "sovereignty" can't be used in the UK like elsewhere. The very word takes you back to the real, actual sovereign, not the individual or aggregation of individuals as other countries might conceive it. How do the Tories even claim to be inheritors of classical liberalism, which at its ultimate end eschewed monarchs? It's a fucking bizarre party full of contradictions.
Even "sovereignty" can't be used in the UK like elsewhere. The very word takes you back to the real, actual sovereign, not the individual or aggregation of individuals as other countries might conceive it. How do the Tories even claim to be inheritors of classical liberalism, which at its ultimate end eschewed monarchs? It's a fucking bizarre party full of contradictions.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
LowTaxChloe
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
I think we're at the point where this stuff doesn't matter. Johnson is a reprehensible man yet he'll win a GE because he's a character. Patel can conduct personal policy, get the boot, and be back in two years. Rees-Mogg had a nanny. Javid would vote against his own father emigrating here. It doesn't matter
andysays
Love and solidarity
Obligatory 'code more guidelines than actual rules' comment
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Honestly I do think Johnson as a character will struggle in a GE. Not to say Tories can't win with Johnson, they make it leave or remain, us or Corbyn - but Johnson's mass appeal overestimated, polarising figure even now and give him a bit of time in the top seat the contempt will grow
Proper Tidy
Arsed
There's tons of liberal tories and floaters who will really struggle to put their cross next to Conservatives with Johnson there, these votes will go primarily to libdems, Tories have to hope making it Johnson or Corbyn mitigates the drift
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Can't wait to die with my boots on.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
I saw this last night. Tbh though it's only mirror who have gone with linking it to actual Tory policy, it's a CSJ policy paper is all. Any party that went and announced a state pension age of 75 like that would be out of govt for decades, no chance.
Don't get me wrong, there will be incremental (and detrimental) changes to state pension and the age increases won't stop at 68 but any sort of rapid increase like CSJ propose would be massive political carnage
Don't get me wrong, there will be incremental (and detrimental) changes to state pension and the age increases won't stop at 68 but any sort of rapid increase like CSJ propose would be massive political carnage
Proper Tidy
Arsed
UK state pension is lowest (relative to earnings) of any developed economy in world btw. I thought about this when the telly licence thing was announced the other week. The 'left' should be all over this stuff, state pension age etc, it affects everybody (in the end), it cuts through with ordinary people, it's fucking important - but you end up getting this generational shit instead, pensioners can afford it, pulled ladder up, blah. Fucks sake.
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