Tory Death Spiral

[William of Walworth]

seen on tweeter - looks like a letter in the guardian

Yes, that letter was in Saturday's printed edition of the Guardian.

 

[DotCommunist]

there will be a vote on that 1bn bung in parliament then. Should be fun.

 

[killer b]

there will be a vote on that 1bn bung in parliament then. Should be fun.

As Stephen Bush points out here, there was always going to be a vote on it.

 

[bemused]

As Stephen Bush points out here, there was always going to be a vote on it.

I'm not sure why but whenever I see the name Gina Miller I stop reading.

 

[DotCommunist]

the guardian short bit names her as 'campaigner' rather than her actual occupation. For reasons. IWGB mentioned also.

As Stephen Bush points out here, there was always going to be a vote on it.

ah of course. Seems obvious once its explained like that.

 

[killer b]

It was never going to be 'interesting' anyway - which tory or DUP member would vote against?

More of the tiresome wishful thinking that had people thinking the courts could reverse brexit (from the same peddler of false hope, I see).

 

[butchersapron]

In a lovely example of the dialectic at work, the most hardcore remain voters i know have switched from Saturday's pathetic opposition to demanding that it happen as quick as possible and on the worst possible terms for the UK population and with widespread chaos and poverty. All in order for them to be able to say i told you so.

 

[killer b]

it's the only way the fuckers will ever learn.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

'The rise of food banks across the UK is actually "rather uplifting" because it shows the British people are charitable, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said this morning.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg says the surge in food banks is actually 'rather uplifting'

 

[Pickman's model]

'The rise of food banks across the UK is actually "rather uplifting" because it shows the British people are charitable, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said this morning.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg says the surge in food banks is actually 'rather uplifting'

He's a candidate for canal digging in south georgia

 

[Wilf]

'The rise of food banks across the UK is actually "rather uplifting" because it shows the British people are charitable, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said this morning.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg says the surge in food banks is actually 'rather uplifting'

I wonder at what point in his journey from birth at Ston Country House, to the family second home in Smith Square, to Westminster Under School, to Eton College, to Trinity College, to Rothchilds Bank, to the Houses of Parliament, he acquired such knowledge on poverty?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I wonder at what point in his journey from birth at Ston Country House, to the family second home in Smith Square, to Westminster Under School, to Eton College, to Trinity College, to Rothchilds Bank, to the Houses of Parliament, he acquired such knowledge on poverty?

Or on the British people. I thought that he only ever talked to his nanny.

 

[The Pale King]

You could only take his perspective if you could never conceive of yourself as ever having to use a foodbank, or could imagine anyone you cared about doing same. Seems to me a total refusal of any ground of empathy.

 

[Wilf]

Or on the British people. I thought that he only ever talked to his nanny.

I'm sure there was also a little man from the village who used to bring supplies up to the big house.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm sure there was also a little man from the village who used to bring supplies up to the big house.

Ah yes, and possibly Young Alf, the nonagenerian gardener.

 

[The Pale King]

Ah yes, and possibly Young Alf, the nonagenerian gardener.

And a couple of local village lads, Jed and Seth, who would bring in the harvest in return for a shiny apple

 

[ViolentPanda]

And a couple of local village lads, Jed and Seth, who would bring in the harvest in return for a shiny apple

And initiation into the art of buggery from "The Young Master", who learned it on the playing fields (and in the dormitories) of Eton. Droit de seigneur is, alas, still alive at Moggy Manor.

 

[Wilf]

And a couple of local village lads, Jed and Seth, who would bring in the harvest in return for a shiny apple

In the past, payment would have been scrumpy and a trestle table of pies in the stables. I'm not sure what aristos pay their zero hours workers in today. Pringles?

 

[The Pale King]

In the past, payment would have been scrumpy and a trestle table of pies in the stables. I'm not sure what aristos pay their zero hours workers in today. Pringles?

That or a lucky dip from the gamekeeper's pocket

 

[not-bono-ever]

'The rise of food banks across the UK is actually "rather uplifting" because it shows the British people are charitable, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said this morning.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg says the surge in food banks is actually 'rather uplifting'

He's a candidate for canal digging in south georgia

Do we need any fresh virgin labour for the asbestos or uranium mines ?

 

[DotCommunist]

I've had mogg bagsied in for the salt mines for ages.

 

[Wilf]

I've had mogg bagsied in for the salt mines for ages.

It's hard to think what the most hellish hell would be for somebody like Rees Mogg. Being forced to listen to guitars and tambourines kumbayahing their way through eternity, whilst sharing a sleeping bag with a collection of Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists and Hare Krishnas?

 

[Wilf]

Oh, and if he's really bad being forced to read out the Nicene Creed every hour, but with the random inclusion of grocer's apostrophes and the word BOGIES!

 

[Pickman's model]

I think he'd rather suit being regularly uplifted by a trip to the food bank now and then for all his comestibles

Until the day he's turned away

 

[Wilf]

If we are to have bespoke Hells for Tories, a certain 116 page thread on here gives a few clues as to what awaits David Cameron.

 

[not-bono-ever]

be made to liquidate his assets, donate the cash to the Food bank and be forced to hand over the bags to the people at the food bank personally, every fucking day from 7Am to 9PM, until the F/bank has used up cash. only then he can be shipped down to South Georgia , shackled on a retuning guano boat. and be forced to eat so badly he gets scurvy

that makes me feel a bit better. not much but a bit

 

[DotCommunist]

it'd have to be the victory. You know the one. That would truly hurt. The realm, gone. The statuary smashed in the streets.

 

[Wilf]

be made to liquidate his assets, donate the cash to the Food bank and be forced to hand over the bags to the people at the food bank personally, every fucking day from 7Am to 9PM, until the F/bank has used up cash. only then he can be shipped down to South Georgia , shackled on a retuning guano boat. and be forced to eat so badly he gets scurvy

that makes me feel a bit better. not much but a bit

As Gregor Samsa Jacob Rees-Mogg awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect lashed to the mast of the General Belgrano and it was the 2nd of April, 1982. Well, thought Jakey, 'the Royal Navy will soon get me out of this pickle'...

 

[19force8]

it'd have to be the victory. You know the one. That would truly hurt. The realm, gone. The statuary smashed in the streets.

That and made to live in temporary accommodation with only other Tories for neighbours* until everyone else had decent homes. Given two or three jobs as cleaners and expected to work 60+ hours per week to earn just enough to feed themselves.**

* Not fair on anyone else to have to put up with them.

** Kids would, of course, be fed at school and at local youth club.

 

[not-bono-ever]

That and made to live in temporary accommodation with only other Tories for neighbours* until everyone else had decent homes. Given two or three jobs as cleaners and expected to work 60+ hours per week to earn just enough to feed themselves.**

* Not fair on anyone else to have to put up with them.

** Kids would, of course, be fed at school and at local youth club.

Within the tory pledge of a breakfast budget at 6.8p per child for school breakfast obvs