Tory Death Spiral

[elbows]

 

[2hats]

"Is this the first time a politician has resigned to spend less time with their family?"

 

[SpineyNorman]

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is waiting til it rots then wanging it at a liberal

I like that a lot, so much that I'm going to use it and pass it off as my own

 

[Badgers]

Not sure why I am surprised at a brother turning his back on family. Mainly because they are Tories so will stab anyone in the back, but also because his brother is a massive cunt. If I had disgraced prime minister Johnson as a brother I would disown the cunt.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Teaboy]

Isn't Jo Johnson resigning because he doesn't want to have to choose between family and beliefs? Turning against his brother would be voting against him. He's decided he can't reconcile the differences so has decided not to play.

 

[Badgers]

Isn't Jo Johnson resigning because he doesn't want to have to choose between family and beliefs? Turning against his brother would be voting against him. He's decided he can't reconcile the differences so has decided not to play.

He is (was) a tory cunt regardless

 

[flypanam]

Not a snowball's chance they'd select her for an English constituency.

Uxbridge maybe?

 

[Poi E]

Hmm.

 

[Raheem]

Isn't Jo Johnson resigning because he doesn't want to have to choose between family and beliefs? Turning against his brother would be voting against him. He's decided he can't reconcile the differences so has decided not to play.

And carefully picked the moment when it will cause least upset.

 

[hash tag]

Beat me to it but yes

Laugh, I nearly wet myself when I read JJ had quit. Talk about a kick in the teeth for his brother
I seem to remember sis standing at the last election as a remainer

 

[agricola]

er - Boris is giving an election speech at a Police training centre, in front of uniformed police officers, with a backdrop of uniformed police officers?

 

[JimW]

er - Boris is giving an election speech at a Police training centre, in front of uniformed police officers, with a backdrop of uniformed police officers?

Rules are for the little people.

 

[Badgers]

er - Boris is giving an election speech at a Police training centre, in front of uniformed police officers, with a backdrop of uniformed police officers?

Did he turn up on time?

 

[agricola]

Did he turn up on time?

between 35 minutes to an hour late, depending on who you listen to

 

[Sprocket.]

between 35 minutes to an hour late, depending on who you listen to

If you want to know the time though!

 

[Badgers]

between 35 minutes to an hour late, depending on who you listen to

Bit disrespectful to an overstretched and underfunded force one might say?

 

[teqniq]

 

[Badgers]

 

[Kaka Tim]

I have spent much of recent days under a mordor-esque murk of brexit and johnsons power grab and the real possibility of a a cabal of far right ghouls seizing power on the back of a toxic campaign of divisive shit stirring.

But watching johnson stumble around - incoherent, unfocused and half arsed like hes on a permanent chang come down - and seeing the dismay within tory ranks - a thought keeps coming to me; rather than this being a cynical master plan - have the tories, in making johnson leader and him going for a scorched earth approach - actually made an utterly monumental fuck up?

 

[teqniq]

It's almost too much to hope, but at least i've had some genuine moments of mirth out of it.

 

[Ming]

I have spent much of recent days under a mordor-esque murk of brexit and johnsons power grab and the real possibility of a a cabal of far right ghouls seizing power on the back of a toxic campaign of divisive shit stirring.

But watching johnson stumble around - incoherent, unfocused and half arsed like hes on a permanent chang come down - and seeing the dismay within tory ranks a thought keeps coming to me - rather than this being a cynical master plan - have the tories, in making johnson leader and him going for a scorched earth approach - actually made an utterly monumental fuck up?

You may be right. This is a shit show and a half.

 

[elbows]

It resembles the sort of shit show that for a good while it looked like many tory MPs realised would happen with Boris as leader, and that they would therefore avoid having him as leader. But then things got surreal and they let him win. Which had shades of 'Republicans failing to stop Trump getting the nomination' about it. And the leadership contest did have an extra degree of pretence and putting a brave face on it from the wider party, with enough media commentators to go along with the show - gotta build em up a little in preparation for knocking them down.

As sources of clusters of poisoned chalices go, Brexit is overachieving. A giddy mix where the probably suicidal mission, somewhat akin to having to go out on foot and find the radioactive core of Chernobyl after it melted, is willingly dressed up up as a greedy search to find a lost city of gold.

I wonder if it will make any difference to our future, or whether the emperors new dance moves, performed while wearing radioactive underpants, only lasting implication will be in relation to the rankings in the tory dance off that maybot brought to the publics attention.

 

[elbows]

High stakes attempts to exploit massive opportunities from a big crisis are probably rather appealing to the lazy, impatient and crude.

Opportunity Pox with Rob Spunkhouse.

 

[NoXion]

Because it's Evolve Politics. Evolve Politics is run by Mike Sivier (Midwales Mike on Twitter) one of JC's biggest fans. EP, along with Novara Media, The Squawkbox, The Canary, and others, formed the so-called 'Independent MediaN Group' back in 2014. The IMG is a collective of hard/far-Left blogs and online publications and should be treated with the same contempt as you would reserve for the DM, Express, Telegraph and S*n. It is heavily biased, the thing is people seem to think that left-wing bias is fine, there's this whole 'far-left = good/far right = bad' mentality when, in reality, they're both as bad as each other. Kerryanne Mendoza (TheMendozaWoman on Twitter), founder of The Canary, has been in court several times for publishing unfounded allegations as truth as well as libelling MPs simply because she didn't like them. The IMG is basically the Labour Party's propaganda arm, and let's not forget Momentum's attempts to force changes to the Party's rules to deselect candidates who refuse to support JC, all seems more than a tad Stalinist to me.

Then there are these loons, attending the LPC again this year: TWT19 (again invited by Momentum). TWT is a hard left, communist organisation. I don't think its programme for this year's conference is on its website yet, but last year included a talk by someone, I forget who, who proposed that the only way to get the media to publish what TWT sees as "the truth" was for it to be entirely state-owned and state-run (this is slightly ironic as JC fans don't like the BBC because it doesn't ever say anything nice about St. Jeremy). In other words, truth = propaganda. A free press, a free, wholly-independent media is at the very core of a free society. TWT also proposes "compulsory socialism teaching in schools, so kids don't grow up and become Tories". That was also on last year's agenda, which has now vanished from the TWT website (I'll have to see if it's been archived).

Why would Labour invite a hard-Left/communist organisation to its conference if it wasn't an advocate of Communism…? There are no moderates left anymore; the Tories are now hard-Right and Labour are hard-Left. Moderate progressivism is dead.

I would prefer my news, data and stats from wholly unbiased sources (or as unbiased as possible at least).

Centrist scum.

 

[flypanam]

BJ got heckled to fuck in Leeds too. Kaura K from the BBC had to step in and save him.

 

[Teaboy]

I have spent much of recent days under a mordor-esque murk of brexit and johnsons power grab and the real possibility of a a cabal of far right ghouls seizing power on the back of a toxic campaign of divisive shit stirring.

But watching johnson stumble around - incoherent, unfocused and half arsed like hes on a permanent chang come down - and seeing the dismay within tory ranks - a thought keeps coming to me; rather than this being a cynical master plan - have the tories, in making johnson leader and him going for a scorched earth approach - actually made an utterly monumental fuck up?

I think a lot of them are wondering the same thing now. Thing is they knew he is a terrible person and a useless cunt but they put him in charge because they are utterly desperate and terrified about losing to Corbyn. Johnson is perceived at election dynamite and that is what they are banking on. The next few weeks we'll all find out for sure.

 

[bluescreen]

I think a lot of them are wondering the same thing now. Thing is they knew he is a terrible person and a useless cunt but they put him in charge because they are utterly desperate and terrified about losing to Corbyn. Johnson is perceived at election dynamite and that is what they are banking on. The next few weeks we'll all find out for sure.

Election dynamite that with luck will blow the Tory party to smithereens.

 

[redsquirrel]

Election dynamite that with luck will blow the Tory party to smithereens.

Which is why they are still polling ahead of any other party.

 

[bluescreen]

Which is why they are still polling ahead of any other party.

We aren't there yet. There are many days to come.
Popcorn.
E2A It will be interesting to see post-Wakefield polls. And then there's Scotland...