Tory Death Spiral

[killer b]

This is up in Salford this morning.

 

[Teaboy]

Why on earth do they keep going back to Manchester for their conference? Do they just feed off of abuse and hurled eggs or is there an arrogance behind it all? We go where we want?

Surely there must be a part of the country more sympathetic to them that has adequate conferencing facilities?

 

[teqniq]

Who knows? I see from social media that there's plenty of people intending to go and protest though.

 

[Pickman's model]

Why on earth do they keep going back to Manchester for their conference? Do they just feed off of abuse and hurled eggs or is there an arrogance behind it all? We go where we want?

Surely there must be a part of the country more sympathetic to them that has adequate conferencing facilities?

manchester is the most friendly city for tories in the uk

 

[Pickman's model]

This is up in Salford this morning.

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i lean towards defenstration myself

 

[DotCommunist]

Plenty of O/T for GMP eh.

 

[Pickman's model]

Plenty of O/T for GMP eh.

they could be defenstrated too

 

[Kaka Tim]

i lean towards defenstration myself

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Boris Johnson leaving the next cabinet meeting .....

 

[Pickman's model]

Boris Johnson leaving the next cabinet meeting .....

boris johnson could feed the entire tory party conference

 

[Dogsauce]

Vegetarian sensibilities offended. Why not a nice bit of bonemeal fertiliser for Corbyn's allotment instead?

 

[Knotted]

Tory membership slump puts party in crisis

The figure means that not only are the Conservatives well below Labour’s soaring membership of 569,500 but are either neck and neck or below the membership of the Liberal Democrats – who have also seen a jump in members from 61,000 to 102,000.

Mr Strafford said: “The party is facing oblivion. If you take the fact only 10 per cent of the membership is likely to be very active they will not have enough people on the ground to fight an election – they won’t even have enough people to man polling stations on the day.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why on earth do they keep going back to Manchester for their conference? Do they just feed off of abuse and hurled eggs or is there an arrogance behind it all? We go where we want?

Surely there must be a part of the country more sympathetic to them that has adequate conferencing facilities?

Only place outside london with a police force equipped for large scale public order stuff.

 

[agricola]

Only place outside london with a police force equipped for large scale public order stuff.

Not really - almost every constabulary uses mutual aid for large scale events like this, the only exceptions being the Met (though even here its not unknown) and the Scottish force.

I think they prefer Manchester because they see it as the Northern equivalent of London - tarted up shopping, successful football teams, decent public transport, rude locals etc.

 

[killer b]

By all accounts they had a three year contract, which finishes this year.

 

[not-bono-ever]

There is always room at the grand in Brighton for another few tory conferences

 

[Kaka Tim]

There is always room at the grand in Brighton for another few tory conferences

costs a bomb though ...

 

[Raheem]

Bomb or no bomb, Tory conferences are always a tragic waste of life.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bomb or no bomb, Tory conferences are always a tragic waste of life.

People die as a direct result of tory conferences

 

[Cloo]

I was gonna say - average age *must* be over 70 by now.

 

[BemusedbyLife]

I think it could be interesting this year, no matter how much they stage manage things, sooner or later someone is going to stand up and say "What the Fuck happened on the 8th June Theresa, can you explain it to us?"

 

[binka]

May announces 'help' for students by capping uni fees at £9250 and raising the repayment threshold to £25k with the promise of a review to look at cutting fees, re-introducing grants and/or reducing the insane 6%+ interest rate.

Not sure how many young people (or their parents) will be swayed by this. If they actually wanted to do something about it they wouldn't be announcing a review they could just do it and like an energy price cap they wouldn't struggle to get it passed.

What they're basically saying is Labour are right but we're not going to do anything about it

 

[teqniq]

Anti-abortion MP Jacob Rees-Mogg admits profiting from sale of abortion pills

 

[Dogsauce]

Announcing a 'freeze' on University fees immediately after putting them up, we're being governed by people with the same cynical dishonesty as the utility companies. Do they really think people are that stupid? Hopeless cunts.

 

[Badgers]

 

[ViolentPanda]

i lean towards defenstration myself

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AKA "the Prague solution".

 

[Pickman's model]

Announcing a 'freeze' on University fees immediately after putting them up, we're being governed by people with the same cynical dishonesty as the utility companies. Do they really think people are that stupid? Hopeless cunts.

Not only that, they're talking about reducing course length #shrinkflation

 

[emanymton]

By all accounts they had a three year contract, which finishes this year.

Last years was in Birmingham?

 

[emanymton]

Tory membership slump puts party in crisis

Just trying to scare people into signing back up IMO.

 

[killer b]

Last years was in Birmingham?

Not three consecutive years.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Breakfast telly is on. The pair of non threatening poltroons have just mauled Mayhem over her utter nonsensical non answer blethering responses to pretty straightforward question. How the FUCK has it come to this ?