Tory Death Spiral

[Teaboy]

The chancellor has just announced to the house that they'll fund women from NI having abortions on the mainland UK.

This is how it's going to be now isn't it?

Yup. The tories are going to have to pick their battles wisely. I suspect Parliament will be in virtual stasis for the foreseeable.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Showing her true colours...

Conservative councillor 'posted joke comparing Asian people to dogs'

 

[ska invita]

Showing her true colours...

Conservative councillor 'posted joke comparing Asian people to dogs'

Tories dont even know how to apologise for something like this...her post wasn't "inappropriate"...wearing double denim at a black tie dinner is inappropriate - calling it inappropriate suggests there IS a time and a place for this (Pendle Conservative Club meetings perhaps), but she crossed the line of when that is.... her post was hateful/racist/disgusting/inexcusable.....inappropriate cunts

 

[Treacle Toes]

Oh look...

Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile' | HuffPost UK

But apparently neither she nor her partner are racists...

Tory candidate distances herself from 'racist remark' made by her agent and partner at hustings

 

[ska invita]

Oh look...

Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile' | HuffPost UK

But apparently neither she nor her partner are racists...

Tory candidate distances herself from 'racist remark' made by her agent and partner at hustings

Thats got to be a firing offence surely?
First by-election on its way?
Though it looks like a safe tory seat

 

[Tom A]

Though it looks like a safe tory seat

So was Canterbury.

 

[killer b]

She can't be sacked. She would need to resign as MP to trigger a by election. The worst the Tory party can do is boot her from the party.

 

[DotCommunist]

Despite using the racist term, none of her fellow panelists, including Tory MPs Bill Cash and John Redwood, reacted.

East India Club in St James Square

its clearly taking some people time to grasp the idea that what happens at the gentlemans club no longer stays at the gentlemans club

 

[not-bono-ever]

Tory central office approved disaster management scenario kicks into action:

1) Admit nothing
2) Offer nothing to make amends
3) Do nothing hugely public for a little while ( 2 weeks max - maybe use this time for a break )
4) Start afresh when everything has been moved off the front page
5) Never mention again ever
6) Repeat same actions with next fuck up


; No one refutes or apologises any more - they know if they keep their heads down for a week or two, it will be forgotten about by all but a small section of the population who do not really have any kind of voice anyway. Personally I would not give them the breathing space to keep a low profile and continue as normal. within 12 hours, they would head shot and dumped over the walls of Buck house to rot in the unseasonably warm weather. Propa justice

Scum

 

[J Ed]

Imagine what the reaction would be like if a Labour MP had said this.

 

[Idris2002]

its clearly taking some people time to grasp the idea that what happens at the gentlemans club no longer stays at the gentlemans club

They'll have to relocate to Vegas.

That jude in london made a good point about all those sniffing out anti-semitism (real or otherwise) in the LP - are they going to condemn this bit of fuckery also?

 

[J Ed]

They'll have to relocate to Vegas.

That jude in london made a good point about all those sniffing out anti-semitism (real or otherwise) in the LP - are they going to condemn this bit of fuckery also?

They will do it but the reaction will be a lot more muted that's for certain.

 

[elbows]

I think someone has been messing with her wikipedia page.

 

[elbows]

But apparently neither she nor her partner are racists...

Tory candidate distances herself from 'racist remark' made by her agent and partner at hustings

Searching for background on her partner I see him described as a 'serial entrepreneur' and someone who is pictured in a times article from 2013 about high earners cutting their tax by backing startups.

How high earners can cut tax by backing start ups

 

[Buckaroo]

Suspended from the party.

 

[8den]

It's such a odd awkward phrase that's just not in common parlance, how the fuck could she have accidentally utter it.

 

[ska invita]

So was Canterbury.

This one isnt full of students. Its full of Tories. No chance of a swing to Lab win here.

 

[Fez909]

It's such a odd awkward phrase that's just not in common parlance, how the fuck could she have accidentally utter it.

cos she's a swivel-eyed loon

 

[Buckaroo]

It's such a odd awkward phrase that's just not in common parlance, how the fuck could she have accidentally utter it.

No accident, just being edgy to impress Bill Cash and John Redwood.

 

[Ole]

It's such a odd awkward phrase that's just not in common parlance, how the fuck could she have accidentally utter it.

Did you see what her husband said a few weeks ago?

Tory candidate distances herself from 'racist remark' made by her agent and partner at hustings

If this kind of shite is slipping out in public, you can bet they're saying much worse racist things in private, all the time.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Stand-by for the backlash, because now you can't even be racist without the FREEDOM HATING LEFT!!! saying you're racist.

 

[magneze]

Suspended from the party.

Majority gets thinner. By election?

 

[Tom A]

This one isnt full of students. Its full of Tories. No chance of a swing to Lab win here.

I would have thought Newton Abbot would have its fair share of liberals, although I may be thinking of Totnes, which is not far away (and is also Tory).

 

[Tom A]

By the way, check out this charming fellow (not)...

 

[Fez909]

I would have thought Newton Abbot would have it's fair share of liberals, although I may be thinking of Totnes, which is not far away (and is also Tory).

It was liberal until 2010, so you'd be right.

 

[Treacle Toes]

It's such a odd awkward phrase that's just not in common parlance, how the fuck could she have accidentally utter it.

You don't accidentally say it. You have to understand the expression and be able to wrap a sentence around it.

Up until today I never really understood this expression, that is a metaphor for 'calamity' and 'danger'.

I have heard/read it sure but it repulsed me so much given the imagery it evokes of a Black person hiding in a pile of wood, I filed it under 'fuck off' and hoped it had would be consigned to the history of slavery and Black people needing to emancipate themselves by escaping and hiding. Yet here we are in 2017 and elected MPs are still using it because they can and really do see the world/people on these terms.

 

[Poot]

Just... Just... How can you be saying that word, out loud, and NOT be thinking 'hold on a moment, this can't possibly be acceptable, can it? This phrase probably has an awful lot of baggage even if I'm not entirely sure what that baggage is because I am a Tory and therefore out of touch'.

Personally I don't even think it was an accident. She knew what she was saying.

 

[killer b]

Impressed to note a nice pivot from this into corbo is an anti-semite on Twitter tonight.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Even if she booted out of the party she wont resign her seat - and the tories will not want her to cos of the danger of losing it to labour (who came second in 2017 - i think).
In fact - that actually givers her leverage - "if you boot me out the party i will resign my seat and you dont want that.."

 

[patman post]

Get over it. Anne Marie is middle aged and brought up in the sleepy West Country — probably in a town where the local store has nigger brown dyes, cotton and fabric. At least she didn't call someone a frowned-on word and, as far as we know, she doesn't discriminate against non-Whites in her daily life. Let's save slagging off for the Far Right who actively want to divide society and kick out non-Whites...