Tory Leadership contest 2022

[stdP]

I mean, I know this is a joke but, what's stopping them? Is there a law against pork-barrelling, or just a gentleman's agreement not to get caught doing it?

I'm trying to look up the precise circumstances and laws. As everyone says, it's been blatantly obvious that this was always the playbook but very rare to see it openly admitted so I merely assume there are laws against it, but I'll not be surprised to hear if they were quietly removed from the books. He mad a mandate donchaknow! Fourteen million voters!

Incidentally, my searches turned up this article from 2004 where Tory Taunton accused Labour of doing the same, via not using current Census data.

Tories attack 'politically biased' council funding

County councils are being short-changed to the tune of "millions" as the government continues to calculate council funding on the basis of information which is more than a decade old, MPs will be told today.

www.theguardian.com

 

[RainbowTown]

Saying the quiet part out loud

What else did anyone expect from this Janus-faced opportunist?

He hasn't got any working class friends, remember.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I'll tell you who liked a drink though. Jesus. Blood alcohol so high he could pass the stuff off as wine.

He was a stoner too. Cool guy.

 

[MickiQ]

Rishi Rich is just spouting crap to try and pip Loony Liz to the post as it were because he knows the odds seem to be stacked against him. Should by some miracle he wins his dafter utterances will just get quietly forgotten.
The scary thing is Loony Liz must know she's ahead and is still spouting barmy shit which is rather worrying since it implies she might actually believe it.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Rishi Rich is just spouting crap to try and pip Loony Liz to the post as it were because he knows the odds seem to be stacked against him. Should by some miracle he wins his dafter utterances will just get quietly forgotten.
The scary thing is Loony Liz must know she's ahead and is still spouting barmy shit which is rather worrying since it implies she might actually believe it.

I’m not sure she does, she’s just parroting neoliberal buzzwords her neurons fuse together from barely remembered crib notes supplied by advisors

 

[Spandex]

Saying the quiet part out loud

He's so busy trying to out-cunt the other cunt for the electorate of 200,000 cunts who get to vote in this cunt-off that he forgot the other 46,360,452 people who get to vote in a General election were watching too and most of them aren't cunts. What a massive cunt.

 

[Calamity1971]

Own country!

 

[existentialist]

Own country!

True colours.

Only trouble is, Tories hate colours.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Own country!

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

“Poverty is a moral failing and solely due to laziness not circumstances or society”

 

[platinumsage]

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

Blame Gordon Brown:

Hardworking families - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[marty21]

Not sure why they're trying to keep this a secret - shouldn't they be shouting from the rooftops that they'll give local authorities more money as long as they vote Tory? Seems like a sure-fire vote winner to me - vote for blue, more money four you!

TBH it would make things far more efficient if opposition parties were outlawed, then all this petty squabbling could end and everywhere would be able to have the money distributed fairly. All these meanness-testing can't come cheap regardless of whom it's outsourced to.

Not great for the red wall seats or the "levelling up " con.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

It's like there should be a prize for working hard. But colleagues who put much more effort than I into the job don't get any more money or extra holiday. All they're likely to get is an earlier grave

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

It's like there should be a prize for working hard. But colleagues who put much more effort than I into the job don't get any more money or extra holiday. All they're likely to get is an earlier grave

And self-respect, of course.

 

[Pickman's model]

And self-respect, of course.

It's because I respect myself that I don't waste time and effort going the extra mile for people who don't respect me

 

[two sheds]

It's probably NHS staff and carers and cleaners with three jobs that work hardest and she doesn't give a shit about any of them.

 

[MickiQ]

It's like there should be a prize for working hard. But colleagues who put much more effort than I into the job don't get any more money or extra holiday. All they're likely to get is an earlier grave

There is but there aren't enough to go round. One year at Evil American Megacorp the word came down that due to financial constraints only the top 10% of performers would be eligible for a bonus and the jobs of the bottom 10% were at risk.
They obviously believed that everyone would bust a gut to get into the top 10%, in reality virtually everyone just did the bare minimum to keep themselves out of the bottom 10%.
Productivity actually went down since no-one saw the point in driving themselves for a 1in 10 chance of a bonus.

 

[planetgeli]

And self-respect, of course.

Yeah. Um.

I'm sure that's how my dad saw it too (being of a generation that had that 'work ethic', even though he knew, as a Socialist, he was working for capitalism).

I'm sure he went to his early grave at 53 full of self-respect.

Didn't do his (my) family much good though.

 

[Elpenor]

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

Buy to let Landlords I expect

 

[teqniq]

Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak wants to transform further and higher education in a bid to create parity of esteem between vocational and academic learning.

news.sky.com

Just

 

[Elpenor]

No more classics degrees then?

 

[Rob Ray]

I for one welcome the downgrading of Oxbridge PPE degrees to reflect their actual value to society, and suggest the resulting 100% graduate unemployment rate be remedied by retraining these poor unfortunates as draught excluders.

 

[A380]

I'm always intrigued by who politicians mean when they say "people who work hard" or "hard working people". It's not limited to the Tories.

But then I'd rather drink my own piss than vote Tory and I'm a right lazy fucker.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak wants to transform further and higher education in a bid to create parity of esteem between vocational and academic learning.

news.sky.com

Just

There should be broad spectrum education but these calls for parity always end up like this;

“Does this mean we’ll fund and advertise vocational education as much as university degrees?”
“No, we’re just not funding universities either now”
“Oh”

 

[Artaxerxes]

Dp

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

But then I'd rather drink my own piss than vote Tory and I'm a right lazy fucker.

I'd rather drink your own piss than vote Tory.

 

[wow]

It's because I respect myself that I don't waste time and effort going the extra mile for people who don't respect me

Are you deliberately lazy then? Because if you don’t do whatever “extra mile” you disagree with, one of your colleagues will invariably pick up the slack.

 

[Pickman's model]

Are you deliberately lazy then? Because if you don’t do whatever “extra mile” you disagree with, one of your colleagues will invariably pick up the slack.

No they won't. You're one of those tiresome characters who thinks they know fucking everything when instead they know fuck all

 

[Tanya1982]

I can't believe how fucking long this nonsense is taking. These people are basically having a game of charades in the middle of a burning building. Endless jolly japes for their own amusement, no evidence of any actual work being done. Months of pissing about. The only positive is that they aren't actively out there, causing the damage they do when they actually show up to 'get on with the job' as they like to phrase their normal activities.

 

[wow]

No they won't. You're one of those tiresome characters who thinks they know fucking everything when instead they know fuck all

I’m making an assumption that you’re neither self-employed nor a business owner. That’s a gut feeling, but I’m pretty sure an accurate one.

You don’t seem concerned about being able to pay for your bills or food. So you’re not working minimum wage, or in a zero hours contract.

At the same time, you’re trying to reinforce your position on this forum by throwing out uncorroborated swears at people who call you out.

You can’t help reacting, so you’re thin skinned as well. No problem, we’ve all got an ego.

My guess is that you were once proud of being a disrupter, a maverick, a force. Maybe you performed an act which you’ll be rightly remembered for. But, it’s difficult to keep that lifestyle up. You need to keep a roof over your head. Eat. Pay bills.

I reckon you’re in your 50’s and once told a copper to fuck off or something, and that’s the extent of your anarchism.

How much of fuck all do I know?