Raheem
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Cabinet level, at least.
Tory Leadership contest 2022
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Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
My grandfather and father changed our name so that English people could say it because English people are literally the most stupid people in the world at pronouncing foreign names.
prunus
Tick tock.
To be fair many non-English speakers have trouble pronouncing English names too - while we English are certainly often unhappily insular regarding foreign languages, this is a wider issue. Try getting a French speaker to say Walthamstow for instance (much hilarity had at a recent family gathering with this one for the French contingent of the family).
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Lead story on Sky News - ugly on so many levels this - what a shit fest - not new but the fact this is now going to be how they try and bring Penny down and the press compliant is yet another disgrace
Conservative leadership race: Penny Mordaunt suffers first setback of campaign as MPs attack her stance on trans issues
One supporter of rival contender Suella Braverman is said to have been enraged over a bill that replaced the word "woman" with "pregnant person".news.sky.com
I like the honesty of the headline but they could have taken it further:
'Mordaunt suffers first setback of campaign: us cunts throwing stupid shit at her'
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Chap behind her clearly thinking 'fucking brooch'
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
Does Lady Mordaunt remind you of a villain in a film? Odd that. (it's cos she's a fundamental, eternal force of evil that has existed throughout the eons and recurred in folk tales, oral histories and their modern equivalents for thousands of years)
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Mordaunt gifted her opponents an attack line on trans issues by rowing back her previous positions and flat out lying about her past pro-trans actions on legislation. Probably should just have said its complicated i’ll leave it to my equalities minister or something.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
LOL what a stupid way to get shot. What a prick.
Yossarian
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And it's probably a little late in the game for him to rebrand himself as Tommy Tugger.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Who would have followed it up with something staggeringly offensive to at least two marginalised groups, if previous Tory equalities ministers are anything to go by...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Lead story on Sky News - ugly on so many levels this - what a shit fest - not new but the fact this is now going to be how they try and bring Penny down and the press compliant is yet another disgrace
Conservative leadership race: Penny Mordaunt suffers first setback of campaign as MPs attack her stance on trans issues
One supporter of rival contender Suella Braverman is said to have been enraged over a bill that replaced the word "woman" with "pregnant person".
Who could have foreseen that this 'they're erasing the word woman' crap would be weaponised as a dog whistle by the right?
Everyone, that's who.
Yossarian
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"Past Evidence of Tolerant Position Could Doom Tory Leadership Bid'
Yossarian
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He says the Iraqis hit him - twice - but the rescue helicopter missed when it fired at him.
"We were in a very, very small group. We had been fighting a nine, ten-hour running battle. I was shot through the chin and the top of the chest, but that hit the body armour so it was OK,” he told The Sunday Times.
His special forces unit called in a helicopter for evacuation, but when it arrived it mistook them for the enemy. He said if it was not for the gunner’s bad aim, he would have been killed.
Tom Tugendhat highlights back story in military in pitch for top job
‘I’m used to friendly fire,’ he said, recounting a near-death experience in Iraq.
www.independent.co.uk
JimW
支那暗杀团
Come to China, the Han majority don't even bother to attempt the names of fellow citizens of other ethnicities properly, and some like the Mongols used to run the place! Also force all the different Han languages into one pronunciation.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
He says the Iraqis hit him - twice - but the rescue helicopter missed when it fired at him.
"We were in a very, very small group. We had been fighting a nine, ten-hour running battle. I was shot through the chin and the top of the chest, but that hit the body armour so it was OK,” he told The Sunday Times.
His special forces unit called in a helicopter for evacuation, but when it arrived it mistook them for the enemy. He said if it was not for the gunner’s bad aim, he would have been killed.
Tom Tugendhat highlights back story in military in pitch for top job
‘I’m used to friendly fire,’ he said, recounting a near-death experience in Iraq.
Thank goodness his comrades were also useless fuckwits.
bimble
floofy
saw this yesterday, poll of tory members, don't know how representative it is but would suggest that the voters they need are not actually interested at all in the 'culture war' talking points that are being churned up all day long by the press.
Impression I get is that people even tory party members want to hear their plans about how people are gong to heat their homes and buy food and really do not have time for a stupid punch and judy show about the definition of the word woman right now.
they do care quite a lot about people in boats though.
Impression I get is that people even tory party members want to hear their plans about how people are gong to heat their homes and buy food and really do not have time for a stupid punch and judy show about the definition of the word woman right now.
they do care quite a lot about people in boats though.
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Just goes to show how effective the press has been at talking up the migration issue and playing down the crisis in the NHS. Tories are old, how have have they not noticed from the evidence of their own senses that healthcare is effectively in a state of slow-motion collapse?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Until they get down to the last two, they only really care about the votes of the 360 Tory MP's I would imagine. There may be some appealing to the wider party but other than Rishi Rich who is probably a shoe-in, they need to get into those last two when maybe they will start toning down the crazy and saying stuff that your average Party membership might care about.
bimble
floofy
Even if they're just talking to eachother it still doesn't explain why we've been treated to a day by day forensic on 'what does this candidate think the definition of the word woman is', instead of what if anything have they said about the price of food / fuel or the NHS.
It looks like either they or the newspapers are not reading the room.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
No say it is not so!
bimble
floofy
massive failed opportunity though, if they're all warbling on about trans issues when they could gain a lot of support by just saying lets talk about that later we are in a worsening cost of living emergency here's my plan for your winter fuel bill instead?
another one
Wasn’t she the villain in the Sylvester McCoy 80s Cyberman episodes?
bimble
floofy
It seems mad, looking at it, that they are not all talking about the fact that it will cost double as much money this coming winter to heat yr home as it did last year.
Even if they think that they only need to appeal to rich people at the moment, deal with the rest of the population later, it still seems strange.
But then maybe they are refusing to mention it because the only possible policies would sound 'socialist' so best say nothing.
Even if they think that they only need to appeal to rich people at the moment, deal with the rest of the population later, it still seems strange.
But then maybe they are refusing to mention it because the only possible policies would sound 'socialist' so best say nothing.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
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Another better way to decide the new PM
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
She was an Acting Sub-Lieutenant in RN Reserves ( ie crossed the Solent in a RHIB). Then she promoted herself to Captain when she was at the MoD. She absolutely has not qualified for or earned the Submariner's Dolphins.
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