Tory Leadership contest 2022

[not-bono-ever]

FML

 

[frogwoman]

Go to the back of the progressive stack, Penny

 

[frogwoman]

Theresa May shares some of Penny's woke views but y'all not ready for this conversation.

 

[JimW]

Mordaunt having to backpeddle from woke statement that she wouldn't beat orphans and puppies with sticks.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Comrade Truss would've been sent packing to the gulag for her sabotage of the five year plan:

 

[not-bono-ever]

So bosses get to make more profit through tax loopholes and the increased workplace risks for the employee thro reduced standards give the boss a bit of a top up. Nice

 

[frogwoman]

Penny is another privileged white woman who needs to stay in her lane with her problematic wokeness

- Liz Truss and Suella Braverman, yesterday

 

[TopCat]

I do kind of want to know who the alleged s&m candidate/s are but at the same time I’m pretty sure it’ll just be the same as ever age old traditional pastime of paying someone to do punishment like you remember from your days at boarding school etc. Boring even in their supposed eccentricities these people.

My pal who was with her at Oxford say it’s Liz Truss me up.

 

[frogwoman]

Tax cuts fanatics to the front of the queue

 

[billy_bob]

Alistair Campbell in the Guardian:

I can’t, for example, imagine any of them being in the same room as Margaret Thatcher. They wouldn’t have been allowed to carry her handbag.

He's a weapons-grade scumbag himself, of course, but I don't think he's wrong about this.

(Don't read the second half of it where they talk about 'Tony' though, if you want to keep your Sunday lunch down.)

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Alistair Campbell in the Guardian:



He's a weapons-grade scumbag himself, of course, but I don't think he's wrong about this.

(Don't read the second half of it where they talk about 'Tony' though, if you want to keep your Sunday lunch down.)

Hilariously revealing Guardian/Campbell debating point Your new podcast with Rory Stewart is presented as an argument across the political divide. But surely the divide now is between politicians who accept problems as complex, and those who will promise people any nonsense to get elected?

I'd imagine us thickos would have wrongly assumed that the real divide in the 21st Century is between a small group of unimaginably rich people and their flunkeys and the rest of us, but no.

Not only does this type of smug superiority ensure that the former group always lose popular votes when they participate in them, but the rise of the latter group is directly created by the blowback created by the assumptions and the historical policy decision of the former group.

 

[not-bono-ever]

opinions on Rory himself aside, he is smart and engaging enough to listen to *


* your mileage may vary

 

[frogwoman]

 

[LDC]

Some of this stuff is so wild I honestly have to read the headlines and articles a few times, and even then I'm often not sure if they've been genuinely said, are fake, or some kind of elaborate trolling of the whole UK population.

 

[Rob Ray]

Brexit II: This Time Brexit means re-Brexit

 

[DotCommunist]

permanent brexit

 

[Kaka Tim]

Brexit 2: We're going to need a bigger protocol.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Crush the saboteurs. Even though we are the saboteurs and have been all along.

 

[steveo87]

I can't imagine there have been that many big naval battles since 2010 anyway, so "fought" is a strange choice of verb.

Those Somali pirates aren't going to shoot themselves...

 

[steveo87]

Comrade Truss would've been sent packing to the gulag for her sabotage of the five year plan:

It's the 'Ah shite' look in her eyes that makes it work

 

[billy_bob]

23 Hacks for Redoing Brexit on a Tight Budget. Number 14 Will Shock You!

 

[Lucy Fur]

Just watched the C4 hustings. One of them said, "for those lucky enough to be able to pay their bills" Fucks sake, when did that become an acceptable sentence. I thought you were "lucky enough" to have a second holiday, or a playstation 4, an I phone or maybe even lucky enough to have choice. Now you're "lucky enough" if you can survive. Fucking grim

 

[WhyLikeThis]

My pal who was with her at Oxford say it’s Liz Truss me up.

Moar details plz!

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Wilf]

Part of me thinks this is just a weird rabbit hole these scumbags have gone done, a Trumpian insanity that is both ideological and anti-life at the same time. But then the people who are dying of the heat are very much the same people who died in their (surplus) tens of thousands in their ideological and anti-life Covid mismanagement. But the fuckers are going further and further out - it's not just anti-expert nonsense, it's worse, something very dangerous at the heart of our political class.

 

[Storm Fox]

Part of me thinks this is just a weird rabbit hole these scumbags have gone done, a Trumpian insanity that is both ideological and anti-life at the same time. But then the people who are dying of the heat are very much the same people who died in their (surplus) tens of thousands in their ideological and anti-life Covid mismanagement. But the fuckers are going further and further out - it's not just anti-expert nonsense, it's worse, something very dangerous at the heart of our political class.

I think it's a drive toward libertarianism. But Covid, and the cause of the heatwave all require trust in others and collective action. Experts are all lefties in gammon eyes, as being thoughtful, analytical and listening to others. But that's just opposite to libertarianism.

 

[Rob Ray]

I think the right generally has gone considerably more down the rabbit hole than is immediately apparent in political conversation, at least in part because they've been in charge for so long that they've not needed to talk about it. Some of it has been unveiled by the conversations around the leadership campaign but by no means all. Other elements can be found below the line on right-wing media, where some genuinely unhinged shit can be found which isn't being challenged by "sensible" Tories.

If they lose an election I'd not be in the least bit surprised if their language takes a much more aggressively bonkers turn.

 

[platinumsage]

This rabbit hole wasn’t gone down much at all under Cameron or May, it was Johnson who specifically decided to leverage it politically.

 

[platinumsage]

Official propaganda from the Sunak camp:

 

[SpookyFrank]

Those Somali pirates aren't going to shoot themselves...

Unless there's another one of those ridiculous woke 'war crimes' investigations, in which they absolutely did shoot themselves.