Tory Leadership contest 2022

[Elpenor]

Ah, but the Thick Of it It is only satire. This is reality

Watching the Thick of It now feels like a reminder of a very different time a long while ago

 

[WhyLikeThis]

 

[Cat Fan]

That tell me you are a member of a liberal party that uses scab labour, it does not tell me how you think of yourself.

Who are voters supposed to vote for if they want to see redistribution? Never mind that there are all types of reasons that people vote - tactical, emotional, cultural. Politics starts outside the voting booth.

Genuinely baffled

I don't think either of us is going to convince anyone so let's leave it there perhaps.

 

[redsquirrel]

Baffled by what? You did not know your party employed scab labour. Virtually everything you've posted on this thread has been twaddle.

 

[Cat Fan]

You are entitled to your opinions Mr/Mrs redsquirrel but I think it's time to draw a line underneath as this discussion is getting increasingly deranged and off topic.

 

[Elpenor]

Quite a subdued tie for Mark Mardell.

 

[cupid_stunt]

You are entitled to your opinions Mr/Mrs redsquirrel but I think it's time to draw a line underneath as this discussion is getting increasingly deranged and off topic.

I agree.

But, if you are genuinely baffled by redsquirrel's posts, check out what the Greens have done when in control of Brighton & Hove City Council.

 

[brogdale]

Just to re-trivialise matters again...this did make me laugh (quite a lot)

 

[Cat Fan]

I agree.

But, if you are genuinely baffled by redsquirrel's posts, check out what the Greens have done when in control of Brighton & Hove City Council.

If you have any articles on it I will take a look. About the bin strike I am guessing? I saw the rubbish piling up to the sky one time when I visited.

 

[quiet guy]

Just to re-trivialise matters again...this did make me laugh (quite a lot)

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Looks more like the gendarme in Allo allo

 

[Knotted]

The whole Liz Truss used to be a Lib Dem anti-monarchist and then a remainer thing doesn't hold weight. It's not like she's posturing now just for the Tory base because she is genuinely crackers. You can't fake that.

 

[kabbes]

Yes, there’s nowt more zealous than a convert. So she used to believe in different things — so what? It’s not going to affect the faithful other than to be proud of her journey.

 

[emanymton]

Yes, there’s nowt more zealous than a convert. So she used to believe in different things — so what? It’s not going to affect the faithful other than to be proud of her journey.

And when she was a kid, I just don't get why people think it means anything.

 

[brogdale]

And when she was a kid, I just don't get why people think it means anything.

Agreed, but worth noting that Sunak thought it did in that first TV 'debate' when he asked her which she most regretted, being a LIbDem or being a remainer.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Apparently Rishi has been treating the lobby to name branded care packages:




WTF?

 

[belboid]

And when she was a kid, I just don't get why people think it means anything.

Does anyone? It’s just vaguely amusing

 

[contadino]

And when she was a kid, I just don't get why people think it means anything.

Demonstrates that she can put the fick in fickle.

 

[brogdale]

Yes, there’s nowt more zealous than a convert. So she used to believe in different things — so what? It’s not going to affect the faithful other than to be proud of her journey.

Also validates that fucking nauseatingly nonsense belief that tory cunts all seem to share that you inevitably become more right wing as you "grow-up".

 

[Flavour]

You are entitled to your opinions Mr/Mrs redsquirrel but I think it's time to draw a line underneath as this discussion is getting increasingly deranged and off topic.

I like how in pretending that you don't make assumptions about gender you have used sexist prefixes, it's quite wonderful and sort of sums you up. You think of yourself as being progressive and left wing but are actually quite conservative

 

[Cat Fan]

Funny how I wrote a post saying the left doesn't stick together enough and then a bunch of random people start hounding me for not being left enough for their tastes.

No offence intended chaps. I didn't want to misgender anyone either it was just a passing remark. I have lots of close friends and family who are LGBTQI+ and I'm always willing to learn to be more inclusive and welcoming

 

[Cat Fan]

Back in the real world. Quite fanciful but this would be amazing if it happened.

Boris Johnson could face byelection if inquiry finds he misled MPs over Partygate

Recall Act could be triggered with Johnson at risk of losing Uxbridge seat, HoC committee report suggests

www.theguardian.com

 

[krtek a houby]

Funny how I wrote a post saying the left doesn't stick together enough and then a bunch of random people start hounding me for not being left enough for their tastes.

No offence intended chaps. I didn't want to misgender anyone either it was just a passing remark. I have lots of close friends and family who are LGBTQI+ and I'm always willing to learn to be more inclusive and welcoming

Admitting you can learn from others is a good start.

 

[bluescreen]

"What people in Britain desperately need now is change," Ms Truss said.

Whenever I hear her banging on about change:

 

[wow]

Admitting you can learn from others is a good start.

That’s bully language. It might be acceptable in this forum, but it’s not outside. Ok?

 

[Leighsw2]

The last 100 years tell us that Labour is far more likely to move even further to the right if Starmer loses. In fact that’s exactly what the Blairites plan to do and they are carefully biding their time. Labour could even split and a new elite liberal centrist vehicle emerge free of ties to the labour movement.

I think that's right.

I’d take - any day of the week- a useless Starmer Labour Government subject to pressure from the unions and what passes for the labour left these days over Truss and the insurgent Tory right characterised by Badenoch.

The problem with this is that, in the short term, rather like Biden in the US, you remove the Right from government. But a weak centrist government (Biden, Macron) is unlikely to succeed. So in the long term, the Right return. But in the meantime they've moved even further to the right - in the US to become a far right movement, in France to literal fascism. God knows what the Tories will morph into during a Starmer government.

Electorally, a shit labour government is always the best we are going to get.

A sad lack of ambition that always becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Dystopiary]

Rishi Sunak sounds amazingly like Will off the Inbetweeners when he does campaign speaking. Try listening with your eyes closed - uncanny shit.

Knew he sounded familiar! That's it, he's Briefcase Wanker.

 

[Cat Fan]

Admitting you can learn from others is a good start.

We can all learn from each other if we keep an open mind and try to listen.

I don't appreciate your tone though.

Next time you feel like making an angry post attacking someone I suggest take a deep breath and step away from the keyboard for a bit instead. This isn't the right place for it.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Yes, there’s nowt more zealous than a convert. So she used to believe in different things — so what? It’s not going to affect the faithful other than to be proud of her journey.

Norman Tebbit is another who comes to mind.

 

[domestos]

Whoever wins is going to have a nice little filip, by the next election the Tory gerrymandering boundary changes will have grabbed them an extra 20 plus seats

 

[two sheds]

Trump said ‘lot of things that proved to be true’, says Liz Truss

Tory leadership hopeful wants G7 turned into ‘economic Nato’ to tackle influence of China

www.independent.co.uk

fucking hell