The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[bickster]

8 hours ago, tonyh29 said:

If you order one ...will it be delivered on time

Appropriately, they won't

Not being delivered until Feb 10th or after.

[Davkaus]

Imagine being gullible enough to think the Tories would actually end austerity.

"Record levels of funding", while slashing budgets by 5%

[Xann]

On 29/01/2020 at 16:12, ml1dch said:

So I should have voted Labour, who always get around 10-15% of the vote, in my one-time Tory/ Lib Dem marginal, now relatively safe Lib Dem seat should I? 

You're the minority.

Most Liberal votes went down the pan with the stupid cow in charge.

[ml1dch]

1 hour ago, Xann said:

You're the minority.

I've not claimed otherwise. 

I've simply pointed out that "if you didn’t vote for Labour in the last election, you have actively preferred to have a Conservative government" is a really dumb thing to say. 

[Xann]

1 hour ago, ml1dch said:

I've simply pointed out that "if you didn’t vote for Labour in the last election, you have actively preferred to have a Conservative government" is a really dumb thing to say. 

* Nearly as dumb as voting Liberal in 639 out of 650 constituencies.

Edited January 31, 2020 by Xann
* Not quite true, but that yield was PATHETIC.

[bickster]

38 minutes ago, Xann said:

* Nearly as dumb as voting Liberal in 639 out of 650 constituencies.

There were far more constituencies than that where the Lib Dems were second, those are just the ones they won

[Xann]

1 minute ago, bickster said:

There were far more constituencies than that where the Lib Dems were second, those are just the ones they won

Hence the edit.

[HanoiVillan]

 

[snowychap]

 

[Chindie]

The kind of behaviour that eventually leads to someone having to got the reset button.

But that's years down the line so who gives a ****?

[snowychap]

Grauniad:

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Political journalists walked out of No 10 Downing Street this afternoon in protest at the government planning to give a briefing on the EU only to selected reporters - banning The Mirror, i, Huffington Post, PoliticsHome, Independent and others from attending.

Reporters on the invited list were asked to stand on one side of a rug in the foyer of No 10, while those not allowed in were asked by security to stand on the other side.

After one of Boris Johnson’s most senior advisers, Lee Cain, told the banned reporters they must leave the building, the rest of the journalists decided to walk out rather than allow Downing Street to choose who scrutinises and reports on the government.

Among those who refused the briefing and walked out included the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, ITV’s Robert Peston and political journalists from the Daily Mail, Telegraph, the Sun Financial Times, and Guardian.

Downing St response is that the later briefing was for 'specialist senior journalists' and that the uninvited ones 'barged' in to No10.

Edit:

 

Edited February 3, 2020 by snowychap

[tonyh29]

Surely the BBC would have been on the left of centre excluded list  ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sam-AVFC]

37 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Surely the BBC would have been on the left of centre excluded list  ....

It’s almost as if the people who accuse them of being left wing shills are full of shit.

[ml1dch]

3 hours ago, snowychap said:

Grauniad:

Downing St response is that the later briefing was for 'specialist senior journalists' and that the uninvited ones 'barged' in to No10.

Edit:

 

 

Aged like a fine milk...

[bannedfromHandV]

Raab is a total and utter moron

[snowychap]

 

[chrisp65]

[HanoiVillan]

It'll be interesting to see if that trend survives the next few months. 

[NurembergVillan]

Be interesting to see how this one plays out...

The Jewish Labour Movement and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have condemned it, and the Campaign Against Antisemitism have called upon the Conservative Party to distance themselves from his views.  Overarching opinion seems to be that the Tories should suspend the whip.

DK has clearly been a whopper for some time now, desperate to be noticed with his proclamations of calling favours from the Polish government (that didn't materialise), but I do wonder if he's perhaps motivated by something more sinister than mere publicity.

As a footnote, I'm always flabbergasted at how anyone Polish can want to align themselves with the far right - be that MPs or football hooligans - given the history there.

[ml1dch]

19 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

Be interesting to see how this one plays out...

The Jewish Labour Movement and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have condemned it, and the Campaign Against Antisemitism have called upon the Conservative Party to distance themselves from his views.  Overarching opinion seems to be that the Tories should suspend the whip.

I'd have thought that providing evidence that you're an ugly, prejudiced dickbag was more likely to be grounds for promotion to the cabinet rather than a reason to have the whip removed for this Government.