chrisp65 Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Journeyman politician now on his 3rd club. Lib Dems eyeing up a bid for next season. Who’s sniggling now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Journeyman politician now on his 3rd club. Lib Dems eyeing up a bid for next season. Who’s sniggling now? Did you hear the opening to his statement? He had apparently positioned himself behind a giant flag, started spouting his nonsense and all the journalists were giggling, one assumes, because a giant flag was saying it wanted it's country back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 His mum and dad told him to defect 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted March 11 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, desensitized43 said: Did you hear the opening to his statement? He had apparently positioned himself behind a giant flag, started spouting his nonsense and all the journalists were sniggling, one assumes, because a giant flag was saying it wanted it's country back. FTFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 I have a feeling that he’ll do or say something so controversial they’ll end up disowning him quite soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 26 minutes ago, Genie said: I have a feeling that he’ll do or say something so controversial they’ll end up disowning him quite soon. Difficult to think of anything left at the bottom of the barrel, that they haven’t already dredged up. Has a political party ever been more deserving of this two faced lying charlatan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 11 Moderator Share Posted March 11 Technically, Lee Anderson is now the parliamentary leader of a political party 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 5 minutes ago, meregreen said: Difficult to think of anything left at the bottom of the barrel, that they haven’t already dredged up. Has a political party ever been more deserving of this two faced lying charlatan. He has that mix of stupidity, over confidence and high profile. He’ll say or do something in the next few weeks and it’ll be big news and Reform will shit the bed and bin him off in a panic. Thats my prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Fake séance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 4 hours ago, Genie said: He has that mix of stupidity, over confidence and high profile. He’ll say or do something in the next few weeks and it’ll be big news and Reform will shit the bed and bin him off in a panic. Thats my prediction. I don't see how he could say anything much more stupid or offensive than what made his disgraceful excuse for a career. Reform know exactly who he is, and they love the controversy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 16 hours ago, Genie said: He has that mix of stupidity, over confidence and high profile. He’ll say or do something in the next few weeks and it’ll be big news and Reform will shit the bed and bin him off in a panic. Thats my prediction. I don't think he's overconfident. He strikes me as a deeply insecure person on a number of levels, hence getting so defensive when he thinks people are laughing at him. It was only a few weeks ago that he literally admitted changing how he was going to vote at the last minute because people were laughing at him. Like a lot of people he overcompensates through bravado but like you say, he's actually stupid, so he gives the game away with what he actually says when you listen. He even did it again yesterday when he talked about his parents saying he needed to go to reform in order for them to vote for him. I mean, what the **** is that? He can't even count on his parents unconditional support? That maybe hints to something in his upbringing, but who knows. Ultimately, his insecurity causes him to look for some kind of validation or affirmation wherever he can find it so he has to call about the emails and letters he says he receives from people saying "you go, Lee!". So yeah, total bellend. Obviously one of those guys who's definitely a racist but lacks the self awareness to know he is. Undoubtedly very stupid. Manbaby. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 He’s like Trump. He simply makes things up, and states “someone told me, or said”. It’s bullshit, totally fabricated to put over his own thoughts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted March 12 VT Supporter Share Posted March 12 Interesting split between UK and US conservatism, the Conservative Party in the UK has managed to sort of keep its soul (as much as it ever had one) because the lunatic fringe is mostly outside, i.e. in the UKIP/reform parties, so that's where it shoves the loonies. As the US is such a severely 2 party system, there is nowhere for the loonies to go and they've infected the Replicans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 12 VT Supporter Share Posted March 12 8 minutes ago, Anthony said: The Conservative Party in the UK has managed to sort of keep its soul (as much as it ever had one) because the lunatic fringe is mostly outside, i.e. in the UKIP/reform parties You reckon? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 54 minutes ago, Anthony said: Interesting split between UK and US conservatism, the Conservative Party in the UK has managed to sort of keep its soul (as much as it ever had one) because the lunatic fringe is mostly outside, i.e. in the UKIP/reform parties, so that's where it shoves the loonies. As the US is such a severely 2 party system, there is nowhere for the loonies to go and they've infected the Replicans. My understanding is that a lot of traditional Tory voters want the party dead, so a proper Conservative party can form. 50 Tory MP's won't be standing for re-election, suggests that they are getting out to avoid the humiliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ml1dch Posted March 12 Popular Post Share Posted March 12 (edited) 2 hours ago, MakemineVanilla said: My understanding is that a lot of traditional Tory voters want the party dead, so a proper Conservative party can form. Your terminology isn’t right. The people who want the party dead are the UKIPPy entryists, who thought through the Brexit wars that they were supporting a party that wants to rip stuff up and destroy it all. The traditional Tory voters are still the "don't make a fuss, Kenneth" sort. And while the likes of Braverman and Anderson have always been tolerated, they were never supposed to be taken seriously. And definitely never supposed to be in charge of shit. The traditional Tory voters just got a bit unlucky / complacent that for a decade or so, "don't make a fuss" has happened to align with the fever-dreams of a bunch of modern Robespierres. "Conservative" is the actual silent majority of the UK. Not Lee Anderson's silent majority, but the real one. The ones who just want to be able to see a doctor if they need one, likes the BBC, puts a pound in the poppy tin, wore a mask through Covid, goes to a National Trust property every couple of months, was very sad when the Queen died and actually thinks that it's quite nice that people have rallied round that Syrian family who their kids have got to know at school. And who think about party politics approximately once every four or five years. The middle-classness described sounds like a horrible pastiche, but those are the "traditional Tory voters" not the culture warriors who are demanding grand gestures over trans people or refugees. The people you describe are just terribly upset to finally learn that their party doesn't want to tear down the Bastille, because the money that the council will have to spend to clean it up means their green bin will move to monthly collection. Edited March 12 by ml1dch 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted March 12 VT Supporter Share Posted March 12 4 hours ago, mjmooney said: You reckon? Yeah, hence the words 'sort of', but particularly compared to what's happening in the US where the Republicans have been 100% taken over by Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 13 Moderator Share Posted March 13 9 hours ago, ml1dch said: "Conservative" is the actual silent majority of the UK. No, I don’t think so. A sizeable minority, nationally, sure, and in safe Tory seats, maybe even a (local) majority, but absolutely no way a majority of the uk. Good description, mind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) 18 minutes ago, blandy said: No, I don’t think so. A sizeable minority, nationally, sure, and in safe Tory seats, maybe even a (local) majority, but absolutely no way a majority of the uk. Good description, mind. Silent plurality then. But unfortunately that's not an overused and easily borrowed phrase. Edited March 13 by ml1dch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 13 hours ago, ml1dch said: The traditional Tory voters are still the "don't make a fuss, Kenneth" sort. "Conservative" is the actual silent majority of the UK. I think a better definition of "conservative" would be the "silenced majority" who have learned to keep their traps shut. Metroland has gone forever, leaving the squalid and meretricious to reign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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