Stop voting for fucking Tories

[salanya]

Boris out too.

Off with Nadine to keep his 'ego' inflated.

Throwing shite all over the shop in his resignation - a slightly more literate version of Trump.

Best riddance.

[Slick]

Hilarious

[sturginho]

Banana monarchy

[fishfoodie]

Boris out too.

Off with Nadine to keep his 'ego' inflated.

Throwing shite all over the shop in his resignation - a slightly more literate version of Trump.

Best riddance.

He got the conclusions of Standards group today; I don't think it's a coincidence

[sturginho]

Boris has gone full Axl Rose




They're out ta get him!

[Tichtheid]

Boris Johnson stepping down as MP with immediate effect and says he is ‘bewildered and appalled’ at being ‘forced out’

Of course he is bewildered and appalled, it's twice now in his entire life that he's had to face the consequences of his actions, the first was being forced from office for lying.

Hopefully he'll face jail time in due course.

[Tichtheid]

'Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavillion and former leader of the Green party, tweeted: “Everyone knew he was not fit to hold public office before he was even an MP. Yet Tories made him their leader & look what happened. Evading scrutiny to the last & choosing to quit just hours after gifting gongs & peerages in atrocious act of patronage & sleaze.

“Entirely predictable that Johnson making baseless accusations that he’s been forced out - he even uses the word “witch-hunt”. Trumpian rubbish. Privileges Cttee has Tory majority. He lied about the most serious of things & was held to account for treating us all with contempt.”'

[sturginho]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

[fishfoodie]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

Maybe change the honours to something appropiate ?

... is there an Order of the Cockgobbler ?

[Hal Jordan]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

If he had an ounce of political nous, or his balls weren't locked in his wife's purse.

Meanwhile, Johnson continues his two bob Churchill tribute act, with his own Wilderness Years. Fuck him,the corrupt, lying bastard.

[tabascoboy]

Johnson's resignation tonight has unleashed familiar Tory factions into the open again.

Another unhappy Tory, Brendan Clarke-Smith, tweets: “Tonight we saw the end result of a parliamentary witch-hunt which would put a banana republic to shame.

"If you’d thought we’d seen the back of Tory civil war, tonight may have reopened that can of worms."

Wait a mo, just off to get my popcorn

[ASMO]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

[GogLais]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

[Tichtheid]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

That is terrific

[Biffer]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

That's fantastic.

[Insane_Homer]

Bojo gone!
Happy days. Jail next.

[JM2K6]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

Yup. Plenty to criticise Labour for but these attacks on plans being subject to financial and political reality are just silly.

[tabascoboy]

[sockwithaticket]

[Rhubarb & Custard]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

[fishfoodie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

But that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.

[GogLais]

Another one gone now, some Nigel from Yorkshire.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

But that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.

Building consensus to deliver on policy isn't a bad thing. Not that one suspects that would happen, and there'd still be the Tories couldn't plan their way out of a sodden paper bag

[C69]

So all 3 by elections have Labour in 2nd place
However I suspect that Starmer will target Selby and Uxbridge and not bother with Nads posher constituency
Obviously on the qt

Open warfare atm with apparently a few more resignations to come in the next 72 hours.
It's the slow death of the Tories. Starmer needs to be grey, he needs to e boring and he needs to do nothing at all.

[tabascoboy]

This about sums it up, gets ever closer to 'The Thick of It'

[Biffer]

So all 3 by elections have Labour in 2nd place
However I suspect that Starmer will target Selby and Uxbridge and not bother with Nads posher constituency
Obviously on the qt

Open warfare atm with apparently a few more resignations to come in the next 72 hours.
It's the slow death of the Tories. Starmer needs to be grey, he needs to e boring and he needs to do nothing at all.

Yeah, a few more and you end up with a general election dry run of 6 or 8 elections, all Tory seats, on the same day, labour targeting some, Lib Dems the others. If they lost 6 they’d be down to a working majority of 52 I think.

[Insane_Homer]

Brace yourselves for the Full English Potential Party (FEPP) announcement later this week.

Surprised JRM hasn't dropped out yet.

[tabascoboy]

Tory donor Brexit backer in trouble... (allegedly) and only to happy to profit from failure

Crispin Odey: City boss quits firm after sexual misconduct claims

A City financier is leaving the company he founded after sexual harassment allegations.

Crispin Odey's departure from Odey Asset Management follows a Financial Times report that 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or assault over 25 years.

Mr Odey strenuously denies the claims and told the paper they were "rubbish".

In a statement the hedge fund said it took "all allegations of misconduct extremely seriously".

For more than three decades Mr Odey had been at the helm of the hedge fund he founded in 1991 - at its peak the firm managed more than £10bn worth of investments.

Mr Odey, a prominent Brexit backer, claimed to have made hundreds of millions of pounds as sterling plummeted in the aftermath of the referendum vote.

On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the allegations dated back to 1998 and the latest alleged incident was in December 2021.

Mr Odey said this week that "none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation".

A statement from Odey Asset Management executive on Saturday confirmed that Mr Odey would be leaving.

"As from today, he will no longer have any economic or personal involvement in the partnership," it said.

"Odey Asset Management Group Ltd will also cease to be a member and the partnership will now be owned and controlled by the remaining partners and managed as an independent legal entity."

The executive committee said the firm's policies and procedures "have been followed at all times".

"The firm has been investigating allegations concerning Mr Odey, but the firm cannot comment in detail as it is bound by legal obligations of confidentiality."

Odey Asset Management said it had been "fully transparent" with the regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and would contact clients over the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65866895

[petej]

Brace yourselves for the Full English Potential Party (FEPP) announcement later this week.

Surprised JRM hasn't dropped out yet.

That would be interesting with fptp. Split the tory vote.

[Biffer]

Lots of senior Tories making noises about banning Johnson from standing as a candidate.

[fishfoodie]

Lots of senior Tories making noises about banning Johnson from standing as a candidate.

I heard that if he does stand again, the >10 day sanction will still apply, so if he wins, he'll still face the recall vote, & you could have the ridiculous situation where there are 2x votes in a row

Possibly the only true thing the orange traitor ever said is that the BB is "Englands Trump !"

He's a toxic agent of chaos, & I'm delighted to see him destroy the Tory party; they deserve each other !

[C69]

There is open warfare atm in the Tory Party.
They need to schism

[fishfoodie]

There is open warfare atm in the Tory Party.
They need to schism

Previously, they've always been able to hold together the Euro-sceptics, versus the pragmatic MPs, & it was always Labour that had cancers like Momentum destroying their chances before the Electorate.

The question is can they work it out before the GE is called, or do they just go off & lick their wounds, secure in the knowledge they've fucked the economy, the NHS, Farming, Manufacturing & Trade; but at least the disaster capitalists are doing well !!!

Labour will come in & do the triage, & then the Tories will promise tax cuts, because that's what they do, & bye, bye Labour !!

[SaintK]

Tory donor Brexit backer in trouble... (allegedly) and only to happy to profit from failure

Crispin Odey: City boss quits firm after sexual misconduct claims

A City financier is leaving the company he founded after sexual harassment allegations.

Crispin Odey's departure from Odey Asset Management follows a Financial Times report that 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or assault over 25 years.

Mr Odey strenuously denies the claims and told the paper they were "rubbish".

In a statement the hedge fund said it took "all allegations of misconduct extremely seriously".

For more than three decades Mr Odey had been at the helm of the hedge fund he founded in 1991 - at its peak the firm managed more than £10bn worth of investments.

Mr Odey, a prominent Brexit backer, claimed to have made hundreds of millions of pounds as sterling plummeted in the aftermath of the referendum vote.

On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the allegations dated back to 1998 and the latest alleged incident was in December 2021.

Mr Odey said this week that "none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation".

A statement from Odey Asset Management executive on Saturday confirmed that Mr Odey would be leaving.

"As from today, he will no longer have any economic or personal involvement in the partnership," it said.

"Odey Asset Management Group Ltd will also cease to be a member and the partnership will now be owned and controlled by the remaining partners and managed as an independent legal entity."

The executive committee said the firm's policies and procedures "have been followed at all times".

"The firm has been investigating allegations concerning Mr Odey, but the firm cannot comment in detail as it is bound by legal obligations of confidentiality."

Odey Asset Management said it had been "fully transparent" with the regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and would contact clients over the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65866895

Odious Odey has been "at it" for years. Private Eye first raised his activities 20 odd years ago and he has spent thousands upon thousands of pounds on lawyers trying to keep a lid on all the accusations over that preiod
A horrible cunt of a man

[GogLais]

I get it that people resign from Government for good reasons sometimes and that Johnson certainly had to go. But the other two? As far as I know they’ve put their constituencies to the time and trouble of a by-election for reasons of personal pique. They should send them the bill.

[Line6 HXFX]

Dominic Grieve is doing the rounds saying stuff like there is a amenable, patriarchal nice tory party that needs to come to the fore.



You remember..the amiable, nice patriarchal tory party? The one that killed 330 thousand brits because of austerity and magical thinking, sent millions to foodbanks and terrorised millions more through vicious welfare reforms?


The stuff Rory Stewart voted for, the policies that harmed millions, and that lead to millions amd millions actually voting for Brexit, in a seriously understandable act of "fuck it".

His voting record is just Ghastly.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10243 ... tes#social

[fishfoodie]

The prime minister’s trade envoy to Mongolia lobbied the Electoral Commission to permit a £10,000 donation to his party association from a “Mongolian friend”, documents reveal.

Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, contacted the independent electoral watchdog on 20 April, days after his return from a week-long trip to Mongolia in his role as trade envoy, accompanied by the UK ambassador.

Kawczynski said the “Mongolian friend” was “a personal contact, and was separate to my role as an envoy” He declined to identify the would-be donor and said he travelled to Mongolia on a regular basis in a personal capacity as well as in his role as trade envoy.

He told the commission he did “not understand why British passport holders should be treated differently from foreign passport holders when it comes to political parties” and requested a meeting at the House of Commons with the watchdog’s chief executive, Shaun McNally, to discuss his “concerns” on the longstanding political finance rules banning donations from overseas donors.

...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ian-friend

[tabascoboy]

Christ alive, can you imagine what this shower of shite would be? Although if it did help split the Tories some benefit might come of it

Not putting a link as I'm sure we've seen enough of Farage's twunt face to last several lifetimes

Nigel Farage tells @bbclaurak that ten or more Conservative MPs are prepared to join him in a new party.

[fishfoodie]

Christ alive, can you imagine what this shower of shite would be? Although if it did help split the Tories some benefit might come of it

Not putting a link as I'm sure we've seen enough of Farage's twunt face to last several lifetimes

Nigel Farage tells @bbclaurak that ten or more Conservative MPs are prepared to join him in a new party.

It'd be less of a split, than an excising, as it would remove a large part of the ERG.

I doubt any Tory leader would be heart broken at losing the likes of Penfold, or Andrea Jenkyns, or Andrew Bridgen ?

Ten less shit stirrers who'll just lose the election anyway can only be a positive.

[petej]

Dominic Grieve is doing the rounds saying stuff like there is a amenable, patriarchal nice tory party that needs to come to the fore.



You remember..the amiable, nice patriarchal tory party? The one that killed 330 thousand brits because of austerity and magical thinking, sent millions to foodbanks and terrorised millions more through vicious welfare reforms?


The stuff Rory Stewart voted for, the policies that harmed millions, and that lead to millions amd millions actually voting for Brexit, in a seriously understandable act of "fuck it".

His voting record is just Ghastly.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10243 ... tes#social

Voting records are pretty pointless to look at with our party system. Grieve and Stewart who represented that side were booted so the patriarchal tory party doesn't exist.

People voted for brexit on the back of lies from some of our politicians and the propaganda of media barons and putin's information warfare (insufficiently investigated by ourselves due to the government burying its head in the sand with the public mostly blissfully ignorant).

Edit: starmer and some others are at the sunken cost fallacy stage with brexit.