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That's the way, keep fighting among yourselves. The "New" Conservatives of course being almost as barking as 30p Lee


'Responsibility for Lee's defection sits with the Conservative Party. We have failed to hold together the coalition of voters who gave us an 80 seat majority

'We cannot pretend any longer that the plan is working. We need to change course urgently'
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SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:38 pm This hasn't aged too well. Just about everything Sunak touches turns to rat shit!!!!
Oh I think 30p was rat shit long before he even knew who the Head boy was.
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fishfoodie wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:48 pm
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:38 pm This hasn't aged too well. Just about everything Sunak touches turns to rat shit!!!!
Oh I think 30p was rat shit long before he even knew who the Head boy was.
Labour's response says it all:

"What does it say about Rishi Sunak’s judgement that he promoted Lee Anderson in the first place?

The truth is that the prime minister is too weak to lead a party too extreme to be led."
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Lobby wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:52 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:48 pm
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:38 pm This hasn't aged too well. Just about everything Sunak touches turns to rat shit!!!!
Oh I think 30p was rat shit long before he even knew who the Head boy was.
Labour's response says it all:

"What does it say about Rishi Sunak’s judgement that he promoted Lee Anderson in the first place?

The truth is that the prime minister is too weak to lead a party too extreme to be led."
I'd go back in further; what does it say about the Tory Party that 30p got selected in the first place ?

It confirms what we already knew about the membership, & how it's closer to the MAGA base than anything else.

Reform are going for the Tory membership, & they see 30p as a useful way of appealing to them.
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tabascoboy wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:41 pm That's the way, keep fighting among yourselves. The "New" Conservatives of course being almost as barking as 30p Lee


'Responsibility for Lee's defection sits with the Conservative Party. We have failed to hold together the coalition of voters who gave us an 80 seat majority

'We cannot pretend any longer that the plan is working. We need to change course urgently'
There was never really a coalition to hold together. More a combination of factors: corbyn, libdems and Labour fighting against each other, farage's party standing down, brexit, Johnson, fptp. Corbyn has gone, libdems and Labour not working against each other, brexit is pretty much widely acknowledged as an awful mistake, like his former wives and lovers the country has realised after being fucked that Johnson is full of shit, this time fptp will not be so favourable to them.
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New Conservatives would be one of these dozen groups that all share the same handful of MPs as their members, yeah?
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sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:49 pm New Conservatives would be one of these dozen groups that all share the same handful of MPs as their members, yeah?
Well, 30p Lee and Jonathan Gullis are/were "New Conservatives", all "Red Wall" and no doubt shitting themselves over the prospects of losing their seats this year
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I expect we'll continue to hear about the continued radicalisation of politics and this will be used s a clear example of that. No? I'm shocked.
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The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
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We all know that in 12 months time if we wander by accident into a shitty Wetherspoons boozer in Ashfield (I presume there must be one?) one Tuesday lunchtime there will be a slightly drunken man at the end of the bar, next to the stinking gents toilet, drinking a pint of cheap lager in a shirt with gravy stains down its front telling a racist joke in a voice loud enough for the whole pub to hear and shouting to everyone as they come in the door 'Do you know who I am, do you know who the feck I am?'. He will proclaim he is only there for a quick pint before the local branch meeting of the Reclaim Party upstairs in the function room but is waiting for the Ashfield WeightWatchers Club Meeting to finish. Even the locals give him a wide berth apart from the old guy with no teeth, early onset dementia and the dog on the lead which has fleas who keeps asking him to 'tell me again how many red wines Boris could neck in an evening session'. This will be 30p Lee living the high life on his MP pension once GBabiesNews has ditched him and he lost all his cash buying shares in the Reform Party Ltd which went into liquidation with huge losses after the 2024 General Election.
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SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:41 pm The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... ck-women
The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
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There is an item on the news just now about vet fees and how insurance doesn’t cover a lot of conditions meaning that people are left will bills in the thousands

So far no one has made the connection with the fact this is what the Tories want for general health care.

They didn’t make the connection when the subject of the lack of NHS dental treatment came up in the last few weeks either.
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C69 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:11 am
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:41 pm The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... ck-women
The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
Not a chance they will return the money
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After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
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dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
It can always get worse :thumbup:

Tice might be full of shit with his claim they're in discussions with nine Tory MPs, but Sunak can't be sure, & dog knows there are plenty of racist malcontents who would slot in wonderfully alongside 30p.
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dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
The Private Eye podcast were absolutely speechless at how bad Sunak is at politics, with this being only the latest evidence
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I like neeps wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:31 am
Harveys wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:33 pm
I like neeps wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:34 pm

Their long term models that dictate their target rate of return and not letting agents telling them they could increase at every opportunity.
Agent’s suggest increases when current rent sits below market. Neither Agens nor landlords benefit from property sitting empty due to being priced above market. Suggesting large corporates wont turn the screws at every opportunity possible is painting quite the fantasy.
Well, look at Germany - they have rents increasing across the country. The largest institutional landlord - Vonovia - are talking about increasing in the future if the inflation carries on. They haven't yet, because they just have to meet a low % increase that their models demand.

They have what 50+ years to consider on these investments when considering returns and that is what the financing and rental values are based on. Not annual chasing of of inflation. It's an entirely different business case to your mom and pop 3 property landlords run by Chancellors.
Ok so your suggesting large corporations take over with “models” of 50 year low slow growth returns? Seriously?
If the government won’t manage affordable housing on crown land then its up to the market to provide it.
I’m not buying the talk of mum & dad investors being the problem at all.
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C69 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:11 am
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:41 pm The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... ck-women
The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
"Move along, nothing to see here..."




Diane Abbott has said comments allegedly made by a top Tory donor that the MP made him "want to hate all black women" and that she needed "to be shot" were "frightening".

Britain's longest-serving black MP said the "fact that two MPs have been murdered in recent years makes talk like this all the more alarming".

According to the Guardian, Frank Hester made the comments at a meeting in 2019.

Mr Hester has apologised for making "rude" comments about Ms Abbott.

But he said his remarks "had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin".
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tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm
C69 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:11 am
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:41 pm The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... ck-women
The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
"Move along, nothing to see here..."




Diane Abbott has said comments allegedly made by a top Tory donor that the MP made him "want to hate all black women" and that she needed "to be shot" were "frightening".

Britain's longest-serving black MP said the "fact that two MPs have been murdered in recent years makes talk like this all the more alarming".

According to the Guardian, Frank Hester made the comments at a meeting in 2019.

Mr Hester has apologised for making "rude" comments about Ms Abbott.

But he said his remarks "had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin".
Hester and his Tory apologists seem to be the sort of people who think its absolutely fine to make extremely racists comments as long as you preface them with "I'm not a racist but....."

I'm reminded of some TV footage I saw a few months ago of a Met Policeman in the 70s explaining to representatives from the Black and Asian communities that it wasn't racist when police referred to them as 'c**ns', 'n*g n*gs and 'p*k*s' as that was just banter and the words ordinary policemen used to describe them and they had no reason to be offended by them.
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dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
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Lobby wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:11 pm
tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm
C69 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:11 am

The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
"Move along, nothing to see here..."
Hester and his Tory apologists seem to be the sort of people who think its absolutely fine to make extremely racists comments as long as you preface them with "I'm not a racist but....."

I'm reminded of some TV footage I saw a few months ago of a Met Policeman in the 70s explaining to representatives from the Black and Asian communities that it wasn't racist when police referred to them as 'c**ns', 'n*g n*gs and 'p*k*s' as that was just banter and the words ordinary policemen used to describe them and they had no reason to be offended by them.
Well, he's apologised now, so that presumably means no further action from the Tories and all is good for them - I expect they're still working on a way they can keep the donations though...


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tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:35 pm
C69 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:11 am
SaintK wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:41 pm The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ ... ck-women
The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate.
They will be under massive pressure to give the money back now.
"Move along, nothing to see here..."




Diane Abbott has said comments allegedly made by a top Tory donor that the MP made him "want to hate all black women" and that she needed "to be shot" were "frightening".

Britain's longest-serving black MP said the "fact that two MPs have been murdered in recent years makes talk like this all the more alarming".

According to the Guardian, Frank Hester made the comments at a meeting in 2019.

Mr Hester has apologised for making "rude" comments about Ms Abbott.

But he said his remarks "had nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin".
Marland is an absolute cunt of a man. He was on the Commonwealth gravy train for a long time and we used to cringe at his speeches where he patronised the various African groups who wouldn’t want anything to do with him.
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I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:23 pm
dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
Wibble wibble!
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SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:23 pm
dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
Wibble wibble!
Very disappointing, someone up who is rightfully disappointed when the Tories play constitutional shenanigans will give Labour a free pass for playing constitutional shenanigans.

Think about it, I know a lot of the English don't mind that the SNP motion wasn't voted on (in a clear disregard for the constitution) because a party leader interfered with the speaker. But if Starmer had convinced Hoyle to pull it (which Hoyle apologised for, because it was wrong) on the reasoning "MPs are in danger" and then Starmer decided to disagree with Sunak days later whose marquee speech was that MPs are in danger and he had no reason to say that to Hoyle. He'd have looked like at best a fool. Or not, to those who are fingers in ears la la la I'm not listening Tories bad.
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I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:40 pm
SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:23 pm

Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
Wibble wibble!
Very disappointing, someone up who is rightfully disappointed when the Tories play constitutional shenanigans will give Labour a free pass for playing constitutional shenanigans.

Think about it, I know a lot of the English don't mind that the SNP motion wasn't voted on (in a clear disregard for the constitution) because a party leader interfered with the speaker. But if Starmer had convinced Hoyle to pull it (which Hoyle apologised for, because it was wrong) on the reasoning "MPs are in danger" and then Starmer decided to disagree with Sunak days later whose marquee speech was that MPs are in danger and he had no reason to say that to Hoyle. He'd have looked like at best a fool. Or not, to those who are fingers in ears la la la I'm not listening Tories bad.
I am listening and you're right.The Tories are very, very bad and are absolutely fucking over the country I love and have lived in for 70 years.
Can't wait for most of them to lose their (supposedly main) jobs to be honest. And I will delight in voting Labour for the first time in my life to hget rid of the bastards.
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Badenoch has emerged and said it's racist.

No word on whether the £10m is going back.
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SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:23 pm
dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:01 am After the Squatter Sunak stood outside No10 that Friday evening to make his extraordinary speech about extremism and folk got angry when Starmer said he agreed with the sentiment some folk were angry but I suggested that Starmer was being smart and would use this against the Tories in the future. Well guess what ... here is exactly the right time to quote Sunak's words back at him and to push for the racist donor's money to be returned or given to charity. Starmer knew there was more than enough shit in the tory house of something like this to emerge and here it is. For their major donor to suggest a black female Labour MP should be shot is beyond the pale. Sunak and his acolytes will regret the day they decided to go low in the run up in this general election.

The week is going well for Sunak - first 30p Lee defecting and now a racist misogynistic donor. I wonder what Wednesday will bring?
Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
Wibble wibble!
It was hardly chess let alone 3D or even 4D chess from Starmer if even I saw the hole that Sunak was digging for himself. Starmer merely gave him a bigger spade to keep digging with! This stuff about Hester goes back 4-5 years so it is highly likely that someone in the Labour Party knew of its existence and couldn't believe their luck when Sunak set himself up and all they needed was to spring the trap with the help of some Grauniad journalists. Oh and there will be other similar shit from within the Tory Party to hit the fan make no mistake about it.

Attempts to tie together the Sunak speech that Friday evening and Starmer let him walk straight into the pothole with the shenanigans around the SNP vote are misplaced. Sunak has shown the political nous of a brain damaged woodworm and his own words are coming back to haunt him now, I am not sure he can brave this one out given some of his own Cabinet are now saying Hesters comments were racist and sexist. Looks like the £10m will either have to go back or else given to charity. Hoisted by his own petard - what a twat!

The Tories will regret their decision to go low this GE!
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We can’t cancel anybody from participation in public life, or indeed donating to parties, because they said something intemperate and wrong in their past.

It’s not my decision, but I do welcome those who support the Conservative party
Someone should have asked if he'd welcome a donation from Azhar Ali if that's the case. Or is he the wrong kind of racist?
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Sunak is thick as shit.
Reform are reaping the rewards every time he backtracks after he and his ministers defend racists only to have others in the Party call out the racists and then back track.
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Guess they finally decided after Badenoch forced their hands
The government's position on Mr Hester's alleged remarks has zigzagged all day.

Ministers first thing said the comments were "unacceptable" but wouldn't describe them as "racist" or "sexist".

And neither would Downing Street.

Then the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch outflanked the prime minister and said they were.

Downing Street held its line. That is, until it didn't - when at 18:30 on Tuesday evening they changed their mind, and said they were racist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68548389
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tabascoboy wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:28 pm Guess they finally decided after Badenoch forced their hands
The government's position on Mr Hester's alleged remarks has zigzagged all day.

Ministers first thing said the comments were "unacceptable" but wouldn't describe them as "racist" or "sexist".

And neither would Downing Street.

Then the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch outflanked the prime minister and said they were.

Downing Street held its line. That is, until it didn't - when at 18:30 on Tuesday evening they changed their mind, and said they were racist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68548389
And that was her objective all along. She has her eyes on leading whatever shell of a party is left when the Head boy pisses off to the US.

Oh to be a fly on the wall for his meeting with the back benchers; will they want an early GE, or to push it out as far as possible & pray for a miracle, because the Budget didn't even register with the electorate, & the polling trend line is only going down, so every months delay is probably another few seats lost ....
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Is there anything worse you can say about someone than they were less efficient than Matt Hancock ?
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s handling of key Covid meetings was “scatty, incoherent and rambling” an inquiry has heard.

Vaughan Gething, the Welsh health minister during the Covid pandemic, criticised Mr Johnson’s handling of briefings, at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearing on Monday.

Mr Gething, who is now the minister for the economy and running to be the next first minister of Wales, said that COBR meetings – cabinet briefings where the Covid response was discussed – were better handled by former UK health minister Matt Hancock.

He made the comments in a written statement to the inquiry, which were read out by Tom Poole, lead counsel for the inquiry.

Mr Poole said: “When Matt Hancock chaired meetings of COBR there was administrative efficiency and it was a matter of regret that the same could not be said for the meetings chaired by Mr Johnson, who you describe as ‘scatty, incoherent and rambling’.”

Mr Gething told the hearing that “the identity (of the chair) really does matter”.

...

What he should have said is that the identity of our Politicians & Officials does matter; & not the way they ruffle their fucking hair & assume a persona that makes them appear to be someone you'd want to have a pint with.
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SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:49 pm
I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:40 pm
SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
Wibble wibble!
Very disappointing, someone up who is rightfully disappointed when the Tories play constitutional shenanigans will give Labour a free pass for playing constitutional shenanigans.

Think about it, I know a lot of the English don't mind that the SNP motion wasn't voted on (in a clear disregard for the constitution) because a party leader interfered with the speaker. But if Starmer had convinced Hoyle to pull it (which Hoyle apologised for, because it was wrong) on the reasoning "MPs are in danger" and then Starmer decided to disagree with Sunak days later whose marquee speech was that MPs are in danger and he had no reason to say that to Hoyle. He'd have looked like at best a fool. Or not, to those who are fingers in ears la la la I'm not listening Tories bad.
I am listening and you're right.The Tories are very, very bad and are absolutely fucking over the country I love and have lived in for 70 years.
Can't wait for most of them to lose their (supposedly main) jobs to be honest. And I will delight in voting Labour for the first time in my life to hget rid of the bastards.
Great! I'm tactically voting Lib Fem as it's one of those seats I live in. And Labour's politicians being less obviously in it for their own personal gain will be a benefit.

But unfortunately if they continue to show the same lack of plans (other than personal enrichment) and same continued disrespect for the Constitution as the Tories have done. We're in for continued decline and debasement of our politics.
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dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:52 pm
SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
I like neeps wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:23 pm

Could have been 4D chess from Starmer.

Or could be he and the speaker undermined the constitution to scratch the SNP opposition day debate for fears of violence towards MPs (Labour being embarrassed by a rebellion that voted for the SNPs motion) a few days before that speech and to disagree with him would've been eh bold. We'll never know!
Wibble wibble!
It was hardly chess let alone 3D or even 4D chess from Starmer if even I saw the hole that Sunak was digging for himself. Starmer merely gave him a bigger spade to keep digging with! This stuff about Hester goes back 4-5 years so it is highly likely that someone in the Labour Party knew of its existence and couldn't believe their luck when Sunak set himself up and all they needed was to spring the trap with the help of some Grauniad journalists. Oh and there will be other similar shit from within the Tory Party to hit the fan make no mistake about it.

Attempts to tie together the Sunak speech that Friday evening and Starmer let him walk straight into the pothole with the shenanigans around the SNP vote are misplaced. Sunak has shown the political nous of a brain damaged woodworm and his own words are coming back to haunt him now, I am not sure he can brave this one out given some of his own Cabinet are now saying Hesters comments were racist and sexist. Looks like the £10m will either have to go back or else given to charity. Hoisted by his own petard - what a twat!

The Tories will regret their decision to go low this GE!
Sunak made the speech (which was obviously an error at the time) because of Starmer's intervention on the Gaza vote which some Tories took to mean that Labour couldn't control the radical Muslims threatening MPs. So he could only agree it with it? Nothing about setting a trap or pothole or whatever for the Tories.

Very surprised someone who I think is pro indy is writing Starmer fanfic over a very cynical ploy which resulted in the SNPs constitutional rights infringed. I can imagine the fury you'd have if the Tories did it, yet Starmer does and it's a political masterclass - odd.
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I'm sure now many more accusations of racism will be dug up to crucify all Parties.
This racist Tory wanting to kill black women is only the opening salvo.
The bigger issue is the stupid fucks trying to defend the racism and then Sunak backtracking faster than an Italian tank in WW2.
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C69 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:13 am I'm sure now many more accusations of racism will be dug up to crucify all Parties.
This racist Tory wanting to kill black women is only the opening salvo.
The bigger issue is the stupid fucks trying to defend the racism and then Sunak backtracking faster than an Italian tank in WW2.
He tried to tough it out “Trump-style”, but it wouldn’t go away.
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I like neeps wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:38 am
dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:52 pm
SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:48 pm
Wibble wibble!
It was hardly chess let alone 3D or even 4D chess from Starmer if even I saw the hole that Sunak was digging for himself. Starmer merely gave him a bigger spade to keep digging with! This stuff about Hester goes back 4-5 years so it is highly likely that someone in the Labour Party knew of its existence and couldn't believe their luck when Sunak set himself up and all they needed was to spring the trap with the help of some Grauniad journalists. Oh and there will be other similar shit from within the Tory Party to hit the fan make no mistake about it.

Attempts to tie together the Sunak speech that Friday evening and Starmer let him walk straight into the pothole with the shenanigans around the SNP vote are misplaced. Sunak has shown the political nous of a brain damaged woodworm and his own words are coming back to haunt him now, I am not sure he can brave this one out given some of his own Cabinet are now saying Hesters comments were racist and sexist. Looks like the £10m will either have to go back or else given to charity. Hoisted by his own petard - what a twat!

The Tories will regret their decision to go low this GE!
Sunak made the speech (which was obviously an error at the time) because of Starmer's intervention on the Gaza vote which some Tories took to mean that Labour couldn't control the radical Muslims threatening MPs. So he could only agree it with it? Nothing about setting a trap or pothole or whatever for the Tories.

Very surprised someone who I think is pro indy is writing Starmer fanfic over a very cynical ploy which resulted in the SNPs constitutional rights infringed. I can imagine the fury you'd have if the Tories did it, yet Starmer does and it's a political masterclass - odd.
Delusional!
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Sandstorm wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:46 am
C69 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:13 am I'm sure now many more accusations of racism will be dug up to crucify all Parties.
This racist Tory wanting to kill black women is only the opening salvo.
The bigger issue is the stupid fucks trying to defend the racism and then Sunak backtracking faster than an Italian tank in WW2.
He tried to tough it out “Trump-style”, but it wouldn’t go away.
Even this lot realised they couldn't just get away with a full on anti-wokery tirade on this one.
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dpedin wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:54 am
I like neeps wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:38 am
dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:52 pm

It was hardly chess let alone 3D or even 4D chess from Starmer if even I saw the hole that Sunak was digging for himself. Starmer merely gave him a bigger spade to keep digging with! This stuff about Hester goes back 4-5 years so it is highly likely that someone in the Labour Party knew of its existence and couldn't believe their luck when Sunak set himself up and all they needed was to spring the trap with the help of some Grauniad journalists. Oh and there will be other similar shit from within the Tory Party to hit the fan make no mistake about it.

Attempts to tie together the Sunak speech that Friday evening and Starmer let him walk straight into the pothole with the shenanigans around the SNP vote are misplaced. Sunak has shown the political nous of a brain damaged woodworm and his own words are coming back to haunt him now, I am not sure he can brave this one out given some of his own Cabinet are now saying Hesters comments were racist and sexist. Looks like the £10m will either have to go back or else given to charity. Hoisted by his own petard - what a twat!

The Tories will regret their decision to go low this GE!
Sunak made the speech (which was obviously an error at the time) because of Starmer's intervention on the Gaza vote which some Tories took to mean that Labour couldn't control the radical Muslims threatening MPs. So he could only agree it with it? Nothing about setting a trap or pothole or whatever for the Tories.

Very surprised someone who I think is pro indy is writing Starmer fanfic over a very cynical ploy which resulted in the SNPs constitutional rights infringed. I can imagine the fury you'd have if the Tories did it, yet Starmer does and it's a political masterclass - odd.
Delusional!
You should know by now that every time the Tories fuck up or get in trouble, Neeps will post another criticism of Starmer. Its almost a Pavlovian response now.
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So will they return the money just before PMQs to spike Starmers guns ?
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