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He's a fiscal conservative on the Thatcherite right

I think people forget how much the Overton window has moved since the 80s. I don't think Sunak would be bringing back Section 28, for example.

Bizarrely Penny's video owes more to the Day to Day https://youtu.be/T72TopWbXJg

Jonnie Peakcock has already requested to be removed from the video.

Peakcock

This is what I think we’ve reached with the Tory candidates.

something extremely dense

An allusion to the Tory party membership?

The world in general

Rory Stewart was invited to Lebedevs Italian villa and ignored the request seeing it as a massive conflict of interest. Johnson went ( and personally pushed through Lebedevs appointment to HOL going against the advice of the appointments committee/ secret services).
I don't agree with everything Rory Stewart says but given the total lack of morality displayed by the Torys over the last few year's I would welcome his return to the conservatives.*

*Hate the party but as they are going to be around in some form better the centrists Johnson booted out return.

Johnson went

He (Stewart) spoke on this in his recent podcast with Campbell. He was scathing about Johnson escaping his security detail at that party; I think he talked about how it actually would have taken some effort on Johnson's part to have got away from them

Sounds more like altruism than solipsism. You're on board the Titanic, the crew are all cunts, might as well try to persuade people to let you steer the ship away from the iceberg

He wasn't just on board though - he was a senior member of the crew, presumably (cba to check) following the captain's orders at least most of the time.

the crew are all cunts

Indeed they are. And he knew this all along, but was happy to lead them to victory (had it worked out I mean) as long as it would have landed him on top.
Most of them are infuriatingly ignorant, but he's proven to be cunning. Which I find far worse.

And my argument about solipsism stands. My guess is that he feels he can excuse this by some kind of 'born to a greater destiny' bullshit.

Well yeah, but wouldn't you take the job of leader of the Tory party if it was offered to you? First day on the job I'd deselect any ERG/CRG sympathisers

used as proof the Britain is a spent force role playing it's Empire delusions unaware of its own absurdity

Well, they're not wrong.

Classic Dom

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Are there any budget restrictions on this leadership campaign? Would, just as an example, your wife being a billionaire help?

hope nadine dorries stands just for the campaign slogan

#GoNads

Excellent.

Will pass off as my own quick witted quip at some point this week.

Word on the street is that Dorries is being considered for a peerage in the Resignation Honours List

Truss is now in the ring too

Not sure what this has to do with solipsism “Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.”

I think you might mean he is an egoist and willing to use others for his own benefit.

Is Nadine Dorries basically an English Marjory Taylor-Greene?

It should not be perceived as an act of hate to say "trans women should be able to present and live as they wish, but some things will still be reserved for female people because of our bodies directly or the social consequences thereof, and we can work out together what those things need to be, and this is entirely reasonable and ok and does not take anything from trans women".

Thank you for taking the time to write this thoughtful and well reasoned post. I think the row over language it only going to intensify before it resolves, however. The meanings of words constantly change, this is a built in feature of any language, and is unavoidable. Some words come to mean their exact opposite, as well as retaining their original meaning in certain contexts.

It’s George W Bush’s quip from his college cheerleading days. He reportedly named a team Nads so he could use that chant.

Agree, rather than using solipsism in this case, I would argue that he suffers from the same Dunning-Kruger effect as the rest of cunts....

Yes