The fall of the Tory party

This has "dropped" today. Reasonable people could disagree over what star rating of hotel our elected representatives should stay in, but this does not appear to be Mark II of the expenses scandal. If the total spend on these cards (legitimate and otherwise) is only £150 mm p.a. I can't imagine that a "a new regulator called the Office of Value for Money" will create net savings.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/13/labour-condemns-catalogue-of-waste-on-government-credit-cards

How can the MoJ/Robert Buckland have made so many transactions to the same company on the same day? There's three pages of them. It doesn't make sense.

And why is Dominic Raab buying ladies wear?

‘So, yeah, we’re having an away day, throw a few ideas around, top line stuff, help us think about future strategic directions, get a bit of reflection time, space to think’

Oh, you didn’t get the email?

Ha ha ha haaaaa haaaaaaas ha

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It doesn't make sense.

Data doesn't make sense a lot of the time, particularly if you don't know how it has been recorded, how it has been added to or changed, for example.

Not that I'm trying to defend the Tories, but without context, a lot of the criticisms are meaningless (albeit useful).

And on, and on, and on…

“However, the sale is widely regarded as a mistake.”

Just a simple mistake. The sort you make with, say, a tax obligation. Or a PPE contract that’s a conflict of interest. Or in the interest of your mate or old business mucker. Or a confusion of public service over self interest…

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^ another PPE degree at Oxford, I believe. Fucking incestuous it is...

The Tories have gutted local government while bleating about bloat and “trimming the fat” while simultaneously spraying the money gun on themselves and their mates.

Huge if true

This is long but worth a read. Not sure if it should be in here or the Brexit thread, but the two are now interlocking:

https://www.gerhardschnyder.com/brexit-impact-tracker/2023/2/14/brexit-impact-tracker-14-february-2023-brexits-zombie-politicians-and-the-deliberately-nasty-party

Tottenham Conservatives getting on board with the conspiracy theories
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1625445973777387523

Tottenham Conservatives

That's got to be a niche bunch.

Interesting to see that Rishi isn’t going to the NFU conference this year, he’s sending recorded message though. it would undoubtedly a difficult crowed given how badly the tories have fucked farming with brexit, subsidies, and the lack of customs checks on goods from the EU, but if he isn’t even going to try and win back a core tory voter block he really has just given up.

Starmer’s going and giving a speech.

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1626624038167535618

I hope no one here is affected by this tale..

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/dear-deidre/10239324/obsession-dishy-rishi-boyfriend-crazy/

Taking millions in advance payments for speeches he is too lazy to give then trying to become PM again to avoid would be very on brand

The kind of money for a few speeches that a nurse couldn’t earn in a lifetime.

What a country we live in.

Who the fuck pays that sort of money to hear that cunt spouting shit?

Cunts. Thousands of them.

people who want to be awarded ppe contracts during the next pandemic

probably

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/19/damian-green-rejected-as-tory-candidate-for-weald-of-kent

And yet he survived being caught with porn on his work computers - not many lines of work that you’d get away with that (outside of the porn industry, obvs)

The Tories fully support the exploitation of women. Objectify tractors and you're out the door.

Sounds like Sunak is caving in to Johnson and the erg and 'pausing' the new NIP deal. What a fucking state.

Gullis is the real deal

https://twitter.com/MichaelTakeMP/status/1627673793622683653?s=20

Wrap music?

That was the best bit, along with 'leggings'.