The fall of the Tory party

This must bury any thought that Sunak can pull a "Cameron 2.0" and shift perceptions of the Tories closer to the centre ground. Doubling down on the Brexit headbanging is a losing strategy for the 2024 election... can't come soon enough!

Getting involved in the Roald Dahl thing was a bit obvious as well.

He's not doing well, my 14 year old niece and her friend were robbed at gunpoint by a couple of 15 year olds in Stoke last week. I do like how his posh accent comes out when he's trying to be angry and look hard though, certainly doesn't sound like a local.

Gullis is 33! Tough paper round.....

Jesus! They alright?

Twisted by the Dark Side of the Force...

Yeah, obviously shook up and not the kind of thing you want to happen to anyone, let alone a child but they recognised one of them despite balaclavas and they got a visit from armed police not long after.

Srsly, if you have access to a gun and want to be a crim, you really want to be setting your sights higher than mugging 14-yr old girls who can identify you in the street.

Hope the kids are ok though, that's an awful experience.

Sounds like the voter ID rules are going to disenfranchise swathes of elderly Tory voters at the local elections too, although some bus passes will count as voter ID.

Beautiful

Older person bus passes but not young persons' ones, natch.

Dunno if it was a real gun or kids playing gangster, maybe the one they didn't recognise is 17, in which case he's fucked his life up really. It's gone to shit round Stoke of late, been rough for years but the rough bits were getting better a decade ago and now are much worse.

There are quite a lot more options for old people than young people on there, maybe viewed as worth the risk

An Older Person’s Bus Pass
A Disabled Person’s Bus Pass
An Oyster 60+ card
a Freedom Pass (66+)
Passes funded by the Scottish Government
 The National Entitlement Card (over 60s or 16 to 22)
Passes funded by the Welsh Government
 A 60 and Over Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
 A Disabled Person’s Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
Passes issued under the Northern Ireland Concessionary Fares Scheme
 A Senior SmartPass
 a Registered Blind SmartPass or Blind Person’s SmartPass
 a War Disablement SmartPass or War Disabled SmartPass
 a 60+ SmartPass
 a Half Fare SmartPass
PASS card though to the list (e.g. holographic and photographic CitizenCards and some student IDs)*

I don’t know what’s real and what’s spoof any more. :(

Seems blatantly corrupt that the various youth travelcards aren't eligible

Westoncoyney4lyf

It's a feature, not a bug.

Young people don't vote for tory cunts.

Fewer and fewer people under 70 vote for Tories these days. The decline is shockingly fast.

Wait, there’s a National Entitlement Pass?
I demand to be signed up

Shocking in a very pleasing way.

Labour back over 50 in the polls yesterday too. They're fucked.

They live in Meir.

Yes - yes, it is. Very blatant vote suppression.

Would rep.

Ah yes. I’ve turned right off the A50 there many times.

Would rep.