The fall of the Tory party

my name is Morella and I am a Catholic believer. I am currently suffering from a disease that is eating away at my health little by little.

That will be the Catholicism

Some Tory ex-MEP has said there are 60 MPs at risk of deselection for daring to move against Boris last year like Damian Green

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I imagine there are large swathes of Tory MPs desperate to be deselected so they don't lose face when their seat is lost at the next election.

This has just been on the local news, VONC tonight

https://frome.nub.news/news/local-news/frome-town-council-to-consider-vote-of-no-confidence-in-no-show-frome-mp-david-warburton-171951

Therese Coffey suggesting that instead of eating tomatoes we should all be enjoying turnips.

We been enjoying turnips on the front bench for 13 years.

This is (yet another) brexit delusion isn't it. They kept banging on in the campaign about all the stuff we produce without ever addressing the point that no one in this country actually wants to eat it. Turnips seem to be a particularly bad example to go after; in my mind at least it sounds like she's suggesting that I should switch over to something that I heavily associate with cattle feed...

I think there were similar stories about various types of fish we catch, but then export 90% of it because it's not to british tastes.

Heinz Turnip Ketchup, baked beans in turnip sauce and other products that need UKIP/ERG branding.

I can imagine gammons furious that because the EU made us commit Brexit seppuku it’s the forrins making them substitute turnip for tomatoes.

seppuku

That requires some element of wanting to retain your honour. Brexit does not.

Turnip seemed OK for Lady Whiteadder :)

I'm ahead of this, I've been trying to cook without tomatoes, peppers, onions and garlic as they no longer agree with my wife, plus my daughter won't eat mushrooms, chickpeas or whatever else she decides on. Much like in the war, you can do a lot with carrots it turns out.

I'm ahead of this, I've been trying to cook without tomatoes, peppers, onions and garlic as they no longer agree with my wife, plus my daughter won't eat mushrooms, chickpeas or whatever else she decides on.

Blimey. I'd probably just bail on them and start again.

(Your daughter is right about most mushrooms though.)

Blimey. I'd probably just bail on them and start again.

I mean, I did move out a few months ago...

Oof. Sorry. Pint of Old Insensitive Bastard please.

you can do a lot with carrots

Boiled
Roast
Mashed
Grated
Batons
Sautéed

?

Cake

Of course. Wine too.

Oof. Sorry. Pint of Old Insensitive Bastard please.

Ha, it's ok, all amicable and I'm round most days still anyway.

Can also make a passable pasta sauce with some cashews and and I've tried making curry gravy with them and butternut squash with some success.

You could probably make a reasonable katsu curry sauce even without onions (or replacing the onions with something else).

Carrots, garam masala or curry powder, turmeric, garlic, fresh ginger, honey (or maple syrup), soy sauce, vegetable stock.

Much like in the war

Tory voter dirty talk, right there 😉

That's very almost my plan for tonight, but no garam masala or curry powder, garlic, honey, because chilli, chilli, garlic, I'm vegan. The aim is more of a Korean style curry, which is pretty similar and in no way authentic as they tend to use premix stuff I've never tried because of fishes.
Anyway, wife and child are away for the weekend so from tomorrow I'll be feasting on some spicy, onion, garlic and tomato based goodness, with extra oil and salt and chilli and mustard and citrus and rennies.

You could probably make a reasonable katsu curry sauce

Impossible.

Boiled
Roast
Mashed
Grated
Batons
Sautéed
?

Stick 'em in a stew

After many years of the youngest only eating carrots and broccoli, I am very much over them both.
Carrot in a slow cooker stew is OK, perhaps broccoli in a stir fry, but looking forward to him buggering off so I can bin them.