The fall of the Tory party

You rotter.. such a microaggression. I'm in floods of tears about that poor fox at any mention of the GLP.

Such a bizarrely delicious form of self-sabotage by the Telegraph! Be interesting to see what other news stories are inevitably drip fed from this cache over the coming days.

Not sure I buy the above inclination about Boris’ fingerprints being on this, it further limits any possibility of a return if anything unless it is some kind of psychological spite ‘if I can’t have it, no-one can’ type mentality.

This is the longest fall of Rome ever. When’s the GE again?

When’s the GE again?

No later than January 2025.

I think that it is such a cluster fuck that even the most evil genius couldn't have planned it. British politics is in interesting times.

How very Tory ....

Looks like Telegraph are just going to bang on about lockdown related issues.

Had to turn off Today. Oakeshott is unbearable to listen to. But, yeah - lockdown is the agenda they are pushing. Not sure there's anything too damaging in there really.

It’s a real struggle to identify the most toxic right wing couple, Tice/Oakeshott are up there but facing stiff competition from Johnson/Johnson and, although no more, Gove/Vine don’t get a pass

Oakeshott says:

“There are plenty of things I can say about his behaviour, by the way”

about Hancock.

Do we think he tried to boff her?

boff

That's a word I haven't heard for a loooooong time

It's been about 2 weeks since oakeshott was last on question time so I'm sure we'll hear all about it tonight.

Hancock massively betrayed as he was in the process of writing a book about massive betrayal.
Lee Anderson stalking families around local McDonalds on a daily basis.

Apparently The Times/Sun are spitting because she is a paid employee of Talk TV and just gave this story to the Telegraph. Its almost as if she has no loyalty to anybody except herself.

Jeez - I so hope they get voted out - please God.

Jeez

Who now?

Its almost as if she has no loyalty to anybody except herself.

I wonder who she got the idea of that from?

I'm pretty sure he's enough of a vain narcissist to believe he was in with a chance, and probably got played as such.

Tories frothing at the mouth in a hypocritical shout of questioning ethics.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64834134

Conservative MP Alexander Stafford, a former ministerial aide to Mr Johnson, said the appointment "doesn't pass the sniff test".

"It really undermines the work that she's done, undermines the civil service and really puts in question Sir Keir's complete judgement," he added.

Former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, a cabinet minister under Mr Johnson, has said Ms Gray's Partygate conclusions now looked "like a left-wing stitch up".

Ms Gray's Partygate conclusions

The ones they rewrote?

And delighted to hear him excoriated on R4 this morning
“So she was impartial before. But now she’s not?”
And then the interviewer terminates the interview as the slippery little rodent repeated not answering the question
Do have a listen, it was properly excellent journalism

Got a timestamp?

So she was impartial before. But now she’s not?

I don't really understand why he found that question so hard to answer, it's not even that much of a "gotcha". New information came to light that changes your interpretation of someone's actions.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to impose some sort of "cooling-off period" when someone is crossing over from the civil service to a political party.

Will check and come back

He simply didn’t want to answer, but more importantly seemed to think he could rock up for an interview and spout bollocks nor expect to be cross examined on how he had reached his view
It was pathetic really

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