The fall of the Tory party

I think the Conservative party is moving from the making policy up in the back of a cab on the way to the policy launch stage to the monkey tennis endgame.

I doubt they'd need to. All ConservativeHome stories are going to attract the swivel-eyed, who have been the party's core base for a long time now. There's no need for them to ask bloggers to occasionally say something that's not mad.

Continuing to be skeptical about conspiracy theories of all kinds.

Some of them fly in from Norway you know

https://youtu.be/SaZZ-0lCg0Q?si=ILeVo7TfeR-8TAdj

Anyone seen the leaked Tory WhatsApp messages? Isn't there some feint whiff of snap GE being talked about also?

The boss of Iceland supermarkets, who had hoped to become a Conservative MP, has quit the party, labelling it "out of touch".

The attack from Richard Walker came on the eve of the annual Conservative conference, as delegates gathered in Manchester.

Mr Walker told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the party was losing touch with business and consumers.

The Conservatives declined to comment on the record.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66972357

Surely Sunak can't think his constant talking over interviewers is a good look, pretty painful watch him on Kuenssberg, guy is so disingenuous

Don't know how with a straight face he can argue inflation is a tax, therfore he is tax cutting

WhatsApps is just CDO conspiracy loons speculating that 'no government could be this incompetent unless it was deliberate, who's pulling the strings?'
You will be shocked to hear it's the "globalists"

https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-mocked-in-leaked-whatapps-as-grassroots-tories-vow-to-go-to-war-with-partys-liberals-12973419

The word cloud Laura Kuenssberg showed Sunak this morning.

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I’m hoping that I misread that two thirds of those who voted Conservative in 2019 are planning to do so again.

Reminds me of Mr Burns with “that cloven hoofed fellow, I like the cut of his jib”

https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1708575469853978998

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Watching every tory interview from this weekend, Sunah, Gove and Mogg everyone of them dances about the questions, dont answer fuck all and turn it around.

They all seem to know there time is up and they are on borrowed time, its just such a shame Labour right now are a fuckin joke too as they could clean up after the utter mess that the torys are going to leave.

Just cannot see them getting back in next year.

Listening to Michael Heseltine on News Agents.

Whatever your politics, it's puts into stark contrast the absolute wasters running things today.

I mean, John Major sounds relatively impressive nowadays.

TBF everyone I've spoken to who met him irl commented on how charismatic he was.

But FFS even Nigel Lawson looks like a economic genius nowadays.

This is a sitting MP spouting conspiracy theory nonsense at some fringe event. They’re done for, aren’t they?

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Christ, even ministers are at it now.

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She escaped again.
(wasn't meant to @ you andyp)

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Unlawful or not.. I sense there is a sinister side to the asylum seekers > Rwanda proposal by the Tories. Who in Britain even has dialogue with Paul Kagame’s terror regime..

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/30/rwanda-ambassador-suella-braverman-absolutely-wrong-on-immigration

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Especially if these atrocities are still happening

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/13/dr-congo-killings-rapes-rwanda-backed-m23-rebels

Wish I could remember exactly, but I heard that the conference space they're using is the same size previous conferences media hall. Or something like that.

Hopefully next year it'll be 'taxi for the Conservative MPs!'.

Might've been John Crace's column yesterday.

Hunt says he's proud to live in a country where "there is a ladder everyone can climb, but also a safety net below which no one falls".

But he says that the safety net depends on tax and people must work.

So, not actually a safety net then.

And regardless of the merits of singling out those less deserving, which I know is a favoured pastime, I'm pretty sure everything I've read points to means testing basic benefits as being more expensive than just blanket granting them