The fall of the Tory party

today's wtf.

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Greg Hands appealing on social media for people to come forward to be MP, mayoral and PCC candidates. I think they are truly fucked

I don't know if he is being set up to be the patsy but I 100% won't mind if he is.

"Former health secretary Matt Hancock allowed himself to be the one to decide who should die. Then proceeded to pick: everyone."

set up to be the patsy

Once again it says it all.

• They put (and kept) a fucking numpty in charge to blame him when shit went south - instead of putting someone competent in charge. Because Ultimately that's the most important thing right?
  
• Then they couldn't even manage to pin blame to said numpty, because they're so fucking inept.
  
  

They're even shit at being shits.

Dead cat rabbit for the Mail front page today. Maybe it was during lockdown? Who knows anymore.

The Daily Mail has details of what it calls "the most anticipated political book of the year". Written by the former Cabinet minister, Nadine Dorries, The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson contains a claim that a powerful Number 10 fixer known as Dr No cut up a rabbit and nailed it to his ex-girlfriend's home in a Mafia-style threat.

Ridiculous. It's not even Easter.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/03/tory-mp-bob-stewart-racial-hostility-activist-court-told

Every day a new low.

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I just came here to post that.

there are no depths low enough for these people. It's completely unreal.

i am simultaneously speechless with rage and disbelief. we have to get rid of this crowd. it's worse than a disgrace.

Totally bizarre to read, agree. Huge dollop of lack of self-awareness in it too.

Come election time we will be hearing how they delivered the greatest reduction in people living in tents in living memory

Braverman only has performative cruelty as her schtick. Red meat to the UKIP base.

The Conservative party is facing claims that a former chairman wrote to police because he was concerned that allegations of rape against an MP had not been properly dealt with.

Sir Jake Berry told police one alleged victim was receiving support paid for by the Conservative Party, according to a letter published in the Mail on Sunday.

The extract reads: "There may have been five victims of X - who have been subject to a range of offences including multiple rapes."

The letter went on to say the matter had been going on for more than two years and adds: "The failure of others to act has enabled X to continue to offend".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67325120

Just came to post this myself. Do we think it’s one of the already-suspended MPs or is this a new name?

Hard to tell with that lot

Every day a new low.

Reckon she's after a job on GB News like BJ.

In all seriousness Tuesday's King's Speech is the last realistic chance for them to get any legislation through ahead of the election, so anything not in there is just positioning. They must know by now that they're not going to win the next election and it's not like any of them are in politics for any reason other than self interest.

See also Sunak's job interview with Musk.

I'm going with new, there are always more. Plus the journalists reporting this probably know who it is, if it was a known figure I don't think they'd bother.

When Crispin Blunt was first reported (and his name wasn't mentioned, just a Tory MP in his 60's) I thought it was Peter Bone for a minute before realising he's 71.

Let’s hope it builds over the week and brings at least one more down then. Taking this along with the Dorries book headline yesterday, the Ma*l seem to be sharpening the knives for Sunak presumably in favour of a more right-wing nutty element?

Tuesday's King's Speech is the last realistic chance for them to get any legislation through ahead of the election

Apart from the line at the end of the speech about anything else set before the chamber.

Yeah but they don't even seem to want to push anything big/radical through. I thought these lines from Laura Kuenssberg were telling (selected lines I've copied from the piece linked below, to be clear):

New laws take a long time to go through Parliament. So while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak still has at least a year to try to turn things around before he must call an election, the speech is, insiders admit privately, more or less the last chance for the Conservatives to transform ideas into reality - if they want to get them on the statute book before we all go to the polls.

Insiders caution against expecting any shiny new ideas or revolutionary plans.

Some cabinet ministers worry it is all a bit "managerial", all a bit "tinkering", not really talking to the problems millions of voters are facing right now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67320861

I feel like they're so shit and disorganised and there's too much infighting to really push anything significant through now. Which is a good thing, obviously.

Even Tory MPs are briefing that the Rishi X Elon show was a terrible idea. He seems to want to just do things that personally interest him as much as Boris did. PM as hobbyist.

It's beginig to feel a lot like 1997.

Now mired in Sex Scandles with the overlooked screamin from the sidelines.

BLOODY GOOD!

After him trying to rehabilitate his image, that'll be it back in the bin. Absolute fuckin worst cunt