The fall of the Tory party

So it sounds like Scott Benton is going to be suspended for 35 days so that's another recall petition incoming. I think the Bones recall petition closed last week but I haven't seen any news on it.

Just googled - Bone's closes next Tuesday.

So this was a good week for Sunak: one where he admitted to seeing Boris Johnson more than his wife during Covid, just about avoided a full scale rebellion on a key bill and took a pasting during PMQs. And it's only Thursday 🤣

This has to be a slam dunk for a by -election.

Wins are wins, however marginally depressingly sometimes,
because they still appear to be running (sic) the country atm

Every time I see this thread, all that runs through my head is "Cunts".

What about the mind-boggling fact that so many folks voted for these piss-takers?

I mean, Corbyn had issues, but he was the opposite of a fucken Tory (unlike Starmer)... Those filth have somehow avoided so very much blame until covid came along... People are such mugs.

They voted for Boris the blokey pub guy who didn't walk round like he had a stick up his arse. They were ignorant as to his scheming self serving politics and llack of attention to any detail.

The next Corbyn needs a 10yr stint on HIGNFY as part of their public profile development.

So this was a good week for Sunak: one where he admitted to seeing Boris Johnson more than his wife

To be fair I've seen Boris Johnson more times than Rishi Sunak's wife.

Blokey pub guy seems like a pretty charitable spin on serial bullshitting upper class twit...

Here's a hot tip, UK voters: stay the fuck away from anyone who's been to Eton, if you can help it.

stay the fuck away from anyone who's been to Eton

as much as this is great advice, sadly it is the exact opposite of how the electorate operates.

It's just gob-smacking, how folks can see example after example of the fact that overprivileged, clueless bozos have a conveyor belt of opportunity delivering them to the highest positions in the land, which so very obviously means that anyone from a normal background who's got to the point where they can be a contender for those same positions is self-evidently a far, far more capable candidate - but they just can't seem to join those dots.

Forelock-tugging peasantry.

Nailed it! This should make a pithy election slogan. I Would go further and include anyone from Oxbridge. How do we get to the point where the seeming 'natural' choice of P.M is someone state educated?
I often think it would take a social movement akin to that which dissolved the monasteries to rid ourselves of public schools.
I hope I live long enough to see it. Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect.

anyone from a normal background who's got to the point where they can be a contender for those same positions is self-evidently a far, far more capable candidate - but they just can't seem to join those dots

It's probably a bit worse than that, anyone from a normal background is then accused of abandoning their roots at that stage.

Didn't Thatcher and Major go to normal schools? Although Thatcher went to Oxford after. Major left school at 16.

Major did the 11+ and went to a grammar school which is now a state secondary.

Thatcher won a scholarship to go to a grammar school. She then did Chemistry at Oxford Uni.

Thatcher soon gave up working in labs after Oxford. She converted to Law & was a barrister when she met the recently divorced Denis.

anyone from a normal background who's got to the point where they can be a contender for
those same positions is self-evidently a far, far more capable candidate

Didn't 30p Lee go down the coal mine when he was 12? A real man of the people!

What has Miriam Cates been up to? Twitter is so shit not even wildly speculative rumours flying about there any more

No idea, but there were a few choice bits from this article:

The former biology teacher is a strong advocate of policies to encourage women in the UK to have more children

Cates said the UK’s low birthrate was the most pressing policy issue of the generation, blaming it in part on “a cultural Marxism that is systematically destroying our children’s souls”

Greenberg is investigating eight MPs, with the inquiries dating back to June. Seven are Conservatives

The eighth is the former Tory Andrew Bridgen, who now sits for Reclaim.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/18/tory-mp-miriam-cates-investigated-standards-watchdog

Michelle Mone claims that Sunak knew she was a dodgy shit (I may be paraphrasing slightly but of course he knew. And if he didn’t then he should have as getting all Lady’d up for business acumen which fails within two years is some sort of clue. Incompetent or corrupt? With the Tories they go together like rice and peas so I’ll have both please)).

Given that she’s admitted she’s a liar (it appears she only paid partial notice of the “never apologise properly, never meaningfully explain” induction seminar), I’m not sure she can be taken at face value but I’m happy to suspend disbelief as I love some blue on blue political violence.

Also claiming that Gove signed off buying 5 years worth of (shit) PPE instead of just the 4 months needed. Take all the fuckers down.

I’ve maintained for a while, the U.K. government response to COVID was essentially the biggest heist in history

Gove noticably quiet, wonder why he isn’t doing his oily Uriah Heep shit.

Plus “it’s not my yacht, it’s owned by a trust that I benefit from” is a ballsy flex from Mone