The fall of the Tory party

Females:

CON: 0%

Girls > boys

Yeah, there’s a huge M/F split in younger people - huge focus on Incel culture and the likes of the Tate brothers, Proud Boys etc working the misogynist+far-right angle.

There have been a few analysis pieces written on the growing divergence between young men and young women recently that I’ve seen - I think the Economist recently?

Of course, you can ignore 50% of a demographic if you intend on repealing women’s rights and making them property of their menfolk.

It's funny how you can worry about 5 years time when the tory Party have already been completely overrun by the far right.

To say what's happening in France and other parts of Europe has missed the boat. It's happened already and we're already fucked.

I fucking hate this take. Completely ignores that Hitler hijacked the party for his own ends.

Where would this Tory campaign have been without Frank Hester's £15M?

Surely the worst £15m ever spent?

That will be Lord Hester in a few weeks.

Unfortunately, I don't disagree with you :-(

The conduct of "democracy" in the UK is quite clearly broken (again, I strongly recommend Ian Dunt's book). It's also true that this is reflected elsewhere in the developed world. My caution, however, is that we should not simply be focused on what is happening now: the present is very important but we need to keep the longer term in perspective - and, indeed, 5 years may not even be a long enough period for us to consider, but it is at least a start. One of the major failures in recent years has been the lack of focus on longer term results/outcomes, with an extremely short termist view expressed in virtually all discussions of a political nature, be they by politicians, media or indeed in every day conversations. It's very depressing.

100% hard agree.

Lord Hester

I'm looking forward to Lord Corbyn.

Caused by populist politicians who have knowingly substituted campaigning for governing.
We would all benefit from less politics.
Parliament should not shut down for the party conference season.

My caution, however, is that we should not simply be focused on what is happening now: the present is very important but we need to keep the longer term in perspective

I completely agree with this and if labour have a massive majority hopefully they'll start to enact do it me policies with vision.

At the moment though there's no choice, we've had a government that has completely wrecked every public institution and service, isolated us from our closest trading neighbours and infected economic sanctions on its own population and destroyed trust in the political system.

If the far right gets back in there's not much else for them to destroy, I just hope people have seen the light and won't be conned back into the shit again (you have to hope)

I moved to France at the end of last year, I honestly thought this bullshit was behind me for a bit, hopefully they can sort themselves out on Sunday and figure out a way of bringing the country back together.

Asked if he was planning a special meal for election night, Sunak said: “My favourite meal, generally, is sandwiches.”

And they call Starmer boring...

Again, read Ian Dunt's book. To be slightly facetious, it might perhaps be better to shut down parliament all of the time! The one part that seems to be working well is, perhaps surprisingly, the House of Lords. But get rid of the bishops and the hereditary lords please, they have no role to play. Keep a balance so no one has a majority, get in more domain experts, and allow people to focus on the nuts and bolts of running a country rather than the political grandstanding that occurs in the Commons.

Sunak said: “My favourite meal, generally, is sandwiches.”

Did he also say he doesn't share food?

The FT tells me:

He added that he intended to continue his polling day tradition of getting a “special election pie” from a local butchers in his constituency of Richmond and Northallerton.

Didn't he also recently say his favourite thing to get from McDonald's is some sort of breakfast item that hasn't been sold here for yonks?

Literally nothing would surprise me about him.

Mr Sunak described the pie as a "very good pork pie with a special chutney and some cheese as well, on top"

This sounds pretty good TBF. Forum group buy of all the butcher's stock?

Cheese on top of a pork pie?

IME there are very, very few foods that can't be improved by the addition of cheese.

4 of these bad boys in my fridge right now

[for clarity 4 individual pies, not 4 packs of 6]

I could murder one of these, from Growlers..

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