The fall of the Tory party

A silver lining may be that they go go a smaller city for their party conference in the coming years. Them coming to Manchester felt like a provocation of sorts each time.

She’s like an unflushable turd isn’t she?

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Not even an MP but The Telegrah will Telegraph

You guys sure do have a serious Scum problem in the UK... It's built up so damn thick!

This is encouraging:

https://alastair-meeks.medium.com/still-falling-1c2c0dec3e95

Again, thanks for that link.

The real winners of the '24 General Election?

Step forward for a round of applause; the British electorate, who finally worked out how to force FPTP to give them the outcome they desired.

Private Eye podcast has some on this;
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8539021.mp3?modified=1720617515&sid=5112392&source=rss

Just saying this is my dream scenario from 2 weeks ago!

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She’s like an unflushable turd isn’t she?

So, after the Brown defeat in 2010, the Tories won in 2015, 2017 and 2019 (the last two with numpty Tory leaders).

After the Truss/lettuce leadership, though, the party was blown away in 2024. Maybe she should have stopped going on about cheese, pork markets and tax cuts and talked about Blair's 'agenda'? Ultimately, she's just a lightweight only interested in her own future. Like her predecessor as PM.

Jenrick today saying thi iings can only get worse for tory party.

Indicating his first interaction with reality for several years.

Has anyone acknowleged just how aweful the tory election campaign was? It was a Political Disaster from before it even started to the final picture, 1983 Labour bad, worst ever?

I do wonder if anyone is every going to own this? I thing the next crop of "Auto" biographys might make interesting reading.

Has anyone acknowleged just how aweful the tory election campaign was?

Loads of people, from day one, including Tory MPs of all ranks if the anonymous briefings to journalists are to be believed.

Perhaps because the election date was only known to Sunak and a small number of his staff, so there was not much time to get the campaign going. And the May council elections wouldn't have improved the moral of local activists?

Another guess is that Sue Gray (and others) could have coordinated the Labour campaign to be prepared for whenever the date was announced and had been preparing for months?

But not publicly, which is my point. Will anyone be brave enough to do so, after sunak?

But not publicly, which is my point.

Before election day, Tory politicians couldn't say that publicly because they'd have been labelled disloyal; the ones who had given up (many or most) put the knife in by briefing off the record. Right now, as they're regrouping and plotting the next leadership bid, there's still no win for most of them to do that. Some of the far right loonies have criticised it for not being right wing enough, which means they have even less motive to say the campaign was just incompetent, as that would undermine their agenda. When the leadership election kicks off, we may see more accurate criticism of the campaign if it offers an advantage to candidates not associated with the campaign.

The rest of the country was laughing and pointing at the shit campaign, while Tory politicians did the usual "I'm not going to answer your embarrasing question, I'm going to answer a question you didn't ask that does me some good" thing. It's not like the shittiness of the campaign is some secret that has to be unmasked, and it'll make fuck all difference to the rest of us if any of those Tory MPs are the slightest bit honest in public about it.

Getting any of them to be remotely honest about how much damage they did in the last 14 years would be much more significant.

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I, for one, am delighted that we’re going to have a three month long contest to find the next leader of the Conservative Party.

I'm delighted that it is almost a non news story.

Irrelevance, the natural home of these fuck nugget phony fascistae.

CF, the confusion and petulance of Kem Badenochi and Victoria Atkins the other day when they had to sit and listen in opposition rather than pontificate in the chamber.

Hahahhahahababa

It's quite astounding how they have disappeared from media

(Though Farage gets some attention I suspect that will dwindle due to his boring repetition the same old shit

James Cleverly was doing the rounds this morning after being monstered from the despatch box yesterday and it was just nice to be able to ignore the shit he was talking.

The Tory leadership results will be announced on a Saturday (why???) 3 days before the US election results so that will get drowned out by all that drama too.

Agreed. Saw him on Breakfast telly, a complete irrelevance and completely inconsequential and the best thing is it doesn't wind me up anymore

Cleverly first to announce he's running for head clown.

Living, breathing proof that nominative determinism isn't a thing.