The fall of the Tory party

Especially as he's MP for Braintree

Have we done Rwanda has really cost 700m and forecast to spend 10bn? Guess that's why we couldn't afford HS2

forecast to spend 10bn?

Is this right? Even with Labour stopping the policy?

700 million has been spent in total. But if the scheme had continued it would’ve cost a further 10 billion over the course of this Parliament.

Which would you rather - £350m a week to the NHS, or £10bn to send 2 people to Rwanda?

Would have been seen as good value if it had expanded the thick racist voter base and won the tories another election.
Thankfully that plan didn’t work out too well.

Insane amount of money spaffed though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQS_peF9b58

Sunak echoes Starmer's words on the Kent attack and Team GB, joking British Olympians probably won't want his advice on "how to win", prompting laughter in the Commons.

Jenrick and Tuggin Tommy now in. TT already selling his soul and head-starting the race to the bottom by saying he'd quit the ECHR.

Fuck me, we've got this until November now...

Isn’t t just pure popcorn watching them tear themselves apart? It’s like watching drunk unfit middle aged men swinging ineptly at each other outside a pub.

And these are the more moderate contenders? We're in for a shit show.

It’s like watching drunk unfit middle aged men swinging ineptly at each other outside a pub.

Bike polo?

Fuck me, we've got this until November now

But it's all completely ignorable - not front page, not of consequence to your life. You can let it pass you by, or check in every so often and laugh at how important they think it still is.

Yes, exactly this. Whereas previously this would be all consuming and frightening with very real consequences for the country, now it's just a side show. Who really cares who becomes their leader in November. They'll probably have four or five new ones before the next election.

And we don't really need to think about the Tories other than as light entertainment for at least the next 4 years.

I was going to say "Bridges ride" but that works.

I have real skin in the game here - it's embarrassing enough living in one of the few constituencies stupid/evil enough to still have a Tory MP (Tugs), I really don't want us to be home to their Fuhrer.

Tactically I hope whoever the tories chose is a leader who will aid the splitting of the vote between themselves and reform but who also will stop the two parties coalescing into one, while further self destructing the party from within.

But I thought Trump was clearly unelectable and fuck was I wrong.

I thought Johnson had thrown his career away by supporting Brexit.

I suppose technically I wasn't wrong but it took about a decade longer than I was expecting.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/25/tom-tugendhats-tory-leadership-campaign-mocked-for-turd-acronym

He's got off to a great start.

I can't wait for the "Conservatives Under Nick Timothy" leadership campaign to launch.

Can you do one for Mel Stride?

It really is the battle of the talentless, isn't it?

Support Conservatives Under Mel?

Conservatives Under Mel Stride?

Can you do one for Mel Stride?

It might be worth noting that Tugendhat's wasn't specific to him (didn't incorporate his initials), just generic political slogan bullshit.

It was also an acrostic. rhb's, kl's, and Greenbank's, while good, are not.

For those about to Tory..

Magpies have long been thought to be birds of omen. I am not superstitious. Yet during the election campaign I could not help but notice single magpies all the time. Perhaps you only notice what you are looking for, as from the beginning of the campaign the polls were clear that I would lose North East Somerset and Hanham. I wrote to my boarding school children when the election was called to warn them of the impending defeat, but unfortunately they cannot read my handwriting.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-worst-thing-about-losing-my-seat/