The fall of the Tory party

A lie in the first line, the Winter Fuel Payment is not being scrapped….

(Sorry, aimed at the newspaper, not you!)

That's a good topic to focus on since a lot of the people affected will be dead by the next election or won't remember.

future tory leadership candidates grifters roll out their merch

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/25/priti-tote-bags-kemi-sweatshirts-and-jenrick-mugs-tory-candidates-roll-out-the-merch-in-bid-to-be-new-leader

Those slogans are laughably bad from every conceivable angle.

a lot of time, effort and thought were put into those designs and slogans no doubt, shame they didn't use comic sans for the full house.

should i buy a " future prime minister " tee. is it aimed at people like me or are they just for the patel's, bad-enochs and jenricks of this world ?

jenricks a mug seems apt

also £50k to enter a campaign? Like some pyramid scheme? There's too much in that article to pick apart.

Will the cool kids at Torycon be wearing their retro Leadsom for Leader tees?

A Vogue-esq high end skinny model fashion shoot with said tory tat would be fun. Perhaps on a recycling site, war zone or a slaughter house with full on double page spread sunday colour supplement production values.

Truss contemplated stopping all cancer treatment on the NHS as a way to fund her tax cutting plans. 👀

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Holy hell

And somehow people vote for these sub-humans.

It may seem tempting to call them that, but it's also contemptible owing to historical precedent. You may be unaware that it's a direct translation of a Nazi term.

Sure, but I doubt that sort of consideration should apply when punching up instead of down.

Burn the fucking lizard people.

See? Totally fine

In the article I read, it stated this was used as an example of what the scale of cuts would be needed to avoid reversal of the mini budget. It gives some insight into the level of chaos there must have been.

But still, jaw dropping.

When I read material of this nature, I'm reminded of the film Aliens -

Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from space. It's the only way to be certain.
Soldier: (Loudly) Fucking A

I thought I'd just leave that out there.

It may be unreasonable to call them sub human but I disagree with your reasoning. The etemology of the phrase sub human in English predates the Nazis by over 200 years. I would also venture that the direct translation of the Nazi term is under human.

I do think you would have a case for the Nazi reflection if someone chose to use the expression in English "under human" or "under man" (which I believe has pre Nazi KKK origins) then I would totally agree with you.

Surely the German prefix 'unter' and the English prefix 'sub' are equivalent? As in submarine and Unterseeboot, for example.

Yes that is correct but my points (poorly made) are that the English expression sub human is very old and that the expression underman /underhuman with its Klan origins may well be the origin of the Nazi expression as they are closer in terms of time and their derogatory meaning.

In Moggworld apparently it's time to start counting your spoons.

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Silver spoons presumably?

They also have Wetherspoons.

Nanny will do the counting 🧐

The NYT cold takeaway..

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/magazine/uk-politics-tories-conservatives.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20240829144932/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/magazine/uk-politics-tories-conservatives.html

no paywall link via https://archive.org

Edit: corrected link

Let's hope so: 'Obsession with Reform could leave Tories out of power for 20 years', says Andy Street