The fall of the Tory party

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  • I wouldn't really say Frankie Boyle is an edge lord

    Back when he was making shit jokes about Rebecca Adlington, he wasn't always punching up and had positioned himself on the Jimmy Carr "Only snowflakes get offended so I'm being radical just by being nasty" hill. He seems to have grown up a lot since. Stopping drinking probably helped; I suspect a lot of his nastiest jokes, back then, were made/tweeted while shitfaced, although he would double down on them defensively when he woke up sober. He's pretty good value now.

  • Yeah, not always up, but pretty consistently in all directions when it wasn't. He's aged much like the forum has TBF.

  • He's aged much like the forum has TBF.

    Has he become obsessed with watches and property too?

  • I'll have to see the pics of him on a Brompton to believe it.

  • Jokes aside, "not always up, but pretty consistently in all directions when it wasn't" is a shit excuse. There's a woman who achieved something amazing after years of preparation, but has to live to this day with the fact that this is mostly remembered for some drunk cunt telling the whole country how ugly he thinks she is. It's never not going to be one of the shittest things he's ever done in his life.

  • Aye, pretty cunty. I did need to look it up so hopefully not what she's actually remembered for.

  • It's the pictures of him on a space frame Moulton you want to look for.

  • I don't know who Frankie Boyle is, by the way. I suspect from the above that he must be a 'comedian'.

  • She doesn't have to google it.

  • Party unity going well


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  • Moderates have no place in todays party, if one looks at the membership - hadn't the TRG best join the LD's?

  • She doesn't have to google it.

    No, that would probably be worrying if she did.

  • So much this. If presumably appx 40 MP's can't endorse a candidate for the next leader of their party, they need to find or form a new party.

    The need for electoral reform and some sort of proportional based system has never been clearer.

  • They should join the LibDems and make the Tories the third largest party in the Commons, thus elevating Ed Davey to the official Leader of the Opposition. Mainly for the lols.

  • Why the libdems when Labour is actually in power? Starmer's already shown he'll take some of the more extreme Tories if it suits his purposes (whatever they may be).

  • I think there is an ideological difference that many Tory MPs would be reluctant to bridge, around the role of the state in the daily lives of the electorate, that means they'd never cross to Labour.

    Electorally, most of the 'one nation' Tory MPs are in south eastern constituencies where their main challengers are the LibDems, so joining them gives them a better chance of remaining as an MP after the next election. It's clear now, I think, that with Badenoch and Jenrick as the two remaining candidates, that the Tories are going to go after Reform voters, rather than trying to stop the LibDems from taking more seats off them.

  • All fair enough, Andy. I was being tongue in cheek to take a dig at the centrists. Way to spoil my fun.

  • Way to spoil my fun.

    'tis the centrist way.

  • Labour have more to fear from Reform than the Tories in England. Immigration is the single biggest issue in English politics and has the biggest negative impact on working class voters in post industrial areas.

  • Was out for a run the other night and spotted this. Feels appropriate here.


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  • Immigration is the single biggest issue in English politics

    Is there a certain nuance to the sentence structure, and/or definitions I'm missing? Or did you actually mean the 4th most important issue after, The cost of living, Health, and The economy in general?

    £5 says that if you solved 1 out of the the 3 ahead of it, immigration would fall even further down the list.


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  • What I find depressing about that chart, is that a crystal sharp focus on RE coupled with shit loads of investment has scope to be a massive vote winner.

    You could even do something crazy like spinning a positive message around tackling climate change head on, and use some of the hackneyed bliz spirit language everyone gets wet for.

  • That yougov poll illustrates how disconnected our political elite are from the electorate. The use of the phrase "cost of living" rather than inflation shows that they think our heads button up at the back.

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