The fall of the Tory party

Haverhill is apparently bigger

Haverhill is apparently a bigger shithole

So I hear.

My Gran lived in Haverhill, spent far too much time there visiting her. Shit hole and it stunk because of a nearby factory that made scent for washing powder and stuff.

That’ll be International Flavours and Fragrances. Was still there a few years ago, smelling of pear drops. Yum.

Since the lap dancing club got turned into flats Newmarket is just Haverhill with some massive horsey houses round the edge.

What was the club in Newmarket that had a free bottle of champagne for every 18 year old seemingly within a 30 mile radius?

De Niros probably.

Yep that sounds familiar. I bet the marketing tactic of sending every teenager a personal invitation in the post on their 18th birthday was pretty effective.

That was a weirdly long sentence.

Pear drops?
That could be toluene. From hazy chemistry lessons at school.

Ethyl acetate.

I used to live 5 miles down the road from Haverhill. The scent of certain washing chemicals still gives me mild PTSD.

So much this, deadcat to distract from more important stuff.

It's had the desired effect as Cruella is mysterious absent from every front page today, except the Daily Star.

He's off to COP26 then.

Own goal after own goal

He's off to COP26 then.

Arriving a year late would definitely be a howler.

Ha. My own, own goal.

Worked in COP26 for a client so it’s forever etched in my head clearly.

I reckon he was always gonna go, it was all intended to move the news cycle on from Cruella

intended to move the news cycle on from Cruella

Which may itself have been to move the conversation on from the cost of living crisis, onto a subject where they feel they can try to make political capital...

Court-adjudged liar Andrew Bridgen's proposed suspension for five days is a fucking joke for breaking lobbying rules 'on multiple occasions and in multiple ways' and trying to pressure the watchdog investigating him. Nasty little cunt.

Will Sunak get his Owen Patterson moment here?

No. The party will circle wagons to preserve itself. They had their moment and survived. Now it's just watching the labour poll leads shrink. Sigh

Now it's just watching the labour poll leads shrink. Sigh

How far will it shrink though? Latest polling shows that government approval rating is still sitting at around 10% of people polled. Disapproval has fallen from 82% to 72%. I suspect that the change will slow down soon and then start to get worse again.

It's inevitable that there will be a slide in the polls.

Truss was properly, properly shit, and has never done anything useful.

Whether you like his politics or think he could have done better, Sunak was Chancellor for a decent stint and did some major stuff that involved work rather than cozplay and culture wars.

Not my point but a valid one I think; Starmer is no longer the opposite of the PM. Therefore, the impact of his image of stability is lessened when the tories aren't putting panto clowns in no. 10.

Said many times but how do these cunts get away with stuff that would be dismissal for gross misconduct in any other job?

And yes, Bridgen is one of the worst which is quite something in a packed field

My prediction is that government approval rating will grow from ~10% to about 25% and just sit there while everybody gets poorer and more desperate until a GE eventually happens.

John Curtice says there's no way back for the Tories

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/conservative-conference-labour-starmer-curtice-b2191762.html