The fall of the Tory party

Timely:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1618361272268988421?s=46&t=pkKGH-5-fBPnGjyAQuaBiw

Last week was supposed to be the start of the fight back with some classic pork barrel politics and instead the least of there problems was the MP getting another fine for breaking the law.

Zahawi doing a sterling job of planning the Tory election strategy.

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An embarrassment of Rishi's 😝

I presume Boris' team is briefing a lot of this stuff considering he knew about the HMRC investigation when he was PM.

The Newsagents podcast inferred huge in-house fighting between Sunak and Johnson's camps with both sides leaking stories to the press - Johnson and Richard Sharp story vs Zahawi and HMRC. Lovely watching them tear chunks into each other through smiling faces.

FFS -we are having to stump up £222,000 to pay for Johson to defend himself in the partygate investigation. Just obscene.

Nae chance, in hell will he throw in this role at the top to get turfed out on his arse.

Enquirys seem to be the new one for everything and throwing money at them, in westminster and up here. Absolute joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64410490

Someone at the Beeb appears to have been let off the leash with that headline? Assume Richard Sharp would prefer the heat is on a different story than his own?

huge in-house fighting between Sunak and Johnson's camps

Yeah, meeting with Zelensky was a weird thing to do if he was in any way supportive of Sunak. He wants some revenge.

A Conservative MP for 13 years, he didn’t suddenly go rogue https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/26/andrew-bridgen-to-sue-matt-hancock-over-criticism-of-covid-vaccine-remarks

He’ll have a job proving damage to reputation…

Make it so:

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Clamping the homeless - we asked Kim Wilde.

I’m sure it will buff his reputation with his supporters who will see him being cancelled by the mainstream wokerati who have infiltrated the Tory Oarty

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"Of all people he should know that the first cut is the deepest."

Rod Stewart and Carol Vorderman sticking it to the government. Wasn't expecting this.

It certainly wasn't on the bingo card that's for sure, not that it will make a difference. Couldnt put a red neck on any of that mob.

^ truss lololol.

Yeh Sunak has a way to go to hit Truss levels but he is second least popular at this point in leadership role

I don’t doubt it. Arguing with idiots, even if you decimate their arguments, just seems to make them more convinced in their idiocy.

The headline is a factual summary of what the HMRC boss told the Public Accounts Committee.

If anything what he said is the interesting bit, but it's not advisable to be dishonest with Commons Committees.

it's not advisable to be dishonest with Commons Committees.

Why? Afaik nobody has been sanctioned for dishonesty to a committee since the 19th century. Either nobody has been telling fibs (unlikely considering the phone hacking people all testified) or its a relatively empty threat.