The fall of the Tory party

RC

individual liberty.

Except when it comes to whom you love, obvs.

Well Tbf Christianity is very big on humans having the agency to do things that send them to hell.

I think (could be incorrect) that it was the current Tories that bought in / rebranded them as 'British Values' as if no one else is able to possess them. Thought they were a bit unsettling when my daughter started getting them a few years back.

The local constituency have selected Peter Bone's partner to stand in the by-election caused by him being recalled. Not a serious party.

It's not uncommon:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Elphicke

Conservative/LibDem: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/guidance-on-promoting-british-values-in-schools-published

We done Sunak tweeting a link to work out tax benefits of the NI charges and it signs you up to a conservative mailing list?
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1743568319582466303?t=SRIEHXufXC6goX6YUth5rw&s=19

To be fair, the Labour tax calculator that they put out last week does the same.

But did labour change the law to allow them to keep all your data even if you unsubscribe?

So he can be an mp by proxy?

It gets better; apparently he threatened to run as an independent candidate and split the Tory vote if she wasn't selected.

So it's a straight swap between MP and employing the spouse directly?

Those expenses won't claim themselves...

Looks like the tories are going to be the saviours of the post office scandal victims. Great optics I guess

How long until something comes out and it all backfires on them.

With friends like these, hey?

'The narrative that the public has now firmly adopted – that over 13 years things have got worse – is one we just have to acknowledge and admit.'
Danny Kruger said his party would leave the country ‘sadder, less united and less conservative’ than they had found it

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/07/conservatives-face-obliteration-as-uk-in-worse-state-than-2010-tory-mp-says

Well they gave her the CBE in the first place, so it should be neutral at best…

Is Adam Crozier linked to them? It sounds like he could be more than ankle deep here too?

Here's a juxtposition for you

He added that the rise of the far right in Europe should provide a warning for the Tory party.
...
“Conservatives worldwide have presided over models of mass migration,
political correctness and economic short-termism. The British
government is making some of the right moves to correct this. But the
reaction under way in Europe at the moment is a warning to my party –
either we remember the people we work for, or we face obliteration.”

Kruger’s comments reflect widespread pessimism on the Tory benches
about the direction of the party and its chances of winning the next
election.

As a founder of the New Conservatives, Kruger is a leading light of
the socially conservative movement which is urging Sunak to shift
further to the right on issues such as immigration. He is one of
dozens of Tory MPs who rebelled last year on the Rwanda bill, arguing
that it did not do enough to stop legal appeals against deporting
asylum seekers to the African country.

Sounds like his "warning for the Tory party" is move further right or someone else will

Prue Leith has a lot to answer for.

Soggy bottoms?

What I don't get about this is that the Tories were in the wilderness for years until they moved to the centre under Cameron.

The they moved to the right, and lost votes over time.

Then Johnson got a thumping majority from a three-way of; not-Corbyn, resolving Brexit, and levelling-up. Then they moved further to the right and lost votes.

I guess you could say Brexit was a move to the right and if you squint enough an anti-Corbyn vote is too, but overall nothing in voting behaviour nor survey attitudes show British voters are want a move to the right.

If anything it's the opposite, the Tories have increased public demand for nationalisation.

Wouldn't it be beautiful if she were introduced on that basis going forward?

and joining Paul Hollywood in the Bake Off tent is Prue Leith, mother of right wing idealogue and cunt Danny Kruger

In his defence (the defence he actually uses), this was said behind closed doors and he can't be expected to admit it in public.

Given that he thinks Brexit was one of the few successes of the last 13 years he is clearly an even greater idiot.

Oh yes, but blue passports and pints of wine.