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You cant beat a bit of Tory-on-Tory attacks.
It's just more and more like "we're going down and we're taking the nation with us". Children, the lot of them.
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Thread should be renamed "Tory Nonces" after Boris' comments
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Boris Johnson believes investigating child abuse is a waste of money, or as he puts it, "spaffed up the wall". Interesting to note he uses a masturbatory slang to highlight his point.
Boris Johnson faces calls to apologise for claiming child sex abuse inquiry money 'spaffed up the wall'
Ian Lavery calls his "disgusting comments" an "insult to every survivor", following the former foreign secretary's outburst.
I’m not going to clog up the New Zealand attack thread but just thinking again of Boris Johnson’s burka/veil comments and how it passed relatively unnoticed in terms of response and wondering if he’d joked about the yarmulke or payots if it’d have been forgotten so easily . The you see the very appropriate response to David steel but Johnson seems to avoid censure for dismissing child abuse enquires in an entirely inappropriate manner whilst retaining the support of many who are also rightly sickened by the failure to respond to grooming abuse . I cannot fathom out the inability to call him for what he is .
It may be a pretty hefty over-reach, but both journalism and politics are among the least 'socially mobile' sectors, so you get the same kind of people in both, especially in the Tories, who are disproportionately hewn from the Oxbridge world. That Johnson also has several toes in the media world might make it difficult for the press to criticise someone who so reflects them?
I honestly can’t figure it out , he just seems to glide passed gaff after gaff and mistake after mistake and nothing . I haven’t even mentioned the garden bridge , water cannon or laying down in front of bulldozers at Heathrow not to mention conspiring to assault a journalist or his repeated lies to editors , readers or party leaders . It’s incredible actually.
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You cant beat a bit of Tory-on-Tory attacks.
I watched that. He made a mistake saying she was a barrister, he should have said that she was previously a professional who was paid by the hour......
Keeping it classy Pete
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Come on pete, you're better than that.
peteblue
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It would have been a better joke....
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You can understand when you read this editorial from the Tory Party flag waving magazine The Spectator how that party is rampant with anti-Islamic bigots. Just a couple of hours after the attack, they seek to protect the word Islamophobia in order they can continue to be Islamophobic and not be criticised for it. Islamophobia is a good thing...it's merely a critique.
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Over the weekend, I overheard an interesting conversation between an oxbridge Tory lobbyist and his brother along the lines of Brexit is unachievable and that Tory strategists and electors are fed up being held to ransom by the DUP, Rees-Mogg and fellow loons. Brexit will be iced, apparently.
Boris is the only one that Torys think would be able to win an election, if they took it to the country, but that he’d be a ‘car crash of a PM’.
There is a fight underway about when to call the next election - with late in the month of May / early June currently being mooted, as a way of kicking Brexit into the long grass.
And what to do about replacing Boris, post-election. With no obvious candidates yet on who that might be. Ben Gummer was mentioned, but ‘we’d need to find him a safe seat first’.
Austerity politics is dead, apparently. The big manifesto push will be around education reform, social mobility, opportunites for inner city kids to get to uni, etc.
Make of that what you will.
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