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[Walken]

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.

I make of it that the conservatives are a cynical self serving entity that see peoples lives as a plaything

 

[orchard]

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.

I can see why they would want to target those policies, to erode what they perceive to be the cause of a strategic chunk Labour's recent base, but surely no one will believe them with their record, especially when sold to the electorate by BJ.

 

[degsy]

I make of it that the conservatives are a cynical self serving entity that see peoples lives as a plaything

Shock horror - Poster in 'politicians are bent' 'road to damascus' moment

 

[Walken]

Shock horror - Poster in 'politicians are bent' 'road to damascus' moment

It's a long held belief about the conservative party, but thanks for your condescension

 

[Walken]

Nice of sky news to run with a completely unchallenged transcript from an interview with Steve bannon, as a headline as well. Let's give nationalism as much press as possible and encourage their radicalized followers

 

[degsy]

It's a long held belief about the conservative party, but thanks for your condescension

My pleasure; fair play to you, sometimes the obvious needs not just stating, but re-stating, often.

 

[orchard]

Nice of sky news to run with a completely unchallenged transcript from an interview with Steve bannon, as a headline as well. Let's give nationalism as much press as possible and encourage their radicalized followers

Yea, like the bbc and their coverage of the gammonball run using only close up shots so the public don't realise it's only around 70 strong.

 

[Harryflashman]

Yea, like the bbc and their coverage of the gammonball run using only close up shots so the public don't realise it's only around 70 strong.

I’m not fan of Brexit and certainly not farage but for me somebody like bannon is significantly more dangerous. This blokes brand of nationalism shouldn’t be running unchallenged at anytime but especially not at the minute .

 

[IV(AC)]

I make of it that the conservatives are a cynical self serving entity that see peoples lives as a plaything

The toff in question is having lunch with Boris later this week, he says. To talk about ‘the run’... I suffered his monologue to his signetted, rotund sibling - brayed at 200 decibels to anyone within a half mile radius - about ‘The Regions’... and how by educating all the northerners, we would all have great jobs all of a sudden and so would be net contributors and less of a drain on the resources of the UK (London). It’s still all about reducing the strain on one’s taxes from the oiks’ welfare. Boris‘ll love that.

As for cynical, well, Tarkers makes his living dreaming up policy (for money) and working in the middle of interest groups and the politicians then claiming the credit.. quite the little oxbridge industry...

 

[Jib in lad]

 

[davek]

The Tories Have Been Forced To Act Over Anti-Muslim Comments From 25 Activists On Facebook

One man who has campaigned for the Conservatives posted a comment about killing Muslims in a mosque with a rifle.

www.buzzfeed.com

 

[summerisle]

The scummiest of them all.

 

[davek]

Labour formally adopts definition of Islamophobia

All-party parliamentary group definition says Islamophobia is ‘rooted in racism’

www.theguardian.com

The Tory Party needs to get in line with other mainstream parties now and adopt this definition and root out its fascist extremists and Islamophobes.

 

[zzr45]

The scummiest of them all.

At the risk of being called a super Tory, that’s been going through for about 3 years. Case of putting 2+2 together there and getting 5.

 

[larrygobfiend]

They've torn the country apart. Is this the worst government of all time?