Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

[tsubaki]

She's claimed £8750 for a photo / PR man as well:

Esther McVey claimed £8,750 in expenses for personal photographer

Tory leadership hopeful spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money in just two years

www.theguardian.com

 

[Blues Harp]

*shakes head and decides to visit pub.......

The dumbest answer to everything..........

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Apparently there has been a poll released today (for those that actually believe them) that Boris would sweep to power with a 140 seat majority......

Oh god let it be true Tories believing their polling election chances.

Mr Johnson will be absolute gift, many many of these.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

She's claimed £8750 for a photo / PR man as well:

Esther McVey claimed £8,750 in expenses for personal photographer

Tory leadership hopeful spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money in just two years

www.theguardian.com

But did she drink a can of gin on a train though?

 

[Kurt.]

I didnt have a clue.

Vote me, X

As a funny coincidence.. my local footy team actually played against the St. Helena national team in a friendly match last night. They are over here to compete in the island games tournament.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Oh god let it be true Tories believing their polling election chances.

Mr Johnson will be absolute gift, many many of these.

I can’t agree. Look what’s happened in the states. People like Bush jr and McCain are now held up as paragons of virtue when compared to Trump. The perception of centre politics will shift further right.

He’s a dangerous oaf and would beat labour in an election.He got voted London mayor let’s not forget. Don’t underestimate the stupidity of joe public. Brexit party ffs

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[tsubaki]

I can’t agree. Look what’s happened in the states. People like Bush jr and McCain are now held up as paragons of virtue when compared to Trump. The perception of centre politics will shift further right.

He’s a dangerous oaf and would beat labour in an election.He got voted London mayor let’s not forget. Don’t underestimate the stupidity of joe public. Brexit party ffs

FWIW McCain was a paragon of virtue when compared to Trump; he was a paragon of virtue when compared to Bush Jr. The world would in all probability be a better place now if he had beaten Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Is

beyond the runway gaff, is she arguing a case for stopping foreign aid for vulnerable people here?!? After this:

How Esther McVey voted on Welfare and Benefits

• Consistently voted for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax") Show votes16 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, between 2012–2018
• Consistently voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices Show votes0 votes for, 5 votes against, in 2013
• Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disabilityShow votes0 votes for, 7 votes against, between 2011–2012
• Generally voted for making local councils responsible for helping those in financial needafford their council taxand reducing the amount spent on such support Show votes2 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, in 2012
• Consistently voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefitsShow votes29 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, between 2012–2015
• Almost always voted against spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed Show votes

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I can’t agree. Look what’s happened in the states. People like Bush jr and McCain are now held up as paragons of virtue when compared to Trump. The perception of centre politics will shift further right.

He’s a dangerous oaf and would beat labour in an election.He got voted London mayor let’s not forget. Don’t underestimate the stupidity of joe public. Brexit party ffs

He is an absolute odious politician, and the whatever he had yesterday announcing the supposed bid and the way Beth Rugby was heckled and booed Kuenssberg was dismissed. Our political system is much different than that of America.

I don't believe Johnson could survive the rigours of an UK election period.

Remember May tried desperately to keep it all about Brexit in 2017, Joe public want other policy when it comes general election and as May found with libertarian values when it came to paying for social care, we are a nation of socialism when harsh realities of costs are confronted.

 

[summerisle]

Who would have thought it ?

 

[summerisle]

I wonder if any politician actually believes what they write.

 

[summerisle]

lol

 

[abelard]

FWIW McCain was a paragon of virtue when compared to Trump; he was a paragon of virtue when compared to Bush Jr. The world would in all probability be a better place now if he had beaten Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries.

Nonsense. McCain was one of the earliest and most vocal champions of war with Iraq (and Iran for that matter), and he voted without fail to expand the surveillance state.

He also consistently voted with Bush on every act of financial deregulation, and at one point suggested that the deregulation of the financial sector should serve as a model for healthcare.

In terms of concrete policy, there is virtually nothing to distinguish him from Bush or Trump.

And on personal level, he was a monster to his family, and indisputably a much worse human being than Bush Jr. His reputation is based on little more than a half-assed cornball nostalgia act, which the American media to this day lazily feeds to credulous liberals desperate to pretend that America remains in essence a rerun of the West Wing.

The fact that American liberals still think of him has some sort of paragon (based almost entirely on the fact that he deigned to flatter journalists) explains a good deal about their systemic political failures.

 

[Walken]

Nonsense. McCain was one of the earliest and most vocal champions of war with Iraq (and Iran for that matter), and he voted without fail to expand the surveillance state.

He also consistently voted with Bush on every act of financial deregulation, and at one point suggested that the deregulation of the financial sector should serve as a model for healthcare.

In terms of concrete policy, there is virtually nothing to distinguish him from Bush or Trump.

And on personal level, he was a monster to his family, and indisputably a much worse human being than Bush Jr. His reputation is based on little more than a half-assed cornball nostalgia act, which the American media to this day lazily feeds to credulous liberals desperate to pretend that America remains in essence a rerun of the West Wing.

The fact that American liberals still think of him has some sort of paragon (based almost entirely on the fact that he deigned to flatter journalists) explains a good deal about their systemic political failures.

Don't forget the Palin factor, it was McCain that introduced this new ultra right wing no substance element into the mainstream