about time, I'm sick of living in this Pac-Man maze
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
whatever you could throw at Tories in the past I don't think they were ever this stoopid.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
The government has been pretty clever in tabling the Domestic Abuse Bill on Wednesday. The opposition aren't going to want to vote that down, so it doesn't matter if half of all Tory MPs are in Manchester for Boris Johnson's speech.— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) September 30, 2019
there won't a vonc this week then
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Eventually, Gove knifes everyone. https://t.co/k1cFEeCC1b— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) September 30, 2019
Gove scheming to take out Cummings and Boris?
While Cummings deeply unpopular with Tory MPs, there’s also a growing recognition - not just from more soft/remain ToryMPs - that Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Internal Tory polling shows Johnson now toxic with young/London/Liberals (this was known) but that his image now going into decline in “Brexit friendly” northern/midland seats, too.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
they should have listened to me and not tom d
― mark s, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
You love to RT it.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
> Boris Johnson may not be the electoral asset they thought in the summer.
and gove is?
― koogs, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Whither Hunt?
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Monday, 30 September 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
meanwhile here's today's weather: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFsv8oDXoAEp8_P?format=png
― mark s, Monday, 30 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
(xxp) Not sure I believe any of that tbh.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
it does read a bit like wishful thinking rather than In The Know, it would sound rather more credible if it mentioned Gove was plotting this coup between gulps of single malt and permanently pukingly drunk.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
love this talk of "levelling up" the country, straight out of the Cummings playbook
don't think you need a focus group to work out that Johnson is probably going to be losing favour with all but the rawest of gammons
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
“going into decline”
p sure everyone outside the M25 (and a fair few inside) have BJ’s number - not convinced he is a winner
― stoffle (||||||||), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
the republicans had years (and a much more pliant media) to tea party large parts of their electoral base - looks like the tories’ activist base have been successfully radicalised but not sure that trend has been mirrored in the wider country
― stoffle (||||||||), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
It's also a big If as to whether or not they've had managed it with anyone who wasn't Trump.
The big flaw in the whole cunning Boris plan is that this is the approach that blew a hole in May's election, it isn't going to work dialed up to 10 and with a few spending announcements that no one believes anyway.
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Also the US isn't divided on age in the same way as UK is.
― anvil, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Last time out the Tories pulled similar %s among BAME voters to Trump. So who’s got the lowest % of female votes in history?
Andrea Jenkyns says she’s supporting @eleanor4epping for Speaker - “she’s into a lot of these women’s rights, which I’m not, I believe in meritocracy” and because she can “pull a lot of the left vote”— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) September 30, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
If you look at 2015 & 2017 voting, female and BAME votes were critical when it came to winning Cameron’s majority, but 2015 Tories went from winning the majority to female voters to being behind in almost all working age groups. Interesting too that AB men voted 50-34 Con to Lab, but the gap for women in the same group was only 43-40.
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
lol
Cleverly says he was wincing during the Labour conference and thought: "Please make it stop."Blanchard: "You did make it stop by losing in the Supreme Court."— Emilio Casalicchio (@e_casalicchio) September 30, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
At last one brave Tory has dug up the corpse of Alan Clark to defend Johnson's wanderin' hands.
"How do I know my advances have been unwanted until I've made them?"
Congratulations Alex Deane (@ajcdeane) for making me and @ayeshahazarika absolutely sick.I've heard a lot of "excuses" for sexual harassment in my day but this... pic.twitter.com/WojP31s9tp— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) September 30, 2019
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Why the fuck do they get these non-entities to talk about anything? This guy's big moment was being Cameron's "chief of staff" (hollow lol) at education for 8 months in 2005.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Sleeping Tories at conference.#SleepingTories #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/o0PmSoSRPf— David (@IwantJC4PM) September 29, 2019
#SleepingTories #CPC2019 #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/EB9jl3tmUN— David (@IwantJC4PM) September 30, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Esther McVey is telling Tory conference about “3D architects” who are “doing it on a computer”. I don’t know much about the process of designing buildings but I thought that was quite normal, especially the 3D element 🏠— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) September 30, 2019
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 September 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
That utter dumbshit has never heard of AutoCAD.
― coup de twat (suzy), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Looks like the actual McVey video hasn't been posted on here, it has to be seen to be believed.
Confirmation. We are governed by idiots. pic.twitter.com/ReBlj3ZrH3— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 30, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
that was amazing!
the mention of Alan Clark brings back memories of his wife saying "he shouldn't have slept with below stairs people" after his screwing around brought him trouble
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
how thick do have to be to be a government minister these days?
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
Surely somebody sat down and wrote that speech of McVey's - maybe on a computer - and at least read it back before they gave it to her?
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
yep and maybe they hate her and know she's thick enough to stick the script!
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
once an anchor
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
can he request the extension on parliament's behalf i.e. not sign the letter from himself personally?
― stoffle (||||||||), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Calz, the attitude that non-U women are undeserving of respect is mainly kept alive by Tory wives.
All the people I know of with Boris stories are posher than him. A few of them don't wish to come forward because of the embarrassment it would cause to family members.
― coup de twat (suzy), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
yeah I think the women Clark's wife was referring to was from an upper middle class South African family and her husband was a top solicitor - but still below stairs to the landed gentry.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
this is just sketchy memories from some tabloid report 20 odd years ago, so the general jist of it ftr
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Clark wasn't the landed gentry, his ancestors were weavers from Paisley one of whom invented the cotton spool and thereafter made a fortune from having 12 year olds working 16 hours a day in his mills.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
The town hall in Paisley is named after one of his horrible bastard family.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
I should have known that, to my shame (it came with some book club bundle) for a few years I had an edition of the Alan Clark Dairies in my bathroom pile of on the crapper reading, he was an absolute bell end. My favourite passage was where he nearly drowned in the Falkland Islands, although I think that was 90% self-dramatising bullshit.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
He was just milking it by that point..
― Mark G, Monday, 30 September 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
not so great beast Crowley gone
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/30/veteran-boris-johnson-aide-quits-as-downing-street-adviser
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Crowley was research director and then political director of Johnson’s London mayoral election campaigns in 2008 and 2012. He wrote Victory in London about Johnson’s political rise, which at one point describes how at “particularly stressful moments” the future prime minister would disappear and hide behind a giant coffin in a prop store.
― calzino, Monday, 30 September 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
40* new** hospitals + £220m for buses + broadband... is the conservative party's "compelling new vision" calibrated to help them pass the "lift test" according to some talking head on newsnight
― stoffle (||||||||), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
def agree the country wants brexit done - I want to be done w/brexit. would rather drink bleach than vote conservative but
― stoffle (||||||||), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
We’ve been doing Brexit for 40 years will be doing Brexit long after we’re all dead.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFvv7roXoAERsTI?format=jpg&name=small
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
Big fan of the alarmed eye and the way NI is just freefloating
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Also the Cornwall-munching carp, or is it a shark?
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRW5z0XHt0
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03heSW9WXak
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
so no serious proposals on border in the latest timewasting effort then
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link