The Telegraph may have got a bit more conservative again recently, but it’s still full of enemy hostiles — consider, for example, this piece of incredibly biased reporting over the incident where Mark Field prevented a protester from getting past him: Mark Field, a Foreign Office minister and the local MP, lost his temper, enraged […]
There are suddenly a rash of determined and blatant media efforts to portray Boris Johnson as unstable — for example: And he is said to be so disturbed about his divorce from Marina there have been questions raised about his fitness to run the country. One pal said: “He is yearning for Marina and […]
Why on Earth does the Conservative Party allow hostile, left-wing TV channels like Channel 4 and the BBC to be in charge of running their leadership debates? It’s their party, they should set up their own debates and tell the TV channels they’re free to broadcast them if they wish. Or even just bypass the […]
Some people wanted a Boris coronation to save the pointlessness of a month run-off between Boris and Hunt, when it’s obvious Boris will win. I can see one advantage of that — getting Theresa May out of office before she does any more damage. Others want the party hustings to take place in order that […]
So now that Rod Stewart, aka Rory Stewart, has been eliminated from the Conservative Party leadership race, he can go on to the next stage of his career, which is to constantly appear on those political TV shows — namely, all of them — which love to give a platform to disaffected Conservative MPs criticising […]
Martin, an empathetic, touchy-feely defender of Rory Stewart reaches out in the comments to heal the divide: “You won’t like Rory when he’s angry. Actually, you won’t like him when he’s not angry either, as he’s a prancing ninny.” What a pathetic caption , fuck off Social media
There’s a certain influential section of the middle class that longs for spiritual authority figures to take control of our messy lives and ‘heal’ us all. But as traditional religion has waned in recent decades, politicians are more than ever filling that space. Barack Obama was the most obvious such figure of recent years, with […]
Disappointing rumour from the Telegraph: As many as one third of Theresa May’s top team could be replaced by a new cadre of rising star politicians being lined up to sit in a Boris Johnson Cabinet. A third is the number that should be kicked out of the party, not just out of cabinet. The […]
This was the Speccie’s article on the figure on the bus in 2017: The £350m line on the Brexit bus was wrong. The real figure is higher The most regular attack-line used against leading Brexiteers is that they misled the public over how much money could be used to fund the NHS if […]
The Conservatives’ current head-in-the-sand mentality reminds me a lot of what happens sometimes when people are in a club, and the club becomes so big and important in their lives that everything is measured against it, and success means doing well in the club. If you become president of the club, for example, then you […]
1922 executive committee is considering changing the rules again: Tory chiefs are considering changing party rules to prevent so many candidates standing in the race to succeed Theresa May … The Conservative party board – its governing body – and the 1922 executive committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss raising the number of […]
The LibDems, until recently as useless as ever, will be getting all excited about this poll: Westminster voting intention: LDem: 24% (+6)Brex: 22% (+4)Con: 19% (-5)Lab: 19% (-5)Grn: 8% (+2) via @YouGovChgs. w/ 17 May — Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 30, 2019 They may be thinking that they can replace Labour as the prime left-of-centre […]
So are we ever going to find out what the Conservative’s 1922 committee decided on the leadership rule changes? If they’ve taken a vote to change the rules, shouldn’t that be enacted regardless of the situation with Theresa May? Social media
Rory Stewart is in my front room asking me questions in Arabic, and he won’t leave. Please send help. The children are terrified of him. Update: One thing I’ve discovered from our little chat is that Rory’s full name is Roderick James Nugent Stewart. That means that really we should be calling him Rod Stewart. […]
Rory Stewart currently has the ‘liberal media’ swooning over him and his cute little videos, such as this one: Now in Lewisham Market – a safe Labour seat – but a seat we held in the 1980s. Come and talk #GetBritainTalking #commonground #Rory4Leader pic.twitter.com/2xgYEE20vg — Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) May 28, 2019 It’s been noted, correctly, […]
As Theresa May escapes from the Downing St roof in a helicopter, I look forward to the new Tory leadership team betraying Brexit in their own way. They’ll have learned from May’s mistakes, and I expect they’ll do a much better job of disguising a steaming pile of crap and getting it past their MPs. […]
I have long said that in the current situation the Prime Minister can force a No Deal Brexit if he or she wants, regardless of what Parliament thinks. In this I differ from many commentators who insist that this is impossible because Parliament can stop it. This short article from the Institute of Government agrees […]
It would have been difficult enough for a highly-competent and beloved party to survive betraying Brexit. The idea that the Conservatives, a party which is both incompetent and widely disliked by its own voters, could survive it is just not credible. They’re finished. Let’s hammer them tomorrow. Social media
Forget the headlines about the men in the grey suits finally coming for Theresa May. She’s fudged the whole thing, with their connivance, because they’re all terrified of doing anything definite. Just ask yourself this question. Have the 1922 committee changed the party rules to allow a leadership challenge? Answer: No. Then ask yourself this […]
In an amazing new scientific finding, it has been discovered that Conservative MPs perceive time slower than everyone else. Social media