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[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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I hope she/he loses its deposit.Just about to post this as well
You
Could
Not
Make
This
Up
FFS.
Since1982
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Does nobody in the Tory Party ever stop for a second and say to themselves "I wonder what that might look like to the average voter?". Thought the same listening to Sunak this morning.Peter Bone's replacement Tory candidate for the upcoming by-election ?
.. his girlfriend.
Disgraced ex-Tory MP Peter Bone's partner chosen to run as his replacement in Wellingborough by-election
Helen Harrison, who is a councillor in the area, will try to win Mr Bone's seat. She has unsuccessfully stood to be a Conservative MP previously.news.sky.com
clapham_gull
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Do you want her to stay or go ?
Stay of course ( if she wants to), why are you asking?
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Are you a Peter Bone fan?
Silverhatch
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Sunak is an extremely slimy ****
clapham_gull
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Boner has denied the report in Sunday Times that revealed he has threatened to stand as independent if his
His wife (I presume they are still married) was at one point the highest paid close relative paid by Parliament.
No, more of a Rag and Bone man, next silly question
clapham_gull
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PM urged to suspend whip from pensions minister accused of misusing taxpayer funds
Paul Maynard under investigation by MPs’ expenses watchdog over claims he charged taxpayers for political campaign services
www.theguardian.com
Dobbed in by the local party apparently. Allegedly claiming campaign funds from parliament.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
When the grown ups were in charge, people like Peter Bone were confined to the back benches in parliament dribbling on about sovereignty, foreigners and harping on about going back to how things used to be in the good old days. Do you regret aligning yourself vote wise with people like him, or was he on the right side of history with it all?No, more of a Rag and Bone man, next silly question
Do I regret my voting choices in the past, absolutely not, do I think this Bone chap is an idiot yes I do
clapham_gull
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However bad it is under this lot, the world would be a far worse place without Sir Michael Take
(The former Conservative MP for Dorset East)
(The former Conservative MP for Dorset East)
According to the Guardian live politics blog:
Sunak is doing his first major pre-campaign event today, and will apparently during that event say something to the effect of: "The choice is whether we stick with the plan that is starting to deliver the long-term change our country needs, or go back to square one with the Labour party."
I think the problem Sunak has with taking that particular campaign message is that an awful lot of voters probably think that "going back to square one" is exactly what the country needs. A full reset after the chaotic mess the Tories have created, from which Labour can set us on the pathway to a viable future-facing economy.
Sunak is doing his first major pre-campaign event today, and will apparently during that event say something to the effect of: "The choice is whether we stick with the plan that is starting to deliver the long-term change our country needs, or go back to square one with the Labour party."
I think the problem Sunak has with taking that particular campaign message is that an awful lot of voters probably think that "going back to square one" is exactly what the country needs. A full reset after the chaotic mess the Tories have created, from which Labour can set us on the pathway to a viable future-facing economy.
nicko31
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The Tories have been delivering long term change since 2015, the problem is its also long term decline.
Which a Tory MP has come out and said over the weekend. Sunak's in a spot of bother this week if there's any journos who feel like making him squirm.
Stato
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Contrary to popular belief the phrase 'Going back to Square One' doesn't orignate in radio broadcasts of football matches. The grid system used rectangles, not squares and 'square' one wasn't the goalkeeper, but just the left side of the defensive area of one of the teams. It doesn't make sense as an automatic starting point and, if it had been used by commentators (which there is no recorded evidence that it ever was), they would have also had to introduce the phrases 'back to Square Two, Square Seven or Square Eight' depending on which team had the ball and on which side of the pitch.
The first recorded written use comes some years later and is in an article that uses a snakes and ladders metaphor to exemplify progress being lost.
That puts the kibosh on my plan to suggest that RDZ's tactics show that significant progress can be made by going back, so instead I'll just link to 'Here it is Take it' by that greatest of lost eighties bands That Petrol Emotion:
The first recorded written use comes some years later and is in an article that uses a snakes and ladders metaphor to exemplify progress being lost.
That puts the kibosh on my plan to suggest that RDZ's tactics show that significant progress can be made by going back, so instead I'll just link to 'Here it is Take it' by that greatest of lost eighties bands That Petrol Emotion:
