Stop voting for fucking Tories

[tabascoboy]

Jacob Rees Mogg Knighted, Pritti Patel gets a Damehood.


No, you didn't just wake up in Sandshark and Opensides wet dream, this is actually happenning.

And Fabricant

FFS look at these simpering assholes getting honours - or at least nominated. Hopefully some way to stop this abuse of the system

[fishfoodie]

FFS look at these simpering assholes getting honours - or at least nominated. Hopefully some way to stop this abuse of the system

Yeah, roll a Guillotine into Parliament square, & sit an old dear on the steps knitting a stitch for every head that rolls.

The HoL needs to just be purged, & have a proper process for populating your 2nd house.

[Biffer]

I'm OK with a substantially nominated house but it should be fixed term and there should be a range of people doing the nominating.

[fishfoodie]

I'm OK with a substantially nominated house but it should be fixed term and there should be a range of people doing the nominating.

Yeah, I think the combination of nominated, & elected works well, because it allows you to have people in the House for their knowledge & experience, & some people who hopefully bring different viewpoints. I think you can also make terms, say 8 years, so they're decoupled from the regular cycle, & not beholden to the Government of the day.

I'd also have minimum attendance requirements too.

[tabascoboy]

Dorries goooonnneeee, goodbye useless BB groupie

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has announced she is standing down as an MP.

The former culture secretary and close ally of Boris Johnson said she was standing down "with immediate effect" after "something significant" happened to change her mind.

It means there will be a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency, where she has a majority of 24,664.

Ms Dorries had already said she would not stand at the next general election.

It came ahead of the publication of Mr Johnson's resignation honours list.

Ms Dorries had been expected to be nominated for an honour, but she was not included on the list.

[Biffer]

I'm OK with a substantially nominated house but it should be fixed term and there should be a range of people doing the nominating.

Yeah, I think the combination of nominated, & elected works well, because it allows you to have people in the House for their knowledge & experience, & some people who hopefully bring different viewpoints. I think you can also make terms, say 8 years, so they're decoupled from the regular cycle, & not beholden to the Government of the day.

I'd also have minimum attendance requirements too.

I'd like to have various societal groups nominating people as well. Trades Union, Business organisations, charities, universities, sporting organisations, many others that might make sense.

[sturginho]

She's finally realised that he doesn't want to shag her and has thrown her toys out of the pram!

[C69]

[geordie_6]

BoJo also steps down with immediate effect.

[salanya]

Boris out too.

Off with Nadine to keep his 'ego' inflated.

Throwing shite all over the shop in his resignation - a slightly more literate version of Trump.

Best riddance.

[Slick]

Hilarious

[sturginho]

Banana monarchy

[fishfoodie]

Boris out too.

Off with Nadine to keep his 'ego' inflated.

Throwing shite all over the shop in his resignation - a slightly more literate version of Trump.

Best riddance.

He got the conclusions of Standards group today; I don't think it's a coincidence

[sturginho]

Boris has gone full Axl Rose




They're out ta get him!

[Tichtheid]

Boris Johnson stepping down as MP with immediate effect and says he is ‘bewildered and appalled’ at being ‘forced out’

Of course he is bewildered and appalled, it's twice now in his entire life that he's had to face the consequences of his actions, the first was being forced from office for lying.

Hopefully he'll face jail time in due course.

[Tichtheid]

'Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavillion and former leader of the Green party, tweeted: “Everyone knew he was not fit to hold public office before he was even an MP. Yet Tories made him their leader & look what happened. Evading scrutiny to the last & choosing to quit just hours after gifting gongs & peerages in atrocious act of patronage & sleaze.

“Entirely predictable that Johnson making baseless accusations that he’s been forced out - he even uses the word “witch-hunt”. Trumpian rubbish. Privileges Cttee has Tory majority. He lied about the most serious of things & was held to account for treating us all with contempt.”'

[sturginho]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

[fishfoodie]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

Maybe change the honours to something appropiate ?

... is there an Order of the Cockgobbler ?

[Hal Jordan]

That's a good point, will sunak rescind the "honours" list?

If he had an ounce of political nous, or his balls weren't locked in his wife's purse.

Meanwhile, Johnson continues his two bob Churchill tribute act, with his own Wilderness Years. Fuck him,the corrupt, lying bastard.

[tabascoboy]

Johnson's resignation tonight has unleashed familiar Tory factions into the open again.

Another unhappy Tory, Brendan Clarke-Smith, tweets: “Tonight we saw the end result of a parliamentary witch-hunt which would put a banana republic to shame.

"If you’d thought we’d seen the back of Tory civil war, tonight may have reopened that can of worms."

Wait a mo, just off to get my popcorn

[ASMO]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

[GogLais]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

[Tichtheid]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

That is terrific

[Biffer]

Whoever made this....hats off, superb

That's fantastic.

[Insane_Homer]

Bojo gone!
Happy days. Jail next.

[JM2K6]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

Yup. Plenty to criticise Labour for but these attacks on plans being subject to financial and political reality are just silly.

[tabascoboy]

[sockwithaticket]

[Rhubarb & Custard]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

[fishfoodie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65853872

Labour in watering down policy shock.

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

But that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.

[GogLais]

Another one gone now, some Nigel from Yorkshire.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Surely you can’t sensibly spend £28bn in year one anyway on infrastructure. What about approvals, planning and design?

And they'll need various supply chains to ramp up.

Possibly where they've erred here is how they've previously touted this policy, but there's also at some point they're going to take hits for something. And in truth if this is what they're being hit for it'll be like being whacked with a feather

Some detail around how they'll escalate wouldn't go amiss, both from a point of view of how the policy will be delivered and a much needed shift from the Tories saying we can't tell you it's a secret ploy

But that's the point isn't it ?, as soon as they give detail, the Tories will just increase the numbers & claim it as their own.

Building consensus to deliver on policy isn't a bad thing. Not that one suspects that would happen, and there'd still be the Tories couldn't plan their way out of a sodden paper bag

[C69]

So all 3 by elections have Labour in 2nd place
However I suspect that Starmer will target Selby and Uxbridge and not bother with Nads posher constituency
Obviously on the qt

Open warfare atm with apparently a few more resignations to come in the next 72 hours.
It's the slow death of the Tories. Starmer needs to be grey, he needs to e boring and he needs to do nothing at all.

[tabascoboy]

This about sums it up, gets ever closer to 'The Thick of It'

[Biffer]

So all 3 by elections have Labour in 2nd place
However I suspect that Starmer will target Selby and Uxbridge and not bother with Nads posher constituency
Obviously on the qt

Open warfare atm with apparently a few more resignations to come in the next 72 hours.
It's the slow death of the Tories. Starmer needs to be grey, he needs to e boring and he needs to do nothing at all.

Yeah, a few more and you end up with a general election dry run of 6 or 8 elections, all Tory seats, on the same day, labour targeting some, Lib Dems the others. If they lost 6 they’d be down to a working majority of 52 I think.

[Insane_Homer]

Brace yourselves for the Full English Potential Party (FEPP) announcement later this week.

Surprised JRM hasn't dropped out yet.

[tabascoboy]

Tory donor Brexit backer in trouble... (allegedly) and only to happy to profit from failure

Crispin Odey: City boss quits firm after sexual misconduct claims

A City financier is leaving the company he founded after sexual harassment allegations.

Crispin Odey's departure from Odey Asset Management follows a Financial Times report that 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or assault over 25 years.

Mr Odey strenuously denies the claims and told the paper they were "rubbish".

In a statement the hedge fund said it took "all allegations of misconduct extremely seriously".

For more than three decades Mr Odey had been at the helm of the hedge fund he founded in 1991 - at its peak the firm managed more than £10bn worth of investments.

Mr Odey, a prominent Brexit backer, claimed to have made hundreds of millions of pounds as sterling plummeted in the aftermath of the referendum vote.

On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the allegations dated back to 1998 and the latest alleged incident was in December 2021.

Mr Odey said this week that "none of the allegations have been stood up in a courtroom or an investigation".

A statement from Odey Asset Management executive on Saturday confirmed that Mr Odey would be leaving.

"As from today, he will no longer have any economic or personal involvement in the partnership," it said.

"Odey Asset Management Group Ltd will also cease to be a member and the partnership will now be owned and controlled by the remaining partners and managed as an independent legal entity."

The executive committee said the firm's policies and procedures "have been followed at all times".

"The firm has been investigating allegations concerning Mr Odey, but the firm cannot comment in detail as it is bound by legal obligations of confidentiality."

Odey Asset Management said it had been "fully transparent" with the regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and would contact clients over the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65866895

[petej]

Brace yourselves for the Full English Potential Party (FEPP) announcement later this week.

Surprised JRM hasn't dropped out yet.

That would be interesting with fptp. Split the tory vote.

[Biffer]

Lots of senior Tories making noises about banning Johnson from standing as a candidate.

[fishfoodie]

Lots of senior Tories making noises about banning Johnson from standing as a candidate.

I heard that if he does stand again, the >10 day sanction will still apply, so if he wins, he'll still face the recall vote, & you could have the ridiculous situation where there are 2x votes in a row

Possibly the only true thing the orange traitor ever said is that the BB is "Englands Trump !"

He's a toxic agent of chaos, & I'm delighted to see him destroy the Tory party; they deserve each other !