Stop voting for fucking Tories

[C69]

There is open warfare atm in the Tory Party.
They need to schism

[fishfoodie]

There is open warfare atm in the Tory Party.
They need to schism

Previously, they've always been able to hold together the Euro-sceptics, versus the pragmatic MPs, & it was always Labour that had cancers like Momentum destroying their chances before the Electorate.

The question is can they work it out before the GE is called, or do they just go off & lick their wounds, secure in the knowledge they've fucked the economy, the NHS, Farming, Manufacturing & Trade; but at least the disaster capitalists are doing well !!!

Labour will come in & do the triage, & then the Tories will promise tax cuts, because that's what they do, & bye, bye Labour !!

[SaintK]

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

Odious Odey has been "at it" for years. Private Eye first raised his activities 20 odd years ago and he has spent thousands upon thousands of pounds on lawyers trying to keep a lid on all the accusations over that preiod
A horrible cunt of a man

[GogLais]

I get it that people resign from Government for good reasons sometimes and that Johnson certainly had to go. But the other two? As far as I know they’ve put their constituencies to the time and trouble of a by-election for reasons of personal pique. They should send them the bill.

[Line6 HXFX]

Dominic Grieve is doing the rounds saying stuff like there is a amenable, patriarchal nice tory party that needs to come to the fore.



You remember..the amiable, nice patriarchal tory party? The one that killed 330 thousand brits because of austerity and magical thinking, sent millions to foodbanks and terrorised millions more through vicious welfare reforms?


The stuff Rory Stewart voted for, the policies that harmed millions, and that lead to millions amd millions actually voting for Brexit, in a seriously understandable act of "fuck it".

His voting record is just Ghastly.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10243 ... tes#social

[fishfoodie]

The prime minister’s trade envoy to Mongolia lobbied the Electoral Commission to permit a £10,000 donation to his party association from a “Mongolian friend”, documents reveal.

Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, contacted the independent electoral watchdog on 20 April, days after his return from a week-long trip to Mongolia in his role as trade envoy, accompanied by the UK ambassador.

Kawczynski said the “Mongolian friend” was “a personal contact, and was separate to my role as an envoy” He declined to identify the would-be donor and said he travelled to Mongolia on a regular basis in a personal capacity as well as in his role as trade envoy.

He told the commission he did “not understand why British passport holders should be treated differently from foreign passport holders when it comes to political parties” and requested a meeting at the House of Commons with the watchdog’s chief executive, Shaun McNally, to discuss his “concerns” on the longstanding political finance rules banning donations from overseas donors.

...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ian-friend

[tabascoboy]

Christ alive, can you imagine what this shower of shite would be? Although if it did help split the Tories some benefit might come of it

Not putting a link as I'm sure we've seen enough of Farage's twunt face to last several lifetimes

Nigel Farage tells @bbclaurak that ten or more Conservative MPs are prepared to join him in a new party.

[fishfoodie]

Christ alive, can you imagine what this shower of shite would be? Although if it did help split the Tories some benefit might come of it

Not putting a link as I'm sure we've seen enough of Farage's twunt face to last several lifetimes

Nigel Farage tells @bbclaurak that ten or more Conservative MPs are prepared to join him in a new party.

It'd be less of a split, than an excising, as it would remove a large part of the ERG.

I doubt any Tory leader would be heart broken at losing the likes of Penfold, or Andrea Jenkyns, or Andrew Bridgen ?

Ten less shit stirrers who'll just lose the election anyway can only be a positive.

[petej]

Dominic Grieve is doing the rounds saying stuff like there is a amenable, patriarchal nice tory party that needs to come to the fore.



You remember..the amiable, nice patriarchal tory party? The one that killed 330 thousand brits because of austerity and magical thinking, sent millions to foodbanks and terrorised millions more through vicious welfare reforms?


The stuff Rory Stewart voted for, the policies that harmed millions, and that lead to millions amd millions actually voting for Brexit, in a seriously understandable act of "fuck it".

His voting record is just Ghastly.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10243 ... tes#social

Voting records are pretty pointless to look at with our party system. Grieve and Stewart who represented that side were booted so the patriarchal tory party doesn't exist.

People voted for brexit on the back of lies from some of our politicians and the propaganda of media barons and putin's information warfare (insufficiently investigated by ourselves due to the government burying its head in the sand with the public mostly blissfully ignorant).

Edit: starmer and some others are at the sunken cost fallacy stage with brexit.

[Ymx]

Good riddance to bad rubbish

[Tichtheid]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.


Apparently her mother was divorced from Boris Johnson just before Charlotte was born.

[Slick]

The prime minister’s trade envoy to Mongolia lobbied the Electoral Commission to permit a £10,000 donation to his party association from a “Mongolian friend”, documents reveal.

Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, contacted the independent electoral watchdog on 20 April, days after his return from a week-long trip to Mongolia in his role as trade envoy, accompanied by the UK ambassador.

Kawczynski said the “Mongolian friend” was “a personal contact, and was separate to my role as an envoy” He declined to identify the would-be donor and said he travelled to Mongolia on a regular basis in a personal capacity as well as in his role as trade envoy.

He told the commission he did “not understand why British passport holders should be treated differently from foreign passport holders when it comes to political parties” and requested a meeting at the House of Commons with the watchdog’s chief executive, Shaun McNally, to discuss his “concerns” on the longstanding political finance rules banning donations from overseas donors.

...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ian-friend

Private Eye turn up a constant stream of shite on this guy, I've no idea how he is still an MP

[Mahoney]

Apparently her mother was divorced from Boris Johnson just before Charlotte was born.

Got a link? I can't find anything even vaguely reliable online to suggest Charlotte Owen is the daughter of Allegra Mostyn-Owen.

[Tichtheid]

Apparently her mother was divorced from Boris Johnson just before Charlotte was born.

Got a link? I can't find anything even vaguely reliable online to suggest Charlotte Owen is the daughter of Allegra Mostyn-Owen.

I'm afraid the story I read on her turns out to be bollocks, Mostyn-Owen and Johnson didn't have children together - I retract that part of the post.

[GogLais]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

[fishfoodie]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

The UK is like the US, finding out that the checks & balances they though were in place to stop bad actors from damaging the entire Nation, Just.Don't.Exist !

One malignant cunt can do damage that will take decades to repair, if ever.

[sockwithaticket]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

The UK is like the US, finding out that the checks & balances they though were in place to stop bad actors from damaging the entire Nation, Just.Don't.Exist !

One malignant cunt can do damage that will take decades to repair, if ever.

Yep it's a mixture of:
- too much is run on convention and if someone just decides to ignore convention there's nothing that can be done
- regulatory bodies/committees are toothless and/or those in power can make appointments and thus de-fang them.

[Paddington Bear]

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

The UK is like the US, finding out that the checks & balances they though were in place to stop bad actors from damaging the entire Nation, Just.Don't.Exist !

One malignant cunt can do damage that will take decades to repair, if ever.

Yep it's a mixture of:
- too much is run on convention and if someone just decides to ignore convention there's nothing that can be done
- regulatory bodies/committees are toothless and/or those in power can make appointments and thus de-fang them.

There's nothing new about appointing a political non-entity who shouldn't be there to the Lords, she's just younger than most of them.

[sockwithaticket]

The UK is like the US, finding out that the checks & balances they though were in place to stop bad actors from damaging the entire Nation, Just.Don't.Exist !

One malignant cunt can do damage that will take decades to repair, if ever.

Yep it's a mixture of:
- too much is run on convention and if someone just decides to ignore convention there's nothing that can be done
- regulatory bodies/committees are toothless and/or those in power can make appointments and thus de-fang them.

There's nothing new about appointing a political non-entity who shouldn't be there to the Lords, she's just younger than most of them.

Of course, Lords appointments have been a shitshow since becoming old enough to be politically aware under Labour, although it does seem like the Tories have managed to be even more egregious with it over the last several years, but I was just piggy backing on the generality of fishfoodie's comment.

[C69]

Blue on blue full-scale war

[tabascoboy]

[inactionman]

Christ, we make this cumbersome, don't we.

[Uncle fester]

[fishfoodie]

So if the Government gets it's skates on, it can vote on the sanction & the oaf doesn't get to ignore the disciplinary process ?

[tabascoboy]

The Blob!, the Blob!

Plan for cruise ship to house asylum seekers near Liverpool scrapped
A government source tells Sky News the plan for a giant ship to house hundreds of men seeking asylum has been scrapped after being declined by the port.

A government source has told Sky News the vessel was due to house 500 men seeking asylum in Birkenhead, but that will no longer happen following objections from Peel Ports.

The ship would have been a new, seventh site acquired by the Home Office under controversial plans to start transferring migrants away from hotels in a bid to crack down on illegal immigration.

Peel Ports Group, operator of The Port of Liverpool, said whilst they could provide the berth, "it was dependent on the necessary support from the local agencies".

They told the PA news agency: "Last week, we simply observed that we could not see any conceivable scenario where the local agencies are going to be able to provide the necessary support to make this solution work.

"Peel Ports remains committed to fulfilling its full statutory obligations to provide access to any vessel, provided it can do so safely and securely, and it has the available infrastructure."

[fishfoodie]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

[tabascoboy]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

Same issues at Port of London. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they simply thought you could moor one of these in any port without any other considerations

The Home Office approached the Royal Docks Management Authority (RoDMA) some weeks ago about the possibility of mooring a barge for asylum seekers in the east London docks.

Newham Council and the Metropolitan Police are understood to be opposed to the proposition on safety grounds. RoDMA has raised a formal objection.

[Biffer]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

Same issues at Port of London. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they simply thought you could moor one of these in any port without any other considerations

The Home Office approached the Royal Docks Management Authority (RoDMA) some weeks ago about the possibility of mooring a barge for asylum seekers in the east London docks.

Newham Council and the Metropolitan Police are understood to be opposed to the proposition on safety grounds. RoDMA has raised a formal objection.

Exactly. It's a 'little people' problem, I've had the idea, you little people need to make it work or it's your fault it failed, can't be that my idea was shit because I'm self evidently brilliant.

[Slick]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

Same issues at Port of London. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they simply thought you could moor one of these in any port without any other considerations

The Home Office approached the Royal Docks Management Authority (RoDMA) some weeks ago about the possibility of mooring a barge for asylum seekers in the east London docks.

Newham Council and the Metropolitan Police are understood to be opposed to the proposition on safety grounds. RoDMA has raised a formal objection.

Exactly. It's a 'little people' problem, I've had the idea, you little people need to make it work or it's your fault it failed, can't be that my idea was shit because I'm self evidently brilliant.

Sounds familiar

[fishfoodie]

Same issues at Port of London. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they simply thought you could moor one of these in any port without any other considerations

Exactly. It's a 'little people' problem, I've had the idea, you little people need to make it work or it's your fault it failed, can't be that my idea was shit because I'm self evidently brilliant.

Sounds familiar

Ooh yeah !

I used to call it, doing a Picard.

[sturginho]

You'll recall that Picard would say "make it so" after Data and Geordi had told him what their solution was

[GogLais]

The Blob!, the Blob!

Plan for cruise ship to house asylum seekers near Liverpool scrapped
A government source tells Sky News the plan for a giant ship to house hundreds of men seeking asylum has been scrapped after being declined by the port.

A government source has told Sky News the vessel was due to house 500 men seeking asylum in Birkenhead, but that will no longer happen following objections from Peel Ports.

The ship would have been a new, seventh site acquired by the Home Office under controversial plans to start transferring migrants away from hotels in a bid to crack down on illegal immigration.

Peel Ports Group, operator of The Port of Liverpool, said whilst they could provide the berth, "it was dependent on the necessary support from the local agencies".

They told the PA news agency: "Last week, we simply observed that we could not see any conceivable scenario where the local agencies are going to be able to provide the necessary support to make this solution work.

"Peel Ports remains committed to fulfilling its full statutory obligations to provide access to any vessel, provided it can do so safely and securely, and it has the available infrastructure."

Stick them in Birkenhead Docklands and they’ll be on the small boats to Ireland soon enough. Job done.

[tabascoboy]

You'll recall that Picard would say "make it so" after Data and Geordi had told him what their solution was

Which usually seemed to involve doing something hopelessly dangerous with the plasma conduits and warp core, an option that Tories would no doubt suggest unironically if a SPAD told them to

[fishfoodie]

You'll recall that Picard would say "make it so" after Data and Geordi had told him what their solution was

Which usually seemed to involve doing something hopelessly dangerous with the plasma conduits and warp core, an option that Tories would no doubt suggest unironically if a SPAD told them to

and then when it all goes tits up !

[Hal Jordan]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

You say piss away, they say a successful transfer of public money to a donor's pockets.

Stuff property or the markets, the best returns can be had investing in the Conservative Party.

[fishfoodie]

How much money did Cruella piss away on this latest moronic idea ?

You say piss away, they say a successful transfer of public money to a donor's pockets.

Stuff property or the markets, the best returns can be had investing in the Conservative Party.

Forgive me, I should have said, "spaffed up the wall"

[C69]

Looking forward to today's Tory schism show.
The gloves are off now wind them up and watch them go.
Hopefully the privileges committee will also implicate other Tory scum and some alleged law breaking.

Blue on blue carnage.

[dabooldawg]

Doesn't the tory party have more milfs in their ranks?

[I like neeps]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

If the PM can't give their illegitimate child a life peerage and cushy career what kind of country have we become indeed. Aristocracy (your family holding positions of power remember) is the backbone of this country.

[Lobby]

From Wiki


Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen (born 1993)[1][2] is a British former special adviser.[3] In June 2023 it was announced that she was to be granted a life peerage in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[4] Owen will be the youngest life peer in British history.[5]

Owen graduated from the University of York in 2015, gaining a 2:1 in Politics and International Relations.[6] She is not known to have any formal professional qualifications or experience of work. She worked as an intern and parliamentary assistant, before joining the 'Number 10' Political Unit as a special adviser in an unknown role under successive prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.[7] [8] In her special adviser role, Owen worked 50% for Boris Johnson, and 50% for the Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Heaton-Harris. At the time, there was much speculation given her modest achievements, as to what significant contribution to British society was made to justify the ennoblement.

Dear God, what have we become? It just seems impossible to change anything for the better. How have we got to a situation where one person, discredited or otherwise, can choose people that might be in Parliament for the next sixty years? I was pretty pissed off when Botham got a seat in the HoL.

If the PM can't give their illegitimate child a life peerage and cushy career what kind of country have we become indeed. Aristocracy (your family holding positions of power remember) is the backbone of this country.

Except in this case Boris doesn't appear to have that excuse for giving her a life peerage as there is no evidence she is related to him. Perhaps she is the latest young blonde to give him computer lessons?