BFTD Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 The cherry on the top of the Eighties/Nineties Tory era was the eventual revelation that John Major was banging Edwina Currie. Everyone around him indulging in Bacchanalian orgies of every variety, and Mr Grey of Family Values fame decides to partake in some queasy socks-on adultery with the Conservative Party's embarrassing answer to Jackie Collins. Depressing and nauseating at the same time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Noticeable no mention of any SNP peccadillos but they’re not as funny or as entertaining as the Tory ones. One that comes to mind was the minister (his name escapes me) who had a thing for doing it whilst wearing a Chelsea strip. Just remembered - David Mellor. That is class. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Noticeable no mention of any SNP peccadillos but they’re not as funny or as entertaining as the Tory ones. One that comes to mind was the minister (his name escapes me) who had a thing for doing it whilst wearing a Chelsea strip. Just remembered - David Mellor. That is class. That would be like comparing apples and oranges. If you don't believe me, just ask Stephen Milligan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Also, this is the Tory lies, corruption, and hypocrisy thread. And Tory sleaze stopped being funny sometime after the 1992 election. Perhaps another thread for all the other parties would be worthwhile, but the Tories need one of their own. Anyone else's would be drowned out in a single thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 3 hours ago, BFTD said: The cherry on the top of the Eighties/Nineties Tory era was the eventual revelation that John Major was banging Edwina Currie. Everyone around him indulging in Bacchanalian orgies of every variety, and Mr Grey of Family Values fame decides to partake in some queasy socks-on adultery with the Conservative Party's embarrassing answer to Jackie Collins. Depressing and nauseating at the same time. I recall Major saying that he lost his virginity to an older women in his street, did we need to know that? and then didn't Currie have an egg fiasco which saw her lose her job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 1 minute ago, SandyCromarty said: I recall Major saying that he lost his virginity to an older women in his street, did we need to know that? and then didn't Currie have an egg fiasco which saw her lose her job. The egg thing was in Maggie Fatcher's cabinet, when she decided to announce that all eggs were filled with deadly salmonella, then acted surprised when the sales of eggs tanked. Nothing to do with the kind of eggs you might expect a horny old Tory MP to have been involved with. I don't remember that story about Major, and could quite happily have remained ignorant of it. I do remember some people wondering how he ended up in the Tory Party, however, and I think that probably helps to answer that question. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 1 minute ago, BFTD said: The egg thing was in Maggie Fatcher's cabinet, when she decided to announce that all eggs were filled with deadly salmonella, then acted surprised when the sales of eggs tanked. Nothing to do with the kind of eggs you might expect a horny old Tory MP to have been involved with. I don't remember that story about Major, and could quite happily have remained ignorant of it. I do remember some people wondering how he ended up in the Tory Party, however, and I think that probably helps to answer that question. Yes John Major had an early working class background, didn't his Dad have a stage act? Maggie Thatcher's dad had a shop and Douglas Ross's father was a cattleman, there seems to be an attraction for the tories for a certain type of people. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't John Major get rid of the Royal Yacht and was he PM when Windsor Castle, owned outright by the Queen, went on fire and she asked the government to pay for the repairs and he answered we will if you start paying tax. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 43 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said: Yes John Major had an early working class background, didn't his Dad have a stage act? Maggie Thatcher's dad had a shop and Douglas Ross's father was a cattleman, there seems to be an attraction for the tories for a certain type of people. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't John Major get rid of the Royal Yacht and was he PM when Windsor Castle, owned outright by the Queen, went on fire and she asked the government to pay for the repairs and he answered we will if you start paying tax. From my limited knowledge of politics from that time period (was born in 94 so bit before me), Major comes across as an almost "okay" tory. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, SweeperDee said: From my limited knowledge of politics from that time period (was born in 94 so bit before me), Major comes across as an almost "okay" tory. He was about as close as they get to a human being. But it's all relative. He'll still get a semi every time he sees pictures of a foodbank queue. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Horny Tory Alert. Ross Thomson and this guy should get together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 He was about as close as they get to a human being. But it's all relative. He'll still get a semi every time he sees pictures of a foodbank queue.He also said during the recession "If it isn't hurting, it isn't working". All Tories are fucking vermin. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Just now, Day of the Lords said: He also said during the recession "If it isn't hurting, it isn't working". All Tories are fucking vermin. Oh aye, I mind that now. He did like a catchphrase, thinking about it. Folk like Major and Thatcher must have grown up detesting the people around them for being too lazy to be rich. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, BFTD said: Oh aye, I mind that now. He did like a catchphrase, thinking about it. Folk like Major and Thatcher must have grown up detesting the people around them for being too lazy to be rich. His best ... When your back is against the wall, there is one thing to do and that is turn around and fight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Tories aren't human. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Tories aren't human. They really are a nonentity politically in Scotland, 5 MSP's first past the post last week sums it up. Ross will big it up in Holyrood to give the impression of power, but to what effect, they can change or demand nothing as they will be outvoted at every turn for the next five years. As much use as an inflatable dartboard. Edited May 17, 2021 by SandyCromarty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 On 16/05/2021 at 16:40, SweeperDee said: From my limited knowledge of politics from that time period (was born in 94 so bit before me), Major comes across as an almost "okay" tory. He's not a Lex Luthor level baddie like Thatcher nor an aristocratic buffoon like the 2010 onwards cohort. He was a petit bourgeois shill for the interests of capital though. I most remember him for the (as it turns out extremely hypocritical) moralising Back to Basics campaign which, in my mind anyway, focused on punishing single mothers through the benefit system for being single mothers. He exemplified the banality of evil. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utter Roaster Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Ah, 'Back to Basics'. The inspiration for this, I believe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Proper dog ate my homework levels of excuse here. You really have to say fair play, they treat the public like fucking morons, because we are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 48 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: Proper dog ate my homework levels of excuse here. You really have to say fair play, they treat the public like fucking morons, because we are. I think the most restrained response I can make to that after a couple of wee drinkies is "Away and lie in yer ain pish". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pikey Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Only 10 pages? , i am suprised. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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