Who will be the next permanent manager of the Conservatives?

[Theroadlesstravelled]

The UK deid yet?

[Boo Khaki]

Was it no Patel who was advocating for Immigration conditions that would have seen her own parents told to f**k off and sent back to Uganda?

Irredeemable psychopaths, the lot of them.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Was it no Patel who was advocating for Immigration conditions that would have seen her own parents told to f**k off and sent back to Uganda?
Irredeemable psychopaths, the lot of them.

 
Braverman 1/8

Braverman's own parents are immigrants - from Kenya and Mauritius.

Pull up the ladder appears to be the policy.

[williemillersmoustache]

Lots of interesting news for the candidates to make arses of themselves over this morning.

The woke BBC going after R SASs BOYZ, will Sir Mo be a drugs cheat again after revealing he's an "illegal" person and making the anti-climate arguments will take some chutzpah when tarmac is melting and railway lines are spontaneously combusting. 

[Paco]

Tories truly are scummy c***s

The UK unemployment rate is at its lowest level in about 50 years. How low does Braveman expect it to realistically get? In reality the country can’t be a kick in the arse off full employment.

Welfare budgets continue to rise because people can’t afford to live on the pishy wages that they’re given, or because families lose money by paying for extortionate childcare while at work, so they need to be part-time. And the government have chosen to top up the wages of these people via Universal Credit.

This government time and time again prefer to use taxpayers money to pay for the failure of business. Rather than telling the energy companies to f**k off with their record profits, they subsidise bills via the taxpayer. Rather than mandate a proper minimum wage, they subsidise wages via the taxpayer. Rather than impose rent controls, they subsidise rent via the taxpayer.

These are choices. For a cabinet member to get away with spouting that drivel is outrageous, but obviously not surprising.

[Granny Danger]

Zahawi, Javid and Sunak’s financial affairs already called into question.  I wonder how many others will follow?

[cyderspaceman]

UK dwellers will have to endure 8 weeks of wall to wall coverage of this and still end up with a c**t*  as PM.

(*non-gender specific)

 

Ha! I've just seen the poll at the start of the thread.  

Vote cast for ANOTHER c**t.

Edited July 12, 2022 by cyderspaceman

[Salt n Vinegar]

10 hours ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

So they are half rigging this to stop a complete nutter taking over.  If 2nd place doesn't get 120 MPs then it doesn't go to the membership at least that is what Peston seemed to be prattling on about on ITV news

I'm not sure but does this mean that you could have a situation where two candidates want to be in the party members' vote, but no party members' vote takes place? 

Fkn ell. I don't trust Tory members but even I'm surprised that Tory MPs don't trust them either. 

[cyderspaceman]

9 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

The UK deid yet?

Zombieland.

[O'Kelly Isley III]

1 hour ago, Paco said:

The UK unemployment rate is at its lowest level in about 50 years. How low does Braveman expect it to realistically get? In reality the country can’t be a kick in the arse off full employment.

Welfare budgets continue to rise because people can’t afford to live on the pishy wages that they’re given, or because families lose money by paying for extortionate childcare while at work, so they need to be part-time. And the government have chosen to top up the wages of these people via Universal Credit.

This government time and time again prefer to use taxpayers money to pay for the failure of business. Rather than telling the energy companies to f**k off with their record profits, they subsidise bills via the taxpayer. Rather than mandate a proper minimum wage, they subsidise wages via the taxpayer. Rather than impose rent controls, they subsidise rent via the taxpayer.

These are choices. For a cabinet member to get away with spouting that drivel is outrageous, but obviously not surprising.

Good post, and I'm searching in vain for many commentators calling out the yet more economic illiteracy of tax cuts and a reversal of the proposed increase in corporation tax.

This is nothing more than irresponsible populist guff and whilst I don't like Starmer at least he has taken a stance.

Every major Tory economic policy from Osborne's austerity onwards has been a disaster and yet here we are today with an idiot in The Telegraph demanding a return to full Thatcherism.  And bigger idiots will vote for them.

[williemillersmoustache]

1 hour ago, Paco said:

The UK unemployment rate is at its lowest level in about 50 years. How low does Braveman expect it to realistically get? In reality the country can’t be a kick in the arse off full employment.

Welfare budgets continue to rise because people can’t afford to live on the pishy wages that they’re given, or because families lose money by paying for extortionate childcare while at work, so they need to be part-time. And the government have chosen to top up the wages of these people via Universal Credit.

This government time and time again prefer to use taxpayers money to pay for the failure of business. Rather than telling the energy companies to f**k off with their record profits, they subsidise bills via the taxpayer. Rather than mandate a proper minimum wage, they subsidise wages via the taxpayer. Rather than impose rent controls, they subsidise rent via the taxpayer.

These are choices. For a cabinet member to get away with spouting that drivel is outrageous, but obviously not surprising.

For the first time in history,  the ONS Labour Market Survey found in May that there were more vacancies than unemployed in the UK. 

Setting aside the fact that living on benefits isn't in any way shape or form an easy life or for the vast overwhelming majority anything like a choice they have willingly made, the ridiculous self inflicted labour shortage will not and cannot be solved by returning the unemployed or economically inactive to the work force. On arithmetic grounds alone. Never mind the availability of appropriate and applicable candidates for these vacancies..

Fans of far right w**k fantasies crumbling into the dust of dried up and crushed crinkly tissues may recall the shambles of the fruit and veg picking schemes.

Beyond all of this horseshit there's also a creeping and wildly incorrect assumption that low paid jobs are unskilled. We have benefited enormously from having a large, skilled and crucially flexible labour market to recruit from. And now, in a workforce sense, we're roundly fucked without it. 

[Granny Danger]

Any word on who wee Dougie is backing?  I’m assuming Alistair Jack will support the most right-wing arsehole so long as said arsehole is a white male.

[Clown Job]

10 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

Which candidate will be the first one to promise to deport Mo Farah to Rwanda?

I’m surprised we haven’t heard calls for his honours to be stripped yet 

[Dan Steele]

4 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Any word on who wee Dougie is backing?  I’m assuming Alistair Jack will support the most right-wing arsehole so long as said arsehole is a white male.

[sparky88]

Looks like the extreme right of the Tory Party are going to split their vote. Pleasing.

[Salt n Vinegar]

Liz Truss being backed by Rees-Mogg and Dorries. In normal circumstances that would be the end of her candidacy, but what's normal about this shitshow. 

Pity that it means these 2 won't be standing; we haven't had a good comedy double act since Morecambe and Wise. 

[Clown Job]

[Jeff Venom]

Aw will ye aye

[welshbairn]

Shapps out, backing Sunak.

[Hedgecutter]

This Tom Tugendhat should try saying "when I was serving in Afghanistan..." a few more times, just in case the media missed it those multiple times earlier.