Tories go Green - they're recycling rubbish :lolol:
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/iain-duncan-smith-tipped-to-become-interim-tory-leader-as-sunak-eyes-quick-exit-379087/
Sorry? Sorry they got caught, they mean.
Perhaps some of the Tory criticisms of Higher Education have a kernel of truth; some people going to university really shouldn't be there, their 'talents' lie elsewhere.
It's all about what they want to see, and whatever supports the party line.
Many years ago, I challenged Peter Mandelshite about the poor state (even back then) of Britain's universities after years of underfunding, and a brain drain of staff. His response was "This is not a picture of...
The hypocrisy of privileged millionaire Tory Ministers sneering at their critics for being rich is staggering. Although not quite as nauseating as 'advising' the poor how to live on low wages or welfare benefits by shopping and eating more frugally.
My tongue was very firmly lodged in my cheek - I was parodying the kind of snobbish anti-academic comments Tories spew-out when denigrating degrees which they disapprove of when what they really mean is how dare we offer degrees that students from working-class or other 'non-traditional' social...
Cue Gammons shouting: "Told you. They're all fukkin' corrupt self-serving chancers. That's why Reform and Nigel Farage are getting my vote; they're the only honest politicians we've got." :shootself
I do find many Tory voters bizarre - they'll say they can't possibly vote Labour because they remember the chaos of the 1970s (er, 50 years ago!), but they don't seem to remember the chaos and incompetence of the last 5 years.
I think a lot of Tory voters suffer from selective amnesia.
The Tories have been promising 'welfare savings' and crackdowns on 'scroungers' every year since 1979 - you'd think that even the most brain-dead Daily Mail reader would roll their eyes at such claims by now.
Of course, if the Tories were serious about curbing the welfare bill, they'd tackle...