[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[nicko31]

Blackpool Tory MP Scott Benton filmed offering to lobby ministers, undercover operation by the Times...

He guaranteed he could leak a copy of a forthcoming white paper on gambling reforms to the company at least 48 hours before it went public, potentially allowing them to profit from market-sensitive information.

 

[The Clamp]

A few years ago if a story like this had broken I would imagine a bit of panic in No.10.
Emergency meetings, people burning the midnight oil to spin and try to fix it. All a bit Shit! Rush! Bollocks!!

Now I imagine the news being given over a WhatsApp, the top dogs finishing their brandy, kissing their mistresses goodnight and off to sleep without a care in the world.

Whisk them lightly and turn them out into a spattling pot. Set aside.

 

[nicko31]

A few years ago if a story like this had broken I would imagine a bit of panic in No.10.
Emergency meetings, people burning the midnight oil to spin and try to fix it. All a bit Shit! Rush! Bollocks!!

Now I imagine the news being given over a WhatsApp, the top dogs finishing their brandy, kissing their mistresses goodnight and off to sleep without a care in the world.

Whisk them lightly and turn them out into a spattling pot. Set aside.

The Tories have normalised corruption in British politics

 

[The Clamp]

The Tories have normalised corruption in British politics

Yep. And they are capitalising on that, daily.

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

And don't go in the water if its rained in past fortnight.

Brexit benefit is an increase in the number of brown trout that are now in our rivers and coastal waters. They were so close to extinction.

 

[chickens]

The Tories have normalised corruption in British politics

It’s part of a long-term global trend with Berlusconi, Trump, Johnson et al, not to mention Putin.

I don’t forgive this Conservative Party their venal self-interest, but as and when other parties hold power, we’ll discover the Conservative Party doesn’t hold the monopoly on greed and stupidity.

They are absolutely responsible for the universal decline of the last thirteen years however. Ideology and idiocy, dogma and decline.

 

[A1X]

The Tories have normalised corruption in British politics

YeAh BuT jErEmY cOrByN

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Nepalese security guards who protected British embassy staff in Afghanistan, and who were airlifted to safety in the UK in August 2021, are now in detention and facing deportation. One of the guards, Bam Bahadur Gurung, a 37-year-old Nepalese national, worked in Afghanistan for more than a decade, first as a security guard and later as a supervising guard at the British and Canadian embassies in Kabul.

In June 2022 he received an email from the government’s Afghan Resettlement Team saying that his evacuation had been “a gesture of goodwill” and that he was not deemed eligible to stay in the UK as part of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. On 27 March 2023 Gurung was among the group rounded up by the Home Office, then arrested and detained.

So we are now arresting, detaining and planning to deport the British Embassy guards in Afghanistan that we airlifted out of Kabul.

Maybe one of the few who are still defending this absolutely disgusting cabal that are in Government would like to explain the justification for this ?

F***ing ditches are too good for these ****s

13 Ghurkas have been removed and put in detention near Gatwick to be deported, some of whom had already been granted leave to stay.
The Home Office isn’t just making mistakes, it’s almost malicious.

 

[The Clamp]

This government are making Britain a prime target for terrorist ire with all this.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Introduce them to a furrow on a permanent basis.

 

[nicko31]

Bent by name Bent by nature.

Tory MP Scott Benton has whip suspended after newspaper sting | Conservatives | The Guardian

Blackpool South MP reportedly offered to lobby on behalf of gambling industry and leak confidential document

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Thunder Bolt]

13 Ghurkas have been removed and put in detention near Gatwick to be deported, some of whom had already been granted leave to stay.
The Home Office isn’t just making mistakes, it’s almost malicious.

Some better news, but note the word paused.

 

[rippleman]

Some better news, but note the word paused.

The Tory government's treatment of the Gurkhas is nothing short of shameful. They should all be <whatever the current politically correct equivalent of "ploughed into a ditch" is>

BBC Radio 4 - Ayo Gorkhali: The Gurkhas Are Coming!

Military historian Hew Strachan on 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[jcdenton08]

The Tory government's treatment of the Gurkhas is nothing short of shameful. They should all be <whatever the current politically correct equivalent of "ploughed into a ditch" is>

BBC Radio 4 - Ayo Gorkhali: The Gurkhas Are Coming!

Military historian Hew Strachan on 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown.

www.bbc.co.uk

Voted out at the next election, which is the only feasible and sensible way of getting rid of a toxic government.

 

[A1X]

The Tory government's treatment of the Gurkhas is nothing short of shameful. They should all be <whatever the current politically correct equivalent of "ploughed into a ditch" is>

BBC Radio 4 - Ayo Gorkhali: The Gurkhas Are Coming!

Military historian Hew Strachan on 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown.

www.bbc.co.uk

I seem to recall in the dying embers of the last Labour government they tried to pick on the Gurkhas as part of a "look tough on the foreigners" initiative and it blew up in their faces, be ironic if the exact same thing ended up happening to this lot too.

 

[The Clamp]

I wonder what the “Gurkha tactic” is all about.
Is it a political party’s barometer?

“what can we get away with”?

Political party’s cannot be this deliberately blind to the public’s support for Gurkhas.

There’s something going on there. I can’t figure out what it is but there’s more than meets the eye , I reckon.

 

[nicko31]

I seem to recall in the dying embers of the last Labour government they tried to pick on the Gurkhas as part of a "look tough on the foreigners" initiative and it blew up in their faces, be ironic if the exact same thing ended up happening to this lot too.

If there is ever a group its unwise to pick on, its the Gurkhas. Cue Joanna Lumley....

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If there is ever a group its unwise to pick on, its the Gurkhas. Cue Joanna Lumley....

I tagged her yesterday along with Tom Tuguenhat (sp) as the deportation was meant to happen today. Thankfully, some of the press, and maybe the previously mentioned, jumped on the Home Office, to pause it.
Now, to get the orders rescinded.

Pass me the pitchfork.

 

[Machiavelli]

How Nigel Lawson left his mark on British politics | Letters

Letters: Stephen Locke, Lawson’s former private secretary, on how rewarding it was to work for him, and Margaret Beckett on his divisive legacy. Plus letters from Mark Hebert, Valerie Gidlow and Greg Quiery

www.theguardian.com

Martin Kettle says that contemporary Conservatives are no longer the stupid party, which was how John Stuart Mill described them. But Mill clarified his claim further: “I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think that any gentleman will deny it.” I think that Mill’s conclusion still stands.
Mark Hebert
Needingworth, Cambridgeshire

I always thought it appropriate that an anagram of Nigel Lawson is “we all sign on”.
Greg Quiery
Liverpool

 

[Lever]

Controversial?