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

[TomandJerry]

I wonder if people who call for MP’s to be shot will be included in this definition of extremism?

I suspect if you’ve profiteered from so many NHS IT contracts that you can afford to donate £10m to the Tory party, you might not make the list?

"Michael Gove has said remarks made by the Conservative party’s largest donor were “horrific” but were unlikely to be referred to the government’s new extremism taskforce.

The communities secretary said Frank Hester’s comments about the veteran MP Diane Abbott were “racist”, but that he “wouldn’t want to conflate” an individual set of remarks with an extremist ideology."

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I wonder if people who call for MP’s to be shot will be included in this definition of extremism?

I suspect if you’ve profiteered from so many NHS IT contracts that you can afford to donate £10m to the Tory party, you might not make the list?

£15m apparently. Seemingly he donated a further £5m in the last 6 months that is yet to be recorded.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I’m confused:

Tories - “We are opposed to Cancel Culture and insist that free-speech is sacrosanct. Instead of being easily offended snowflakes, people need to become more tolerant and resilient.”

Tories - “We consider many views that we disagree with, and those who hold such views, to be extremist or undemocratic, and we will therefore ban them.”

'Cancel culture' is such a load of old shite. No-one gets ACTUALLY 'cancelled'. If someone or something does something wrong they get rightly punished, but not actually 'cancelled' by the definition of that phenomenon.

 

[rippleman]

Not sure how much more of this The Clamp's ditch digger is going to be able to take.

 

[rippleman]

"Michael Gove has said remarks made by the Conservative party’s largest donor were “horrific” but were unlikely to be referred to the government’s new extremism taskforce.

The communities secretary said Frank Hester’s comments about the veteran MP Diane Abbott were “racist”, but that he “wouldn’t want to conflate” an individual set of remarks with an extremist ideology."

So the conclusion we draw is that you can be racist (or Islamaphobic or anti-semitic or homophobic) but as long as you say "sorry" and give the Tories £10m, everything is forgiven and forgotten.

Got it!

 

[rippleman]

I wonder if people who call for MP’s to be shot will be included in this definition of extremism?

I suspect if you’ve profiteered from so many NHS IT contracts that you can afford to donate £10m to the Tory party, you might not make the list?

Oh-oh. They gonna be coming for me for aligning myself with the "Plough them all into a ditch" campaign.

 

[MJsGhost]

So the conclusion we draw is that you can be racist (or Islamaphobic or anti-semitic or homophobic) but as long as you say "sorry" and give the Tories £10m, everything is forgiven and forgotten.

Got it!

Wrong!

It's £15m to wipe the slate clean apparently

 

[Stat Brother]

So the conclusion we draw is that you can be racist (or Islamaphobic or anti-semitic or homophobic) but as long as you say "sorry" and give the Tories £10m, everything is forgiven and forgotten.

Got it!

I think you'll find this is not new news.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Wrong!

It's £15m to wipe the slate clean apparently

Which was probably taken out of the £400million profit he made?

 

[Ethelwulf]

Let sunak wait until December for the election yes it will be 8 more months of hell for us . But with every scandal every pig in the trof every right wing nut job they will lose even more mps at the election . I am serious in saying this could be like the Canadian Tory party that got wiped out . The way this fuckers are going 100 seats would be a great result for them . People compare this to 97 when Blair came in but this feels different I think 97 will look like a walk in the park for the tories and it will be the election that changed British politics for ever

 

[Fungus]

So the conclusion we draw is that you can be racist (or Islamaphobic or anti-semitic or homophobic) but as long as you say "sorry" and give the Tories £10m, everything is forgiven and forgotten.

Got it!

Or as long as you say it as an individual, rather than as part of a group. Even if all your mates are saying exactly the same thing.

 

[ManOfSussex]

@ManOfSussex

Thoughts?

Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of The Beatles.

 

[MJsGhost]

Which was probably taken out of the £400million profit he made?

Well, of course!

Unless one is making vast profits from the public sector, how could one possibly afford to scratch the expensive backs that help?

 

[jcdenton08]

Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of The Beatles.

Stop getting Partridge wrong!!!

 

[TomandJerry]

"Rishi Sunak will accept an inflation-busting 5.5% increase in his salary for being an MP, No 10 has indicated.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) has recommended MPs’ salaries rise to £91,346 in April, from £86,584."

 

[peterward]

 

[medwayseagull reborn]

Is Kim in the running as well ?

 

[Stat Brother]

Is Kim in the running as well ?

He is but his wishy-washy wokist agenda is unlikely to sit well with the Tory heartland

 

[Bob!]

Is Kim in the running as well ?

Whoosh!

 

[Hugo Rune]

Let sunak wait until December for the election yes it will be 8 more months of hell for us . But with every scandal every pig in the trof every right wing nut job they will lose even more mps at the election . I am serious in saying this could be like the Canadian Tory party that got wiped out . The way this fuckers are going 100 seats would be a great result for them . People compare this to 97 when Blair came in but this feels different I think 97 will look like a walk in the park for the tories and it will be the election that changed British politics for ever

Indeed. Fingers crossed.

They are fighting on 4 fronts.

Reform will stop them taking any red wall seats (handing them back to Labour).

Liberal Democrat’s will smash them in the South West.

They’ll be eliminated from Scotland with the SNP taking the votes of right wing nationalists who can’t vote Labour.

And Labour will clean up everywhere else.

They got 165 seats in ‘97 and 166 in ‘21. I bet some of them would shake your hand off for that now.

When people realise that Labour have gained one of the biggest majorities in parliamentary history and yet are not overly popular, FPTP will be history.