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General UK Politics VI It's A (Honey) Trap!

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P.J. Denyer said:
How many people will vote for

RISHI SUNAK. CONSERVATIVE
(Address in California)
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In his constituency? Most. While I have noticed more complaints about the Tories in my school friend's social media comments it is another thing expecting them to vote for anyone else. Last time the consistency returned someone outside the conservative and unionist persuasion was 1906.
 
Lothian said:
In his constituency? Most. While I have noticed more complaints about the Tories in my school friend's social media comments it is another thing expecting them to vote for anyone else. Last time the consistency returned someone outside the conservative and unionist persuasion was 1906.
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In the High Peak, some of the farmers fields had Labour posters for the local elections, which is not something I was used to.
 
Theresa May is a former leader of our party & should be treated with respect.

But I can't forget her disastrously bungled Brexit negotiations, her near-loss of an election to the worst Labour leader ever, and her delivery of a Conservative vote share of 9% in the 2019 Euro "elections".

Boris Johnson successfully cleared all this up.

So take what she says about how to do politics, and who is and is not Conservative, with a very large pinch of salt.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/theresa-may-liz-truss-boris-johnson-tory-failure-332wpzndd
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Interestingly this a tweet by Lord Frost.
 
Lothian said:
In his constituency? Most. While I have noticed more complaints about the Tories in my school friend's social media comments it is another thing expecting them to vote for anyone else. Last time the consistency returned someone outside the conservative and unionist persuasion was 1906.
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Enough annoyed voters staying home cold have an effect.
 
It's not just Devon, faeces contaminated tap water has been detected in ten areas of England and Wales.
 
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Kemi Badenoch says that eating outside is a win for Brexit and a benefit of our new freedoms.

Because it's well known that in the EU there's no alfresco dining.
 
I look forward to being able to eat a Parmo on the pavement in the drizzle on linthorpe road whilst staring at a boarded up former Marks and Spencer’s and shooing away a drug addict. Take that Brussels!
 
Andy_Ross said:
I look forward to being able to eat a Parmo on the pavement in the drizzle on linthorpe road whilst staring at a boarded up former Marks and Spencer’s and shooing away a drug addict. Take that Brussels!
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Sorry the pavements have been sold.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Wow, that's either world class chutzpah or a world class lack of self reflection. Is there anyone left that believes this crap?
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It's Frost, so lack of self awareness comes as standard.

At least
 
I read that Jonathan Gullis, four mediocre teaching jobs and best known as a grunting yobbo in the Commons, 'has a net worth of £4m'. How is it possible. How...?
 
Vixen said:
I read that Jonathan Gullis, four mediocre teaching jobs and best known as a grunting yobbo in the Commons, 'has a net worth of £4m'. How is it possible. How...?
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Well first, is that true? I read that the moon is made of cheese when this is in fact not the case. Where did you read it? How did they establish that figure? Is that including property eg his constituency and/or parliamentary residence?
 
Wudang said:
Well first, is that true? I read that the moon is made of cheese when this is in fact not the case. Where did you read it? How did they establish that figure? Is that including property eg his constituency and/or parliamentary residence?
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Someone on X has made the claim (£5m, in fact) but others have denied it. The MPs register of interests don't even begin to justify the figure.

Yeah, property could help explain it. Fancy house and maybe another he inherited?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Kemi Badenoch says that eating outside is a win for Brexit and a benefit of our new freedoms.

Because it's well known that in the EU there's no alfresco dining.
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We need a British word for this new phenomenon, I suggest (and trademark since it's new) "Picnic". Do you think it will catch on?
 
Vis a vis the "eating outside" nonsense Badenoch is warbling about I see two possibilities.

1. They've not actually done anything at all and they're just making up nonsense out of wholecloth to sell to the gammons.

2. They actually HAVE done something, and have removed some of the restrictions that there used to be about eating outside places, which were mostly for safety and to avoid people being in the way of others.

So either they've further stripped safety and common sense regulations or they're just making up bollocks. What a choice!
 
P.J. Denyer said:
We need a British word for this new phenomenon, I suggest (and trademark since it's new) "Picnic". Do you think it will catch on?
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How can anyone fall for it.

Can't they remember walking around in the UK and seeing pavement cafes, albeit not nearly as much as, say France.
 
GlennB said:
Someone on X has made the claim (£5m, in fact) but others have denied it. The MPs register of interests don't even begin to justify the figure.

Yeah, property could help explain it. Fancy house and maybe another he inherited?
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I wonder if someone has been adding up all the donations to his election campaigns? I saw a couple of websites that seem to confuse the those with personal gifts. Then again so do some MPs.
 
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