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Post by borchester on Oct 20, 2023 3:33:39 GMT
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one by election is unfortunate, to lose two makes Rishi Sunak look a bit of a tosser.
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 20, 2023 6:50:44 GMT
Stop being a Conservative Government and Conservatives stop voting for you - karma..
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Post by borchester on Oct 20, 2023 14:37:47 GMT
Stop being a Conservative Government and Conservatives stop voting for you - karma.. All good stuff, but in none of the interviews of the constituents of either Midbedfordshire or Tamworth that I have seen has the subject of Brexit, remain or what happened when Simon de Montford summoned the knights of the Shires to attended him in 1265 been raised. What seems to have pissed the locals off is that Nadine Dorries has been too busy whoring after a peerage and Chris Pincher has been tied up with his hands down his colleagues trousers to attend to constituency affairs.
Meanwhile, Rikki Tikkie Tavi has decided that what the nation really wants is to stop school children having a crafty smoke behind the bicycle sheds.
Overall, I don't think that the next general election will be as much fun as the Tories might hope that it will be
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2023 21:55:57 GMT
I think the Tories would have been wiped out long ago by an actual right-wing party if they didn't take on the EU debate and momentarily appease genuine Conservatives. Anyway, by the looks of it Starmer is a major corporate bumlicker. It'll probably be business as usual with added oppression.
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Post by piglet on Oct 26, 2023 10:41:35 GMT
I reckon the Cameron May lot have almost destroyed the tories, they need to root out such, like Labour have ejected the far left, they need to be booted at the general election to re charge.
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Post by johnofgwent on Oct 26, 2023 15:21:07 GMT
Stop being a Conservative Government and Conservatives stop voting for you - karma.. The full quote is ‘no government has lost a seat as safe as Tamworth in a by election TO A PRINCIPAL OPPOSITION’ Which is a damn shame Because that is true, whereas the shortened quote is a bloody lie In 2003 Ebbw Vale (renamed as Blaenau Gwent, but substantially the same geographic area) deselected the sitting man to make way fir a woman on Blair’s say so. The ensuing uproar saw Peter Law resign the whip and from the party and stand as an independent. In a stunning kicking to Blair, Law won the seat and the bimbo parachuted in from Transport house had to be given a life peerage to shut her up. Blair succeeded in losing what i now hear was the safest seat in wales, the seat that sent Nte Bevan to kick off the NHS, the seat that elected Michael Foot ….. |
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Post by patman post on Oct 28, 2023 14:38:59 GMT
You have to admit that Foot's three-year term as Labour leader didn't enhance its chances...
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Post by borchester on Oct 29, 2023 8:12:25 GMT
You have to admit that Foot's three-year term as Labour leader didn't enhance its chances... That is because Foot kept having ideas. Nice, kind, patrician type ideas that just pissed everyone off.
Neither Boris or Rishi or Keir have any ideas so the next year and the run up to the general election should be fun.  |
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Post by patman post on Oct 29, 2023 13:03:38 GMT
Yep, many of Foot’s ideas (principles?) were only popular with Labour’s extreme socialist contingent. He insisted that the 1983 General Election manifesto be based on resolutions passed by the Party's annual conference.
Thus, it contained commitments to increased personal taxation, unilateral nuclear disarmament, and greater government industry intervention.
Labour MP Gerald Kaufman called it the longest suicide note in history and it resulted in the party suffering its biggest election defeat for 50 years…
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 29, 2023 18:02:24 GMT
Yep, many of Foot’s ideas (principles?) we’re only popular with Labour’s extreme socialist contingent. He insisted that the 1983 General Election manifesto be based on resolutions passed by the Party's annual conference.Thus, it contained commitments to increased personal taxation, unilateral nuclear disarmament, and greater government industry intervention. Labour MP Gerald Kaufman called it the longest suicide note in history and it resulted in the party suffering its biggest election defeat for 50 years… How radical to have actual policies that the party members want..  |
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