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Tory Party Watch: parts 8245–8249 & 117

Started by Absorb the anus burn, March 02, 2019, 11:16:30 AM

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Alberon

He has a cheek saying anyone has bottled it. Look how fast he legged it after Cameron resigned.

imitationleather



A few years ago a front page like this would have finished her. However The Sun's influence has of course nosedived lately. I still think that they try to capture where public opinion is in an attempt to pre-empt what is going to happen anyway in order to make it look like they're the catalyst for political change. Based on this (and the MPs giving her the dreaded vote of confidence) it does look like there is a pretty high chance of her going this week.

Stick your telly on a news channel and chuck the remote out the window, you don't want to be watching anything else.

(Sidenote: It says it's 25p less than The Mirror. Is that 80p then? Bloody hell, that's a bit expensive. Not got a clue why people would buy daily newspapers now.)

Shoulders?-Stomach!

So she's down to the Mail and the Express for support, the latter of which are at-all-costs Leavers really anyway.



king_tubby

Quote from: Barry Admin on March 25, 2019, 07:33:02 AM
Mouth eyes.

Friends in Dublin introduced me to the more unpleasant 'gee eyed' when referring to having a massive hangover. I think this is more appropriate in this case.

Paul Calf

Looking forward to the inevitable realisation that The Sun doesn't even have any power over a weak Tory PM any more.

Norton Canes

Quote from: imitationleather on March 25, 2019, 02:53:31 AM
A few years ago a front page like this would have finished her. However The Sun's influence has of course nosedived lately. I still think that they try to capture where public opinion is in an attempt to pre-empt what is going to happen anyway in order to make it look like they're the catalyst for political change

They're just reduced to keeping their Leave-supporting fan base happy.

petril

Quote from: imitationleather on March 25, 2019, 02:53:31 AM

(Sidenote: It says it's 25p less than The Mirror. Is that 80p then? Bloody hell, that's a bit expensive. Not got a clue why people would buy daily newspapers now.)

convinced the only people who buy daily newspapers are workplaces, pubs, drug dealers or suhin like that. they're the new payphones.

oh and old people who are set in their ways i.e. caught up in sunken cost "but I've bought it for years and somehow that counts as a reason to keep doing so"


Fambo Number Mive

JRM brought his son to Chequers, while Johnson arrived allegedly not wearing a seatbelot:

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1109870040390815744

Blumf

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on March 25, 2019, 02:12:57 PM
Johnson arrived allegedly not wearing a seatbelot:

Where's Prince Philip when you need him?

BlodwynPig

Quote from: imitationleather on March 25, 2019, 02:53:31 AM


A few years ago a front page like this would have finished her. However The Sun's influence has of course nosedived lately. I still think that they try to capture where public opinion is in an attempt to pre-empt what is going to happen anyway in order to make it look like they're the catalyst for political change. Based on this (and the MPs giving her the dreaded vote of confidence) it does look like there is a pretty high chance of her going this week.

Stick your telly on a news channel and chuck the remote out the window, you don't want to be watching anything else.

(Sidenote: It says it's 25p less than The Mirror. Is that 80p then? Bloody hell, that's a bit expensive. Not got a clue why people would buy daily newspapers now.)

tl;dr - words! I don't buy the sun for WORDS!!!

BlodwynPig


Blumf


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Quote from: Blumf on March 25, 2019, 04:27:18 PM
Austin Montego

These making-of documentaries for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote sure do have similar titles.


Cuellar


Shoulders?-Stomach!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-47694734

Anyone got any local friends who can add to this recall petition to unseat TORY SCUM™?

hummingofevil

No-one reads papers anymore but everyone still reads the headlines. Remember that.

I think for the good of society all newspapers should, by law be placed in the magazine racks with all of the other grot and specialist interest shite. Let those who want to read these headlines read away but stop inflicting them on the rest of us. Actually I wonder what the definition of a newspaper is? What if we run off a 4 page folded front page of content warnings ("DON"T BELIVE EVERYTHING YOU READ") just to have it sat in the racks every day. Maybe that Led By Donkeys campaign could try it.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

I never really thought of it in terms of stalking even when the hacking scandal was going on and I was in favour of the papers being exposed for criminality.

But unless you're performing a public service of some kind, something with an ethical dimension, then tracking people, filming them, making notes about them, all without permission is really just stalking isn't it? If you or I did it we would be cautioned by the police at the very least. But it's completely legal, happens every day and you can make money from it.

jamiefairlie

Quote from: hummingofevil on March 25, 2019, 09:21:23 PM
No-one reads papers anymore but everyone still reads the headlines. Remember that.

I think for the good of society all newspapers should, by law be placed in the magazine racks with all of the other grot and specialist interest shite. Let those who want to read these headlines read away but stop inflicting them on the rest of us. Actually I wonder what the definition of a newspaper is? What if we run off a 4 page folded front page of content warnings ("DON"T BELIVE EVERYTHING YOU READ") just to have it sat in the racks every day. Maybe that Led By Donkeys campaign could try it.

True, and so many of the headlines contradict what's in the text underneath.

jobotic

Apparently the gang of Brexiter cunts that went to see May at Chequers are referred to as the "Grand Wizards".

Racist trolling.

pancreas

Letwin passes by quite a margin.

House of Commons vote on the 'Letwin amendment', result:

AYES: 329
NOES: 302

This amendment will allow MPs on Wednesday to put forward indicative votes relating to Brexit, effectively taking control away from the government.

greencalx

Once upon a time, a government defeat was a major event. Street parties, that kind of thing.

Now it's arsed mate.

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Quote from: pancreas on March 25, 2019, 10:14:53 PM
This amendment will allow MPs on Wednesday to put forward indicative votes relating to Brexit, effectively taking control away from the government.

Unfortunately taking the blame for whatever happens away from the government in the process.

Alberon

Though May can ignore anything they decide so the blame will stick with her.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: Alberon on March 25, 2019, 10:31:40 PM
Though May can ignore anything they decide so the blame will stick with her.

And she probably will, because a) this is all she now has left and b) she's painted yourself into a corner the daft bint

olliebean

Quote from: jobotic on March 25, 2019, 09:37:13 PM
Apparently the gang of Brexiter cunts that went to see May at Chequers are referred to as the "Grand Wizards".

Racist trolling.

By whom? The rest of the ERG? If so, that's either incredibly dog-whistley or astonishingly tone deaf.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

They also have something called a Star Chamber, so this is a group of people who are absolutely bizarre egomaniacs.

pancreas

Are you lot watching this? It's turned into a zoo in the HoC. Bercow called someone a bad whip and they've all gone mental.