Tory Party Watch: parts 8245–8249 & 117

[BlodwynPig]

Back in the day they would have hanged Rory, mistaking him for a French spy

[phantom_power]

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1170959709626667009

That is hilarious. Brewer's Fayre and Beefeater. It is almost parodic

[pancreas]

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1170959709626667009

That is hilarious. Brewer's Fayre and Beefeater. It is almost parodic

They both do a fine line in gammon and pineapple.

[idunnosomename]

we should poison all beefeaters and brewers fayre food!!!

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. wait

[phantom_power]

https://twitter.com/PhilipHammondUK/status/1170633949879635968

Pretty strong words there. He needs to be careful or he will get a heartfelt message from Jess Phillips

[Captain Z]

In amongst Boris' catastrophic leadership can we take a few moments to not forget what a vile individual Theresa May was as Home Sec. In a small crumb of vaguely sensible news, her rule that overseas graduates will be kicked out after just 4 months if they do not find a job has been reversed back to 2 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49655719

[idunnosomename]

its hardly her fault she's an automaton without a shred of human empathy though is it!!!

[kalowski]

The way this week's New Statesman rips into Cameron is almost obscene. No punches are held back. It's very enjoyable to read, even if there's nothing we can do about the cunt.
"All in all, the economic and political consequences of David Cameron have been pretty disastrous."

[Fambo Number Mive]

Facebook has removed a Conservative Party advert which misrepresented a BBC News story.

The ad carried a BBC logo and headline saying "£14 billion pound cash boost for schools" - despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn.

The social media giant say the Tories had "misused" its advertising platform and it was working to stop headlines being changed in this way.

The party has said it is reviewing the way its Facebook adverts are produced...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49701027

[Fambo Number Mive]

The way this week's New Statesman rips into Cameron is almost obscene. No punches are held back. It's very enjoyable to read, even if there's nothing we can do about the cunt.
"All in all, the economic and political consequences of David Cameron have been pretty disastrous."

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/09/cameron-s-great-fault-was-mental-idleness-and-today-s-crisis-direct-consequence

Excellent article by Robert Skidelsky.

[Ambient Sheep]

Cameron [...] passed an act further weakening the trade unions

I must have missed that one, what was that?

[Fambo Number Mive]

Trade Union Bill in 2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/15/trade-unions-conservative-offensive-decades-strikes-labour

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Their first thought on getting into office in 2015 was, amazingly, trade unionists had too many rights.

This was entirely because the last serious and regularly called strikes left were the only ones that personally affected them: the London Underground.

[Johnny Yesno]

The way this week's New Statesman rips into Cameron is almost obscene. No punches are held back. It's very enjoyable to read, even if there's nothing we can do about the cunt.
"All in all, the economic and political consequences of David Cameron have been pretty disastrous."

I dunno, it's too generous for my liking. The lying cunt knew exactly what he was doing.

[idunnosomename]

Not sure if this was promoted but yeesh. catholic spawn.

https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1174348698207313920

[imitationleather]

Not sure if this was promoted but yeesh. catholic spawn.

https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1174348698207313920

There is a chance that they will grow up, see their old man for what he is and rebel.

It's an outside chance, but it could happen.

[Twit 2]

Not sure if this was promoted but yeesh. catholic spawn.

https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1174348698207313920

You will not find a bigger advocate for children reading than me, but after seeing that and the sycophantic replies, I can't help but think those kids should go blind and deaf tomorrow, as well as having their fingertips singed off in stove accidents so they don't even have access to braille.

[phantom_power]

All I see are five more kids with a cunt for a dad. Poor bastards don't stand a chance of growing up with any sort of soul

[Fambo Number Mive]

The government's Universal Credit benefit system is driving vulnerable people into debt and forcing them to rely on food banks, a new report from a leading charity has warned.

In areas where Universal Credit — the centralised single-payment system that replaced separate benefits — has been rolled out for at least a year, food banks in the Trussell Trust's network have seen a 30% increase in demand, the charity's #5WeeksTooLong report said.

This rose to 40% in areas where it has been in place for at least 18 months, and increased to 48% for food banks in areas which have had Universal Credit for at least two years.

According to the Trussell Trust, Universal Credit is pushing people into debt and causing unnecessary financial hardship, particularly because claimants have to wait up to five weeks for their first payment.

The Department for Work and Pensions has disputed the charity's findings, saying the report "uses unrepresentative data to reach an entirely unsubstantiated conclusion."...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/food-banks-have-seen-a-massive-increase-in-demand-in-areas

Haven't seen this story anywhere else but Buzzfeed. Says a lot about the UK media.

[ajsmith2]

Not sure if this was promoted but yeesh. catholic spawn.

https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1174348698207313920

Thought this was gonna be him reading his kids The Fountainhead or something but have to admit there was nothing objectionable about this clip in itself*. Shared to make him seem like a great down to earth guy of course so vaguely sinister in that usage but the kids are kids for now and who knows how they will turn out?

*Unless the wolf is a metaphor for Corbyn offering 'free stuff' with the doughnut and the Bear is supposed to represent the sleeping giant of 'individual self reliance' or something.

[Paul Calf]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/food-banks-have-seen-a-massive-increase-in-demand-in-areas

Haven't seen this story anywhere else but Buzzfeed. Says a lot about the UK media.

I don't understand; why can't they just dip in to their trust funds?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Tit.

[Cuellar]

Is he being sent into a hostage situation?

[Jerzy Bondov]

Do I look like I suffer from panic attacks? I've had one panic attack in a car wash. It was a perfect storm of no sleep, no wife, and angry brushes whirring towards me. By the time the giant hair dryer came on, I was in the footwell.

[kalowski]

We draw the gun from the holster, knock the safety catch off, there's one in the chamber, and move and fire, and move and fire, and move and fire. The terrorist is disoriented from the stun grenade, he doesn't know what's going on. Remember the double-tap, bang bang. We have to neutralise the threat by incapacitating the target, we do that in two areas. The chestal area here, anywhere down the central line, all the major organs are kept. We get one there, he's going down. If you're near enough, you can take a head shot. Again, he's going down.

[jobotic]

Gammon has reverted back to pig.

What is happening in that photo? Why?

[phantom_power]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49763550

Where are all the op eds about the tory party being institutionally Islamophobic? Calls for Johnson to "do something about it" or resign?

[EOLAN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49763550

Where are all the op eds about the tory party being institutionally Islamophobic? Calls for Johnson to "do something about it" or resign?

The four links in the article for further information are titled:

◾'No place' for Islamophobia in Tory party
◾Call for Tory Islamophobia investigation
◾Muslim Conservatives speak out after criticism of the party over Islamophobia
◾Tories 'will order Islamophobia inquiry'

Apart from the 2nd which isn't overly critical it appears to be fairly lenient. Obvious comparisons with what we would expect with the "anti-Semitism in the Labour Party" news stories.

[SpiderChrist]

Kwasi Karteng was on Radio 4 this morning, said an internal enquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party was underway,  but couldn't/wouldn't say who was leading said enquiry.

[imitationleather]

Kwasi Karteng was on Radio 4 this morning, said an internal enquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party was underway,  but couldn't/wouldn't say who was leading said enquiry.

I've heard it's Roy "Chubby" Brown.