Even by the standards of today's Tory party this one takes some beating. Yesterday, Zac Goldsmith (a Tory minister who was given a seat in the Lords by Johnson when he lost his seat to the Lib Dems) was one of the parliamentarians accused of showing contempt for Parliament for their comments about the committee that investigated Johnson's lies. Today he resigned as a minister. He wants us to believe that he resigned as a protest against government policy on the environment (or lack thereof). He expects us to believe that it had nothing to do with yesterday's report. Goldsmith, who is very wealthy even by Tory standards, will, of coursed, get a nice severance payment to help him on his way.

Agreed but blue on blue violence is great. Plus Goldsmith is correct about our current Government betraying future generations by not giving a crap about the planet.

Yeah, how convenient that the government's stance on the environment was only an issue right now :rolleyes:

 

also I'd be happy to never hear the phrase "kangaroo court" ever again

Not posting or reading much on politics its too effing depressing.

 

This, though, is about as good a summary as you can get for the last few days from the fabulous Russell Jones "Four Chancellors And A Funeral" book-fame:

 

 

 

 

"I did my last #TheWeekInTory at lunchtime on Tuesday. So this is just what’s happened since then.

 

Pick your jaw up, Mabel: there’s nothing surprising about this level of mayhem anymore.

 

(Long thread, so tap "show replies" if it seems to cut off midway)

1. The Tory’s London mayoral candidate, Daniel Korski, was accused of groping a TV producer’s breasts inside Downing St

 

2. Korski insisted he would definitely not be pulling out of the race under any circumstances

 

3. Korski pulled out of the race the next day

 

4. No 10 said they would not investigate Korski, because there’d been no official complaint

 

5. An official complaint was made 7 years ago, and ignored

 

6. Several other women have since come forward with “very interesting stories” about Korski’s (allegedly) roaming hands

7. More respect for women, as Etch-a-Sketch thundercunt Brendan Clarke-Smith, a shite in sheep’s clothing, tweeted abuse at a woman who was simply thanking the Samaritans for helping her during a mental health crisis

8. We flushed and flushed and flushed, but Clarke-Smith popped back up again, this time smeared like a dirty protest all over the parliamentary report that found an “unprecedented and coordinated” campaign to undermine democracy over Johnson’s Partygate lies

9. Clark-Smith tweeted that he was “shocked and disappointed” that anyone could think he’d undermined the legitimacy of the committee

 

10. On 9 June he called the committee “a parliamentary witch-hunt which would put a banana republic to shame”

11. And on 15 June, he called it a “kangaroo court … spiteful, vindictive and overreaching”

 

12. And on the day of the vote, he put on a kangaroo tie and refused to vote in parliament. So ... case closed, I think?

 

13. Also criticised for contemptuously undermining parliament:

 

a. Nadine Dorries, trapped forever at Lambrini o’clock

 

b. Priti Patel, the larval form of Miss Trunchbull

 

c. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the unholy and harrowing result of a Dalek having hate-sex with a pendulum

 

d. A furious, irradiated lemon called Andrea Jenkyns

e. Follicular fire hazard Michael Fabricant

 

f. A bewitched thumb with its own Twitter account, Mark Jenkinson

 

g. And Zac Goldsmith, who was told to apologise for undermining parliament, but resigned instead of facing consequences, just like w***-Yeti Boris Johnson did

14. Goldsmith hasn’t properly resigned, of course. A bit like Nadine. He’s still a Lord. But he resigned in a way that lets him keep all the money and privilege

 

15. He claimed he hadn’t quit because of Partygate, but because of how much he loves the environment

16. He’d been fine with millions of gallons of raw sewage for ages, but suddenly, the environment mattered

 

17. Andrea Leadsom, a waxwork Thatcher that’s spent too long leaning against a radiator, said it was “Flat wrong” that Sunak had done nothing to help the environment

 

18. Sadly for Leadsom, the previous day the govt’s own advisors said the Tories have “missed climate targets on almost every front”, and its signature policy of greenlighting new oil and gas fields in the North Sea is “utterly unacceptable”

19. Breaking news (that actually broke 5 years ago, but TV news has only just noticed): and when he was Home Secretary, Boris Johnson shook off his protection team so he could secretly attend an “anything goes” party at the palace of a former KGB agent

20. Johnson then put that agent’s son – Evgeny Lebedev – into the House of Lords

 

21. This was despite the House of Lords Appointment Committee (Holac) saying Lebedev shouldn’t get a peerage on national security grounds

22. MI6 also sent 2 agents to visit Johnson in person, and beg him not to do it

 

23. Italy’s secret services were also watching Lebedev, and warned Britain of the security dangers

 

24. And The Queen was even asked to intervene

25. Despite all this, Johnson overruled MI6 and Holac, and created Baron Lebedev of Siberia. For life.

 

26. Oh, and Fat Malfoy’s new job at the Daily Mail is an “unambiguous breach” of the rules, cos he failed to get permission from the ministerial appointments watchdog

27. Immigration update: the 2019 Tory manifesto promises to “continue to grant asylum and support to refugees fleeing persecution, with the ultimate aim of helping them to return home if it is safe to do so”

 

28. So naturally, the Tories now fiercely oppose that policy

29. This week, every wheel came off the Rwanda plan, including some wheels we didn’t even know it had

 

30. First the govt admitted the policy – which is designed to be a deterrent – won’t actually be a deterrent

 

31. Then they admitted it’ll cost almost £170,000 per person

32. Then the bill was torn to pieces by a House of Lords that had only just been packed with hand-picked amoral idiots who were supposed to support this nonsense

 

33. And then the entire policy was ruled illegal in the Royal Court of Justice

34. Incredible shrinking man Rishi Sunak said “I respect the court”

 

35. Suella Braverman, at a loss without the lion and the wardrobe, said she didn’t respect the court because it was “rigged against the British people”

 

36. Her actual job is upholding the legal system

 

37. She went on to suggest courts should be abolished or ignored because “the majority of the British people” demand a Rwanda policy

 

38. On Question Time, not a single person in the Conservative majority audience supported the Rwanda policy

39. Simon Clark, a mouse-fart made flesh, said we now have to ditch Human Rights Act to save the Conservative Party. Not the country or its people. They and their fundamental rights don’t matter. The Conservative Party is all that matters.

40. Anyway: prime minister Rishi Sunak is still battling to overcome the legacy of chancellor Rishi Sunak, and said the following were his priorities:

 

a. Stop Small Boats (judged illegal)

 

b. Half inflation (it’s grown to highest in G7)

 

c. Grow the economy (the economy shrank)

d. Cut state debt (it’s grown to 100% of GDP, highest for 62 years)

 

e. Cut NHS waiting times (they’ve grown to a record 7m)

 

41. That’s how well his *priorities* are going. Percival Q Christ, just imagine the state of everything else.

42. To cut waiting times, Sunak announced £480bn to employ 300,000 NHS workers

 

43. That’s only enough money to pay 10,000 NHS workers

 

44. Sunak said he “believes in transparency” and has “nothing to hide” from the public

45. Since becoming PM, he’s blocked a record number of Freedom of Information requests

 

46. With his trademark competence, this didn’t stop the news leaking that Sunak had been given free, undeclared use of a helicopter by a Tory donor who received £135m in Covid contracts

47. And now transparent Sunak is going to court to block the Covid inquiry from accessing govt WhatsApp messages

 

48. As if that’s not enough transparency, it turns out Sunak has also been writing and signing official documents with erasable ink for years

49. Sunak claimed the Home Office is “on track” to clear the asylum backlog by January

 

50. It doesn’t bode well: to clear the backlog by Jan, they’ll have to process an application every 4 minutes

 

51. The average current processing period is 157 days

 

52. And of 1280 officials doing this work, only 140 are qualified

 

53. A decade after startled halibut Michael Gove scrapped the school building and repairs programme, this week he was shocked to discover our dilapidated school haven’t got better all on their own

54. 600 schools were found to be on the point of collapse and in “critical condition”, with the death or injury of your kids now being judged “very likely”

 

55. The cost of school repairs is now estimated to be three times more than Gove saved by cancelling it a decade ago

56. Brexit news, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers warned the wonderful new, Boris-negotiated, Sunak-backed Brexit tariffs that begin in January 2024 will be an “existential threat” to the future of car production in the UK, costing at least £106bn in lost revenue

57. Meanwhile, in another outstanding bit of Taking Back Control, malignant gonad and 24/7 excuse hamster Iain Duncan Smith now says the Brexit he already claimed he’d done in 2016 and 2019 is now impossible until Biden is ousted from office, because of Irishness or something

58. While all this was going on, a report found the Home Office had been (probably illegally) removing people from the country without sufficient evidence, and nothing has improved in the 10 years since the last report found the very same thing

59. The report concluded “this is no way to run a government department”

 

60. Lee Anderthal – forgive me – Lee Anderson was officially rebuked for breaking MPs rules cos he used parliamentary property to promote his hilarious – although not intentionally so – TV series

61. And all of this – Rwanda, that gobshite Anderson, the defence of Johnson, undermining courts and parliament – is simply to satisfy the whims and desires of mythical Red Wall voters

 

62. And it’s going so well that Labour now has 2x as many votes as Tories in Red Wall seats

 

 

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There's a mistake in this - Johnson was Foreign Secretary, not Home Secretary, while he was hobnobbing with KGB agents at an "anything goes" party, in contravention with direct warnings of MI6 and govt officials. Sorry. "

 

 

 

Sunak's five priorities have been downgraded. They started out as promises.

Even by the standards of today's Tory party this one takes some beating. Yesterday, Zac Goldsmith (a Tory minister who was given a seat in the Lords by Johnson when he lost his seat to the Lib Dems) was one of the parliamentarians accused of showing contempt for Parliament for their comments about the committee that investigated Johnson's lies. Today he resigned as a minister. He wants us to believe that he resigned as a protest against government policy on the environment (or lack thereof). He expects us to believe that it had nothing to do with yesterday's report. Goldsmith, who is very wealthy even by Tory standards, will, of coursed, get a nice severance payment to help him on his way.

Oh, they've beaten it, not that anyone should be surprised. Corrupt immigration minister Robert Jenrick has ordered that a Mickey Mouse mural for children at an asylum centre should be painted over because it is "too welcoming". Theresa May once told her party that they were known as "the nasty party". They are a lot nastier now.

One year ago today, Nadine Dorries made her last Commons contribution as a minister. That is the last time she spoke in the Commons. She said she was resigning as an MP a few weeks ago. She still hasn't done so. In that time, she has been paid over £110,000 from state funds - her salary as a minister, as an MP and in severance pay when she lost her ministerial job.

Liz Truss has launched a 'Growth Commission' task force to "revive the economy"

 

What could go wrong? 🧐

Liz Truss has launched a 'Growth Commission' task force to "revive the economy"

 

What could go wrong? 🧐

 

Revive the economy... that she crashed?

 

Love that for her.

 

Basically remove all state intervention and survival of the fittest is their economic mantra, Britannia unchained indeed!

Yet to be disgraced Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will be leaving the Cabinet at the next reshuffle, rumoured to be happening on Friday. He will not be standing at the next election. Departing ministers may need to wait up to two years before taking on a new job (not that lying blob of flesh Johnson worries about such trivialities). Resigning now(-ish) will reduce the time Wallace has to wait after leaving parliament.

Ah Wallace going after saying that Ukraine should be more grateful to the UK for aid which is odd considering they generally seem to be from my reading - especially Zelensky. But also Russia's assault is a crime against a democratic European country and by assisting them we are standing on the right side morally and that shouldn't be conditional on lots of gushing thanks.

It's the Tory upstairs, downstairs class mentslity behind thst ridiculous statement.

 

God I hate them. Speaking of Ukrainez hopefully Labour changes the official car letter designation back to GB instead of UK. Vile Tory beasts.

Ah Wallace going after saying that Ukraine should be more grateful to the UK for aid which is odd considering they generally seem to be from my reading - especially Zelensky. But also Russia's assault is a crime against a democratic European country and by assisting them we are standing on the right side morally and that shouldn't be conditional on lots of gushing thanks.

 

Zelenskys recent statements have been trying to put pressure on nato to provide them more weapons and help and he has been told to tone down his retoric by nato themselves.

I'm now beginning to think Sunak is WORSE than Johnson- just so slimy and nasty. Everything he does is for survival and his latest is to drop green policies including stopping all Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and pushing for new oil and gas licenses in Scotland while the planet is burning. Just to win seats like Uxbridge and put Starmer on the backfoot (and no doubt Starmer will drop Labour's green policies so fast since he has zero principles).

 

His children's generation will never forgive him and others for the rampant destruction to their futures.

Another Michael Spicer classic :lol:

 

Chris Pincher (whose name is perhaps the most perfect/creepy example of nominative determinism ever) has resigned after losing his appeal against a suspension for groping allegations, meaning another by-election is on the way.

Although I'm glad that this has happened as that was unacceptable (and also Johnson's condoning of it was one of the big factors to his exit) it's a shame that it's only this kind of sleaze scandal brings these Tories down rather than horrific ideology, divide and rule policies and cronyism. So only half a cheer. But yep better than nothing.

 

Of course expecting the Tories to finally go down at the next election but 1) That could be as late as Jan 25, too effing long away and 2) Labour aren't going to change the system at all. They may clean up in certain areas but you just know that overall the problems in the country with inequality won't improve.

Edited September 7, 20231 yr by Smint

Indeed, the interview on Ch4 news between Guru Murphy and Wes Streeting was hilarious when he said ‘so you’s are just really offering nothing more than competency not a different philosophy’ 🤣

Although I'm glad that this has happened as that was unacceptable (and also Johnson's condoning of it was one of the big factors to his exit) it's a shame that it's only this kind of sleaze scandal brings these Tories down rather than horrific ideology, divide and rule policies and cronyism. So only half a cheer. But yep better than nothing.

 

Of course expecting the Tories to finally go down at the next election but 1) That could be as late as Jan 25, too effing long away and 2) Labour aren't going to change the system at all. They may clean up in certain areas but you just know that overall the problems in the country with inequality won't improve.

 

The problem is Labour will be inheriting an economy in a really poor place. There isn’t the money like there was last time they got in so this will restrict what they can actually do. Labour do have some good ideas unlike the Tories who have nothing credible to offer apart from their usual incompetence.