This Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy

[Cassius]

Yet another gay Tory MP turns out to be an absolute rotter and resigns.

Chris Pincher
Crispin Blunt
Boris Johnson
Imran Ahmed Khan
Andrew Rosindell (Coming soon?)
Scott Benton (Coming soon?)

I didn’t know Boris was gay!

Talks in a funny voice.
Exaggerated mannerisms.
Secretive private life.
Uses fancy words.
Went to Eton.
Drinks tea.

I mean, all the stereotypes are there, just for all the wrong reasons.

Being married to Carrie Johnson is also a big Pink Flag.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yet another gay Tory MP turns out to be an absolute rotter and resigns.

Chris Pincher
Crispin Blunt
Boris Johnson
Imran Ahmed Khan
Andrew Rosindell (Coming soon?)
Scott Benton (Coming soon?)

I didn’t know Boris was gay!

Where's the "That's The Joke" gif

[Zinneke]

Also just realised the nominative determinism curse of Tory MPs has also struck with Crispin's drug charges.

[TheTide]

Talking of the devil (BoJo, not Blunt), it's just been announced that he's getting a show on GB News.

[Torrain]

Talking of the devil (BoJo, not Blunt), it's just been announced that he's getting a show on GB News.

On one hand - seems like a recipe for some Berlesconi-style populism, that could do some damage.

On the other, going from a world leader on first name terms with the US President, to being stuck in staff meetings with the likes of Martin Daubney and Darren Grimes within 14 months is such a fall from grace that it almost seems like a punishment in its own right.

[Zinneke]

Also isn't GB News's original thing COVID trutherism and especially anti-lockdown. Johnson is seen as the ultimate high priest of those policies by them. And it's surely the main thing holding him back from being popular with the nutty Right.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Yet another gay Tory MP turns out to be an absolute rotter and resigns.

Chris Pincher
Crispin Blunt
Boris Johnson
Imran Ahmed Khan
Andrew Rosindell (Coming soon?)
Scott Benton (Coming soon?)

He hasn't resigned but Rob Roberts as well.

[JimJamUK]

Also isn't GB News's original thing COVID trutherism and especially anti-lockdown. Johnson is seen as the ultimate high priest of those policies by them. And it's surely the main thing holding him back from being popular with the nutty Right.

A good proportion of the headbangers actually like Boris and don’t seem to realise how moderate he was/conveniently ignore it. I mean, this is a guy who called for an amnesty for illegal immigrants and oversaw a rising tax burden, yet some of his ‘loyalists’ spend their time banging on about the Channel crossings and how high the tax burden has become under Sunak.

[Conservatopia]

I once again remind people that

British conservatism is entirely vibes based.

[Torrain]

One of the two perennials finally has a seat, after seven tries. Aphra Brandreth got Chester South and Eddisbury. Next to her father’s old seat.

Notable only because she beat out Kieran Mullan, a Red Wall MP who’s been planning a run for this specific seat for the best part of a year. He explicitly stood down from his Crewe seat to fight here - so might be the end of the road for him.

[CumbrianLefty]

There's hope for Seb yet - maybe

[Filuwaúrdjan]

One of the two perennials finally has a seat, after seven tries. Aphra Brandreth got Chester South and Eddisbury. Next to her father’s old seat.

It includes I think about a third of it. Will have helped, knowing Con associations in that part of the world.

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1720063556178087978
Greg, Seb is literally right there. _/s

Tbh, I'd guess this is more about a last-minute drive for more female candidates (after the reporting during conference season about the widening gender gap in selected Conservative candidates for the next election), than a general lack of nominees.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Yes, the account is a good clearing house for tips (of varying reliability) but Crick himself is a crank and pretty much all his interpretations are demonstrably ridiculous.

[CumbrianLefty]

Didn't he say Brandreth Jnr was a better candidate than anybody Labour has picked (or similar)?

[Torrain]

Didn't Brandreth Senior and Crick both go to the same Oxford College, and both end up as President of the Oxford Union? Maybe it's an old boys network thing.

Crick's been very odd about Labour selections this cycle - he's done entire articles and tv segments about how Starmer has centralised the process and "fixed" selections. If anyone else was tracking selections in that level of detail, I'd eskew him as a source.

Should probably have just shared Hands' post, without the commentary.

[CumbrianLefty]

Not condoning it, but Labour selections have been frequently "fixed" since the year dot.

[TheTide]

Bob Stewart (MP for Beckenham) has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offense.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67310954

[CumbrianLefty]

Unlikely to lead to a custodial sentence, if so there will be no recall.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Nadine dorries has made some interesting allegations about anonymous Tory MPs ranging from normal Tory shenanigans (a Tory mp had sex with a prostitute on a billiard table while 6 other MPs watched, the whips office blackmailing a "popular minister" to turn against Boris with a video of him receiving oral sex, Tory orgies hosted by a senior party fixer etc) to so criminal you wonder why she didn't come to police with it before her career ended (an MP supposedly had a laptop of child exploitation images they were holding  to protect a relative from prosecution being the most wtf, along with a claim an mp used date rape drugs). She also claims the Cummings started the rumour about boris groping a woman at the Tory conference and that the cctv camera that caught out hancock was planted by his internal enemies.

It's a fascinating paradox: I'm prepared to believe anything about tory MPs, but I'm never prepared to believe anything from Nad.

In slightly more credible news of wrongdoing, Jake Berry and Wendy Morton wrote a letter to the police while they were in the truss government that the party was covering up an unnamed serial rapist MP.

[TheTide]

Nadine dorries has made some interesting allegations about anonymous Tory MPs ranging from normal Tory shenanigans (a Tory mp had sex with a prostitute on a billiard table while 6 other MPs watched, the whips office blackmailing a "popular minister" to turn against Boris with a video of him receiving oral sex, Tory orgies hosted by a senior party fixer etc) to so criminal you wonder why she didn't come to police with it before her career ended (an MP supposedly had a laptop of child exploitation images they were holding  to protect a relative from prosecution being the most wtf). She also claims the Cummings started the rumour about boris groping a woman at the Tory conference and that the cctv camera that caught out hancock was planted by his internal enemies.

It's a fascinating paradox: I'm prepared to believe anything about tory MPs, but I'm never prepared to believe anything from Nad.

None of those seem to be about money (well, not directly anyway) and keep to the great tradition of Tory scandals revolving around sex. Just as traditionally, Labour scandals revolve around money.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Nadine dorries has made some interesting allegations about anonymous Tory MPs ranging from normal Tory shenanigans (a Tory mp had sex with a prostitute on a billiard table while 6 other MPs watched, the whips office blackmailing a "popular minister" to turn against Boris with a video of him receiving oral sex, Tory orgies hosted by a senior party fixer etc) to so criminal you wonder why she didn't come to police with it before her career ended (an MP supposedly had a laptop of child exploitation images they were holding  to protect a relative from prosecution being the most wtf). She also claims the Cummings started the rumour about boris groping a woman at the Tory conference and that the cctv camera that caught out hancock was planted by his internal enemies.

It's a fascinating paradox: I'm prepared to believe anything about tory MPs, but I'm never prepared to believe anything from Nad.

None of those seem to be about money (well, not directly anyway) and keep to the great tradition of Tory scandals revolving around sex. Just as traditionally, Labour scandals revolve around money.

There is a Liberal scandal in there as well (she claims a fixer killed his ex girlfriend's rabbit).

[CumbrianLefty]

I presume she has contacted the police about the laptop allegation at least?

[Torrain]

If she planned to make such serious allegations, it seems bizarre (if in-character) to pre-empt them with all the "Johnson's top advisor, who I've nicknamed Dr No, is a Bond villain psychopath who dismembers rabbits and tried to burn his family to death" stuff. It's just so lurid.

Whatever the truth of the allegations - it all reflects very poorly on Dorries, for her to take *this* approach. Either she's libelling on an industrial scale, or she turned a blind eye to some truly heineous stuff, until she was ready to capitalise on it.

The incident with the MP reported by Jake Berry and Wendy Morton look like it might be legitimate - reports were apparently submitted to both the Speaker, and the police, per Sky News.

[Torrain]

One other thing - remember that seat we discussed a few pages back, with two ministers battling it out for the right to chicken run - Bridlington and the Wolds?

Both of them (Stuart Andrew, Richard Holden) have lost out to the third candidate, a former Hammersmith councillor, who got 80% of the vote on the first ballot.

If this starts to be repeated, and local associations continue to reject carpet-bagging MPs, wonder what impact it'll have on backbench morale? Can't do wonders for it.