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« Reply #3800 on: June 08, 2023, 09:36:11 AM »

On at least some estimates, the only GB seat where the Tory share has fallen continuously at every GE since 1979 - and as things stand, that record is likely to be extended next time.
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« Reply #3801 on: June 08, 2023, 01:05:35 PM »
Quote from: JimJamUK on June 08, 2023, 08:57:28 AM
Quote from: Coldstream on June 08, 2023, 03:28:44 AM
I can’t imagine Carla Denyer is happy that rather than them throw everything at Bristol Central they are now being forced to defend Brighton Pavillion too.
They threw the kitchen sink at Bristol West the past 3 elections so I’m not sure how lacking the campaign will be (and if it would make much of a difference), and Brighton Pavilion is fairly distant from Bristol like their other targets (Sheffield Central, Waveney Valley etc) so it won’t pick off too many activists anyways.

They bussed in activists from around the country in 2017 & 2019, I don’t recall that happening in 2015 but it may have and it was essentially the only seat that had any campaigning in during the last two elections - point is they can’t do that if they are also fighting a rearguard defence in Brighton.
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« Reply #3802 on: June 08, 2023, 01:45:51 PM »
I don’t know what to say…
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« Reply #3803 on: June 08, 2023, 03:02:19 PM »
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I don’t know what to say…



In fairness, there are people who avoid Greggs because it is (in their minds) full of Working-Class Scum™️. Almost all such people happen to reside in the political journalism bubble. Not that that has anything to do with Sebastian Payne.
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« Reply #3804 on: June 08, 2023, 03:55:55 PM »
Payne really is just 90s-era Gove without the accent:
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« Reply #3805 on: June 09, 2023, 12:45:55 AM »
What I love about our system is that it makes people like Seb do these hilariously bad interviews where as in the US he’d be sat in a room talking to rich old donors- we do the humiliation in the public!
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« Reply #3806 on: June 09, 2023, 05:18:59 AM »
The fake Italian nature of "Càfe Niro" makes it perfect to represent the aspirational middle-ground Briton, the same person who thinks lentils and polenta are fancy and whose ancestors liked forks because they were exotic.
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« Reply #3807 on: June 09, 2023, 05:55:35 AM »
Carol Vorderman has seemingly become one of the most vocal anti-Tory celebrities. Interestingly, she was strongly anti-Labour/right-wing in general in the run-up to the 2010 election (giving a rather embarrassing performance on Question Time in the process). All of this makes one suspect that if she supports a football club, then it is Manchester City.
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« Reply #3808 on: June 09, 2023, 07:08:20 AM »
« Edited: June 09, 2023, 07:13:03 AM by CumbrianLefty »
She was actually a lifelong Tory until recently, being one of the relatively few celebs willing to bat for the party even in 1997. She was anti-Brexit though, and that seems to have caused a more general shift in her world view. And as so often, the "zeal of the convert" seems to apply here.
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« Reply #3809 on: June 09, 2023, 09:08:45 AM »
It's Tory corruption that she really seems to be focused on, especially the misdeeds of her former friend Michelle Mone.
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« Reply #3810 on: June 09, 2023, 11:34:22 AM »
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been knighted.
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« Reply #3811 on: June 09, 2023, 11:39:14 AM »

Patel a Dame, Ben Houchen and Shaun Bailey to the Lords.

Quite a list even by the standards of these things.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162124/Resignation_Honours_2023.pdf…
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« Reply #3812 on: June 09, 2023, 12:21:00 PM »
Houchen is an "interesting" choice given certain recent stories.
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« Reply #3813 on: June 09, 2023, 02:08:18 PM »

Boris designs as MP, guess that's the end of it
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« Reply #3814 on: June 09, 2023, 02:09:36 PM »
On the same day as his 'friend' Nadine Dorries.  Lol.
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« Reply #3815 on: June 09, 2023, 02:10:37 PM »
If he's taken the Chiltern Hundreds, the report must be damning.
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« Reply #3816 on: June 09, 2023, 02:14:59 PM »
A quitter through and through.
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« Reply #3817 on: June 09, 2023, 02:15:35 PM »
hahahahahahahahahaha
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« Reply #3818 on: June 09, 2023, 02:40:40 PM »
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Boris designs as MP, guess that's the end of it
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Addio, adieu, auf wiedersehen, goodbye.
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« Reply #3819 on: June 09, 2023, 02:46:43 PM »
Looking forward to being out on the doors in Uxbridge.
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« Reply #3820 on: June 09, 2023, 03:20:22 PM »




It's about to get ugly for the Tories, the Boris Brigade is out for revenge!
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« Reply #3821 on: June 09, 2023, 03:42:44 PM »
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« Reply #3822 on: June 09, 2023, 03:58:40 PM »
No more Tory MP resignations, apparently. For now......
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« Reply #3823 on: June 09, 2023, 06:55:31 PM »
Boris is apparently less popular than even Philip Schofield:
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« Reply #3824 on: June 09, 2023, 07:21:18 PM »
Given that Boris was going to face a forced by-election, this seems like the good old "You can't fire me. I quit!" act. Not a good day for Trumpanoids, it seems.
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