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Their problem is that they follow the US Republican Party playbook and that party was a busted flush and hollowed out by the Tea Party / MAGA / Christian Right lunatics some time ago. There is no longer any kind of respectable political / economic theory coming from the right. They have had...

I think their problem was having to choose someone who wasn't a dribbling half wit, but was also a member of today's Conservative Party. ;)

Poll time @crodonilson ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/apr/15/david-cameron-tories-election-rishi-sunak-rwanda-uk-politics-live "When LBC’s Nick Ferrari put it to him that his record as an election winner made him the equivalent of Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson, and asked if he had any advice for...

After the Culture Secretary made an idiot of herself on SkyNews fumbling for evidence of BBC bias*, the brains trust at Tory HQ has got to work on examples of bias and come up with..... .... Um, ten minutes of 'The News Quiz'...

Here it is then: https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan/conservative-party-manifesto-2019 Where is the section saying they intend to send asylum seekers to Rwanda?

Contrary to popular belief the phrase 'Going back to Square One' doesn't orignate in radio broadcasts of football matches. The grid system used rectangles, not squares and 'square' one wasn't the goalkeeper, but just the left side of the defensive area of one of the teams. It doesn't make...

By the way… ‘The Five Families’. If you’re choosing your own nickname and you name yourself after groups of murderous criminals, presumably because you think it sounds cool, you really need to rewatch the Mitchell & Webb ‘Are We The Baddies?’ Nazi sketch. The Five Families weren’t just in ‘The...

He's right that Housing is a problem, he's right that people are struggling, he's right that the waiting lists in A&E are unacceptable, he's right that schools are at breaking point. Blaming this on immigration and taking no responsiblity when his party has been in charge of housing policy...

- We have to do austerity because of the instability caused by the Brexit vote. The Brexit vote that followed six years of austerity. The Brexit vote that Cameron lost because of a backlash against the damage done by austerity. If the leeches and bleeding don't work, try more leeches and...

From the Guardian's report on Sunak's plan: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/16/westminster-peers-and-mps-pledge-to-block-sunaks-new-rwanda-plan-on-asylum-seekers “We believe we are acting to fulfil the wishes of the public...My belief is that the Rwanda migration partnership...

He's actually been made a baron, which is an even higher rank of peerage. I think that barons have to be the baron of somewhere. I remember Laurence Olivier being 'Baron Olivier of Brighton'. Here's hoping that Sunak makes him 'Baron Cameron of Gloucestershire - Old Spot'

Tories have leaked research suggesting that they are going to lose both, but this is a well used tactic to manage expectation. In reality, they are odds on favourites to win Dorries' seat in Mid Beds because the opposition vote is split between Labour and the Lib Dems. Labour are favourites to...

If it's the 1970s of punk, disco, hip hop, Fawlty Towers, Bagpuss, endless glasses of luminous orange squash, all of those crisps that were in that thread the other day, Brighton getting promoted and actually giving a s**t about other people, then I'm in. Can we give the eighties a miss this...

By the way, whilst thinking of 1997 and hoping for anything close to a repeat, I'd highly recommend Brian Cathcart's book 'Were You Up For Portillo?' It's a stunning and often hilarious description of the TV coverage of the 1997 election night. Okay, Blair was ultimately a disappointment, but...

Not always:

The Tory party under Cameron that legalised Gay marriage is the nice Australian girl who was here last week. But now they're back:

Braverman today: "I know they have tried to make me into a hate figure because I tell the truth. The blunt, unvarnished truth about what is happening in our country." "I tell the truth" She said. Does she? From her resignation letter to Liz Truss: "Earlier today, I sent an official document...

If this is a policy, I reckon it might be safer to do it the other way around.

Capital is international. At the risk of getting an ice pick to make my ears burn, socialism, even democratic socialism, needs to be international too. The right, with it's obsession with protecting the power of the nation state, has recognised this far more than the left has.