[Bones McCoy]

I go there - so you don't have to.

In today's highlights:

Miles Davis famously said "It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play."
ConservativeHome are currently not playing the notes about the Prime Minister's recent difficulties.

We therefore turn to this great example of how to make the Jocks, Micks and Taffs feel at home in the United Kingdom.

The Department of Health should deliver some NHS services directly in the devolved territories

https://www.conservativehome.com/thetor ... ories.html

[Bones McCoy]

And today, a regular contributor appears to be calling for the resumption of armed sectarian conflict in N. Ireland.

So I welcome the removal of an appeaser like Foster, and hope that she will be replaced by Sammy Wilson. The DUP must fight using all means at their disposal to make the Protocol completely unworkable. Contrary to what this article suggests, neither Boris Johnson nor Lord Frost have any intention of standing up for the integrity of our country. They are both happy to betray us to Brussels - hence their capitulation over the legislative changes initially proposed in the UKIM Act.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Makes you wonder how they hold down a job in the real world.

[Bones McCoy]

Makes you wonder how they hold down a job in the real world.

Judging by the posting times (and a lot of the "When I used to work in Law" type comments), they're mostly retired, unless Putinbots have been fitted with a "cranky old git" AI module.

Maybe they should rename it ConservativeCareHome - eh readers:



Would be a first, shoehorning Care and Conservative into a single sentence.

[MisterMuncher]

And today, a regular contributor appears to be calling for the resumption of armed sectarian conflict in N. Ireland.

So I welcome the removal of an appeaser like Foster, and hope that she will be replaced by Sammy Wilson. The DUP must fight using all means at their disposal to make the Protocol completely unworkable. Contrary to what this article suggests, neither Boris Johnson nor Lord Frost have any intention of standing up for the integrity of our country. They are both happy to betray us to Brussels - hence their capitulation over the legislative changes initially proposed in the UKIM Act.

I wonder how that'll work out, given Sammy or Eddie Poots (current front runner) is pretty much going to kill the nose-holding DUP vote. Michelle as FM seems a given. There's a not insignificant probability it ends with Naomi Long as DFM too, and the DUP essentially relegated to spoiler votes and bombast.

I also wonder how the intensely rotten affair of Larne Harbour (when the DUP council Chief Exec took it upon herself to recommend the port closure based on the opinions of DUP MPs, not the council, over a nebulous at best terrorist threat) squares with GB Tories. Anger at the sheer disregard for even trying to legitimise it, or grudging admiration for the utter audacity?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Tubby Isaacs]

You want an exploding irony meter?

On the other hand, I suppose it's good Rachel Wolf is putting the case against Johnsonian hard hat photo op spaffing.

[Bones McCoy]

You want an exploding irony meter?

On the other hand, I suppose it's good Rachel Wolf is putting the case against Johnsonian hard hat photo op spaffing.

Soft play centres are the devil's own creation.
The tiny goblin just turned 18, so it's over a decade since we last brought one home from a snot-encrusted piss-soaked ball-pool.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ouch.

Soft play? Soft play? No soft play for us. And we went really high on the swings and all.

[MisterMuncher]

Soft play areas typically involve paying in and minimum wage zero hour workers, unlike provision of proper nursery, childcare or outdoor park facilities, which require either public investment, highly trained staff or both. What better than to get money from the parents, tuck the kids away on an industrial estate, then sell the (less used) park off to property developers to sit on until they've wedged a big enough bung for planning permission. As such it's the Tory dream.


(Also, my de rigeur recommendation of China Mieville's "The Ball Room" from Looking For Jake, which has been quietly eating my sanity at birthday parties since the eldest turned 3

[RedSparrows]

'Hello, we're the Tories. We denuded this area of fulfilling jobs in the 80s, castrated your opportunities in the early 90s, and then Labour RUINED EVERYTHING DIDN'T THEY and then in 2010 we decided to stop sending you any money at all. Now we're keen to invest in soft play for your benefit.'

[davidjay]

'Hello, we're the Tories. We denuded this area of fulfilling jobs in the 80s, castrated your opportunities in the early 90s, and then Labour RUINED EVERYTHING DIDN'T THEY and then in 2010 we decided to stop sending you any money at all. Now we're keen to invest in soft play for your benefit.'

And blue passports.

[Bones McCoy]

Penny (not her!) eventually drops through even he hardest heads.
A writer looks back at fourteen wasted years, and prepares to run up the white flag.

What if the polls are right?

https://conservativehome.com/2024/03/24 ... are-right/

Well worth 2 hours of ploughing through the comments if schadenfreude's you thing.
All five stages of mourning are on show:

Denial: Gary's

Brexit disaster, what brexit disaster.

Anger: Jim the captain's mate's -

The Conservatives abandoned actually being Conservative in the early/mid 2000's and instead became Liberal Socialists in the Blair mould. They've destroyed the Police, The NHS, HM Forces, The Energy Sector, welcomed Mass Uncontrolled Immigration year after year, 3/4 of the Party tried to scupper Brexit, sold out NI, then fudged the end deal. They have failed to protect our borders and the public. For shame.

Bargaining: Amber's -

I sent a 9 page letter to the Prime Minister telling him that if he doesn't ACT as a Conservative and give us Conservative policies and Labour win, we could see A Tory government return being made virtually impossible.

Depression Angelo Basu's

I think we will need it to play out because even if we were inclined to do anything about it (I don’t see any signs from MPs mithering about leadership challenges of that) it’s far too late even if we inflict upon everyone the joy of a January election.

Acceptance Leah The First's

Andrea Jenkyns says Sunak should go, Simon Clarke says Brady has 51 letters 2 letters short. There will be 10 of them more after the May elections defeat. Sunak should call the GE soon, not hanging in there, squatting in No10 to please his in laws. The Country does not come first for him
Self serving charlatan.

[Youngian]

Very amusing but Bozo didn’t gain power in a vacuum did he?

ChrisHughes
I'm wondering how Labour are going to raise the money for all those statues of Boris Johnson that they are going to want to erect as a huge thank you for his almost single handed destruction of the Conservative Party.

More borrowing no doubt!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Simon Clarke says Brady has 51 letters 2 letters short

I'm amazed to see Clarke actually did say this. But there's no way he can know this, unless Brady has told him, which is very unlikely.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Article on Con Home is strongly recommended. It's by one of the MPs they kicked out in 2019. I'm quite impressed they still publish him, but that's not the main point I take from the situation.

[Andy McDandy]

Hmm. Struck me as "In the interests of fairness, neither of you get anything" cuntishness.

[Bones McCoy]

My favourite comment:

Apparently, in the bunker, Sunak believes a hung parliament is likely and he can somehow win two months later. Perhaps they have some special polling we haven't seen but I think its all a bit Downfall.


"Everything will be fine if Steiner wins Nimbyshire East!

Mein Rishi, Steiner... Steiner lost his deposit.

The following stay here: Holden, Aiken, Hart and Brady."