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Chris Mason might think it’s making the political weather….The Tories are absolutely despised especially the ones in office previous to last July.

I really think it’s not the best move, I suppose no one really knows this guy. Because he’s soon shifted a hell of a lot of his so called principles.

He'll become a Parliamentary candidate, they'll say he's further proof they're the next government. Everyone's happy.

It's truly a titanic political event.

There's a missing word there. Possibly "worst" .

And, as Blackadder would say, that's up against some pretty stiff competition.

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:02 pm
I really think it’s not the best move, I suppose no one really knows this guy. Because he’s soon shifted a hell of a lot of his so called principles.

Modern Tories aren't interested in principles, only opportunities.

I think for lots of them their principles do put them in the Reform Party nowadays. That's if headbanging can be regarded as a principle.

Yug wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:03 am

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:02 pm
I really think it’s not the best move, I suppose no one really knows this guy. Because he’s soon shifted a hell of a lot of his so called principles.

Modern Tories aren't interested in principles, only opportunities.

For a Tory opportunities are principles.

davidjay wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:56 pm

Yug wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:03 am

mattomac wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:02 pm
I really think it’s not the best move, I suppose no one really knows this guy. Because he’s soon shifted a hell of a lot of his so called principles.

Modern Tories aren't interested in principles, only opportunities.

For a Tory opportunities are principles.

Kohlberg stage 2.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:29 am It's truly a titanic political event.

They can’t help themselves, saying that the last decade of Conservative MPs has been rather poor.

They've certainly gained a right one.

I know he's been booted out of Reform, but I can't face giving Lowe his own thread.

I thought James Goldsmith was a tiresome example of the "businessman with a sense of destiny". Here Rupert moans about everything, including that you "aren't' allowed" to sing "Two World Wars and One World Cup". And he's going to restore "humour", among the usual pompous, hypocritical stuff. Farage may not exactly regretting his decision to kick him out when he reads this. For all Farage's appallingness, he's probably not going to lecture you in such jarring terms.

I only entered two wars one cup in my search.

That's his excuse.

Handbags at dawn - although if they seriously think that he was ever engaged in representing his constituents, they're at least as deluded as he is:

Both sides facing defeat? Fine by me.

Fuuuuck!

Predictable.

Reform selects 18-year-old to run £2bn council

Call me a cynic, but I have a suspicion that these 18 years being put foward to run councils and departments simply to act as human shields when the inevitable shit hits the fan and these kids are too vain, naive, or are just too plain thick to see it.

Next time, when Farage goes on about a lack of experience in the cabinet because no one has run a business, I would like it if an interviewer would bring up the fact that an 18-year-old is now in charge of a county council.

I used to work for Warwickshire County Council. I ran the. mobile library service. I had a rather good experience dealing with Izzy Seccombe, then the council leader, later a great chair of the Institute for Local Government. Politically miles apart but a great leader and a true one nation Tory.

And now this.