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best summed up in a widely shared Brian Cox/Succession meme

You'll have to enlighten me...

Oh yes, I remember now!

Apparently Braverman has joined Reform.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:24 pm Apparently Braverman has joined Reform.

Confirmed, I believe.

Oh dear, how sad etc. etc.

If they keep this up and get a grownup in for Badenoch the Tories will be flirting with electability.

Hopefully Truss next and then they'll pretty much have the full set.

Rosvanian wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:08 pm Hopefully Truss next and then they'll pretty much have the full set.

And Bozo.

It's quite majestic how the 'change' required seems to be 'putting up with the fucking wasters who got us here', and somehow this ISN'T seen as a problem by the press, so far as I can tell.

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:11 pm It's quite majestic how the 'change' required seems to be 'putting up with the fucking wasters who got us here', and somehow this ISN'T seen as a problem by the press, so far as I can tell.

Nothing they do is a problem according to the press.

I think the best thing we can hope for is that it changes the view of some of them who would never vote Tory but would for reform to rethink that.

In my view every defection thus far has been a positive for Kemi, then again I am not going vote for fascism or fascism light.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:14 pm

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:11 pm It's quite majestic how the 'change' required seems to be 'putting up with the fucking wasters who got us here', and somehow this ISN'T seen as a problem by the press, so far as I can tell.

Nothing they do is a problem according to the press.

Indeed, the main complaint is that when in power, they didn't go far enough.

mattomac wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:22 pm then again I am not going vote for fascism or fascism light.

Come the next GE, do I simply not vote or do I vote for Hayes to keep Reform out?

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:24 pm Apparently Braverman has joined Reform.

I've seen politics described as "Entertainment for ugly people".
But don't we think Farage is overdoing it?

And (snowflakes) when I say ugly, I'm not talking about appearances.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 12:28 pm Oh dear, how sad etc. etc.

If they keep this up and get a grownup in for Badenoch the Tories will be flirting with electability.

Suella effing off is a good first day for their new project.

Conservative politicians Sir Andy Street and Baroness Ruth Davidson are launching a new movement that will attempt to attract millions of "politically homeless" voters to the Tory party.
their research suggested that seven million people who describe themselves as centrist, or centre-right, felt no party currently represented them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v7nnk3vlo

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk80pzxkexo

TV chef Nigella Lawson will replace Dame Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off, broadcaster Channel 4 has confirmed.

Dame Prue has been a judge on the reality baking competition since 2017, but announced last week that she would leave the series adding: "Now feels like the right time to step back".

Lawson, who will join Paul Hollywood as a judge, said in a statement: "I'm uncharacteristically rather lost for words right now.

Who'a next? Esther McVey?

Credit to Tory Central Office for this hilarious initial response to the Braverman announcement (alas since withdrawn) :

. It was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect. The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy.

Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health

That's very low rent and unnecessary.