"You done good for us. We'll look after you." <creates obstacle course between Afghanistan and UK. Installs thick gobshite to whip up hatred against good friends who actually manage to make it here>
Only 22 Afghan people, including eight children, have been resettled in the UK under part of a government scheme that promised to help vulnerable refugees.
At the same time, the number of Afghan nationals arriving in the UK on small boats across the Channel rose to 8,633 last year – a sixfold increase on 2021. Afghans have in recent months overtaken Albanians as the predominant nationality undertaking the dangerous, irregular crossings.
The lack of a viable functioning route to the UK was forcing desperate Afghans, many of whom worked closely with the British authorities in Kabul before the Taliban took over, to take small boats across the Channel, a refugee charity said.
The government had promised to take up to 20,000 people, including up to 5,000 in the first year, who were forced to flee Afghanistan or faced threats of persecution from the Taliban...
Many of these people (note: people, not "migrants) had worked closely with the British armed forces and are in genuine danger if returned home. But it's business as usual for the UK government. Government makes promises. Government breaks promises. As far as the Tories are concerned, Afghans are foreign and brown, so who cares what happens to them.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:24 am
by Bones McCoy
What about the vegetables?
Viewers of a certain age may be experiencing Spitting Image deja vu
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
by Malcolm Armsteen
From Popbitch:
>> Kwasi behaviour <<
A more personal approach
Since losing his job at the Treasury, Kwasi Kwarteng hasn't been able to cause distress and devastation on the scale he once could – but that hasn't dampened his passion for it. He's still determined to make people's lives miserable, even if he has to do it one-by-one.
High on his own fumes after a big interview on TalkTV last week, Kwasi took great relish in tearing strips out of one of the runners there because the taxi picking him up from the Ealing studio was late.
By one minute.
Kwasi was spotted in London's Nobu hotel yesterday knocking back the Bloody (or Virgin) Marys in the afternoon and talking very, very loudly and animatedly at his companion.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:36 pm
by Youngian
I don’t buy tomatoes often but I bought a swede last month due to an absence of turnips*. Of all vegetables Coffey could reference
* The supermarket was in Liz Truss’s constituency, a Turnip Taliban stronghold.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:30 pm
by Crabcakes
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
High on his own fumes after a big interview on TalkTV last week, Kwasi took great relish in tearing strips out of one of the runners there because the taxi picking him up from the Ealing studio was late.
It’s this sort of thing - along with Raab and Patel’s bullying, 30p Lee’s lack of empathy, Braverman’s desperation to kick people while they’re down and Johnson’s grasping and pathological lying that I find worst of all. It’s not ideology, or party line. They are just the absolute basest, nastiest and most self entitled people.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:50 pm
by Youngian
They are just the absolute basest, nastiest and most self entitled people.
Makes them easier to despise. Doubt their personalities and choice of politics is just coincidental.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:17 pm
by Andy McDandy
There's definitely an element of "You all laughed at me, well, who's laughing now?" about several of them.
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
High on his own fumes after a big interview on TalkTV last week, Kwasi took great relish in tearing strips out of one of the runners there because the taxi picking him up from the Ealing studio was late.
It’s this sort of thing - along with Raab and Patel’s bullying, 30p Lee’s lack of empathy, Braverman’s desperation to kick people while they’re down and Johnson’s grasping and pathological lying that I find worst of all. It’s not ideology, or party line. They are just the absolute basest, nastiest and most self entitled people.
They are just the absolute basest, nastiest and most self entitled people.
Makes them easier to despise. Doubt their personalities and choice of politics is just coincidental.
I think there's a strong element of "follow the leader" in play.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:40 pm
by Yug
HG Wells predicting the current government
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:59 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The deslections seem to be adding up.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:07 pm
by Crabcakes
The Tory membership really are utterly clueless. They’re gearing up to select a load of suck-ups for a leader who isn’t leader and won’t come back to run a gutted party in opposition anyway (as that wouldn’t have prestige, pay well and would need him to put in some work), while creating a load of bitter enemies along the way.
At this rate, pretty soon those predictions of a 25% vote share will look generous.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:07 pm
by Andy McDandy
The Johnson shadow party at work.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:52 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The level of economic confidence is improving (albeit from dreadful to merely crap, for now), so the "put the money guy in" strategy with Sunak looks like the right one. But if Bozo and fan club follow through on the NI Protocol, I think 25% could indeed be optimistic,
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:42 am
by soulboy
More Tory sleaze.
The Apprentice's Karren Brady is accused of 'breaking BBC guidelines for sharing details of her boardroom fashion online'
I'm sure this would be exactly the same headline if she was a Labour Peer.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:18 pm
by Bones McCoy
Daily Star leading the opposition press (again).
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:36 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Oh ha ha ha, ho ho, ha ha ha!
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:14 pm
by satnav
I've noticed Andrew Neil at Mail has described some of the Tory MPs who have been deselected as 'back stabbers', such language really isn't helpful and it seeks to make out that the Tory MPs who failed to back Boris are in the wrong rather than Johnson. Johnson's downfall was completely of his own making as a result of his dishonesty and his incompetence.
Re: Conservatives Generally
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 2:20 pm
by Youngian
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:36 pm
Oh ha ha ha, ho ho, ha ha ha!
She might not be male, white and over 60 but I can still relate to Braverman as a typical Tory voter.
