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Doctors and nurses, little kiddies at Great Ormond Street, bring back matron.

Bobbies on the beat.

How did we fall for the outright lie that you can have good public services and low taxation?

Who came up with that?

If Jeremy Cunt thinks doctors and nurses do too much admin, why on earth is Jeremy Cunt advocating they take over the running of hospitals, thus creating even more admin?

Jeremy Cunt is stupid. Just like the rest of what's left in the parliamentary Conservative Party.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:41 pm How did we fall for the outright lie that you can have good public services and low taxation?

Who came up with that?

I believe that the first British politician to advocate that was George Osbourbe around the mid-noughties, using the Irish Celtic Tiger boom as evidence of it working not realising that the whole thing was starting to show cracks a couple of years before the whole thing went bust. To give Osbourbe a crumb of credit he never advocated anything like that again post-2008.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:38 pm Bobbies on the beat.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, Big Ben,
The rosy red cheeks of the little children.



Engerland swings...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... eader.html

Dan Hodges, who does seem to have pretty good access to the Tories, and has got over his "Ed Miliband was mean to me" strop, considers the conference. Apparently, Gove and Mordaunt have been plotting, and doing the rounds of local associations, and fundraising. Braverman is being watched like a hawk for any non-canon utterances, and has the backing of the 40 or so utter nutters on the really fucking hard right. Bad Enoch is seen as a potential unity leader, as she's vaguely normal and competent by this lot's low standards. Hunt is resigned to, well, resignation, because he doesn't really have any principles or beliefs other than coin it in. Meanwhile, Johnson is still lurking about, waiting for his moment to get attention and fuck Sunak over. Fun and games.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:38 pm Bobbies on the beat.

Proper bin men.

Drinking from the hosepipe. Blue pop. Morecambe and Wise. Do you remember Spangles?

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:38 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:38 pm Bobbies on the beat.

Proper bin men.

Fiver for the driver and fuck the rest of them.

Trevor Phillips asked Gove this morning what he thought Braverman means by the amorphous term multiculturalism she opposes. The need to coalesce around a set of common liberal values like the rule of law, explained Gove. Don’t even know where to start.

I see as well that Danny Kruger's New Conservative grouping will be launching their manifesto at a fringe meeting this week. Liz Truss will be at the Great British Growth Rally. It is all getting a bit People's Front of Judea.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:15 pm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... eader.html

Dan Hodges, who does seem to have pretty good access to the Tories, and has got over his "Ed Miliband was mean to me" strop, considers the conference. Apparently, Gove and Mordaunt have been plotting, and doing the rounds of local associations, and fundraising. Braverman is being watched like a hawk for any non-canon utterances, and has the backing of the 40 or so utter nutters on the really fucking hard right. Bad Enoch is seen as a potential unity leader, as she's vaguely normal and competent by this lot's low standards. Hunt is resigned to, well, resignation, because he doesn't really have any principles or beliefs other than coin it in. Meanwhile, Johnson is still lurking about, waiting for his moment to get attention and fuck Sunak over. Fun and games.

I know the British electorate aren’t the brightest buttons but fuck me they’re surely not going to buy any of this line up of dross. But fear not, the Tories have a hero of the hour waiting in the wings

increasing whispers about Foreign Secretary James Cleverly emerging as a possible unity candidate.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:47 pm Drinking from the hosepipe. Blue pop. Morecambe and Wise. Do you remember Spangles?

Terry and June back on the BBC.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:49 pm Trevor Phillips asked Gove this morning what he thought Braverman means by the amorphous term multiculturalism she opposes. The need to coalesce around a set of common liberal values like the rule of law, explained Gove. Don’t even know where to start.

Is Gove cunningly hinting at "there's Sharia Law in Tower Hamlets" there?

Bring back absolute monarchy, says Esther. Or perhaps Rishi could zip around the country in a helicopter making the important decisions, like a 21st century Henry II.

Devolution isn't a "layer" anyway. It's a separate group of people making decisions because they're closer to it than central government.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:14 pm

Boo hoo, Tories can’t get elected as mayors and it’s not fair.

Yep. They're a waste of time and money if it's not "one of us" in the big chair.

The public are getting the wrong end of the stick about the latest demented US culture war import. If the Tories don’t up their game, voters will be supporting lower speed limits outside schools next.

A '15 minute neighbourhood' is one in which all essential amenities are within a 15 minute walk for everyone living in the area - and most Britons (62%) support their area becoming one (including 57% of Tory and 73% of Labour voters)

15 minute neighbourhoods - here's what amenities do Britons want within a 15 min walk from their home:

Bus stop: 90%
Post box: 87%
Pharmacy: 85%
GP surgery: 83%
Park: 81%
Primary school: 74%
Convenience store: 70%
Nursery: 67%
Supermarket: 59%
Bank: 55%
https://x.com/yougov/status/17084555755 ... Dkr8MiQKBg