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A name from the past, Archie Hamilton.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rds-debate

Conservative peer accused of using antisemitic tropes in Lords debate
Archie Hamilton said Jewish community in Britain ‘has an awful lot of money’ and should pay for proposed Holocaust memorial

Is there any pressure for him to be kicked out for this? There should be.

Some my best friends are Jews

The peer added that he had “plenty of Jewish blood, and I am a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel”.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:58 pm A name from the past, Archie Hamilton.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rds-debate

Conservative peer accused of using antisemitic tropes in Lords debate
Archie Hamilton said Jewish community in Britain ‘has an awful lot of money’ and should pay for proposed Holocaust memorial

Is there any pressure for him to be kicked out for this? There should be.

I think we all know the answer to that one.

This whole Trump / Ukraine rug pull has caused confusion in conservative ranks.

They'v not been so confused since Carrie Symonds announced her pregnancy.

The Johnson clip stands out as so pathetically wrong about Trump but predictable. Alleged Tory Party heavyweight brain Kwasi Kwarteng acknowledges Trump’s a prick but the globalist neoliberal decides to endorse Trump for his economics

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 12:30 am This whole Trump / Ukraine rug pull has caused confusion in conservative ranks.

They'v not been so confused since Carrie Symonds announced her pregnancy.

At least in this case there's only one suspect.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:58 pm A name from the past, Archie Hamilton.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rds-debate

Conservative peer accused of using antisemitic tropes in Lords debate
Archie Hamilton said Jewish community in Britain ‘has an awful lot of money’ and should pay for proposed Holocaust memorial

Is there any pressure for him to be kicked out for this? There should be.

My former MP when I lived in Epsom many years ago. Retired and replaced by Grayling. Now the seat is held by the Lib Dems. Hamilton used to visit the constituency about annually if we were unlucky. Not someone you could say was active locally.

Well, it's all dealt with apparently. Kemi's told him off and he's apologized. No anti-semitism training or anything by the sound of it. That's nice.

Even without the dodgy ticker, downing a bottle of vodka on crack to auto asphyxiatiate at 67 is a pretty risky pastime. Rather sad and embarrassing for his family but there's worse ways to go.

A Conservative councillor died from suffocation after placing a plastic bag over his head and tying himself to a chair, an inquest has concluded.

Les Winwood, a member of Shropshire Council, was found dead at the home of a drug dealer in Bilston on 17 July 2022, and a post-mortem examination found he had been drinking and taking cocaine.

The 67-year-old from Bridgnorth had been to the address several times before and had likely been seeking sexual pleasure there, the inquest found.

He also said Mr Winwood had a history of heart issues and had been taking medication for it since 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq24rlg8eyo

Sins, stones - and all that ...

Echoes of Stephen Milligan.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 5:18 pm Echoes of Stephen Milligan.

But no Tangerine.

Which limits the scope for Trump tie in humour.

Victorian values again.

The Tories are going really hard against Labour on academies, which seems like an odd priority. How many people actually care specifically about them?

Antonia Bance has 6 academies in her constituency, and says not one has raised any concerns about the new bill. She thinks the Tories are in another world to the schools. I’d call this a world of newspaper columnists.

I'll just leave this here:

Is this a book extract, there's a market for kiss and tell revelations on Liz Truss?

If there was, Kwarteng would've published something by now.

“Intoxicating, disconcerting, exhausting” = banged like a shithouse door in a hurricane.

I wonder whether lettuce was involved ?

I think Truss got into hot water for this - shagging a married man - the local Conservative Association took a dim view and she almost didn’t get selected.

And when he says "Wildly optimistic six months" he means inches.

Mark Field all but says she was "a right goer" there, doesn't he?

She's not my type, but I can see how she'd have been a catch in the context of Conservative Party politics. What was she doing with him?