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Can't wait to see Francois and his ilk attempt to pose as centrists, and still lose their seats.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:44 pm Baker's examined at his local majority and shat his "hardman" pants.

High Wycombe has a surprisingly large ethnic minority population. So there may be some calculation in this, though I recall that some time ago he praised David Lammy's report on criminal justice, so it could also be entirely genuine.

Steve Baker has been conciliatory towards Remainers before and admitted being taken aback by the strength of anti Brexit feeling in High Wycombe (growing younger commuter population). Reaching out to the other side is what you do after a bitterly divided referendum. Baker’s remarks stood out as he’s the only Brexiter I’ve heard adopt a sympathetic tone. To be fair, fucked if I would if Remain won.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:43 pm

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:44 pm Baker's examined at his local majority and shat his "hardman" pants.

High Wycombe has a surprisingly large ethnic minority population. So there may be some calculation in this, though I recall that some time ago he praised David Lammy's report on criminal justice, so it could also be entirely genuine.

Is it not also possible that praising Lammy was also a calculation?

I don't recall there being any obvious need to do it, but maybe.

You'd think they would know better

“Siri, show me an example of buyer’s remorse…”

It is no longer their votes that put the current PM in, it’s a freedom I think a fair switchers are trying out.

Remind me again who the PM is, exactly?

Thicker than a Boxing Day turd.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:59 pm Thicker than a Boxing Day turd.

You, Sir, are much too generous in your praise

Oh dear. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Philp, seems to have a rather chequered business history, involving bankrupt firms who never paid large sums owed to HMRC.

PFTC

They're combatting The Woke.

View from the conference floor: Hooray for high interests rates, I’m alright Jack as I’ve paid my mortgage off, kids today don’t know they’re born and want something for nothing.

No empathy. Common theme.

Buying stuff on credit has been a thing for about 100 years. What the fuck's a mortgage at the end of the day?

Quite. It's utterly mangled thinking.

Yet another one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63177669

Alexa, show me someone who still votes Tory.