[Youngian]

Having met Tory councillors up here in the sticks and London, they are equally repellent and instantly changeable with no cultural differences. And they tell us the metropolis is alien and different.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can you spot the problem here?

[Youngian]

Can you spot the problem here?

Why does he do it to himself? Do more nice Tweets like Cat Smith. Although Cat’s not motivated by lying low after swindling the IR.

[Youngian]

Lucy Fraser defending Zahawi with even less conviction and enthusiasm than her usual low standards. If the Tories are out of office until 2040, Fraser will still be a serving mid rank minister to fill a gap.

[Crabcakes]

Can you spot the problem here?

The tax-shitting gobshite aside, I’m just staggered any of them think this is going to even remotely work regardless. There’s hardly anyone left in the non-strike pool who they can even attempt to win over with this horse shit, let alone a majority.

[Youngian]

Stepping out of a BBC kids documentary to patronise us is Jeremy Hunt with his nothing to do with Brexit coffee cups

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is how marginal Bridgen's vaccine shit is. The Reform Party sense reputational damage.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fuck me, look at this.

[davidjay]

The way they're sticking Zahawi on Twitter these last few days shows that they either don't care how unpopular it's making them, they don't think he's done anything wrong or they want him destroyed. All are possible.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

It's aspirational...

[Andy McDandy]

Apparently CCHQ have been demanding attack lines on labour from ministers. This may be Zahawi trying to lead from the front and get people talking about anything else.

[Youngian]

This is how marginal Bridgen's vaccine shit is. The Reform Party sense reputational damage.

Farage avoided the antivax and lockdown bandwagon. His voters have skin in this game whereas they expected others to take the fall for Brexit.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What a great guy Zahawi is. The Labour activist in question is an ex City law partner.

[Youngian]

Hope more Tories melt down like this. Or more preferably like DeNiro in Raging Bull banging his head shouting “why? why? why?”

Look what I can do on my phone

[Crabcakes]

Bray isn’t biting, but I do hope someone offers to take his place. I suspect 30p Lee only put himself up because he’s physically quite a large bloke and fancied his chances. Be interesting to see him make his excuses if someone else stepped in who he didn’t think he could take out. Because he would, because that’s the sort of coward he quite obviously is.

And also: if it wasn’t obvious how furious Steve Bray makes some Tories, it is now. Nice own goal

[Tubby Isaacs]

Looking even worse for Zahawi. Seems to have paid a 30% penalty on the tax he avoided with his bloke off the internet tax dodge. That's somebody extremely careless, at best.

[kreuzberger]

Bray isn’t biting, but I do hope someone offers to take his place. I suspect 30p Lee only put himself up because he’s physically quite a large bloke and fancied his chances. Be interesting to see him make his excuses if someone else stepped in who he didn’t think he could take out. Because he would, because that’s the sort of coward he quite obviously is.

And also: if it wasn’t obvious how furious Steve Bray makes some Tories, it is now. Nice own goal

Femi? Looks like he keeps himself in shape...

[Youngian]

A good sign they expect a new boss in town, Met take note

[Yug]

On a different note

The Conservative Party - home of family values

A Derbyshire councillor locked two young children in their car for more than an hour on what the prosecution said was "the hottest day of the year" while they attended a meeting. Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court heard how the youngsters, both aged under 13, frantically texted their parent saying "we are suffering, we feel sick, please let us out" but got no response.

The hearing was told how they were later described as "wet through from sweat". And a judge told the Conservative Party councillor that the "poor decision" they made ran "a very real risk of catastrophe"...

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/l ... 055138.amp

Name kept out of the papers to protect the children, which is more than the parent was doing that day.

[davidjay]

I'm reminded of the time the Sun challenged the Mirror to a columnist v columnist charidee boxing match. The Sun's contestant was, naturally, Garry Bushell. The Mirror offered up their new sports reporter, former world welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan.

On a serious note, what kind of idiocy is this? MPs threatening the public - surely to God even what remains of the Tory hierarchy must realise how much of a loose cannon Anderson is.