[Watchman]

Protestant work ethic has a lot to answer for. That and getting a vicarious thrill from knowing that other people are toiling.

I’m more of the option that it gives inadequate bosses and mangers an easy excuse to be even more of a cunt

[mattomac]

Someone said that Jenrick is just pretending to be a nutjob right-wing crank in order to get the nutter vote, but Badenoch is the real McCoy.

They might very well have a point.

If he's only pretending he's doing a good job.

Yup he was pretending for at least a year as a minister

[Samanfur]

It's a parody site. But says everything that people don't find it out of the question that she would say that...

It was so believable it didn’t even register as a flicker

Poe's Law applies. With depressing regularity

[Tubby Isaacs]

Free speech warrior, Robert Jenrick, want the Runnymede Trust stripped of charitable status because he doesn't like what they said about the shooting of Chris Kaba. He boasts that there's "an investigation", which seems to mean that he or his mate have written a letter.

We're going to be on to "Critical Race Theory" by next week, aren't we?

[Andy McDandy]

Oliver Dowden was fond of that one. Quit talking about awkward things or we'll cut your funding.

[kreuzberger]

Jenrick, a man who can split an infinitive from thirty paces, has turned his attention to pissing off all the places on the map which used to be pink, in the increasingly joyless hope of courting the most batshit vile elements of his cult's membership.

Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick

The man is a toilet.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eparations

[Andy McDandy]

In the area now known as Ghana, the Brits invaded the Ashanti empire and purposely destroyed every trace of that place's administration, because it was easier to sell the idea of colonising thick tribes-people rather than folk a bit like you or me. In Zimbabwe it was the same thing, an erasure of history, because you couldn't possibly have black Africans building big cities unless they were forced labour for someone whiter.

My grandfather, part of the last generation of empire in Africa, saw it all too clearly. Train up the political leaders and army officers at Sandhurst, but for the love of all things holy don't teach them science or engineering. Got to keep a few tricks to ourselves.

[kreuzberger]

Aye, my steppie was born in to the last days of the Raj and, whilst he was a generally unpleasant individual, he was deeply anti-racist to the soles of his Birkenstocks.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think Jenrick is auditioning for wingnut welfare. He knows he's most likely lost by a mile. Can't be arsed with shadowing a department, might as well join Reform.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

True story, as told to me by Mrs A's grandfather, who was born in 1885, about Victorian attitudes.

'Cousin Fred' worked for the London Brick Company. Around 1900 the company wanted to expand into the Empire, specifically Africa, so they sent a load of bricks to Kenya. I don't know if you know but there are sevral cultures in Kenya, some settled (notably the Kikyu) and some nomadic (notably the Masaai). Fred decided to sell bricks to the Masaai - now as nomads the Masaai have traditionally made temporary huts, which can be difficult to keep sanitary, but that really doesn't matter too much as they are - well, temporary.
Fred and his hand-picked team of Cockney brickies built them some free huts - all bricky and civilised. The Masaai took none look and said 'no thanks' or possibly hapana asanta. Of course they didn't want settled huts that would tie them to one place, and would cost a lot more than their mud and leather temporaries. And be dreadfully unsanitary. And culturally, a complete no-go.

Of course Percy saw this not as an ancient and noble culture expressing its established structures and beliefs, it was a sign of their lack of intelligence and culture. A true Victorian he condemned them for not being like him, the apex of cultural development. Fucking bricks...

He once asked me if we were able to teach black kids in with white kids and if so, why...

[Abernathy]

I think Jenrick is auditioning for wingnut welfare. He knows he's most likely lost by a mile. Can't be arsed with shadowing a department, might as well join Reform.

I think that’s probably right. Jenrick is quite awful. All smoothie-chopped and smiley smiley, made trim by Ozempic and projecting reasonableness while simultaneously evincing hideous, reactionary, racist bollocks. An outright, 24 karat phoney, who will stoop as low as anyone asks (or doesn’t ask) him to do in order to climb the greasy pole at the apex of the Tory party. Someone described what he is touting as “Scrappy-Doo Farageism”, which I think is right on the button.


Ew. Just ew.

[satnav]

If he loses I could well see Jenrick resigning as an MP especially if Labour launch a crackdown on MPs having second jobs.

[Philip Marlow]

Re the dying days of empire, I do wonder how many people responsible for the perpetration of horrors came home, prospered, dandled their grandchildren on their knees and died in comfortable, untroubled gentility.

[davidjay]

Re the dying days of empire, I do wonder how many people responsible for the perpetration of horrors came home, prospered, dandled their grandchildren on their knees and died in comfortable, untroubled gentility.

Too many.

[Youngian]

Of course Percy saw this not as an ancient and noble culture expressing its established structures and beliefs, it was a sign of their lack of intelligence and culture.

An architect or heating and ventilation engineer of today could explain why a round mud hut is an ingeneous design for hot climates. Perhaps the Victorians weren't as sophisticated as those who've been living in those climates for centuries. Should have listened more.

[Youngian]

I think Jenrick is auditioning for wingnut welfare. He knows he's most likely lost by a mile. Can't be arsed with shadowing a department, might as well join Reform.

I think that’s probably right. Jenrick is quite awful. All smoothie-chopped and smiley smiley, made trim by Ozempic and projecting reasonableness while simultaneously evincing hideous, reactionary, racist bollocks. An outright, 24 karat phoney, who will stoop as low as anyone asks (or doesn’t ask) him to do in order to climb the greasy pole at the apex of the Tory party. Someone described what he is touting as “Scrappy-Doo Farageism”, which I think is right on the button.


Ew. Just ew.

Starting to wonder if Cleverly and his supporters deliberately flunked it for now to avoid this poisoned chalice.
Better Jenrick loses as he's more likely than Kemi to slime up to Farage for an electoral deal. Badenoch getting into a knife fight with Farage will keep her distracted and its not as if she's going attract many old Powelite racist codgers from Reform.

[slilley]

I see both candidates have commented on the new charges laid against the individual charged over the deaths in Southport. Honest Bob is peddling a narrative that the Prime Minister has not been telling us the truth and withholding information from the public. Er nope, as a lawyer he should at least know the basics of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, and say very little if anything. But no, he is peddling the same line that Farage was on GMB recently.

[Andy McDandy]

Whatever the case, it changes nothing. Lynch mobs targeting people completely unconnected to the Southport killings (actually, lynch mobs full stop) are still il-fucking-legal.

[Killer Whale]

onest Bob is peddling a narrative that the Prime Minister has not been telling us the truth and withholding information from the public.

He went the full Farage, didn't he? He still seems to be convinced that bringing the Reform nutters back will not be more than balanced by alienating Normals.

[Youngian]

We feel your pain, Thangam
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