[Samanfur]

Chris Riddell's thought for the day:

[Bones McCoy]

What passes for normal in a Tory’s head

The news that the Queen was dying didn't break until lunchtime that day, long after most us had our breakfast.

Tories will remember every breakfast precisely.
They can look it up in their expense claims.

[Samanfur]

It seems that Anderson's past is already catching up with him.

Remember this one?

‘I’m asking you not to play it’: Anderson reacts as radio host brings up embarrassing doorstepping incident

Questing [sic] the new deputy Tory Party chairman, Cowley said: “There is a worry by some that you might be a bit dishonest.

“I’m talking about that video that you did where you asked a friend to pose as an anti-Labour swing voter.”

Mr Anderson then asks Cowley if she has ever told a lie a number of times.

Cowley then says humans tell false truths to protect people.

“So you’re a liar, so you’re dishonest,” Mr Anderson replies.

“We’ve established you’re dishonest and you tell lies.

“Let’s talk about that video because three weeks afterwards, I was voted in as the first-ever Conservative MP [in Ashfield], beating Labour by 8,000 votes.

“So that’s what the people of Ashfield think and that’s all that matters to me.”

The problem with being a 'good telly' controversialist who's all edge and no point is that unless your name's Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the mass media will have no problem turning on you when they have enough dirt on you that it's a bigger story.

If he'd had any sense, Anderson would've stayed a legend in his own lunchtime on the back benches.

[Abernathy]

Lee Anderson :the early years,

[Samanfur]

Right after Sunak'd said that the party was "united", too, according to other reports:

[Watchman]

If I say something that is supposedly outrageous in that place [the Commons], I get back to Ashfield on a Thursday, people will come out the shops and say 'You say what I'm thinking'," he added.

And just happen to meet him in the street, having already rung them up to tell them where he would be

[mattomac]

You’d have thought his majority was 20k, not as I suspect brought on entirely because of a strong independent group.

I assume most people who dislike Lee Anderson wouldn’t go anywhere near him.

[Crabcakes]

If I say something that is supposedly outrageous in that place [the Commons], I get back to Ashfield on a Thursday, people will come out the shops and say 'You say what I'm thinking'," he added.

And just happen to meet him in the street, having already rung them up to tell them where he would be

Either that, or he’s told them to say that shortly after asking if they want that or a fight.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha, please do this.

Hard to think of a surer road to electoral oblivion than a subsidy for (in all likelihood) somebody with a fairly high earning partner to give up work.

[Youngian]

Orban’s so worried by the lack of Hungarians being born into world run by him that he’s offering women lifetime income tax exemption if they pop out four kids. When would they find the time to earn this taxable income?

[Yug]

Another one squeaking her way to the lifeboat deck

Tory “Red Wall” MP Jo Gideon announced on Thursday that she will not stand at the next General Election.

She said she had written to the chairman of Stoke-on-Trent Conservative Federation to inform it of her decision.

She said: “It has been a huge honour to represent the people of Stoke-on-Trent Central as their first Conservative Member of Parliament.

“I am incredibly proud of my achievements, putting people before politics.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 59149.html

Her achievements include being totally unknown until she made this announcement

[Bones McCoy]

Orban’s so worried by the lack of Hungarians being born into world run by him that he’s offering women lifetime income tax exemption if they pop out four kids. When would they find the time to earn this taxable income?

It's a pretty sweet deal.
Uncle Addy only offered a medal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_ ... man_Mother

[Watchman]

https://www.loughboroughconservatives.c ... eon-club-8

This is on our Conservative constituency home page; I love the prophetic title or the talk

[mattomac]

Confidence is just seeping off them.

[Crabcakes]

All going well then with the Sunak bounce

[Bones McCoy]

The Sunak bounce.

[Youngian]

There’s always one. How about ‘Keith’s only ahead because he’s getting Tories to vote for him?’

[Crabcakes]

A 10% swing in a seat they were already way ahead in is, I would suggest, excellent news for Labour. It means even with a limited group to make pick-ups from, they’re still doing so by some considerable percentage.

In a swing seat with far more to play for, this would translate to be catastrophic for the Tories.

[Crabcakes]

But hey, don’t take my word for it - see what a poll commissioned by the famously left-wing newspaper The Telegraph says

[Yug]

A Britain where the Conservative Party has only 45 seats in parliament sounds like the sort of Britain I'd like to live in.