[Youngian]

Living the British dream

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johncrace

John Crace has been having a busy week.

So we had to make do with the Tory backbencher Miriam Cates instead as the warmup act. Her message to the faithful was that we needed more babies. Urgently. There were some obvious flaws with this. First, her audience was 75% male.

“Conservatism is always common sense,” concluded Cates. Having talked complete bollocks for 20 minutes.

More of the same was to follow with Yoram Hazony, a man who passes himself off as an intellectual of the right. He thought that with every passing month you couldn’t but help become more conservative, providing men had been made to do national service.

Braverman began with the obligatory 10-minute backstory. Her parents had been hard-working immigrants. Exactly the sort of people she is now committed to keeping out of the country. They would have been astonished that their daughter had become attorney general and home secretary. Not nearly as astonished as the rest of us.

Those are just 3 extracts from part one of three. Seriously, go have a read.

[Youngian]

Michael Gove had clearly had his doubts. It may have seemed like a good idea when he was asked – he’s easily flattered as his self-worth is through the floor these days. But now he found himself on stage at the Emmanuel Centre in London in front of an audience of a couple of hundred people, he wasn’t quite so sure.

Time was when Gove was a player. Someone who made things happen. These days, he’s a lost soul. No real friends anywhere. He just drifts aimlessly around Westminster. A man without real influence, surviving on a reputation for competence that doesn’t bear close examination. Next stop oblivion. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johncrace

[Youngian]

Andrea was advised to make the office look busy so it looks like she’s spinning several plates.

[Yug]

A cynical old fart who spent a lifetime working in offices writes:

Anyone with a desk *that* clear isn't doing any work.

[Andy McDandy]

Do constituency offices normally have big portcullis logos on the wall?

[Abernathy]

Nope. But nor do parliamentary offices, as far as I’m aware. It’s entirely possible that this a totally fake set, designed to impress the gullible.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

That'll be why the blinds are drawn.

[Bones McCoy]

Yeah, but where are the bookshelves full of weighty tomes?

[Oboogie]

Yeah, but where are the bookshelves full of weighty tomes?

On the fire?

[Abernathy]

Yeah, but where are the bookshelves full of weighty tomes?

I don’t think Jenkyns holds by that fancy book-learnin’.

A reminder -this is the woman that unseated Ed Balls.

[Youngian]

A Green supporter suggested the colour scheme is a deception. The poster on the cabinet is also in Green so that might have legs. Jenkyns having to woo back voters from the Greens is not what she foresaw in 2015.

[Andy McDandy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/voices-tory-p ... 43281.html

Sean O'Grady on the likely future of the Tories. Braverman in charge, an election wipeout, and a lurch even further to the right. Good read.

[Youngian]

Even if the Tory party somehow manages to stick together, the prospects are poor. Perhaps Suella will be so bad that, like Iain Duncan Smith in 2005, she’ll be ousted and reason will return

Tories will hold their nose rather than stay out of power for too long. Flipping swing seats is not hard for the Tories as 5-10% of the electorate that decide GEs never bloody learn.

[Samanfur]

Yeah, but where are the bookshelves full of weighty tomes?

On the fire?

I'm more surprised that I can't see a single Union Jack.

I'd have expected her to have at least three somewhere prominent. And at least one upside down.

[Crabcakes]

Raab’s adding his name to the list of quitting before being kicked out at the next election.

Shit as they all are, the Tories are going to have practically no one left anyone has even heard of.

[Youngian]

Shit as they all are, the Tories are going to have practically no one left anyone has even heard of.

There’s bound to be another Bullingdon generation currently calculating where the centre of gravity will be in a few years time.

[Youngian]

I’ve now heard of London mayoral hopeful Dan Korski

[Yug]

I’ve now heard of London mayoral hopeful Dan Korski

I haven't, cos the tweet is unavailable.

More swivel-eyed bollocks, was it?

Edit. Now, as if by magic, the tweet appears. Yep. Utter bollocks.