[Bones McCoy]

Last night I paid my first post-election visit to Conservative Home's website.

Apart from a couple of leadership election pieces, and links to Spectator articles, it's empty.

As much life as a Reform party office in Clacton.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Every time these fuckers surface…

That's breathtaking stuff, mostly opportunity cost for not carrying on doing it! Opportunity cost is a good economic idea in general, but I doubt very much it's what most people understand as the cost of ending slavery. I'd understand that as meaning direct costs that the state incurred in the navy enforcing it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's my first look at Twitter for quite some time, It's quite a shock to see the "Lammy hasn't read a book" stuff, based on a figure that nobody commenting will have looked closely at but is quoted by the Telegraph. Doubtless the people doing that are very hot on not believing what they're told by the MSM.

[Abernathy]

Oh, this is good from Mr. Moorhouse. What’s Jeremy Hunt worried about ?

[Philip Marlow]

Lest we forget what a horrible prick Zac Goldsmith is…

[Crabcakes]

Christ on a bike - the Democrats are basically the 1990s Tories in terms of how left-wing they are. You’d think they were Corbynistas based on that.

[RedSparrows]

Surely the primary truth of 'go woke, go broke' is 'go anti-woke, never go broke, cos the grift never ends'?

[mattomac]

How many seats did they lose in an election not too long ago?

[Philip Marlow]

This is going to be the Badenoch tories isn’t it? Just endless grinding away at socially regressive bullshit week in and week out. And while it’s easy enough to mock, it still makes me uneasy to see someone with access to the LOTO’s bully pulpit spreading it about. Not least on the gender stuff where she’s hardly without support.

[Crabcakes]

Not without support, but wholly without talent and charisma. Very hard to peddle any message - let alone a divisive one - if you’re terrible at getting it across and rub people up the wrong was while doing it.

[Andy McDandy]

We're all someone's daughter or son, as John Farnham put it. That includes trans people. Increased visibility of trans/genderqueer people as people, and not as curiosities, will undermine the bigotry. Every day, where are the news stories about transwomen being caught sexually assaulting ciswomen in Primark? Doesn't sound like the sort of thing your kid (who you love dearly, and are now going by Davina rather than Dave) would do. Or their partner. Or their friends.

Attitudes change gradually for the most part, and sometimes seismically*. They generally don't go backwards.

*The classic example being 1994, a landmark year for the portrayal of gay men in popular culture (in the UK). Down to To Play the King and Four Weddings and a Funeral, which both featured male/male relationships that did not pander to stereotypes, were clearly sexual in nature, and were presented as positive and healthy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Has a convicted rapist ever been properly put in women’s prison? I know there was “Isla Bryson” but he was put in solitary while an assessment process was done, as always happens., and very quickly sent to a men’s prison. And that wouldn’t happen again.

But I think puberty blockers are a very hard sell, anywhere. Advocates haven’t at all helped themselves by unsubstantiated claims about suicides.

Before the election, Labour’s position was contrasted unfairly with the US Democrats. It’s possible the Republicans were wasting a lot of money with their adverts on the subject, but it’s more likely they the Democrats did pay a price. Starmer and Swinney have both decided they won’t do that.

Best thing at the moment is that the Equally Act, with its exceptions, is defended when it needs to be. That was the Corbyn position, and nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

[Bones McCoy]

Last night I paid my first post-election visit to Conservative Home's website.

Apart from a couple of leadership election pieces, and links to Spectator articles, it's empty.

As much life as a Reform party office in Clacton.

They've sprung to life, to tell us how Badenoch railed Starmer at PMQs.

Two more defeats like that.
His only option will be to go to the country.

[Bones McCoy]

Lest we forget what a horrible prick Zac Goldsmith is…

Zac will never go broke.
And never have to work an hour for the privilege.

[Bones McCoy]

How many seats did they lose in an election not too long ago?

Yebbut Lords don't lose their seats.

[Crabcakes]

They've sprung to life, to tell us how Badenoch railed Starmer at PMQs.

Two more defeats like that.
His only option will be to go to the country.

Two more performances like that from Badenoch and he could go on a tour of the country with his greatest putdowns of her. And it’d be a long show.

If they’re cheerleading for that bilge, they really are desperate.

[davidjay]

Tories and Momentums alike; I've never known such a lack of reality. Prime Ministers with 170 majorities tend to call elections when they want, not when they see #mustresign on Xwitter.

[Tubby Isaacs]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... een-grants

Tory former energy secretary facing conflict of interest claim over JCB owner links
Shadow cabinet secretary Claire Coutinho accepted donation from Lord Bamford while overseeing millions awarded to his family businesses in green grants

My rule with this stuff is "have the donations bought something?" Certainly lot of government money flowing to Bamford, but I'm going to be generous. I'll assume that there's no quid pro quo, Bamford gave the money because he likes the general philosophy of the Tories.

Funny that Lord Alli didn't get the benefit of the doubt like that. So fuck it, let's hammer Coutinho for this. For about a month. And if posh out of touch Sir Keir got a hammering for wearing nice suits, I'll hammer her for the posh helicopter.