To think the Tories must actually want to loose the next election?

I'm just here to share this meme

Enoch Powell used to be too far right for the Tories.

These days...

I think the Tories are trying to lose all the elections. FFS who puts an Enoch Powell fan up to be their London Mayoral candidate?🤦‍♀️

I think that Labour isn't winning as the best team for the job. More the floating voters have no one else to vote for to form a Govenment.
Everyone knows this.

So why aren't Labour using this momentum, they just seem so lacklustre and underperforming. I truly believe the Unions will be making demands and given them unless a true leader appears .

Not only that but the Tories keep nicking their ideas and claiming credit for them. If they’ve got any sense they’ll let the government get its manifesto out first when they finally stop dragging their heels and call an election.

If Starmer isn't the opposing voice then why is Sunak so scared of him and resorts to outright lies?

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/15/rishi-sunak-100000-migrants-proof-of-weakness/

Labour won't and don't need to release a manifesto until an election is called. That's how politics works.

I don't thing any party deserves to win. The Torys are luke a rudderless boat. Labour are like a group of ants in need of a leader who isn't scared to act. Going round and round in a circle.
Where is the opposing voice, because KS isn't it.
I have looked and can see no clear manifesto for Labour and yet they will be voted in and since they are said to be going to repeal the strike ban, wages going up means food going up and cost of living going up and this will mean no gains.

@SerendipityJane you call people thick but can only communicate by insulting.

I feel if I don't keep up with the news my kids will be going to school with crumbling concrete over their heads and the river next to my parents home will be filled with human excrement.

Oh.

Well yes, hence Biden, I just hope he can withstand it as the only option. He looks worryingly frail. I must stop this. I need to resume news avoidance, something I used to despise. Survival mode.

I'll brave it at the weekend with a glass of wine and my husband here to shout at the telly with me

It is laughable that Biden is the left option but when you have a far right party banning books, practising voter suppression and curtailing women's rights I guess everything is left of there.

I'll settle for "less evil" "less stupid" and "actually wants to govern a country."

I too, want to watch Kuensberg but feel as you do. I fear it will make me feel both furious and defeated. How much more of these truth-twisting shapeshifters can we take? And look at the USA. Trump or Biden is the choice. I've never felt so despairing. It cant go well.

Theresa May is on a full revision of history kick at the moment by the look of it.

It did make me laugh that Sunak's spokesman said that he is a msn of action. How ridiculous is that?!

I want to watch the Kuenssberg thing, State Of Chaos is it? But I suspect all the talking heads ok it will be the ones who caused the chaos and I don't know if I have the heart or stomach for it.

This country has been in chaos ever since we re-elected the squabbling Tories in 2015, but even I am gobsmacked at how bad its got since Brexit. And how fast.

We can't go on like this.

Theresa May was like that during the 2017 election campaign, she kept parroting the phrase ‘strong and stable’ when it was obvious to all that her leadership was anything but that.

She was similar to Sunak in that she was voted in by Tory MPs but not by the party membership, as Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the race.

I was actually shocked by Andrea Jenkyns giving the finger outside Number 10.

I don't know the kind of people who behave like that.

Kwasi Kwarteng giggling at the Queen's funeral was another shocker.

Again, I don't know anyone who would behave like that.

Most people would have too much respect.

I don't like members of Parliament swearing either. Not to clutch my pearls, I swear myself now and then, but not at work, not in public, not in any position of responsibility. Not on tv and in newspapers. Not in front of children.

Ha! @SerendipityJane

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/09/14/neighbours-could-vouch-for-people-without-id-at-elections-senior-tory-suggests

They are honestly ALL so awful, I have never felt so jaded in decades by our politics. Not just all incompetent, but actively unpleasant people

I bet Sunak doesn't like that.

Even if you didn't see any PMQs you know it's him.

He's long reminded me of one of those dolls with a pull cord that repeats the same catchphrases.

What utter numpties they are to have voted for a Tory candidate who said he would "Stop ULEZ".

How exactly?

Grant Shapps as Tory transport minister is the reason it has expanded to cover Uxbridge.

And why?

What kind of numbnutses are against cleaner air?!

Inaction Man is trending on twitter/x

What can they say in opposition? Nothing.

It won't stop them though. Didn't Boris Johnson bring in the original ULEZ scheme in London. With the recent by-election in Uxbridge where the Tories won by shamelessly making its extension an issue, and blaming a Labour mayor, this fact was conveniently forgotten.

Do you know what is most hysterical about this after Brexit and Johnson? The gift that stands to keep giving to the Tory Party after they lose?

Johnson broke all the conventions on ministerial power. He let his people do whatever they liked. Removed the procedures and conventions.

It's a politician's dream, a civil service smashed and a constitutional mess. You can do what you like. The boot is going to be on the other foot. What can they say in opposition? Nothing. It will be years and years of them being shoed due to their own short term stupidity.

Big business courting Labour. Ferring pharmaceuticals going to abandon the Libdems ?