Thread 41 How many more MPs will Sunak lose?

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New thread. I took the liberty - the old one was at 999!

Can you only apply for this route when in Afghanistan?

Same here, wouldn’t you just love a pit that they could be thrown into they are an unspeakable cabal of hatred & division devoid of any humanity.

I would love for a Cabinet Minister to be grilled in detail about how Afghanis can apply for a visa to come here under that scheme.

And I mean, in detail

Update from the Times regarding Menzies - Katie Fieldhouse received the phone call in the middle of the night.

"Fieldhouse claimed that the Conservatives had known the allegations were potentially criminal since the investigation was transferred to CCHQ at least seven weeks ago."

"She said: “He told me on the phone, ‘the solicitor said it is fraud but you are not duty-bound to report it because it’s not Conservative Party money’.”

I dont really understand the rationale for not reporting it.

sorry I cant seem to create a share token from my account with the Times, very annoying

Something like this?

Sky News report on it

https://news.sky.com/story/mark-menzies-tory-activist-who-reported-mp-over-alleged-misuse-of-funds-disappointed-by-party-response-13118517?

Ms Fieldhouse submitted her complaint in Jaunuary, incident was in December

Charles I didn't just "suspend" parliament.

He rocked up with armed force and insisted to be told who was against him in debates (in reality nearly all were).

The speaker told him to get fucked, and little Charley got the hump and went off to get some big boys to beat up parliament.

The rest - as they say - is history.

I leave it for others to contemplate the significance - if any - that we are where we are with a Charles III on the throne.

Nice use of a French word there ...

The speaker may be a problem. Don’t see Hoyle telling anyone to get fucked. Bercow would have done.

The Labour Party can produce fantastic memes on social media. However this isn't one of them. Sexist and inappropriate.

https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1781285090032509415

Wouldn't it be great if it gets to the King and the King tells them to get to fuck.

In a nutshell shell.

Shapps tried to argue his way out of a paper bag on this one the other day on radio.

The story is updated again

Exclusive: Tories received legal advice that Mark Menzies's alleged misuse of campaign funds amounted to fraud but decided they weren't obliged to tell the police because it was donors' rather than party money, whistleblower claims.

We can't allow fraudsters to exploit the natural compassion and generosity of the British people."

Can’t believe Rishi managed to say this with a straight face during his speech on welfare this morning. Does his speechwriter hate him too?

This all a bit embarrassing on a day when they are announcing cracking down on fraud. Not this sort of fraud obviously.

Yup. That needs to go straight in the bin and whoever produced it & thought it was worth sending out needs to be put straight now.

Yeirch. I am gonna email them

Well that speaks volumes

I've submitted a complaint about that Twitter post.

Good. Whoever decided that was a good idea?

It’s been deleted now. Should never have been posted though.

Interesting nonetheless how quickly a thread appeared about it considering the misogynistic shite appearing almost daily from the party in power.

As soon as I saw it, I knew it'd be zapped.

The longer form Times article, I can't link to, is quite revealing. I found it quite sad in the sense that Fieldhouse (the recipient of the late night phone call) had been let down on every level.

When she spoke to other party members it wasn't the first time Menzies had needed bailing out of a flat. They were certainly were not surprised.

Fieldhouse spoke to Simon Hart in early January and then the chief of staff at CCHQ. She rejected press calls (because she thought CCHQ were dealing with things) and then things seem to unravel and it reads like the party closed ranks and insinuated that Menzies version of events was quite different. At that point she was so upset that she responded to journalists.

The article stresses that she has been a member of the Conservative for a long time and that her family took their loyalty to the party very seriously.

So essentially, if the party had done something this wouldn’t be the crisis it is now. That sounds like the sort of competent crisis management we’ve come to expect.