Westminstenders: It's like a bloody aviary

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From Flamingos to Yellowhammer and Black Swans.

The Tory Remainer is now a Dodo. Instead the party in inhabited by disaster capitalist Vultures. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, has been labelled by the right wing press as a Chicken. The SNP would very much like Boris Johnson to be a Jailbird. The LDs are keen to sing like Canaries about the contents of BlackSwan. The Br

And the Tower of London is starting to get very jumpy about the whereabouts and location of its Ravens.

I would not, however, advise eating urban wild pigeons if things get desperate, from what I know of their health.

Also Jolyom Maugham QC just liked one of my Tweets so I'm now all of a fluster

The Tories are; the Conservatives are not
atm Tory = hard right nihilists in the destruction phase

I don't agree. The Tory Party were never hard right.
The current Conservatives have been taken over by the hard right. Dominic Cummings isn't even a party member and Arron Banks has said he wants to destroy them.

Catching up on thread (waaaaay behind) to add to the first hearing of POTUS on the West Wing but mostly at it being 20 years ago !!!

What a lovely, big, cosy duvet of a show that was!

Lot of posters on twitter (not very popular ones I may add) have posted the BBC is planting hecklers

So, just to show groups can do it too, to raise a smile for those in need, I give you Boris is pelted by balls in Manchester

Interesting timing for a Snowden exclusive on whistleblowing considering Yellowhammer / Black Swan

BJ-Cummings caught out lying again - denying he's ever said "police forces spaffed money up the wall [on historical child abuse cases]" - so Sky News promptly replays the LBC interview where he says exactly that

JeSuisPoulet the Tory Party conference is in Manchester again this year, expect he will be given a similar welcome.

I love Fairy Tale woman.

I half expected one of the passer-bys to turn scornfully and say
"You know nothin', Johnson".

*PrettyBird"

"I've posted this before but it seems appropriate to post again wink - sent to me by my 83 year old dad grin

NB: don't play with the volume on if you are in earshot of the easily offended wink"

Hilarious! The singer sounds very much like Lisa from Fascinating Aida - particularly how she uses that particular epithet to describe BJ (they did a song called "Try not to be a cunt, it's Christmas" and the pronunciation is eerily similar):

< imagines all the Westministenders who live Rotherham way, scurrying over with milk-shakes >

Anyone need bail money ?

Oh yes, I can't leave that one out! the one where a woman tells him he is selling fairytales and BoZo's No Dealers have to talk over his "pifflewifflewaffle" to say "we'll be FIIIINNNNE!" when he is clearly lost for words.

tanith The Tory party have been taken over by hard right nihilists and are no longer Conservative

Once Thatcher defeated Heath, they gradually stopped being a moderate right of centre party
btw, having lived through the Thatcher govt years, I used to consider that hard right, but it was nothing compared to this

BJ-Cummings caught out lying again - denying he's ever said "police forces spaffed money up the wall [on historical child abuse cases]" - so Sky News promptly replays the LBC interview where he says exactly that

Is there something in the air ?

* the one where Boris implies heckler has special needs

like a poor mans Trump.*

Much though I loath both men and think BJ often tried to ape trump I really didn't take that from that speech.
Thought he still came across pretty badly though.

PMK

The current Conservatives have been taken over by the hard right.
Although I never vote Tory, I think this is regretable - we need a moderate right-ish party. I hope that it comes back to haunt the Tories.

Election material will be promising with Rees-Mogg lolling on the front bench with a quote from Priti Patel saying that the British are lazy.

fascinating aida fan here!
I don't think they're touring anymore though?

imagines all the Westministenders who live Rotherham way, scurrying over with milk-shakes

I was pondering how important it is to be able to display a point of view in a non-criminal way - possibly inspired by the scene in "Gandhi" where people queue up to be rifle-butted as a non-aggressive display.

The closest I could get was simply a co-ordinated minutes silence - just silence. People carry on what they are doing, but simply stop speaking for a minute - the same minute - as one.

Many years ago, in another activism role, I heard an interesting idea that activists could arrange a mass donation of £1 to a charity to make a point. Maybe on a rolling basis - different charity a month - to raise a profile.

I heard an interesting idea that activists could arrange a mass donation of £1 to a charity to make a point.

How does that work?

I suppose at a gathering in a hall or other enclosed space, people could just turn their backs on Johnson and start talking to each other.

If he tried to pull the Police cadet stunt again, it just needs a signal from the CO for them to all start marching off behind him. Or like the person in the Farage clip where his t-shirt makes a statement and Farage is oblivious.

It has been over forty years coming, but the party of Burke and Disraeli is now the party of Hayek and Strauss, sadly not Salma or Andrew but Fred and Leo.

Although I never vote Tory, I think this is regrettable - we need a moderate right-ish party.

Ideally we need a government of all talents. One of the most frustrating things of the past 40 years has been seeing really good ideas dismissed simply because they came from "the other lot". Most voters haven't a fucking clue about the ideology of the parties they vote for and really wouldn't care if an idea is socialist, capitalist, or came in a cereal packet, if it served to improve peoples lives and prospects.

And for all the hysteria when a government does actually introduce something new, it's telling how the opposition at the time quietly forget how opposed they were when they get into power. The 1980s trade union reforms (hysterically shouted down by Labour, but never repealed) and GFA/HRA/NMW (ditto for Tories ...) spring to mind. Suggesting that either time has proven them as Not Such A Bad Thing, or the "opposition" weren't really that opposed.

All I know is, you wouldn't run a company the way you run the country. Well not if you wanted it to succeed.