Page 10 | What picture will you have in your mind as you vote the Tories out on Thursday.

verdantverdure · 2024-07-01T22:35:09+00:00

Robert Jenrick painting out the Disney mural in asylum accommodation for unaccompanied children is mine.

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verdantverdure · 03/07/2024 13:44

MammaTo · 03/07/2024 12:28

The photo of the little boy being buried alone during covid by strangers in hazmat suits. Unforgivable.

I remember that. 13 is no age is it? We'd just gone into lockdown the week before I think.

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daisychain01 · 03/07/2024 14:15

It really irks me that the last PM to shake the Queen's hand was Liz Truss, who promptly went on to trash the UK economy and was gone a few weeks later. Like many, her primary motivation was power and status, when it should have been about was what's right for the citizens of the UK.

that photo of her (Liz Truss) on the front page of the Fail! Not a good look, Liz 😜

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Alltheyearround · 03/07/2024 15:13

@crackofdoom and that is certainly one vivid image I will have in mind as I make my X.

Johnson and Rees Mogg to the front of the queue.

Up the artichokes! For all the selfish things the Tories have done, big and small.

On your way lads (and lassies), on your way.

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verdantverdure · 04/07/2024 10:36

Hey everybody, I’m not voting until lunch but I’ll reread this thread while I’m queuing at the polling station xx

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Compash · 04/07/2024 10:48

It's interesting to see how many of us are moved to tears in this thread (that wee lad who 'tries not to eat too much' did for me, and I am really not a cryer)...

I think at some level we are traumatised and we are angry. It is with the greatest pleasure that I shall post my ballot against the whole fucking shower of them today. ✊🗳

newnamethanks · 04/07/2024 10:49

Not a picture but the anticipation of the relief I shall feel when these cheating, lying, immoral, grasping charlatans, and their numerous entitled hangers on, have had their grubby fingers forcibly prised from the bottomless bags of public money they've been diverting for 14 years. The Horizon scandal will be dwarfed by comparison if the lid is ever lifted on this, so I expect it not to happen.

Compash · 04/07/2024 10:50

daisychain01 · 03/07/2024 14:15

It really irks me that the last PM to shake the Queen's hand was Liz Truss, who promptly went on to trash the UK economy and was gone a few weeks later. Like many, her primary motivation was power and status, when it should have been about was what's right for the citizens of the UK.

that photo of her (Liz Truss) on the front page of the Fail! Not a good look, Liz 😜

I know, but I am still REALLY glad that it wasn't Boris, and I reckon Her Maj was pretty damn stoked about it too! I'm not a royalist, but she played a stormer there... 😄 Man, he'd have LOVED prancing about at her funeral!

CoffeandTiaMaria · 04/07/2024 11:02

My parents both died during lockdown
I couldn’t visit them in the nursing home because my siblings had nominated themselves as to sole visitor allowed, one each.
Their funerals were sparse and impersonal,.
My memories will be forever tainted buy that period of time and the behaviour of those dictating what we could and could not do while they had parties and made a complete mess of the whole thing.

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:04

I was thinking about the last time I felt proud to be British and that we were showing our values as a country, which was 2012 Olympics.

A sound rejection of the nasty divisive tactics of the Conservatives and Reform today will give me the same feeling. People prioritising honesty, decency and democracy over lying, law breaking and corruption. Bring it on.

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:07

Zonder · 02/07/2024 07:42

It's the lack of compassion that was so bad. One person on their own should have been allowed to bubble from the start.

And yes it's also about the fact that we all worked hard to keep the rules then found out that the government didn't.

We are another family that lost a close family member and weren't allowed to go and see them.

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Yes my mother in law spent her last 3 months with cancer alone in a nursing home. Not even her husband could see her.
Unforgivable and its very tone deaf to act like people who are angry about it should get over it.

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:09

Ratfinkstinkypink · 02/07/2024 09:14

My husband who went through a Whipple's, cancer treatment then a stroke with no one there due to the rules they brought in while they lived it up, having parties and giving everyone else the middle finger. Support for his end of life was pretty much non existent due to lockdown, we faced it pretty much alone.

I'm so sorry

Wedoourish · 04/07/2024 11:10

Churchview · 01/07/2024 23:48

Not just the Queen, but all the other people who went through this while they were bringing booze in the back door of Downing Street.

This! Also very trivial incomparison but my son spending his 21st birthday and having to do a zoom party !He was going through a stressful time and couldn't see his friends even on his big birthday whist the Tory arseholes were partying!

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:12

mandymeans · 02/07/2024 16:56

Thank you OP 🌺

I will never forget labouring alone. Knowing she would be gone soon. And not being allowed to call H in because I wasn't in active labour, and then active labour came and she arrived within minutes

Seeing her tied up to tubes and wires. Watching as she struggled and I sweated under a mask, apron, gloves.

I hate it all. And I am still so very sad the Tory party had such little respect for families like mine, saying goodbye to loved ones

Crying for you and your little girl xx

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:15

crackofdoom · 03/07/2024 09:09

As someone who has experienced a couple of abusive relationships with men I suspect are narcissists, recent political behaviour and messaging (not just from the Tories- Trump and his ilk in America are terrifying viewed through this lens) is deeply unsettling. I'm thinking particularly of the refusal to admit accountability, the classic DARVO techniques and the highly manipulative, defensive messaging. All too reminiscent of conversations with my exes.

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Zonder · 04/07/2024 11:25

CassieMaddox · 04/07/2024 11:07

Yes my mother in law spent her last 3 months with cancer alone in a nursing home. Not even her husband could see her.
Unforgivable and its very tone deaf to act like people who are angry about it should get over it.

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Tragic. We will never get over it, will we?

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verdantverdure · 04/07/2024 11:27

MsJinks · 02/07/2024 08:50

I can’t think too hard about the impact on my parents (father passed of covid in Jan 21 in hospital alone, leaving my mum in ill health as well as devastated) as I’d get too angry - what gets me is my parents didn’t enjoy lockdown but were totally on board with doing what they were told to do, supportive of Boris/Tories generally and honestly believed our leaders were leading with integrity. That the rules were just for us plebs never occurred to them - I didn’t even tell my mum my dad had covid as it would have piled further upset and misery on her when I had to tell her from 2 yards away as she was in care home rehab at that point. The rules may well have been the same under a different gov’t/leader but I could better accept that if they hadn’t then just taken the p!ss out of it all themselves.
Otherwise thinking food banks are uplifting or some sort of lifestyle choice - like homelessness - without even thinking more deeply about these issues, or at least being concerned a tiny bit, and invest in finding a real ‘excuse’ if it can’t be their fault!
Wasting incredible amounts of cash and not caring - plus not ever apologising for Liz.
Wasting incredible amounts of cash on Rwanda policy, which is just a grotesque idea, but equally even if workable totally financially non viable or useful, and not acknowledging their own lack of investment in asylum services that led to this point. Staying on holiday whilst Kabul fell was also pretty lax.
Ruining our waterways and seas - again not even the bother to acknowledge it is appalling.
I could write a novel probably but the main theme is the downright don’t give a toss about any of it really - I don’t really like the policies but the don’t care/can’t be bothered/me me me being amazing attitude is beyond appalling.
I do find them overall like a bunch of school kids set free to trial their ideas, no listening to others, no proper work on any policy to desired outcome, as basically they seem to see any poor outcome as well no worries if it affects others but not them.

My parents were the same.

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Zonder · 04/07/2024 11:27

Wedoourish · 04/07/2024 11:10

This! Also very trivial incomparison but my son spending his 21st birthday and having to do a zoom party !He was going through a stressful time and couldn't see his friends even on his big birthday whist the Tory arseholes were partying!

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I hope @Clavinova sees this as she always defends the parties.

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 12:06

@mandymeans I thought of you and your daughter this morning when I went to GTTO.

Cattery · 04/07/2024 12:16

newnamethanks · 04/07/2024 10:49

Not a picture but the anticipation of the relief I shall feel when these cheating, lying, immoral, grasping charlatans, and their numerous entitled hangers on, have had their grubby fingers forcibly prised from the bottomless bags of public money they've been diverting for 14 years. The Horizon scandal will be dwarfed by comparison if the lid is ever lifted on this, so I expect it not to happen.

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Cattery · 04/07/2024 12:23

My father died in 2020. Not of covid. He was 86 so knew lots of people. He would have loved the idea of a big funeral but instead I was telling people they couldn’t come because of the restrictions and unbeknownst to me they all were partying in No 10. Utter immoral cunts.

LittleBrownBaby · 04/07/2024 12:24

I miscarried my baby during covid, weeks after my brother died. I attended every scan alone as partners couldn't attend. I was told my baby had stopped growing alone. They wouldn't allow me to have a procedure in hospital after my water broke (because I might have gotten covid) so I passed my baby at home and became very unwell as I didn't pass the placenta for two more weeks and had a huge bleed and ended up in hospital anyway. This could have all been prevented if I could have had a routine procedure in hospital - but the rules didn't allow me too. And I stuck with the rules. It was the most lonely time of my life as I could see my friends to have a hug.

While all of this was going on they were partying. Actually partying and laughing at us (or so it feels). I will raise a glass tonight as those lying bastards fall one by one.

fungipie · 04/07/2024 12:27

Every single member of the ERG.

BIossomtoes · 04/07/2024 12:27

Oh God @LittleBrownBaby, that’s desperate. I’m so very sorry. 💐

Clavinova · 04/07/2024 12:41

Zonder · 04/07/2024 11:27

I hope @Clavinova sees this as she always defends the parties.

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No, I don't. I thought some of the parties were appalling - especially the party that took place the evening before Prince Philip's funeral - as far as I am aware it was civil servants and advisors who were involved. I objected to posters falsely claiming that Boris Johnson was there that evening when he was not in residence in Number 10 at the time.

It's true, I wasn't bothered about the brief gathering on Johnson's birthday. The rules allowed my little niece to have a birthday party with five friends in her back garden that very same week. Am I supposed to blame my little niece for partying why people died as well?