The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[Genie]

Sir Graham Brady says Boris Johnson had 102 backers for the PM job but simply decided not to stand.

Somethkng very off with this. Especially as Johnson and Sunak had a private meeting in here somewhere too. 

Are they waiting for the dust to blow over from Braverman before announcing Boris’s cushy ministerial job? Why else would power obsessed Boris not run when it is felt he’d win a contest amongst the Conservative party members?

[Rolta]

22 minutes ago, bickster said:

Someone get the U-Turn counter going.

Sunak said to be reversing the decision to privatise Channel 4

This is a good decision

It wasn't his mad scheme in the first place so I'd say it's hard to pin this one on him. That's as far as I'll go though. 

[bickster]

9 minutes ago, Genie said:

Sir Graham Brady says Boris Johnson had 102 backers for the PM job but simply decided not to stand.

Somethkng very off with this. Especially as Johnson and Sunak had a private meeting in here somewhere too. 

Are they waiting for the dust to blow over from Braverman before announcing Boris’s cushy ministerial job? Why else would power obsessed Boris not run when it is felt he’d win a contest amongst the Conservative party members?

Because it would be impossible to govern without the majority backing of the MPs in parliament

This is why he tried to get Sunak & Mordor to pull out and form a Unity team. They quite rightly told him to do one.

102 from 357 and one of the candidates having less than 30, is not a mandate to govern.

[Genie]

Just now, bickster said:

Because it would be impossible to govern without the majority backing of the MPs in parliament

This is why he tried to get Sunak & Mordor to pull out and form a Unity team. They quite rightly told him to do one.

102 from 357 and one of the candidates having less than 30, is not a mandate to govern.

This is Boris Johnson, he doesn’t worry about details such as not having the backing of MP’s.

I still find it odd, and there must be more to it. There must be something for BJ in return for leaving Sunak alone in a 1 horse race.

[PaulC]

5 hours ago, tinker said:

To me it seems the government is trying to move the responsibility for their lack of building social housing onto the private housing rental market

Yes thats what this government have been doing, which makes it very difficult for people on low income and benefits as the LHA is well below what the rent is set at. It ends up with many people falling well into arrears and facing eviction. You get bad tenants who just dont pay or fail to respect properties and deserve to be evicted. We need a much fairer private rental system where rent is set fair. Nowadays you get properties where potential tenants have to bid on. This is so wrong. We need big investment to local authorities to build more social housing and also housing associations.  

[bickster]

2 minutes ago, Genie said:

This is Boris Johnson, he doesn’t worry about details such as not having the backing of MP’s.

I still find it odd, and there must be more to it. There must be something for BJ in return for leaving Sunak alone in a 1 horse race.

Without majority backing from his party, the chances of him surviving the Inquiry were slim

[one_ian_taylor]

18 hours ago, Genie said:

Sir Graham Brady says Boris Johnson had 102 backers for the PM job but simply decided not to stand.

Somethkng very off with this. Especially as Johnson and Sunak had a private meeting in here somewhere too. 

Are they waiting for the dust to blow over from Braverman before announcing Boris’s cushy ministerial job? Why else would power obsessed Boris not run when it is felt he’d win a contest amongst the Conservative party members?

Already lining him up to take over as next PM?

[SuperTed]

19 hours ago, Genie said:

This is Boris Johnson, he doesn’t worry about details such as not having the backing of MP’s.

I still find it odd, and there must be more to it. There must be something for BJ in return for leaving Sunak alone in a 1 horse race.

Don’t forget about his “stonking mandate” either 

[desensitized43]

Could have gone in the racism thread but let’s be honest we could just have a permalink between the Tory and Racism threads at the moment.

Firebombing at Dover confirmed to be a far right terrorist nutjob.

You’d have hoped that after Jo Cox the right wing press and the Tories would have learned a lesson about radicalising these people any further. They’re as bad as the Islamists in Al Queda.

[Genie]

 

[TheAuthority]

On 04/11/2022 at 06:36, Genie said:

This is Boris Johnson, he doesn’t worry about details such as not having the backing of MP’s.

I still find it odd, and there must be more to it. There must be something for BJ in return for leaving Sunak alone in a 1 horse race.

He knows that party will get tonked at the next election and doesn't want to be the one driving the bus when it goes off the cliff. 

He'll be happy taking the ex-PM salary and cushy after dinner speaking gigs at around 100K a pop for the next few years. Maybe he'll look to return the Tories to power after the next Labor government - He'll see it as Boris's triumphant return.

[PaulC]

Probably the reason he backed out was that he couldn't earn his £10 million a year from his speeches

[ml1dch]

 

[ml1dch]

"Unite the party" latest.

 

[Genie]

So thats at least 2 people Sunak has hired/promoted that he knew were under investigations for their behaviour.

Pretty much the same thing that finally brought down Boris Johnson. 

And he has the cheek to say he is going to bring integrity back to number 10.

[bickster]

29 minutes ago, Genie said:

So thats at least 2 people Sunak has hired/promoted that he knew were under investigations for their behaviour.

Pretty much the same thing that finally brought down Boris Johnson. 

And he has the cheek to say he is going to bring integrity back to number 10.

The Oliver Dowden defence of SUnak appointing WIlliamson on Sunday was risible

Essentially it was, The PM new about the complaint but not about the content of the texts when he appointed him.

Wait, what, he knew there was a complaint but didn't bother to find out what it was about? Erm, that's either basic incompetence or not giving a shit. And it's the later of the two. Williamson ran his leadership campaigns, so Sunak owes him, not only that but given Williamsons obvious personality deficiencies, he can't afford to have him on the backbenches pissed off because he'll cause absolute carnage for Sunak

Then there's the female cabinet minister, as reported in The Times yesterday, that is claiming WIlliamson threatened her personal life in some way when she was on the back benches and he was Chief Whip.

Oh and then there's the senior civil servant who is claiming WIlliamson told him/her to slit their throat when he was Defence Secretary...

 

Meanwhile Braverman is being forgotten about

[bickster]

Meanwhile...

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mbattled minister Sir Gavin Williamson has failed in his bid to prevent his constituency being carved up, which could see him struggle for reselection ahead of the next general election.

The Boundary Commission for England has rejected his argument not to merge his South Staffordshire constituency with a section of another as the number of MPs in the region shrinks.

Indie

[The Fun Factory]

How has the former fire place salesman of the year managed to get back into the cabinet? And Sir Gavlar? That is the barrel being well and truly scraped.

[Genie]

Have you been in the cabinet before? Yes… ok welcome back.

[bickster]

Could be amusing if King Big Ears says Nein!