The Conservative Party

[meltonblue]

The issue now is a lot of the behaviours have been legitimised by having Johnson as PM. What previously would have been considered sacking offences or a level or moral fibre that was expected by MPs aren’t things he would ever sack anyone for as he’s guilty of most of it himself.

That and we seem to have reached a point where MPs think they get to define themselves what they consider to be acceptable behaviour for their roles and positions.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The issue now is a lot of the behaviours have been legitimised by having Johnson as PM. What previously would have been considered sacking offences or a level or moral fibre that was expected by MPs aren’t things he would ever sack anyone for as he’s guilty of most of it himself.

That and we seem to have reached a point where MPs think they get to define themselves what they consider to be acceptable behaviour for their roles and positions.

Quite simply as a result of all that they HAVE to go for the 19th July. Regardless of cases, hospitalisations and deaths they just have to because the extent to which any new restrictions will be ignored will illustrate how little control, how little they can govern the country.

 

[bluethrunthru]

What bugs me is the amount of money we contribute so they can live the life of a Pop Star, she lives in a 32 million pound pile with a posh car.

so would you if your side hustle brings in a grand a day lol - that was just a bit of extra pocket money clearly

 

[marco]

There needs to be one big public enquiry with all these people, contracts dished out to pub landlords, contracts dished out to freinds of friends which is quite clearly done to deceive, it all leaves a digital money trail and every single penny should be accountable for

 

[mayo31]

All tories are cunts, it is there for all to see

 

[Don Karleone]

Pissed on the job?

Would explain a fair bit to be fair.

 

[mackenzie]

Straight away we have ministers defending his behaviour with a quickly moving on attitude and praise of the work he did during the pandemic.

It won’t be forgotten by most people who carried out to the letter what this hypocrite ruled and will never forget staring at close family through the window or sat outside two meters apart wearing masks for twelve months

I suppose he will claim she was in his Bubble.

All she can claim is that he was certainly in her knickers.
Feel very sorry for his wife and children. Their whole life has been turned upside down in just a few hours.

 

[Gray]

Somebody planted a mini camera and did the country a great service. Left it roughly 7 weeks before going to the press to make him/herself less detectable.

 

[Bigga]

How and why do the offices of government ministers have cameras (perhaps mikes as well) and the pictures end up in the Sun?
I find that more worrying than Hancock being a ****.

You find it weird that ministers that are paid through our taxes have security cameras in their rooms?

Probably one of the very few things I agree with!

 

[The perfect fumble]

Did you know that Gina Coladangelo's brother is an executive at a private healthcare company that has won a string of NHS contracts? They are riddled in sleaze and the papers will help them bury it by focussing on the affair - that's why the Conservative party wants to curtail the power of social media and ban the right to protest. The affair is a convenient truth but the real story goes much, much deeper.

It does.....

In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised. This theory of consent is historically contrasted to the divine right of kings and had often been invoked against the legitimacy of colonialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed

Even in the disastrous election of 2019 more people voted Labour, Lib/Dem and Green than voted Tory, and that takes no account of the SNP vote. But we're used to the first past the post system crushing the popular vote and so are the parties, so we shrug our shoulders and consent.

But increasingly that consent is strained, the government appears not to govern but squat over us, pissing on us, old school divide and rule, sowing division while mouthing platitudes about how we're all in this together, lies and slogans as substitutes for policy, it all creates a sense of hopeless drift with no optimism for the future.

It has become increasingly obvious to all but the most blinkered that this government has no discernible moral centre, that it cares only for itself and its core support, its game is rigged, with the rules applying only to the little people and not them.

For many of us consent has evaporated and a dull apathy has taken its place, punctuated only by occasional outbursts of anger.

When consent begins to disappear as rapidly as this, our bad faith betters replace it with government by coercion, hence the police bill, hence clamp downs on social media and hence ID cards to vote.

It will only get worse for the foreseeable, there's no prospect it'll get better any time soon.