The Conservative Party

[west didsblue]

We don't want them. They can stand as independents.

It would certainly be unfair to other potential candidates for their constituencies. By all means quit the government, vote with the opposition and join the Labour Party as members if they want, but they shouldn't automatically be given the whip to become part of the PLP.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Bluethrunthru
Yours is the right exclamation. Levelling up is a great notion and a mighty fine slogan. It will remain these things until Bozo is hung and quartered.
I know that significant bits of infrastructure costs are funded from investment from the private sector but many massive infrastructure projects are all at taxpayers expense.
How do you level up when just 30 seconds thought produces these projects and approx costs. Tideway London, £4B; Crossrail 19B; HS2 P1 to Brum £45B; probable Heathrow extension £14B; probable refurb of the Houses of Parliament £22B?
Mind you the NE could get a new coal mine and Lancs will probably be opened up to fracking again.

I heard MP's and commentators over the weekend banging on about the future of rail travel being in the balance without "modernisation" ( job cuts ) - they keep saying travel is down on rail by 20%. If that were all the case and not propaganda why would they press ahead with the HS2 vanity project?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Too expensive. Time to cut.

Not until they have had the chance to blame it on Brexit surely?

 

[bluethrunthru]

I bet they don't follow the science this time.......

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I heard MP's and commentators over the weekend banging on about the future of rail travel being in the balance without "modernisation" ( job cuts ) - they keep saying travel is down on rail by 20%. If that were all the case and not propaganda why would they press ahead with the HS2 vanity project?

Lining their mate’s pockets with contracts, when covid hit they pressed on with parts of it to make sure it had to be done whatever happened with the pandemic. Another black hole of money the Tories have created.

 

[mat]

It would certainly be unfair to other potential candidates for their constituencies. By all means quit the government, vote with the opposition and join the Labour Party as members if they want, but they shouldn't automatically be given the whip to become part of the PLP.

Agree.

Anyone that leaves their party should trigger a by election as far as I'm concerned.

 

[bluethrunthru]

An incredible thread - fucking liars the lot of them

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

I heard MP's and commentators over the weekend banging on about the future of rail travel being in the balance without "modernisation" ( job cuts ) - they keep saying travel is down on rail by 20%. If that were all the case and not propaganda why would they press ahead with the HS2 vanity project?

I’ve posted a few times my belief that the project should have started in the North and moved south in stages. And speculated that eventually the decision would be taken that the project would not move north beyond Brum... aside from buying the land and upgrading some stations.
I wonder when the next forecast for overspend will be released?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

We don't want them. They can stand as independents.

It's an issue I agree. You have to question the nature of anyone who could stand for election as part of Johnson's Tory party and then want to sign on to a Labour party that is still left of centre left and pro EU as soon as BJ is gone - everything tories are not.

Generally all parties take defectors to them as a win. But its increasingly looking less like a win for Labour as these people bring the stench of the nasty tory party with them. And if i was a campaigner in a constituency that had one of these characters I'd be thinking no thanks can we put up one of our own.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I’ve posted a few times my belief that the project should have started in the North and moved south in stages. And speculated that eventually the decision would be taken that the project would not move north beyond Brum... aside from buying the land and upgrading some stations.
I wonder when the next forecast for overspend will be released?

Next time Johnson needs a dead cat is my best bet