The Conservative Party

[Gabriel]

 

[Vic]

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?

Because by the time it's done, no-one will be able to afford to drive.

 

[Vic]

"Truss as good as admitted that the treaty had only ever been a sham. Just something to con the more stupid backbenchers in her own party – that’s some low water mark – that the government could Get Brexit Done. Or, as it turned out, Get Brexit Don’t." (John Crace)

Laughter and forgetting with Liz as she prepares to break Brexit deal | John Crace

Introducing second reading of Northern Ireland protocol bill, Truss’s gullibility is almost endearing

www.theguardian.com

 

[bluethrunthru]

So.............. elected 2019 and got used to the salary they could only dream of outside politics and the expenses they are therefore prepared to cross the floor............

 

[blue for life]

So.............. elected 2019 and got used to the salary they could only dream of outside politics and the expenses they are therefore prepared to cross the floor............

Wonder who?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

So.............. elected 2019 and got used to the salary they could only dream of outside politics and the expenses they are therefore prepared to cross the floor............

I'm wary of how/why the Telegraph are stating this - to make the Red Wall look less trustworthy and therefore less worth helping? to get them to name themselves??

I don't really see what they gain, unless something crazy has happened in Conservative circles. They'd have to be incredibly popular locally to keep the nomination, and apparently aren't sure if they're Conservatives or Labour.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

So.............. elected 2019 and got used to the salary they could only dream of outside politics and the expenses they are therefore prepared to cross the floor............

They should agree it in principle only for Keir Starmer to get up and block their path up the aisles and show them the door.

 

[mat]

So.............. elected 2019 and got used to the salary they could only dream of outside politics and the expenses they are therefore prepared to cross the floor............

It shows all those MPs are thinking about is keeping their jobs.

 

[carlosthejackal]

A party of cunts and shysters , as are those who still support them and vote for them .

 

[Bigga]

All it takes is for the Cons to show a no confidence in Johnson and this whole view turns to ash in an instance.

There are many clones of Starmer-like politicians in the Tory party, which would make Starmer redundant.

If they're like Starmer, they are not in the Tory party.

Times reporting that 6 Conservative MPs are considering defecting to Labour. Sounds more of a threat at this stage but likely to add to the pressure on Johnson.

Apologies, Gabriel, for hijacking your post, but it explains what I said in another thread; that the leap between the Cons and the current Labour Party is not very far at all.

Even taking into account that the threat of of defection is there, the fact that there's a threat of a step across the aisle would be a thought process unthinkable under the last leadership and it says a lot.

Thanks Gabriel for allowing me the example.