The Conservative Party

[TinFoilHat]

Have some of those Tories got some perverse bet about how many they'll have left after the election?

I keep expecting to see a pause on their polling but it gets worse every week we get closer to the election.

 

[Mike N]

Michael Gove off-his-tits on BBC Breakfast an hour ago. Blood-red in the face, super-animated and pulling strange ugly faces for the entire time the interviewer asks a question.

All I could think of was Spud at his interview in Trainspotting!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Michael Gove off-his-tits on BBC Breakfast an hour ago. Blood-red in the face, super-animated and pulling strange ugly faces for the entire time the interviewer asks a question.

All I could think of was Spud at his interview in Trainspotting!

he was in full-on trying to talk the time out mode, wasn't he?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Have some of those Tories got some perverse bet about how many they'll have left after the election?

as it unfolds they ALL had a bet on the election

 

[bluethrunthru]

Michael Gove off-his-tits on BBC Breakfast an hour ago. Blood-red in the face, super-animated and pulling strange ugly faces for the entire time the interviewer asks a question.

All I could think of was Spud at his interview in Trainspotting!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

"The government has admitted misleading Parliament in its response to a BBC report about former Afghan special forces being denied entry to the UK."

MoD admits to an error in an answer about whether UK Special forces had a veto on Afghan commandoes coming to the UK; they had an effective one, and it prevented any Afghans giving testimony on potential SAS wrongdoings.

Government admits misleading parliament over BBC ‘Triples’ report

Letter reveals the government admits misleading Parliament over cases of Afghan special forces.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Gabriel]

I know the betting on the election date is a small issue in a world of bigger and more important issues, yet it is symptomatic of much that is wrong in political culture. Self-sacrifice and honour are trampled afoot in a last attempt to make a quid and get something for oneself as the ship sinks. Base.

 

[BrianW]

Gove is a thoroughly horrid man.

A good example of someone who thinks he knows a lot more than he actually does. (Most of us know fuck all in the scheme of things; wisdom is when you acknowledge this.)

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[Gabriel]

Gove is a thoroughly horrid man.

A good example of someone who thinks he knows a lot more than he actually does. (Most of us know fuck all in the scheme of things; wisdom is when you acknowledge this.)

The peculiar thing is that, within the Conservative Party, enemies and allies alike acknowledge him as the shrewdest of political operators and the one Minister who is always on top of his brief. He's mastered and played the game from both sides, so I guess he'll be back on screens after the General Election wearing his media hat.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

This gambling thing has to be more than a couple of people for it to be highlighted.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[carlosthejackal]

No evidence of corruption

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

If they would break rules to gamble for a few hundred quid imagine what other illegal bit time stuff they do. Fkin brazen they are.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

No evidence of corruption
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Rishi ir really angry.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Laura Saunders statement:
"It is inappropriate to conduct any investigation of this kind via the media, and doing so risks jeopardising the work of the Gambling Commission and the integrity of its investigation.

"The publication of the BBC's story is premature and is a clear infringement of Ms Saunders' privacy rights.

"She is considering legal action against the BBC and any other publishers who infringe her privacy rights."

Yet her husband has stepped back from his duties.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

 

[Eebo]

Laura Saunders statement:
"It is inappropriate to conduct any investigation of this kind via the media, and doing so risks jeopardising the work of the Gambling Commission and the integrity of its investigation.

"The publication of the BBC's story is premature and is a clear infringement of Ms Saunders' privacy rights.

"She is considering legal action against the BBC and any other publishers who infringe her privacy rights."

Yet her husband has stepped back from his duties.

Fuck Me, is she seriously arguing that she has the right to break the law in private while at same time she is trying get elected to public office?

They really are the Party of Organised Spivvery

 

[Chris in London]

One last grift…

 

[Chris in London]

Fuck Me, is she seriously arguing that she has the right to break the law in private while at same time she is trying get elected to public office?

They really are the Party of Organised Spivvery

Even her statement is piss poor.

There is no such thing as a right to privacy. English law does not recognise the concept.

What she does have is a right to respect for her private life. That is a right that must be balanced against the rights of others to freedom of expression.

In the context of an attempt to suppress news of a criminal investigation while simultaneously running for public office, as you say that is quite a stretch.