The Conservative Party

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Tory mayor Ben Houchen said this was not going to be the case.

 

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conservative Mayor Ben Houchen promising fixes to things he has no say in - they are not devolved to him but as a Boris fanboy he has learned to lie

 

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Peak Tory - looking everywhere to create cash for their donors

Royal Marines launch a blistering attack on Grant Shapps

Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour - a key planner behind Britain's victory in the 1982 Falklands War - said Grant Shapps 's request was 'highly alarming'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Houchen will either be Lord Houchen after Sunak's ex-PM honours list, or prisoner 5337876. Or both.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Houchen will either be Lord Houchen after Sunak's ex-PM honours list, or prisoner 5337876. Or both.

I thought Johnson had already made him a lord.

 

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The good ship Sunak massively holed below the waterline and taking the Party down with him

Three quarters of Britons think country in a worse state now than when Tories came to power

After Tory MP Danny Kruger said his party faces "obliteration" because the UK is worse now than in 2010, a YouGov poll has suggested most Britons agree.

news.sky.com

He admits to leaving Britain a sadder country in a much worse state than when they started, but still thinks they got brexit right!
Massive disconnect, just like the rest of them.

 

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[BrianW]

The Tory Party is like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Except that some of the people around the table think it isn't mad enough yet.

 

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Good grief.

John of Gaunt's speech from Richard II (this sceptr'd isle, this blessed plot, this England) ends with

this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out....

and even a bit about the self-harm of Brexit:

That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

That is the second half of Gaunt's speech. Flagshaggers and pseudo-patriots love the first part, but the second part is where we are really at.

The odd thing is that Richard II was a much more effective ruler than Sunak. He had barrels of gold coins stacked up in Holt Castle at the time of his deposition and had established peace with France after years of defeats at the end of his grandfather's time. (But we only talk about victories and pretend the French were always beaten.)

 

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The other point being yesterday - 8th Jan - was not in 2023