The Conservative Party

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

The only absolute is the masses are going to get fucked.

There are levels. I dont think the mases were f~ked under Blair, you will never please everyone therefore there will be an element under any government. Johnson will f~k the masses on an unprecedented scale. Cameron will go down as the bridge from one to another.

 

[The perfect fumble]

There are levels. I dont think the mases were f~ked under Blair, you will never please everyone therefore there will be an element under any government. Johnson will f~k the masses on an unprecedented scale. Cameron will go down as the bridge from one to another.

I agree, there are levels.

 

[Ban-jani]

What governments do and what they stand for are not one and the same, triangulation, zeitgeist and "events dear boy, events" muddy the waters.

Johnson has just won a hefty majority, but did Johnsonism win it? Not really, no one has a clue what he stands for (well I do, but I'm a fucking genius). Did Blairism win in 97? Blair did indeed win, but can anyone say John Smith would not had he lived, and had he won would that have been an endorsement of Smithism?

After the crash Brown tinkered with Keynesianism, Cameron with austerity, now Boris is talking a bit Keynes but he's most likely telling fibs, it's all very Blairy, Camerony, Hayeky, Thatcherite, Trumpy, neoliberal, make it up as you go along populism now.

The only absolute is the masses are going to get fucked.

I understand what you are saying and you’re right about Johnson, he’ll play whatever card will get him elected but Blair and Cameron definitely had ideological agendas within a capitalist system and they stuck to them throughout and still talk about and push their views now.

Of course events change things and the crash was a massive event in that. It’s hard to say what Cameron would have done had there not been a crash and huge deficit. I still think he would have made cuts.

Cameron is essentially an Orange Book LibDem and Blair is essentially a typical LibDem.

You may say these are close but the country is vastly different depending on which one is in charge.

 

[aguero93:20]

Satonthesidelineshowlingatthemoon....ism?

Faragism is less of a mouthful.

 

[mat]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...nalists-walk-out-no-10-briefing-a9314996.html

Journalists walked out of a Downing Street briefing on Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans after the prime minister’s director of communications tried to restrict it to selected publications and broadcasters.

The road to dictatorship continues. We'll done Tory voters.

 

[bluethrunthru]

gotta be worth a knighthood

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51318730

 

[MCFC1993]

Taking away journalistic freedoms, a copy straight out of Trump's playbook.

Picking and choosing who gets to scrutinise what is going on is a disgrace and good on the other journalists and correspondents who were invited but walked out in protest.

 

[bluethrunthru]

They can't even cover up when they have dropped a bollock competently now

James O'Brien Retweeted

[URL='https://twitter.com/paulwaugh']Paul Waughpaulwaugh[/URL]


I can safely say that in 22 years of being a political journalist, I've never experienced a day like today. No.10 sources now insisting that political editors like myself "are not banned, they are just not invited".



Journalists Stage No.10 Walkout In Protest At 'Trump Tactics' Of Comms Chief
Solidarity shown by political editors after they were split into two groups.
huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[Len Rum]

Briefings to selected journalists only?
WTF is going on Jeff?
attention @Chippy_boy .

 

[dave_blue12]

Briefings to selected journalists only?
WTF is going on Jeff?
attention @Chippy_boy .

No surprise whatsoever.

This is just another step on the path trod by Trump all designed by the same people.

Watch out for more of the same.

BTW - expect the owners of certain publications to exert pressure to break the journalist's solidarity.