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4th February 2023, 09:28 AM | #2281 |
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Looks like Liz Truss is attempting a comeback by attempting to cast Sunak as a TINO.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64523277 I suppose she's right. Most of his cruelty is because he doesn't care about the little people and isn't necessarily deliberate. |
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4th February 2023, 11:40 PM | #2283 |
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Liz Truss claims the omnishambles wasn't her fault and her policies were sound.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64527252 This wouldn't be worrying, just a failed politician whining except that it's in a major newspaper and so presumably these failed policies will continue to be promoted. She also claims that she was hampered by a left wing establishment - a deep state if you will. If she considers the establishment to be left wing that's a clear indication of what a right wing nutjob she is iMO. Very Trumpist rhetoric. |
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5th February 2023, 03:08 AM | #2285 |
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Truss has/is the subject of an article in the Torygraph today (haven't seen the actual article so it could be either), the accompanying photo is interesting, she's posing next to a picture that seems to be Che Guevara's face on Napoleon's body, so I guess she's planning her come back on a wave of anti-EU lies and propaganda.
ETA: Someone's tracked down the original portrait & it's Nelson not Napoleon, so "The Left Are Stealing Our History" Culture War Bollox rater than EU. |
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5th February 2023, 04:37 AM | #2286 |
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Shock! Horror! BlowJob was lying! Who'd'a'thunk it?
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6th February 2023, 06:25 AM | #2291 |
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Truss still can't face up to how wrong she was and continues to tell lies about her visit to 10 Downing Street - https://www.theguardian.com/politics...omy-misleading
What is this "mandate" she writes about? She didn't have a "mandate" and has certainly never done anything worthy of anything close to respect. It really is a good thing that Brenda's death stopped Truss from trying to do anything else: there were enough screw ups if the couple of weeks she did have to "do" anything. |
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Truss saw Matt Hancock make a reasonable attempt at rehabilitating his image, finishing 3rd in "I'm a celebrity..." and rewriting history in his memoire and thought, well if he can do it....
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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https://twitter.com/Conservatives/st...52191316135936
"Welcome @LeeAndersonMP_ - our new Deputy Chairman of the @Conservatives" |
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To quote Dan Kaszeta* on Twitter
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US Army - Chemical Corps US Secret Service Verger at St Martin's in the Fields Fellow at RUSI and Liveryman of London He also photographs himself bravely eating charcuterie and drinking alcohol in nice pubs/bars/cafés etc in so called Sharia law zones in London. |
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7th February 2023, 07:55 AM | #2301 |
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On Tweet: Lee Anderson OBE - Out Before Easter
ETA: A bit of background on Anderson: https://www.itv.com/news/central/202...erson-has-done Note - not the BBC.... ETA1: And I am certain Sunak has never heard about any of that! |
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Lee ******* Anderson?????!!!!!!?????
Sunak really is gaslighting the country now. |
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Surprise, surprise - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...expenses-fraud
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...yment-speeches
Now, remind me why we are paying this twunt £115k a year over and above his £84k MP salary, which he isn't actually earning as he's never here? |
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9th February 2023, 02:33 AM | #2313 |
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His family was originally from Yorkshire - didn't know that.
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The new Conservative deputy chairman is expressing views which IMO would be very popular among the members, but where the leadership don't want it said out loud:
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9th February 2023, 04:44 AM | #2317 |
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No-one ever dodged tax or misused public funds after being executed either.
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