This Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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Did the head of the Lancashire conservative party offend a genie or something?

The same story also contains two old stories about him (he brawled with a friend over an argument about who was to blame for getting a dog drunk, and in 2014 a Brazilian rent boy said he was asked to buy drugs for him), and a fresh story that he got drunk at last night at the proms and had a brawl with audience members, and in his own words "accidentally poked somebody while waving a flag".

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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Did the head of the Lancashire conservative party offend a genie or something?

The geographical issue is just extraordinary by this point.

[YL]

Look on the bright side. The likely vacancy in Fylde provides another chance for Seb Payne to go for a selection.

[EastAnglianLefty]

I do wonder, given where he's from and that it's impossible to give the occupant of the seat he'd really like a knighthood to get him to retire, if the Chairman of the Conservative Party might be interested in the presumptive vacancy.

[Torrain]

I thought he was supposed to be organising a peerage-for-retirement deal in Skipton?

[EastAnglianLefty]

Given how they've been doing in fixing selections recently, it probably makes sense to try to organise more than one stitch-up.

[Cassius]

Of course he was trade envoy to Colombia.

[CumbrianLefty]

So the Tories sat on this and didn't tell anybody for months, whilst *at the same time* whipping up a true tsunami of righteous indignation over Angela Rayner (and getting their remaining client media to follow suit) And yet some of them still wonder why they are now so widely and roundly detested.

[Torrain]

Future editions of Truss’ book will be edited to remove an antisemitism fabrication she included as part of an attack on a government advisor with the surname Rothschild:
https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1781020350483931211

She’s also in trouble for breaking the ‘Radcliffe’ rule, by not submitting the book for sufficient scrutiny by the Cabinet Office - refusing to remove private conversations she’s says back-up her narrative about some sort of British Deep State.

[CumbrianLefty]

She's not thick, but is staggeringly monomaniacal and self centred. And what is interesting is that the people who knew Truss in her youthful LibDem days say she was much the same as now.

[Torrain]

Yeah - you get the feeling that her positions have shifted, but that her character has been fairly consistent throughout.

On another topic - the Menzies story seems to be running a bit, and the revelation that the party has known since January, but the whip was only withdrawn after it went public seems to be hurting Simon Hart. Just starting to get a sense the Chief Whip is in a little jeopardy - especially if Menzies takes a trip to the Chiltern Hundreds.

[Torrain]

The Times have an interview with the Menzies whistleblower:
https://twitter.com/billykenber/status/1781381491727192428
Apparently, this wasn’t even the first time Menzies ended up ‘locked up’ by someone he’d met.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yeah, but Angela Rayner......

[Pericles]

An anonymous senior minister on their own party's caucus-

A senior minister was more despairing of the “utter madness” on display. “Do we really reflect society as a whole? I hope not for the sake of humanity.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/20/you-cant-rule-out-a-complete-panicked-meltdown-tories-fear-wipeout-after-another-disastrous-week

Good luck going out in public and saying you deserve re-election.

[CumbrianLefty]

They will, though. And many with a totally straight face.