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Could we see Reform poll higher than the Tories before the election in an opin– politicalbetting.com
Could we see Reform poll higher than the Tories before the election in an opinion poll? – politicalbetting.com
?Lee Anderson suspended A spokesperson for Chief Whip Simon Hart said: "Following his refusal to apologise for comments made yesterday, the Chief Whip has suspended the Conservative whip from Lee Anderson MP."
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Oh, you said 'poll.'
When will they learn language matters
But the problem the Tory party has now is how do you attract the Reform Islamophobic vote without scaring more moderate votes away...
Would Reform even want him?
And what do GBeebies do?
(Knowing me, knowing you) Aha - I see the bollock he dropped.
I admit I had perceived that as merely turning twat into a verb.
Tice is also less politically canny than Farage, pushing Thatcherite economics when most of their target voters want centrist economics and subsidised manufacturing industry and farming while still cutting immigration and being anti woke
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/28/jewish-groups-and-mps-condemn-nigel-farage-for-antisemitic-dog-whistles
Fair play to Labour for letting 30p Lee defect to the Tories.
It will be entertainingly seismic if it happens
All they need is Geoff 'the complete' Hoon, and they'll have the 3 most recent MPs for Ashfield.
It certainly would raise the profile of the party . Problem for Reform now is taking Anderson would see lots of questions around whether they’re Islamophobic .
I should suspect much of the Jewish vote not just the hardcore Leaver vote would agree with Anderson too, that doesn't mean he was right to say it though of course
I feel a sense of relief that there are still apparently enough real conservatives in the Con Party to kick this offensive grifter into touch. No apology should have been accepted and it seems amazing the Con leadership were willing to make exactly the mistake Starmer made over Rochdale
Anderson probably would stand a better chance in Ashfield under Reform colours. However, they would have to forgive his lie over being offered a bribe to defect. How do I know it was a lie? Anderson would have taken the money. That can't have impressed Tice and Farage. However, they currently have Danczuk as a candidate which suggests their standards are phenomenally low
Duhan van der Merwe is a proper Scottish name.
After my hot tip that the Cons might be over-priced there the smart money has reacted in the only possible way.
The Cons have gone from 66-1 to 150-1
Nota bene, I am not aware of any Rochdale polling.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gb-news-co-owner-denies-163626807.html
"GB News co-owner denies 'Islamophobia' after Twitter history exposed"
Houchen et al should be worrying.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13121095/trump-black-voters-like-mugshot-criminal-indictments.html
I do not take defeat well.
I am at Wembley tomorrow and experiencing PMT.
Pre match tension.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68378736
On Thursday, Mr Darmanin wrote on X that he had asked for an expulsion order to be issued for Mahjoub Mahjoubi, and praised tough new immigration laws that makes it easier for France to deport foreign residents.
"Without the immigration law, this would not have been possible. Firmness is the rule", the interior minister wrote.
As with Labour's Rochdale candidate the other week.
I doubt if he will be able to resist this, and the defenestration of Anderson suggests that the Tories have boundaries, ones which Farage does not intend to operate within at the moment.
So if Farage is to be Nigel the Kingmaker, the only king in sight is neither a Henry nor an Edward but a Keir.
Meanwhile, I await Braverman's suspension following her anti-Islam tirade in the DT on Thursday, which was as bad as Anderson's. I think I'll have a long wait.
Because that would imply there was doubt remaining...
(I do hope Braverman is also de-whipped, and then loses her seat. That would be funny.)
He is clearly winning this game for Scotland but in the rules he was eligible to play for them so fair enough
😂😂😂😂
ANOTHER fuck up by England
(The Tory one, for those of you with filthy minds.)
Why can’t we do this? Boff. On the plane. Deported
But this game is lost to the genius of Van Der Merwe
Scotland are blessed with two of the best players in the world. If they could find maybe two or three more they could win Slams and maybe the next World Cup
FFS. He must never play another England game
Sarah Hall tried it in October, when she claimed that some of the Jewish community are "frightened" of Khan. That earned her a rebuke from the Board of Deputies, who went on to say that Khan had always treated Jewish communities "with friendship and respect".
Then there was the 'Sadiq Khan says the quiet part out loud' selectively-edited video posted on Twitter by the official @Conservatives account, and leading Tory figures' repeated refusals to apologise for spreading misinformation.
And now Lee Anderson, previously the Tory Deputy Chair.
The reality is that Khan has constantly spoken in favour of Jewish Londoners and their interests, and against not just antisemitism but also anti-Zionism and BDS. He's been a frequent visitor to Jewish community projects, has taken part in Jewish festivals, and has instructed the MPS to take a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitic hate crimes.
The "Jewish vote" isn't really a thing - Jews aren't a monolithic bloc. Traditionalist, conservative Jews tend to lean Tory and liberal, secular Jews tend to vote Labour... but, as ever, the words "tend to" are doing a lot of work, and cover a great deal of complexity.
I know plenty of liberal Jewish people who would not have voted for Corbyn's Labour party at a general election, but who have always been entirely relaxed about Khan as mayor. I won't pretend that they're a particularly representative bunch - but then, who is?
What is for certain is that trying to tar Khan with an antisemitic brush is untrue, unfair, and deeply unpleasant.
And whilst Islamophobia may not be at the top of many Tory voters' list of concerns, neither do many (hopefully most!) of them want to be associated with Islamophobes or Islamophobia. Hall and Anderson's behaviour is just as likely to drive decent Conservatives (© Big_G_NorthWales) away as it is to attract the nuttier end of Refukers.
I hope we get no more complaints form Scottish Nationalists about non Scottish born English residents of Scotland helping No to victory in 2014 though on the same basis
"My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us 'The Dangling Prussian' as a signpost. The Englishman is a patient creature, but at present his temper is a little inflamed, and it would be as well not to try him too far.
I said Scotland by 10! They did it by 9
No one is going to stop Ireland
The Tories' voter numbers right now suggest they don't have significant numbers to take anyway.
I do not support the right of the conservative party bring a one nation conservative most of my life ( though did vote for Blair twice)