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Braverman’s leadership bid is like a visit to a gay bar – politicalbetting.com
Braverman’s leadership bid is like a visit to a gay bar – politicalbetting.com
Tories turn on Suella Braverman: “She’s lost all her mates and pissed off the gays so I think she will bugger off to Reform," a Tory MP said. "She has no chance of being leader and she thinks she is bigger than she is so what is there left for her?”https://t.co/vMXmfx0HyG
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We even discussed what 80s songs Tony Blair and Gordon Brown would request to the DJ.
It was a short journey from the conference venue/Midland Hotel to The Village on Portland Street.
Mind, her approach probably makes her a shoo-in with the membership if she does make it that far.
It's time to grow up, become more tolerant and accept that the State has no interest whatsoever in these matters. Surely a Tory should understand that?
'NEW JLP survey of 500 Conservative members for
@gbnews
*Potential matchups*
Braverman 35% vs Badenoch 32%
Tugendhat 30% vs Badenoch 30%
Tugendhat 31% vs Jenrick 25%
Braverman 37% vs Tugendhat 31%
Badenoch 34% vs Jenrick 24%'
https://x.com/JLPartnersPolls/status/1810999695650471947
In your own best interests.
That really drive you insane
Let's do a recount again"
Novels are just so fucking BORING. Reality is amazing, who needs some twat making shit up?
It's a truism in the publishing industry that men over 40 only read military history, and it's not entirely true for me, I read a lot of history, but also memoir, biography, science, philosophy, even a smidgen of poetry. But novels? Almost never, and they often disappoint
If I want amazing fiction I will watch TV drama or a great movie, because they give you so much more
And I've read all the true classics that must be read, the Brontes and Hardy, Tolstoy and Proust, Flaubert and Joyce, Austen and Hemingway
The only novel that has really pleased me and gratified me intellectually in the last few years - that has stayed with me - is Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. But that is more like a superb maths puzzle than a novel. Such genius plotting it becomes like a literary escape room, a true masterpiece. Very few novels are as good as that, most are dreck
She could clearly start an argument in an empty room and you could easily imagine her and Farage butting heads day in and day out...
EDIT: I think the DUP would probably be a better fit her?
https://x.com/Number10cat/status/1812178016157508045
Clearly at least one Tory MP doesn't like her.
I was told a few months ago the problem for the Tories was that the public didn't like them was because not solely because of Brexit but because of the stridency of their views on other things.
One thing that sickened the focus groups was when Suella Braverman said being homeless was a lifestyle choice.
It speaks of an unwillingess to understand other people.
As I mentioned late yesterday, I urged a colleague to join, as they are just the sort of sane centre-right person that the Tories need to drag them back towards sanity.
They defeat Australian pair Thompson and Purcell 6-7, 7-6, 7-6
Kemi possibly taken a hit with the membership over her reported "nervous breakdown" comment?
Who are these "Torys" of which you speak? Politics in the 2020s is paternalistic (maternalistic?), revolving around the desires of the boomers, authoritarian and leveraging tech and software advances to suppress people. We've accepted government oversight of our own private life and everyday movement, what we look at and do online,and we did so with glee because it gave us the ability to oppress others. Suella Braverman, despite the performative outrage against her, was merely saying out loud and rudely what had been said more politely previously.
And that's just the Brits. Whilst the Democrats lounge around enabling a senile who shits his pants whilst dithering over which inadequate to replace him with, the Republicans are fully set up to implement Project 2025 and other darling little hobbyhorses and will hit the ground running on January
There is no knot of politicians organised and desiring liberty, freedom and the small state. There is no bunch of resistance fighters to ride to the rescue. We just swapped one set of authoritarians with another.
(as you may tell, I am rather irritated today. Apols
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/13/meet-the-young-tories-fighting-to-change-their-old-party-where-do-we-go-now
https://x.com/VincentJBruins/status/1812129880739303695
All drivers apparently okay. The cars... less so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o02s_g5AUUE
(BTW, I am grateful for your responses, I always find your posts interesting.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1967/jul/03/clause-8-restrictions-on-prosecution#column_1525
I don’t think Suella is the full package, but she is being blamed more for pointing out that Sunak was a pile of shit than he is being blamed for being a pile of shit. That's ridiculous and speaks to a party in deep denial. If they still think that they can get by without purging CCHQ of the spotty-little-Osbornite-herbert infestation, they're going to fade to nothing. Nobody wants a party offering Labour and Lib Dem policies but without the hokey charm.
London is arguably the most homophobic city in the UK. This is why. The level of stupid denial on this site only ever gets worse
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67429132
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/rise-lgbtq-hate-crime-london-homophobic-attacks-clapham-brixton-b1112859.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-s-gay-rights-trailblazers-reflect-on-current-homophobic-tensions-1.6871961
'Among 2019 Tories who voted Labour, the rankings were:
Boris and Cameron have joint lead with 9% each.
Nigel Farage on 6%.
Cleverly, Badenoch, and Tugendhat on 4%.
The rest trail. Only Jenrick has 0% with this crowd…
'For Reform defectors:
Farage with 42%. Naturally…
Boris and Braverman tied on 12%.
Badenoch in a distant third with 4%.
For LibDem movers:
Boris with 10%. He didn’t just get red wall votes, remember…
Cameron and Tugendhat joint second on 8%.
Cleverly just behind on 6%.'
https://order-order.com/2024/07/12/poll-shows-farage-and-boris-most-likely-to-lure-ex-tory-voters-back/
Your poignant and sometimes dramatic accounts of your nomadic life with Graham, the dog, have never struck me as fantasy, more as a brutally honest account of the difficulties of human-canine love in a society which Simply Doesn't Understand
Alternatively, there haven't been any other high profile Conservatives that have been so virulently anti-LBG in the recent past.
For what it's worth, my proviso is a simple one: treat others as you would wish to be treated. Remember, not everyone is going to believe the same as you - whether about God, trans, or anything else. And people who believe different things to you; well they are human too.
So, if someone wishes me to address them using they/them, then my personal views don't get a look in, I will address them as they wish to be addressed. Just as I wouldn't be disparaging about someone's belief in a god, even though I personally am an atheist.
Remember also, how you would feel if the boot was on the other foot. Imagine, before you try and get (say) The Perks of Being A Wallflower banned from a library, how you would feel if it was a book you cared about and believed in that was on the chopping block.
Remember too, that you will never eliminate the people that disagree with you. You need to remember that, and you need to ask yourself not how you can suppress those who think differently to you, but how you can live alongside them in harmony.
Was it in relation to her comments about the Pride flag? Which she associated with the mutilation of children. I wouldn't say the Pride flag exclusively represents that......
You're ranting at a chimera, "homophobic old white Tories, aided by Suella". These people barely exist
If you want to find real homophobia in Britain look to the millions of people we have imported - many very recently - from homophobic Christian Africa and even-more-homophobic Islam
To do anything else is intellectually redundant and embarrassing. But then, this is PB. The sheep has got stuck in the wire-fence, again
But being from an ethnic minority also doesn't mean that someone should be treated with any less scorn and derision when they behave like utter fuckwits.
Braverman is an utter fuckwit, irrespective of her race. She should be treated accordingly
She was anti T if anything.
She objected to being obliged to fly a pressure groups flag on government property for an entire month.
Which is over twice as many days per year as the Union Flag is flown.
I don't much care what people do with each other, but I don't see why one particular pressure group should be able to fly its flag over public buildings for an entire fucking month with anyone daring to mildly criticise this treated as one of a basket of deplorables.
We phoned the police - several other people did.
When the police arrived (near Leicester Sq, London so about 2 min) a policeman asked who had reported the assault. We put our hands up. Who’d reported it as a racial assault? Again hands.
He came over, blanked my girlfriend and aggressively told me that it couldn’t be a racist assault since both the attackers and the victim were black. He seemed to have the idea that reporting it as such was an offence.
At this point, my girlfriend (Ghanaian) interjected that she’d reported it as a racial assault. And being a lawyer, she started naming bits of law….
Apparently he went right off fiction from about the age of 40, accordimg to Martin (and in this, he is like most men)
He would sit there trying to read a novel, but speaking aloud his frustrations at the fact is it fiction
"And then Annabel Lennox said"
Kingsley, interrupting: NO SHE DIDN'T
"After that we all went to Box Hill"
Kingsley, interrupting: NO YOU DIDN'T
And so on
I entirely sympathise with him. Also, he managed to win a Booker Prize in his later years without ever reading any fiction for several decades (even tho it was for a desperately medicore book). Respect
Before the ballots have fled,
But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance,
Let's do a recount -- again.
1) The introduction of loss leading pricing of alcohol by the supermarkets
and
2) The smoking ban.
I think Leon, like that roaster SeanT has an issue with Muslims.
Who can forget his dribblings on the Norway massacre in 2011 which he assured was down to the Muslims when a few Norway experts told him it was likely to be the far right.
The liberalisation of attitudes under Cameron was evidently an aberration. The Conservative Party is going to respond to defeat by tacking rightwards and indulging religious and other forms of bigotry. They are an enemy to gay people.
Of course, whilst Labour are better nowadays, we would do well to remember that it was only five years ago that they were led by the former Iranian state TV presenter and celebrity friend of Hamas, one J Corbyn, who was elected and lionised with great enthusiasm by the party membership. They clearly weren't that bothered by how many gays were thrown off tall buildings or strung up from cranes by their Islamist buddies, either.
The moral of this story - and this applies to all of us, not just the gays - is never, ever to trust politicians to uphold your rights, because they will drop you right in the shit without batting an eyelid if it's convenient to their broader positioning. Be like a boxer, always keep your guard up, always be ready to strike back.
God luck to him though!
I remember the day well (as I had just finished working in Norway for the previous 15 years) and I have to point out that SeanT was just about the only person apart from me who wasn't blaming the muslims. We were the only two for over an hour who were saying it was far more likely to be a right wing attack. I remember it vividly and it helped generate a great deal of respect from me for Mr T at the time.
On the other hand, the C of E *is* an agency of the State - certainly of the Crown - yet its employees are entitled to discriminate.
Really?? 🫨🫨
I have a little knowledge of this - for a Council Headquarters building with three flagpoles, one should always have the Union flag. The second usually has the flag or standard of the authority and the third is the one which will have different flags though often the St George's Flag in England if there is nothing else going on.
There's a strict protocol around which flags are flown and when including PRIDE and Armed Forces Day flags. A Council can fly the flag of a town or area with which it is twinned and especially if there is a twinning ceremony going on. Sometimes the flag of a country which has significant representation in a particular area will be shown - for example, Newham flies the Indian Flag on Republic Day (January 26th this year). All of this will be agreed in advance.
When Hamas attacked Israel in October last year, there was an instruction from the MHCLG to all Councils to fly the Israeli flag - the problem was not all Councils had an Israeli flag (why would they?).
The flag flying instructions come from MHCLG not the Home Office.
*terrified of their heirs going to Scotland and getting married there
We post less and do more.
"So OK just replace what I loudly claimed but with an entirely different event at a vastly different time, whatevs, who needs these minor factual details"
The funny thing is that whilst gay marriage obviously split the Tories when it was introduced, it's effectively become a non-issue now. Unlike the fox hunting ban which Tory leadership contenders down the years have flirted with overturning.