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Too many tweets… – politicalbetting.com
Three former Conservative MPs defect to Reform UKFormer deputy Tory chairman Jonathan Gullis praises Nigel Farage as he, Lia Nici and Chris Green quit Kemi Badenoch’s party https://t.co/2FwJKGaaUp
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Indeed their only hope of making a Commons return, and indeed likely to the first Reform Cabinet. Its not as if theres stiff competition, so in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
That this wasn't in the header - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Mrfut-FSw
Clearly not got the message that the backers have decided that it's time to switch back from Farage.
Even if I am the last conservative standing, I will not vote for Reform or Labour
And on standing, I have finally been awarded a blue badge today that will help in my battle against my recent loss of mobility
One day we'll be able to detect such minute perturbations without actually knowing they've happened - it's a dream, but it's far off. We can only detect actual proper thoughts happening now - micro thoughts and micro wibbles are still beyond the technology, despite as we've seen with Ms Cooper there's proof that they exist.
Second thought - Richard Tice's tweet to Gullis has a pretty nasty threatening tone to it. They're just not very nice people.
Were we all misled over the budget?
https://news.sky.com/video/share-13478012
Have you watched it?
Resident doctors to strike from 17th to 22nd December
He disappeared for a few weeks . The spineless waste of space couldn’t bear the scrutiny because of Reforms Russia links and now comes back to jump on the bandwagon over the OBR .
His demand for transparency over the budget is comedy gold given we’re still waiting to see how many more Putin stooges are in his party .
Maybe there are more sane conservatives in my ward !!!!
The only defection that will be regretted on a personal basis is Danny Kruger.
These three, along with Andrea Jenkyns, Nadine Dorries, et al, look like members of a political version of the Addams Family.
Pause
Unless it's "Superman", of course
(It's not "Margin Call", 'cos I know most of that off by heart)
To answer Scott's comment above, you aren't going to get the same pool of former MPs who didn't get in last time but want their seats back with Labour. Most Labour candidates with a hope in hell got in last time.
Please, speak as you might to a young child, or a Golden Retriever. It wasn’t brains that got me here, I can assure you that.
Keir Starmer fights for his political life
The prime minister’s speech this morning was not just a bid to talk up the Budget, as David Maddox, our political editor, writes. “It was a fight for his political life.”
Keir Starmer’s claim that lifting the two-child benefit limit had always been his “moral mission” is different from what he argued last year, when it was “unaffordable”.
It has not become more affordable, as the Office for Budget Responsibility has said that the public finances had deteriorated, whatever the debate about when it said it.
The prime minister and the chancellor decided to raise taxes to spend more, but this means trying to tell Labour MPs (who support the end of the two-child cap) one thing and the wider electorate (who oppose it) something else.
But if the voters – and at least one cabinet minister – think the prime minister is misleading them, then appeasing backbench Labour MPs will not save him.
Can't think of a better gift to Reform than calling for Communism/Marxism.
All hopes of a mass, all-encompassing movement burnt to the ground, just to create another fringe, factional, echo chamber, of which this country already has many.
https://nitter.poast.org/AdnanHussainMP/status/1995146434598109346#m
While I was opening the letter I put some music on, through my few years old Minirig 1 speaker and appreciated how clear and loud the sound still is
I then checked my email, and had one from Minirig offering me a massive £10 off the cost of their Minirig 4 speaker, bringing the cost down to £140
I ordered one straight away
I highly recommend Minirig. Their speakers are high quality, extremely durable and great value
They're made in Bristol, so we can buy British
I think they'd make an awesome Christmas present
https://minirigs.co.uk/speakers/bluetooth-minirig-4
Oh, and the massive tenner off is only until midnight tonight
It's one of the weirdest films ever. It consists of people reciting numbers to each other, mostly their salaries, but the crucial numbers - the values of the assets - are left vague, described only in superlatives - "we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of (pause) capitalism". Everything about it is brilliant - check out the colour grading - and I really like the rumour that Kevin Spacey burying his dog in the end of the film is reflected in the first scene of "House of Cards", when the other Kevin Spacey character kills his dog.
I'm in a car park sheltering from it, though it has slid east of me a bit, but it's over Lichfield, Birmingham, mid Wiltshire, so a select few of us are dead on underneath it.
Plenty on the Left practice class warfare, vindictiveness, thinking wealth creators are subhuman, believe in intersectionality and all Whites being advantaged - and should thus be structurally disadvantaged - or actively celebrate violence and the punishment of traitors, lyrics of the Red Flag being very clear.
Bigotry isn't confined to any one part of the political spectrum.
Thoughts on Kemi. What she has proven is that she is not an IDS-type dud. She does possess something a bit special, but remains some considerable distance from being perceived by the public as a credible alternative PM. This is why I favoured Cleverly. But she has stifled Jenrick, so that's something and seems to be getting the hang of it, a bit. All the same, there is no movement in the polls and next May still looks grim. So, the long run it is.
For May, I think the Conservatives will need to learn from Kenneth Baker who, back in the day, managed to persuade the media to focus on the results in Westminster and Wandsworth, and overlook what was happening everywhere else.
Of the Conservatives who have gone Reform, from the likes of Dorries, Kruger and Gullis down they are all from the Boris loyalist wing which switched to backing Truss in 2022 v Sunak and backed Jenrick over Kemi last year. Ironically that may sure up Kemi's position and increase Cleverly or Stride's chances too as the more Jenrick backers go Reform, the harder it will be for Jenrick to replace Kemi as Tory leader before the next general election.
You are also right, while the Tories will likely suffer losses overall in the local and devolved elections next May, they could gain Westminster and Barnet and should hold Kensington and Chelsea which Kemi and her backers would highlight
shore something up
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to stop a wall or a building from falling down by supporting it with building materials such as wood or metal:
Boundary walls have had to be shored up.
For a long time, the wealth was slightly shameful and the way to absolve that shame was civic duty.
Thing One attends a school whose origins are in one of the City cartels livery companies and still benefits from their collective largesse from centuries ago.
That has dissipated; Thatcher's hope that the rich would spend their tax cuts philanthropically mostly didn't happen
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The PM & Chancellor can simply not be permitted to get away with claiming that the macroeconomic forecasts said they had less money. That's just completely false. Why should the OBR have to put up with being lied about like this?
https://x.com/andrew_lilico/status/1995538546388558227
https://youtu.be/un1mdRPZln0
They seem to enjoy whacking taxes on people.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnderothschild_did-you-know-just-10-of-ultra-high-net-worth-activity-7264585783716548608-NF5Y#:~:text=12mo-,Did you know just 10% of ultra-high-net,expand this sector is immense.&text=Video Player is loading.
https://professionalparaplanner.co.uk/uks-wealthiest-donate-nearly-8bn-to-charity/#:~:text=According to CAF's High Value Giving report,,these donors gave an estimated £7.96 billion.
They've convinced themselves it's all permanent because Values and Brexit, but the more they act like Santa's little helper the more voters in affluent English seats will make the choice they need to.
If the Tories gain any seats at the next GE they will almost certainly be Labour held
Scar was his best role, though, I think ?
Decades on, I can still do the languid, resentful drawl: "...Life's not fair, is it ?"
The almost-iron law of defectors is that they are great news for the receiving party on the day of the announcement, and bad news thereafter.
Feel free to put a pin in this post.
It will all go Pete Tong if the 2029 result is a LabLib coalition, but that only becomes an electoral problem in 2034 or so.
Eight and a half years doesn't take long if you say it quickly.
So it's just not worth it to rush, Big_G.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/bakery-chain-gails-plans-to-open-40-more-outlets-as-sales-soar
For a start, it can also be not succumbing to peer pressure when you know everyone is watching.
I think the Tories are more likely to lose further seats than to gain them. Its why these rats are defecting.
A very marked increase. They are also running a deficit although, to be fair, it is considerably smaller than ours at 1.6% of GDP.
Putin very clearly has absolutely no intention whatsoever of stopping this war.
@kitty_donaldson
EXC: Richard Hughes forced out after relations between the OBR and Treasury reached an all time low over Friday’s briefing on the size of the fiscal black hole
https://x.com/kitty_donaldson/status/1995562585782169665
Putin doesn't know.
Sadly, nor does Trump.
Worth remembering that on some of the polling the Tories could have ended up with sub-100 seats. IIRC on the night the initial results suggested they might do a little better (if still horribly) at more like 140/150 seats, until the LDs swept the southern golden arch.
But this looks very much shit or bust. The Russian President is one, and his country is close to being the other.
https://youtu.be/ZTn_kTekmqs