Is that photo a n*** salute?
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Surely heāll just wait it out until the Tories swallow the party if/when they start to recover.
Itās pretty crazy to think heās that popular now, what does he even want poltiically? Brexit was his only thing.
My moneys on Cleverly or Braverman and not learning from what Labour have achieved.
AI still has a problem with hands, thing is, she canāt be AI, because she is missing 50% of te requirement
It will be Penny and her sword
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I know heās not an MP anymore, but last night watching Channel 4s coverage I kept thinking āoh Rory Stewart seems normal, heās level headed and not insane.ā
But then you look at his voting record and heās still clearly Tory
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I like Rory Stewart! I mean, I donāt agree with him but he has common sense, heās intelligent and can grasp ideas and come up with solutions. But to the tories heās more like Corbyn were to labour.
Farage wonāt like Parliament I donāt think, heāll be chucking his toys out of the pram constantly regarding representation when heās not allowed in the game. Heāll start to cause a fuss in the media with varying levels of support and derision in result. Hopefully Lee Anderson will continue to be stupid as fuck and blow the party from the iside out.
Yeah, I mean if the party had had more people like him (towards the left side of the party) on front bench roles, then perhaps the last few years wouldnāt have been quite as awful as they had been - heās definitely a sensible person. But in general he seemed a bit of an outlier, and tbh still voted along party lines on things like immigration and social reform
i swear we had this conversation about Rory Stewart before. he seems so decent generally. i do always have to remember that MPs basically get blackmailed into supporting things they might not want to support. āback in policy in the commons and weāll give you a nice new bridge for your constituencyā sort of thing
i donāt think itās possible to be a politician and not get your hands dirty with something. up until the recent issues with Palestine/Israel everybody (even Labour supporters) said that Corbyn was a hamas-supporting antisemite. now he seems positively precogniscant
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The issue with this, is that judging MPs on the āHow they voteā stats is meaningless. The party system has an absolute requirement to vote along party lines, or they will be expelled. We might think that they are spineless and morally reprehensible for voting a vile piece of legislation through, but if they voted with their conscience they would be kicked out the party.
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The thick of it comparison has become a parody in itself but we know even by watching that and the last 14 years of real parliament that itās such a volitile space full of egoās that have lost their capability to perform as real working candidates so it just all becomes an infight of people with no job to do but maintain their hardest in school heirarchy and who you are behind in that fight.
Iām fucking sick of him and his reasonable Tory act. Leave the party or accept your place at the death star conference room
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He left ages ago didnāt he?
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Did he? Ok. Whatās he hanging around for then? Pundit I suppose
He does a podcast with Alaistar Campbell. He owns expensive vases. He would say the party left him.
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This is from the BBC.
The one on the left would be what Parliament would be like under PR, the one on the right is what itās like under FPTP. Interesting to see that āothersā got 2% of seats. I think Jeremy Corbyn and some pro-Palestinian activists ate into Labourās votes, but to a lesser degree than Farage did to the Tories.
Sliiightly misleading because thatās as it is.
If everyone in the country had one vote that actually mattered there would be no tactical voting required.
It would be really interesting to play it out again to see how many people would actually vote for Labour or the Tories if we didnāt live under FPTP.
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Ah yeah Alistair Campbell, that bastion of morality
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