If he disagreed with everything he was forced to vote for then perhaps he shouldn’t have been in the party
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Oh, he’s definitely a Tory, he thought the national service idea was good and has defended austerity (to a degree). I do think he is driven by an ethic of pubic service, but he’s a bit a strange mix of pith-helmet / viceroy and social justice warrior.
The fact is though, if you wanted to have real influence and change things (ie. rise to one of the Offices of State) you have to do it within this system and swallow a tonne of shit. His book is worth reading as he goes into great detail about how he agonised over this, as well as an insiders view of the mind boggling duplicity and incompetence of Johnson and Truss
*edit - there’s obviously various ways to effect positive change, I’m talking about getting your hands on the actual levers of power.
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Thanks fuck Laura Kuenssberg‘s gone off to bed finally.
Labour PM walks into Number 10 for a meeting.
“Look at him, walking slowly, milking the limelight. I bet he can’t believe his luck!”
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What time is Sunak flying out to LAX?
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Re Rishi Sunak -
Always gotta love Jonathan Pie
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Quite stoked on Starmer’s appointments tbh. Patrick Valence as science minister? An actual scientist who is known and trusted and not an MP? Fuck yes more of this sort of thing
The return of Ed Milliband is cool too
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I’m almost feeling positive about it all myself.
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1809346139595903401?s=46
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Nah Jonathan Pie fucking sucks
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Another good point:
https://x.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1809307747466276896?s=46
This can’t be his actual forehead?
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I’m pretty sure we were all fed up of experts. Apparently. Or something like that 
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Experts are woke snowflakes
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Someone put Hugh Grant’s head into a Clark’s shoe sizing machine, dressed him in tweed and gave him a computer generated name. The poor wee Michael Fabricant.
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Loving this.
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Am currently going down rabbit hole of rumours that certain reform candidates simply did not exist
https://x.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1810353548040843633
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Seems like it would be very easy to disprove if they were real. God I really hope this turns out to be true
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I don’t. It would lead to loads of by-elections and probably a lot more Tory MPs.
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This seems to be the constituency where the rumours about nonexistent candidates started:
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Sounds like the kind of thing an AI would say, has anyone done the Turin test on him?
