Tories with their huge ass majority feel confident enough to say the quiet bits out loud.
Maybe if there was more funding outside of London, Birmingham wouldn’t be a dump?
I suppose it depends where you start, Birmingham looks OK from this ‘red wall’ ex mill town, but once our Tory MP has leveled us up that might change.
Why don’t they move it to Solihull? That’s a town that tends to be firmly Conservative.
“I am once again advocating for Conservative Party Conference to be in a place that actually votes for us. “
Yeah good luck with that one now.
I mean, Birmingham is in need of some funding. Maybe some rejuvenation work.
But if you’re in the party in charge, it’s possibly your fault it’s not had the same investment.
I’ve done a lot of work around Dudley, and while it’s not exactly Birmingham, it is a bit of a shithole.
It’s a dump because nobody there is Tory enough for the “Young Conservative”.
Isn’t Birmingham the second biggest British city and good? Even Goldman is based there now…
If Birmingham doesn’t have many of his type then that rather makes me think better of Birmingham
Always baffles me that Tories have their conferences in cities that hate them, yet ironically have the facilities and infrastructure they want for said conferences.
The irony is London is the biggest shithole of them all
Snobs. Birmingham has it’s problems as does any city, but it is not by any means a dump.
Don’t forget that he also tweeted in the past that he thinks Birmingham has too many Muslims.
I wonder why he thinks its a dump…
I mean, it is.
Most of my family are from Birmingham, I was born there. My parents moved away because they thought I deserved better, and I’m grateful for it.
But if conservatives feel brave enough to sound off about it, people ought to ask what they plan to do about it.
Guess it’s still not as bad as being labeled a “young conservative”.
I was briefly a part of my uni’s young Conservatives, and left mostly because they’re always this snobby. They had a meeting the one time about leafleting in the local area and spoke about most of the place as if they were having to unblock a shower for the first time by themselves but had a very sensitive stomach.
Birmingham votes Labour in the main. Perhaps if the Tories don’t like Birmingham they can take their conference to the next largest city that votes Tory….oh wait
He has a point. I lived and worked in Birmingham for a depressing 18 months when I was in the navy. I volunteered to go to Helmand Province to get away from the place early.
As someone who lives here what annoys me is this sort of attitude actually meaningfully affects Birmingham.
It’s the second city of the country but gets culturally overlooked and ignored massively in favour of other places because of this weird dismissive “oh it’s a shithole” attitude. Overlooked with investment, companies not moving there etc etc. Literally it’s as if the place doesn’t exist on TV when most maps even when they show the country for the weather etc don’t include Birmingham.
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Tories with their huge ass majority feel confident enough to say the quiet bits out loud.
Maybe if there was more funding outside of London, Birmingham wouldn’t be a dump?
I suppose it depends where you start, Birmingham looks OK from this ‘red wall’ ex mill town, but once our Tory MP has leveled us up that might change.
Why don’t they move it to Solihull? That’s a town that tends to be firmly Conservative.
“I am once again advocating for Conservative Party Conference to be in a place that actually votes for us. “
Yeah good luck with that one now.
I mean, Birmingham is in need of some funding. Maybe some rejuvenation work.
But if you’re in the party in charge, it’s possibly your fault it’s not had the same investment.
I’ve done a lot of work around Dudley, and while it’s not exactly Birmingham, it is a bit of a shithole.
It’s a dump because nobody there is Tory enough for the “Young Conservative”.
Isn’t Birmingham the second biggest British city and good? Even Goldman is based there now…
If Birmingham doesn’t have many of his type then that rather makes me think better of Birmingham
Always baffles me that Tories have their conferences in cities that hate them, yet ironically have the facilities and infrastructure they want for said conferences.
The irony is London is the biggest shithole of them all
Snobs. Birmingham has it’s problems as does any city, but it is not by any means a dump.
https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
Don’t forget that he also tweeted in the past that he thinks Birmingham has too many Muslims.
I wonder why he thinks its a dump…
I mean, it is.
Most of my family are from Birmingham, I was born there. My parents moved away because they thought I deserved better, and I’m grateful for it.
But if conservatives feel brave enough to sound off about it, people ought to ask what they plan to do about it.
Guess it’s still not as bad as being labeled a “young conservative”.
I was briefly a part of my uni’s young Conservatives, and left mostly because they’re always this snobby. They had a meeting the one time about leafleting in the local area and spoke about most of the place as if they were having to unblock a shower for the first time by themselves but had a very sensitive stomach.
Birmingham votes Labour in the main. Perhaps if the Tories don’t like Birmingham they can take their conference to the next largest city that votes Tory….oh wait
He has a point. I lived and worked in Birmingham for a depressing 18 months when I was in the navy. I volunteered to go to Helmand Province to get away from the place early.
As someone who lives here what annoys me is this sort of attitude actually meaningfully affects Birmingham.
It’s the second city of the country but gets culturally overlooked and ignored massively in favour of other places because of this weird dismissive “oh it’s a shithole” attitude. Overlooked with investment, companies not moving there etc etc. Literally it’s as if the place doesn’t exist on TV when most maps even when they show the country for the weather etc don’t include Birmingham.