They may have even swung my grandparents and that’s a fucking achievement.
not so united, not so kingdom has been in nothing but decline for what? a century now? Current elite is just putting the horse out of misery.
Funny how he’s not spoken out against the party for anything they’ve done in the last 12 years but now it’s his pension and investments going down the toilet he’s complaining in the Guardian. Rats, sinking ship.
E. He only “quit” the party over brexit because he was about to be pushed out. Still on team blue until they tanked the economy:
> Local activists had wanted to deselect him as their candidate in the next general election because of his stance.
> In his letter, seen by the BBC, he said he was resigning with immediate effect and that a “division had opened up” between him and the local association.
> Mr Boles said he wanted to continue to “take the Conservative whip” at Westminster if it is offered “on acceptable terms” – meaning he would still vote with the party.
Finally Kier is able to swing blue voters to red. And all it took was abandoning every pledge he made to the left in order to get elected.
Tbh I dont know why people have to switch from one of those to the other, they’re unlike each other and should require quite a change to your fundamental beliefs. Like if you’re voting for a right wing party then instead of flipping all the way to the “left” wing party how about stop at a party somewhere in the middle which from what I can tell is the Lib Dems. Lib Dems are still slightly left wing for the UK afaik but it’s still a stop before Labour. Same going the other way, how do you go from Labour to Conservatives without stopping at Lib Dems first?
I get that people only want to vote for parties with a chance of winning but the other parties only dont have a chance because of people voting like this. I feel like I’d rather just note vote at all than vote for a party that aims for the opposite of what I voted for a few years before.
I doubt he will be the last if the pound tanks much lower. They might not leave out of the goodness of their own hearts but they will not want to be tied to the sinking ship that is the Tories. Maybe they have realised disaster capitalism is not as great as they thought or they feel as though the Tories could be looking at a long time out of power as a result of this. Whatever the reason, Truss’s time is going to be short, which makes you wonder who on earth is going to want to replace her after all this.
>Nick Boles was the MP for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019
Yeah funny how everyone grows some balls when they no longer have any skin in the game
Someone likes their job and wants to keep it at all costs.
“Britannia Unchained”… lol
Seems like it set itself adrift. Herring Gulls are going to pick whats left of the carcass.
I no longer live in the UK but my family do. Distance lends perspective and it’s incredulous to read about more fuckery every day. I visited the UK back in 2020 and felt more a foreigner there than I do in my current country. It’s a very strange sensation.
I’m as much as a “natural Tory voter” as is possible for someone under 40. No one I know will ever vote conservative again. The party is truly fucked.
Looks like someone what’s to be an MP again.
He was a remainer and left the party because he wouldn’t have been selected in 2019 to stand as a conservative.
Now his only way back into the trough is to switch to Labour.
Career politicians they’ll say anything
I agree, blooming conservatives have lost the plot! Can’t even do a budget! I don’t thing it has dawned on them we buy gas in Dollars and the drop in the Pound will now make them borrow more
Well where the hell were you when Boris was around?
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They may have even swung my grandparents and that’s a fucking achievement.
not so united, not so kingdom has been in nothing but decline for what? a century now? Current elite is just putting the horse out of misery.
Funny how he’s not spoken out against the party for anything they’ve done in the last 12 years but now it’s his pension and investments going down the toilet he’s complaining in the Guardian. Rats, sinking ship.
E. He only “quit” the party over brexit because he was about to be pushed out. Still on team blue until they tanked the economy:
> Local activists had wanted to deselect him as their candidate in the next general election because of his stance.
> In his letter, seen by the BBC, he said he was resigning with immediate effect and that a “division had opened up” between him and the local association.
> Mr Boles said he wanted to continue to “take the Conservative whip” at Westminster if it is offered “on acceptable terms” – meaning he would still vote with the party.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47594875
*happy starmer noises*
Finally Kier is able to swing blue voters to red. And all it took was abandoning every pledge he made to the left in order to get elected.
Tbh I dont know why people have to switch from one of those to the other, they’re unlike each other and should require quite a change to your fundamental beliefs. Like if you’re voting for a right wing party then instead of flipping all the way to the “left” wing party how about stop at a party somewhere in the middle which from what I can tell is the Lib Dems. Lib Dems are still slightly left wing for the UK afaik but it’s still a stop before Labour. Same going the other way, how do you go from Labour to Conservatives without stopping at Lib Dems first?
I get that people only want to vote for parties with a chance of winning but the other parties only dont have a chance because of people voting like this. I feel like I’d rather just note vote at all than vote for a party that aims for the opposite of what I voted for a few years before.
I doubt he will be the last if the pound tanks much lower. They might not leave out of the goodness of their own hearts but they will not want to be tied to the sinking ship that is the Tories. Maybe they have realised disaster capitalism is not as great as they thought or they feel as though the Tories could be looking at a long time out of power as a result of this. Whatever the reason, Truss’s time is going to be short, which makes you wonder who on earth is going to want to replace her after all this.
>Nick Boles was the MP for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019
Yeah funny how everyone grows some balls when they no longer have any skin in the game
Someone likes their job and wants to keep it at all costs.
“Britannia Unchained”… lol
Seems like it set itself adrift. Herring Gulls are going to pick whats left of the carcass.
I no longer live in the UK but my family do. Distance lends perspective and it’s incredulous to read about more fuckery every day. I visited the UK back in 2020 and felt more a foreigner there than I do in my current country. It’s a very strange sensation.
I’m as much as a “natural Tory voter” as is possible for someone under 40. No one I know will ever vote conservative again. The party is truly fucked.
Looks like someone what’s to be an MP again.
He was a remainer and left the party because he wouldn’t have been selected in 2019 to stand as a conservative.
Now his only way back into the trough is to switch to Labour.
Career politicians they’ll say anything
I agree, blooming conservatives have lost the plot! Can’t even do a budget! I don’t thing it has dawned on them we buy gas in Dollars and the drop in the Pound will now make them borrow more
Well where the hell were you when Boris was around?