You have to wonder what the BBC were going for here
And then I saw the reporters Twitter feeds
Oh those poor people no mango sorbet, let’s give them another tax break
I bet the sorbet would have been as cold as my granny will be this winter!
Interesting the BBC have quoted the £3,000 conference cost but the article is about the additional £400 evening dinner event being more rushed than expected. Typical misleading headlines.
Also lovely trolling by Labour offering 25 tickets to their dinner.
>One company attending said some firms were “dismayed” after paying thousands to secure their place at the event on Monday.
>Labour has written to those who attended, offering them places to its equivalent event.
Nice. Labour on the ball which is good to see.
I totally get it. I had a mango sorbet as a palate cleanser before a meal once. The bit of steak I had afterwards hit like nothing I’d ever tasted before.
They’ve got a great big building where they can do whatever they want, it’s called parliament. Order a takeaway (from a small business), could probably cover the whole event for £200.
…mango sorbet IS ‘the shit’ though. Can’t blame ‘em on that front.
This article makes it sound like the Tory conference was a shitshow on the same level as Fyre Festival, where a bunch of rich dudes expecting a weekend in the Bahamas flew over to find UNICEF disaster relief tents in place of luxury bungalows.
It’s not but it’s already damn bad.
> Tickets for the conference Business Day cost £2,990, plus an extra £400 per head for the ticketed dinner in the evening.
> The dinner menu featured a baked goats cheese starter, followed by a beef and potato dish for the main course, with wine on the table, one attendee said.
For £2,990 + £400 per head, I’d expect to be served a three course meal worthy of at least two Michelin Stars, among other things. Not what was described above.
Heck, for that price I’d expect a 28 day dry aged Japanese Wagyu A5 steak cooked by a team of world class chefs headed by Guga from Guga Foods, and for the dinner entertainment Gordon Ramsay takes the stage and absolutely grills Liz Truss like the idiot sandwich she is.
It sounds like less value for money than Salt Bae’s thousand pound gold leaf steak.
That’s right, I’d rather eat at a TikTok meme cook’s overpriced London restaurant than at the Tory Party Conference…
> A representative of one multibillion dollar business at the dinner told the BBC the dinner was “abruptly” brought to an end after two hours, guests had dessert plates and coffee cups taken away from them, and were told to exchange business cards outside.
> Another person present said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly went on stage and told people to leave – meaning they all had to get out by about 9.15pm.
The Conservatives are the party of big business and moguls. When you treat big business execs and moguls like shit, they talk to one-another.
> Labour has said it has heard from “countless business leaders who were left desperately disappointed”.
> In a letter to businesses, the party said: “Unfortunately, we can’t make them [the Conservatives] give you your money back. And we can’t make them treat business with respect.
> “But we can show you that Labour takes our partnership with business seriously.
> “That’s why we’ve allocated 25 tickets to our Business Day in December to any attendees of the Tory business day who felt short changed on Monday.”
Normally I’d criticize Labour’s staunch Blairite and wannabe-Tory leader for proudly presenting his butthole to Tory donors, but offering these people tickets to Labour’s Business Day is such a power move.
Big business is going to turn against the Conservatives, and the moment they do, the party will be extinct.
> The source also said that “most people’s reflections” were that the reception after the equivalent business event at last week’s Labour conference was very positive, whereas businesses said they did not “feel the love” at this one and the organisation felt “complacent.”
Because the Tories do not care about most businesses and are very complacent. The Tories know they have a core group of voters who would vote for shit if it had a blue rosette on it, that group is also very reliable at simply going out to vote. They also have a good chunk of media barons on their side and hedge fund managers lining up to donate to them. Sadly, with two years until the next (scheduled) election, the Tories can afford a bit of complacency as they still have time to get a media offence going.
This is actually a brilliant piece of satirical sabotage art.
Head down the southampton. I hear there’s a man handing out biscuits
There was a certain moment in time where Labour became the establishment (in this case meaning the media and big business) party, before Blair was elected. We’re either very very close to that moment happening again, or it’s just happened. The circle has come around again, mum says it’s Labour’s turn on the xbox, and there’s not a fucking thing the Tories can do about it.
You’d have to ask what they expect to get back for their £3k investment.
Gota love it when the same people who take bribes (lobbies) from big businesses to make policy changes for their benefit or cut public services to make them seem unviable and perfect for privatisation to said CEOs of those big businesses, then short changes them at a party conference on their meals, they then have the gall, in the middle of a cost of living crisis, and complain that it wasn’t up to par. What. Did. They. Expect…
Hahahahaha, at least the Tories fucked over their own kind for once.
Still, I’m sure ‘i didn’t get my mango sorbet!’ is better than ‘i don’t have a house anymore because of 12 years of austerity’.
When you dine with the devil you’d better bring a long spoon (otherwise you won’t get any mango sorbet).
That’s the thing with Tories. They will always promise mango sorbet but instead serve up disappointment at the last minute.
But don’t freat too much. I hear the champs was flowing.
Out of touch.
Well, if you think you paid £3000 quid for a dinner, you must be a complete Muppet! 🤦
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You have to wonder what the BBC were going for here
And then I saw the reporters Twitter feeds
Oh those poor people no mango sorbet, let’s give them another tax break
I bet the sorbet would have been as cold as my granny will be this winter!
Interesting the BBC have quoted the £3,000 conference cost but the article is about the additional £400 evening dinner event being more rushed than expected. Typical misleading headlines.
Also lovely trolling by Labour offering 25 tickets to their dinner.
>One company attending said some firms were “dismayed” after paying thousands to secure their place at the event on Monday.
>Labour has written to those who attended, offering them places to its equivalent event.
Nice. Labour on the ball which is good to see.
I totally get it. I had a mango sorbet as a palate cleanser before a meal once. The bit of steak I had afterwards hit like nothing I’d ever tasted before.
They’ve got a great big building where they can do whatever they want, it’s called parliament. Order a takeaway (from a small business), could probably cover the whole event for £200.
…mango sorbet IS ‘the shit’ though. Can’t blame ‘em on that front.
This article makes it sound like the Tory conference was a shitshow on the same level as Fyre Festival, where a bunch of rich dudes expecting a weekend in the Bahamas flew over to find UNICEF disaster relief tents in place of luxury bungalows.
It’s not but it’s already damn bad.
> Tickets for the conference Business Day cost £2,990, plus an extra £400 per head for the ticketed dinner in the evening.
> The dinner menu featured a baked goats cheese starter, followed by a beef and potato dish for the main course, with wine on the table, one attendee said.
For £2,990 + £400 per head, I’d expect to be served a three course meal worthy of at least two Michelin Stars, among other things. Not what was described above.
Heck, for that price I’d expect a 28 day dry aged Japanese Wagyu A5 steak cooked by a team of world class chefs headed by Guga from Guga Foods, and for the dinner entertainment Gordon Ramsay takes the stage and absolutely grills Liz Truss like the idiot sandwich she is.
It sounds like less value for money than Salt Bae’s thousand pound gold leaf steak.
That’s right, I’d rather eat at a TikTok meme cook’s overpriced London restaurant than at the Tory Party Conference…
> A representative of one multibillion dollar business at the dinner told the BBC the dinner was “abruptly” brought to an end after two hours, guests had dessert plates and coffee cups taken away from them, and were told to exchange business cards outside.
> Another person present said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly went on stage and told people to leave – meaning they all had to get out by about 9.15pm.
The Conservatives are the party of big business and moguls. When you treat big business execs and moguls like shit, they talk to one-another.
> Labour has said it has heard from “countless business leaders who were left desperately disappointed”.
> In a letter to businesses, the party said: “Unfortunately, we can’t make them [the Conservatives] give you your money back. And we can’t make them treat business with respect.
> “But we can show you that Labour takes our partnership with business seriously.
> “That’s why we’ve allocated 25 tickets to our Business Day in December to any attendees of the Tory business day who felt short changed on Monday.”
Normally I’d criticize Labour’s staunch Blairite and wannabe-Tory leader for proudly presenting his butthole to Tory donors, but offering these people tickets to Labour’s Business Day is such a power move.
Big business is going to turn against the Conservatives, and the moment they do, the party will be extinct.
> The source also said that “most people’s reflections” were that the reception after the equivalent business event at last week’s Labour conference was very positive, whereas businesses said they did not “feel the love” at this one and the organisation felt “complacent.”
Because the Tories do not care about most businesses and are very complacent. The Tories know they have a core group of voters who would vote for shit if it had a blue rosette on it, that group is also very reliable at simply going out to vote. They also have a good chunk of media barons on their side and hedge fund managers lining up to donate to them. Sadly, with two years until the next (scheduled) election, the Tories can afford a bit of complacency as they still have time to get a media offence going.
This is actually a brilliant piece of satirical sabotage art.
Head down the southampton. I hear there’s a man handing out biscuits
There was a certain moment in time where Labour became the establishment (in this case meaning the media and big business) party, before Blair was elected. We’re either very very close to that moment happening again, or it’s just happened. The circle has come around again, mum says it’s Labour’s turn on the xbox, and there’s not a fucking thing the Tories can do about it.
You’d have to ask what they expect to get back for their £3k investment.
Gota love it when the same people who take bribes (lobbies) from big businesses to make policy changes for their benefit or cut public services to make them seem unviable and perfect for privatisation to said CEOs of those big businesses, then short changes them at a party conference on their meals, they then have the gall, in the middle of a cost of living crisis, and complain that it wasn’t up to par. What. Did. They. Expect…
Hahahahaha, at least the Tories fucked over their own kind for once.
Still, I’m sure ‘i didn’t get my mango sorbet!’ is better than ‘i don’t have a house anymore because of 12 years of austerity’.
When you dine with the devil you’d better bring a long spoon (otherwise you won’t get any mango sorbet).
That’s the thing with Tories. They will always promise mango sorbet but instead serve up disappointment at the last minute.
But don’t freat too much. I hear the champs was flowing.
Out of touch.
Well, if you think you paid £3000 quid for a dinner, you must be a complete Muppet! 🤦