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Tory Leadership Runners and Riders

Joe Hutch said:
Any guesses as to where this insight comes from? (answer at bottom of post)

'The Tory party is not driven by some grand policy agenda, but simply grasping at shiny objects. It passes repetitive, unnecessary and ultimately inoffensive laws that criminalise things that are already illegal – like dog theft or assaults on emergency workers. Or else spends its time complaining that the world, the civil service and the blob is against it. The party once sought to campaign in poetry and govern in prose, now it campaigns and governs in tweets.

Even on its beloved Brexit, the Conservative party tries to stoke an ongoing threat that it might be undone or revoked or strangled at birth rather than engage with the realities of leaving the EU. With the simple in and out completed, there is no clue whether Britain’s future is Singapore on Thames or shoring up the dying embers of Red Wall industries. Instead, it jumps to silly-season headlines on imperial measures and crowns on pint glasses.

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There is an almost complete absence of policy innovation. The party grasps around for yesterday’s answers to yesterday’s problems, copying the homework of Thatcher, a leader who has been out of power for 30 years and dead for ten. It’s why the party recycles so much from policy interns and fails to come up with anything equal to the challenges we face. It does not even propose simple answers for complex problems – just no answers beyond the triple lock and ever rising house prices.

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Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible policies, incapable of using its resources to tackle the challenges ahead. In an uncertain world it struggles to decide what it wants to do, and struggles to implement the few ideas it has. The party has become a machine for garnering headlines and votes but is now starting to stall. Insulated by a media which also focuses on the day-to-day rigmarole of politics as soap opera, our leaders are missing the signs of short- and long-term crisis which will soon hit. They are failing to adapt, failing to plan. The sirens are ringing, the ground is coming.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-crisis-at-the-heart-of-the-modern-conservative-party?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=BOCH 30072022 House Ads HT+CID_648b5d93f2bbfc0b9157b0624785f629
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That really is superb trolling. Bloody hell.
 
Joe Hutch said:
Any guesses as to where this insight comes from? (answer at bottom of post)

'The Tory party is not driven by some grand policy agenda, but simply grasping at shiny objects. It passes repetitive, unnecessary and ultimately inoffensive laws that criminalise things that are already illegal – like dog theft or assaults on emergency workers. Or else spends its time complaining that the world, the civil service and the blob is against it. The party once sought to campaign in poetry and govern in prose, now it campaigns and governs in tweets.

Even on its beloved Brexit, the Conservative party tries to stoke an ongoing threat that it might be undone or revoked or strangled at birth rather than engage with the realities of leaving the EU. With the simple in and out completed, there is no clue whether Britain’s future is Singapore on Thames or shoring up the dying embers of Red Wall industries. Instead, it jumps to silly-season headlines on imperial measures and crowns on pint glasses.

[...]

There is an almost complete absence of policy innovation. The party grasps around for yesterday’s answers to yesterday’s problems, copying the homework of Thatcher, a leader who has been out of power for 30 years and dead for ten. It’s why the party recycles so much from policy interns and fails to come up with anything equal to the challenges we face. It does not even propose simple answers for complex problems – just no answers beyond the triple lock and ever rising house prices.

[...]

Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible policies, incapable of using its resources to tackle the challenges ahead. In an uncertain world it struggles to decide what it wants to do, and struggles to implement the few ideas it has. The party has become a machine for garnering headlines and votes but is now starting to stall. Insulated by a media which also focuses on the day-to-day rigmarole of politics as soap opera, our leaders are missing the signs of short- and long-term crisis which will soon hit. They are failing to adapt, failing to plan. The sirens are ringing, the ground is coming.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-crisis-at-the-heart-of-the-modern-conservative-party?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=BOCH 30072022 House Ads HT+CID_648b5d93f2bbfc0b9157b0624785f629
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And where the Tories lead, Labour follows
 
Joe Hutch said:
Any guesses as to where this insight comes from? (answer at bottom of post)

'The Tory party is not driven by some grand policy agenda, but simply grasping at shiny objects. It passes repetitive, unnecessary and ultimately inoffensive laws that criminalise things that are already illegal – like dog theft or assaults on emergency workers. Or else spends its time complaining that the world, the civil service and the blob is against it. The party once sought to campaign in poetry and govern in prose, now it campaigns and governs in tweets.

Even on its beloved Brexit, the Conservative party tries to stoke an ongoing threat that it might be undone or revoked or strangled at birth rather than engage with the realities of leaving the EU. With the simple in and out completed, there is no clue whether Britain’s future is Singapore on Thames or shoring up the dying embers of Red Wall industries. Instead, it jumps to silly-season headlines on imperial measures and crowns on pint glasses.

[...]

There is an almost complete absence of policy innovation. The party grasps around for yesterday’s answers to yesterday’s problems, copying the homework of Thatcher, a leader who has been out of power for 30 years and dead for ten. It’s why the party recycles so much from policy interns and fails to come up with anything equal to the challenges we face. It does not even propose simple answers for complex problems – just no answers beyond the triple lock and ever rising house prices.

[...]

Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible policies, incapable of using its resources to tackle the challenges ahead. In an uncertain world it struggles to decide what it wants to do, and struggles to implement the few ideas it has. The party has become a machine for garnering headlines and votes but is now starting to stall. Insulated by a media which also focuses on the day-to-day rigmarole of politics as soap opera, our leaders are missing the signs of short- and long-term crisis which will soon hit. They are failing to adapt, failing to plan. The sirens are ringing, the ground is coming.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-crisis-at-the-heart-of-the-modern-conservative-party?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=BOCH 30072022 House Ads HT+CID_648b5d93f2bbfc0b9157b0624785f629
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How long has Poly Toynbee been writing for The Spectator? The piece of cage liner has been a relentless cheer leader for Boris and his party. Is this a signal that the tulip mania is now over?
 
droodzilla said:
I think Truss might be onto something here:

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Leader Liz slaps cheese wedge of division from furious Michelle’s mitt while brandishing the great British sausage of truth and telling everyone to ignore Nicola while she keeps telling everyone to ignore Nicola.
 
Talking of unpalatable people, anybody know what happened to Super Bigote, Le Baron and Klassik, after being prominent posters for a month or so they all seemed to disappear around the beginning of August? I hope I haven’t just stated the PF equivalent of “grandma just farted” at Xmas dinner.
 
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Spraggons Den said:
Talking of unpalatable people, anybody know what happened to Super Bigote, Le Baron and Klassik, after being prominent posters for a month or so they all seemed to disappear around the beginning of August? I hope I haven’t just stated the PF equivalent of “grandma just farted” at Xmas dinner.
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Maybe a monetarist put out a contract? Could be some serious Jimmy Hoffa stuff going on here.
 
TheDecameron said:
Leader Liz slaps cheese wedge of division from furious Michelle’s mitt while brandishing the great British sausage of truth and telling everyone to ignore Nicola while she keeps telling everyone to ignore Nicola.
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That sounds like Looney Liz's, Dover Rabb moment.
 
Spraggons Den said:
Talking of unpalatable people, anybody know what happened to Super Bigote, Le Baron and Klassik, after being prominent posters for a month or so they all seemed to disappear around the beginning of August? I hope I haven’t just stated the PF equivalent of “grandma just farted” at Xmas dinner.
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Troll
 
Joe Hutch said:
I am reliably informed that they are all huddled together in a tent.
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I think pfm proved to be a dull backwater where gents of a certain age just muddle along, impervious to enlightenment.
”Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces” ( Mathew 7:6 as opposed to matthewr )
 
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