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- Lib Dems won the Chesham and Amersham by-election today by 8,028 votes
- Previously the Tories had never lost it and had a 16,000 majority in 2019 election
- Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Green polled 21,517 votes, 57% of the total
- Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said win shows 'Tory blue wall is beginning to crumble'
- By-election was called following the death of Tory MP Dame Cheryl Gillan in April
Yep I think it is sheer distraction and probably planned by Cumming with the full agreement of JohnsonQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
So Hartlepool is Tory, and deepest Buckinghamshire isnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
England is a bit mental.
Wee sign there, though, that perhaps some English voters are beginning to return to their senses? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
The green candidate was 3rd ahead of labour as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Not really. The Libs won by opposing HS2 and new house building. It's basically a GIRUY from the NIMBYs.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Am hoping a lot of Lab voters voted LibDem to ensure a bloody nose for Johnson's lot, and that that behaviour will be reciprocated in Batley & Spen, and if it is a little prgress will have been made.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
We can but hope I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Remember, this was the constituency of Jo Cox. I'd be surprised if Labour don't return a decent majority.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
One thing you can't accuse Dom of is not having a realistic picture of his boss.Quote:
Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306
7/ Pundits: not doing ANeil 'a huge campaign blunder'
Me: why the ***** wd be put a gaffe machine clueless about policy & government up to be grilled for ages, upside=0 for what?! This is not a hard decision...
Pundits don't understand comms, power or management. Tune out!
…or there’s just some weird pathological need to vote for whichever party is diametrically opposed to their best interests?Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
So if you are not happy with scrutiny, neuter
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dar...uter-watchdog/
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It's more infiltrate and control it. Some of the "independent" polling companies will be the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radium
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Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
What crazy times we are in: the Tories win Hartlepool then lose Chesham & Amersham. :confused:
Yep, divert HS2 to someone else's doorstep and only allow high end "executive" development by the favoured few and the Nimbys will be right behind the Nasty party again next election.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Not the first time won't be the last time.
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And Labour close to loosing their deposit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
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If he survives the court case surely Labour would be looking to regain Wakefield at the next election.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57531904
That's dodgy as ****.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radium
The sort of thing you could imagine the BBC making a big deal of if it was happening in another country
We're turning into America. The right win working class voters by starting culture wars and wrapping themselves in the flag. Middle class rural areas move from soft right to the centre. The left are f***ed.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Murray Ross in the England end last night.
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Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
To be honest, there really wasn't an england end at Wembley, never is when playing Scotland 😉
Murray's Coming Home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Wonder if Beckham's ever heard of him.
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If Boris Johnson doesn't know who he is then there's no chance Beckham will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Although to be fair, Ross spends more time on the football pitch than he does being a politician.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
Bercow joins Labour on a Bosman.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ack-on-johnson
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-bercow-peerage-labour-leadership-commons-speaker-latest-a9292421.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Interesting take on the reason 🤔
David Beckham fulfills childhood dream by finally meeting Topov the Monkey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
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Thanks - cheered me up a wee bit after tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
Car crash figure, taught Chris Grayling everything he knows about botch ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
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EXCLUSIVE: Six more VIP-lane companies revealed - Good Law Project
Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of six more companies awarded PPE contracts through the controversial’ VIP’ fast-track lane for associates of ministers and advisers. These six firms landed nearly half a billion pounds of public contracts – all without competition – and were uncovered in documents prised from Government in the course of our litigation:
they're doing good work in outing the repugnant Tory corruptness, even though it will most likely not come to anything
MPs launch legal challenge against Govt over alleged Russian interference in UK elections (thelondoneconomic.com)
A cross-party group of MPs and peers will ask the High Court to give the go-ahead for a legal challenge against the Government over its alleged failure to investigate possible Russian interference in UK elections.
Six parliamentarians claim Boris Johnson unlawfully failed to act following a report they say found “credible evidence” of attempts to “interfere with the UK’s electoral processes from at least the time of the EU referendum in 2016”.
https://news.stv.tv/politics/rees-mo...-union-polling
"any other government would have done the same"
He might be right, but no other government tries to control what other countries do.
"completely proper and justifiable”Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Then goes to provide zero reasons why it was proper or any actual justifications. He says it in a posh accent though, while wearing olde worlde kegs, so it'll fly with a lot of people.
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It'll be some public school jape/bet they're up to, "See who can insult the public's intelligence most without getting pulled up by the MSM, winner gets Chancellor of the Duchy of Mornington", something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
It just feels like England is so mired in the class structure of Royalty, Lords/Ladies, landed gentry, upper class, middle class and working class that people will accept bull**** as long as that bull**** is coming from their supposed betters. I can't see how else these ****ers are getting away with it. Waffle in a posh accent, throw in a bit of Latin, mention some Greek god and then move on, it is mass blindness by the whole of the country. The whole royalty thing is mind blowing as well. Marry a black American and be a but outspoken and we'll hound you, be besties with a paedophile, appear to like girls on the young side and refuse to answer questions from the authorities about it and that's ok then.
https://news.stv.tv/politics/mp-back...mpression=true
Getting weirder every day. Union Jack armbands for govt officials can’t be far away.
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Just about sums it up. IncredibleQuote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
That could genuinely be a Daily Mash article. This is utter madness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
You'd think they'd want to get on with the day job ..... Covid recovery anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Of course, just realised, they might have a pal that's a printer/picture framer needing a few million quid....... silly me! :rolleyes:
Guy who runs a pub? Somewhere near Hancock's constituency?Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
Had a go at PPE with £13m up front, never worked out but surely deserves a second chance?
With another similar amount framing a picture should be possible, especially if there's no competition or scrutiny.
**** Might even have a go myself.....
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Holy **** this is terrifying. North Koreans are cringing at this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Matt Hancock outed by the sun as having been pumping his top adviser. In typical Tory fashion he's been using public money in order to hear Nat King Cole sing his very greatest hits.
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Probably just relieving some stress, so that he didn't end up accidentally calling anyone ****ing hopeless.Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
Prime Minister material, ticks all the boxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
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The Sun curiously missing from the BBC website's section on the front pages.
They just asked Grant Schapp about this on GMTV. He "refused to comment on private matters", probably rightly but thought that the question merited invoking the go to get out of jail free card that is "the vaccine programme" and that we've now taken over Israel in jabs.Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
It's the answer for every tricky question.
Hancock surely will be removed from post shortly. Problem is who then replaces him.
What on earth does his 'adviser' see in him, particularly in comparison to her husband? Is it a power thing? Did she really think he might be PM material?Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
I'm more concerned by how she was hired and what she is bringing to the role. It is yet another dodgy deal potentially completed out with the normal rules for recruitment. We already know Hancock is slimy and untrustworthy so an affair is hardly tarnishing his good name, he simply doesn't have one to loseQuote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
The video was taken by CCTV in Hancock's office and released to the press by an 'unknown source'
Hancock has clearly been thrown under the bus by whoever is actually in charge at Downing St.
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Originally Posted by wookie70
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"Rich businesswoman found to be acting as 'unpaid advisor' to government minister" should be the headline.
I listen to Radio X in the morning. They are running a bizarre different take on the story. Absolutely no mention of an affair and they are reporting the issue as Hancock hugging a friend when it wasn’t allowed :faf:
I don't think she was unpaid. £15,000 - £20,000 for 10-15 days a year is what I read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Shapps called the story a "red herring", but didn't add anything to explain what he actually meant. He also said the aide would have been through an "incredibly rigorous" process to get the job...which has horrible connotations.
A distraction from the incredibly important culture wars they've got to fight? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
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Originally Posted by Future17
OK, the Sun reported it as 'unpaid advisor', so they were wrong again.
Here's a better bit of background from The Independent.
"The woman Matt Hancock allegedly had an affair with is a millionaire mother-of-three who is the marketing and communications director at independent high street retailer Oliver Bonas.
Gina Coladangelo was reportedly caught on camera kissing the beleaguered health secretary in pictures published by The Sun early on Friday morning.
The 43-year-old, who was previously a director at lobbying firm Luther Pendragon, met Mr Hancock at Oxford University where they became close friends over a shared passion for student radio.
She studied politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) and reportedly continued to be close friends with Mr Hancock after completing her studies in 1998, the same year as Mr Hancock.
Ms Coladangelo was handed a role as non-executive director at the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) in September last year."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1872560.html
Success! Finally the Tories have given public money to someone who has genuine expertise in PPE!Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Slightly tricky one for all the parties this because they've pretty much all had recent sex scandals so its hard to attack it without inducing 'but what about' responses.
He'll have to go, either now or soon.
If 140,000 deaths, the prime minister calling him ****ing hopeless and pumping a close adviser doesn’t see the end of Hancock then **** knows what will. Maybe he’ll be found to have wiped it on a Union Jack, that’ll finish him off.
It's not the sex that's the scandal though (at least not these days). It's whether the sex played a part I'm her getting a financially lucrative Government position.Quote:
Originally Posted by One Day Soon
No other party has faced those questions recently.
It just goes to show that despite wearing a mask it's still possible to catch "aides".
Johnson had his name in the papers with Arcuri too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Again, the scandal is the huge amounts of public money he gave her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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Like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mir...i-23798478.amp
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Exactly. But it’s why Handcock will get away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Hancock apologises for not following social distancing guidelines 😂😂😂
They’re blatantly, openly ripping the piss out of us.
It used to be resignations, now it’s apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Apologise to your wife and then resign.
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Politicians don't resign for any reason now, sadly. Hancock should have gone when details emerged of his making a fortune (along with friends) via PPE during the pandemic. His private life is his own business; however, this story reminds me of my dear old gran, who used to describe Tory politicians as "money grabbers and fornicators". :greengrinQuote:
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Originally Posted by Lendo
even worse than the Mash!, I initially read the Morrissey surname mention and thought the old racist bigot Steven Patrick Morrissey was behind it :faf:.
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Originally Posted by Morrissey
Hancock has the safest job in government.
He's been lined up as the fall guy in any enquiry since day one so the longer he remains, the more can be blamed on him. Also Cummings wants him gone so he stays. Finally he's about the only person in the entirety of the UK, and quite likely some way beyond, who can make Johnson look semi competent in comparison.
Johnson has declared the matter closed so that will be that. The days of an affair or a fling bringing a govt down are long gone.
He’s taken over from Chris Grayling in many respects. A lucrative job for the shameless Tory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Matt Hancock the Love Machine.
Unlikely but apparently true.
Must be hung like a Derby winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Apparently one of his hobbies is riding horses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
No evidence so far that any of the horses have been been awarded any PPE contracts or been given lucrative jobs with the NHS.
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No, but Dido Harding sits on the Board of The Jockey Club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
I'll stop there I think, this is a family forum [emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
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That TV interview with him getting inappropriately close with a Tory candidate outside a hospital whilst sporting a stauner should yield the answer to that. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
https://youtu.be/HxbPs9M6H6M
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Originally Posted by degenerated
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/25/hanco...rged-14826660/
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What the hell is that? I've never felt so uncomfortable :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
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Originally Posted by degenerated
Anyone else think there’s any mileage in the theory that Handjob is being sacrificed here to take him out of the front line for when the covid mishandling questions start being asked? Much better have all the focus on his sexual appetite, not on the death toll in care homes. This footage was filmed in his own office, remember, and ‘leaked’ by The Sun.
Hate to quote Trump but these guys could shoot someone in the middle of the street and not lose any votes.
"sporting a stauner". That's magnificent.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Sporting a stauner 😂😂😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
Does that make her the most expensive hooker in history?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
This story is a classic tactic by the government to take us all back to former times.
What could be more guaranteed to raise a smile than "Trousers Down Minister In Bonking Scandal"?
Ah, the traditional British way of life..............
...Pure brilliant.:faf::faf::faf::top marks:applause:Quote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
i imagine that 14 point lead is even higher now
EXCLUSIVE: Senior Tory councillor unmasked as man behind anti-SNP troll account (thecourier.co.uk)
A senior Tory councillor has finally admitted he is the man behind an anonymous anti-SNP troll account fashioned after the Lady Whistledown character in the popular Netflix series Bridgerton.
Mr Wann repeatedly rubbished any suggestion he was involved with the account, including after being contacted by us just after 4pm on Thursday with fresh allegations, but issued a statement just over an hour later apologising for his actions.
shameful behaviour, a councillor tae :bitchy:
what's with Tories hiding behind different names/non de plumes, freaks :agree:
Brilliant. And here was me thinking Gruber was gay.Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
One of them are going to have to leave their post. Are the Tories really going to sack the female?
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So, Navid accidentally linked up his CCTV to Downing street!
Aye, that's him as good as deported.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
I can’t get my head around these people that run anonymous twitter accounts purely for the purpose of noising up MPs, footballers and suchlike. I could understand it being a bored teenager in their bedroom but many turn out to be grown adults with families and well respected jobs. Like, what has happened to them to turn a seemingly normal member of society into someone who sends tens of thousands of tweets a year in the hope of getting an interaction back from people they obviously don’t like?Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Seemingly normal but turns out to actually be a snide, two faced weirdo.Quote:
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A good sign Hancock is about to jump or be sacked is if the Scottish Tories say he should go. No way will they say anything until the decision has been made.
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Hancock has resigned. BBC should be able to find Douglas Ross now where he’ll say he had to go.
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