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IdleRich

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She's probably being paid handsomely now she's on the American circuit. The donors will throw money at you if you say some culture war shit and talk up conflict with China.
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She is but it seems she used her expertise to invest the fees and apparently she managed to turn it into a huge debt which she has had to sell her house to cover and is now trying to borrow money to get back to the UK.

She's blaming the wokerati again but if you will put all your cash into a highly leveraged bet on the success of a company called Black Lives Really Don't Matter At All...
 
Mr. Tea

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Left-wing activists will disrupt local elections over ID rules, Tories fear

Wonder whether this is them trying to lay the groundwork for Trump-esque election conspiracies now they're looking likely to lose the next GE.
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Hard to say. I think what you might call the 'arsehole Right' - I mean, they're all arseholes, obviously, but what I mean by this is the part of the Right that would knowingly make false claims about the integrity of an election it had lost - is much less well established here than it is in the US, where it's the dominant faction within the GOP. That said, we've already seen the beginnings of this sort of behavior in the UK, such as the Leave campaign winning the EU referendum by illegally overspending, and the blatant voter suppression implicit in the new requirements for voters to show photo ID (with old people's travel cards being valid but not young people's).
 
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I think our equivalent's the ERG and they still seem to have a stranglehold on the party. We're also yet to see how they respond to losing a general election and facing years out of power.
 
Mr. Tea

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Purely anecdotal, but there are some stories here about predominantly old people (and we all know how most of them vote) being turned away from voting booths for not having photo ID, or for having the wrong sort.

www.mirror.co.uk

Voters leave in tears as Brits without ID turned away in local elections chaos

Voters said they'd seen elderly people turned away for not having the right ID with new rules requiring people to show a valid form of photo ID coming into force for the first time
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

Would be funny as hell if this blatant bit of voter suppression ended up working against the Tories by disenfranchising a disproportionate fraction of their natural constituency.
 
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doesnt look very impressive to me. wont get close to a majority in this form. they should bring back corbin.
 
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I'm suddenly reminded of nomad's observations that the old-timers here are like an old married couple who finish each other's sentences. (And even that was decades ago, of course.)
 
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I think our equivalent's the ERG and they still seem to have a stranglehold on the party. We're also yet to see how they respond to losing a general election and facing years out of power.
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They'll go even madder, the far Right will take over the party but the BBC will still treat them as the official opposition and elements of far Right discourse will be normalised.
 
IdleRich

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This is a good one. Private Eye wrote an article claiming that Tory MP Ben Houchen was involved in some kind of dodgy deal in which they gave away a piece of land worth millions for £100 in return for some kind of kickbacks I guess... our hero is having none of it and comes out all guns blazing on Twitter

Recently there were also lies propagated by Private Eye who suggested we had sold a ‘valuable’ piece of land for £100. This is untrue. The truth is that a deal with SeAH Wind, that will create 2000+ jobs,will return £40m+ to the public purse and £7m pa for 40yrs in business rates
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Following misinformation from Labour politicians-first propagated by Andy McDonald the corbynist MP for Middlesbrough-investors were concerned by these lies and smears, which could have cost our area much needed investment and jobs. Thankfully the truth has removed these concerns
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There was also a massive rant about Andy McDonald saying several times that he'd abused parliamentary privilege to lie about them and how if he'd said this stuff outside parliament they would have sued him to death.

Some wondered aloud why they didn't sue Private Eye who were repeating these 'lies' very much outside parliamentary privilege... it soon became clear however when they produced in Houchen's own twitter thread, a copy of the Land Registry transaction revealing beyond any shadow of a doubt that they did indeed sell the land for £96.32...
 
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This NatCon event a bunch of the Tories are attending in London sounds predictably unpleasant. The American 'think tanks' are there too and they've got speakers railing against 'globalists' and 'cultural marxism' and all the usual bollocks.
 
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This NatCon event a bunch of the Tories are attending in London sounds predictably unpleasant. The American 'think tanks' are there too and they've got speakers railing against 'globalists' and 'cultural marxism' and all the usual bollocks.
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(((globalists))), etc.
 
IdleRich

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Purely anecdotal, but there are some stories here about predominantly old people (and we all know how most of them vote) being turned away from voting booths for not having photo ID, or for having the wrong sort.

www.mirror.co.uk

Voters leave in tears as Brits without ID turned away in local elections chaos

Voters said they'd seen elderly people turned away for not having the right ID with new rules requiring people to show a valid form of photo ID coming into force for the first time
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

Would be funny as hell if this blatant bit of voter suppression ended up working against the Tories by disenfranchising a disproportionate fraction of their natural constituency.
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Seems JRM is in trouble as in his conference speech he said that the purpose of the voter ID rule, which he was partially responsible for, was to affect access to voting in their favour - although it backfired on them as Tea hoped. Of course we all knew this all along, but actually admitting it is a big no-no and lots of people are calling for an investigation.

I would absolutely love it if he died. But, failing that, going to jail for this would be a pretty close second.
 
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