Conservative Party Conference

Going well :cool:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/05/hunt-tax-credit-cuts-make-britons-work-like-chinese-or-americans

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Hmm.

I still tend to think that the higher up the ladder you get the less hard you work but the more you shout about it.

I await disabusement from Boris et al.

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Fuck Theresa May forever.

…not like _that, _I should add.

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What makes me laugh is that this exactly the same bollocks as before, ignoring the huge EU elephant in the room. Net migration is something like 300K per year. Their target is “tens of thousands”. Sorry Theresa, but you’ve been Home Secretary for five years and have utterly failed on your own targets.

Theresa May also looks the most like Emperor Palpatine when compared to other Conservative front benchers.

Well what did you expect… We all know what rhymes with Hunt…

James Naughtie certainly does.

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Originally posted by @KRG

Fuck Theresa May forever.

Tenth Circle of Hell?

Here’s a different Teresa May.

Before the Internet, there was Razzle.

Cameron getting grilled.

Originally posted by @pap

Here’s a different Teresa May.

Before the Internet, there was Razzle.

She’ll catch a cold dressed like that.

Yep, right in the bum.

It does seem to be more of a pitch for leader than anything else. Boris criticised some of Osborne’s policies, Theresa May is trying to grasp the immigration nettle, while at the same time, Cameron himself is saying that he will lead for five more years. I wonder if his potential usurpers are operating to quite the same timetable.

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I’m not a supporter of any party and don’t want to get locked in battles with followers of any leaning blindly spouting their own view of the world, because NO party has all the answers, but…

With those hardworking families now being attacked along with the poor and weak, police snipers monitoring a peaceful anti-austerity protest, and the home sec making up figures to appease racists, are we sleepwalking back towards being a very uncaring society?

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A lot of sympathy with that view except for one thing. Many people are already there, and all May is really doing is pandering to that crowd. I have a very cynical view of the true purpose of multiculturalism as practiced here. It’s playing divide and rule in your own country. The amount of people that I have thought quite reasonable on race relations that have been stirred into some inane comment on Facebook is staggering, and a little disappointing. May knows that audience is out there, and guess what, their votes count just as much as anyone elses.

Oh yes, the conference season is always good for people giving their audience what they want to hear, but when a cabinet minister makes up figures and few people question them?

I think we’ve been here before on the subject of Facebook and spin, but are we becoming a country of blindly-led simpletons who don’t even question stuff that has clearly been made-up?

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I think the vast majority of the British public, myself among them at one point, always have been. Before the Internet, we didn’t really know what other people thought about things unless they published something, or we asked them directly. I think back to the 1980s and the apparent ease with which people believed The Sun’s “The Truth” headline. We were just as propagandised back then, just didn’t have an outlet to report on it.

Today is better in the sense that you have more information to choose from, but as you say, the level of fact-checking is often non-existent. It’s confirmation bias writ large.

My youngest daughter and I were talking politics yesterday. She remarked that my generation had really dropped the ball, and we kinda have, but I think we’ll be among the last to be so apathetic about politics. I actually think the “won’t learn” generation of my Uncles is a slightly bigger problem. I know quite a few intelligent people in their fifties that studied fuck all, enjoyed all the benefits of a more buoyant job market back then, that spend their time now moaning about immigration. Whatever - I think we’ve all retreated into ourselves too much - leaving us in the position where we can’t see the wood because the fucking ego tree has grown so much.

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Interesting speech from Cameron, and quite good imho. Proper attacks on Labour, and especially on the self-righteous way they preach - which is something all on the right have to put up with and is difficult to stomach.

“Boris Johnson, our tighthead prop. I was a hooker. That’s factual - not a chapter from Michael Ashcrofts book”.

Nice.