Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nadine Dorries' house tonight...
The next Chancellor you mean?
I don't.
Please let it be Rees Mogg
nooo, please let Rees Mogg stay loyal to blonde wally as long as possible, the ones that go now are more likely to be coming back into next version of Tory hell.
nooo, please let Rees Mogg stay loyal to blonde wally as long as possible, the ones that go now are more likely to be coming back into next version of Tory hell.
Does Johnson even know how many "Ministers of Children and Families" he even has?
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Was looking at the Guardian top story and was shocked to see there were 18000+ BTL comments.
At first glance, I'm not really sure what the value of BTL is for stories like this, but I was taken by this one
Spoilered as it's long Spoiler:
In the light of his promotion, there are once again lots of profiles of Steve Barclay all over the media.
And once again, lots of these profiles describe him as "coming from a working class Northern background in Lancashire".
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I was in Steve's year at school. We were in the same class for several subjects. I have spoken elsewhere about his character. But I want to talk about the "working class Northern background".
We went to an independent school. It was mostly funded by parents' fees, but it was also partly funded by the fact that the trust that owned our school and the girls' school next door owned the Golden Mile in Blackpool - the area of burger shops and rock shops and arcades - so everyone who went on holiday to Blackpool effectively subsidised our school. Still, our parents did have to pay a fair bit to send us there.
It was a great school. It had small class sizes, lovely buildings, and great facilities. Most of the teachers were brilliant. We played rugby and hockey: apparently football was too common for us. In the large and lovely assembly hall, there was a lengthy honour roll of the kids who'd got into Oxbridge - usually around 5% of each year.
The school was right by the beach. On a nice day, from the Chemistry and Physics labs, you could look across the sea all the way to Snowdownia. As you drove up the main drive, with playing fields either side, the school looked like a palace. It and its sister school were the poshest schools in Lytham St Annes. And Lytham St Annes is one of the poshest towns in the North, in a very wealthy, overwhelmingly Tory constituency.
Like almost all of my classmates, I grew up well-off and middle-class, in a nice house. My parents had good jobs. Steve lived in a nicer house than me.
The Tory leadership bangs on about how he's "working class". No he is not. He is Northern. Being Northern does not make one working class.
But this is why they are f---ing the country. They think Steve, who lived in a nice house in a lovely town and went to a good private school, is working class. So when they talk about the challenges the working class faces, that's what they're thinking of - people like Steve, or like me. People who are, frankly, upper middle. Is it any wonder that "Levelling Up" is such a f---ing joke when these people have absolutely no clue what a working class person is?
Let's remember that Jacob Rees-Mogg once joked about Rishi Sunak having gone to Winchester. That's why these d---heads think that Steve represents the working class.
Even before you start looking at the current shower's immorality, incompetence and stupidity, this is what's wrong with the Tory Party. They do not have a clue about the people who live in their country. Even if you take Boris and all his awfulness out of the equation, you're still left with people who are catastrophically out of touch and who can't even bring themselves to find out who the working class they're supposed to be helping actually are. Britain is forever doomed to fail while these people are in charge.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
