Do the Tories want to lose the next election?

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

Obviously it's almost a certainty Labour are going to win but it seems the Conservatives are trying their hardest to help them.

Rishi Sunak says he won't return money from donor accused of racism

It's not the only thing they have done to 'upset' their own applecart and while I don't like him very much Sunak isn't an idiot, he could surely see what would happen if he didn't reject the money. (not that I disagree witth the donor - Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott "should be shot Laughing

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I suspect they think the quickest and easiest way to defeat the Labour party is to have them in power and let them destry themselves.

That's my conspiracy theory anyway. Thumbs Up

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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

Ah yes, the man who said that his comment that Ms Abbott made him "want to hate all black women" was nothing to do with skin colour...
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What did Diane Abbott do to get herself suspended from the Labour party? Thinking

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I think they are keeping quiet because it's not actually negative publicity.

I for one am quite comfortable with them accepting money from someone who clearly can't stand Dianne Abbot, I suspect many others are in a similar position.

Even his alleged comments aren't particularly racist, they were about how he hates her so much, he has to be careful not to consider others of the same race and gender as being like her.

I hated Dianne Abbot before I knew her race. I don't watch TV, just mostly listen to the radio and had no idea of what she looked like until she started going on about it.

Saying out loud he wishes someone should shoot her was probably a step too far, that's the kind of thing you should reserve for your interior monologue.
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I don’t see why the party should have to give the money back, they were blameless in this instance.

It was a private conversation and “she should be shot” is an idiom, not a decree.

If he meant Abbott is a poor ambassador and role model he was right. She’s a race grifter.

Such stories have little to do with moral indignation and are all about harming your opposition.

Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

The irony of this coming to light at the same time as the new definition of extremism indicating he's an extremist isn't lost on me.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I feel I should also point out that I mainly hate Dianne Abbot because she is clearly utterly incompetant and educationally sub-normal and has somehow landed up in a job which could carry some serious responsability.

Presumably via the usual means of being promoted into being someone elses problem because it's easier and quieter than sacking her. Whitehall being at the top of the metaphorical dungheap in that respect.
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£10M worth of freedom of speech.

Abbot is a clown and was obviously voted into our once great political system by racists.
Her incompetent behaviour as a senior political actor has been demonstrated countless times over many years.

It's a pity that politicians are immune from prosecution for unprofessional decision making.
That would thin the cabinet of clowns and buck up the ideas of the rest of them.
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doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

Whoever gets in will be presiding over the ultimate shit show of closing down internal combustion cars because apparently it all got enshrined in unchangeable legislation years ago when 2030 seemed a long way off.

The reality of this starts to bite next year as part of the way it will be enforced is draconian fines on manufactures who don't sell an escalating percentage of EVs - they have to be at 80% in five years.
It simply can't be done.

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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

Point 1. It was only about 4 years ago that the legislation was introduced and

Point 2. It was introduced by the tories during one of 5heir most right wing episodes in power.
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