Some creative Tory MPs might be spinning in vain today, but Eleanor Laing has told it how it is on the BBC’s World at One. She says there is “disquiet” in the Tory benches, particularly at the number of members quitting the party.:
There is discord in the ranks…
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Absolutely bizarre.
Be fair, it’s first time the woman’s been allowed out in weeks.
I haven’t been out(ed) in 47 years.
She looks like some mad woman wandering around in her nightdress.
Is she Chic Lite then?
In these difficult economic times it is not justifiable that people should have spare bedrooms or flats or houses subsidised by the taxpayer.
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Applied indiscriminately it would be fine.
No second/third homes for MPs subsidized by the taxpayer.
End of Council tax reduction on second homes.
End of tax relief on interest for BTL spivs
Controls of Housing Benefit for all under occupied homes
When Lord H and Duke of W leave their family houses and contents to the kids they pay the same IHT as me
End of grace and Favour homes for Cabinet members, and vaguely related Royals
Are we all in this together?? I WILL NEVER VOTE BLUE AGAIN.
Some sensible ideas and not so sensible ideas.
It would be better to tax land rights all the time, and dump inheritance tax.
Now that’s just plain ridiculous…it would wipe out the Aristocracy in one go!
I don’t own a 2ed home. Council tax are for the use of council services its not a wealth tax. This is one of the reason why mansions in Westminster that cost 10s of millions pay less tax then a average band D houses almost any where else in UK.
Other issue is BTL, its a business like any other business. If you stop tax relief on interest on these houses you have to stop interest tax relief on all other businesses. Other issue is banks will end up needing another bail out if these people go under.
UK used to have tax relief on houses people own and live in, it could be brought back.
Mary :+1,000,000
Land and property prices are a major drag on the economy. People are starting to get it.
You left out the CAP benefits paid to landowners for their virtuous act of owning land.
An economy that rewards unproductive land speculation and property ownership, whilst taxing production and people who work, is topsy-turvy – though it does favour the landed troughers in Parliament.
agree with much of that but to apply those items specifically to conservatives is wrong. Both Labour and Lib Dem are equally responsible.
Thatcher redefined the centre ground, and won majorities. Dave thinks he found the centre ground, and can’t even get a majority.
I wish to make clear that I am indeed a ‘One Nation’ Tosser!
I stand firm on three crucial issues:
! Bumsex!
!! Wind Farms!
!!! Equality of Opportunity! – I want everyone – men and Wimmin – to have bumsex, and to this end I have invited Mz. Hatty Hoarmoan to lead my new Campain.
Dave is well short of the age of majority.
Just how I like ‘em.
I’m not for turning, but I am a bender.
Its unfair to compare Dave to Mrs. T. Most Conservatives followed Mrs T but Dave follows Clegg.
Mary: BTL spivs? You could say they are taking the risk of investing in properties and providing homes for people to rent, which successive governments have failed to do. MPs shouldn’t have all those housing subsidies. The rest of us have to look after ourselves. We have to pay for our food out of what we earn, why should we be paying for, as well as subsidising, MPs’ food? How about government using a little common sense for example for elderly winter fuel payment, have a facility for those who don’t need it to tick a box saying don’t give it to me. Council tax should be paid per person, as logic tells you that two people in one property are going to use less services than the four living next door who pay the same rate.
Dave should use this to drive the tory left to the margins of the party, but I guess he won’t because Dave and Sammy Cammeron are rich metropolitan left wingers
If anyone in the press gets to interview her, that interview could be the final nail in Dave’s coffin.
It’s bad enough when the press and other parties are giving you a good time, but one suspects that the party she was running for were also sticking the knife in.
It already looks like the last days of Major government. Until the next general election Cameron will lead a zombie government.
I was thinking the same earlier today. With the trougher antics of Lord Deben nee Gummer and Tim Yeo for example the similarities are becoming more evident. Only this time they hit us in the Energy pocket as well as the Tax pocket while also de-industrialising the country.
Her strange behaviour fully justifies the decision of people not to vote for her. Clearly not up to much.
Tories need to look after their core voters first – 30 %, then go for the 10% undecided/floating voters, not the other way round or there won’t be 30% left
Yes, they should definitely do that.
Tory core vote = 15%. Falling back on the old lines was the William Hague / Michael Howard job.
Lynton Crosby’s already chalked up a stunning failure.
Are you questioning the mastermind behind the 2005 triumph?
Are you drinking what he’s drinking?
Lynton Crosby goes own about immigration, he is a immigrant as well, people can see through him.
Yes, because they are trying to secure the 10% and the 30 becomes 20
Big myth from the left – Howard and Hague both pledged to stay in the EU, both pledged to continue mass immigration, both pledged to continue increasing state spending, both pledged to continue liberal policies on education and criminal justice, both pledged to push ahead with multiculturalism – neither were even remotely conservative.
Correct and it’s called Libertarianism (aka Neo-conservatism)
Bollocks.
Lynton Crosby is an immigrant as well.
Is he any relation of Bing Crosby?
Perhaps he should change profession…
One Labour party was bad enough, now we have three of them.
And none of them competent at actually governing. Labour least of all.
+1001
…and all three of them utterly incompetent, dishonest and shameless. Jeremy Hunts to a man – or woman!
very good comment
He’s just a weak PM with a crap Chancellor. Bit of a shame, really. Ho hum…I guess it’s mainly irrelevant what government we get next; just shifting pawns on a chess board, never taking any noble decisions. The bedroom tax, ffs, how much is that gonna save? £10. All the debates are manufactured wedges, neither here nor fucking there in the grand scheme of things. Burning our Money is back blogging again and the figures speak for themselves. Cameron’s done nowt – geez, the NHS kills 1,200 people and Cameron hides under the desk? Geez, so tediously predictable.
I quite agree, it’s all just bread and circuses for the dupes
don’t call it the bedroom tax. too catchy for something so crap.
Unless Camermong grows a fucking pair and sacks that useless sack of shit Gideon and ditches the Common Purpose “let’s all jizz on a digestive because we’re so fucking pleased with ourselves at how fucking progressive we’ve become” agenda, then the Tory party is fucked flatter than a steam-rollered dogturd.
fucked flatter than a steam-rollered dogturd
priceless!
The Tories need to start behaving like British citizens.
Sheikh, don’t sugar-coat it man, tell us what you really think.
Not so fast – I have the support of the mainstream centrist voters who want to ethnically cleanse the English and bring about a modern, multicultural utopia. The Lib Dems agree with me. The Labour party agree with me. The BBC agrees with me. The Guardian agrees with me. Therefore I am on the center of politics and will win a landslide in 2015 and continue the invasion of England.
Do not vote UKIP, peasants. They will stop Britain becoming more multicultural, they will stop us from having home extension work done for low prices by Europeans, they will stop people like me getting cushy jobs in Europe, they will force restaurant owners to pay a decent wage to those who work for them, the same with farmers. Just terrible.
Snigger
Bum Banditry and Bankers Bonuses!
Was she campaigning on the ground in Eastleigh?
No. She didn’t help and seems to spend hours navel gazing. Take the fight to phoney Farage and Plonker Miliband instead of whingeing.
Campaigning on the ground?
For what? More of the same tax and spend, pro EU, political correctness ( social Marxism ) open borders and expensive and useless green ecowank, that the other two members of their cosy club of liars want?
It’s not open borders. It’s massively subsidised immigration. BtL MP’s make money by encouraging things that pressure rents like low interest rates, low house building, low planning permission and high immigration subsidised by benefits.
I always believed in campaigning on the ground.
Hic.
Any sign of backbenchers causing trouble will be made to skip for an hour outside number 10.
DONT PANIC
Zanu Tories jumped the shark with Gay Marriage.
Well said, that woman!
i’m not leeving the parddy – its a firsht class act – hol’on – thirsht? – parddy? – wherezzall the wimmin?
My Dave has locked himself in the toilet, says he will only come out when Nigel goes away.
You mean Neil!
+1 lol
To clear his shit-filled head?
The Telegraph Copies page Three
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9902191/Gwyneth-Paltrow-on-her-biggest-fashion-regrets.html
I’d still smash her back door in any fucking day of the week. She looks like she might enjoy it, too.
I say old bean join the bally queue at the back.
First dibs.
No fucking way I’m queueing.
By the time I got there it’d be liken a broken fucking catflap.
What does Omnishambles mean?
UK Politics.
It is when you call the people who vote for you, nut cases, fruit cakes and closet racists, and you force upon the people who do not vote for you something that they did not want in the first place Larry.
“Omni-”, from the Latin prefix which connotes a totality of that which is being discussed, and “shambles,” an Early Modern English (i.e., Tudor/Elizabethan era) term for an abattoir. Thus, the word is supposed to raise the mental picture of being surrounded on all sides by hacked flesh, blood, offal, manure and urine. Sorta like what Tory HQ’s would look like if they could have literally got away with murder this morning.
Since they lost in 1997, the Conservatives have said that they will not lurch to the right.
They have lost every election since – what harm could it do?
The present line is that UKIP voters are registering a “protest”- it never crosses their weakened minds that people might actually be voting postively, for some policies that they agree with.
They cannot grasp that more and more people actually dislike the euro/centrist/liberal twaddle that they are peddling.
Thats an honest view and you are right
Well, if you continue pursuing policies that 70% of the country do not agree with (+ or – 10%), what on earth do they expect?, lib/lab/con and EU fascists.
I’ll be back only when Cameron goes
So the Gay marriage thing was OK then just as long as they get a new leader?
Wake up you pillock!
Go back only when they find a Conservative to run the show and the policies are a direct benefit for the people of this country. Not an unelected, elitist sect, based in Belgium.
When the Party is under the Control of May, Letwin and Cameron this shambles should come as no surprise. Essentially they hate “Tories” and would rather be something else as indeed they are.
+ 1000!
The Cameroons swoon at the idea of recreating the SDP and imagine that the cosy consensus, is somewhere between Shirley Williams and Ed Moribund.
Where is Empty Ed when the lights go out?
Three guesses….
That reminds me of the old Soviet parades where the nearly dead leader was wheeled out and propped up with a rictus grin not too dissimilar to that. On a more sobering note, why does she think people are leaving the party? Could it have something to do with policies (or lack of) and total lack of empathy with the man/woman in the street?
What’s the point of joining a political party these days? You used to have a say in selecting the candidate to run in your constituency; now you get a central office PPE + no real world experience drone thrust upon you. You used to get to meet young people; now they’re all wrinklies. You used to make a subscription; now you get bled dry for nothing in return.
Stuff that for a game of soldiers.
I agree with your general point; I resent your reference to “wrinklies”. Experience and wisdom should be respected.
Maybe you will never grow old yourself, but, if so, you will be the first person since Peter Pan.
Ed Miliband can’t believe his luck.
I know, I am an excellent shadow chancellor.
Seven Down
The News stories Dave apologist Guido likes to ignore
1. Bonkers Boz Backs Banks Bonuses.
2. Tory Mo*ng Karl McCartney MP rant to IPSA
3. Gove the Gimps impending doom
4. Floppy haired Tory mo*ng Martha ( I say ) Lane Fox to the Lords
5. Bank of Guidoland ( Ireland ) shaft UK mortgage holders
6. Wheres Warsi , the media blackout continues – 6 months now
7. Number 10 S*ex Ring….story hasn’t gone away.
8. Tony Blairs documents/phone hostory etc etc etc
9. Gordon Brown and his ‘PJ’ Parties
10. Ed Rupture flipping his house more times than a pancake maker
I could go on but quite frankly CBA
I thought that Martha Lane Fox was a toff leftie, rather than a Tory.
My favourite cheese is Stilton Hill Cheddar
I would have thought “head cheese,” but there you are.
I thought your favourite was Smegma brand Gordon?
That will go down in history as another one of your famous quotes along with Savior of the world,
% increase,
Oops, what happened to all the gold?
Have I really just managed to spend another trillion on tat?
and Who are these bigoted people.
Samuel Johnson; cry your eyes out.
I think it is true to say that I have set a new standard in utter uselessness.
As one of my old customers in Salford used to say when I fucked up
“It’s not a game lad”
Crisis, what crisis?
(c) J Callaghan
Returning to the United Kingdom from an economic summit held in Guadeloupe in early 1979, Callaghan was asked, “What is your general approach, in view of the mounting chaos in the country at the moment?” Callaghan replied, “Well, that’s a judgement that you are making. I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you’re taking rather a parochial view at the moment, I don’t think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.” This reply was reported in The Sun under the headline “Crisis? What Crisis?”.
Its Events Dear Boy……… Events………………remember that………
Is this a record? The first time a Liblabconner has not told any lies.
In terms of who lost the the most credibility last night:
Conservatives: Totally discredited.
Lib Dems: 14% down quite impressive, but they held on to their seat just.
Labour: Lost the least, even though their 0.2% gain is perhaps not worth mentioning.
UKIP certainly did make a hugely positive net gain in credibility:
i) Can no longer be classed as un electable and out of touch with UK voters.
ii) Cannot be described as a party of fruitcakes / loons / far right nut jobs etc.
iii) Certainly cannot be characterized as a personality cult centered around Farage.
The next step for them is to get more power at the local level, which will help deal with the postal vote achilles heal.
The only reason that the Lib Dems called this by-election so quickly was in order to compromise the threat of a fully organized UKIP campaign, critical for large number of votes which are cast about 2 weeks ahead of the actual poll.
Provided UKIP get a candidate of an equivalent caliber to James next time round, even the postal vote disadvantage may not be enough to prevent a win.
mebbe the government should rewrite the postal voting rules and stop tis fraud now.
Strange how the BBC hasn’t mentioned labour’s performance. If it has been disastrous for the tories then what about labour?
militwit’s OneNation idea went down with the voters like a ton of bricks didn’t it?
In much the same way as dave’s BigSociety did.
Will they ever learn?!
The electors obviously though Eddy was talking about the One Nation of I s r a e l
About time people whether they are “one nation” or “big society” woke up to the fact that the rhetoric’s are just meaningless sound-bites, and politicians stopped insulting our intelligence.
About time for an Updated version of
“Mein Last days in Daz Bunker from CMDDD”
of course with zee henglish sibtotles…………..so everly von really laugh
as zee Bull*ington bouy Kakes himes-self ze very big tyme……he he he he….
Gordon was easy to place, a complete bullying psycho who destroyed colleagues and opponents with equal enthusiasm.
Blair was tricky to work out, still don’t understand what he was, but he did a marvellously destructive job on Britain.
Cameron is entirely different but somehow the effect is the same.
He’s not evil or destructive, just entirely fucking useless.
As CMDDD has stated many times……….
He is the rightful Heir to Bliar……….& chosen from on high like
the Master at who’s feet he & his Mini*sters Wor*ship as they
purloin there so called Gov*ern*ment of Men*dacity & Mani*pulation &
most of all Misma*nagement as dictated by EUSSR who they are all subservient to
& not accountable to anyone……..
Seems pretty accurate to me.
Track against powers passed to Europe.
Cameron is a clown as he has zero power. He is a neutered fig leaf barely concealing what is running the country at present.
Blair, despite his obvious flaws, was the last Prime Minister to have any real direct power at his command. Brown signed the last of this away with Lisbon.
Blair was operating under what he now realizes was the false notion that he would one day be president of Europe. Brown may have thought that for a bit, then decided to hit self destruct and settle on a little UN role.
Blair’s air of panic on Newsnight the other night sort of gives credibility to these notions. It is only a matter of time before his financial fortunes change, think tanks close down and he becomes a footnote.
Browns ‘think tanks’ are already bust. Just waiting for the goon to die. At most he will get 2 paragraphs in the history books.
Cameron is just a clown with no power, who should shortly have his balloon popped by the party. That the likes of Gove are expressing support indicates that something is clearly up.
Uncle Herman Rumpy Pumpy has just called Cameron’s bluff and given him the two fingers (in French, of course)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9901539/Herman-Van-Rompuy-attack
The EU is dangerous for the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9901539/Herman-Van-Rompuy-attacks-Camerons-plans-to-claw-back-powers-from-Brussels.html
This is to be expected now as the EU will need to try and paint the UK as being the malcontents who are the cause of the pain across the Eurozone, and the reason why things are not working out.
It would be better to just exit now, and let them collapse.
!taly has demonstrated quite clear what one nation thinks.
Greece is likely to have an extreme right or left government take over soon, whichever the military backs.
Portugal is due to have massive protests tomorrow, some of these will extend to communities in North America.
Spa!n is highly likely to either break apart or go seriously left, but is done with the EU.
France will only continue to support whilst it can drain Germany for funds. That is going to end soon.
Even !reland has said enough with the austerity, Holland it looking to get out of the EU and the German Strasse is far from keen.
Herman’s goose is cooked, he is just looking for a scapegoat.
Cameron has been foolish enough to sign up for that.
The reality is, if the UK left others would follow.
There are only negative outcomes for staying in, and the EU knows this and is running out of space to maneuver public opinion away from the realization now.
“I’ve always said alcohol shouldn’t sponsor sporting competitions. Why is the problem of alcohol so easily dismissed ?”
Retweeted by Alastair Campbell
You know what the problem is your old liar…
Not as easily as mass murder Alastair, sense of proportion problem?.
Michael Gove , on the Today programme,described George Galloway as a charismatic outsider ! The conservatives are certainly devoid of a charismatic leader, though he is cold, calculating and crap. Cameron has destroyed the Conservatives
The lack of charisma would be forgivable, were he competent. Sadly, he isn’t.
And PLEASE don’t allow the 1922 Commitee to stop Cameron until he has
completely obliterated the Toxic Nasty Party for Good from the
Political Scene
What an achievement that will be in just ONE, 5 Year Fixed Term Parliament !!!!
Really shows what Bullin*gton Cl*ub Members Excel at besides trashing
restaurants………..
Cameron has dropped that many bollocks his nick name around here is Rupture
I will be the new Churchill
I will lead Hampstead to the Promised Land
Is he gonna start selling insurance?, oh yes!
Red Ed can’t even get One small Street on side, let alone the deluded fools
rants about One Nation……..
About time this Westminster gigantic Cess Pit was effectively flushed
clean out……for good ……including the Biased Broadcasting Company & all
the rest of the spon*gers, para*sites, pim*ps & lee*ches that continue to
infest the place at OUR expense !!!
What we tried to do in Eastleigh is create a win-win situation for the Coalition that would allow us to continue our work fucking-up the country.
I think it is fair to say that, by my own standards, this by-election result is a resounding victory. If this is anything to go by, I should be a shoe-in for that Europe job in 2015.
Today I am Nicks biatch
Please cut off my bus pass Dave. I want to help the needy from all over the world who are very welcome to our shores.
If you want to survive, you know what you must do :
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Despair and disquiet?
Good!
This repays a little of the despair and disquiet they’ve caused all of us!
Pleaze You engleesch dogs…….
Ther iz noo sleats on hany tranzport from ze Bulgaria & Romania from
Wedneday 1st Jan 2014 for ze next 2 years……..all over ze booked 250% !!!
thanzs to E.U aids
We’ve want all youz’s Lovely Money………fluck the Euro…..
Cee youz Vley soon……..& we won’t zay a word of Fanks……..
UKIP are the future, Cameron has let the British people down we are fed up of the EU and the government looking after everyone but British people
Sign this petition to restrict Bulgarian and Romanians from entering the UK:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492
Almost 64,000 at 100,000 it goes to Parliament
No good signing a petition though except as a sigh of disquiet or disgust because our politicians have already signed away all our border controls to the EU, we may get another 2 or 3 million shortly from Bulgaria and Rumania and despite the bluster there is not a damn thing they can do about it, shame that not one of the three political parties has the honesty to state the truth, that they are totally impotent as regards ongoing mass immigration to this country. Note latest EU wheeze, they want to allow migrants to stipulate the destination country of their choice within the EU block (not first country of entry), that means they will all heading our way because we are the promised benefits land, Hello politicians knock! knock!, anybody in there? (dick for brains), better start building a few hundred thousand houses and half a dozen of power stations wouldn’t go amiss either before UK plc shuts down altogether.
Rafa Out
After Eastleigh and the scandal involving our MP in Lincoln, please: concentrate on the economy. Show leadership and example. Forget all of the pandering to the liberals-gay marriage may matter to the metropolitan elite and to the attendees at dinner parties in Chipping Norton, but to few others and certainly not to those of us running businesses. Appoint a full time Chancellor free of the conflict of interest of having a political campaigning role. Espouse the values of our once great party. No more arrogance and hypocrisy. No more instances of HS2 having to go in a straight line until it reaches Tatton Park in the consistency of our part time Chancellor