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My favourite Tory defeats so far:

Michael Fabricant, the larval form of David Dickinson

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a haunted dildo with the moral depth of a graphene scorpion

Penny Mordaunt off Battlestar Galactica, who now has to return to her day job of Not Being In The Royal Navy
Simon Clarke, a mouse fart made flesh

Therese Coffey, a repellent, yellow-fingered Uncle Fester impersonator

Johnny Mercer, oozing the confidence of a man who hasn't yet realised nobody likes things that ooze
Gillian Keegan, seamlessly switching from doing a fucking good job, to doing good job of fucking off

Brendan Clarke-Smith, with the resting expression of a man struggling to divide 197 by 37, when in fact he was struggling to divide 2 by 2
Ben Bradley, an evil cabbage patch doll of The Pub Landlord

And Grant Shapps, who has more secret identities than Jason Bourne (somebody else people will travel halfway around the world just to punch)
Jonathan Gullis, a discarded early draft of Chewbacca that somebody dragged out of the bin and taught rudimentary table manners
Andrea Jenkyns, so heroically stupid you'd think she'd been bitten by a radioactive idiot
Liam Fox, bloated, oft-disgraced, clattering thundercunt who never met a scandal he didn't immediately have a head-on collision with

Liz Truss, aka Margerine Thatcher, a gawping, witless, regicidal cheese-fucker, Gilead commander's wife, and satirists wet dream
Douglas Ross, a spineless, pointless, unthinking sack of meat who might as well be a hologram for all the good he's done

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Sep 17
It is reported that before 7 Oct 2023, 85% of Hamas fighters were orphans whose parents had been killed by the IDF.

Israel has since created over 17,000 new orphans.

No matter what your opinion on Gaza, no matter what "side" you take, Israeli actions will never bring peace.
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All wars end with talking, or with surrender. There's no third option.

Most end with negotiation. The Nazis and Japan surrendered, but only due to overwhelming global opposition and [the threat of] total military defeat.

That doesn't apply to Gaza or Israel, and never will.
Israel might have the military power to utterly destroy Gaza. But Israel is almost surrounded by largely Muslim nations, and there's no hope of them achieving a military victory as absolute as the one the world imposed on Nazi Germany. They'd still end up surrounded.
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Aug 5
#TheWeekInFarRight

FAR RIGHT: The Southport attack was definitely done by Ali al Shakati

NORMALS: Ali al Shakati means "I have to go to my apartment"

FR: OK, maybe he wasn't called that, but he definitely arrived on a boat last year

N. Nope, he was born in Cardiff
FR: But he's definitely a Muslim!

N: Nope, he is literally a choirboy in his local Christian Church

FR: Mainstream media is trying to make us sympathise with him by only showing photos of him as a child

N: Maybe that's because he IS a child.
FR: Ah, but the justice system isn't telling us the whole truth

N: The justice system doesn't make everything public, because that makes it impossible to deliver a fair trail, and if you want justice to be done you'd let justice happen
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Jul 19
Starmer reversing Brexit? Really?

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This is the referendum question, the only thing there was a mandate for.

Anything else you THINK you voted for is only in your imagination.

Starmer is not rejoining. That's just a fact. So no, he's not reversing Brexit. Image
"Ah but EEA or Norway is a betrayal".

Here's Nigel Farage proposing EEA or Norway as a solution.

"17 million voted for Brexit, Starmer got fewer votes"

The UK electorate is 41 million. 17 million isn't a "majority", just the biggest group of people who voted.

Starmer also got the biggest group of people who voted. Those 17 million could have stopped him. They didn't.
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Jul 2
The latest reminder of what's gone before #14YearsInTory

This thread has 84 points and covers 2018
1. Chris Grayling was made Tory Party Chairman for as long as they could trust him not to screw up

2. It turns out this was 27 seconds – his appointment was cancelled half a minute after being announced on Twitter
3. So he remained transport secretary and cancelled Levelling Up transport in The North because there was “no obvious benefit”

4. Public spending on transport per person in London: £903

5. In the North: £276. Maybe I've spotted an obvious benefit?
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Jul 2
As we enter the final week of the election, I’m dong #14YearsInTory, with a thread for every year

This is what they did in 2017.

If you care, all of this (and lots more) is covered and fully referenced in The Decade In Tory (by me), with more jokes etc.

100 points thread 👇
1. The Tories began 2017 by announcing 200,000 new homes

2. They’d also announced 200,000 new homes in 2010, 2011, twice in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015

3. They skipped promising it in 2016 to have a referendum

4. Didn't matter: none of the homes had ever been built
5. But at least they'd finally provided a budget for the latest promise of 200,000 homes

6. It worked out at £370 per house

7. No new homes got built

8. George Freeman announced an end to mental health treatment so he could “get the money to the REALLY disabled people”
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Jul 1
As we approach the End of an Error (hey, that's a good name for a book!) I'm doing #14YearsInTory

There will be a long thread for every year they've been in office, with 2016 split in two.

This is part 2 of 2016, picking up immediately after the referendum.
1. The Brexit referendum was held on a Thursday

2. By the next Monday, total stock market losses were £2.17 trillion. TRILLION

3. That’s enough to pay our EU membership for 241 years

4. Shares in UK banks fell 30%

5. The pound fell to its lowest level for 30 years
6. The Bank of England had to stump up £250bn in borrowing to stabilise markets

7. Our global credit rating was reduced again

8. Which meant debt repayments on that new £250 were even higher

9. And that meant we had even less to spend on the NHS and other services
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