Just an Ordinary Day at the Tory Conference. Hate, Hate, More Hate, and Snooze Time

Off to a re education camp?

The Conservative chair of the London Assembly @AndrewBoff is swiftly pounced upon and escorted out for muttering his frustration at the term “gender ideology” and politely protesting that Suella Braverman’s rhetoric is “childish”. pic.twitter.com/9yGBHkRm4P

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) October 3, 2023

It appears that even if you are a Tory, and indeed an active one, you may not quietly disagree with the Home Secretary without being lifted by the police.

BREAKING: the person ejected from the Home Sec’s speech was London Assembly member @AndrewBoff.

Here’s what he had to say 👇 pic.twitter.com/sWLH1O7vI5

— Josh Gafson (@JoshGafson1) October 3, 2023

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But, Tories didn’t want the A9 to be improved

📣The very first pledge in our 2024 manifesto is to dual the A9 and A96.

🚧 Communities in the Highlands and North of Scotland have been let down for too long.

🚦 But the @ScotTories will always back Scotland's drivers.@Douglas4Moray  #CPC23 pic.twitter.com/6Hct7oO3uG

— Scottish Conservatives (@ScotTories) October 2, 2023

I have to say, I’m confused. I can remember when the SNP came to power in Scotland in 2007, one of the first things they wanted to do was dedicate a part of the transport budget to upgrading the A9 to a dual carriageway.

It is a scandal that that hadn’t already happened. Not under the previous Labour/Liberal administration; not under previous administrations sited in England, Tory or Labour. (Despite the massive amount on money that Scotland provided to Mrs Thatcher’s Britain, it never occurred to her that we might like a road built to our highland capital. But the M25, oh yes.)

Anyway, it was a priority for the new minority administration and… then the Tories and the Liberals and the Labour Party voted against it… Was it because they didn’t give a toss about people living in the northern part of Scotland, or was it because they wanted to humiliate the new government?

Now it’s a fairly safe bet that the other Tory Party will win the next elections in the UK and that Dross will never have to make good that promise. (If Dross is even around at that time, given how allegedly unpopular he is within the branch. Annie Wells for leader, I say!) But I’m not sure that it would be legal for the English government to move road builders into our country and start building roads at their pleasure.

How would they do it? Where would they get planning permission? How would they organise compensation for land owners or householders who will be obliged to sell their land for the widening? Anyone know the legal situation here?

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Maybe they should take a leaf out of the English communities in Spain

"They are coming from abroad, they are not learning the language, they're not embracing British values."

Suella Braverman says there are some people "not taking part in British life" and that "we need to be fearless in calling that out".

Politics latest: https://t.co/UyZUj3KBg6 pic.twitter.com/VjNKDjXJgv

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 3, 2023

I’m at a bit of a loss to understand what British values are.

Cricket, fair play and jolly hockey sticks are all very well in 1940’s British Film Comedy, but seriously, today’s British values trickling down from the top, seem to be greed, a lack of care or respect for anyone other than themselves, a drug culture and yet more greed. Anyone help me out here?

I think too that, whilst I absolutely agree that people who go to live in another country should learn to speak the language, I think it is hilarious that this is being demanded by the Brits who just have to be the worst in the world at learning other people’s languages.

Indeed, Brits living in Spain appear to make absolutely no effort to integrate into Spanish culture. I suppose one could argue that many of them are retired and don’t have to learn Spanish for work. But they do need to use local facilities, and they require health care and dentistry, people to fix their computers and electrical equipment, plumbers, painters and decorators… So there is a need to learn the language. And Braverman would, were they not Brits, accuse them of failing to take part in the Spanish way of life.

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Oh, this is scary

And much though I have no time for Sir Starmer’s right wing Labour Party, that is out of order. And yet at the Tory British Nationalist Party conference, this oaf gets cheers.

"Labour will give the Falklands back to the Argies… and then they'll surrender to Hitler. After that will let the Romans invade again & build Hadrian's Walls in every town for their 15 min cities…."

Mendacious mentalists. Lies are all they have left.pic.twitter.com/R5p7RUbd19

— James Archer #Fight The Power® (@JamesKAArcher) October 3, 2023

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This bloke is really insufferable

'The NHS is broken under your watch isn't it?' @susannareid100

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says strikes are 'the number one reason' to blame for long waiting lists. pic.twitter.com/i459Y7ee1n

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) October 3, 2023

Dear heavens… is this for real?

Yes, the pandemic and all the NHS staff it killed or made so ill they can no longer work, or who decided to take early retirement because they couldn’t go on, is a factor in the mess of the NHS (plural) across the UK.

Yes, Brexit because your government treated staff who were from Europe like ****. After, some of them 20 or 30 years working here, they were now aliens and lost many of their rights. They were no longer citizens; they became aliens.

And that might not have been so bad if you hadn’t allowed some of the most important people in our country, people without whom we couldn’t survive, to lose a vast amount of the value of their salaries with your austerity campaign.

Austerity which, I note, has not spread itself to the upper reaches of English society. I’m not noticing the same loss of income for the king and his Mrs, or his favoured son… I mean who is of more value to us?

Pay them a decent wage then they won’t push off to Australia or America, you smug git.

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I’m Unashamedly Pro-Business, as long as the business owners are Tories.

Sunak is a ruthless liar. 3.5 years ago the tyrant #Excluded 3+ million small businesses and freelancers from Covid support, resulting in 32 suicides. Now the sanctimonious scumbag is saying he is unashamedly pro-business, he is pure narcissist. Video @Sacha_Lord. #SunakOut https://t.co/QA3QJVsG4o pic.twitter.com/KbKcZF3WaT

— Excluded and Forgotten (@AndExcluded) October 3, 2023

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