Tory Vermin

Lovely to see Susie Dent trolling the Tories and Operation Red Meat on Twitter today…

Just been reading about operation red meat.

Throw the electorate a few bones, blame the BBC for everything and carry on as normal.

They think the voters are stupid and a lot of them are to be fair, but time is running out for Bojo. He's too much of a liability now and the Tories love power more than anything else, so he will be replaced long before the next election.

Quoted from ginnywings

Just been reading about operation red meat.

Throw the electorate a few bones, blame the BBC for everything and carry on as normal.

They think the voters are stupid and a lot of them are to be fair, but time is running out for Bojo. He's too much of a liability now and the Tories love power more than anything else, so he will be replaced long before the next election.

The modern term for sparple is of course “whataboutery”. An example is the Daily Mail desperately recycling a nothing story the Sun ran in May 2021 about Keir Starmer.

The Mail seem absolutely desperate to keep BJ is No. 10. I wonder why!

Quoted from GollyGTFC

The modern term for sparple is of course “whataboutery”. An example is the Daily Mail desperately recycling a nothing story the Sun ran in May 2021 about Keir Starmer.

The Mail seem absolutely desperate to keep BJ is No. 10. I wonder why!

Thought you'd had a case of fat fingers when I saw the word sparple in your post, so looked it up and I see it is trending today. I now know what it means and it's derivation, so your post makes sense.

Whataboutery indeed.

I saw someone who is often someone who trawls newspapers and the likes to make a point, someone very vocal about covid and government conspiracy. I’m not saying I disagree but they shared the Starmer picture in a kind of ‘they’re all at it’ type of way…odd given it was from last year, had been published last year and already an explanation that had been supported had been given.

Whereas, Boris isn’t even trying anymore…the best place for him is the sea…

Quoted from ginnywings

Thought you'd had a case of fat fingers when I saw the word sparple in your post, so looked it up and I see it is trending today. I now know what it means and it's derivation, so your post makes sense.

Whataboutery indeed.

Sparple was trending on Twitter because Susie Dent had it as her word of the day. I shared the tweet a few posts up.

Tory MP defects to Labour or....



Either way it seems that Boris Johnson could have well and truly stacked it this time.

A Labour Party worth anything would’ve told this bloke to bollöcks. He’s voted against measures to prevent tax evasion, against measures to prevent climate change, voted to criminalise peaceful protest and less than 2 years ago was happy to justify the last decade of cuts and austerity.

Says it all about both this individual and, more importantly, Starmer’s Labour. A disgrace all round.

Looks like someone who knows his pay packet is gone in a couple of years time. The way the system works means Labour or any other party isn’t going to turn down anyone wanting to defect. A sensible country would trigger a by-election with a defection and a GE with a change of leader by anything other than death. However we’re not a sensible country.

The words, 'rat' and 'sinking ship' seem apposite in this case.

The surprise to me is that Bunter seems to be trying to brazen it out. He's surely not just "waiting for the report from Sue Gray" on the off-chance that he will be cleared of anything but stupidity and ignorance (which is apparently acceptable in a PM in this wonderful modern era), is he? It makes me wonder if the fix is already in.

Regardless of what occurs in the short-term, I tend to expect he'll be jettisoned before the next election, but it strikes me that the Tories haven't really moved heaven and earth to get rid of him because they want him to take the bulk of the blame for the many intercourse-ups during the pandemic.

Oh, and look, there's a squirrel/dead cat (delete as applicable), with an announcement that 'Plan B' restrictions will end in a week.