Westminster Politics

Gove is the one to fear the most.

He’s the weakest of the lot, the one that will be more than happy to be Prime Minister for 5 months, be coerced towards a very hard or no deal Brexit, become the sacrificial lamb being absolutely destroyed by the media and public for the disaster that ensues only to then sit back with a smile and say “well it didn’t go to plan but I was still Prime Minister for 5 months wasn’t I?”

The man is monumentally stupid. It doesn’t matter what field he is working in, he still manages to be exactly the same person in the same role, failing so other people can succeed.
 
How long has Murdoch been angling for Gove as PM? You get the sense he controls everything.
 
Cheesy said:
What in the actual feck.:lol:

How can anyone within the party actually try to spin it that way? Jesus fecking Christ.
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Spin... Nah that was only the blairite scum... It's now all about honest politics...
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These people and their disastrous attempts at appearing normal.
 
Adisa said:
These people and their disastrous attempts at appearing normal.
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Javid has no chance...
I don't see him appealing to the conservative membership... Sadly mainly because I can't see many of them entertaining the idea of electing a "Muslim" (even though he himself does not follow any religion)

Add into that he backed remain in the referendum plus he's never going to able to escape the fact that hes a multi milionaire interbational banker yet he tries to play on the fact he's a lad from Rochdale who likes a fag and a drink...

Out in the 2nd or 3rd round of votes is my guess
 
I think Gove will have a real sniff at the leadership contest. Although his background isn’t whiter than white and he looks like a real Charlie, he’s being bankrolled in a A1 position.
 
Rams said:
I think Gove will have a real sniff at the leadership contest. Although his background isn’t whiter than white and he looks like a real Charlie, he’s being bankrolled in a A1 position.
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:lol: If he was still Education Secretary, he could have given himself 100 lines.
 
The Conservatives are utterly shameless.
 
All we need now is Boris Johnson to admit he was on acid when coming up with his promises during his campaign for the Brexit referendum.
 
DavidDeSchmikes said:


The British Cocaine Mitch
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I think Gove is a massive twat but honestly his answer to this was very good, if you somehow ignore the fact that he lied about the same thing years ago. He admitted to doing it many times when he was a journalist. Openly admitted that it's because he didn't think he'd end up in a job where his personal life would be so heavily focused on when he got older, and how his past experiences with drugs have made him wary of them. Give Boris a chance to answer and I bet he'll lie and say he's always lived a clean life, and then when he gets caught out he'll probably do the same u turn Gove has here. However, as far as "living in a bubble" Tories go he at least has some understanding of something other than trashing other people's property or your willy in a pig's mouth to go with the rest of the shite they seem to be indoctrinated with at an early age.

Still a lying wee fecker though.
 
He really has a problem with women.
 
Didn't he say he's probably not a feminist? He sure isn't one.
 
sun_tzu said:
Millions... As in at least 2 million people... From a population of around 65 million

That's 3% of people

And dire poverty... That for sure sounds like an absolute rather than a relative term to me and would relate to extreme poverty... No roof no food no income etc

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dire

Certainly it is true that substantially under 3% of UK population could be classified in this way

Even when looking at purchasing power parity it's far under that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty

In essence he is technically correct in his statement but it's a fecking awful soundbite and rank amature to say something like that as it is incredibly dismissive of the poverty that does exist

Meh he's gone anyway as soon as there is a new pm
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ONLY 2 million in poverty! Don't worry about it. Small numbers. A minority.
 
sun_tzu said:
Woah.... back up there.... like your telling me a politician didn't answer a question directly and actually spun an answer that chimed better with their own agenda.... like for realz... omg... mind blown

This could be a dangerous trend.... where could it end... lies painted on the sides of busses...

He (badly) span an answer.... the answer he gave was truthful in that reference frame... basically he did his job (not very well mind) but who cares as he's gone in a few weeks anyway
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Your posts really are quite poor. But you don't seem to care. Carry on...
 
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Big Sunday Interview: Tory moderate and leadership hopeful Moloch admits to inhaling on a scoobie-doobie as a student, explains why he can't get enough of Nandos and why he supports free school children for meals.
 
dumbo said:
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Big Sunday Interview: Tory moderate and leadership hopeful Moloch admits to inhaling on a scoobie-doobie as a student, explains why he can't get enough of Nandos and why he supports free school children for meals.
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:lol:
 
There are a group of people in this country hell bent on turning it into America.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
He says people should look around because he doesn't see any poverty in this country. If we were to live in the same Westminster bubble as him then we wouldn't know it exists either. This is the fundamental problem with the elite making all of the decisions.
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You are right. People like Hammond don't understand the first thing about what is happening in this country outside Westminster.
No doubt he has a spreadsheet that he has tweeked to make sure that it tells him what he wants to hear.
He has no idea about the effects of the austerity programme on services that local councils can no longer provide.
What a wonderful human being he is...
 
Adisa said:
There are a group of people in this country hell bent on turning it into America.
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Really does seem that way sadly. I can't even believe we have a mainstream politician expressing such a view.

Still we had people in here defending Farrons position on homosexuality so there's always a surprise.
 
I have been trying to work out why Gove would have admitted such a thing. Other MPs have admitted taking drugs in the past, never with a positive result. Although the general reaction has tended to be ambivalence.

Apparently, it happened whilst he was working as a journalist, so I guess he was trying to pre-empt it being splashed all over the front pages of the tabloids, but that's happening anyway.

This whole thing about the teachers is also irrelevant. Many ex-smokers are dead against smoking. It's annoying, but they aren't wrong, are they? Would you be happy about your kids being taught by a cocaine user?

It would only be hypocritical if he was a current cocaine user, not if he gave up many years ago.
 
the only reason drugs are still illegal is because coked up thundercnut journalists who shit out puritanical articles designed to appeal to sundowning tories end up becoming conservative MPs
 
Sassy Colin said:
I have been trying to work out why Gove would have admitted such a thing. Other MPs have admitted taking drugs in the past, never with a positive result. Although the general reaction has tended to be ambivalence.

Apparently, it happened whilst he was working as a journalist, so I guess he was trying to pre-empt it being splashed all over the front pages of the tabloids, but that's happening anyway.

This whole thing about the teachers is also irrelevant. Many ex-smokers are dead against smoking. It's annoying, but they aren't wrong, are they? Would you be happy about your kids being taught by a cocaine user?

It would only be hypocritical if he was a current cocaine user, not if he gave up many years ago.
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It absolutely isn't though - Gove has admitted to usage of a class A substance. If caught with said substance he could've faced significant time in jail. It shouldn't be underestimated how fecking stupid this is - imagine a senior UK politician admitting they'd spent years embezzling or committing fraud or doing something else that's very serious legally but not necessarily harmful to others physically, and people saying it's not hypocritical because they don't do it anymore?

Obviously if a teacher's a cokehead then that's a problem but I suspect there a ton of teachers who have either taken it at some point, or who occasionally do at the weekends like a lot of people out there. If it impacts their performance then they should be reprimanded but their career shouldn't be destroyed by the mere act of taking it alone when the country will almost be invariably lead by people who did it when they were much younger.

It's genuinely abhorrent that rich Etonian cnuts like Boris and Gove can do this and laugh back on it years later as a simple daft error or joke, but poor people who get caught doing it end up with jail sentences and see their lives ruined as a result.
 
Gove is right when he says that the lower classes face worse consequences for drug use. What he'll never acknowledge is that he is to blame for that. He's the fecker who is making life harder for people who use the drugs as he did, and he does it for no reason other than to appeal to assholes with think of the children placards.
 
hobbers said:
Getting caught being the operative word. The consequences for being caught are the same, the only difference is that one group is perhaps better at not getting caught.

Plenty of working class people who will have worked their way up the ladder to prominent positions will have histories of recreational drug use that they can now laugh about.
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no even when they get caught the consequences are lessened, an oxford student fecking stabbed her boyfriend and walked because she had potential, an ivy league kid in america was convicted for rape and got a slap on the wrist because he had potential, posh cnuts in the country paralyse hunt saboteurs and get shit all because the royals vouch for them

the justice system treats the lower classes as lesser humans than the upper classes, because it's not designed for justice, it's designed to keep us down while the rich plunder
 
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