If anything defines the reigns of Cameron and Johnson it is the emergence of seedy people like Bailey and Grant Shapps.
This government is really fin de siecle stuff.
To watch the great brainbox, Gove, attempting to justify the sleazy party attended by Bailey, Candy et all was vomit-making.
What do Jeremy Corbyn MP and Jacob Rees Mogg MP have in common?
ReplyDeleteThey are both Right Honourable shysters. They are unprincipled sh*ts of the highest order.
Rees Mogg refused to condemn Boris Johnson for lying to parliament with a cringingly embarrassing attempt to defend him; and impugn Harriet Harman's integrity. The hard right looks after its own; most loyally.
Corbyn refused to withdraw the Labour whip and refused to commence disciplinary action against Emma Dent Coad for racism. She advocated with an on-line image that Shaun Bailey should be hanged. The hard left looks after its own too.
Johnson, Dent Coad, Corbyn and Rees Mogg should all endure a hard political shafting to see them all off once and for all.
The Met should re-examine the host of the 'Jingle and Mingle' party. The word 'mingle' in the title is a dead giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThe flagrant breaches of Covid 19 Rules, whether at 10 Downing Street or at Conservative Central Office, are not treated with the seriousness that they deserve in the Criminal Justice System. The Police tend to deal with Covid 19 Rules' Infringements by issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice which is an administrative process that imposes a small fine against the offender - in this case the Conservative party animals concerned. I would be very much happier if summonses were issued requiring the attendance of the lawbreaker in the Magistrates' Court to answer for truly criminal conduct that could have resulted in some unfortunate persons' death.
DeleteFlouting lock down rules is more serious than petty theft (shoplifting) or fare evasion on the railway, yet these offences always result in criminal charges and court appearances with convictions recorded on criminal records.
Over 230, 000 people died in the UK during the pandemic. The rules requiring isolation, social distancing, and a host of other public health measures were designed to stop the spread of this lethal virus as far as possible. This was very important not just to protect the Hooray Henrys and Henrietta Sloanes (boozing and partying courtesy of Boris Johnson and Shaun Bailey) but to protect the many vulnerable people who might share tube carriages or rub shoulders in supermarkets with these morons who, in all probability, may have been carrying the deadly virus from inappropriate social contact which in turn could infect someone vulnerable with a co-morbidity.
it is hypothetical but it is not inconceivable that someone could have died as a result of these party animals not following the rules. They are the dregs of society and should be treated as criminals.
Honours should be given to honourable people who’ve done honourable deeds. Instead Boris gave them to people who had behaved equally as dishonourably as him. Then Rishi justifies by calling himself just a rubber stamp.
DeleteShocking! They are all in it for themselves - totally self serving the lot of them.
DeleteBailey being ennobled making him classier than Emma Dent Coad.
Worries (the Liverpudlian girl with a sense of entitlement because she made good) being promised a peerage only to suffer huge disappointment when she was shafted. Devastated and brattish.
Partygate Tory Shaun Bailey admits he WAS in building during 'jingle and mingle' bash https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/partygate-tory-shaun-bailey-admits-30315194
DeleteThe "dregs of society," a lovely turn of phrase for the worthless partying morons.
ReplyDeleteUnusual to hear the socially responsible Tories being referred to as the "dregs of society" but those who partied with impunity are the good for nothing, "DREGS"
DeleteWhenever I think of "dregs," I think of old Steptoe getting the liquid for his alcoholic drink optics by siphoning off the dregs from empty booze bottles. These irresponsible partying Tories are the scummy, sedimentary, residue - in other words, "the dregs."
Delete"Fin de siècle," - the end of civilisation, my dear lady. It would be plumbing the depths of vulgarity if Shaun Bailey and Nadine Dorries MP are elevated to the peerage.
ReplyDeleteI must confess that I am shocked that Bailey et al have not been suspended from the Tory Party. I know the Party has said it has disciplined people but discipline must be seen to be done! We knew nothing about these disciplinaries until the Mirror produced the videotape of that unlawful Party.
ReplyDeleteTory chair & Chelsea MP Greg Hands chaired Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign. He will have been all too well aware of that jingle & mingle party. He was also amongst the number of Tory MPs missing from the partygate report vote
ReplyDeleteHands must be held to account over Lord Bailey's Partygate.
DeleteHands got off lightly regarding his failure to act when the TMO's wrong doing was reported to him. If he had done the right thing, Grenfell might never have happened. Instead, he let that Coad woman take all the flack for serving on the TMO's Board and for cocking a deafen. Just like Coad, he knew how bad the TMO was because he was told by me and others. Hands did nothing about the TMO because he did not want to show up his Tory mates on the Council.
He got off Scot Free for acquiescing in TMO badness and it looks like that he is going to get off Scot Free over Bailey's campaign and all the Partying during lockdown.
Hands its a crawler that's why he abstained in the Partygate vote. Gutless. He plays the Tory politics of the Public School.
DeleteHands is a Tory "crawler" alright! I can't stand crawlers. They're creeps. Hopefully, he will be out at the next election. Labour will have to work hard to get rid of him.
DeleteBoundary changes to the constituency have left residents who had hoped to have Andy Slaughter as their MP again very unhappy at the prospect of being lumbered with Hands. Add to that Hands' campaign newsletters full of lies about Charing X hospital, partygate , the unpopularity of this government and having a strong and formidable opposing Labour candidate in LBHF deputy Ben Coleman, the result will most likely be very close and
Deletenot the Tory shoo-in it used to be.
Everyone's watching Kensington but Labour is also predicted to win Chelsea & Fulham. Hands losing could be a real 'Portillo Moment'. Bring on the general election I say!
DeleteHand is a duplicitous Tory yes man. Hope the creep is out this time.
DeleteTo think how these Tories in Bailey's Campaign Group were living it up during lockdown defies description. The Great Aneurin Bevan once described this type of Tory as,
Delete"No better than vermin."
To think that Hands, the MP for Fulham and Chelsea, declined to do the right thing and roundly condemn Boris Johnson and Shaun Bailey says a lot about him. Time for a change in Chelsea, definitely. Tory Boy needs to be given his marching orders for marking time and being the Good Tory Bloke.
Greg Hands also gets away with telling fibs about hospitals
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that this Coleman bloke is good. Hope Labour starts going for Hands for LYING about hospitals.
DeleteHands needs to be careful. Look what lying did for Boris Johnson. The higher they come, the harder they are shafted.
DeleteLabour needs to expose Hands' lies. Labour should be able to win over Tories in Fulham but the Chelsea Tories are a different kettle of fish.
Hornets in Chelsea and Fulham need to pull their fingers out and start showing up Hands with the help of our gracious, glorious and resplendent lady, the Dame. With any luck, his days are numbered.
DeleteHornets in Kensington should be able to motivate Chelsea and Fulham Hornets. Kensington's stingers did a very good job seeing off an unpopular politician there.
In May 2020, Parliament's Standards and Privileges Committee censured Hands for misusing public funds relating to stationery and pre-paid House of Commons envelopes.
ReplyDeleteLabour needs to look in to the way in which hands suppressed this information about misuse of public funds coming out at the last General Election.
Sleazy- Hands used House of Commons postage paid envelopes inappropriately thinking it was OK to disobey the House of Commons' Rules because he did not agree with a particular rule. ARROGANCE!
DeleteInitially, Hands accepted the Commissioner's offer of "rectification" for his rule breaking but went back on that to avoid the matter becoming public in the run up to the 2019 election. Chelsea and Fulham voters should show him the door. This is not what Chelsea is used to with its MP's.
Like every good Tory, I was beaten at public school for high jinks and had to pay the price for rule breaking.
When one thinks of former MP's who have had the privilege of representing Chelsea's estimable electorate - Alan Clark, Michael Portillo and Malcolm Rifkind. They had all been shafted in other constituencies: Clark lost in Plymouth Devonport, Portillo lost in Enfield Southgate, and Rifkind lost in Edinburgh Pentlands. Despite all of them enduring the humiliation of being ignominiously cast aside by voters, all of these men were worthy of representing Chelsea later on in their careers.
DeleteCannot say the same for Hands. The "yes man" who is anxious to please his Tory political chums - Tory Party first, constituents second, that's Hands for you. I still have a letter from Alan Clark in which he praises me for not lying down when the Council got too big for its boots. He admired my successful efforts in bringing a serious matter to the highest levels of the then Labour Government. Hands requires constituents to be compliant and to roll over - the trouble is that I am not malleable and do what I think is right not what suits the Tory Council.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind was marvellous in standing up to RBK&C. My neighbours and I endured the excessive dictat of the Tory Council for weeks on end. The Council decreed things and we were just expected to toe the line and adhere to their ridiculous proposals.
DeleteOne of my neighbours telephoned Sir Malcolm Rifkind at 4pm on a Friday afternoon. Sir Malcolm agreed with what we, the little people, wanted.
Thanks to Sir Malcolm, the Council did exactly what it was told to do. Ten minutes later the Director responsible at the Council had to climb down; all thanks to Sir Malcolm. Hands does not come close to Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
15.54. You have so busted Hands. He needs to go. He is not of the quality that Chelsea needs - whatever he might think to the contrary.
DeleteGreg Hands MP: By his deeds, we shall know him.
ReplyDeleteShaun Bailey AM: By his deeds, we shall know him.
They are both known by the company they keep.
DeleteThe "company they keep". Yes indeed. Take it that 15:54 is either former local politician or seeking to become one? I'd keep the praise received from Alan Clark quiet if I were them....
DeleteI vote Labour and have never been elected to any political office. Alan Clark was alright even if he was a Tory and a philanderer.
DeleteClark was upper class down to his finger tips and a cad.
DeleteNo, Clark was a man with no pedigree and rather common. Lowland Scot industrial from low class background. You lower middle class types are so impressed by a couple of generations of Eton 'finishing'.
DeleteIt may be true that Clark was nouveau riche and a little too vulgar for the Dame's contributors. He was a much better cad than any of the toffs born to it. He said he should have been "horsewhipped" for having it off with a South African judge's wife and, if memory serves me well, the judge's daughters. Clark's wife Jane said, "When one beds those below stairs types, they always ago to the press."
DeleteClark like all good Tories stayed out of money scandals and enjoyed sex and gave us all a good sex scandal.
He didn't do too well at Oxford and only got a third.
Clark's mother was Irish. Clark was Irish at birth and entitled to an Irish passport.
ReplyDeleteHis wife Jane was very classy! She was the daughter of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler OBE of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and a descendant on her mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield.
Seafield would have been posh when the Earldom was granted centuries ago. It is a right dump today!
DeleteEDC claimed to be aristocratic just like every self respecting Kensington socialist must. She gave an interview claiming to be "one of them," meaning aristocratic, shortly after she became Kensington's first socialist anti-monarchist MP. She was, "the cream."
ReplyDeleteA lovely ironic turn of phrase, "just like every self respecting Kensington socialist must."
DeleteAristocratic? Pretentious.
DeleteBailey's a Tory street boy with a peerage, pure and simple. He is what he is.
DeleteDent Coad says she's an aristocrat. Is she what's he says she is? Related to the Borgias because someone in her family is called Borja de Borja.
She reckons that she is a descendant of Christopher Columbus and that's why she is an aristocrat. Eight hundred years of historiographical evidence should settle this.
Someone in her family is probably called " Columbus " or "Christopher."
DeleteGove's attempt to defend the boozy party attended by Bailey and others was truly nauseating. It was as nauseating as Dent Coad's sycophancy to Corbyn and her posturing about Corbyn's anti-jewishness.
DeleteI haven't heard the expression "the cream" for years. It was in vogue in the nineteen-sixties and some used it ironically back then. EDC was, and is, "the cream." LOL.
DeleteEmma Dent Coad must be the only aristocrat that was born in STEPNEY. She is pretentious! Aristocratic my eye. Common as muck that one.
DeleteSigned by Lady Muck of Campden Hill
You did well to find out where she was born. Stepney please.
DeleteShe is a weird socialist with overtones of Conservatism. Bailey is a weird rough and ready Tory Steeet Boy without the upper class background of his socialist counterpart.
When Dent Coad was elected as a Councillor in St Helen's Ward she was a Labour woman.
DeleteShe is no longer a Labour woman and should resign so we can elect a proper Labour person.
She should never been allowed to stand as a Labour candidate with her abhorrent values.
She's typical of the lower middle classes.
DeleteClark was classier than Bailey but........ Bailey is now getting a peerage.
ReplyDeleteThe Chelsea and Fulham Conservative Association needs to shaft Greg Hands MP and get someone in who will see off Labour. Otherwise, Labour will have Chelsea and Fulham in the bag next year.
ReplyDeleteKensington Labour looked like it was lumbered with a most unappealing candidate in Mrs. Dent Coad. The national party arranged to see her off, judiciously, for the good of the Party. It's now my Party.
There was something reckless about Johnson's Resignation Honours' List. Recklessness was Johnson's hallmark during his premiership and for that matter during much of his life.
ReplyDeleteIt was reckless of Johnson to bestow a peerage on Bailey especially as Bailey, like Johnson, was at the heart of Partying during Covid lockdowns. To quote Mhairi Black MP, they were all "pissed," and when she was pulled up by the Commons' Deputy Speaker for unparliamentary language, she went on to describe them as "paralytic;" very apt.
Convention dictates that a former Prime Minister's Resignation Honours' List should go through unopposed. However, conventions are not cast in stone and should be capable of evolving in the light of changing circumstances and experience. Those who are found to have acted criminally and broken the law should not be honoured and must be stripped of them if necessary.
I think it was Teressa Gorman MP, not Theresa Gordon, who described John Major has having "balls." She made this statement after he sued a newspaper for claiming that he had an affair with someone whom he had never shagged.
DeleteGorman later declared in parliament that rapists should have their "goolies" chopped off adding the rider, "and a great many women agree with me, Madam Speaker." I think Betty agreed with that.
The Labour Party used information provided by the Dame's Best Hornets to compile its dossier against Dent Coad.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have an "in" with Tory Central HQ so that when we dish the dirt on Hands, we know that Tories are paying close attention.
Felicity Buchan MP eventually nailed her colours to the mast and resigned from Johnson's administration albeit just one day before Johnson threw in the towel and resigned as Prime Minister. Not her finest hour but she did play her part in seeing off Johnson. But there again, Flicka is not a hard hitting Tory MP.
ReplyDeleteDid Greg Hands, the hard hitting, high flying Tory MP, condemn Johnson and play an active part in demanding that he resign as Prime Minister?
Or did Hands sit on the fence and do the good Tory bloke routine?
We know that Hands was Bailey's Campaign Manager, an error of political judgement, I suppose, but did this Hands play any part in seeing off Johnson?
Hands is a creep. He told Sophy Ridge that he looks forward to Johnson being re-elected as an MP. Most people think that Johnson, the Etonian liar, is not fit to hold the Office of Member of Parliament. Hands wants Johnson back because he is an electoral asset. Unprincipled!
ReplyDeleteChelsea needs an MP with integrity who does not give way to expediency just because he thinks that Johnson is an electoral asset with some voters. Hands is hoping for a good job if Johnson ever returns as an MP and Leader of the Sleazy Party.
Those Labour voters who jumped ship for Johnson in 2019 would not vote for him today. Time to say goodbye to Hands.
Hands wants to welcome Johnson back in to the Tory fold in the Commons. Johnson lied to, and misled, parliament; no if and buts about it. No decent politician could possibly welcome a bare faced, pathological, liar back to the Commons.
ReplyDeleteHands appears to be exonerating and condoning Johnson's lying by wanting to welcome Johnson, the coward, who wasn't man enough to face the parliamentary and constituency music back to parliament.
Hands's low moral standards are now coming to the fore. Hands may be the Tory Party Chairman and one expects the highest standards of probity from him and not the old pals act he learned at Dr Challoner's Grammar School. I am glad I went to a state comprehensive where the difference between right and wrong was proclaimed regarded as inviolable.