The Nasty Party (AKA the Tories), it's back!

[Beebo]

I see Richard Branson, never one to miss a band wagon, has given the main character in the program a free holiday.
Just before being named in the Epstein scandal.

 

[Bazzer]

A very good R4 series recently ' The great Post Office scandal', available as a podcast thingy on BBC sounds.

Yes, I heard that series too. Recommended

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I am rather upset

I have just watched Andrew Bridgen talking about the Post Office scandal in Parliament

and I am agreeing with everything he says and supporting his thoughts!

I'm not sure I can cope with this!!!

 

[Fab Foodie]

I am rather upset

I have just watched Andrew Bridgen talking about the Post Office scandal in Parliament

and I am agreeing with everything he says and supporting his thoughts!

I'm not sure I can cope with this!!!

Once in a while, even a Tory can support the bleeding obvious...when it suits them of course, like in the run-up to an election....

 

[multitool]

Once in a while, even a Tory can support the bleeding obvious...when it suits them of course, like in the run-up to an election....

Yep. They are all coming out of the woodwork now to express their outrage.

Having done nothing about it for over a decade.

 

[BoldonLad]

One can be cynical, but information or knowledge is of little value if you can't communicate it in a manner people can buy into.
Issue that are raised in soap-operas gain traction because it's easier to empathise with characters that display 'real' issues and their impacts. That's the power of drama as a means of communication (along with music and other art).

The political right in particular communicate effectively and succinctly to their audience. Like it or not, the likes of Trump, Farage, Boris et al. turn complex issues into very simple repeatable soundbites that their audience can readily absorb and repeat. Whilst I have utter contempt for Farage, his strength as successful communicator has made him one of the most influential 'politicians' of the current era without ever having held a seat in parliament.

When and where it mattered Cameron was a far better communicator than Corbyn.
Starmer is hopeless....but then so is Sunak....who tf is Ed Davies?

Quite.

I wasn't being cynical by the way.

I said similar a couple of years ago, to the bolded bit. If my experience is repeated, stand-by for a barrage of criticism

 

[BoldonLad]

Once in a while, even a Tory can support the bleeding obvious...when it suits them of course, like in the run-up to an election....

Wasn't it a Tory who championed their (the Postmasters) cause at the time?

 

[multitool]

Wasn't it a Tory who championed their (the Postmasters) cause at the time

I think David Davis has been pretty good on it at the committee stage. But then he is a bit more old school Conservative rather than being one of the 2019 intake of Trumpian culture warriors, or the likes of Braverman, Patel, and the ERG/Tufton wânkers.

 

[BoldonLad]

I think David Davis has been pretty good on it at the committee stage. But then he is a bit more old school Conservative rather than being one of the 2019 intake of Trumpian culture warriors, or the likes of Braverman, Patel, and the ERG/Tufton wânkers.

I was thinking more of (now) Lord Arbuthnot, an MP at the time of the unfolding disaster.

Not without his "blemishes" of course

 

[multitool]

I was thinking more of (now) Lord Arbuthnot, an MP at the time of the unfolding disaster.

Ah, don't know without looking that up.

As a general remark, I'd like to say that I don't view the Tories as 'all bad', any more than I view Labour MPs as all good. I was watching Alicia Kearns earlier, a 2019 MP, absolutely smashing through a wall of Etonite gammon obfuscation from Cameron and a permanent secretary, on the issue of Israeli war crimes.

The quality amongst the Tories does not reside on the front bench.

 

[BoldonLad]

Ah, don't know without looking that up.

As a general remark, I'd like to say that I don't view the Tories as 'all bad', any more than I view Labour MPs as all good. I was watching Alicia Kearns earlier, a 2019 MP, absolutely smashing through a wall of Etonite gammon obfuscation from Cameron and a permanent secretary, on the issue of Israeli war crimes.

The quality amongst the Tories does not reside on the front bench.

I assume you didn't watch the ITV dramatisation either?

 

[multitool]

I assume you didn't watch the ITV dramatisation either?

Nope

 

[BoldonLad]

Nope

why does that not surprise me?

 

[multitool]

why does that not surprise me?

Ive no idea why that does not surprise you.

 

[matticus]

Yep. They are all coming out of the woodwork now to express their outrage.

Having done nothing about it for over a decade.

Indeedy: