UK Conservative Party conference

[mikeymikec]

Christ, someone actually wrote Boris Johnson's speech and it didn't occur to them that maybe there were too many soundbites.

It's always funny to hear a conservative talk about bringing high-paid, high-skilled jobs to the UK though without immigration. Sounds great, doesn't it? I wonder how they plan to deliver that when they're also talking about lowering taxes especially just when the UK has a huge bill to pay due to covid.

I wonder if the speech writer is given Trump's old speeches and told, "re-word this so it sounds like someone educated is talking".

 

[biostud]

Is that high paid lorry drivers? I am qualified drive a truck up to eighteen ton.

 

[K1052]

Nearly delusional levels of overconfidence that sounds irrational to normal people is kind of his brand.

 

[hal2kilo]

Nearly delusional levels of overconfidence that sounds irrational to normal people is kind of his brand.

Similar to the same disfunction as Trump.

 

[pmv]

The Tories seem to have become the party of magical-thinking. All you have to do is maintain an 'optimistic attitude' and there's no need to actually address or even acknowledge the multiple crises bringing the country to its knees.

 

[pmv]

Is that high paid lorry drivers? I am qualified drive a truck up to eighteen ton.

Get over here pronto!
I'm sure Pritti 'vacant' Patel will sort out a visa for you.

 

[MichaelMay]

Christ, someone actually wrote Boris Johnson's speech and it didn't occur to them that maybe there were too many soundbites.

It's always funny to hear a conservative talk about bringing high-paid, high-skilled jobs to the UK though without immigration. Sounds great, doesn't it? I wonder how they plan to deliver that when they're also talking about lowering taxes especially just when the UK has a huge bill to pay due to covid.

I wonder if the speech writer is given Trump's old speeches and told, "re-word this so it sounds like someone educated is talking".

As a German my words may not have much impact (we're still mainly loathed by the Brits) but I don't think he's ... good... at all... at anything ... ever.

 

[feralkid]

Always look on the bright side.

 

[mikeymikec]

As a German my words may not have much impact (we're still mainly loathed by the Brits) but I don't think he's ... good... at all... at anything ... ever.

Re: 'loathed' - as a Brit, I don't think you're right there. In the context of international football, England fans consider Germany to be England's nemesis. In the context of EU politics, Brexiteers probably think that the EU is run by France/Germany anyway. Apart from that, the xenophobes probably don't like you but otherwise I'd say the reaction is fairly neutral.

I'd say that people who didn't vote for Boris think that he's an idiot and/or bigot. Me personally, I think he would come across a bit better to me if he managed to finish most sentences without sounding like he's just walked into a room and can't remember what he wanted to do in there. Errrrrrr... bluster... so much verbal filler.

 

[Ajay]

It's always funny to hear a conservative talk about bringing high-paid, high-skilled jobs to the UK though without immigration. Sounds great, doesn't it? I wonder how they plan to deliver that when they're also talking about lowering taxes especially just when the UK has a huge bill to pay due to covid.

One would think that playbook would have run out of steam by now. OFC, as we've also seen in the US, it just doesn't. Pretty much a mind f*ck for anyone with critical thinking skills.

 

[MichaelMay]

Re: 'loathed' - as a Brit, I don't think you're right there. In the context of international football, England fans consider Germany to be England's nemesis. In the context of EU politics, Brexiteers probably think that the EU is run by France/Germany anyway. Apart from that, the xenophobes probably don't like you but otherwise I'd say the reaction is fairly neutral.

I'd say that people who didn't vote for Boris think that he's an idiot and/or bigot. Me personally, I think he would come across a bit better to me if he managed to finish most sentences without sounding like he's just walked into a room and can't remember what he wanted to do in there. Errrrrrr... bluster... so much verbal filler.

Yeah, my apologies, it was from a previous conversation and I should have specified it to *some* Brits, I think we all know who they are... Brexiteers of the round twatwaffle aka Boris voters.

How the fuck that abject imbecile came to be your Prime Minister is beyond me. Then again I don't get how Trump got elected either..

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

we're still mainly loathed by the Brits

They're just jealous of the food and the humor.

 

[dawp]

They're just jealous of the food and the humor.

can't forget about Oktoberfest

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

can't forget about Oktoberfest

Pff, that's just for the tourists. Locals have that much fun every day.

 

[mikeymikec]

Yeah, my apologies, it was from a previous conversation and I should have specified it to *some* Brits, I think we all know who they are... Brexiteers of the round twatwaffle aka Boris voters.

How the fuck that abject imbecile came to be your Prime Minister is beyond me. Then again I don't get how Trump got elected either..

England at least is pretty right-wing. The last time we had a non-tory government was when Labour (under Blair) pushed themselves as tory-lite, and the only reason they got in was because Rupert Murdoch told his readers that they've had enough of tory corruption.

Conservatism (at least in my experience) is rarely represented by a person with charisma. Boris doesn't quite have charisma, but his combination of ignorance, bigotry and bluster resonated with the voters, as well as the fact that he used to write editorials for The Daily Telegraph (conservatives who think they're better than those who read The Daily Mail read TDT) for a good few years before entering politics.


On a related note: This is apparently what the UK conservative finds appealing (I took a pic of it at a customer's house, mentally filed under 'unintentionally hilarious' and 'not satire but ought to be'):

 

[K1052]

On a related note: This is apparently what the UK conservative finds appealing (I took a pic of it at a customer's house, mentally filed under 'unintentionally hilarious' and 'not satire but ought to be'):
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lol good lord

 

[cytg111]

England at least is pretty right-wing. The last time we had a non-tory government was when Labour (under Blair) pushed themselves as tory-lite, and the only reason they got in was because Rupert Murdoch told his readers that they've had enough of tory corruption.

Conservatism (at least in my experience) is rarely represented by a person with charisma. Boris doesn't quite have charisma, but his combination of ignorance, bigotry and bluster resonated with the voters, as well as the fact that he used to write editorials for The Daily Telegraph (conservatives who think they're better than those who read The Daily Mail read TDT) for a good few years before entering politics.


On a related note: This is apparently what the UK conservative finds appealing (I took a pic of it at a customer's house, mentally filed under 'unintentionally hilarious' and 'not satire but ought to be'):
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Wait, Rupert fucked over GB too?

 

[mikeymikec]

Wait, Rupert fucked over GB too?

I'm surprised at your surprise