Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Andrea Leadsom joins the crowd of Conservative MPs heading for the exit" video.

  1. Do you remember the good ole’ days, when the Tories at least had the decency to stand at the podium and make a speech when they lost an election? Even the execrable Michael Portillo took his lumps like a good ‘un. This lot don’t even hang around for the count to finish, let alone THANK all those people who went door to door in the rain for them, hung on the phones and worked so hard in other ways in closely contested seats. They flee as soon as they know they’ve lost because they are the lowest caliber of people, who cannot bear losing and worse still, being seen to lose. Leadsom is just tired and it’s etched into every line of her face. She can see that there’s nothing to look forward to for an ambitious politician. She knows that the first few years of opposition promise nothing but the bloodiest, most unedifying, cruelest civil war the Tories have ever seen, and potentially all whilst being in Third Party status. Andrea Leadsom didn’t get to where she is today by, “listening,” to people. She has convictions, for sure. But they are misguided and come with all the usual baggage of a Tory, arrogance and overweening self interest which they persuade themselves is, “self belief.” I believe you encountered some of that in her surgery. When she was tired, defences down a little, and she showed you something of her true, unvarnished character. We have a Prime Minister who has never heard the views of a working person, let alone, “listened,” to anybody who wasn’t promising him lots of money. People are a bit curt when under pressure and I cut them slack for that, but when they flatly refuse to listen, that tends to be because they’re afraid of what you have to say. A tearful Leadsom is about as plausible to me as a weeping crocodile. I just hope you don’t let it put you off spending time in your representative’s surgeries in the future.
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  2. He needs to spend more time with his TV station, that criminal Dickensian ghost of Christmases ruined past.
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  3.  @mrbrick5907  : Which will probably be floating hulks, just outside of British jurisdiction, so he can maximise the profits of their labour, whilst using corporal punishment on the laggards. If I could see any of the Tories jailed he would be close to the top of my list.
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  4. And because they know that the civil war to follow will be the most unedifying, wretched event in Tory history. Labour will be able to bury a lot of bad news under the headlines of yet another allegation or criminal conviction levelled at ex Tory MP’s in the next year at the very least, if not two or three years. It is a joy to me to see the Tories paying the price for populism, flinging open their doors to every incompetent grifter or far right nut job, just because they could win them a seat in the short term, with no thought to the future of their party or anything so esoteric as, “ideology.” Why would an ambitious old school, “Conservative,” with 1950’s values, want any part of the blood bath to come? They could barely keep their hands off each other’s throats in the last three years! Now all of those, “guest,” players who think they own the Tories and want to see swastikas on the board of education’s logo, or just want one last chance to raid the country’s coffers before losing the respectability that being in a political party conferred on them, can’t believe it’s all coming to an abrupt end! They thought they could plot against Sunack until next year at least! Best summer ever.
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