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Because they are not called the ‘Stupid Party’ for nothing…

Why would Conservatives want to ape Momentum? The “grassroots” Labour movement responds to any political question with “more power for Corbyn, and more of your money”, which it couples with social gatherings (real and virtual) that remind me of the Planet People in 1970s Quatermass. The Planet People threw over the old social order to build a better life but were, of course, eventually harvested for food by the aliens whose revolution they worshipped. Insert your own Momentum analogy here.

Graeme Archer.

It is a tragedy that the only alternative in Britain to the Corbyn’s ‘Evil Party’ is May’s ‘Stupid Party’. And the sooner is not not Theresa May’s party, the better.

19 comments to Because they are not called the ‘Stupid Party’ for nothing…

  • rxc

    The Stupid Party vs the Evil Party. It seems to be the fad spreading througout the Anglosphere. The rest of the world has (1) lots of little parties that can’t agree on anything, or (2) one big party that rules them all.

  • Even if they are not May’s party, they will still be the Stupid Party.

  • Runcie Balspune

    Back in my day the “nasty party” were the Tories, now Labour have seen fit to wear that crown it only seems fair that they swapped.

  • Mr Ecks

    It was the dozy Fish-Faced Hag who coined the “nasty party” phrase in the first place.

    The sooner the vile slag is gone the better–but she was quoted in one of yesterdays dead-trees saying she wants to lead BluLab into the next election. The woman is a sick,delusional lunatic.

    The useless Tory bastards should move double quick to have her sectioned. And make sure the arresting officers give her a bloody good hiding while they are dragging her away.

    She deserves it ten times over.

  • Paul Marks

    Mrs May’s defenders (yes defenders) say proudly that is “impossible to know which side of any political issue Mrs May will support” – they think this means independence of mind, but it actually means (if true) lack-of-principle. People with clearly defined political principles go through deductive reasoning (reasoning from principle) in relation to political issues – this enables them (and people who know what their principle are) to be consistent. As opposed to a politician without clearly defined principles – who ends up doing what the Civil Service (and the rest of the “educated” establishment) tells them to do.

    Mr Jeremy Corbyn has principles – evil ones, but he has principles (ever more power for the state). And that means, in the end, he and people like him will end up beating “flexible”, “pragmatic” people who do not really have a clearly thought out view of the world.

    As Ayn Rand said of the Russian Civil War – “the Reds believed in plundering and rule by terror, and the Whites believed in nothing – so the Reds won”.

  • Jamesg

    We need politicians who recognise the need to limit the state, have the right mix of principles and pragmatism, don’t care too much about themselves or what others think, and can persuade people to actually get things done. I would score JRM and Trump highly against these attributes. What’s so depressing is people like May underscore in all these areas. Corbyn is a good politician in this view except for his being a basic socialist.

  • Paul Marks

    It was clear that Mrs May was not interested in limiting state power when the lady was Home Secretary Jamesg.

    “Then why did you vote for Mrs May to be leader of the Conservative Party?” someone might ask. But I have no memory of doing this.

    Certainly Mrs May is not the fanatical socialist that Mr Corbyn is (most certainly not) – but the lady is not someone I would have voted for to be leader of the Conservative Party, indeed I have never met anyone who voted for her. It is all rather odd.

  • Derek Buxton

    Just who is defending the May person? It would seem that we are very short of anyone with “conservative” principles. Parliament has some pseudo conservatives who are only interested in promoted their own interests not those of the Country or its Peoples. And their knowledge of the EU seems to be little or none.

  • Laird

    “People with clearly defined political principles go through deductive reasoning (reasoning from principle)”

    Would those “principles” be axioms or postulates? 😛

  • I too saw the Times story that May seems to be losing the awareness she had just after the election, that she should only stay as long as her party wanted her and that would not be too long. May turned a poll lead of some 28 points into loss of overall majority in a needless election. She owns that reversal to a degree unusual in UK politics.

    My hope is that the stupid party is not so stupid as to wish to go into the next election with a leader of such proven electoral impact.

  • Julie near Chicago

    Now Laird … Don’t feed Gramma raw meat…. 😈 lol

  • Paul Marks

    But how do we get rid of her Niall? How?

  • Mr Ed

    Mrs May is like a self-inflicted bullet lodged near the heart of the Conservative Party after a botched political suicide – Cameron’s resignation. Leaving it there for now or operating are the options. The risks of the general anaesthetic, cutting open the chest and infection seem rather unattractive to the patient, who has a mountain to climb, but leaving the bullet in risks fatal damage upon any exertion.

    The bullet seems to think that it has a mandate to go on and dig deeper, like a Nazgûl knife blade fragment going for Frodo’s heart.

  • Thailover

    I commonly refer to the Democratic party as the Jackass Party, which seems to be their intention and of their own design.

    “The bullet seems to think that it has a mandate to go on and dig deeper, like a Nazgûl knife blade fragment going for Frodo’s heart.”

    I would have thought about Iron Man, but tomato-tomahto I suppose.

    “People with clearly defined political principles go through deductive reasoning (reasoning from principle) in relation to political issues – this enables them (and people who know what their principle are) to be consistent. As opposed to a politician without clearly defined principles”

    Please refer me to an active politician that understands inductive, deductive or formal logic.

    There may be a politician…somewhere, with good intentions, but politics as a whole is about power, having it, getting and keeping it.

  • Thailover

    “We need politicians who recognise the need to limit the state…”

    We’ll get right on that, right after we find a cat that wants to limit the availability of tuna and a cow capable of explaining how he’s fine with being eaten.

  • Laird

    Thailover, I take it that you haven’t read “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”

  • Thailover

    Laird, you should take it that I have read it. 😉

    Zaphod brought up a good point. What’s more appalling, an animal that tries to convince us to slaughter and eat it, or us slaughtering and eating animals that don’t want us to eat them?

  • EdMJ

    The simple answer is that the Tory party doesn’t currently have a single inspiring insurgent who might rally a youth network behind her or him.

    Apart from the ‘Edwardian live-action role-play’ one who already has of course…

    Jacob Rees-Mogg – Twitter: 53k followers
    Middle Class Memes for Rees-Moggian Teens – Facebook: 45k followers
    Jacob Rees-Mogg – Facebook: 34k followers
    ReadyForMogg.org: 25k signers of petition
    Jacob Rees-Mogg Appreciation Group – Facebook: 12k followers

  • I agree with EdMJ, there is a great deal to like about Moggie.