Tory Wars

[jimmy olsen]

You have got to be kidding me Tim.

I'm not the only one who didn't notice it wasn't a new thread. 

[Martinus]

At least Tim is consistent and predictable when it comes to puns.

[Viking]

Is it time for the eurosceptics to: put up or shut up?

(10 internet pounds to whoever gets the reference.)

[garbon]

You have got to be kidding me Tim.

[derspiess]

I miss John Major as PM.  Cameron is such a non-leader

[Sheilbh]

Whereas Major...?

[derspiess]

Whereas Major...?

Weak compared to Maggie, but from my perspective he was a pretty decent leader.

[Admiral Yi]

How much did they give him?

[Sheilbh]

Weak compared to Maggie, but from my perspective he was a pretty decent leader.

Yeah. Not how he's seen over here.

His reputation's improved, people give him credit for helping set up the economic growth in the New Labour era and he's now distant enough to be an avuncular presence saying things on Radio 4 that are generally supportive of the government and Cameron.

But he was a pretty torrid Prime Minister. Always hamstrung by having a small majority, so he was permanently at the mercy of the extreme 'bastards' who'd never forgive him for signing Maastricht or regicide. He had to repeatedly beg them not to accidentally throw him out of office and ultimately challenged them to 'put up or shut up' by actually having a leadership contest. They put up, lost, but didn't shut up.

Tony Blair's attacks on him kind of summed him up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZhugomNJE

Incidentally fierce rumours of another defection soon.

[Valmy]

Wait regicide?





Of course the monarch still lives so you have to explain this one to me.  Was this a symbolic killing of a metaphorical monarch?

[Sheilbh]

Of course the monarch still lives so you have to explain this one to me.  Was this a symbolic killing of a metaphorical monarch?

Tory regicide when they crazedly cheer the Leader right until the moment they stab them in the back

It's like German history in reverse.

[Barrister]

Wait regicide?

Axing Thatcher, in case Sheilbh's post wasn't clear enough.

[Sheilbh]

Wait regicide?

Axing Thatcher, in case Sheilbh's post wasn't clear enough.

Of course she didn't help matters. Her and Ted Heath are probably the worst examples of how a former leader should behave. Ted Heath sulked for thirty years, looking away whenever she was in the room, and she repeatedly commented on what she'd be doing in John Major's place.

[Barrister]

Wait regicide?

Axing Thatcher, in case Sheilbh's post wasn't clear enough.

Of course she didn't help matters. Her and Ted Heath are probably the worst examples of how a former leader should behave. Ted Heath sulked for thirty years, looking away whenever she was in the room, and she repeatedly commented on what she'd be doing in John Major's place.

I see your examples, and raise you Joe Clark.

[Jacob]

Wait regicide?

Axing Thatcher, in case Sheilbh's post wasn't clear enough.

Of course she didn't help matters. Her and Ted Heath are probably the worst examples of how a former leader should behave. Ted Heath sulked for thirty years, looking away whenever she was in the room, and she repeatedly commented on what she'd be doing in John Major's place.

I see your examples, and raise you Joe Clark.

What did Joe do wrong? I mean, other than not liking the new Conservative Party that cannibalized the Progressive Conservative Party which he'd served his whole career?