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Title: why is it
Post by: Michael Rolls on November 12, 2022, 09:56:03 PM
that every time I see a picture of a smirking Jeremy Hunt that I long to plant my fist on his face?
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Alex on November 12, 2022, 11:32:52 PM
 :grin:  :grin:  :grin:
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Raven on November 13, 2022, 03:59:09 AM
 :lipsrsealed:  :lipsrsealed:  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Michael Rolls on November 13, 2022, 05:58:36 AM
every picture I see of the wretched man shows him smirking at the prospect of heaping ever more misery on taxpayers
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 08:09:26 AM
I always think the same when I see Hunt.

The last 'smirker' was Blair & just look what a lying useless tosser he turned out to be.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Ashy on November 13, 2022, 09:25:32 AM
How do these nasty pieces of work get selected as candidates? There is something wrong with the system to allow (i.e. force) it. There must be nicer people in Surrey, and whether they went to Oxford or not shouldn't enter into it.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Scrumpy on November 13, 2022, 09:29:10 AM

The eyes say it all.. They have no expression.. Crafty ....
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: klondike on November 13, 2022, 09:35:19 AM
On the bright side you won't see him for more than a couple of years.
Unless it's scoffing kangaroo todgers on TV of courseĀ  :grin:
With the EU gravy train stalled at the moment it's all that's available to some of them now.

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Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Ashy on November 13, 2022, 10:43:52 AM
If anyone can correct me if wrong, I gather that Conservative party candidates are allocated to constituencies by central office and not chosen by local members.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: klondike on November 13, 2022, 11:28:12 AM
By the time the next election comes round they'll likely only be chosen by their mums and perhaps not even them. The whole bloody lot will be sunk without a trace. At least I hope so - they certainly deserve to be.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Cassandra on November 13, 2022, 12:23:37 PM
Quote from: Michael Rolls on November 12, 2022, 09:56:03 PMthat every time I see a picture of a smirking Jeremy Hunt that I long to plant my fist on his face?

Yes I know that feeling 'exactly'. He's a loathsome, hateful and spiteful man. Amazing how the patronising 'Conservative' idiots in Parliament insist on continually pushing his reviled features at the rest of us, who clearly reject him so vehemently! They have to be 'conscientiously' sightless to the pent up tsunami of revenge thats just waiting for the first opportunity to sweep them all away?

His coming austere and ruinous 'mini budget' is due to be tipped out like a bin of foetid garbage this Thursday, November 17th.

A date to live in infamy!
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 01:50:00 PM
Quote from: klondike on November 13, 2022, 11:28:12 AMBy the time the next election comes round they'll likely only be chosen by their mums and perhaps not even them. The whole bloody lot will be sunk without a trace. At least I hope so - they certainly deserve to be.
Not if their Mum's on a State Pension.

November 13, 2022, 01:55:07 PM
Quote from: Ashy on November 13, 2022, 10:43:52 AMIf anyone can correct me if wrong, I gather that Conservative party candidates are allocated to constituencies by central office and not chosen by local members.
You are wrong, the candidates are chosen by the local Conservative Party Associations.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: klondike on November 13, 2022, 02:22:40 PM
Quote from: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 01:50:00 PMNot if their Mum's on a State Pension.
Yeah. That's part of the "perhaps not" for sure.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Jacqueline on November 13, 2022, 06:47:30 PM
Quote from: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 01:50:00 PMNot if their Mum's on a State Pension.

November 13, 2022, 01:55:07 PMYou are wrong, the candidates are chosen by the local Conservative Party Associations.
Diasi,

I think the local associations choose their preferred candidate from a list given to them from Central Office.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 08:50:45 PM
Quote from: Jacqueline on November 13, 2022, 06:47:30 PMDiasi,

I think the local associations choose their preferred candidate from a list given to them from Central Office.
Not quite correct as there is no preferred list but there is a qualifying candidate list, which isn't the same thing as the word preferred smacks of nepotism.

The local associations can forward potential candidates who all have to go through a Central Office vetting process to ensure that every potential candidate is vetted fairly by the same people.

The local associations can also decide to ask Central Office to forward a candidate, & of course, sitting MPs are normally put up for election.

In the case of my local association where I was on the Executive Committee, before I resigned when Sunak was shoehorned in as Leader, our MP has served our constituency for 37 years & unless he retires, he'll be the Tory candidate in 2024 & beyond.
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: klondike on November 13, 2022, 09:13:53 PM
Quote from: Diasi on November 13, 2022, 08:50:45 PM& beyond.

If there is a beyond for the Tories......
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Ashy on November 14, 2022, 08:36:55 AM
Whoever selected the Hunt should be ashamed of themselves.