#i wish Rishi Sunak a very Eat Shit

[ersatz-anomaly]

Train Driver: Free Palestine!

The MET and London Underground:

🤨😠

You got a licence to oppose genocidal tyrants? No? Then fuck off and don’t you dare support innocent civilians getting bombed by pathological liars!

[thessalian]

Thess vs Tories Will Eat Themselves

So, briefly while I take a break from Baldur’s Gate 3 (WHICH I CAN NOW PLAY; ALL IS FORGIVEN, LARIAN) and entirely reconsidering dinner plans, a note about the Conservative Party.

It is effectively eating itself.

Look, most of the time, a party leadership contest is a couple of people. Currently there’s at least a dozen, with more “actively considering a run”. Which says one thing to me:

Not ONE of these dogfuckers actually gives one tin shit about this country; they only want the power.

The favourite is still Rishi Sunak, ex-Chancellor. He tried a “man of the people; my grandma was a refugee” line in his pointless fucking campaign video. But please remember that this is a man who:

Was so out of touch with shopping for himself that he didn’t have the remotest idea how to operate a contactless payment system

Tried to do another “man of the people” photo shoot filling up a “regular car” with petrol but had to use a car belonging to one of the staff at the supermarket the petrol station was attached to because either his own car is too flash or he doesn’t really own one and gets chauffeured

Was declaring permanent residency in the UK while still holding a US Green Card, which is illegal, by the way

Allowed and probably encouraged his wife to claim non-domicile status to avoid taxes, and also allowed and probably encouraged her to commit fraud by taking Covid support for her gyms and then shutting them down before she was liable to pay that back

When trying to convince people that he understood the plight of the common man, talked about “we have six kinds of bread in my house” (MOST OF US ARE STRUGGLING TO AFFORD BREAD AT ALL, YOU FUCKBAKE)

Honestly, there’s no good option here. They’re all venial at best. That or stupid. Or both. I don’t know that it gets worse than Johnson, but ... honestly, with Liz Truss in the mix, it very well could be. At best, we get a rich gobshite who’ll get on their high horse about, “We’re the first party to have a woman PM and now we’re the first party to have a BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) PM, so who’s woke now, Labour?!?” so yeah. I don’t blame any of y’all Americans for breaking out the popcorn as the Tory party cannibalises itself, and while Johnson sits there as ‘interim PM’ and probably trying to fanangle a way to stay in office even having lost party leadership...

I don’t blame you, but I desperately wish I could join you. But I have to live here, so ... I dunno, send a bowl of that my way? Especially if it’s buttered popcorn; this country doesn’t do decent buttered popcorn. Not even at the cinema.