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Has the Conservative Party lost all sense of competence

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GracesGranMK2 Sat 02-Dec-17 10:10:45

This is not an attack on individuals but on the ethos of conservatism. Since the war the CP has created the myth that they are competent. Recently we have seen:

Incompetence with the economy.
Incompetence with benefits
Incompetence with state pensions
Incompetence with support for business and industry via infrastructure
Incompetence in many areas with government administration
Incompetence with transport
Incompetence in the criminal justice system
Incompetence in defence
Incompetence in education
Incompetence in the NHS
Incompetence in running their own election

I am sure there are other areas. Why does anyone vote for this incompetence? Surely we deserve better?
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whitewave Sat 06-Jan-18 12:06:53

Johnson archived tweets are now making the news showing that he has questionable views on gays and women.

He has been vociferous in his defence of Young.

Well he would wouldn’t he?

durhamjen Sat 06-Jan-18 11:52:58

He only got into university because of his dad, though. He forgets that.
Personally, I prefer Angela Rayner's common sense outlook to Young's, even if her education is not as good as his.

www.angelarayner.com/about

Gove made lots of spelling mistakes when he was Secretary for Education. He still does.

eazybee Sat 06-Jan-18 11:41:24

I am no fan of Toby Young, and decry his latest appointment, although I notice that his First in Politics, Philosophy and Economics is ignored by his critics. He could claim to have been a successful student at least, having taken full advantage of a university education after woeful results at school.

It is a great shame that there is not the same level of outrage about the appointment of the ignorant, illiterate Angela Rayner: "Lots of people have wrote to me about this, " as Shadow Secretary for Education.

durhamjen Sat 06-Jan-18 11:04:21

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brex-factor-toby-young-1-5342531

durhamjen Sat 06-Jan-18 10:47:27

183,000+ votes now.

durhamjen Sat 06-Jan-18 10:45:49

theconversation.com/toby-young-what-is-progressive-eugenics-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-meritocracy-89671

This article needs to be read to the end to see how Toby Young was offered the job.

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 22:49:38

voxpoliticalonline.com/2018/01/05/toby-young-is-now-a-tory-crisis-heres-how-he-became-one/

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 21:58:20

175,000 votes now.

whitewave Fri 05-Jan-18 19:55:15

Channel 4 news

£147million donated by parents p.a. for essentials for schooling their children.

I thought that was illegal?

whitewave Fri 05-Jan-18 17:26:32

Forgot a “in”

whitewave Fri 05-Jan-18 17:25:51

Johnson of course because all his mysogist, homophobic etc tweets have been resurrected.

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 14:31:06

www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/04/teachers-union-joins-criticism-of-toby-young-appointment

Is there anyone on Toby Young's side, apart from May and Jo Johnson?
Time for May to do a u-turn we will all respect.

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 13:54:17

Over 160,000 votes now.

www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/05/ditch-toby-young-from-watchdog-board-top-labour-figures-tell-may

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 13:19:39

An interesting article by Natalie Bennett about the cost of rail travel and how some commuters are being priced off the trains.

www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/01/02/you-re-suffering-from-the-rail-fare-rises-even-if-you-ve-nev

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 11:16:16

Nobody in a wheelchair in his free school, then.

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 11:15:39

tompride.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/toby-young-wheelchairs.png?w=529

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 11:12:03

The petition is by Tom Pride of Pride's Purge, and all the horrible stuff that Toby Young has said is on that site, all linked to on the petition.

MaizieD Fri 05-Jan-18 11:03:18

All the tweets might have gone jura but there are plenty of screenshots of them doing the rounds on twitter. There's also a site that keeps a record of tweets deleted by public figures. His are on it. I'll see if I can find the address for you.

It's hard to cover your tracks on the internet.

jura2 Fri 05-Jan-18 10:58:35

All the dreadful Tweets have gone - by miracle - racist, mysoginist, discriminatory - gone ... like the wind.

Signed.

durhamjen Fri 05-Jan-18 10:41:49

157,000 now. They want to get to 200,000. People are still signing up every 5 seconds. No wonder the Tories put this out over the Christmas break, hoping nobody would notice.
When you look at the petition and see what he called children with disabilities and state school undergraduates it's no wonder people want him out.

Here's another symbol of Tory incompetence.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/met-wants-38m-from-home-office-toward-grenfell-investigation-cost/

durhamjen Thu 04-Jan-18 23:17:02

145,000 signatures already on the petition to sack Toby Young.

www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-sack-toby-young-from-university-watchdog-post

durhamjen Thu 04-Jan-18 22:24:20

t.co/g6b9aSpwBU

whitewave Thu 04-Jan-18 20:00:28

Not only Australia looking at it but US, Canada and others.

Jalima1108 Thu 04-Jan-18 19:51:27

This is interesting about TPP.
Australia don't want it either.

Is that Australia or some Australians?

I thought they were going ahead with it.

whitewave Thu 04-Jan-18 19:38:47

Remember we were talking about the way the Tory HO office is intent on taking away the local offices ability to select their candidate? What price democracy?

The s...t is beginning to hit the fan and the local ancients are beginning to revolt. Well, as far as they understand the wordgrin

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