Tory Party Conference

I bet it's When the Going Gets Tough by Boyzone. Fits her 'I don't mind doing unpopular things' delusions.

If I could wish any 90s song on her it would be Common People by Pulp. She should listen to those words and drink them in.

Gordon Brown this morning on radio 4.

If it's Things can Only Get Better I might start an insurrection.

Can we please have a general election. I can quite understand what they are saying in Surrey they are saying it in Kent as well!
Well they are to me, it seems to be along the lines of I'm not voting Conservative anymore because they got rid of Boris without asking us and I don't like Liz's voice!!

I heard earlier on the news Liz Truss is going to walk on stage to a 90’s classic song. Any suggestions?

I’ll say “Fantasy” by Maria Carey.

You can see their irritation as they leave the hall?

One bright spot.

They are playing the Benny Hill theme tune and the Muppet theme tune outside and the police won't stop it. They can hear it in the hall. ?

Truss’s speech.

11am?

Menu for todays lunch

The Tory conference is usually a well marshalled publicfest but this year the cracks are very evident. Good luck to real Tories like Heseltine and Gauk. How many Prime Ministers to Christmas?

Has anyone else seen that a conference fringe meeting about the EU, with David Gauke and Michael Heseltine, was packed out, people queuing to get in, while Truss's favoured economist, Minford, explaining her economic strategy, had very much less than stellar attendance

A local backbencher is not attending. He has been an MP for ages, said he always used to go, but backbenchers are virtually ignored nowadays, it’s all about the higher ups getting their profile across, a big PR event.

Sounded very jaded, as most of us are when we’ve been in a job for a long time, all youthful hopes and aspirations long since evaporated, and looking forward to retirement.

Thanks

No, it’s tomorrow

Is it Truss’s speech today?

Kwarteng’s speech this afternoon

4pm?

"In spite of the hammering being taken at local government level, all 11 Surrey constituencies are currently Conservative at a parliamentary level, and have broadly been so since 1885. But this could change quickly. Whilst knocking on doors over the last 6 months, we have heard time and time again from residents that they will no longer be voting Conservative even though they have previously been a “lifer”. If we are losing natural Conservative voters in Surrey, something is very awry."

Surrey County Councilor Rebecca Paul,

conservativehome.com/2022/09/29/rebecca-paul-thats-the-way-the-blue-wall-crumbles/

Apparently Truss advisors are content for MPs not to turn up, as the optics will not look good when the media ask them for comment etc at the conference.

J52

MawtheMerrier

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

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A glass of vino, s long as it is not at W'spoons on sale!

I wonder if public protests will take place outside the conference. The last protest I took part in was against the invasion of Iraq. I can’t go to Birmingham but if the conference was nearer to me, I’d join an organised protest. Dreadful government - just when we thought it couldn’t get worse

Ms Truss will need to come out of the woodwork first!

MawtheMerrier

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

?????

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

anytime, as long as it is not there ;)

Do you fancy meeting up for a coffee? ??

will any GNetter be there I wonder?