'sources' are now saying that Natalie Elphicke did not so much experience a political conversion as storm out of the Tory party having twice been refused Ministerial posts.
And, more explicitly Tories seem to be happy to say that it was her conduct in trying to excuse her husband's conviction for sexual assault (for which she has belatedly apologised).
No surprise the Tories want to depict her as tainted... & perhaps no surprise Streeting is defending her!
@ChrisMayLA6 here in S Africa, any elected person who "crosses the floor" is subject to a by-election. Should be the case in the UK, change your colours, your constituency should decide on your remaining an elected person
I know what you mean... at each point when you think, 'well, now we've reached rock bottom'... after a few days, you find we're sinking that little but deeper.
@ChrisMayLA6 I'd come to terms with thinking that with the Tories because, well, after so many years you don't expect anything else.
To be in such despair about a government that has months before it will even take power is beyond depressing.
@ChrisMayLA6 Have a lovely Sunday! 🤣
I'm going to put bleak aside for 24 hours and go lay some paving slabs before it rains.
See you in Cynics' Corner (which might need a new, bleaker name) tomorrow 😁
Good luck with the sales... we're big on terrace & container gardening here... having forsaken a 'real' garden when we moved 16 years ago... and have never looked back - containers are so much easier than beds etc. - and you can move them round when you want to rejig the courtyard.
enjoy your Sunday.... we're hoping the rain holds off until this evening, but we're (I think) a but further east than you.
@ChrisMayLA6 I'm not looking forward to it - it's too much the kind of manual labour I'd usually pay someone else to do 😂
I hadn't noticed the very slight incline in the lawn out in the front garden, so a whole bunch of pots flooded last year. Thankfully the massive back garden is at the "maintenance with a bit of sowing" stage. Even the vegetable beds are very much a "chuck it in and see what happens" kinda deal 😁
Have fun, whatever you're doing 🥰
thanks... at our last house I laid a terrace too flat, so it ends up quite dangerous with standing water (and ice in the winter), so don't forget to lay the slabs at incline.... and if you were going to do that, I apologise for the mansplaining-ness of that remark
@ChrisMayLA6 Actually I was just going to performatively start huffing and puffing until my ever reliable neighbour asks what I'm doing, looks over in despair and does it for me to make sure it's "done properly". Because he can't help himself and is super kind like that 🥰 😆
OK, not really. But I'll have my fingers crossed for an intervention, nonetheless 🤣
All advice gratefully received, no worries.
@Thebratdragon@ChrisMayLA6 Great #!!
There's a thing going on over on the dark side (and TikTok, according to reports on Xitter) - "celebrities" who aren't coming out to denounce genocide are getting the "digital guillotine", to stop any financial reward they get from engagement with their fans.
I like it.
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