Just the Tory chair in insane denial over party's by-election wipeout

Greg Hands had the absolute honour of standing up for the Conservatives this morning after a pair of historic by-election losses, where he insisted that Labour in fact are the losers of the night.
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[@petyrkowalski9887]

He is like Monty Pythons Black Knight having had all his limbs lopped off: « its only a flesh wound ».

[@theondebray]

'I.. I'll.. I'll bite your knees off.'

[@johnmoore9862]

😂😂😂😂.

[@davidharris4062]

‘Tis only a scratch

[@turnerthemanc]

perfect comparison...

[@harryboi8485]

Nice analogy

[@stealthbum34]

‘Our voters stayed at home…’. Yes mate. They did.

[@piccalillipit9211]

Oh that's proof, they need to stick to their five pledges....!!!

[@realhorrorshow8547]

To be fair, quite a lot of the smugly well-off pensioners who voted Tory in 2019, are probably dead by now.

[@hg82met]

Thanks to Truss and Rishi, they're paying through the nose for rents and mortgages - they might as well stay at home and get their money's worth.

[@BladedFish]

His party's leader killed half of their voting demographic during covid

[@EnjoySynthSounds]

Even their thick as mince voters know it’s a dead rubber. Labour will win. 13 years of incompetence and disregard for Britains. Oh well Sunak has his Green Card ready for America. Oh dear.

[@WeRemainFaceless]

2:55 "Well I disagree...I think actually people are not saying that they want Kier Starmer, Lib dems or anyone else in government. I didn't see a single person at the doorstep saying that." He's a barefaced liar. He doorknocked me a few weeks back in Tamworth, trying to rally support for the Tory candidate. I explicitly told him, I don't want a Conservative government any longer. You've failed us. I'd rather roll the dice with Starmer than consider another 4-5 years with the Tories in charge". Lying through his teeth.

[@chrisrevill8717]

He was on LBC recently saying that the country will have "continued prosperity" with a Conservative Government, plot well and truly lost.

[@caffs7777]

"continued prosperity" - To be fair from his perspective he's probably right. "continued prosperity" for the Rich. Feckers

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

And he said it with a straight face.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

13 years of no prosperity!! What planet is he on??

[@PaulO-se6nl]

@@caffs7777they only address the wealthy when saying this…when they say we it means “ us wealthy lot”

[@chrisbos101]

The amount of gaslighting their own voters is pure 🔥 for Labour. Dig that grave mate...

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Zombie government don't dig their own graves.

[@alunwebber9750]

Hands is just like Captain Edward Smith, reassuring passengers that the Titanic was unsinkable after hitting the iceberg

[@timwoodger7896]

Their delusional narcissism knows no bounds 😂

[@FRU.No.1]

The stink of desperation

[@theondebray]

On top of the stink of decades of B/S.

[@andymacdonald30]

Its not just him that's lost the plot .Its the entire Tory party that lost it !

[@nomercygaming3703]

What are labours policies? Seem to be all the same as the tories just the colour red is different???

[@manoadamro1768]

@@nomercygaming3703 What's your point?

[@adamwilcox6405]

​@@nomercygaming3703do you really believe that??

[@hg82met]

@@nomercygaming3703 Ah the lazy false equivalence.

[@gazza595]

They have a plot, just not one they easily admit to though. The plot is to rob and pillage as much as possible from country and fill theirs and their friends pockets with as much loot as they possibly can. So far the plot is working. The sooner we get a GE the better.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

Commiserations to the Labour party. I have heard Greg Hand’s comments and it really seems like Labour had a truly devastating night.

[@tigermunky]

Yeah, they lost so badly that they won.

[@richardhowlett4097]

Quite a number of ex tory voters said they voted labour because the tories do nothing but help the rich.

[@redlightmax]

They finally cracked the code.😄

[@michaelaskew6025]

Haha! yes, at last!@@redlightmax

[@PhantomRaspberryBlower]

I think the rich are complaining right now they are not even doing a very good job of that.

[@josephjones1093]

@@PhantomRaspberryBlower Its because the middle class tory voters have now become working class labour voters.

[@CimonSowel1]

Power and wealth just transfers to labour. Do you honestly believe it matters who is voted for the real power is the big businesses who give these fools a small piece of the pie

[@mcbrat3515]

Why is it that all the electorate who didn't turn out to vote would've voted Tory? Not one vote for a different party to the current government?

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Exactly… if they had my bet would have been an even worse result for the torys

[@darthwiizius]

Losers always make that assertion but there is and has never been any data to support the notion. In fact people that don't turn out when questioned largely seem to reflect the local voting patterns recorded at polling stations. If we see something different then we know it's voter suppression coming into play as it did in 1992 after the poll tax drove 2 million Labour voters off the Ballot. Eerily similar that we again are faced with a rigged election by an incumbent Tory government. The historians in 50 or 100 years will declare this Tory government era as a "Rotten Parliament" era due to the corruption and the erosion of civil rights, liberty and the law itself. BTW did you know the Tories have also taken full political control of the previously always independent electoral commission? Keep your eyes open, I think something "strange" may happen at the general election now that all our elections are run by the Tories directly. I think Hands saying over and over things like "they knew they weren't voting to replace the government" is the set up for defrauding the public and criminally stealing the election and ending democracy.

[@DaftPlough]

Huffing the copium

[@QuickyA2011]

No, but as I understand, Labour didn't increase their total amount of votes. That's what they are hanging on to. It could be, life long Tories are not supportive but equally, won't vote Labour and so, abstained. There is something in Keir not attracting votes or support, but rather winning by default.

[@mcbrat3515]

@@Gary-le7dz it was sarcasm!!

[@flannel2699]

Utterly ..utterly deluded. I love it !

[@BOZ_11]

I love Rishi Sunak. Thanks to him, we'll not have a Tory PM next year

[@bolletaf]

I would say that was a team effort 😂

[@philipclayton971]

Rishi Sunak is an anagram of 'Hi Risk Anus'

[@user-zr6ee6lb9m]

Had us in the first half .....

[@digitalzips]

Instead you will have David Lammy as Foreign Secretary, and many more misfits in positions of power, gawd help us all.

[@hg82met]

@@digitalzips Can't be worse than Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Liz Truss, James Cleverly et al as foreign secretary.

[@Broomfondle1]

Greg Hands is actually gaslighting himself 😂

[@Heathen.Deity.]

Greg Hands: Chelsea and Fulham’s Comical Ali.

[@ericstevens2554]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamescorbett3039]

The country has been asset stripped by the tories and its heart breaking. But I can’t help loving the tories squirm like this. Great stuff thanks for the video great fun 👍

[@tonyb9735]

"The country has been asset stripped by the tories " This. They have hollowed pout the country and shovelled the cash into their own pockets, and those of their chums. By the time they reached Liz Truss, they had given up even pretending otherwise.

[@HA05GER]

It's quite the show 😂

[@stevepipenger4651]

The very definition of a Tory wipeout: when you lose Nick Ferrari.

[@NilsAlmquist-d9k]

The only surprise is that anyone would be mad enough to vote for them.

[@bereal6590]

Shows the amount of sickness in our nation that people do vote tory

[@philbateman1989]

He's more in denial than I was when I had to be forcibly taken to alcohol rehab XD

[@ethzero]

0:24 "uuuurkkkk". The most honest utterance from a Tory in over a decade. You can actually hear the truth trying to come out. 😂😅😊

[@billybob-jp7eh]

That noise was just the prostitute changing hands.cold hand.brrrrr.

[@tonyb9735]

"You can actually hear the truth trying to come out. " I sincerely doubt that. It was probably just a struggle to know which lie to spew.

[@DaddyWorthers]

I take it that if the Tories had done well, he'd also have dismissed it as of little consequence as it wasn't a general election?

[@Vulpes10]

Exactly, it is like inflation going up is global, caused by wars and drought, inflation sinking is only due to the amazing Tory government.

[@Alessandro---]

Finally journalists do some pushback ... it took 13 years ...

[@DrAshaphim]

"The Labour vote actually went down in Mid Bedfordshire" - yeah, by 156... as opposed to the 26,012 Tory votes 🤦‍♂That shot of Hands on ITV next to the swing pole graphics almost *entirely* in red with a blue slither, defending the Party and their pathetic "new approach" - exceptional.

[@Ftanftangfnarrr]

The Labour vote was down? It was a by election, turnout is always lower.

[@DrAshaphim]

@@Ftanftangfnarrr Haha, yeah, I agree with you, that's what makes Hands' argument so pathetic! They're trying to say that Labour losing votes is a failure for Labour - well, they need to look at their own votes! The fact that Labour essentially retained their votes with a drop in turnout of almost 30% is incredible.

[@Heathen.Deity.]

His mathematical gymnastics also conveniently ignored the fact by-elections get notably lower turnouts, 44% compared to the previous 74% in this instance. All that said, the man is so far gone, the basic facts of reality are lost to him, let alone a few voting numbers.

[@Morning404]

​@@Heathen.Deity.The turnout was shockingly low - these results are not impressive for labour. The average UK by-election turnout is 50%. Both races saw less than that.

[@Heathen.Deity.]

@@Morning404 I hate to break this to you, but you’ve just argued my case. The turnout was considerably lower (roughly a 40% drop in voter turnout, which I agree is a poor turn out even for a by-election) yet Labour still got pretty much the same number of votes despite that.

[@fsfaith]

“Get on with delivering” we’ve heard that one already. So when is this so called “getting on” going to happen? Because as far as we all can see we’re sinking and sinking fast.

[@gordonaliasme1104]

Voting Tory or Labour is changing deckchairs on a sinking ship 😢

[@vivwindsor4055]

What we 'saw the start of' at their conference was the Tories shifting even further to the the right, Liz Truss and Nigel Farage were bigger attractions than Sunak. It may be true that people are not really convinced by Kier Starmer, but they are really rejecting the Tories. Labour may not 'win' the next general election, but I think it's quite clear that the Tories are going to lose it

[@digitalzips]

Britain is going to lose after the next General Election no matter what, it's a mess that can't be fixed.

[@georgecorish4283]

The whole party should stay at home they do noting but lie

[@jasonk7072]

Listening to the nonsense pouring out of Handsy’s mouth is very encouraging. They think everything is going well and they’re very popular. I hope they keep believing this and keep treating the public like we’re fools, then when we finally get the genera election we desperately need we can serve them a cold dose of reality.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

What a good laugh this man gave me. Thanks mate.

[@markrhoden68]

"OK we didn't win but in actual fact we didn’t lose" 😂😂😂

[@rowancrew2934]

Their ignorance is only surpassed by their arrogance .

[@monty6491]

"Labours vote actually went down in Mid Bedfordshire" - by 156 votes How much did Conservatives vote go down by, Mr Hands? Hint, it's 5 figures instead of 3

[@envy99976]

5PMs, 13 years. Still they come up with excuses!😂

[@WaterShowsProd]

Hearing him say "the early days of the pandemic" makes me laugh. For those of us who were dealing with Covid-19 by Mid-January, 2020, and looking at The UK wondering why they were doing NOTHING to prepare for what was on its way, and then making ridiculous decisions that everybody else who already understood the nature of the disease scratch their heads in wonder, it just makes him sound even more disastrously ridiculous.

[@brummienik4273]

I always thought a parallel universe (or alternate reality) was a hypothetical concept in physics. Watching this, the Tories are clearly living in it !

[@alexandercreamer5556]

Greg Hands is such a Peter Mannion - he'll be saying "boo to nanny" before you know it 😂

[@christopherdarby1043]

“Have you met Mr Darcy yet?” - Ollie Reader on Peter Mannion

[@ianbcnp]

And they wonder why people think they are out of touch!

[@miggyluv]

People would respect them a bit more if they were just honest. I remember Edwina Currie (as hated as she was) just being honest about election results and thinking "well that's refreshing" . This denial of reality on display just reinforces the opinion that the government are just out of touch with the public. And reality.

[@MsCheesemonster13]

I’ve always struggled to understand why working-class people vote for the Conservatives, especially when they live in a run-down area, and the party has been in power for donkey’s years. I read somewhere that sometimes it’s because these Tory voters want people to think they are wealthier and in a better social position than they actually are. It makes sense as an explanation because human behaviour is often illogical.

[@simonhughes7034]

Racism and bigotry 👍

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

My old grandfather used to say "working class tories were too green to burn"

[@pinkdiamond1847]

Racism

[@Mo0n1111]

The only good thing the Tories are good at is to be in constant denial! I watch in dismay 😂

[@tonyb9735]

Whereas I watch with great mirth!

[@christopherwright8811]

I'm lovin' it! 🙂

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Tories are good at being the antagonist of the country.

[@suedavenport8208]

But it’s fun watching, isn’t it? 😂😂

[@MattHoxley]

They are actually insane

[@andybrown9427]

Desperate Greg.

[@Jon-hh3gz]

We all just need more time to absorb how happy we are with Sunak 😂😂

[@darthwiizius]

The Tories have taken away the independence of the electoral commission and they now directly run elections. I suspect foul play at the generals, when you consider how they have taken control of the BBC, are allowing illegal pro-Tory propaganda TV channels on the air, are in the process of official removing our right to free and fair elections, have criminalised peaceful protest and are replacing the legal professionals of the supreme court with political stooges and are legislating the government to be above the law itself plus voter suppression then I think we are in danger of being defrauded at the General Election. You don't do that combination of things unless you are attempting to seize power against the will of the people, the Tories are installing a police state and my guess is that's why they're not going to the polls yet, they need the police state to be ready first before they try to steal power for good.

[@oscarprice4168]

We are not happy with Sunak.

[@Beefeatingman]

​@@oscarprice4168🐄 pi**drinkers are happy 😂😂

[@torilan2672]

Sunak can pack his bags and leave.

[@isabellewhite3505]

The very same Sunak who awarded £20 million of covid contracts to his family from the covid fund!!!!

[@martincheeseman5809]

Come on Kier,get the tories out of here!

[@TheBiggerLebowski-t1m]

"I would consider anyone who survived the Eat Out To help Out Scheme thought it was actually a great success!" Rt Hon Greg Hands MP. The peoples champion.

[@peterlorimer3552]

I blame care in the community. And to think it was Thatcher who shut and flogged off most of the long stay mental hospitals.

[@andrewkirk3159]

Keep up the good work Greg; you’re doing a wonderful job.

[@andrewshiels8711]

Listening to him 4 words spring to mind "shut the fuck up"

[@tolhumexy6706]

Like 13 years of nothing never happened. Same as when Sunak said govt. had been awful for 30 years. They must be in a quantuum string we can't see

[@antonyhamilton6429]

That eyebrow raise from Naga at the start when he said "Well, yes!" was class 😂

[@marythorpe928]

OMG... These Tories are deluding themselves .. they lie through their teeth every time they open their mouths/

[@PDCRed]

Brexit proves the British public loves a liar.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Been the same for decades from the self servatives

[@johnmoore9862]

It’s the lies they tell themselves that delude them even more.

[@brusselssprouts560]

Eat Out To Help Out killed 100s if not 1000s, period!

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

It's amazing how they're able to delude themselves. They're on a different planet to the rest of us.

[@seanboland3560]

13 years of Tory austerity nothing has improved, nothing it's infact a hell of a lot worse

[@pamlewin3041]

About time we had general strike to get get rid of these corrupt thieves.

[@tedtombling2770]

Oh, and by the way, if Labour can do it in 2024 onwards.... that is, may be a government that really cares what the country wants ....... lets vote Labour.

[@sisulart]

It’s like somebody standing in front of a building engulfed in flames saying move along, nothing to see here. 😆

[@giabe8470]

Yes everyone wants another 13 years of this shipshow

[@andyt2k]

Just because there's a hole in the ship and water is coming in, doesn't mean it's necessarily going to sink. Bless him for trying

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Well, I think the scheme to paint new patterns on the sails and changes to the onboard menu are proving very popular with the crew.

[@seausblue125]

The perfect example of absolute denial in the political arena. Absolutely comical!

[@imSatnav]

You can almost hear Eric Idle singing 'Always Look on The Bright Side of Life '

[@hailstone2554]

Not even a good liar

[@MatthewRivers-Davis]

What would the results need to be in these bi-elections for him to admit the Conservatives had a bad night?

[@ironsights9448]

When you surround yourself with lies and you get put outside that bubble

[@troop73oo]

He’s doing a difficult job very badly.

[@DannyTP1888]

Greg Hands, showing us all how to polish a turd. 😂😂😂

[@WAC-qh6mk]

Sticking their fingers in there ears shouting la la la we're not listening wake up Conservatives

[@michaelcoward1902]

"Don't insult my listeners intelligence" hahaha!

[@elliotwilmo1286]

You gotta hand it to Mr. Hands, he's got one hell of a poker face.

[@MrLaking123]

The Tories had lost it from birth

[@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14]

I like to imagine they sit around having massive shouting matches trying to decide which mug will get sent on the morning round 😂

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

The entire party is in so much denial it's starting to go from funny to just sad

[@grahamturner1290]

Beaten. Hands down. 😎

[@pippoplfc]

Bring out the straight jacket.

[@michaelsaunders6923]

Nurse! He's out of bed again!!!! Put him back in before he Pooh's in his hands and starts clapping

[@garyh1572]

He has no shame . Ideal personality trait for a Tory.

[@chippysteve4524]

Reminds me of the scene in Erik The Viking where the King of High Brazil insists that "we're not sinking."

[@williamchapple8886]

When even GB News is challenging you like this you know you’re in the 💩

[@petercozzi1772]

And thats how out of touch with reality they are.

[@PeterDriscollAndTheCruisers]

look at his face.......GO NOW

[@ianedwards2496]

And they say Kier Starmer is boring!

[@seandonaghy2473]

The only good thing that can be said about listening to this tea-double u-eh-tea of a Tory chairman is that we won't be hearing this kind of twaddle for very much longer when they finally get wiped from the face of the electoral/political map.

[@FRU.No.1]

Huh I never thought cunt was spelt that way thanks for the head up

[@MIke-m1c8k]

By the look on his face, he's just done a smelly and followed through.

[@Muesliman467]

This is so reminiscent of 1996 and early 97 where Tories and their client journalists were predicting either a slim Labour majority, hung parliament or Tory victory in the 97 election.

[@gdsvalentine1193]

Typical Tory attitude, head in the sand and complete denial. We have our best opportunity here for a long time to get this bunch of crooks out, ffs don't blow it. Vote Labour always.

[@citizen530]

Lying is like breathing to this guy, he doesn't even think about it.

[@johnsalter3591]

they always put on a brave face when they lose!!

[@nevertrustatory9412]

‘Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!!’

[@alundavies1016]

He earned his money today! “If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.”

[@philipwilkinson988]

Here's a Shovel mate,see how far you can dig.

[@melvinpenman1102]

Smoking reform…..loz that’s a real vote winner

[@Monklane79]

So, as I understand it, the results were a huge success for the Conservatives.

[@brianwhittle9885]

Burying his head in the sand

[@mister3566]

After the 1st interview he must have been so ready to throw the towel in. But he wouldn't have been allowed.

[@relentlessaddict98jm]

This is why they will lose blind belligerence and belief that everything is going fine.

[@martynbowen3915]

Not stayed at home, abandoned forever!

[@lmdiary4408]

YOU'RE SO OUT OF TOUCH GREG!

[@MrSensible2]

Whistling to keep your spirits up on a truly epic scale!

[@billedmunds2665]

Poor Old Gregh Careless Hands!! Why doesn't he resign?

[@ericstevens2554]

Hand's knees and bumbsy daisy 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thinkingbig2280]

These idiots would still be saying this after they were imprisoned for the crimes they are guilty of they are just sad.

[@graemeedgar7654]

we never chose the last 2 PM's they did, Sunack wasn't even chosen by his own party after the Truss disaster.

[@marterlew]

The country will be even more fuc@ked with this other lot of losses