Tories face wipeout on Thursday: but Iain Duncan Smith “couldn’t care less”

“Reform don’t care what they chuck out there because they know very well they’re not likely to be in government.”
John Pienaar speaks with the prospective candidates of Chingford and Woodford Green, from Iain Duncan Smith to Faiza Shaheen.
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[@sol2746]

Tories OUT.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Reform IN!

[@stevenhull5025]

Both Labour and Tories OUT

[@andrewsarchus6036]

Clearly the Tories absolutely could care less. Their bulging-eyed devotion to the utter destruction of this country, her people and their culture is truly something to behold!

[@SuperJT1985]

Unfortunately they're leaving Labour with problems that are unfixable in 5 years.

[@hyperfocus4866]

I remember when Ian Smith didn't care about austerity effecting the elderly and disabled.

[@DrSimonFoster]

Mr Smith sounds utterly dejected and defeated.

[@boink800]

Will he lose his MP job?

[@nigelhardy7218]

My heart bleeds. 💃🤣

[@DrSimonFoster]

@@boink800 after the dust has settled I don't think he'll care. It's just a game he (and most MPs) is playing and even if he loses, he'll end up with a number of cushy board and consultancy roles. Heads he wins, tails we lose!

[@boink800]

@@DrSimonFoster Chris Patton got a great job after losing his MP job.

[@charleswhite758]

@@DrSimonFoster Yup, he will be much richer if he loses, he's the sort of chap companies love having as their chairman to impress clients, especially rich Arabs

[@JJONNYREPP]

Tories face wipeout on Thursday: but Iain Duncan Smith “couldn’t care less” 2.7.24 1520pm couldnt care less - probably about the summation of how they felt about him...

[@nigelhardy7218]

He will care when he loses his foot on the gravy train, but only about himself.

[@boum62]

... well he has a great pension so why would he care about little people.

[@SeeDeeSea]

IDS's majority from 2019 is only 1,262, so he knows he's already doomed. Doomed I tell ya

[@graham8683]

The Muslim woman standing as an independent may save Duncan-Smith's bacon!

[@mandydavidson6694]

@@SeeDeeSea kick him out !

[@charleswhite758]

"I don't read the news, I'm not interested in what's going on nationally". Wow, this is a Member of Parliament supposed to be voting on domestic and foreign policy to keep our country safe and prosperous.

[@sailaway8244]

While talking to a so called "journalist"🤔

[@Hydraargyrum]

He'll get parachuted into the HoL and still be at the trough his ilk gluttonously feed on.

[@lenkapenka6976]

unless he already has a cut in the PPE deals, then he is sorted for life

[@jananders1351]

Isn't it the case that the incoming PM has to approve his predecessor's Honours recommendations? Sir Kier show the country you mean business with your "change" and turn down Rishi's Honours List.

[@markwalker2627]

HoL reforms will be happening. Jail should be the place for him and many of his partners in crime

[@lightweightben]

The arrogance and ignorance of this man. Out.

[@mandydavidson6694]

He has always been arrogant, ignorant compassionless. Self righteous and self serving.

[@grumblewoof4721]

Oddly, we pay no attention to Ian Duncan Smith.

[@fibber2u]

I thought that the whole time I was listening to him🤔🤯

[@alexperriman9298]

X​@@fibber2uyou are the"lesser spotted Tory voter"... did I spy you in my binoculars?

[@richardruff8712]

Remember when he said... "Beware the quiet man ".... We can all say... " Ignore the quiet man "..... All of them are a bunch of failures... Vote them out !

[@Bobmudu35UK]

​@@richardruff8712Keir Starmer; "Hold my beer"

[@mikesmith5139]

I'B'S is one of the nastiest in a Tory party that is full of really nasty characters. They must go. Vote tactically to make sure he gets his well deserved Portillo moment.

[@pauldeed4976]

absolutely!

[@AgentGreyFox]

He didn't read the Brexit withdrawal agreement, signed up to it, and then complained about it! Yes he could couldn't care less... Sums up his career. A self serving Tory.

[@epincion]

There is a salutatory tale in the story that he (and all Tory back benchers) never read the EU-UK WA before ratifying it in the Commons. Johnson knew what was in it showed up his lies - particularly over NI and the NIP - and so he did not want his backbenchers to have time to debate so he got Rees-Mogg as Leader of the House to schedule a mere two hours of process for all three readings. Johnson told the backbench (never the brightest) to trust him it was a fantastic deal. So it was ratified in record time to brays of delight from the likes of IDS. Later on when the rubber hit the road over implementing the NIP and it dawned on IDS that yes there is an Irish Sea Border and indeed that was a matter of implement it or face pariah status and with a halt to relations between the UK and EU and UK and US. They then started moaning that they never got time to debate the WA but instead of admitting it was their fault they blamed everyone else - Remainers, civil servants, the Speaker even the EU

[@yvonnerout7319]

here here

[@seriousmaran9414]

He has always been a selfish, self-serving liar. So why should he change now?

[@James_36]

​@@seriousmaran9414 name me any mp that is not, everyone is self serving.. if you think there are selfless people out there you must still believe in father xmas and the fairies

[@seriousmaran9414]

@James_36 there are levels in this, many just want to get a good wage and serve the country. SUNaK wants a few £hundred million more for himself, his wife and family. If you are willing to believe the far right or far left lies then fine, do not expect the rest of us to follow suit.

[@martinradcliffe4798]

Pretty much the attitude that has characterized his entire political career...

[@joeduffy3309]

I don't read the news, of course he does, another lie, the tories are just compulsive at this stage

[@sg-zd8eb]

Not repulsive?

[@tonyb9735]

I'd say pathological rather than compulsive, but it's a moot point.

[@momo8200]

The man responsible for pushing through one of the harshest features of Cameron's austerity, cutting benefits for those with disabilities. There is nothing like "compassionate conservatism".

[@platexproductions]

Ahhh okay. Better to let the country’s debt interest repayments run away from our ability to pay, right?

[@momo8200]

@platexproductions In a period of record low interest rates, let's not borrow to build badly needed social housing, new schools, hospitals, transport, etc. Right,...nothing like an increase in child poverty, stagnant wages, homelessness, and higher food bank use.

[@platexproductions]

@@momo8200 mate. You know WHY we had austerity??? Because we were close to defaulting our interest payments. And you’re moaning about debt being cheap?? Wake up

[@platexproductions]

@@momo8200 are you the kind of folk who has loads of credit cards and struggles to sleep at night cus you have no idea how you’re going to pay off your ballooning debt?

[@momo8200]

@platexproductions lol, a national economy is not a household, there is no proverbial credit card. BoE interest rates were at a multi century low post 2008. Financial markets were willing to finance increased borrowing just as they did during Covid 2020. Public spending, is income and especially in a deep recession when businesses withdraw from spending the state is the only one left. The U.S., where the financial crisis began, spent more and had a faster recovery post 2008 similar to China and many other large economies. If countries had taken your advice in 2009, there would have been a depression a la 1930s.

[@jeffhatcher6585]

Super majority? Again and again, it’s not a UK thing. It’s a US thing. Yes a big majority does provide a larger mandate, but Boris wasted his.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

This sheep like media bleating of a 'supermajority' which isn't even a thing in British politics is infuriatingly dunderheaded.

[@l33jcm]

There's a cure for IDS, at last!

[@johnreed8336]

Long overdue !

[@simmybear31]

Dunkin Donut as arrogant as ever. Don't let the door hit you on the way out IDS! Don't forget to misrepresent your CV again will you! 😂😂

[@rogernevin7461]

Scoffing his £35 Breakfast !

[@22448824]

Benn listening to that juvenile presenter on London’s Bubble? Fanboy are we?

[@Stuboy]

Then he won't care when he loses his seat , then he'll realise we haven't cared about him in years , and undo all of his policies

[@hockeyfanice7371]

the nerve of this man, who tried to claim £39 on expenses for a breakfast, then engineers universal credit which brings misery and hardship to disabled people.

[@EdParnellReads]

Cameron "The era of something for nothing is over". Also Cameron "I get £119k a year as a former Prime Minister"

[@hockeyfanice7371]

@EdParnellReads not forgetting "we're all in this together ", while his family are busy dodging tax !

[@dan32113]

Dave was phoning for PPE contracts. Snouts in the trough

[@mandydavidson6694]

@@hockeyfanice7371 The Westminster Gravy Train keeps on rolling down the tracks!

[@leehenry5764]

UC is only just being rolled out this year, it was ment to be fully implemented in April 2017

[@michaelmullins3396]

An honest MP/Tory is a contradiction in terms.

[@platexproductions]

That goes for her as well.

[@richardruff8712]

How do you know when EVERY MP is telling lies ? When they open their mouths !

[@janewright2800]

​@@platexproductionsno Faiza is a decent person. Perhaps you can't define honesty yourself

[@platexproductions]

@@janewright2800 liking your own comment 💀 She has proven that statement to be false. She holds very bigoted views, hence why she’s not a Labour candidate.

[@janewright2800]

​@@platexproductionsas I said you can't define honesty or what bigoted views are. No proof at all!

[@markjackson8261]

Mr Nasty pops his head up again!!

[@user-jq5yb8rj1d]

To cheat every one of us

[@In_Paradiso58]

Why does this NOBODY have the look of a CONDEMNED man???

[@Travis_22]

When somebody says they 'couldn't care less' - they usually do.

[@temperatemix8268]

He cares so much he has the time to tell us he doesn’t care at all

[@mikefoster6018]

Hmmm.

[@normaguyver-cole3363]

Not sure this shell of a human being can care less about anything, he doesn't appear to care at all, about anything.

[@leehenry5764]

He knows his party are no different to labour today

[@temperatemix8268]

@@leehenry5764 labour are a million miles away from the way roght of centre Tory party. Nice try though

[@trevorspottiswood985]

Duncan-Smith is one of the architects of their downfall.

[@hammondpickle]

Wait... IBS could lose his seat? I am staying up to watch that!

[@terrystewart1973]

Not if Faiza Shaheen has anything to do with it

[@NewEstablishment]

I can’t wait

[@katrinabryce]

Yes, it is extremely marginal. There is no such thing as a safe Tory seat now, but this one is particularly unsafe.

[@johnreed8336]

So will many including me .

[@johnreed8336]

​@@katrinabrycelong overdue.

[@normaguyver-cole3363]

Ian Duncan -Smith, fighting for whats best for his constituency. Unless they are disabled or poor. Is he actually evil, or does he live in a fantasy world?

[@g.pmoore4293]

Odious man

[@user-us8le6lu4h]

At least he's a typical Tory, sticking to Tory values, i.e. "I don't care about anyone else, just myself"

[@unblessedcoffee1457]

Why does he feel it's acceptable to just lie to our faces that "he doesn't read any news"? He clearly does.

[@HistoryonYouTube]

He has made his money and no doubt made a fortune out of it - why should he care less about everyone else?

[@susannamarker2582]

Proof ?

[@haleytownsend7544]

He served our country in northern Ireland great man

[@davesandall4530]

Blimey always thought Duncan Smith was deluded

[@norawright807]

HE IS NOT DELUDED. He's insane.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

@@norawright807 He's not insane he's just nothing.

[@airingcupboard]

Good for Faiza Shaheen. The Labour candidate is less convincing. The question about the far right isn't just about hate, it's about the post-2008 economic and political landscape. If Labour fail, then the political centre has failed.

[@haleytownsend7544]

I live Chingford i hope Faiza and Labour do not get in

[@duncanpoundcake]

Possibly, the most honest statement he has ever said: "I couldn't care less"...

[@lesleydonnelly2622]

I wouldn't want to vote for someone who constantly said I couldn't care less. He talked about his views, how about the views of his constituents. Vote Reform ✊

[@jellokween1680]

Makes me proud I've never voted Tory in my life.

[@petersmith9470]

Mr IBS whoops, I means Mr IDF, oh it's what's his name, the man who made the statement that he can live easily on dole money. That's right it's Ian Duncan Smith economic guru

[@trevaudio]

He didn’t read the Northern Ireland protocol or the Withdrawal agreement either !!! Useless little man. An utter irrelevance come Friday !!🎉

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Nothing to see nothing to say just vote how you are told, he's just a eyeless mouthless egg, the perfect MP for both the Tories or Labour.

[@Warriorking.1963]

Remember Lee Anderson also betrayed Northern Ireland. If Reform stood in elections over here, I'd have difficulty voting for them because of them allowing that pig into their party, never mind running him for parliament.

[@haleytownsend7544]

He served our country in Northern Ireland hes a great man

[@platexproductions]

1:10 “push the Labour Party to be more progressive” How progressive do you need to be??? Makes me wonder what the word means to this woman.

[@andrewcooper103]

What's progressive about labour not building council houses.not doing wealth tax, prioritising military spending over services and continuing,support and arms sales to israel and austerity.thats not progressive.thats protecting upper class at the expense of the country.putting wealthy first the country second.

[@seanryan3837]

He will care on Thursday when he's gone

[@chrisbaldwin3609]

Doubt it with the money he has he won't be signing on😅

[@stevenhull5025]

Doubt it. A juicy gold plated pension awaits.

[@tamhunter5025]

Same as trusse's pension ​@@stevenhull5025

[@Equinoxliveson]

Smith has just explained why he is so out of touch

[@user-ds9jb3zh3x]

Goodbye Mr Smith

[@andym.6141]

….and I don’t pay any attention to Iain Duncan Smith.

[@Robc--jd6yh]

But you log on and comment on a thread where he is the headline

[@user-jq5yb8rj1d]

Your attention is not care by Duncan Smith, your vote is voice, so prove it

[@andym.6141]

@@Robc--jd6yh …. Its necessary to listen in order to decide if it’s worth taking any notice. Does that help?

[@user-kf7vr6xf5l]

Come on Faiza. An Independent voice for Chingford and Woodford Green. Vote Faiza Shaheen Independent July 4th.

[@anllpp]

They just can't stop lying ...he lying lol 😂

[@over-engineered]

people should vote for who they want, not tactically, otherwise the final national vote count doesn’t represent what the people really want! Vote Reform for all our sakes!

[@janewright2800]

You just contradicted yourself!

[@carlmichael5592]

I'd vote for Ronnie Corbett he sounds the most sensible

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

The producer asked him to say a few words.....

[@johnowen1677]

A bit like Reform who had a candidate but didn't know he was deceased.

[@Knappa22]

Of course they don’t care. Their network of cronies will get them onto executive boards of their companies or pay them huge fees for so-called ‘consultancy’. Crooks will always make sure *they’re* ok.

[@user-re9mp2nh5e]

The more independents the better. If according to Iain Duncan Smith everyone doesn't want a Labour MP, they won't get one but not everyone thinks that way. Talk about being delusional! 🙄🙄🙄 Delusion seems to be compulsory in the Tory Party nowadays.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

Caring never was a hallmark of IDS career. I loathe IDS I will never forgive him for what he put disabled friends and relatives through. I wish him the absolute worst.

[@boota1979]

@KingofPotatoPeople My sentiments to a word!

[@johnreed8336]

This has been long overdue .

[@AllyStrikesBack]

I was telling people that during 2015 & no one listened to me.

[@janewright2800]

I just wrote in another comment how much I loathe IDS for what he did. I couldn't even listen to him!

[@haleytownsend7544]

Your wrong

[@petestobbs5844]

"So I pay no attention to what the polls say I don't even read the news I'm not interested in it" How does he know so much about Reform then?

[@donnaspeer2760]

Good Bye Tories.

[@user-hh8hv6on1o]

Married into a very rich family, he'll be ok . Why should he care sitting in the house of Lords with his title. Gold plated income etc.

[@boink800]

Do we remember the BBC weather forecast in the autumn of 1987 when weather presentor Michael Fish said there would be no hurricane?

[@billynomate3699]

I can just about remember we had the hotest may since records began,🤡🤡 at this point i don't believe any of their nonsense, Fish was funny though

[@stonehengemaca]

Be wary of "independent" tories.

[@michaelstanley3961]

Explain why he's a Tory, I'm not interested about the news, just my own little world.........

[@lancs711]

I would love to see mr nasty Duncan Smith lose his seat.

[@Deano-vl4bv]

Ask him about Remploy and destroying the lives of the disabled....

[@davidwibberley6183]

Reform isn’t left it’s isn’t right it’s spot in the centre where the common sense is. So vote reform

[@swally291]

Good grief...give your head a wobble.

[@alandjenkins]

As someone born and brought up in Chingford, I have to say that that LibDem candidate sounds about as local as Billy Connolly: or better still, Jethro!

[@patc9518]

Like Nige in Clacton?

[@billynomate3699]

@@patc9518 Or Abdool in Devon

[@homewithemma42]

Iain Duncan Smith, we REFORM VOTERS, know exactly what our party stands for. Fundamentally, Reform stands for everything that your party has promised yet failed to deliver. SHAME on the Tory party and the election results WILL back what I am trying to articulate to you now.

[@rad4924]

Most people couldn't care less about the Tories. This election is between Labour and Reform.

[@nicks4934]

Labour not Reform 😂

[@davidmullens2464]

@@nicks4934 RefUK ARE the Tories, just a bit worse. Same policies as Liz Truss but even more unfunded.

[@nickjones8867]

@@nicks4934 Reform not Labour.

[@AaronJaunty]

In Chingford and Woodford Green, Reform will be nowhere to be seen. Definitely between Faiza as Independent, Cons and Lab

[@shaun906]

lol reform? so you think reform will be either in government or the official opposition. your copium must be strong?

[@chrisd924]

Iain Duncan Smith is on track to lose his seat...William Hill has him at 11/4

[@edmurth]

“Couldn’t care less” about ordinary people.

[@yvonnerout7319]

that's more like it

[@haleytownsend7544]

Yes he does i see him lots in Chingford lovely man

[@edmurth]

@@haleytownsend7544 yeah, well I worked in an area where I got to see the impact of universal credit on the lives of the poorest.

[@anjulamutanda2000]

Wow! iDS sounds very, very defensive

[@janewright2800]

A vile man

[@annishilcock4587]

People who fiddle the figures, does he mean the Conservative party, and to aDmit he doen't read the news would explain a great deal about his understanding of the mess the country is in in. He doesn't care and he never has.

[@ianb9842]

The tories have not cared less for 14 years and now starmer will finish this country off god help us

[@westham7343]

They just don’t get it! We are voting reform not just for this election but for the future Reform are aiming at 2028. Nigel will be elected on Tuesday and hopefully more seats then he can begin to build. VOTE REFORM

[@mazza4190]

As soon as Faiza Shaheen stated 'progressive' I switched off.

[@stevenhull5025]

What an insult. Vote Reform and have a Labour government? No Mr Smith. The Tories policies or lack of is the reason Labour is doing well in the polls.

[@ralphsearing7892]

"I have one interest in this campaign: [keeping my job] ! "

[@samuelfawell9159]

(And it’s not going to happen)

[@i.m.9918]

I can assure you there’s nothing he cares more about. That’s just grade school imposture. Embarrassingly juvenile, actually.

[@torseharris3346]

IDS is one of the faces I am looking out for on election night.

[@martinhill9261]

He doesn't read the news?? Nonsense.

[@kiljaeden7663]

I always find it funny when the Tories point the finger at Labour-run councils. As if Tory councils don't have the same issues after they've steadily reduced council funding for 14 years.

[@johnsabini2330]

Used to live in Waltham Forest the Labour run LBWF is Olympic Gold Standard 💩

[@mikefoster6018]

John Pienaar and Iain Duncan Smith together look the two commanders in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.

[@angusmacmillan5365]

My family and I are voting Reform to get out country back. I was a Tory voter but they have betrayed us but I will never vote for them again.

[@royw-g3120]

You are voting for a bunch Tory rejects and exiles. 14 years of failure not enough for you?

[@swally291]

Get your country back from whom exactly

[@ajorbista]

He got to keep his seat because the Labour vote was split 💀

[@wizzkid3626]

I always voted Labour... not today.. independence day

[@sagelight7777]

He's a complete fool. Fully and loudly supported Liz truss and her mad, breaks off policies. Has absolutely no idea about the average person and their problems

[@liammcnulty7112]

Pienaar gave Reform 2 minutes, the others 3, Lib Dems 4minutes at the end....he told Duncan Smith he'd be discussing migraton, cross channel"asylum"seekers with the Reform candidate...but never did, just went on about the recent dodgy candidates, so again it's unfair bias against Reform

[@jondobbs]

IDC is in denial

[@rjy8960]

Ian Duncan Smith - living in the world of Wireless 4.

[@ClayMann]

he doesn't follow the news at all but he knew to make sure YOU know that if you vote reform, that's getting labour in. That's the current line in the news. How would he know to say that very deliberately. Wasn't a throw away comment. He went on for a minute or two on that one point.

[@jamesmurray-fg7pw]

IDS you said it couldn't care less about the public .

[@michaelbullen4146]

Not much love for IDS out there! Just another self serving Tory crook, and he has been found out, and he knows that.

[@hypsyzygy506]

IDS never did care for the public.

[@keithhardy8513]

Duncan Smith will go to the HOL after losing his Chingford seat to Labour 😂😂

[@davidy80]

The irony of IDS saying "only deal with the things you can change", is incredible. People are coming out in millions to vote for a change, because it's the only opportunity they get. He doesn't get it, and just wants to continue on the two-party first past the post merry-go-round that never represents the people. I genuinely hope he loses his seat; maybe then he will read the news.

[@TallDarknGruesome]

doesn't read the news, doesn't read the polls, didn't read the Brexit WA before signing it. Maybe he can't read?

[@Tee-bq2po]

Chicken has come home to roost !!!

[@hyperfocus4866]

Reform 🇬🇧

[@michaelhearn3831]

Why ask the Reform guy about racism……loaded questions as usual…….

[@johnbrereton5229]

Faisal Shaheen doesn't care about splitting the vote, its all about her and no one else.

[@andrewcooper103]

Good for her ,Chingford first labour second

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@andrewcooper103 No Shaheen first, second and last. The voters are just her way to personal power. However, if she splits the Labour vote that's a bonus !👍😊

[@DrSimonFoster]

Mr Smith looks like he has retreated to the bunker and the Generals have just visited to tell him that through complete incompetence Major Johnson has caused the collapse of the Eastern front, allowing Labour to advance unhindered and General Sunak has abandoned the beaches at Dunkirk, allowing Reform to march on their territory.

[@RuneRelic]

Apparently ignorant of the fact that voting cons did not and does not deliver conservatism.

[@kurremkarmerruk8718]

Faiza Shaheen hasn't split the vote, Labour has.

[@user-ux9zg5oz7f]

If the ' true ' Iain Duncan Smith had his way, we would all be watching ' The White & White Minstrel Show ' 🇬🇧🤬

[@notrut]

IDS Majority has been dropping lower, and lower, and lower for several years. In 2019 the Chingford majority was down to only 01,262 ... IDS used to have 12,963 majority Labour's Faiza knows fine well she can win because of RECOLONISATION, her Husband is Turkish too. She has a Fiji Father and a Karachi Mother. England has been shafted.

[@zzhughesd]

Stick your head in the sand approach lol.

[@susanpettitt713]

Get in labour lol😮😮😮😮

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Why dont you vote for Reform and get cheaper bills and less tax and less strain on every service? The only reason can be you've been brainwashed by media propaganda that they're wacist.

[@tombowen6430]

…..he absolutely must care more than I care about Iain Duncan Smith.