Why the Tory Party Conference has been so ‘strange but important’ | James O'Brien on LBC

James O’Brien discusses this year's Tory Party Conference and explains how Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are trying to 'create an environment in which their lies don't matter'.
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[@bereal6590]

I simply hate them and I hate what's happened to my country

[@chatham43]

...our country....!

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Me too, so much😢💔

[@stevanbankier707]

Is that England your going on about because Britain is not a country

[@matthewbanton7077]

@@stevanbankier707 no, Britain's an island. England is a constituent country of the United Kingdom, which is a sovereign state.

[@jimUK87]

​@@stevanbankier707Why do you need a distinction? If the Tories have damaged Britain, they have damaged all the British countries. Or are you saying the tories haven't damaged Scotland?

[@snowman2970]

Tories going down deranged MAGA route?

[@alanhat5252]

MEGA - Make England... And yes, Braverman used it.

[@sparker68]

Seriously worrying that society is being divided on these lines . @@alanhat5252

[@user-wf3nn6rx5t]

The same people hiding in the shadows are behind both Maga and the Tories

[@goblinwisdom]

On the slip n slide to fascism ... yay😒

[@MyBlargh]

If this party conference has taught me anything, it's that we should all be absolutely terrified at what the conservative party are becoming.

[@alanhat5252]

scared enough to vote for something different?

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Have become

[@Wiggle65]

Or what a Labour government would be!

[@frankboticki9191]

All over the planet.

[@SuzanneO707]

Don't be terrified. They are freeloaders. We need to turn back the tide , big time. Locked into interdependent bull, how do they make their millions? It doesn't come from thin air?

[@sisulart]

My favourite description of the Tory party conference. “A four day festival of bullsh*t, dogwhistles and scaremongering the likes of which I’ve never seen.” Jonathan Pie

[@cupguin]

He was absolutely brilliant if deeply depressing.

[@mcpanorama]

Makes you wonder what is the point of political parties.

[@bluegold21]

@@mcpanorama There is a government to administer affairs of state. There are parties in the plural because that is democracy. There is always politics where a discrepancy exists within policy. Common sense should prevail. But there is clear air between the honest debate associated with stable governance and the purely self-interested plutocratic favouring propaganda that the right wing is riven with.

[@TerriObrien-mi5rx]

Absolutely love Jonathan Pie,spot on 🤡🤡🤡🤡😡

[@1milliondogs]

Still better than the labour oppression olympics conference where they all call eachother "comrade" and moan about poor people from their ivory towers.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Sunak had no mandate from the public and is cancelling projects the public actually voted for.

[@hillydog]

I voted Tory, but not for HST. I also did not vote for an assault on immigrants. I voted to escape from a Germany dominated EEC protectionist organisation that will fail and weaken in the future

[@davidowen7793]

Who voted for HS2, total waste of money

[@alphaomega1328]

@@BrianBadondebowl should never have green-lit it when they said it would cost £32 billion in the first place.

[@cupguin]

​@@davidowen7793 You get that if it's not finished it will be a waste of money, if it's finished it won't be because it will exist. Expensive yes but it will still be an economic benefit.

[@philking7505]

​@@davidowen7793third world public services, third world road and rail networks, third world water and drainage services, third world school and hospital buildings, how long must you ignore our decline through lack of investment before you realise we are becoming a third world country?

[@kamranhussain2210]

We’re “talking out country down” because our country’s a mess. A health system in a mess, a cost of living crisis, ex-prime ministers throwing their toys out of the pram, and a government prioritising the rush and not caring about the poor

[@user-uv8bv4dm9f]

Exactly right.

[@fredmercury1314]

It is not, nor has it even been, the government's job to care about the poor. That's your job. It's your country, they're your community, they're your people. Charity doesn't begin with paying taxes, it begins at home. You've been brainwashed by socialists. The government has only one role: Protect the borders.

[@wanklefish]

The first step of fixing a problem is recognising that it exists. To some that will be seen as "talking our country down", but how do you fix something without acknowledging that everything is not ok?

[@knowledgeseeker5499]

Don’t forget UK is highly over taxed and low salaries for decades. People going to food banks and 38% children don’t complete schools. 1 in 5 children don’t have books

[@fredmercury1314]

@@wanklefishNo one is going to acknowledge the mess because that requires acknowledging the cause.

[@Gabryal77]

Braverman is such a paradox. Essentially she's saying "If we had implemented my plan 50 years ago, you wouldn't have me inflicted on you now!" It feels a little like a bank robber with a gun holding it to their own head screaming for the police to put down their weapons because she's taken herself hostage. It just feels mad.

[@paulroberts7544]

Yet if that is what she believes, shouldn't she say it? Like it or not, she IS British. And as a British politician who's first loyalty lies to British people (of all races) shouldn't she speak out if she believes that immigration has done damage to our country? It's certainly what millions of voters think. Based upon their own, personal lived experience of life in the UK.

[@Paul-fq9pj]

A bit like the black sheriff in Blazing Saddles when he takes himself hostage lol

[@Alone47]

@@paulroberts7544 What does it mean to be "British"? Asking genuinely, not being sarcastic. If one is to excldue the 'others', one need to define onself. What is that 'self', in 'being British'? It cannot be skin color, because Braverman is pretty British. Is she British because she grew up there? If so, by definition no first generation immigrant can be British. Is it culture? If so, what does that mean? What do 'British values' mean? (Obviously, the associated question is whether someone who says 'they will dilute us' can be 'British'.) Am genuinely wondering if the people who say these things know what they are on about, they don't care, or they know exactly what they are on about but choose to use confusing language to, well, confuse.

[@indricotherium4802]

The chuffed woman serving in the newsagent where I went, depressed, on the morning after the Referendum said much the same. 'It's all the fault of people who never listened to Enoch Powell.' This attitude remains running deeper and wider in England, I think, than many of us want to believe.

[@Alone47]

@@indricotherium4802 It is becoming apparent.

[@BHJBHJ424]

I like my country - that's why I'm so depressed about what the Tories have done to it the last 13, and especially the last 7, years. And I talk this country down (this version of the country anyway) because I'm optimistic that this country can do much. much better. I'm the real patriot. Not the Tories. They hate Britain and the British

[@seamuspadraigsanders431]

We will all see this come 2024 election ? The complete turn around steered by a failed lawyer and a teenage mum.

[@malakispanien]

Wait for the labour, you’ll wake up in an utopic kindergarden.

[@samdavies6325]

@@malakispanienbetter a utopian kindergarten than a dystopian nightmare

[@david-pb4bi]

@@malakispanienName one thing your Conservative Party have done you a proud of?

[@troublesome1019]

@@malakispanienderpy derp 🤖

[@buntyjoy1800]

They are playing the American GOP game

[@SupremeST25]

The state of the country to be in right now for our government to be looking up to the Americans. We used to be Great Britain, now we’re just Britain😔

[@MaryQueenofScots-wl5od]

​@@SupremeST25"Great" Britain doesn't refer to how wonderful the country is 😂 but is short for "greater" Britain, a geographical term that encompasses all the islands around the mainland. Hope this clarification helps.

[@jasonswan7646]

I'd recommend watching Owen Jones video at the conference, half those asked couldn't point out a single way in which the Tories made the country better, the veil is cracking even for their own.

[@Gph0367]

I watched it. Owen was brilliant 👍

[@TheWiseJames]

lee anderson was scared of him. Was hilarious

[@yobgol]

i'd say they're increasingly relying upon simply appealing to the party members. it's further down the road of not needing increasing voter turnout, just reliable faithful voter turnout. i think a tick list still being mined predates the lettuce. braverman's speech was purely at those who would ultimately crown her party leader; if before an election, you're automatically PM?

[@SuzanneO707]

I know, it was very revealing. That Mr Pickle got in a right pickle, and accused Owen of being aggressive, when he was just asking questions and politely shook his hand.

[@anonomous8719]

Nigel and Lee owned Owen

[@cobbler40]

No discussion of the Tory government’s record over the last 13 years.

[@seamuspadraigsanders431]

No it's the left and Labours time to shine now, tories are long gone.

[@michaeldent1684]

Vote reform, its the only way

[@paulslater9061]

Convenient isn't it

[@jaybee4288]

They’re proud of it. They and their friends got very rich which is their whole purpose of being in government. They aren’t going to talk themselves down are they?

[@anonomous8719]

Why would they when they looking to the future?

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The irony that his slogan is long term decisions for a brighter future, when he is cancelling the only long term project the tories have had going throughout their 13 years in power.

[@chrislloyd2589]

@@mattl1025no they’re not… what r u talking about. Every decision they make is “for the future” yet we continue to decline as a country. Vote for labour and get tories out

[@pittarak1]

I’m an Aussie who migrated from the UK as a young man. Now an old man, this year I visited the the UK and was so shocked at the division, poverty and also anger against people who are simply looking for a safer, happier life. I am so worried that the country of my birth seems to be lurching to the far right and is following the MAGA of the US. Please vote these Tories out. The UK used to be the beacon of light for tolerance and acceptance of persecuted people - so sad.

[@neiltaylor6443]

It is truly incredible how low this Government has sunk,it’s frightening how it has come to this…

[@---Tre---]

Have the Tories moved to the "Alternative Facts" stage of Fascism just like the Republicans in America?

[@LadyDiamondIsHereNow]

Some time back. Now it's so blatant, no one can ignore it, unless they're gullible, invested, or perpetrating it

[@cosmos237]

I get my alternative facts from the BBC and sky..

[@garygalt4146]

The tories have been using the republican play book for a very long time now.

[@JoannaHammond]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[@bigblue6917]

Boris Johnson took them to where they are now and they have happily joined in.

[@bereal6590]

They were always there, they used johnson to get them where they wanted to go. Johnson was their willing puppet, a baffoon of a man. They knew he had the key to them getting power.

[@chatham43]

....yep...Boris closing down the country was a total disaster...totally agree...!

[@arrshyan]

I refer everyone to Mhairi Black's now prescient speech. You don't have to listen that carefully now to hear the Jack boots marching down Whitehall.

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

Brilliant speech. Called the F Word. It’s on KZbin

[@sydtickel1050]

The drunken days of Empire have now led to a massive hangover!

[@Pippa-ci1nw]

I love Mhairi Black!

[@GraemeRoberts]

It seems the Tories have discovered Orwell's 1984. Shame they're using it as an instruction manual rather than the warning it was intended to be.

[@davidgideon815]

The worrying thing with regard to that Conference is the presence and attitudes of the young Conservatives, most of whom seem to come from the same privileged background as their leaders.

[@firefox1234ize]

Most young people(especially those not born on third base)want to be inspired. Conservatives give truly inspirational young people none of that unless you just want to get promoted up the social ladder. So no surprise it’s the silver spooned sycophants that litter the Conservative Party in the UK and the GOP in the USA.

[@chatham43]

....and the many who post here....😊

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I'm so glad that she said that it is disrespectful to voters

[@andrewrobinson2565]

"Alternative Truths" imported wholesale from the USA with no import checks or duty paid 😢.

[@sarangistudent8614]

I feel a massive tax cut for the rich is about to happen.

[@wolfen210959]

What do you mean, about to happen? It's been happening for thirteen years, even when Sunak bacame PM, he rowed back on all of the nonsense of Truss, except for one "small" benefit, he did not reverse the bankers bonuses uplift.

[@aion5837]

Come on, be fair, that's how feudalism works.

[@chatham43]

...feelings don't cut it...we want facts...remember them...?

[@hedgehog869]

Agree 100%. Just listened to Penny Mordaunts contribution. Embarrassing that these people are running the Country.

[@user-tk9xp1gx7h]

There not running the country the Washington deep state swamp is running the country as well as the EU & the rest of the collective west.

[@chatham43]

...ironic after reading your embarrassing post...look forward to the next...😊

[@homosexualpanic]

Mardaunt's was so unbelievably cringe worthy I could barely manage sitting through it. Truly, shockingly bad

[@user-tk9xp1gx7h]

You no what's going to change when middle class Labour get in, nothing they will go to Washington to get there instructions, just like the Labour party in Australia. If they don't bring back the NUM & reopen all the coal mines there not socialists.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

You should not feel embaraced. You can hrt over an rmbaracement over a cup.of tea and watching a game on the telly. You should be RAVING MAD. That's the appropriate response, not just mild irkness.

[@user-wo8fx7xh1p]

Thatcher "There is no such thing as society" Johnson/Sunak/Patel/Braverman "There is no such thing as truth"

[@Alex-cw3rz]

This is genuinely 1984 behaviour

[@chatham43]

....don't you mean 1930s Germany behaviour you missed that one....😂😂

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

​@@chatham43 where do you think Orwell got his ideas from?

[@janegreen9340]

We don’t need to talk our country down it’s been in the s+&t for decades.

[@daveberry7136]

Sunak claiming to be the party of change, and a vote for him is a vote to avoid more of the same is just so surreal. I'd like to say that no-one could possibly take that seriously, but I fear I would be wrong...

[@theevildrjelly4626]

I’d rather stick pins in my eyes than vote Tory

[@royfearn4345]

A bit extreme, maybe, but I wouldn't mind sticking pins in tory voodoo dolls!

[@Zaubernudel]

As German i am just jealous and wished we would have such a broadcast. Cheers UK

[@petrichor649]

The Tory psychodrama continues unabated. We just want them gone.

[@chatham43]

....who's we...you and your middle-class mates...?

[@robmoore396]

The irony is that this 'hurricane of immigration' will increase when global warming gets worse, and given this government's take on fighting that well..

[@chatham43]

.....our effect on the global climate is miniscule...

[@emmabrooker166]

Erm, we invented the Industrial Revolution.

[@chatham43]

....why fight it...just embrace the natural phenomenon of global weather...chill out boyo and get back to your life....😊

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

Its not a dog whistle, its a claxon

[@sueyourself5413]

Klaxon.

[@kanedNunable]

they have to make it loud, most of their voters are old and deaf.

[@kanedNunable]

@@sueyourself5413 KKKlaxon.

[@segue2ant395]

The dog-whistles don't work for the thickest voters - those dim enough to be motivated by lies tend to need them spelled out very carefully first - and that's exactly who the Tories want. They want to ensure their voters lack critical thinking or analysis skills, or the ability to research a claim. So now they've got to tread the tightrope of attracting those people while relying on the 'politeness' of the UK media, who are too reticent to call a lie a lie when it comes from a minister's mouth.

[@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO]

Dog farts more like

[@Setinmywaysalways]

So the Highlights were - Nigel Farage getting clapped for standing his candidates down, and them Cheering Liz Truss, Unbelievable

[@jeanelizabethmarybowyerdem4181]

Love listening to you. Sadly, your words are so true.

[@chatham43]

....and sadly means Labour will win the next election...totally agree...!

[@indricotherium4802]

As James says, somewhat astonished, 27% of those who have declared in polls still give their support to the Tories. So they're either not aware, indifferent to reality bending or positively on board with it. We should be very worried that it doesn't take much for that 27% to shake out as 37% and then the Tories are back within close reach of prolonging power.

[@samb3783]

Well you only need 30% to form a majority

[@indricotherium4802]

@@samb3783 : of the electorate certainly that's true. In 2005, Blair got a 67 seat majority with just 21% of the electorate. But they always have to get a higher percentage of the vote and this is typically in the low 40%'s. I think 37% can be enough though to stop your opponent getting an outright majority, though FPTP is never reliable or predictable in that way.

[@wolfen210959]

It also doesn't help that the Tories keep changing the constituency boundaries, to benefit themselves of course. @@indricotherium4802

[@cupguin]

I don't think it's unreasonable to think more than 27% don't really follow the news all that closely. Might get a general sense of the news but filtered through social media or read the headlines but go no further. The only people who pay serious attention to the news aren't all interested in being more informed. So if you have followed the story about the non existent meat tax you're already in the minority. Then within that number some will look deeper and challenge themselves to find out more but a percentage will just process it using confirmation bias. Or even if they don't it just adds to a sort of general sense of the parties. "Tories are more pro meat than anymore else and I like meat.". It's highly unlikely anyone on the fence or interested in changing their minds are going to be following up on bits and pieces they already don't think are important.

[@jaybee4288]

It’s because Labour are awful opposition. Ask any Tory voter why they’re still voting Tory and they say it’s because it’s better than labour. I disagree, I think Labour is an ever so slightly better choice on the basis it’s back bench ministers are better and nicer people than tories, but Starmers just as corrupt as Sunak and Boris and co and very little will change. Labour and tories both have too much outside interest to govern for the people.

[@jimcraig6523]

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." ~ George Bernard Shaw

[@boxingmonkey8621]

EVERYTIME Cruella lies Her big bulbous nose gets bigger It’s got ridiculous now

[@kanedNunable]

and her chin shrinks a little more.

[@chatham43]

....be very careful..!!

[@eddiecalderone]

Suella is right

[@Loner-Wolf]

Suella Braverman's tornado of immigration is a classic 'iv made it so lets pull up the draw bridge'. It was fine when her very foreign migrant parents came over but now that they made it... no more thank you very much.

[@jaseettridge4802]

It was a pair of jackboots short of the Nuremberg rally.

[@anthonyclegg1511]

Mordant did a warm up, and then Sunak,s wife came on, couldn't they dig Thatcher up. 😂😂🐱🐱. Even the cats are laughing.

[@annepollock8306]

When his wife came on..... cringe! 🤢🤢🤢

[@anthonyclegg1511]

@@annepollock8306 I thought it was a remake of the exorcist. 🐱🐱.

[@chatham43]

...what have you got against Sunaks wife btw...!?

[@ed_richards47]

I also worry that we've left it too late, and that's very scary.

[@scottrobertson7474]

I agree James, they say they love there Country but they sell it off, lies

[@31Blaize]

Claiming to be the party of facts has echoes from over the pond. Alternative facts, anyone?

[@Aranel_Alasse]

0:29 actually, she made it very clear that all immmigrants these days are criminals, but you can't count her parents as immigrants because they're not criminals. She also said the human rights act should be called the criminal rights act, presumably because everyone who benefits from it is a criminal. So she literally called all British citizens criminals, including every member of her party, the government, herself and her parents! 🤦‍♀️

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

Notice how interchangeably they swap the word immigrant ( something they have 100% control over ) with refugees ( someone with a right to stay ) with illegal immigrants ( who have a right to apply for refugee status but that is again under the control of the government and takes far longer than it ever did ) This is an Orwellian use of language

[@davidnorthrop2298]

@@user-sd3ik9rt6d most of these people come from countries that once were concidered part of the British Empire so how are they not legal citizens? Queen Victoria has a lost of explaining to do.

[@jamessheehy4895]

What a strange world it is now 😅

[@chatham43]

...but you're still here middle class boy...😊

[@FigCS2]

Wow what an interview from Viktoria Derbyshire, more of that from journalists when talking to all political figures; researched and assertive.

[@eddiecalderone]

Viktoria???

[@royfearn4345]

Victoria Derbyshire is a dynamic creature who is not phased by lying politicians. More power to her elbow!

[@70Freefallify]

It's awesome. What really scares me, though, is the Tory response to that kinda thing is gonna be to yell and scream all over the news that the BBC is being impartial because it's run by 'the left' (obviously it's not) and the BBC will just roll over (like always) in the face of lies yelled loudly enough to drown out the truth.

[@chrissilver7719]

I didn't know I have a second home in Tuscany. Its imported Republican politics from the USA and QAnon conspiracies.

[@bereal6590]

Yup it's trumpianism

[@leihilton9546]

Every journalist should take the approach Victoria Detbyshire did as a basic operating oricedure, it should be common place, if they did we’d have a more honest political arena.

[@iainmunro438]

Mmm I agree but only after being called out by Alister Campbell - whom incidentally, I’m not a fan of.

[@jmw950]

Absolutely!!

[@stefanos9882]

"We are the party of facts because we said so and you can't say otherwise because we said it first " 😂😂

[@BarryBethal-yv2oz]

Well said James. This shower are finally showing their true colour they don’t even believe their selves anymore

[@chatham43]

..... "themselves". ...dear oh dear...

[@51bikerboy]

I am afraid that it only will stop if the country is totally crippled and the rich will be richer than ever before!

[@wolfen210959]

What's really sad, is that it won't stop even then, the rich will loudly proclaim "finally, I can receive what I am worth, everything".

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Almost there

[@chatham43]

...stick to biking boyo...if that's the best you can do...😊

[@saturdayplayer2492]

Just hope that we don't follow the trend of the USA and certain European countries in shifting to the right. Worrying that Farage and Truss were greeted warmly. Look what they've done for the country. Please can the grown ups start to come forward. It's about time we started doing things for the people .

[@cosmos237]

We've drifted so far left the far right is now what was the centre ground in the eighties and nineties...

[@django3422]

​@@cosmos237We've got the most right wing government that living Brits have ever experienced and you're over here saying we've drifted far left? Do you need armbands on a rainy day or something?

[@unconventionalideas5683]

I should point out that US voters dissatisfaction with the Republicans’ lurch to the right, cost that party severely in 2020, and in 2022, with historic under performances.

[@cosmos237]

@@django3422 look at the tax burden and size of the state, they're socialists. They're attempting to legislate every aspect of your life - the online safety and Energy bills are abominations. We need a proper right wing govt, that places empowering the individual at the centre of all policy to right the ship and we'll get it unless they rig the elections. You'll cry, I'll laugh and order will restored.

[@cosmos237]

@@unconventionalideas5683 if you believe those elections are legit, I've got some magic beans you may be interested in...

[@duncancurtis5971]

I was on the ferry from Calais to Dover last night and saw no dinghies at all. 😂

[@evanhughes7609]

All conservative parties in the Anglosphere seem to be going down this path. Very frightening.

[@jeffsmith3392]

Anglosphere... Now there's an idea.

[@slawomirchmurak3047]

I'm afraid it's wider then that. It's just most of news here are about US/AUS/UK.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

It's why right wing comedy doesn't work because it's centred around someone somewhere we hope will be possibly offended by what was said. And then you go on a ten minute rant about the imagined people.

[@kanedNunable]

right wing humor punches down. left wing humour punches up.

[@sarahellenmacdonald3956]

I watch them and I wonder whether they aren't so deluded that they actually believe their lies

[@IRGeamer]

Never underestimate the desperate desire of the wilfully ignorant to swallow, without question, whatever baseless BS happens to so very conveniently prop up their narrative. "I don't have a problem with ignorance. We are all ignorant about a variety of subjects we are not currently aware of. The real problem is when that ignorance is wilful, intentional and used as a weapon against anyone who disagrees with you, or anyone who has the nerve to present facts you don't want to know." - anyone who actually cares about verifiable reality

[@patriciahiggins9188]

They do and they must

[@jimschannel2220]

You’d think they’d been in opposition for 13 years.

[@taykitrleevitt4314]

Given the fact that whenever they've been questioned on their record in power, they'll bring up the fact that the opposition have no solutions: sounds like they're schizophrenic and are questioning themselves.

[@niteglow980]

Fair play Victoria Derbyshire.

[@reriuqne0-ny1er]

'There is a shift away from observable reality' A brilliant phrase that exactly captures the current state of the Tory party.

[@middleman9183]

but really means nothing

[@django3422]

​@@middleman9183It means exactly what it says. That the Tories aren't tackling the serious issues facing all Brits while they chase after imagined boogeymen.

[@middleman9183]

@@django3422 of course they are - but people don't want to see it

[@django3422]

@@middleman9183 No, they're not. Those of us living in reality know this. All you're doing is telling us where your head is it; in the sand.

[@middleman9183]

@@django3422 inflation?

[@daveclarke6481]

Some years ago an American journalist remarked upon the differences that exist between Nationalists and Patriots. Still true today.

[@IRGeamer]

“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” - Sydney J. Harris "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." - Charles de Gaulle “When highly committed parties strongly believe [in] things that they cannot achieve democratically, they don’t give up on their beliefs - they give up on democracy. - David From

[@chatham43]

...so true you couldn't remember the difference...😊

[@eddiecalderone]

America is not U.K. Dipstick

[@daveclarke6481]

@@eddiecalderone But Nationalism and Patriotism retain their characteristics whatever nationality is applied to them. Or is that too deep for you.

[@jameshutton3960]

We just don't learn from history.

[@tracyschaub1187]

Welcome to ‘trump’s America’ We call it American carnage 😢

[@Wiggle65]

DELUDED!

[@tracyschaub1187]

Bless your heart Take your meds😜

[@equaliser2265]

A hurricane is worse than a tsunami , A tsunami only hits the coasts badly, but a hurricanes destruction is wide spread throwing devastation to all parts.

[@cobbler40]

Sunak said the election would be fought on culture wars.

[@kanedNunable]

as did lee anderson.

[@paulamos8781]

And the Tories could still pull it off..here up north we have little truck with metro London Labour.

[@sphinx1017]

We need more spitting image, Saturday night live, Jonathan Pie, etc. comedy that rips the Government a new one.

[@joeduffy3309]

How about proper investigative journalists investigating them instead of laughing it off and giving half of them their own tv channel (Gbeebies) ?

[@sphinx1017]

@@joeduffy3309 the people who read the mail aren't interested in real journalism. It has to be via a different method.

[@BusinessButlers]

The Tory Party and the movies, V For Vendetta and Children of Men collide.

[@tonycampbell1010]

More like a Nuremberg rally!!!

[@miketemple876]

Does anyone in that party actually do a decent days work?

[@wolfen210959]

Only in their 2nd, or 3rd jobs, maybe, but definitely not in their main job.

[@hawkeye3905]

Why any of us ‘follow’ politics is beyond me. Can’t we all see this is just a spectator sport? Crooks and gangsters

[@vylbird8014]

Professional wrestling. They all put on their costumes and play their part, then step into the arena and put on displays of epic battle for us to watch - the most of it is fixed, and the real decisions are made behind the scenes.

[@Ashaphim107]

James, thank you so much for keeping us all sane and entertained, and keeping these people accountable (also, I've absolutely picked up saying "*shocking* amount of sewage instead of"... well, the other word 💩)

[@Fly_by_Wire]

Victoria Derbyshire was absolutely brilliant. She was also fantastic when see stood in for Laura K on Sunday a couple of weeks ago. She clearly used tactics from your book - How to be right.

[@chatham43]

...how to be left you mean...

[@jayplay8140]

Adam Curtis essentially predicted the nonstop nonsense speak the Tories currently use in his documentary Hypernormalisation

[@Yuri_Volkov.]

Judging by the video of the parting with Farage , a whole bunch of nose candy got snorted by the Tory toffs. Not the low quality street stuff but pure go go powder straight from the plane.

[@mcfcguvnors]

REPORT THE FACT THIS WAS NOT HELD AT THE CONFERENCE CENTRE THEY COULDNT FILL IT = THATS THE PRESS OVERSPILL ROOM NEXT DOOR! THAT ONE FACT SHOWS EVERYTHING YOU NEED

[@roc7880]

it is indeed funny to see how low the party is going. I cannot wait to see the next round of hysteria and psychedelic phantasies.

[@peakyblunder]

Cultish you say ? Not what I first read .

[@Callofdootie]

Those poor spades in the ground of HS2 being cancelled mid dig.

[@arghsonofcliff]

Well James welcome to highschool antics of American politics

[@LightningStrikeify]

Suella’s speech talks about migration like you can expect them to charge through your door like Mad Max raiders.

[@andya6461]

I wish he would address more directly the policies they announced and pick them apart.

[@airingcupboard]

Their conference is a freak show. Their talking points show they are preparing for opposition.

[@martincheeseman5809]

Come on James get these Tories Out of here!

[@Steaminlidz]

What comes after a tsunami? Kaiju. As long as they’re making stuff up, I think they should go for it.

[@colinmcclymont]

An asteroid full of them

[@colinthompson3111]

After Hurricane comes the extinction level event that ends the Conservatives.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

Personally I think Brexit did that. It’s just that, like a dinosaur, they don’t know they’re dead yet.

[@paulamos8781]

Subsequently Labour disappears Since they are Tories too.

[@digitaldiorama]

What’s so sinister is not so much the lies but the fact the lies are being put into other people’s mouths. That is fascism.

[@digitaldiorama]

Trump normalised lies. He made it acceptable to be found out and simply shrug off the consequences. Alternative facts.

[@keepitsteel1993]

The minister for science happily lying is...well..I laughed at first :/

[@ianedwards2496]

The irony is that Quentin letts is VERY predictable.

[@Jericho642]

Don’t worry James, it’s not the size of your platform, it’s what you do with it 😅

[@cachecow]

Learning how to catalogue lies is a sad indictment of our world.

[@josefschiltz2192]

When have the Tories ever been respectful to voters?? Even the ones they manipulate?

[@Blackswitch92]

The talking country down arguments gets to me the most because I know what potential this country has and how great we can really be and needs to change from top

[@steveozone4910]

I'm honestly surprised they don't hand out condoms with Thatcher's face on them.

[@chris-vn6sw]

Tory election slogan ! “We used to be indecisive, but now we’re not so sure” ! Ffs 🤣🤣

[@gerryh8367]

ToryVermin being ToryVermin Nothing ever changes

[@samb3783]

I'm so happy to have an Australian passport and an exit strategy.

[@riversguy92]

I’m not sure Australia is the liberal haven you think it is either…

[@lawlessheart9810]

“What you’re seeing, and what you’re hearing is not what’s happening”. - Donald Trump.

[@geordiedog1749]

“Tempting to look away!” Very true.

[@youknow6968]

We're actually living in a comedy show, I'm just waiting for it end, and for grown-ups to be in charge again.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Even The Thick of It was never this farcical.

[@chatham43]

....so you've ruled Labour out.then...

[@Wiggle65]

Comedy Show! Are we just waiting for Starmer Top of the Bill!

[@youknow6968]

@@chatham43 if that's what you got from my statement, then you really are the king of comedy.

[@youknow6968]

@@Wiggle65 well on that count, I'm not holding my breath either, but he'll be a heck of a lot better than these bunch of comedians. Or, the very least he won't be any worse.

[@mishmash7776]

Their conferences always remind me of Ronald Dahls Witches