UK Parties: The Conservative Party

[T_i_B]

A thread about the Conservative Party, the main opposition party in Britain, the main right wing party and the current favorites for form the next government.

I'm already hugely annoyed by their website. The first thing you see on it is a big splash about Samantha Cameron visiting Yorkshire, as if the party leaders wife is all anybody care about! :puke: :argh: :puke:

Here is their website, although I couldn't find any kind of mission statement or anything about the general philosophy of the Tory party.

http://www.conservatives.com/Default.aspx

[LeftishBrit]

1. At the moment their mission statement is a simple one

'Bash Gordon Brown as much as possible'.

FTR, the obsession with candidates' spouses is a recent one, probably American-influenced. I don't remember spouses being much involved in election campaigns before.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The Chicken Yoghurt blog picked up on the infuriating Leader's Wives Tory website

http://www.chickyog.net/2010/04/12/general-election-2010-wham-bam-thank-you-sam-cam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChickenYoghurt+%28Chicken+Yoghurt%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

and also drew attention to what may be the most moronic 'election' story published in any paper anywhere, ever:

Instead she unveiled a rather unsightly problem on her left foot - her little toe and fourth toe crossed over one another.

She has been placed in direct competition with David Cameron's wife Samantha, and this will do little to boost her credential's against 'SamCam'.

In fact, it's the kind of sight that will immediately put the Prime Minister's wife into second place behind the Tory leader's wife.
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She would have been well aware that her toes were in such a frightful condition, however, and most likely decided against a pedicure...to her detriment.

Election 2010: Sarah Brown exposes her rather unsightly toes during a visit to Neasden Temple

Their picture caption (after a close-up of the toes they think need exorcising, though they seem to think a pedicure can cure crossed toes :shrug:) :"Faux pas: Could something as trivial as the PM's wife's unsightly toes affect his election campaign?"

Well, the Daily Mail is fervently hoping so.

[T_i_B]

5. The Daily Fail is plumbing new depths of idiocy this campaign

All their election coverage seems to be is Jan Moir bitching about leader's wives and the occasional cut and paste job from a Tory press release. I know that none of the parties are exactly running good positive campaigns, but it would be nice if the Tories could campaign on their policies rather then leaders wives.

And don't get me started on how annoying the term "SamCam" is. :puke:

[dipsydoodle]

3. party leaders wife ..............

At least she hasn't got a big bum unlike, it would seem, other leaders wives.

Shallow of Watford.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "Tories Publish First Ever Hard-Back Edition of the Daily Mail"

THE Tories will today present their vision of a Britain made-up of self-reliant people with greater control of their own lives who don't like all them Afghans coming over here and stinking up the place.

The party's manifesto will set out plans to build a society of self-governing racists who will finally be able to get on the housing ladder 'cause all them fuzzy wuzzies have been stopped at Dover and thrown back into the sea.

The party has described the 130-page hard back document as an 'invitation to join the government of Britain as long as you were born here and are willing to forego the £190,000 salary and all the free food'.

Tory deputy chairman, Julian Cook, said: "We thought long and hard about the contents of this manifesto and got absolutely nowhere. Eventually we just phoned up Paul Dacre at the Daily Mail and wrote down everything he said."
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/tories-publish-first-ever-hard%11back-edition-of-the-daily-mail-201004132634/

[non sociopath skin]

6. ROFLOL

Thanks for that, Mu. Made up for Eton Dave's whingy pasty face all over the meedja today.

The Skin

[T_i_B]

7. Con-Dem coalition kick

Thought I'd give this a kick in the light of the Tory/Lib-Dem coalition and the Tories failure to secure an overall majority.