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We risk being seen as the ‘nasty party’ again, warn senior Conservatives

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨thehatfox@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/13/we-risk-being-seen-as-the-nasty-party-again-warn-senior-conservatives

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They never stopped being the nasty party.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The statement implies they apparently experienced a fleeting realisation that they were the nasty party… When that moment was is anyone’s guess, as they have never acted based on that information.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        arewethebaddies.gif

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      • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was 2002

        https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/08/uk.conservatives2002

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  • rynzcycle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Risk?

    Again?

    I see everything's been covered already. Good job everyone, see you next week.

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  • rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bit of an understatement to worry about being the “nasty” party when you’re actively murdering people in their own homes by choking benefits and allowing companies to price gouge us, as well as selling the country off to the highest bidder you doddering old cunts.

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    • Phanatik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While also demonising immigrants and deporting them to some African country.

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well there’s no danger of that. They can’t even get them into a boat in our own country.

        And the plan is Ascension Island now apparently, although it might as well be the fucking moon for how feasible it is.

        All to avoid doing paperwork and actually processing them like everyone else seems able to.

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  • TheMightyBlu@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "“The risk of us being tarnished then as the nasty party again, I think, becomes very real.”

    I understand that this is more aimed at moderate conservatives but still… Isn’t it just a wee bit late to be realising this?

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    • LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah shit, too late? But only by a few minutes, right?

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      • TheMightyBlu@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “If we’re quick with a response, maybe no-one will have noticed - right chums?”

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  • LinksMasterSw0rd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always has been.

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  • Ruchbah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Again? When did that ever change?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Again? When did they stop?

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    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed. Also, how is your username so big?

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  • RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks for saving me the effort of posting this

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  • HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No shit... 13 years of the country run to absolute exhaustion and you're still not sure how to read the room boys and girls?

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  • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Risk?

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The disguise never fooled us all. Some of us could always see them as what they are…

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  • Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are slow aren’t they?

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  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can assure you that I’ve been seeing them as the nasty party uninterruptedly for the last forty years.

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  • KroninJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that boat has sailed.

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    Tory supporters of staying inside the ECHR are taking comfort from the fact that just three months ago, Sunak endorsed the convention at a meeting of European leaders.

    While No 10 sources said they believed their migration plans could be achieved inside the ECHR, the prime minister is expected to come under renewed pressure to back leaving the European court of human rights when MPs return to the Commons next month.

    The news comes with other senior moderate Tories signalling they will battle to stop the party veering further to the right on culture war issues, or using green policies as a dividing line with Labour.

    In an interview with theObserver, Andy Street, the West Midlands mayor and the most senior Tory outside London, said he and others needed to show their brand of Conservatism would be electorally successful.

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  • lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They already are. I don't really think they ever lost that reputation, except maybe briefly under Cameron.

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  • md5crypto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weren’t they the nasty part in Dec 2019? I don’t think the British public cares. The cruelty IS the point.

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  • shogun5000@exploding-heads.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m so concerned about being called names by a party of fucking pinko degenerates.

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  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They had me at “risk”.

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