The Conservatives have selected Theresa May’s former joint Downing Street chief of staff at as their candidate for Matt Hancock’s seat at the next general election.
Nick Timothy, now a senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank, was successful in a ballot of members in West Suffolk on Sunday night.
That didn’t exactly win there, did it?
So wet you could shoot snipe off him.
Trouble is his challenger was some git who lives in Edinburgh who has a reputation as a loose cannon. I suppose the one redeeming feature is that Handycock is out.
Both candidates were awful shits, although the lesser of those evils arguably won.
The thought that Matt Hancock can no longer torment us through threats of parliamentary tyranny, I’m happy.
Hope he’s first in the tumbrils when the revolution starts.
Awful man, worse politician.
Timothy has travelled a long way since T. May: he currently has barely a good word to say about her legacy.
And at least he’s a Tory and not some damned Whig.
The last 13 years have been about keeping us in a holding pattern until the Labour wing of the uniparty gets back in and enfranchises children and the government’s pet foreign hordes.
Conservatives will vote for their own electoral extinction, as they did in Scotland, and congratulate themselves while doing it.
Studied politics, Conservative Research Department, SPAD, think tank…
When will the electors get a chance to choose a human?
“When will the electors get a chance to choose a human?”
Never, until we get some method of excluding the narcissists, sociopaths and borderline psychopaths from being allowed to stand.
Given its impossible to psychologically test everyone who wishes to stand for any position of power, and very hard (if not impossible) for the public to spot such people (by definition the people really good at lying and deception will be the ones who make a good impression on the electorate), my suggestion of placing an age requirement of at least 50 for all candidates is the only way to go. Every candidate can then be judged on what they have done over the 30+ years of their life prior to deciding to enter politics.
Anyone with an Oxbridge PPE should be excluded for starters. Followed by anyone who work as a SPAD and anyone who worked in a professional capacity for any political party, think tank or other political / ideological organisation (including fake charities like Oxfam).
Wat free-market toryism?
In fairness, Free Market Toryism died in the sixties.
The Eighteen Sixties.
Wasn’t it Timothy who, when working as one of May’s “advisors”,(joint chief of staff, yeah, right) who came up with that election-winning doozy regarding the “dementia tax”?
“Wasn’t it Timothy who, when working as one of May’s “advisors”,(joint chief of staff, yeah, right) who came up with that election-winning doozy regarding the “dementia tax”?”
To be fair to him, it may have been electoral kryptonite, but thats not to say it was actually a bad policy. The main issue with social care is the electorate want to have their cake and eat it – they all want to keep their assets and make someone else pay for their old age care. Its why nothing ever changes, because the 2 solutions are a) raise taxes significantly on everyone so the middle classes do not have to use their assets to fund their old age care (not popular with all those who have no assets, which is a lot) or b) make the middle classes use their assets even more to fund their care (not popular with middle classes who hold a lot of electoral clout esp. in the south). So no party wants to touch the subject with the proverbial. Timothy was honest enough to confront the voters with the reality of their hypocrisy, and of course paid the penalty.
Timothy was honest enough to confront the voters with the reality of their hypocrisy, and of course paid the penalty.
Maybe it would have gone over better if voters didn’t already know about the Tories spaffing trillions of pounds worth of IOUs in our name to fund such cancerous things Net Zero, rapefugee hotels, and HS2.
I’d vote Tory in 2024
…if I could find one.
Timothy was honest enough to confront the voters with the reality of their hypocrisy
But not sufficiently honest with himself to admit that the incentives promoted by the state for individuals to opt for failure rather than providing for themselves mean that the strivers are constantly made to pay for the indigent.
@TMB – “Fake Indigent” you mean.
“But not sufficiently honest with himself to admit that the incentives promoted by the state for individuals to opt for failure rather than providing for themselves mean that the strivers are constantly made to pay for the indigent.”
True. But thats inherent in any benefit system. The moment you say ‘This person can live for free, paid for by everyone else, because reasons’ is the moment you create incentives to try and avail yourself of the free money rather than working.
So, kind of like a tax rebate then?
😀
We’ve just had selected some 12-year-old from London. I really dispair.
Nick Timothy is a fuckwit and his selection shows why the Conservative party needs ro be erased.
Jim @ 12.41 + 100.
My MP is an actor. I was going to say was an actor but he is no doubt still acting.
Our NHS is not ‘free’, our old age care is not ‘free’, the State pension is not ‘free and I have nearly fifty years of tax returns and wage slips to prove it.
@ Fiona – you’re only saying that because you liked him better with the beard.
I suspect the plan was that, as they were up against Corbyn and therefore guaranteed a spectacular landslide, they could slip into the manifesto various policy lines that, as you say, need to be tackled but have no popular solution either way. Then, if the House of Cronies kicked off, they had the Trump card of it being in the manifesto and being able to overrule the vermine.
BiW: that may have been the thinking, but had they had any sense they would have recognised that, even against Corbyn, they were working with a popular constituency of support (Brexit supporters plus those inherited from Cameron’s wafer thin majority) that was as incoherent, over-extended and unstable as Brian Mulroney’s in Canada in the late 1980s and abstained from too-clever-by-half tricks.