Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082745)

And you won't hear a peep of condemnation about this from tory supporters or the right wing. It's an outrage but tory supporters will be more concerned with impossible hypotheticals about Jeremy Corbyn than a reality that portrays the tories as being less than the perfect saints their supporters have built up in their heads.

Originally Posted by smudgie (Post 11082774)

If he has broken the law then lock the beggar up.:fist:

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082745)

And you won't hear a peep of condemnation about this from tory supporters or the right wing. It's an outrage but tory supporters will be more concerned with impossible hypotheticals about Jeremy Corbyn than a reality that portrays the tories as being less than the perfect saints their supporters have built up in their heads.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082868)

Then where is the outrage from the right wing and their supporters? Had this been an ex-labour MP, those same people staying silent would be out for blood.

Tory supporters don't want to condemn people that are on 'their side'. It's tribalism at the end of the day, it's okay when their side does it, but no one else.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082884)

Except they don't. Enlightened centrism and false equivalence will get you nowhere. Many of the left wing have turned their back on Labour despite supporting it before because they disagree with Starmer and his actions thus far. Many labour supporters did the same when Corbyn was in charge. The difference between Labour and the Tories is that Labour supporters tend to hold Labour accountable far more often than Tory supporters do. Tory supporters would have called for the resignation of Boris over all this business with donors paying for redecorating his flat if he was labour, yet it's acceptable because he is a tory, and it's the same thing here with Cameron.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082900)

What is it with people having the inability to read properly lately? How does that relate to anything I've said? This just reads like you couldn't argue with what I'm saying so you misinterpreted and threw your toys out of the pram.

Where did I say that labour MPs never scammed the system? The whole point I was making was that labour supporters have a history of holding labour MPs accountable when they do wrong. It wasn't a hidden meaning in the post, it was quite overt so I'm quite confused how you could read that post and end up at that conclusion. Either way, I'll accept your apology for misreading and misrepresenting what I've said in advance.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 11082908)

Then where is the anger? Where are the right wing pundits screaming for justice? Where are the tory supporters demanding something be done, like they would be if it were another party?

Where?

It's non-existent because tory tribalism won't allow for Tory supporters to criticise tories unless they go against the script.

Originally Posted by arista (Post 11082783)

No
he got away with it.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11083000)

people might not like what he did, but he didn't do anything illegal as far as i'm aware. He isn't a public servant anymore, so has no accountability to the electorate

Originally Posted by arista (Post 11083003)

Sure, but he used his Former Political Position,
spent months badging
Conservative MP's.