Tory Party Conference

Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, David Davis and Mel Stride are not attending Conference - that must be a first for senior MPs.

news.sky.com/story/senior-tories-boycott-conservative-party-conference-as-mps-fume-over-mini-budget-fallout-12706988

I think they're cowards not to attend - they should go and say why they are not supporting Truss & Kwarteng instead of ducking out.

What a shower!

It is said that a lot of backbenchers are going to stay away.

We shall see. I would have thought that unlikely, but honestly who knows.

Actually I don’t blame them, it will send the most powerful message if the conference is boycotted by large numbers of MPs.

will any GNetter be there I wonder?

Do you fancy meeting up for a coffee? ??

anytime, as long as it is not there ;)

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

MawtheMerrier

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

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Ms Truss will need to come out of the woodwork first!

I wonder if public protests will take place outside the conference. The last protest I took part in was against the invasion of Iraq. I can’t go to Birmingham but if the conference was nearer to me, I’d join an organised protest. Dreadful government - just when we thought it couldn’t get worse

J52

MawtheMerrier

Oh I thought we could have a latte at COSTAfortune or MegaBUCKS ! ?
The Trusspilot reviews for both are excellent

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A glass of vino, s long as it is not at W'spoons on sale!

Apparently Truss advisors are content for MPs not to turn up, as the optics will not look good when the media ask them for comment etc at the conference.

"In spite of the hammering being taken at local government level, all 11 Surrey constituencies are currently Conservative at a parliamentary level, and have broadly been so since 1885. But this could change quickly. Whilst knocking on doors over the last 6 months, we have heard time and time again from residents that they will no longer be voting Conservative even though they have previously been a “lifer”. If we are losing natural Conservative voters in Surrey, something is very awry."

Surrey County Councilor Rebecca Paul,

conservativehome.com/2022/09/29/rebecca-paul-thats-the-way-the-blue-wall-crumbles/

Kwarteng’s speech this afternoon

4pm?

Is it Truss’s speech today?

No, it’s tomorrow

Thanks

A local backbencher is not attending. He has been an MP for ages, said he always used to go, but backbenchers are virtually ignored nowadays, it’s all about the higher ups getting their profile across, a big PR event.

Sounded very jaded, as most of us are when we’ve been in a job for a long time, all youthful hopes and aspirations long since evaporated, and looking forward to retirement.

Has anyone else seen that a conference fringe meeting about the EU, with David Gauke and Michael Heseltine, was packed out, people queuing to get in, while Truss's favoured economist, Minford, explaining her economic strategy, had very much less than stellar attendance

The Tory conference is usually a well marshalled publicfest but this year the cracks are very evident. Good luck to real Tories like Heseltine and Gauk. How many Prime Ministers to Christmas?

Truss’s speech.

11am?

Menu for todays lunch

One bright spot.

They are playing the Benny Hill theme tune and the Muppet theme tune outside and the police won't stop it. They can hear it in the hall. ?

You can see their irritation as they leave the hall?

I heard earlier on the news Liz Truss is going to walk on stage to a 90’s classic song. Any suggestions?

I’ll say “Fantasy” by Maria Carey.