The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid

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In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and an unrelenting stream of ineffectual, divisive bum-slurry oozing from 10 Downing Street. As pointed out by elections guru, professor Sir John Curtice, Tamworth is the safest seat lost by any governing party - ever. Telegraph readers in today’s comments section are discussing whether Rishi Sunak was right to scrap the northern leg of HS2. Everywhere, we found a sense of common belonging diminished, with fewer meeting places, playing fields sold off, museums and libraries closed. As the public realm shrank, so did social capital, found the ONS, with less trust and neighbours not talking to one another. Pub closures – premises were down from 52,500 in 2001 to 38,000 by 2020 – were another loss of sociability.

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Johnson was not the only influential politician to drop into Lebedev’s opulent townhouse at 20 Park Square East for the 2017 Christmas party. The first guest of note was an ex-prime minister, Tony Blair. Blair came between 6.30pm and 7pm, before the event began, his office said. He spent 20 minutes talking to Lebedev in the Stalin room. At the centre of this decade of disaster lies the Brexit vote, not so much the nadir as the point of inflexion at which the collapse in government competence, honesty and standards in public life abruptly accelerated. As Jones puts it Perhaps it's fatigue - either the reader's or the author's (or both?) - but it did feel like the "snort out loud" moments that feel like they are almost one-per-sentence at the beginning atrophied somewhat towards the end (perhaps surprisingly, given this is where the project started online - with the simply brilliant #WeekInTory threads) but on reflection this is entirely appropriate given the thousands of deaths per week we were living through as the 2010s finally came to an end. It also perhaps helps that the disasters of the coalition and pre-referendum feel more distant and almost forgotten, so utterly have they been superseded by the insanity that followed that fateful day in 2016. But I think smoking is fundamentally different for a couple of reasons. Firstly, unlike lots of other products that may not be good for you there is no safe level of smoking. It can’t be part of a balanced diet. It is also obviously highly addictive and it is responsible for one in four cancer deaths in our country.”Lightly amusing when appropriate, darkly scathing throughout- this book uses the scandals, corruptions, and idiocies of the past decade to tear down any existing facade of decency or competence within the tory party. All through their own quotes and verified statistics (see the extensive notes at the end of the book). You can probably tell that I'm very much part of the target audience. I remember much of what is covered from when it happened. I probably tutted at each individual scandal at the time. Reading about them now, one after the other, piled up next to each other, made me angry, exasperated and sad. Sad that we have been played by these incompetents for so long. All those things are going just swimmingly, so he’s now been made Chancellor, just in time to hit his devastating peak form Mr Farage said there was a “bigger problem than young people smoking”, telling the broadcaster: “Smoking long term is bad for health. Undeniable. Drugs, short term, are catastrophic for society and young people and that wasn’t even mentioned.”

Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coa… The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coa…

It was reported chief whip Mark Spencer spends most of his days inventing dazzlingly clever new insults for his colleagues- So she unthinkingly announced she’d be accompanying the new (yet also very old) King on his tour of Britain The lost decade was a Tory decade and perhaps the next one will be, too. They broke Britain; do they really mean to mend it?Other politicians came by at about 8.30pm. They included Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, the former Labour MPs Peter Mandelson and Tristram Hunt and prominent Conservatives such as the then health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. And, of course, Johnson, foreign secretary in May’s faltering government.

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The last decade has been indistinguishable from a rollercoaster drawn by M. C. Escher, composed entirely of nauseating descents." Alexander Lebedev holds up the English and Russian editions of his book in Moscow last November. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images ITV News Political Correspondent Harry Horton reports on the huge blow dealt to Rishi Sunak's Conservatives by Keir Starmer's Labour Party Nigel Farage said Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban smoking for young people is “stupid” and government “should not get involved in these things”.

Decade in Tory : The Sunday Times bestseller: An The Decade in Tory : The Sunday Times bestseller: An

Doing small fixes to various things across the north and beyond does seem politically smart. I do wonder what Labour will do - they are trapped now into either saying they’ll do both the new and old project, or look like they’re letting down some.” In the run-up to the 2010 election, this country was in a mess. GDP, both absolute and in per capita terms, had fallen in the wake of the financial crisis. Average wages, too, had taken a hit. Outside the realm of dry economic statistics, in what politicians like to refer to as the “real economy”, an unnerving number of crises were looming into view: an underfunded social care system, in which people could lose everything they had and still end up without good care in old age; a slight but definite decline in the rate of home ownership, as a growing number of people found themselves priced out; the near collapse in decent pension provision.Lebedev is to receive his letters patent from the Queen on 29 October. The Garter King of Arms will unveil his new title. A ceremony introducing Lebedev to the Lords can be expected soon after. During it, he will swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch while wearing a borrowed ermine robe. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. Upstairs, the atmosphere in the purple lit L-shaped party room was hedonistic, those present said. And as the night went on it got increasingly uninhibited. This was in contrast to the more conventional room downstairs, where most of the politicians had gathered, they said.