greenwoodside

I would be enjoying the swing away from the Conservatives more if it wasn't accompanied by the success of neo-nazi outfit Reform. At least the split in the right-wing vote is benefiting Labour. Still, it depresses me that so many people in some constituencies are prepared to switch their votes from one crew of rogues to one even worse. Not surprised though. I mean, austerity and the tabloid press and social media wretchedness have been paving the way for years.

While waiting for more results to come in, I've been making notes on a few key Tories who will hopefully lose their seats -- and not to the ***** in the Farage outfit. Don't know how many more I'll be able to do -- I am so not an evening/night person.

Iain Duncan Smith

• Former Work and Pensions Secretary

• Presided over cuts to benefits

• Claimed he could survive on benefits of £53 a week

• More than 2300 people died after being declared fit for work

• Married to the daughter of a baron

• Lives in a country house belonging to his father-in-law

Grant Shapps

• Current Defence Secretary

• Ran a web-scraping copyright-what-copyright business

• Threatened to sue constituent who reported his undeclared pseudonymous second job; was then counter sued

• Used a sockpuppet account to edit his Wikipedia page

• Voted against improving biodiversity/water quality/air quality/keeping environmental protections after Brexit

• Beneficiary as are other Conservatives of the United and Cecil Club, which appears to be doing the political version of money laundering i.e. accepting lots of small donations that don’t need to be declared then funnelling them Conversative Associations

Liam Fox

• Backbencher now, formerly Secretary of State for International Trade and Defence Secretary

• 2013: voted against his party in order to oppose same sex marriage

• Invited his pal Adam Werrity into confidential MoD meetings

• Brexiter

• Wants abortion restricted or abolished

• Voted for the Iraq War

• Voted against the Hunting Ban

• Is a landlord who has voted against secure tenancies for life and against landlords paying for the cost of building safety works

Mark Harper

• Secretary of State for Transport

• Created a Home Office campaign in which lorries in London displayed the message ‘here illegally? go home or risk arrest’

• Opposes anti-pollution charges on cars

• Attempted to have station ticket offices closed which would have been terrible for many disabled people – he was previously Minister of State for Disabled People

• Gets donations from the like of Baron Dulverton, whose family made their money from Imperial Tobacco