(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
Over at Conservative Home, rebellion has been reported to be breaking out in the ranks of the Tory party – particularly from party activists and candidates:
Candidates’ gripes about the call to Newark reveal changes in the way our party campaigns
But what Conservative Home labelled ‘gripes‘ 2 days ago, have turned into what right-wing magazine The Spectator now labels ‘fury‘ after the local elections:
Candidate fury at CCHQ campaign demands
The Spectator illustrates the rebellion rather well by reporting this unprecedented request to Tory Party Chairman Grant Shapps from one party candidate:
“Shapps can fuck off”
And the following response from Adrian Hilton in response to a request for a meeting on Sunday from Shapps shows rebels are losing their fear of speaking out openly against the party hierarchy:
Dear Mr Shapps,
Thank you for your email requesting that I attend a mandatory meeting on Sunday 25th May at 10.00 am in Newark, which will be followed by delivering. You ask me to write to you personally should I be unable to make this, explaining why. In fact, I will be in church at that time with my family, worshipping God. I know this isn’t as important to you as winning the Newark by-election, but some of us occasionally have other priorities, and, for me, keeping Sunday special is one of them. It used to be a fairly widespread Conservative value, but I’ll quite understand if you and Carlyn Chisholm think this constitutes evidence of my lack of commitment to the Party and decide to remove me from the Approved List.
Yours,
Other furious activists are now publicly labelling the once hallowed Tory Candidates’ Department and party chairman as “aloof“, “autocratic“, “indifferent“, “arrogant, discourteous apparatchiks“.
Grassroots rebellion in the normally deferential Tory party is indeed an impressive sight to behold.
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Pride's Purge 
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That letter.. sounds like a ringer for a Tory that will inevitably hold one of the those press interviews at the bottom of his drive one day. Complete with slightly red eyed wife at his side and knowing Labrador half in shot.
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Internal conflict, nice.
I’m also thinking “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
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This piece has made my otherwise damp and depressing Friday so much brighter.
Nice to see even the Conservative Party finally working out what a feral clown Mr Shapps is. Better late than never.
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Is there any way we can help foment further unrest? Anything to divert them from their concerted attack on the vulnerable.
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Shapps tweeted that rental housing had been run down by about 80% , I think it was , between the 1930’s and the 1990’s . I tweeted him the following . ” I don’t recall there ever being a dearth of houses to rent in the 1980’s . Did you rent then ? ” Predictably he didn’t answer me although some of the memes that I’ve created using the Tories as subject matter may have had some bearing on this . I’ve noticed that he’s quite prepared to have a discourse with dyed in the wool Conservatives and other assorted sycophants .
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This has been bubbling under for quite some time now. The Tory grassroots constituency supporters and activists have been complaining about the way they’ve been ignored and side-lined. I’m not remotely surprised. The Tories have never been a democratic organisation, and long before New Labour were much more dependent on funding from wealthy donors, rather than from party subscriptions. It was Benjamin Disraeli who actually created the infrastructure of the Tory party as a modern political organisation, with working class support. He, however, founded the ‘One Nation’ section of the party and promoted social reform and legislation that improved conditions for the working class. So obviously, he and his legacy are going to be massively out of favour from Cameron and his coterie, determined to return the party to its roots as a vehicle for aristocratic rule.
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Hope they all rip each other to pieces – I just want rid of them – any way will do as long as they just go!
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Great stuff…
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A Tory? Worshipping God? Bullshot.
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Have we seen this? A US Corporation playing on fear and denigrating the NHS?
http://www.protected.co.uk/health-insurance/faqs/top-5-health-insurance-secrets-revealed.phtml?tracking=CMJ5MAHPQG
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It’s satire.
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Adrian Hilton isn’t a Tory candidate (he was axed in 2006), you’ve plucked a satirical comment replying to the spectator piece and for some reason passed it off as a formal written response.
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No Pete. Not satire. It’s the Tories.
Although I must admit it’s getting VERY hard to tell the difference these days.
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Well Pete – it was a response directly addressed to Shapps and it was certainly in writing. Formal? Looks pretty formal in tone to me.
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I assume at this point you’re trolling (on your own blog?!), given it’s clearly not a personal reply to Shapps, it’s not from someone who was written to by Shapps, and it’s not even from a candidate. It’s fairly obviously intended to mock the idea that he should be demanding a meeting at 10am on a Sunday, others got that.
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The letter was satire by its original writer…
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They’re slow on the uptake these nasty Tories. The rest of us knew years ago what a shallow confidence trickster Shapps, alias Michael Fox, alias Sebastian Fox, is.
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Schadenfreude at it’s best.
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Shapps can’t find his arse with both hands? Pity…
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