This is the third party conference I have attended in which the hosting party has just been kicked out of office: the other two being Labour 2010, Liberal Democrats 2015. They've all had a similar vibe, and maybe this one will have the same ending:

This Tory conference reads like a familiar story, risking a longer spell in opposition

Leadership frontrunners appear to prescribe moving the party closer to its activist base, but this approach rarely pays off

Robert Jenrick's charisma-free JD Vance impersonation is not going to get voters who admire Nigel Farage to return to a post-Tory Conservative Party

"Conservatives won't succeed until we get rid of the Office for Budget Responsibility," says Liz Truss

Conservative fringe meeting on immigration discussing how to persuade women to "breed for Britain" in order to "grow more" social care workers, one day after Kemi Badenoch's comments about "excessive" maternity pay.

While I don't think strengthening of Far Right parties in some EU states will act as a barrier for security aid to Ukraine now, I tend to worry more about how their impact might affect reconstruction aid and negotiations for Ukraine's integration into the EU in a postwar context

'Thatcherism Relegated: The Decline of Manchester United and the Fall of the Tory Party 2008 - 2028', Manchester Met University Press, Leverkusen, 2037

Sounds like the Ed Miliband, and then Corbyn, critique of why Labour lost in 2010 and 2015.

LGlewisgoodall.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 3:45pm

Robert Jenrick on Tory election loss: “The reason that we didnt deliver over the past few years…was primarily that we did not have the ballast of knowing what this party believes in… a broad church but a common creed…we need to give this party back some religion.”

sort of think that, if you lack curiosity and are surrounded by yes men, you will get stupider? you have dumb ideas, employees reinforce them for you

HLbartenderhemry.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 5:14pm

I genuinely think he's getting stupider

the trouble with venture capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money

JMgralefrit.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 12:56pm

All these disruptor capitalists do their damage, but at some point the VC burns through. And the products come off the market. Which is the actual future we’re looking at. All this stuff kind of… stopping. Maybe. I hope. Because it’s bunkum. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/o...

OpenAI sees roughly $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenue

CNBC has confirmed that OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year — figures first reported by The New York Times.

For a split second I read that as the *paramilitary Conservative Party*