The Tory Conference - A summary

• Gay Tory candidate Margot James tells gay people they have a ‘duty’ to vote Conservative. This is because Labour spends money on things gay people don’t use much of, like the NHS or education. No mention of the constant Conservative opposition to the gay rights Labour have been introducing since 1997.
• Eric Pickles revealed that when John Prescott admitted he was bulimic he thought ‘good’. Although I refute any article that refers to Pickles as a ‘top tory’.
• The Shadow Universities Minister and influential voice in David Cameron’s ear, David Willett’s, claimed that increasing numbers of women going to university had increased family breakdown. He claimed that with women now wanting to be the breadwinner, or jointly be the breadwinner, it was ‘denying’ men the chance (or should that be right?) to be the breadwinner and that this was bad for families.

Hysterical Tories part deux - Eric Pickles

There was a story doing the rounds in the more excitable sections of the press t’other day, about how the EU was producing a map that didn’t have the word ‘England’ on it. Needless to say the Daily Mail et al got up in arms about it and I have to admit once I saw the words ‘EU’ in relation to the Daily Mail I didn’t even bother reading it.

Which is a shame, as I missed a doozy of a pickle from Shadow Communities and Local Government spokesman, Eric Pickles.