Very excited to be on my way to England's official and undeniable second city, Manchester! Very sorry to report that I'm only going because it's currently full of Tories.
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"THIS IS MORE A POINT THAN ANYTHING ELSE" KLAXON!
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oh wow she's literally stood up to advertising her Tory Instagram page that's what she's doing
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(BTW I am wearing my loudest shirt in an attempt to communicate that, despite the hair, I Am Not A Tory, and I got caught in the rain, so now I look like I went to a party at the Copa and then fell in the pool)
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The housing secretary is younger than me, rude
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"The thing about social media is... it works very well if people *want* to spread your message."
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an Actual Question: "Can anyone name a policy we offered in the 2017 manifesto that actually appealed to the young? I can't, and I am a young Conservative"
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A 20 year old says: "I haven't heard anyone on the panel talk about young people being in actual governmental positions." The 37 year old housing secretary who mentioned his age literally five minutes ago appears visibly downcast.
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how do you do, fellow Generation Xers
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Opening speech in the hall ended with, "Have a great time everyone, and let's get Brexit done" in case anyone was still wondering what the message of the week was going to be.
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Round of applause for a video of a fairly bad Boris Johnson witticism followed by a standing ovation for James Cleverly, so that's where things stand
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Cleverly's speech arguing that Corybn is a break from the party of Attlee, Wilson and Kinnock, as if the Tory party wasn't basically at war with its last prime minister by two
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He's now saying that everyone he speaks to in every part of the country has "the same instruction for us". Can you guess what it is? (Clue. It requires the speaker to assume a lot of you don't actually exist!!)
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Now standing outside a block of flats opposite a building site in the rain in the hope someone will show up to give me a key. Exciting!!
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Doing a lot of grinning inanely at strangers here
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I have somwhere to sleep! It exists! It's quite nice! There is even coffee! There's hardly any mobile reception and when I tried to use the wifi this happened but I probably need to be less online anyway if I'm honestpic.twitter.com/o9sJLuDGXH
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Denied entry to question time with Shaun Bailey. "The event was advertised as party members only!" Aren't they all?
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"I think I'm the only panellist who wasn't actually born here, so thanks for making me so welcome," Hannan tells the immogration fringe. Okay.
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After a bit about Indian restaurant staff so bizarre that I'm not writing it down because surely I must have misunderstood it, he's now banging on about CANZUK, and wondering why it's less popular here in Britain than elsewhere.
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tl;dr: it's not a whites-only immigration policy because the EU is whiter than Canada or Australia and the only reason Remainers don't like it is because they're bitter about the referendum
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(Personally I'd be up for free movement in CANZUK *and* Europe, but hey)
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I'm not sold on his argument that freedom of movement was fine until it got bundled up with European citizenship rights, but it's not completely crazy to argue that the right to work doesn't have to carry citizenship I guess
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"If you go to countries where there is mass emigration there is usually a reason for it" - one problem with the Tory party in September 2019 is that Hannan has become one of the reasonable ones
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Alberto Costa on the government requiring the UK's 3m European citizens to apply for settled status: "I think it's profoundly repugnant that we've changed the goal posts for millions of people. I don't think that's what Brexit was about."
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also in the programme this event promised wine and there is no wine. BROKEN BRITAIN
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Costa making a spirited defence of how immigration helped Britain defuse the demographic timebomb and how that might be in some way a good thing. "Remember 'Are you thinking what we're thinking?' Well the British people said 'No we are not!'"
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Also he's the second speaker I've heard today point out that the party's problem with the young overlaps with its problem with BME voters. Not sure that this fits with the leadership's electoral strategy.
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"Freedom of Movement is the opposite of the USSR, where you couldn't even move cities without permission from the government! For 48% of the population we're about to lose a right. I invite those of you who voted leave to be generous."
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Someone just started applauding Costa and nobody joined in, oh god, oh no
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