Sheepishly

Look at him. @TiceRichard. "Deputy" leader of an unelected private company "party". Property man. Patriot. The kind of patriot who keeps a family trust in Jersey like a spare kidney he doesn’t want the NHS touching. He stands up and talks about morals, about taking the country back, about people who don’t pay their way. Then the paperwork comes out and his company didn’t withhold the tax it was legally supposed to withhold on the dividends it poured into him and the offshore trust. Ninety-odd thousand here. Another chunk there. REIT status used like a hall pass. Shell companies that somehow never quite meet the bill. He calls it a technicality. A minor administrative error. Overall HMRC got what they were owed, he says. As if the law is a suggestion you can round off when the numbers get inconvenient. That’s not a man. That’s an accounting entry that learned to wear a suit. And then he tells you, every day, do not trust the Tories. Do not vote for them. They’re finished. They’re liars. They’re the problem. Take his advice. Don’t trust him. He was a Conservative for most of his adult life. Donor. Member. The same tribe. He only tore the card up when the vehicle stopped being useful. Now he runs a party stuffed with the same people who spent years wearing the blue rosette: Anderson, Braverman, Jenrick, Kruger, the whole conveyor belt of ex-Tories who discovered principles the week the polls turned. They didn’t change. They rebranded. Same voices, same instincts, same habit of lecturing the country while the structures they built stay offshore and the old membership stays in the CV. A man who spent decades inside the thing he now calls untrustworthy is not a prophet. He’s a man who learned the lines from both sides of the same room. He tells you not to trust Tories because he knows exactly what they are. He used to be one. His chums still are. The only difference is the colour of the lanyard and the size of the donation that bought the new one. Corruption doesn’t always arrive with a brown envelope. Sometimes it arrives as a REIT grace period, a withholding failure, four quiet companies, a Jersey trust, and a politician who spent twenty years as a Tory now screaming that you must never, ever trust a Tory. Take his advice. Don’t trust him. The suit is cheap because the real money and the real loyalty were always somewhere else. He’s not a break from the Conservatives. He’s the Conservatives with the serial numbers filed off, still talking about morals while the filings sit there unsigned on the bit that actually costs money. Fuck him, his greasy hair and his Dubai shill. Fuck everything about this slimy bastard. He’s not a man. He’s what the oldest drain in England coughed up, left to fester, then taught how to talk about morals.