Bad branding or genius?

[Lance]

Calling yourselves National Conservatives sounds to me like you think that National Socialism was OK but a bit too lefty.
And the abbreviated NAT-C (as has been point out in other social media) sounds pretty bad when you read it out.

Have they thought this through properly, or are they playing to the UKIP/NF supporters again?


And as for the speeches being reported..... I know they expect to lose the next election, but are they trying to make sure it definitely happens? So that Rishi doesn't do a John Major (c. 1992) and go and win a weak majority that ultimately allows Labour in for a decade?

[SueEllen]

Jacob Rees-Mogg was booed off stage by their audience while trying to talk about fascism.

Can't believe Moggy is too left wing for them....

[vetran]

OMG!

what a shower!

Bring back Corbyn to give the Tories a chance!

[d000hg]

Link?

I did find a nice train company though

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65599302

Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board.

Instead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil" over the train's speaker system.

The operator said there had been several such incidents in recent days.

One passenger on the Bregenz-Vienna service told the BBC that everyone on the train was "completely shocked".

David Stoegmueller, a Green Party MP, said the speech by the Nazi German leader was played over the intercom shortly before the train, an ÖBB Railjet 661, arrived in Vienna.

"We heard two episodes," he said. "First there was 30 seconds of a Hitler speech, and then I heard 'Sieg Heil'."

Mr Stoegmueller said the train staff were unable to stop the recording and were unable to make their own announcements. "One crew member was really upset," he added.

[WTFH]

Link?

Hard to find one, maybe that's because JRM said the Tory party had tried gerrymandering the local elections with Voter ID and it had backfired on them.
""Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections."

But there's here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...itional-roots/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ce/ar-AA1bd3Cd
https://www.indy100.com/politics/nat...ees-mogg-frost

[d000hg]

Hard to find one, maybe that's because JRM said the Tory party had tried gerrymandering the local elections with Voter ID and it had backfired on them.

Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)

[WTFH]

Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)

Yes, The NAT-C meeting is where all the important people are - Gove, Farage, Braverman, Rees-Mogg, etc

In fact one of today's highlights was Douglas Murray who received laughter and applause for summarising WWI and WWII as
"the Germans mucked up twice in a century."

[SueEllen]

Gove was a highlight because he was the most sane speaker at the "conference"

[vetran]

Ah, I saw that story on BBC News but it wasn't clear that's what this thread is about (if it is)

say NAT-C out loud (clue sounds like NAZI).

The National socialist party was the official name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

Now they could have suggested similar offensive branding in some cases, but this was pretty crass.

Taliban Tories
The conservative comfort girls.
The Stalin programs.

[vetran]

Gove was a highlight because he was the most sane speaker at the "conference"

not the usual state. Mad, Mad I tell you!