Lol at the SFCS society

A party grandee absolutely scathing on Simon Clarke, following his Telegraph piece this evening, telling me… 

“I’m afraid he’s a part of the ‘Self Fellating Cock Suckery’ (SFCS) tendency in the Conservative party."

I suppose SFCS is still better than Nat C, but the tories really are terrible at branding

I think they're both right

but Clarke is a terrible poster boy for anything, like you just know that if a malevolent alien armada showed up and enslaved  humanity Clarke would be the guy making lists and holding clipboards for the invaders 

It won’t have gone unnoticed in No. 10 that the Telegraph ties Clarke’s op-ed to last week’s YouGov poll, funded by the mysterious Conservative Britain Alliance of donors (who are clearly hostile to Sunak). Is it orchestrated?

Also (to go a bit conspiracy nut) The Times reports Clarke sent his letter to Graham Brady “several weeks ago” … but ex-Labour staffer Tom Hamilton spotted that the Telegraph op-ed twice uses the phrase “in January” instead of “this month.” 

Was it being saved, then brought forward?