Suella Braverman's time is up.

[Lotte]

So is she gunning for the leadership or trying to defect to Reform? Or hoping she'll get some sweet US fash money?

 

[Lotte]

Suella Braverman’s ‘divisive politics’ make her unfit to be leader, says Tory mayor

Opposition among senior Tories grows after ex-home secretary derides Progress Pride flag being flown over Home Office

www.theguardian.com

Ffs, even if it's not to your taste, hardly "monstrous".

"Monstrous" would be, for example, kids being massacred in Gaza.

Somehow, I think children being massacred in Gaza is a feature for her, not a bug.

 

[Karl Masks]

 

[PR1Berske]

Not surprised.

I wonder if, as the Tories realise just how fucked they are, that the more extreme people drift away and somehow the Conservative Party becomes the mainstream right-wing party while Reform just goes totally cuckoo-bananas

 

[Serge Forward]

Not surprised.

I wonder if, as the Tories realise just how fucked they are, that the more extreme people drift away and somehow the Conservative Party becomes the mainstream right-wing party while Reform just goes totally cuckoo-bananas

...as the far right mainstream party.

If Tory membership get a vote on the new leader and some fash loon isn't on the ballot, I expect a massive move towards Refuk from members.

 

[PR1Berske]

...as the far right mainstream party.

Well yes, fair.

 

[moochedit]

Not got enough supporters to nominate her for the tory leadership contest then?

 

[ash]

She’s hosting the James O’Brian show on Tuesday !!

 

[Lurdan]

The main source for the claims about her joining Reform is this article this afternoon:
Suella Braverman expected to defect to Reform as Tory leadership race heats up - The i

Might happen, might not. I do think she's blown any chance of leading the Tories.

 

[brogdale]

If she’s friendless enough in her own party to join Farage’s Company, in the short-term, he might regard it as useful to have new best friend who is brown, but longer term she’ll no doubt be just as great a nightmare to the RefUKers as she has been to the vermin. Kind of hope the rumour has some basis.

 

[Silas Loom]

There will be far more leadership contests in the Tory party over the next few years then there could ever be in Reform, and the membership will always vote for the most right wing candidate. She’d be best off waiting for her turn,

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Yeah I'd be slightly surprised if she went to Refuk, only on the grounds that I'd think she'd only go if there was a route to being leader and it doesn't look like there is one while Farage is around. They'll probably be three or four splinter parties in a couple of years.

 

[Elpenor]

Only room for one ego in reform surely

 

[Bingoman]

She’s hosting the James O’Brian show on Tuesday !!

Maybe she will announce shes defecting then

 

[Karl Masks]

She’s hosting the James O’Brian show on Tuesday !!

Is this true? Obrien's a prick anyway. LBC are just pricks anyway

 

[Elpenor]

She’s hosting the James O’Brian show on Tuesday !!

Does that make that radio show more or less hateworthy? I can’t decide

 

[steeplejack]

Politics UK also confirms:



All the Tories need do next time is adopt a law-and-order 50 something buffer with a regimental tie as candidate and Suella will go the way of Liz Truss.

I give it 18 months before she has a major fall out with Farage

 

[Everything Goes]

I guess she will stick around to see how the Tory leadership contest goes, if she doesn't win she will storm off to Reform.

 

[krtek a houby]

She’s hosting the James O’Brian show on Tuesday !!

This is the phone in show, right?

You know, where members of urb, I mean, members of the public can have their say with the host?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Why would she leave an organisation that she wants to lead for another that she can't lead for so long as it's being lead by the only reason that it exists in the first place?

 

[steeplejack]

Why would she leave an organisation that she wants to lead for another that she can't lead for so long as it's being lead by the only reason that it exists in the first place?

She’s worked out she will never lead the organisation she wants to lead & she can be as deranged as she likes in the private company as their customers will be kept happy by her extremist ramblings.

Very stupid and very dangerous in equal measure

 

[Duncan2]

She’s worked out she will never lead the organisation she wants to lead & she can be as deranged as she likes in the private company as their customers will be kept happy by her extremist ramblings.

Very stupid and very dangerous in equal measure

It would be a surprising move indeed and I am not sure that her constituents would be very happy with it.

 

[steeplejack]

It would be a surprising move indeed and I am not sure that her constituents would be very happy with it.

I’m not surprised at all by this. I don’t know Fareham as a place but suspect the local Conservafive Association will be split between summer-fete organising blazers & blue rinses who will be horrified at her disloyalty, and those who fantasise about young National Servicemen machine-gunning the small boats, who will be absolutely fine with it.

 

[MrsArcanum]

Even if the rule was changed to include changing party as grounds to allow a re-call petition it would be something. That way if the petition did not get enough signatures, the MP can claim they still have support.

 

[Duncan2]

I’m not surprised at all by this. I don’t know Fareham as a place but suspect the local Conservafive Association will be split between summer-fete organising blazers & blue rinses who will be horrified at her disloyalty, and those who fantasise about young National Servicemen machine-gunning the small boats, who will be absolutely fine with it.

I don't know the area at all either but I somehow can't imagine Suella taking on a backroom role within reform and on the other hand I struggle to imagine her as any kind of figurehead for that party.But we shall see

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why would she leave an organisation that she wants to lead for another that she can't lead for so long as it's being lead by the only reason that it exists in the first place?

Try to remember that we're not dealing with a very bright individual here.

 

[brogdale]

I don't know the area at all either but I somehow can't imagine Suella taking on a backroom role within reform and on the other hand I struggle to imagine her as any kind of figurehead for that party.But we shall see

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it, but the potential media exposure of being 1 of just 5 RefUKer MPs might appeal.

 

[steeplejack]

I don't know the area at all either but I somehow can't imagine Suella taking on a backroom role within reform and on the other hand I struggle to imagine her as any kind of figurehead for that party.But we shall see

If it happens she’ll become their Home Affairs spokesperson and ramble on about bringing back hanging & re-animating senseless cruelty like Rwanda.

It will be a post about as consequential as Lee Anderthal’s ‘chief whip’ position, but will allow her endless Talk TV / GB News exposure and a good supply of bloody red meat for Reform’s very angry vest-wearing psycho customer base.

She’ll also be waiting until Farage (inevitably) gets bored & moves on to something else. Tice isn’t up to front line politics, having flatlined as Reform leader, and the ex-Southampton chairman is a nonentity.

 

[Karl Masks]

Not got enough supporters to nominate her for the tory leadership contest then?

Clearly.

Hopefully Ben Habib, having not gotten membership into the Reform UK parliamentary elite, will complain bitterly at this, should it happen. Here for taht

 

[moochedit]

I don't know the area at all either but I somehow can't imagine Suella taking on a backroom role within reform and on the other hand I struggle to imagine her as any kind of figurehead for that party.But we shall see

Suella and Lee Anderson will both fall out with Farage eventually i'm sure.