Tory Death Spiral

[Silas Loom]

Interesting as of it'll be interesting to see if May makes it to tea time.

If there's no concrete evidence that Number 10 was in the loop, the whole thing will fizzle out. In a sane world, the Foreign Secretary would resign in protest. But he can't do that, because he should have resigned anyway a dozen times for being a fucking disgrace, and any resignation would look like a sacking. So who can complain?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Because some mug has to hold the Brexit baby, nobody else wants that job right now.

No-one in the Tory party fancies the job of PM? I can't believe that. Maybe there's a handful of them confident enough they will get a shot at a later date but there'll be plenty behind them ready to take any opportunity.

 

[killer b]

It's nonsense to imagine no-one else wants the job - the only reason there's been no challenge is because it'd be difficult to change leaders without going to the country. That increasingly looks like the least risky option each day that passes.

 

[Raheem]

No-one in the Tory party fancies the job of PM? I can't believe that. Maybe there's a handful of them confident enough they will get a shot at a later date but there'll be plenty behind them ready to take any opportunity.

Yeah, but there's probably not many Tory MPs thinking "This isn't going very well, let's give Andrea Leadsom a shot".

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Yeah, but there's probably not many Tory MPs thinking "This isn't going very well, let's give Andrea Leadsom a shot".

Yeah there isn't really anyone who'd stand out as a candidate is there. Boris Johnson probably thinks he does but most of them absolutely hate him as far as I can see.

That would potentially give a chance to someone less well known to jump the queue though you'd think. There's probably a few total unheard-of's jostling for position now.

 

[killer b]

It'll be Gove.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It'll be Gove.

Or Hunt.

 

[elbows]

Number 10 has rejected the Jewish Chronicle articles allegations, Mary Creagh thing Patel has already effectively been sacked (no shit Sherlock),and Anna Soubry is calling for a comprehensive reshuffle.

These fun factoids come from the Guardians live update page.

Priti Patel visited Israeli military hospital in Golan Heights, reports say – Politics live

There are two allegations in the Jewish Chronicle. Both are categorically untrue.

It is not the case that anyone from Number 10 asked anyone from DfID to remove a meeting from the list that was published this week.

And it is not the case that the prime minister knew about Priti Patel’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu before last Friday.

Creagh:

I think she already has been (sacked) and I think what we are seeing is the prime minister perhaps giving her the dignity of landing on British soil and being able to offer her resignation. But there is no other reason for her cut short her trip in this way. All my political instincts tell me that she is toast.

Soubry:

[May has] just got to grip it and assert her authority, have a top to bottom reshuffle. Bring in some of these brilliant new 2015ers. Bring back some people from the back benches, promote women. Put some old hands who have really proved to be safe pairs of hands, like Alistair Burt, and get on with the job. People are fed up with all of this, they want a government that delivers competence.

 

[elbows]

If the likes of Guido are right about what flight she is on, touchdown somewhere between 3.10pm and 3.30pm I think.

 

[binka]

Shame no PMQs today as it might have been quite entertaining

 

[not-bono-ever]

Comedy Gold. hang on in there Tess, we are all backing you to remain strong and stable, right to the bitter end

 

[Pickman's model]

If the likes of Guido are right about what flight she is on, touchdown somewhere between 3.10pm and 3.30pm I think.

rather earlier if the raf get involved.

 

[Pickman's model]

elbows

 

[Silas Loom]

Shame no PMQs today as it might have been quite entertaining

Corbyn would have focused forensically on NHS waiting lists.

 

[elbows]

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Don't make me go through the list of new Tory MPs in 2015, for I don't know which of these swine are tipped for bigger things.

https://www.conservativehome.com/pa...-introducing-the-74-new-conservative-mps.html

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't make me go through the list of new Tory MPs in 2015, for I don't know which of these swine are tipped for bigger things.

https://www.conservativehome.com/pa...-introducing-the-74-new-conservative-mps.html

confused by the notion that any of them are brilliant

 

[2hats]

If the likes of Guido are right about what flight she is on, touchdown somewhere between 3.10pm and 3.30pm I think.

Looks like there is probably only one option, KQ100, landing LHR at 1520, scheduled to be at the gate 10 minutes later.

 

[Pickman's model]

Corbyn would have focused forensically on NHS waiting lists.

it's posts like this which have earned for you the unenviable reputation you possess.

 

[Pickman's model]

Looks like there is probably only one option, KQ100, landing LHR at 1520, scheduled to be at the gate 10 minutes later.

there is a second option, what 'loons sometime refer to as the flight 93 option

 

[not-bono-ever]

Looks like there is probably only one option, KQ100, landing LHR at 1520, scheduled to be at the gate 10 minutes later.

The Zil will be waiting to take Priti to her own special meeting at the Westminster Lubyanka

 

[elbows]

confused by the notion that any of them are brilliant

Well Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Georg John Tugendhat, MBE at least has an impressive sounding name.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Georg John Tugendhat, MBE at least has an impressive sounding name.

yeh but he's long been alienated from his parents because of their unusual choice of first names. he went through hell at school.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Zil will be waiting to take Priti to her own special meeting at the Westminster Lubyanka

by no means, there's a charter flight to ascension island at 1540 from where she will be bundled onto a hercules to take her to exile in the south sandwich islands.

 

[elbows]

by no means, there's a charter flight to ascension island at 1540 from where she will be bundled onto a hercules to take her to exile in the south sandwich islands.

A truly heart-warming rendition.

 

[Silas Loom]

it's posts like this which have earned for you the unenviable reputation you possess.

That's more or less how I feel about your post, but I'll tell you what. I've taken just shy of a couple of years away from this place. If your post gets fifteen likes I'll assume that it's a fair reflection of the general view, and I'll scramble the password and reflounce. Fair enough?

 

[Sue]

It'll be Gove.

Or Hunt.

Either of them would certainly make Theresa May look good...

 

[Pickman's model]

That's more or less how I feel about your post, but I'll tell you what. I've taken just shy of a couple of years away from this place. If your post gets fifteen likes I'll assume that it's a fair reflection of the general view, and I'll scramble the password and reflounce. Fair enough?

what will you do if it gets 30 likes?

 

[Silas Loom]

what will you do if it gets 30 likes?

I'd be blissfully ignorant, because I would have flounced on 15.

 

[Silas Loom]

FWIW, admirers and detractors of Corbyn alike have noted that he tends to ignore, at PMQs, whatever issues are currently exciting livebloggers and twitter in favour of whatever he personally thinks is serious and important.

 

[killer b]

Either of them would certainly make Theresa May look good...

Nope, Gove is their only hope. He's by some distance the most competent minister they have (if you don't believe me, read up on his stint at Justice and how he's doing at Efra now). No guarantee he wouldn't fuck up as PM, but he'd have a better chance than anyone else they have.