Tory Leadership contest 2022

[teqniq]

Have you seen what she actually says ? She says vote for me if you’re fed up of being called a racist sexist old bastard, I hate all that too, ignore the woke snowflakes who are bringing this great country down etc.
Those people will love her I think. She’s offering them absolution of a kind .

It would appear that there's a fair amount of appealing to the lowest common denominator going on:

 

[elbows]

Yay! Braverman claims she has the numbers now

And broke the rules in doing so.

 

[bimble]

Michael Gove says he's team Kemi. So is The Spectator & the Express.
Still dont think she will win this but she won't go away either.

 

[elbows]

It would appear that there's a fair amount of appealing to the lowest common denominator going on:

I heard earlier that Rees-Mogg allegedly called Sunak a socialist too.

 

[teqniq]

I heard earlier that Rees-Mogg allegedly called Sunak a socialist too.

As if.

 

[maomao]

Michael Gove says he's team Kemi. So is The Spectator & the Express.
Still dont think she will win this but she won't go away either.

Truss's home secretary. We'll be begging to have Johnson and Patel back.

 

[stavros]

I see Patel has formally announced that she isnt standing.

I remember seeing a Tory member poll a few weeks ago, on HIGNFY I think, showing she was by far the least popular member of the cabinet with them. Whether whoever wins gives her a job remains to be seen.

 

[agricola]

Michael Gove says he's team Kemi. So is The Spectator & the Express.
Still dont think she will win this but she won't go away either.

if it ends up as her vs Sunak I think she might; all of the important Johnson backers (so donors and media types rather than JRM and Dorries) will pile on in and insinuate that they'll pull their money out if Sunak wins

 

[elbows]

Least surprising news so far:

 

[bimble]

if it ends up as her vs Sunak I think she might; all of the important Johnson backers (so donors and media types rather than JRM and Dorries) will pile on in and insinuate that they'll pull their money out if Sunak wins

because of her small state cut everything to the bone thing do you mean?

 

[A380]

Conservative Home poll today...

 

[chilango]

Badenoch will be able, and urged, to unleash wave after wave of culture war wedge issues (to distract from the slash and burn) and they'll delight in the "You can't say it's racist or sexist, she's a black woman! Ha! You're the real racist" they can wheel out in their defence.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[manji]

As if.

National Socialist. He’s well in with the Hindu Fascists.

 

[marty21]

Surprised he couldn't get to the 20

 

[belboid]

Eight of them! Bring on the death match

 

[marty21]

Eight of them! Bring on the death match

A survival course , it'll end with Tom Tug emerging from the jungle with 7 heads in a bag & dropping them on the floor at Tory HQ

 

[elbows]

Pass me a bucket. Although I'm not sure its a great idea to mention convictions at the moment.

 

[Pickman's model]

Pass me a bucket. Although I'm not sure its a great idea to mention convictions at the moment.

It should be a criminal offence

 

[elbows]

Not sure if he will manage to reach the 30 votes threshold tomorrow, meaning the hashtag Non-doms4Nadhim may never even get a chance to shine.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm thinking, based on nothing much, that Tory MPs won't want to let Badenoch get to the members' vote stage. But her being in the running, and gaining some traction with her GB News schtick, is only going to encourage other candidates to follow suit.

 

[steveo87]

I heard earlier that Rees-Mogg allegedly called Sunak a socialist too.

To be fair, in the same interview, he said that Mussolini was a bit 'soft'.

 

[The39thStep]

Least surprising news so far:

He did a fantastic no expense spared video as well

 

[PR1Berske]

The eight are:

Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden)
Suella Braverman (Fareham)
Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey)
Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North)
Rishi Sunak (Richmond (Yorks))
Liz Truss (South West Norfolk)
Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling)
Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon)

 

[steeplejack]

It seems almost like a Republican Party nomination, really.

In the US primaries Republicans are wheeled out before the membership to do the crazy dance, trying to outflank one another from the right on every issue, then governing in a less obviously crazy way (well, until Trump).

The ongoing tedious chasing after a cultural war wraith ("woke"), Braverman's deranged and illegal proposals on ECHR, Rishi, Sajid et al basically telling lies about who they are and where they came from.

Radio 4 this evening seemed to be suggesting (that weird onion-domed alien lookalike Evan Davies is so, well chummy with all the Tories - no surprise for a Friedmanite flat-earther) that it was Rishi v AN Other. So whoever AN Other is I guess gets to consign Rishi to the Michael Heseltine fate.

The ex-army officers aren't doing as well as I thought and Mordaunt being talked up by the lazy buffoon David Davis. We're through the looking glass when this reality-averse clownshoes gets to pose as a sage elder statesman.

 

[steveo87]

The eight are:

Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden)
Suella Braverman (Fareham)
Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey)
Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North)
Rishi Sunak (Richmond (Yorks))
Liz Truss (South West Norfolk)
Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling)
Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon)

The 'Tory eight', if you will.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[belboid]

He did a fantastic no expense spared video as well

well, repurposed one from three years ago. A very fresh start.

 

[bimble]

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Conservative Home poll today...

I am surprised & don't understand why they aren't loving the Truss more.
She's not scoring much higher than "Other(Please name)" and I thought she would be way up the top there.
Anybody got an explanation, I thought they loved her, it can't have been the pork markets that was ages ago?