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Tory Leadership contest 2022

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?

Maybe even the Tories realised she's a noisy idiot
 
Meanwhile the nutters are finding ways to entertain themselves by frothing at the mouth about dirty tricks. But someone was paying attention to history.

 
Seriously? She has a complete charisma bypass and hasn't shown any intelligence in her last roles.
She was most popular most approved of on conservative home every time they surveyed members for over a year though. Up until recently.
Question is what’s changed. Not the things you’re talking about, those aren’t new.
 
The thing about the dirty tricks Dorries was going on about is that they cant work miracles and get Hunt into the final two. They could only be used to fiddle with the balance of the field in earlier rounds, since if Hunt was struggling to even get to 20, he's not bloody likely to make it to the final two is he, no matter how many votes are lent early on. So if such things are going on then it will be aimed at less directly influencing who gets knocked out, not to achieve a direct Sunak vs Hunt final like Dorries claims.
 
She was most popular most approved of on conservative home every time they surveyed members for over a year though. Up until recently.
Question is what’s changed. Not the things you’re talking about, those aren’t new.
I think she's been out-looned.
 
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)
How the suffering fuck have we ended up in a place where that’s the best we can muster to lead a fucking country. Christ almighty.
 
She was most popular most approved of on conservative home every time they surveyed members for over a year though. Up until recently.
Question is what’s changed. Not the things you’re talking about, those aren’t new.
Well cabinet satisfaction ratings arent the same as the question of who you want to be PM. All manner of hideous arsehole options have since been placed in front of them, perhaps capturing the imagination of blue bastards in new ways.
 
Well cabinet satisfaction ratings arent the same as the question of who you want to be PM. All manner of hideous arsehole options have since been placed in front of them, perhaps capturing the imagination of blue bastards in new ways.
Yep. It must be that, why stick with the loon you know when there’s a whole array of shiny new abominations to choose from. Also maybe she wasn’t subtle enough with her obvious ambition to get the big job.
 
She was most popular most approved of on conservative home every time they surveyed members for over a year though. Up until recently.
Question is what’s changed. Not the things you’re talking about, those aren’t new.

I've been thinking this. Its a bit strange how unpopular she seems to be at the moment with grassroot members. Perhaps its too close an association with Johnson and his style?

During Johnson's hilarious defenestration I was listening to a lot of radio and they were interviewing a lot of tory party members from the provinces and they were all heartily fed up, really pissed off. It surprised me because I thought they were mostly Johnson fans but the only people prepared to stand up for Johnson were the obvious non-members I voted for Boris types.

from an outsiders perspective it looks like they've had enough of the circus and perhaps they now see Truss as the continuity loon candidate? They needed Johnson for Brexit and to beat the very real threat of their worst nightmares which was Corbyn. They don't need Johnson anymore and they need even less a piss poor tribute act.

She'll probably romp home now.
 
This is a bit ghoulish. Not who do you reckon will win but who do you want to be the winner out of these 8?
Avidly watching the gruesome talent show without any preference on outcome is even weirder though.
 
This is a bit ghoulish. Not who do you reckon will win but who do you want to be the winner out of these 8?
Avidly watching the gruesome talent show without any preference on outcome is even weirder though.
I don't think it's ghoulish to be interested in who's going to be the next prime minister of the country you live in is it?
 
I don't think it's ghoulish to be interested in who's going to be the next prime minister of the country you live in is it?
I'm asking if people here have a preferred outcome, out of these 8 contenders (ghoulishness was just about this, my unappetising question).
Not sure what i'd do if i had to step in and choose who gets it out of these.
 
Ah sorry, misunderstood.

I think the general thing is to hope for whoever is likely to be the crappest, and therefore in theory more likely to lose the next general election, but reality has a bad track record on that. So I'll go for Tugenhat, cause he seems the least awful.
 
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