Tory Leadership contest 2022

[PR1Berske]

 

[hash tag]

I was thinking anyone but Truss until I heard about Sunaks statement re thatcher. I guess he sees evoking the ghost of Thatcher a vote winner

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[wow]

Hey, first post. Sunak will win. Safe bet.

 

[Calamity1971]

Hey, first post. Sunak will win. Safe bet.

When's your last?

 

[PR1Berske]

Hey, first post. Sunak will win. Safe bet.

Against whom?

 

[wow]

Against whom?

Braverman at a guess

 

[Raheem]

Sunak will win tomorrow, no doubt.

 

[wow]

When's your last?

Nice welcome. Thanks

 

[Raheem]

It will be Sunak v either Mordaunt or Tugginghat (spellcheck optional). Truss has an outside chance, but it would be very stupid to put her through, and probably enough Tory MPs know that.

 

[wow]

Sunak will win tomorrow, no doubt.

He’ll win overall. He’s the only big name who’s pushing “fiscal responsibility” aka “tax the poor”. Because of the chancellorship, he’s nationally recognised. He conned everyone into a furlough during the pandemic (whilst sweeping the balance sheet under the carpet). He’s the PM in waiting.

 

[Calamity1971]

Nice welcome. Thanks

Apologies. Very rude of me.

 

[JimW]

At least Tug-and-rub has made his sexual peccadilloes front and centre of his image rather than waiting for it all to come out, so to speak, in some sordid scandal later.

 

[Calamity1971]

Christ. He's at it now

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They are such shameless fuckers. Sunak was 10 years old when Thatcher left office. He wasn't even born when she entered office and would have been a toddler when she was twatting on about family budgets.

 

[wow]

Apologies. Very rude of me.

Cool, nice one, no problem

 

[Calamity1971]

Dark arts!

 

[two sheds]

Christ. He's at it now

Just came on to post that. Another tory needing to get to the toilet quickly.

"Hold that sign" "But he's no intention of Reuniting the Country, we wouldn't want him to." "Shut up and hold the fucking sign"

 

[quiet guy]

Reuniting the country in hating the Tories

 

[Raheem]

They are such shameless fuckers. Sunak was 10 years old when Thatcher left office. He wasn't even born when she entered office and would have been a toddler when she was twatting on about family budgets.

When she was sports minister under Blair, Estelle Morris fondly recalled sitting on her dad's shoulders watching George Best play at Old Trafford, even though she would have been a teenager when he first played for Man United.

 

[existentialist]

When's your last?

I think you just read their near-to-last post. I don't think they're going to like it here.

 

[Elpenor]

Judging by the campaign launches I've just seen they'll all have covid by this time next week.

Not a trivial case I hope

 

[not-bono-ever]

They are all off their faces. Fucking hell

 

[MickiQ]

Tonight should give us at least some idea of who the final two are going to be, my initial guess which currently has minimal evidence to suport is Rishi Rich VS either Lizzie-Dizzie Don't or Penny Malificient. How the membership might vote I don't really know. I don't know any Conservative Party members. I know a lot of Tory voters, considering where I live most of my neighbours must be but of course they have no more of a vote in this than I do.
If I was getting a vote I would probably cast it for Tom TuggingHisHat as least worst option. He seems the most rational of the lot and not totally stupid.

 

[danny la rouge]

I mean, I’m a political nerd and two of those faces I don’t recognise. (5 and 8). 7 I only know because of that car crash interview about the ERG, and I only learned her name because she was standing for leadership and it made me go WTF.

Number 2, I barely know and I’m not sure why. Probably from HIGNFY.

It’s times like these that I’m reminded when I used to think that politicians, even if I didn’t agree with them, were capable and intelligent people. That was before I realised that they’re just people, like everyone else. Like you and me. I’d look foolish if I had to do a speech about cheese too.

 

[killer b]

I reckon I could do a great speech about cheese tbf. Where my cabinet position?

 

[rubbershoes]

He’ll win overall. He’s the only big name who’s pushing “fiscal responsibility” aka “tax the poor”. Because of the chancellorship, he’s nationally recognised. He conned everyone into a furlough during the pandemic (whilst sweeping the balance sheet under the carpet). He’s the PM in waiting.

Not wishing to derail, but was furlough a bad thing? I don't think so.

Of course, if a Labour chancellor had come up with it, the rw tabloids would have screamed about spongers

 

[Cid]

It’s times like these that I’m reminded when I used to think that politicians, even if I didn’t agree with them, were capable and intelligent people. That was before I realised that they’re just people, like everyone else. Like you and me. I’d look foolish if I had to do a speech about cheese too.

Yeah innit... I'm surprised how many still think this. I had an argument with someone on a (law podcast) facebook group (so down with the kids) recently; he was saying that Johnson's ousting showed that the rest of the party still maintained a core of moral integrity. Baffling.

 

[maomao]

It’s times like these that I’m reminded when I used to think that politicians, even if I didn’t agree with them, were capable and intelligent people. That was before I realised that they’re just people, like everyone else. Like you and me. I’d look foolish if I had to do a speech about cheese too.

It's made me wonder if the politicians of yesteryear looked like brainless chancers and twats to the grumpy middle aged of their time or if they have really got significantly worse.

 

[Supine]

Read the room Zahawi, read the fucking room…