Tory Leadership contest 2022

[xenon]

Just so I got this right.

Mordaunt is too woke or something.

Sunac, the billionaire with no WC friends, is too socialist because he won't immediately slash corporation tax in the middle of a financial shit storm.

 

[steveo87]

Hancock showing off his killer lines, no wonder he's a hit with the ladies.

 

[bluescreen]

Oh look. This story has just resurfaced from Feb 2021, about Mordaunt taking sooty money:

Minister Accepts Donation from Chair of ‘UK’s Principal Climate Science Denial Campaign Group’ – Byline Times

The coffers of a senior Conservative MP have been boosted by a company owned by a man who has questioned climate change, Sam Bright reveals

bylinetimes.com

"There are conflicting claims from various publications about whether Terence Mordaunt and Penny Mordaunt are related."

 

[billy_bob]

Twitter's totally saturated with anti-Mordaunt stuff today: 'She said something not sufficiently nasty about trans people, waaah!' She must be going to win if they're that keen to bring her down.

I'm happy to see more dug up like the donation business above about how appalling she is, so we know what we're dealing with here. But saying 'trans women are women' a while ago and now being a bit shifty about whether she said it or not just isn't going to cut it, when she's up against such a strong field of sociopathic maniacs.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Suella Braverman is out.

Sunak - 101
Mordaunt - 83
Truss - 64
Badenoch - 49
Tugendhat - 32

 

[ruffneck23]

Good.

 

[PR1Berske]

Second round

Sunak – 101
Mordaunt – 83
Truss – 64
Badenoch – 49
Tugendhat – 32
Braverman – 27

Braverman eliminated.

 

[marty21]

Hancock is backing Sunak , desperate for a comeback .

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[cupid_stunt]

Badenoch and Tugendhat have the next three days to work out that they haven't got a hope in hell in getting into the top two, so may as well withdraw.

 

[bcuster]

If she's Navy, she can't be all bad, can she?

 

[strung out]

Farage's endorsement yesterday worked out well for Braverman then.

 

[MickiQ]

If she's Navy, she can't be all bad, can she?

They said that about Prince Andrew

 

[platinumsage]

Badenoch could conceivably hoover up enough Braverman votes to leapfrog Truss, especially if she can at the same time steal any votes from Truss.

 

[killer b]

Interesting thread here which bears out the 'no-one actually gives a shit about the culture war stuff you've all got at the front of your campaigns' impression I've been getting from the race so far:

 

[steveseagull]

Well. I am glad this swivel eyed loon is out of the game

 

[SpookyFrank]

Badenoch could conceivably hoover up enough Braverman votes to leapfrog Truss, especially if she can at the same time steal any votes from Truss.

I'm sure there will be all sorts of backstage shenanigans. I would think the swivel-eyed wing in particular would be keen to avoid Sunak vs Mordaunt because both of them are functionally sane and we can't have that.

 

[platinumsage]

Tugendhat refusing to bow out voluntarily and hopes to go viral off the TV debates.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

If she's Navy, she can't be all bad, can she?

She’s not in the navy, she’s a reserve that does fuck all.

 

[SpookyFrank]

She’s not in the navy, she’s a reserve that does fuck all.

As opposed to the real navy, which does fuck all.

 

[PR1Berske]

As opposed to the real navy, which does fuck all.

But they do with with STYYYYLE!

Camp dance routine

 

[A380]

She was an Acting Sub-Lieutenant in RN Reserves ( ie crossed the Solent in a RHIB). Then she promoted herself to Captain when she was at the MoD. She absolutely has not qualified for or earned the Submariner's Dolphins.

Ta.

 

[JimW]

So Tugendhat who has taken a bullet being all Bravo Two Zero will be up against someone faking it with a badge she got off eBay? Modern sensibilities suggest eBay wins.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I know tories don't like this kind of nonsense, but a simple Single Transferable Vote system would have had all this done and dusted in one afternoon.

 

[Smangus]

I know tories don't like this kind of nonsense, but a simple Single Transferable Vote system would have had all this done and dusted in one afternoon.

So would 10 kgs of C4.....

 

[cupid_stunt]

Votes gained or lost between rounds 1 & 2...

Mordaunt +16
Truss +14
Sunak +13
Badenoch +9
Tugendhat -5
Braverman -5

Sky is now reporting that some MPs thinks it will end-up being Mordaunt-v-Truss, because there're very few MPs left that would switch to Sunak.

 

[PR1Berske]

From the Guardian

Tom Tugendhat ‘feels like a prom queen’ as Tory rivals seek his support
Foreign affairs select committee chair says leadership contest so far has been ‘a hell of a job interview’


Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent
@jessicaelgot
Thu 14 Jul 2022 13.13 BST
Tom Tugendhat has vowed not to quit the Conservative leadership race but admitted he was being wooed by other candidates, telling reporters: “I feel like a prom queen.”

The chair of the foreign affairs select committee, who secured enough support to get through the knock-out round on Thursday, said he was determined to compete in the televised debates starting on Friday.

“I’m still in this fight,” he said. “What members of parliament and what members of the Conservative party need to know is that whoever it is they choose as the leader in this process is somebody who can champion those ideas and values in the election that’s coming in 2024. And then, I hope, maybe 2029 as well.”


He said the race had been “a hell of a job interview” but in a hour-long Q&A session with reporters, the MP set out plans for green growth, a commitment to look at the universal credit taper rate to ease the cost of living crisis, and a boost to defence spending and army numbers.

Tugendhat said he hoped he would pick up votes from other candidates – even those who had not yet dropped out of the race. “Where will this go? I don’t know. I can’t tell you. But I can tell you that a lot of people are looking at the options before them today and thinking differently about the votes they made yesterday – and that’s not surprising.”


Tugendhat, who is the most Brexit-sceptic of the candidates in the race, insisted he would not take the UK back into the EU, but said he did not regret voting to remain.

“Six years ago, it was a different question,” he said. “What you’re asking me now is would I ever go back into the European Union? No, I wouldn’t. And the reason I wouldn’t, is because it would be bad for Britain. I have always put Britain first, I will always put Britain first.”

He said he had consistently voted to leave the EU since the referendum. “Once you get your orders, you march on. I work for the people in the United Kingdom … that is literally the job. And I got my orders in June 2016 And I intend to deliver.”

 

[bimble]

Just read the same thing. Since the referendum he’s consistently voted for brexit. Ok .
Seems potentially to me the least worst, but no charisma at all so yeah.

 

[Kaka Tim]

tory hating cos they're torys aside - its a piss poor shower. Cant see any of them winning over the voters - sunak the boring billionaire, deadly dull mourdant (does she have any actual policeis?) and embarrassing, halfwitted bullshitter truss - if labour had anyone even vaguely more charismatic and relatable than starmer they would absolutely walk the next election. Hopefully ruthless psychopath badenoch doesnt make the next round - cos she could actually inspire the faithful. From labour's POV I think truss would be their preferred choice - comes across like a pound shop johnson with a thatcher obsession.

 

[Elpenor]

Badenoch and Tugendhat have the next three days to work out that they haven't got a hope in hell in getting into the top two, so may as well withdraw.

Badenoch could conceivably hoover up enough Braverman votes to leapfrog Truss, especially if she can at the same time steal any votes from Truss.

Still think Badenoch will finish third. I guess it comes down to these tv debates if she wipes the floor with Truss or Sunak