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Tory Leadership contest 2022

Kaka Tim said:
I think truss would be their preferred choice - comes across like a pound shop johnson with a thatcher obsession.
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I think Mordaunt's more like Johnson. Before this her big claim to fame was having used the word 'cock' repeatedly in her first speech to parliament.
 
JimW said:
Means we're allowed to hoy them into Bristol docks.
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PR1Berske said:
From the Guardian
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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.”

Yeah Tom, except that your constituency of Tonbridge and Malling all voted to leave and at the last minute you voted to Remain because your a career politician who has zero interest in other people.

Twat.
 
Daily Telegraph sawn off shot gun in action

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In case you are wondering why that is ...

For me, Penny Mordaunt is a bit like the insurgent Jeremy Corbyn in 2016, perhaps without the far-Left policy platform: a candidate the membership appears to love, but MPs less so. Like Corbyn before her, there is a striking lack of support for Mordaunt on her party's front bench.
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billy_bob said:
What do people make of Penny Mordaunt's apparent popularity? It seems disproportionate to her profile.
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(Sorry if this has been said, I've skipped some pages.. .) But basically, all the middle-aged tory boys (and no doubt not a few middle-aged tory girls too) fancy the pants off her. And that's about it as far as I can tell? On LBC last night, Nick Abbot's topic was actually "why is PM so popular?". Middle-aged bloke after middle-aged bloke rang in to say how left wing they usually were but they were keen on PM, oh yeah. Reasons were vague, certainly nothing policy related iirc, and nobody actually said "O she hot tho" but the admiration, of all these thirsty blokes, it went on and on and for me became like an elephant in the room. Probably because they're all married and can't say it out loud ... so yeah, that's my theory and I don't want it back thanks :D
 
Yep she’s probably going to be the prime minister, and if so it will be exactly because of that, she’s pretty and nobody knows what she thinks so that isn’t a distraction from the feelings they get when they see her photo which vaguely reminds them they were young men once or something. Ugh.
 
mojo pixy said:
(Sorry if this has been said, I've skipped some pages.. .) But basically, all the middle-aged tory boys (and no doubt not a few middle-aged tory girls too) fancy the pants off her. And that's about it as far as I can tell? On LBC last night, Nick Abbot's topic was actually "why is PM so popular?". Middle-aged bloke after middle-aged bloke rang in to say how left wing they usually were but they were keen on PM, oh yeah. Reasons were vague, certainly nothing policy related iirc, and nobody actually said "O she hot tho" but the admiration, of all these thirsty blokes, it went on and on and for me became like an elephant in the room. Probably because they're all married and can't say it out loud ... so yeah, that's my theory and I don't want it back thanks :D
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Pretty much, yeah.

I asked the question rather than just blundering in with my own opinion because I wasn't totally comfortable with making it about her appearance.

But say she had exactly the same profile, experience etc. but looked like Ann Widdecombe - hard not to suspect that she'd have found it much harder to vault straight into pole position out of almost nowhere.

Having said that, she does actually have an air of greater competence and sanity than most of the candidates. The problem is, because of her relative obscurity and the low bar, we don't have any real idea whether that impression is deserved.
 
billy_bob said:
Pretty much, yeah.

I asked the question rather than just blundering in with my own opinion because I wasn't totally comfortable with making it about her appearance.

But say she had exactly the same profile, experience etc. but looked like Ann Widdecombe - hard not to suspect that she'd have found it much harder to vault straight into pole position out of almost nowhere.

Having said that, she does actually have an air of greater competence and sanity than most of the candidates. The problem is, because of her relative obscurity and the low bar, we don't have any real idea whether that impression is deserved.
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I mean, obvs on a more fundamental level the problem is she's still a fucking Tory, but you know ... we have to find something to talk about :D
 
kabbes said:
We never really got there in this country, although there was a huge amount of hand wringing over it during the last few years. I have no doubt that no lessons will be learnt from the near miss and we will now just carry on regardless.

To be honest, I think in truth that pension schemes have no business buying low yield government bonds and should instead be concentrating on a mix of investment quality, high yield and equities. But that doesn’t sit well with modern day mark-to-market balance sheet valuations so here we are.
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I wouldn't want to be the one to explain to pensioners that their pensions are gone because the pension fund manager bet heavily on burrito company bonds and Tesla, but you may be a better explainer than me.
 
Cat Fan said:
I wouldn't want to be the one to explain to pensioners that their pensions are gone because the pension fund manager bet heavily on burrito company bonds and Tesla, but you may be a better explainer than me.
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Probably best not to invest like that then
 
Pension funds are deeply invested into McDonald’s, And other fast food franchises, i learned recently.
Oh yeah here it is. Good writing. Absolutely nothing to do with the Tory leadership contest.
www.currentaffairs.org

How the State Created Fast Food ❧ Current Affairs

<p>Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.</p>
www.currentaffairs.org www.currentaffairs.org
 
Everyone else’s pension funds are heavily invested in the uks trains.

Property, of course it is, is also a large pension fund prop up.
 
platinumsage said:
Badenoch could conceivably hoover up enough Braverman votes to leapfrog Truss, especially if she can at the same time steal any votes from Truss.
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Yes, I have a worrying feeling she will outflank Truss in the debates. She seems to be a strong media performer, unlike Truss.
 
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