Tory leadership contest 2024

[cupid_stunt]

The favourite speaks:

Robert Jenrick criticised for saying people shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ should be arrested

Tory leadership candidate’s comments around far-right protests described as nasty, divisive and ignorant

www.theguardian.com

Twat.


That's Jenrick, not you, agricola.

 

[brogdale]

The favourite speaks:

Robert Jenrick criticised for saying people shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ should be arrested

Tory leadership candidate’s comments around far-right protests described as nasty, divisive and ignorant

www.theguardian.com

If the electorate are stupid enough to vote for this opportunist little shit, who thinks the way to power is pandering to the fash & fash adjacent mob, they’ll hand Starmer 10 years for sure.

 

[Elpenor]

When do they vote to reduce the numbers?

Am Team Priti (at least that’s who I voted for in this poll, and can see her getting to the member runoff)

 

[agricola]

If the electorate are stupid enough to vote for this opportunist little shit, who thinks the way to power is pandering to the fash & fash adjacent mob, they’ll hand Starmer 10 years for sure.

Hopefully they (Labour) release the details of how he came to make that planning decision involving Richard Desmond.

 

[Everything Goes]

The favourite speaks:

Robert Jenrick criticised for saying people shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ should be arrested

Tory leadership candidate’s comments around far-right protests described as nasty, divisive and ignorant

www.theguardian.com

Unsurprisingly his ignorance has come in for a lot of criticism.


From the Guardian.


Robert Jenrick, who is one of the favourites to win the Conservative leadership, was criticised by the Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi and the Labour MP Naz Shah.

Warsi wrote on social media: “Every day before we start parliamentary business in the Commons and Lords we say a prayer and praise God – we say our parliamentary version of Allahu Akbars at the heart of democracy – a process Robert Jenrick is a part of. This language from Jenrick is more of his usual nasty divisive rhetoric – he is such a tool.”

Shah, the MP for Bradford West, said: “This is complete ignorance and textbook Islamophobia from Robert Jenrick. It literally equates every Muslim in the world with extremism … It’s a basic Islamic saying that every Muslim in the world says in prayer.

“ … Imagine in this climate, either being that ignorant or deliberately trying to stigmatise all Muslims. He should apologise and speak to Muslim communities and learn more about our faith.”

Another Labour MP Afzal Khan said: “Another day, another senior Tory being Islamophobic. Allahu Akbar means God is great – the Muslim equivalent of hallelujah. Jenrick’s confidence in going on national TV to say people should be arrested for saying Allahu Akbar exposes his deep-seated prejudice against Muslims.”

 

[Kid_Eternity]

If the electorate are stupid enough to vote for this opportunist little shit, who thinks the way to power is pandering to the fash & fash adjacent mob, they’ll hand Starmer 10 years for sure.

The electorate? Not likely but Tory members? Almost definitely.

 

[brogdale]

The electorate? Not likely but Tory members? Almost definitely.

The vermin members are the electorate in this case.

 

[Lurdan]

Jenrick went on to clarify that he was only referring to people using the phrase in an “intimidatory and threatening” manner, and that “‘Allahu Akbar’ is spoken peacefully and spiritually by millions of British Muslims in their daily lives.” (...)

A Jenrick ally batted away suggestions that the MP had crossed a line, telling Playbook that “politics is not about avoiding rows, it’s about having good fights.” They also went on to suggest that Jenrick was checks notes the reason there was no rioting on Wednesday night. “He spoke some hard truths and then the riots stopped,” they said. Which is certainly a very, shall we say, unique interpretation.

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[ID47]

Twat.


That's Jenrick, not you, agricola.

Jenrick is not just scum but idiot scum: “We Palestinian Christians say Allahu Akbar” – Thoughts Theological

 

[moochedit]

I'd forgotten all about this. When do the mp's start voting? Or haven't they said yet?

 

[belboid]

I'd forgotten all about this. When do the mp's start voting? Or haven't they said yet?

Not till September

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Jenrick is not just scum but idiot scum: “We Palestinian Christians say Allahu Akbar” – Thoughts Theological

isn't he being presented as a 'sensible' option?

(by current standards of the vermin party, he might still be, relatively speaking...)

 

[cupid_stunt]

isn't he being presented as a 'sensible' option?

(by current standards of the vermin party, he might still be, relatively speaking...)

He's the 'sensible' option for the more right wing of the party, says it all really.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

He's the 'sensible' option for the more right wing of the party, says it all really.

 

[two sheds]

A bit like Starmer for Labour then eh?

 

[MrCurry]

Is this still happening or did they get so pissed drowning their GE sorrows they’ve all forgotten to campaign for leadership? Has been dead quiet lately. I’ve been trying to check the latest odds but a lot of the U.K. betting sites are geoblocked where I am.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Is this still happening or did they get so pissed drowning their GE sorrows they’ve all forgotten to campaign for leadership? Has been dead quiet lately.

It's been summer recess, parliament returns next week, and the hopefuls hopeless will start campaigning proper.

 

[stavros]

I’ve been trying to check the latest odds

Badenoch 7/4
Jenrick 9/4
Cleverly 9/2
Tugendhat 7/1
Patel 20/1
Stride 40/1

Liz Truss is 80/1 if you want to be wild.

 

[quiet guy]

Based on those odds they'll end up having another election in 6months when they fall out again with the hard right wing of the party.

 

[strung out]

Priti Patel has gone woke

 

[brogdale]

Priti Patel has gone woke

Presumably she's had some focus group work done and discovered that the hang'emandflog'em brigade have actually died out?

 

[two sheds]

Probably wants to bring back transportation instead.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Or, this change of heart could be far more self-serving than we realise

 

[gosub]

Presumably she's had some focus group work done and discovered that the hang'emandflog'em brigade have actually died out?

Or finally got round to reading JSMills rather than just quoting him

 

[maomao]

Priti Patel has gone woke

She's realised she's the left wing candidate.

 

[newme]

She's realised she's the left wing candidate.

I just noticed she is the highest voted for one I even heard of. Then that was hardly for good reasons.

 

[Elpenor]

Still my favourite to win but the bookies disagree, and it’s often a junior minister not an experienced one whose held a great office of state who wins for the tories so I guess Badenoch or Jenrick fit the bill

 

[MrCurry]

Badenoch 7/4
Jenrick 9/4
Cleverly 9/2
Tugendhat 7/1
Patel 20/1
Stride 40/1

Liz Truss is 80/1 if you want to be wild.

Thanks - so the market forces the Tories have such affection for decree it’s gonna be Badenoch or Jenrick.

 

[stavros]

Thanks - so the market forces the Tories have such affection for decree it’s gonna be Badenoch or Jenrick.

Well, I suppose it's who gets through the MP vote and goes to the members. I don't know their respective popularities in the Parliamentary party.

 

[gosub]

Thanks - so the market forces the Tories have such affection for decree it’s gonna be Badenoch or Jenrick.

No Jenrick and Badenoch have made the biggest bets on themselves