Tory leadership contest 2024

[brogdale]

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.

Has anyone yet seen any analysis of how the vermin's "5 families" fared respectively in the July cull?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Kid_Eternity]

So clearly Mel Stride is going out…

 

[LakieLady]

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

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

I think so. To people who don't follow politics to the extent that we do, he doesn't immediately come across as a rabid right-wing psychopath, unlike most of them.

 

[stavros]

Has anyone yet seen any analysis of how the vermin's "5 families" fared respectively in the July cull?

I missed that idea. Is it something to do with Boris Johnson?

 

[emanymton]

So clearly Mel Stride is going out…

Who?

 

[PR1Berske]

"James Cleverly: "We need to show young people that free markets, not planned economies, are their friends. We need to turn them into capitalists."

 

[PR1Berske]

Kemi: "“I refuse do to spin. I do charm sometimes, but I think life is better when people say what they think. For too long, politics has just been about working out what the voters want to hear and then saying it back to them. It is the triumph of words over deeds, and that has to change.”

 

[Boo Radley75]

According to Kemi, the problem with the Tories right now is they are too left wing.

Kemi Badenoch: Conservatives need to stop acting like Labour

The Tory leadership candidate says her party "talked right but governed left" when it was in power.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

According to Kemi, the problem with the Tories right now is they are too left wing.

Kemi Badenoch: Conservatives need to stop acting like Labour

The Tory leadership candidate says her party "talked right but governed left" when it was in power.

www.bbc.co.uk

She's expecting to be one of the two put to the membership, and that will appeal to those loons.

 

[brogdale]

Hilarious MiC polling:


Truth be told, I'm a tad disappointed that (for the whole respondent sample) "Don't knows" just pip "None of them"

 

[stethoscope]

Hilarious MiC polling:

The bit that caught my eye...

Of the candidates who were introduced to the focus groups, which were shown video clips, Badenoch, a former business secretary, performed best with those who switched to the Lib Dems and Reform, with the highest number saying they would be willing to give her a hearing and that she offered something “new and different and refreshing”.

 

[isvicthere?]

Given that the final two go down to the aged, racist tory membership to vote on, I feel that if there is a choice between an ethnic minority candidate and a white one, their natural inclination is to go with the white one. This is exactly what happened when Truss beat Sunak.

With that in mind, I feel a final two of Jenrick and Badenoch might well yield a victory for "honest" Bob "no-property-deals-too-corrupt" Jenrick.

 

[Sue]

Given that the final two go down to the aged, racist tory membership to vote on, I feel that if there is a choice between an ethnic minority candidate and a white one, their natural inclination is to go with the white one. This is exactly what happened when Truss beat Sunak.

With that in mind, I feel a final two of Jenrick and Badenoch might well yield a victory for "honest" Bob "no-property-deals-too-corrupt" Jenrick.

What a time to be alive.

 

[skyscraper101]

Given that the final two go down to the aged, racist tory membership to vote on, I feel that if there is a choice between an ethnic minority candidate and a white one, their natural inclination is to go with the white one. This is exactly what happened when Truss beat Sunak.

With that in mind, I feel a final two of Jenrick and Badenoch might well yield a victory for "honest" Bob "no-property-deals-too-corrupt" Jenrick.

It will test my theory on whether the membership really did vote along those lines or whether it was just that Truss appealed to their batshit Thatch/Johnson worshiping tendencies plus Sunak turning on Johnson in his dying days. I still reckon it was that way more than Sunak's ethnicity, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

 

[brogdale]

Given that the final two go down to the aged, racist tory membership to vote on, I feel that if there is a choice between an ethnic minority candidate and a white one, their natural inclination is to go with the white one. This is exactly what happened when Truss beat Sunak.

With that in mind, I feel a final two of Jenrick and Badenoch might well yield a victory for "honest" Bob "no-property-deals-too-corrupt" Jenrick.

With his strong Nixon level integrity vibes, generic looks like the ideal leader to take the vermin to their 2nd consecutive electoral defeat.

 

[isvicthere?]

It will test my theory on whether the membership really did vote along those lines or whether it was just that Truss appealed to their batshit Thatch/Johnson worshiping tendencies plus Sunak turning on Johnson in his dying days. I still reckon it was that way more than Sunak's ethnicity, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

Probably a mix of contributing elements.

 

[stavros]

Hilarious MiC polling:

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Truth be told, I'm a tad disappointed that (for the whole respondent sample) "Don't knows" just pip "None of them"

Neither of those samples tell us too much, because the vast majority of both groups aren't Tory members.

 

[maomao]

With his strong Nixon level integrity vibes, generic looks like the ideal leader to take the vermin to their 2nd consecutive electoral defeat.

Or playing the Clegg role in a Tory/Reform coalition.

 

[Bingoman]

Priti Patel 1st to be eliminated and beaten by Mel Stride

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Amazing, really thought she might hang on one round!

Priti Patel knocked out of Tory leadership contest in first round of voting

Former home secretary’s exit from race to replace Rishi Sunak was a surprise for many in Westminster

www.theguardian.com

 

[maomao]

Everyone left is stupider and/or crazier than Patel. And that's a really fucking high bar.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Priti Patel 1st to be eliminated and beaten by Mel Stride

Turned out nice again.

 

[cupid_stunt]

And, the scores on the doors were...

Robert Jenrick: 28
Kemi Badenoch: 22
James Cleverly: 21
Tom Tugendhat: 17
Mel Stride: 16
Priti Patel: 14

Round two next week.

She must be absolutely gutted.

 

[brogdale]

And, the scores on the doors were...

Robert Jenrick: 28
Kemi Badenoch: 22
James Cleverly: 21
Tom Tugendhat: 17
Mel Stride: 16
Priti Patel: 14

Round two next week.

She must be absolutely gutted.

So, assuming that most of those 14 will go to the headbangers at the top of the list, a lot will hinge on the fall-out of the 33 votes currently held by the 2 "One Nation" family candidates at the bottom. I'm assuming that Cleverly will think he could hoover up quite a chunk of Stride & Tugendhat's support.

 

[Boo Radley75]

Priti Patel 1st to be eliminated and beaten by Mel Stride

 

[Kid_Eternity]

And, the scores on the doors were...

Robert Jenrick: 28
Kemi Badenoch: 22
James Cleverly: 21
Tom Tugendhat: 17
Mel Stride: 16
Priti Patel: 14

Round two next week.

She must be absolutely gutted.

Mel Stride is looking like a bit of a kingmaker now. Team Cleverly and Tug-on-me-hat must be furiously courting/ number crunching right now!

 

[cupid_stunt]

Mel Stride is looking like a bit of a kingmaker now. Team Cleverly and Tug-on-me-hat must be furiously courting/ number crunching right now!

Mel Stride only just got reelected with a majority of 61, which is potentially a bit of an issue, whereas Tugendhat has a big majority in a super safe seat, but properly doesn't stand a chance with the membership, if he ends up on the final shortlist.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Mel Stride only just got reelected with a majority of 61, which is potentially a bit of an issue, whereas Tugendhat has a big majority in a super safe seat, but properly doesn't stand a chance with the membership, if he ends up on the final shortlist.

Mel is only in it to get Tory Chair...

 

[GarveyLives]

At least one cannot fault their consistency:

Tory leader rivals won’t rule out taking cash from race-row donor Frank Hester