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Tory leadership contest 2024

Who will win the poisoned chalice and lead the tories?

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Votes: 45 44.1%
  • Tom Tugendhat

    Votes: 10 9.8%
  • Priti Patel

    Votes: 6 5.9%
  • Suella Braverman

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • Jeremy Hunt

    Votes: 4 3.9%
  • Robert Jenrick

    Votes: 13 12.7%
  • James Cleverly

    Votes: 10 9.8%
  • Boris Johnson

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • David Cameron

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Nigel Farage

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Liz Truss (for the LOLs)

    Votes: 8 7.8%
  • Other choice (mention in thread)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    102
Whichever one of the vile RW choices ends up winning, they are likely to last as Tory leader longer than anyone since Cameron.
 
Wonder if they will haemorrhage any MPs to reform if Cleverley gets it?

Probably, but you'd have to ask:

A) was it likely that at some point they'd go anyway?

B) is this not really a necessary adjustment of 'right' politics - that while the Tories have always talked of being a 'broad church', it's current incarnation is simply too broad to function?

You could ask the same of Badenough or Jenrick - if they get in, would what passes for the centrist sliver over the PCP not eventually up sticks are leave?
 
Jenirck is a no hoper if the Tory membership go for him. I genuinely can't see him bringing the party back. I'm sure both Labour and Reform are hoping its him they go for.
 
Sky news presenters and reporters are saying it looks like games are being played in the voting and a bit of skill duggery
 
Jenirck is a no hoper if the Tory membership go for him. I genuinely can't see him bringing the party back. I'm sure both Labour and Reform are hoping its him they go for.
No way. Reform wanted Cleverly. Farage was already peddling the betrayal narrative this morning 'of course the establishment won't let people choose the real people's choice Etc'.

This is the worst outcome for Reform and the Best by miles for Labour.
 
Sky news presenters and reporters are saying it looks like games are being played in the voting and a bit of skill duggery
something like not the previous leadership content but the one before before?
when Sunak arranged some MPs intending to vote for him to vote for Truss instead, so that she'd beat Morduant and he'd would have an easier win in the final two?

that'll never not be funny.
 
So all the Cleverley backers through they would vote their shittest opponent for the final round, to give JC the surest victory, only to over egg the plan :D
 
I'll be glad never to hear of James Stupidly ever again, his richly deserved obscurity on the opposition backbenches has been long overdue.

So it's down to either the crook Jenrick who's been melting in the media spotlight like a shop dummy in a department store fire, or oddball Kemi, who has eccentrically chosen to be a political leader in an era where you need to at least pretend to like people. She appears to detest most, and feels the need to belittle and talk down to everyone.

None of these idiots are electable however shite Shur Kieth is, even if the Mail gets an exclusive of his staff doing a half-hour supermarket sweep on his behalf, in return for favourable legislation and a knighthood for the CEO, it's a really guff hand for the remaining blue rinses and beady-eyed youthful repressed in the Tory membership.

All this would be funny if the story didn't end "enter Farage..."
 
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