Tory leadership contest 2024

[Smangus]

TBF she's likely going to make Starmer look a political genius in comparison.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I think your love for Starmer has blinded you to his very obvious faults. Oh, and why are you calling Badenoch by her first name? Are you and her bessie mates?

Jesus this stuff is banal…Corbyn and Kemi have the same entitled petulance of character. Starmer doesn’t share that. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t have faults or that they’re not obvious but that’s not the point being made here. It’s really not rocket science and having to explain this is really quite tedious…!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

TBF she's likely going to make Starmer look a political genius in comparison.

Absolutely. The contrast means Starmer has less reason to have to define himself, whereas Cleverly would have been a big optics problem for Starmer.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

No, I have not seen Corbyn behaving like that in interviews. I do not have television. Perhaps you can give an example.

Oh well yeah you missed quite a bit of Corbyn being crabby!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How is Badenoch anything like Corbyn. WTAF.

They are very similar inflexible personalities, who believe so much in their own rightness they can’t cope when challenged. I would say one difference is Kemi is easily Corbyn’s intellectual superior (which tbf isn’t hard as Corbyn isn’t exactly a bright mind)…

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Kemi? Is she your fucking mate?

Eta: oops... just realised it's that dick Kid Eternity

Easier to write Corbyn and Kemi.

 

[maomao]

Easier to write Corbyn and Kemi.

Jeremy is easier to type than Corbyn because you can do the 'ere' bit very fast.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Jeremy is easier to type than Corbyn because you can do the 'ere' bit very fast.

Corbyn is a better definition given there are other Jeremy’s…

 

[PTK]

Oh well yeah you missed quite a bit of Corbyn being crabby!

And you expect me to accept your claim about Corbyn's interview style without proof?

 

[belboid]

Jesus this stuff is banal…Corbyn and Kemi have the same entitled petulance of character. Starmer doesn’t share that. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t have faults or that they’re not obvious but that’s not the point being made here. It’s really not rocket science and having to explain this is really quite tedious…!

Corbyn could be a right snarky git if he didn’t like a question, it’s true. But Starmer just looks dumbfounded and repeats an answer to a different question. He doesn’t understand how anyone could disagree with his vacuous bullshit.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

And you expect me to accept your claim about Corbyn's interview style without proof?

Given your attitude I really think you should spend your time.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Corbyn could be a right snarky git if he didn’t like a question, it’s true. But Starmer just looks dumbfounded and repeats an answer to a different question. He doesn’t understand how anyone could disagree with his vacuous bullshit.

And let's not forget that, using this method, he managed to agree live on air that starving Gazans was ok.

I think KE and I have a different definition of entitlement in our heads. Corbyn always made the point that it was not all about him. Starmer always made the point that it was all about him ("my Labour Party"). I know which of the two attitudes I find entitled.

 

[PTK]

Politics not about how people come across in interviews.

 

[Boo Radley75]

That face can't lie, oh dear .

Never realised Jenrick was married to Karen's mum from Goodfellas...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Politics not about how people come across in interviews.

Hahahaha!

 

[PTK]

Hahahaha!

Yes, it is highly amusing that the man who would end austerity is "crabby" in interviews, according to you, but the man who would continue austerity does well in interviews, according to you. I am sure that people are laughing all the way to the Foodbank.

 

[belboid]

Yes, it is highly amusing that the man who would end austerity is "crabby" in interviews, according to you, but the man who would continue austerity does well in interviews, according to you. I am sure that people are laughing all the way to the Foodbank.

You forget how superficial k_e is. Parliamentary cretinism 101.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You forget how superficial k_e is. Parliamentary cretinism 101.

Some of us like to deal with political reality rather than our dreams and doing nothing but posting about them…

 

[Santino]

Some of us like to deal with political reality rather than our dreams and doing nothing but posting about them…

A better world isn't possible.

 

[belboid]

Some of us like to deal with political reality rather than our dreams and doing nothing but posting about them…

the whole world, its history and its future are not directed and determined by a majority of votes of just that very representative institution that has the honour of having them in the capacity of its members.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Some of us like to deal with political reality rather than our dreams and doing nothing but posting about them…

When Starmer and Co have spent 5 years with a boot on the throat of the left, enthusiastically encouraged by nodding Churchill dogs like yourself...

If, come the next general election, I don't vote Labour; and the Tories/Reform/some unholy alliance of the 2 get into power:

Is it (a) my fault; or
(b) yours?

No need for wanky politico extended answers to a question not asked. A simple A or B will suffice.

 

[krtek a houby]

So, another anti-Irish Tory leader. What a surprise. Hopefully this one will be gone a lot sooner than Johnson.

 

[8ball]

When Starmer and Co have spent 5 years with a boot on the throat of the left, enthusiastically encouraged by nodding Churchill dogs like yourself...

If, come the next general election, I don't vote Labour; and the Tories/Reform/some unholy alliance of the 2 get into power:

Is it (a) my fault; or
(b) yours?

No need for wanky politico extended answers to a question not asked. A simple A or B will suffice.

I assume this putative election comes down to a single vote..

 

[Kid_Eternity]

the whole world, its history and its future are not directed and determined by a majority of votes of just that very representative institution that has the honour of having them in the capacity of its members.

Keep on fighting the good keyboard warrior fight my brother!

 

[Lotte]

So, another anti-Irish Tory leader. What a surprise. Hopefully this one will be gone a lot sooner than Johnson.

Oh Christ, what's she done?

 

[klang]

They are very similar inflexible personalities, who believe so much in their own rightness they can’t cope when challenged. I would say one difference is Kemi is easily Corbyn’s intellectual superior (which tbf isn’t hard as Corbyn isn’t exactly a bright mind)…

Jeremy is easier to type than Corbyn because you can do the 'ere' bit very fast.

He means Piers though

 

[krtek a houby]

Oh Christ, what's she done?

Stopped a grant for Irish language hip hop band; Kneecap. She's made it quite clear, like her predecessors, who's side she's on.

 

[Lotte]

I'd forgotten about the Kneecap thing. Can Tories ever be normal about Ireland?

 

[bemused]

Chris Philp as Home Secretary - I laughed and laughed.

 

[PTK]

Keep on fighting the good keyboard warrior fight my brother!

The point is, you are claiming that real politics is about how nice peope are in interviews. It is not. It is about policies.