Who is going to win the 2018/2019 Tory Leadership election?

[SpackleFrog]

Stewart is out. Lost votes, only 27 this time.

Guess support could switch to Gove and get him to the final two?

 

[Dogsauce]

Johnson will likely be able to choose his opponent, all he has to do is suggest to 20 of his supporters that they back one or other of the remaining candidates and that’ll be enough to put them in second, with barely a dent in his commanding lead. Bound to be this sort of tactic in play. Hopefully it’ll cause a bit more bitterness and division.

 

[MickiQ]

Stewart is out. Lost votes, only 27 this time.

Guess support could switch to Gove and get him to the final two?

Serves him right for trying to inject some common sense into this process, I expected him to go out in the last round though possibly he might be positioning himself as a Leader in Waiting when BoJo inevitably fucks it all up.
As for Hunt the Cunt, Darth Javid or Voldermort, I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire but I don't think it really makes a difference as to which one the Tory MP's pick.

 

[MrSki]

I predict that a tory twat will win.

How must the rest of the world view British politics? They must think we are all inbred or on the Snorbitzs.

 

[DotCommunist]

will r stewart still do his all-counties walk of the land, like the kings of old?

 

[killer b]

Serves him right for trying to inject some common sense into this process,

this is apparently a real thing.

 

[Sprocket.]

I predict that a tory twat will win.

How must the rest of the world view British politics? They must think we are all inbred or on the Snorbitzs.

It’s embarrassing.

 

[MrSki]

 

[killer b]

How must the rest of the world view British politics?

they're probably too busy collapsing into their own clusterfucks to be too judgemental tbh.

 

[MickiQ]

Really he tried to bribe someone with that? WTF is wrong with a carrier bag full of used banknotes?

 

[Argonia]

He tripped over Abdul twice, the second time he was embarrassed by his own fluff.
Also his Dad thought that the fifteen year old Erin got the better of him and the rest of the sorry bunch

How could anyone vote for someone who calls the children they admit to fathering Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches, and Theodore Apollo.

Do they go to private schools? In state I bet they would get bullied something rotten with names like that.

 

[kebabking]

Do they go to private schools? In state I bet they would get bullied something rotten with names like that.

There are several state schools around me - the majority in fact - where kids with names like that wouldn't provoke a batted eyelid.

Sorry to burst your class war bubble....

 

[chilango]

...I bet they do go to private schools though.

 

[killer b]

I don't think kids with odd names is the bullying opportunity it once was - partly because classrooms are often much more culturally diverse than they were, and partly because everyone wants to call their kid something unique and beautiful rather than just naming them after our dads like we used to.

 

[Cid]

...I bet they do go to private schools though.

They don't. In fact they don't go to school at all, the youngest being 20.

 

[chilango]

Alright. What schools did they go to?

 

[Proper Tidy]

Laura lettuce ffs

 

[Proper Tidy]

Alright. What schools did they go to?

Boris Johnson kids: How Boris educated daughter Lara Lettice Johnson at £33k-a-year school

 

[chilango]

Boris Johnson kids: How Boris educated daughter Lara Lettice Johnson at £33k-a-year school

This same expensive schooling was granted to Boris’ children, who all attended costly schools.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They're hardly going to have gone to the local comp are they?

 

[Cid]

Yeah of course they went to private school. It's Boris Johnson.

 

[kebabking]

Boris Johnson kids: How Boris educated daughter Lara Lettice Johnson at £33k-a-year school

It's a hideous pit. There are much cheaper ways getting your children to develop a crack habbit.

Unsurprising to see Johnson sending his children to such a place...

 

[Argonia]

Those names are probably marginally more ludicrous even than Jamie Oliver's progeny.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Those names are probably marginally more ludicrous even than Jamie Oliver's progeny.

Funny enough I was thinking earlier that the only way to make this leadership contest even more cunty would be to somehow get Jamie Oliver to stand. I really fucking hate that cunt, first against the wall even before Chris Wilder, Steve Bould and Tony Blair if its my revolution.

 

[Benjy1992]

Not that I think any of the Tory leadership candidates are sane, but Rory Stewart was the most moderate and pro-EU of the candidates.
He had some grasp of reality unlike the other four, so would have been my choice. Dark days for our country knowing one of those four are going to be leading it.

It's a sad state of affairs and democratic outrage that the next prime minister of this country will be chosen by not much over 100,000 Tory party members, who are disproportionately right-wing, ageing and anti-EU in comparison to the rest of the county.

 

[moochedit]

How must the rest of the world view British politics? They must think we are all inbred or on the Snorbitzs.

It’s embarrassing.

Boris as PM would have been much more embarrassing for us 5 years ago. But after Trump got elected i'm not sure people in other countries would even notice now.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It's a sad state of affairs and democratic outrage that the next prime minister of this country will be chosen by not much over 100,000 Tory party members, who are disproportionately right-wing, ageing and anti-EU in comparison to the rest of the county.

having said that, it's nothing new, and both parties have done it. within (my) memory, james callaghan, john major, gordon brown and theresa may all took over as pm without a general election, as have others before them. (john major won - somewhat to everyone's surprise - a general election about 18 months later, and theresa may got the best of a draw about a year later.)

of course boris johnson is on record that he doesn't approve of people becoming PM "without a mandate from the british people" (more here)

 

[Benjy1992]

having said that, it's nothing new, and both parties have done it. within (my) memory, james callaghan, john major, gordon brown and theresa may all took over as pm without a general election, as have others before them. (john major won - somewhat to everyone's surprise - a general election about 18 months later, and theresa may got the best of a draw about a year later.)

of course boris johnson is on record that he doesn't approve of people becoming PM "without a mandate from the british people" (more here)

That's true.

PMs for both Labour and the Tories have taken over without a GE. It is also true that Labour Party members are disproportionately left-wing, pro-EU and younger compared to the general electorate.

So it works both ways but I'm for democracy whichever way you look at it. Like Boris said, PMs should have a mandate from the British people, so he should stick to what he said. Of course he won't though.

 

[Raheem]

I predict that a tory twat will win.

Stewart was the only twat. There's just shits left now.

 

[Yossarian]

How must the rest of the world view British politics? They must think we are all inbred or on the Snorbitzs.

If they watch a lot of Hollywood movies, they're probably already aware that posh British people are generally villains, even if they initially seem charming.