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

[Gramsci]

I live a few minutes down the road from Boris partners flat.

My Council Ward ,. which is one of the most deprived in London, was 80% Remain.

I don't have a problem with Jewish Buddhist New Yorkers who are Remain.

 

[D'wards]

Boris is going to be taking calls on Nick Ferrari on LBC at 9am today

 

[Libertad]

Boris is going to be taking calls on Nick Ferrari on LBC at 9am today

#TCJ

 

[Steel Icarus]

Boris is going to be taking calls on Nick Ferrari on LBC at 9am today

Nick Ferrari! That's the reactionary fuckwit whose name I couldn't remember the other day and who reminds me of Jonathan Pearce for some reason.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ferrari is already doing tongue exercises, so that he can penetrate the furthest reaches of Johnson’s anus.

 

[not a trot]

Ferrari is already doing tongue exercises, so that he can penetrate the furthest reaches of Johnson’s anus.

Discussing Harry and Mehgans home improvements at the moment. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Discussing Harry and Mehgans home improvements at the moment. Fascinating stuff.

and endlessly repeating the lie that those parasites only cost us a pound each, the sycophantic posh-prick.

 

[Poi E]

It's as if the whole house of cards comes tumbling down when you remove the King or Queen.

 

[teqniq]

The Daily Mail has been excelling itself in last few days in nastiness

Not only are the neighbours Remainers the partner of Mr Penn who got in touch with Guardian :




The Remainer couple who called police on Boris Johnson are a millionaire's daughter and her partner | Daily Mail Online

Cosmopolitan lefty who is Jewish and has wealthy Jewish father. Really nasty stuff from the Hate Mail.

I was thinking about this last night trying to get my head around how the mail et al pursue Corbyn and Labour over claims of antisemitism as a smear tactic to try and ensure that they stand no chance of winning the next election and yet when one of their own is threatened they come out with what is essentially antisemitic dogwhistle shit like this. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Has anyone taken them to the press complaints commission yet?

 

[Pickman's model]

I was thinking about this last night trying to get my head around how the mail et al pursue Corbyn and Labour over claims of antisemitism as a smear tactic to try and ensure that they stand no chance of winning the next election and yet when one of their own is threatened they come out with what is essentially antisemitic dogwhistle shit like this. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Has anyone taken them to the press complaints commission yet?

closed in 2014, replaced by independent press standards organisation

 

[Ranbay]

What a fucking idiot

 

[teqniq]

closed in 2014, replaced by independent press standards organisation

Yeah sorry lol I though it might be wrong but couldn't remember it's replacement. Somewhat toothless anyway i seem to recall.

 

[teqniq]

Max Hastings has penned a withering article in the Graun

I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister | Max Hastings

this is a gem from it

Johnson would not recognise truth, whether about his private or political life, if confronted by it in an identity parade. In a commonplace book the other day, I came across an observation made in 1750 by a contemporary savant, Bishop Berkeley: “It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.” Almost the only people who think Johnson a nice guy are those who do not know him.

 

[killer b]

this is the important stuff from that article

My old friend Christopher Bland, when chairman of the BBC, once described to me how he received an angry phone call from Johnson, denouncing the corporation’s “gross intrusion upon my personal life” for its coverage of one of his love affairs.

“We know plenty about your personal life that you would not like to read in the Spectator,” the then editor of the magazine told the BBC’s chairman, while demanding he order the broadcaster to lay off his own dalliances.

Bland told me he replied: “Boris, think about what you have just said. There is a word for it, and it is not a pretty one.”

He said Johnson blustered into retreat, but in my own files I have handwritten notes from our possible next prime minister, threatening dire consequences in print if I continued to criticise him.

 

[teqniq]

Yeah it may well be but the other bit bought a smile to my face.

 

[xenon]

this is the important stuff from that article

My old friend Christopher Bland, when chairman of the BBC, once described to me how he received an angry phone call from Johnson, denouncing the corporation’s “gross intrusion upon my personal life” for its coverage of one of his love affairs.

“We know plenty about your personal life that you would not like to read in the Spectator,” the then editor of the magazine told the BBC’s chairman, while demanding he order the broadcaster to lay off his own dalliances.

Bland told me he replied: “Boris, think about what you have just said. There is a word for it, and it is not a pretty one.”

He said Johnson blustered into retreat, but in my own files I have handwritten notes from our possible next prime minister, threatening dire consequences in print if I continued to criticise him.

Won't make any difference. everyone knows he's a cunt. The unrerconstructed Tory party blue rincers who think Cameron was a pinko, don't give a shit about any of it, The hard Brexit freemarket ultras see him as someone who can take the country further towards where they want even if they think he's a prat. The rabid anti EU Brexit obsessed lunes just see him as a means to an end.

I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy what I can of the forthcoming car crash.

 

[killer b]

I don't think it'll make a difference - it is important though.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Well, Nick Ferrari was about as gentle as it is possible to be and still retain some credibility as a journalist. Boris came across as shifty as fuck and an outright liar over yesterday's photo of him and his partner in that field, whilst unable to give any detail at all about how he proposes to make Brexit happen, and refusing to accept that the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Governor of the Bank of England know better than he does.

No wonder they are keeping him away from Paxman style interviews.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, Nick Ferrari was about as gentle as it is possible to be and still retain some credibility as a journalist. Boris came across as shifty as fuck and an outright liar over yesterday's photo of him and his partner in that field, whilst unable to give any detail at all about how he proposes to make Brexit happen, and refusing to accept that the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Governor of the Bank of England know better than he does.

No wonder they are keeping him away from Paxman style interviews.

i am reminded of the famous saying about empty vessels

 

[Poi E]

Empty vessels lack stability. That's what my merchant naval dad taught me.

 

[killer b]

this is real.

 

[andysays]

It's good to have a hobby

 

[Sprocket.]

Empty vessels lack stability. That's what my merchant naval dad taught me.

Would a lack of stability also highlight a possible lack of direction?

 

[Steel Icarus]

this is real.

Sounds like someone's been reducing nitrous oxide by huffing it.

 

[DotCommunist]

its no vegan jam/manhole cover photos is it

 

[Wilf]

I don't think it'll make a difference - it is important though.

Didn't hear the lbc interview but saw quotes on his refusal to answer stuff on the photo. When you add that to his lack of precision on anything + the stuff you mention, there's a space opening up for a media campaign along the lines of him being an untrustworthy wanker. Yes, I know that's always been there, but this is on the edge of becoming something that might affect tory members. I still think he'll win comfortably, but he's one gaffe or revelation away from risk territory.

I don't give a fuck about the grandeur and traditions of the prime ministership, but there's still a sense in which he genuinely hasn't got the skills and personality for the job. He could be a bumbling Regan/Trump type president/cheerleader, but the UK Prime Minister has to also do policy, detail and consistency.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Didn't hear the lbc interview but saw quotes on his refusal to answer stuff on the photo.

Nick Ferrari, "When was that photo taken?"

Boris, "Not saying."

Nick Ferrari, "Was it taken on Sunday?"

Boris, "Not going to answer that."

 

[Wilf]

Nick Ferrari, "When was that photo taken?"

Boris, "Not saying."

Nick Ferrari, "Was it taken on Sunday?"

Boris, "Not going to answer that."

It really did look an older photo in terms of his hair length, but when I saw it I thought: 'surely they can't have posted an old photo to deceive people. They wouldn't be that stupid'. But...

 

[teqniq]

At this point I'm hoping he wins the leadership election and subsequently becomes the PM. The wheels are likely to come off the clown car much faster.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Empty vessels lack stability. That's what my merchant naval dad taught me.

Ballast required. Stoned or depleted uranium. Don’t matter which, just lots of it, ingested by mouth