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

[gosub]

Plus if all goes well she'll be the UK's equivalent of the First Lady.

No the Queen is UK head of state.

Having Dibble outside their dwelling might be a blessing. And if the Chancellor or Chief whip don't record what their neighbours get up to the journalists for shouting questions to be ignored might find new purpose.

 

[Dogsauce]

I see that the racist bloke that Johnson hired a couple of days ago to advise his campaign is already having an effect, we’re on to the subject of immigration and overseas spongers taking benefits or not speaking English.

 

[Teaboy]

I see that the racist bloke that Johnson hired a couple of days ago to advise his campaign is already having an effect, we’re on to the subject of immigration and overseas spongers taking benefits or not speaking English.

Lynton Crosby was the 'mastermind' behind Zac Goldsmith's openly racist London Mayoral campaign. That went well...

Looking back on that, it clearly had Johnson's fingers all over it as well.

 

[Cid]

He's not quite the power he used to be... Maybe changes in media and use of statistics/big data handling... But maybe also tainted by his association with May's 2017 campaign (following on from Goldsmith). Mind you GEs etc are one thing, and May's campaign also had Hill and Timothy to piss it up the wall (and May herself of course)... A tory leadership campaign which is his to lose might just regain him some confidence. And frankly the last thing anyone needs (including Johnson come proper election time) is a resurgent Crosby.

 

[isvicthere?]

Lynton Crosby was the 'mastermind' behind Zac Goldsmith's openly racist London Mayoral campaign. That went well...

Here, where the only "electorate" is a bunch of blue-rinse Home Counties nazis, it might go better.

 

[Dogsauce]

Another choice quote from this morning’s BBC piece :

Mr Johnson said it had to be recognised that there was "huge pressure" on the South East, so more infrastructure was needed

I don’t think he really acknowledges the existence of a country outside of London, this and his grumbling about how fiscal drag was hitting those poor souls that only earn between £50,000 and £80,000 per year. It’s like the rest of us don’t exist. Will be an easy hit for Labour you’d think.

 

[Teaboy]

I don’t think he really acknowledges the existence of a country outside of London,

That's not true, he know's all about the rest of the country, you forget he was MP for Henley-upon-Thames.

 

[Dogsauce]

I believe he also went to Liverpool once.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Another choice quote from this morning’s BBC piece :

Mr Johnson said it had to be recognised that there was "huge pressure" on the South East, so more infrastructure was needed

I don’t think he really acknowledges the existence of a country outside of London, this and his grumbling about how fiscal drag was hitting those poor souls that only earn between £50,000 and £80,000 per year. It’s like the rest of us don’t exist. Will be an easy hit for Labour you’d think.

He’s also pledged an infrastructure revolution for the ‘West Midlands and the north’. None of it is costed or comes with a plan. If McDonnell was coming up with this shite policy on the hoof approach the media would be having a field day.

 

[Smangus]

A Will be an easy hit for Labour you’d think.

Yeah but labour are too fucking inept at the mo to take advantage of it.

 

[Winot]

Not at the rate he's nosediving at the moment.

https://www.conservativehome.com/th...der-johnson-66-per-cent-hunt-30-per-cent.html

 

[Teaboy]

Yeah but labour are too fucking inept at the mo to take advantage of it.

If you mean as utterly divided by Brexit as the Tories than yes. Brexit has caused the main two parties some issues.

I love the idea that some people still think that there is some magical way that Labour can wish these problems away but they're just too inept. Why doesn't Corbyn just do what I want? Everyone would unite around that.

 

[Smangus]

If you mean as utterly divided by Brexit as the Tories than yes. Brexit has caused the main two parties some issues.

I love the idea that some people still think that there is some magical way that Labour can wish these problems away but they're just too inept. Why doesn't Corbyn just do what I want? Everyone would unite around that.

For whatever reason - and Brexit is only 1 of them Labour is to disorganised and fractured at the moment to take full advantage of the worst gvt in my living memory. I don't dislike Corbyn particularly but I don't see him as a convincing leader or opposition, holding their feet to the fire as any more competent opposition would.

 

[Rivendelboy]

Boris Johnson Hobby Generator (you will need a traditional six sided dice, or, as the pedants tell me, a die)

Subject:
1. Video Games
2. Drinking
3. Domestic Violence
4. Journalism
5. Pornography
6. Narcotics

Action:
1. Stretching
2. Pushing
3. Vomitting
4. Punching
5. Lying
6. Crying

Object:
1. Wooden pallets
2. Voodoo dolls
3. Government secrets
4. A comb
5. The Iranian Embassy
6. Sex Toy

 

[binka]

Hunts plan for tuition fees - if a graduate starts a business that employs 10 people for 5 years then your student debt will be cancelled. Classic Tory policy of massive rewards for people who don't need it

 

[FridgeMagnet]

ENTREPRENEURS

 

[weltweit]

Some of the media is still mentioning that Boris is the favourite, he might have been favourite amongst MPs but I don't think that applies now the audience is party members.

 

[Argonia]

The bookies have De Pffefel on an 80% shot and Jeremy Cunt on 20%.

 

[binka]

Some of the media is still mentioning that Boris is the favourite, he might have been favourite amongst MPs but I don't think that applies now the audience is party members.

He's definitely favourite amongst the membership. It's always been the MPs who hate him and the members who love him

 

[weltweit]

The bookies have De Pffefel on an 80% shot and Jeremy Cunt on 20%.

Oh, ok .. The one party member that I know said they were looking for top level ministerial experience, which probably favours Hunt. A opinion poll of 1 though I admit.

 

[MickiQ]

I don't know why anyone gives a toss what either of these two wankers are promising to do if they win since I have absolutely no doubt they will completely forgot every word they said after they actually win

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I don't know why anyone gives a toss what either of these two wankers are promising to do if they win since I have absolutely no doubt they will completely forgot every word they said after they actually win

The next PM won't be able to do anything other than Brexit-related stuff anyway - no matter the manner of our leaving.

 

[weltweit]

I heard one pundit mention the timetable of events for the EU between now and the Brexit deadline. Effectively they said there would be no opportunity to renegotiate anyhow before the deadline. Does anyone know about this?

 

[agricola]

From this week's PB mailout:

The Telegraph pays him £275,000 a year. The Evening Standard is edited by a fellow Bullingdon boy. The Guardian is too puritanical to get properly stuck into the muck and journalists at the Mail are already being courted for potential comms gigs at No.10 – so it looks like no-one's going to bother asking this question unless we do...

Pundits have wondered why Boris Johnson and his team seem so keen to avoid addressing the substance of this "lovers' tiff". If anyone could bluster his way through some half-arsed excuse and emerge unscathed, it's him.

Could it be that the row he had with Carrie Symonds in her Camberwell flat actually went on significantly longer than has been reported so far – and that it contained many more personal details about the current state of his relationships?

Yes, that's relationships plural; no, we don't mean Bip Ling. (We'd have headlined the story "Bip Questions: Who's askLing what this week?" if we did...)

 

[Dogsauce]

Is that one under an injunction too? Strange timing for this piece in the metro, published 4hrs ago:

Who is Bip Ling, who is her mum and what are her biggest hits? | Metro News

Hmmm...

 

[Proper Tidy]

What's the relevance of this bip ling?

 

[Argonia]

That article doesn't load on my iPad- what's all this bip ling about?

 

[Proper Tidy]

That article doesn't load on my iPad- what's all this bip ling about?

I googled it, first two links spell it out. Won't link.

 

[Argonia]

Oh so he's having an affair with her? Fucking hell, no wonder Carrie was so pissed off (allegedly - don't want Urban getting in trouble)

 

[belboid]