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

[brogdale]

All That Is Solid ...: Boris Johnson Meets Andrew Neil

Useful review, but that last sentence looks rather over-optimistic.

 

[stavros]

C4 have a documentary on tonight looking at Johnson's careers. The previews I've read have said it's not particularly flattering. For want of anything else to do tonight, I shall watch it, in case anything's missing from my library of why he's a cunt.

 

[Duncan2]

On that evidence Boris is likely to take the title from George Canning for shortest ever tenure in the role of PM.

 

[Kaka Tim]

His options are either to go out in a blaze of glory in pursuit of a "no deal" that brings the government down (i think it will go to the wire though) - then he can still be a hero to the headbangers and have a lucrative, post PM career as a gobshite.
Or to do a massive reverse ferret and try and push May's deal through. Which will fail. And he would be humiliated and reviled by everyone
My feeling is that his narcissism and glory hunting will push him towards the first option - but he is certainly unprincipled and duplicitous enough to do the U-turn and try and brazen it out.
Whatever skills he has (yeah - im drawing a blank here as well) they are not the ones of required to build coalitions of support, wheeler dealing and winning people over - i.e. what he would need to succeed where May failed.

 

[brogdale]

His options are either to go out in a blaze of glory in pursuit of a "no deal" that brings the government down (i think it will go to the wire though) - then he can still be a hero to the headbangers and have a lucrative, post PM career as a gobshite.
Or to do a massive reverse ferret and try and push May's deal through. Which will fail. And he would be humiliated and reviled by everyone
My feeling is that his narcissism and glory hunting will push him towards the first option - but he is certainly unprincipled and duplicitous enough to do the U-turn and try and brazen it out.
Whatever skills he has (yeah - im drawing a blank here as well) they are not the ones of required to build coalitions of support, wheeler dealing and winning people over - i.e. what he would need to succeed where May failed.

With plenty of Churchill, Dunkirk, underdog, fight them on the beaches as he goes down.

 

[Proper Tidy]

He'll try to push through a reheated May deal. Talk from Johnson camp of going to polls to get a majority is a hint imo.

 

[Kaka Tim]

He'll try to push through a reheated May deal. Talk from Johnson camp of going to polls to get a majority is a hint imo.

i cant see them calling an election on that platform - brexit party will fuck them. Plus their own party membership - and half their mps - will be up in arms. If they call a GE it will be on a "no deal" policy.

 

[Proper Tidy]

i cant see them calling an election on that platform - brexit party will fuck them. Plus their own party membership - and half their mps - will be up in arms. If they call a GE it will be on a "no deal" policy.

No he won't call a GE on that platform. He'll call a GE to try to get the numbers needed to get it through against resistance

 

[Ranbay]

Something about kippers

 

[Celyn]

I wonder whether it has occurred to him to have someone bump off the Queen and then declare that nothing can be done during some set "period of national mourning" chosen by him.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I wonder whether it has occurred to him to have someone bump off the Queen and then declare that nothing can be done during some set "period of national mourning" chosen by him.

Don't give him ideas.

 

[Wilf]

Hasn't the voting just about closed (result next week)? Johnson can go back to blabbing his random shite again.

 

[weltweit]

So parliament has voted today about a no deal .. just hearing the jist on the news.

It seems to be they want it to be impossible for Boris to evade parliament to push through no deal.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

So parliament has voted today about a no deal .. just hearing the jist on the news.

It seems to be they want it to be impossible for Boris to evade parliament to push through no deal.

Yep, Johnson has lost his first vote as PM. And he's not even PM yet.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Looks to me like Brenda is gonna be called in to adjudicate. I'm sure she'll be thrilled at the prospect of a constitutional crisis just as the grandkids have all been successfully married off to partners of the opposite gender. Spose she still wants those new curtains, though. If only she had shares in Bright House and could pay on the knock.

 

[phillm]

Just learnt from a friend of a friend that a few year's back in another role a certain politician had invited a number of social enterprise folk to his town hall lair. for a celebratory shindig. The foaf was a young and attractive woman in her late twenties. After the talk and networking, he made a beeline for her with the chat-up line "That's a nice top. Would you care for a drink afterwards in my office" As they say in Private Eye she made her excuses and left....

 

[sleaterkinney]

Good article on BoJo here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/boris-johnson-ham-of-fate/

 

[stavros]

I wonder whether it has occurred to him to have someone bump off the Queen

I'm sure with a quick phone call to Darius Guppy that can be arranged.

 

[stavros]

Somewhat late, I caught up on the Andrew Neil interviews this evening. Even the known Tory Brillo looked exasperated by Johnson's bullshittery and phobia of answering the question posed.

He also seems to be selling himself to the public on the line that he's more ethical than Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who I don't recall running for Tory leader. It was a big initial field, mind, so I may have forgotten.

 

[Rivendelboy]

Guppy, Kippers, what fishy nonsense next?

 

[Poi E]

Sardines, like how the fuckers will be packed when we send them down south.

 

[stavros]

Cold blooded and scaly, the average Tory is 57.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Badgers]

Hopefully Johnson won't do anything stupid like giving Priti Patel or Rees Mogg senior roles

 

[krtek a houby]

Gahhhh

At the Foreign Office he was heard to muse as to whether Chancellor Angela Merkel had served in East Germany’s Stasi secret police. French president Emmanuel Macron was a “jumped-up Napoleon”. As for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, “Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them”.

Boris Johnson on Varadkar: ‘Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them’

 

[cupid_stunt]

Gahhhh

At the Foreign Office he was heard to muse as to whether Chancellor Angela Merkel had served in East Germany’s Stasi secret police. French president Emmanuel Macron was a “jumped-up Napoleon”. As for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, “Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them”.

Boris Johnson on Varadkar: ‘Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them’

That's an interesting read, originally published in Financial Times, cheers for posting.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

Not new news but had not read this before...

In British PM race, a former Russian arms tycoon wields influence

For almost a decade, Alexander Temerko, who forged a career at the top of the Russian arms industry and had connections at the highest levels of the Kremlin, has been an influential figure in British politics. He’s one of the Conservative Party’s major donors. He counts Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s next PM, among his friends.

 

[Poi E]

Sly dig at Scotland, dropping in rationing references. Prepping people.

 

[stavros]

Hopefully Johnson won't do anything stupid like giving Priti Patel or Rees Mogg senior roles

I reckon Mogg is happy sniping from the sidelines. I wouldn't be surprised if he kisses whichever arses necessary to secure a peerage.