Who will be the next prime minister (October 2022 edition)

[SpookyFrank]

One week poll, changing your vote not allowed. Winners entered into a draw to win a chance at being the next-but-one PM.

 

[maomao]

Should have been a public poll for bragging rights. Johnson will win.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Should have been a public poll for bragging rights. Johnson will win.

Johnson hasn't a hope in hell.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Grant Shapps is rumoured to be running. you may have missed it (I did) but he ran last time as well apparently.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah should be public. I went for Mordor.

 

[ItStillWontWork]

Johnson hasn't a hope in hell.

How much money would you place on it?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Grant Shapps is rumoured to be running. you may have missed it (I did) but he ran last time as well apparently.

Traditionally there's a comedy option, not a tragedy option.

 

[maomao]

Johnson hasn't a hope in hell.

Care to put your cash where your keyboard is?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

larry the cat to be elevated to the lords and be PM of a government of national unity

it's a long time since anyone from the HoL has been PM, but think it's still constitutionally possible...

 

[cupid_stunt]

How much money would you place on it?

Care to put your cash where your keyboard is?

I'll bet £25 with both of you, if he does become PM again I'll pay £50 to the server fund, if he doesn't, you pay £25 each to the server fund.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Badenoch is currently trading at 55/1, could be worth a punt.

 

[maomao]

I'll bet £25 with both of you, if he does become PM again I'll pay £50 to the server fund, if he doesn't, you pay £25 each to the server fund.

I'm not fucking made of money. I've only got a tenner spare (the one I'm winning off bimble in twelve days).

 

[Ted Striker]

Poll fail, no Rehman Chishti

 

[bluescreen]

Wot no write-in option? No chance of Michael Gove, William Hague, Theresa May, or Robert Halfon?
I jest of course, but then the whole thing is risible.
Anything can happen in the next half-hour.

And tbf they are all tragedy options.

 

[Flavour]

Sunak or mordaunt but probably sunak

 

[nottsgirl]

Do the members still get a vote?

 

[kebabking]

Mordaunt is the sensible answer for any number of Tory reasons - Johnson however is also the answer for the reason that the PCP seems to be tactically inept and suicidal.

 

[MickiQ]

The most sensible and sadly the most likely is Mordor though I reckon Wallace has a shot. But this is the Tory Party so I am getting my hopes up for a week long bloodbath.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Kwarteng.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The most sensible and sadly the most likely is Mordor though I reckon Wallace has a shot. But this is the Tory Party so I am getting my hopes up for a week long bloodbath.

Wallace isn't gonna stand, a sinecure at the helm of a NATO with no Russia awaits if he plays his cards right.

 

[Yossarian]

If Sunak and Johnson are the only ones who make it onto the ballot then it'll be an easy win for Johnson, party members aren't going to welcome being asked to vote on the guy they just rejected a few weeks ago any more than they'd welcome a do-over Brexit referendum.

 

[kebabking]

Do the members still get a vote?

Depends.

The PCP would probably quite like to whittle it down to two candidates - Sunak and Mordaunt - and the members would probably choose Mordaunt.

Their ideal would be to whittle it down to those two, then Sunak folds, Mordaunt declared winner, Sunak gets FCDO, Hunt stays at HMT, Wallace stays at Defence.

Wht eher the PCP has the wit/ability to close down the MP's voteto keep the headbangers and Johnson off the ballot is the big thing - they failed last time, but a couple of weeks with Labour at 50%+ might have sharpened them up...

 

[Sue]

What a time to be alive.

 

[chilango]

Needs the option ticking for multiple votes.

 

[marty21]

The Tories will continue their magnificent psychodrama and welcome back Johnson to number 10. He'll be arrogant enough to go for a quick General Election.

 

[bimble]

I thought nothing was going to make me find it funny anymore today but this just did, if only for a moment.

 

[Supine]

I need a ‘no idea - mad as a bag of badgers’ option

 

[not-bono-ever]

Hiroo Onoda isn’t on the list, he’s dead tho

 

[emanymton]

Trick question. They are all the comedy option.

 

[Tanya1982]

It'll be upsetting if it's Mordaunt. Her inexplicably well received UQ performance was excretable. Really depressing stuff that consisted of 'Labour - be afraid of them, SNP - be afraid of them', twelve year old references about 'socialists' leaving notes in the treasury, and all just the warm up act before Jeremy Hunt arrived to announce another round of slash and burn.

We've had twelve years of this shite, and it may as well still be 2010. It's an absolutely unreal state of affairs. Her entire shtick the other day could've been said almost word for word, all those years ago. It's a worse prospect than it was the first time round, because this time we have full knowledge of how ugly, how joyless, how relentless it is. But here we are again.