The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel - The Tory leadership elections

That's on a previous tweet - basically Amber Rudd thinks he's a respected statesman but no one in Brussels respects him due to his first major intervention being to compare the EU to the USSR.

Wasn't it Hunt that made the Slovenia/Slovakia mixup "Soviet vassal state" booboo? And then said in his pitch video that he was the right man for the job because if people didn't get the details right the EU might not give us the best deal? Arf.

japanese/chinese mixup as well, but was about his wife tbf!

also keeps insisting his surname begins with an 'h' which is clearly untrue

For good or ill, Rory Stewart would absolutely annihilate Jeremy Corbyn in a general election.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 11, 2019

only one of them has walked across afghanistan and speaks dari tbf

xp, lol, “for good or ill”

I see we’re back to this narrative

I’m well aware of his voting record. The support for austerity et al stinks. But Corbyn *couldn’t beat Theresa May* & Stewart’s at least a hundred times more impressive than her.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 11, 2019

Only one of them has eaten cold Tesco own brand baked beans straight out of a tin.

Given that Rory Stewart is never going to be leader of the Conservative Party it's like one of those pointless, "Would a zombie beat a vampire?" pub conversations.

.@RoryStewartUK electrified this tent. He delivered the most coherent and lyrical launch speech of any candidate. On this showing the Tories have found a proper star. But they will reject him, because his “moderate” views are out of touch with his party. Labour will be relieved

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 11, 2019

Only one of them can boast this key life experience

He is also a friend of the Prince of Wales and was holiday-tutor to Princes William and Harry when they were schoolboys. He accidentally locked himself in the loo on his very first night at Highgrove - the key snapped and he had to be rescued by Charles's Special Branch bodyguards while Charles himself hovered nearby in his dressing gown, fretting.

These people are paid to comment on UK politics btw.

Mr Jame Sob has been a cunt as long as I’ve been aware of him. Peston just comes across as a bit thick.

LOL seeing as Islington North boasts 100 different languages spoken by his constituents, and he’s reasonably good at other languages, if Corbyn doesn’t know how to ask someone how they are in Dari (which is basically Farsi) I’d be pretty surprised.

If theres anything that recent political history of UK indicates it's that folk are crying out for a moderate Tory PM.

Oh wait no

xp Corbyn speaks Spanish fluently!

He certainly does!

I'm sure mr O'Brien has a very broad criteria for what makes an "impressive" pol, but I'd imagine not being called Jeremy Corbyn or being ever so slightly to the right of centre-left would be a good start with him.

Anyway, here’s the only proof you need:

Is @RoryStewartUK looking for the cat-lovers vote? 🐈🗳️

The Tory leadership hopeful's been spotted outside Number 10 patting Larry the cat ahead of a Cabinet meeting.

Latest on the race here: https://t.co/hlfeB6YEeT pic.twitter.com/G5JyoFT0D7

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 11, 2019

cats are a bit like tories, ruthless vermin and overrated!

I think most people are currently underestimating how much of a potential menace Stewart is. The more I see of him the more I suspect that he has the same kind of sociopathic, authoritarian, self-righteous, narcissistic traits as Blair. Blair deceived many initially by hiding behind a façade of photogenic reasonableness. Being photogenic is obviously not a tool at the disposal of Stewart, but he is doing much the same thing with his shtick of eccentric, cheeky-chappy approachability.

xp how dare you, I’d fp you if I wasn’t on zing

the most surprising thing about rory stewart is that he looks that malformed while only being a bit posh and not a full aristo

Only some dogs are Tory Calzino, otherwise that's just objectively wrong!

cats are individualist anarchists after the fashion of max stirner

cats are a bit like tories, ruthless vermin and overrated!

― calzino, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 8:30 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is with great regret and a heavy heart that yaddayaddayadda fp

cousin fucking has a lot to answer for across the class spectrum. I bet he still makes some average upper middle classes seem like hoi polloi just by having posher connections.

don't make me tap the sign

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6MW0grDhZyE/VYMjKYh0yLI/AAAAAAAAM60/l1Fs_LopfZo/s1600/Andercon%2Bpuppets%2BAquaphibian.jpg

For the avoidance of any doubt - I have read the Labour motion proposed for tomorrow and I will NOT be voting for it.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 11, 2019

"Just as I was starting to like you" - FBPE reply person

Can’t believe the Tory turned out to be a Tory.
Still mad about that cat dig

Jeremy Corbyn’s Xmas card! Is this El Gato? pic.twitter.com/8sgxgdWNzb

— steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) December 14, 2018

lmao at all these fucking idiots in the replies who are shocked (SHOCKED!) that a tory is acting like a tory

or what gyac said

A lot of Lib Dems dying to vote Rory at a general election. Missed a trick there, might be his welfare bill moment

there is nothing that says moderate one nation tory more than putting your poxy political career before preventing a national crisis.

Even if he made it to the final two, the members aren’t going to vote him in.

Lol I hadn’t seen he’d said otherwise, sceeeeenes

.@RoryStewartUK says he will support the @jeremycorbyn @oletwinofficial initiative to take no-deal Brexit and risk of parliament being prorogued (suspended) off table. He is ploughing his own course. The audience here love him. Some of his MP colleagues will find this challenging

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 11, 2019

(This was before his tweet when he said he wouldn’t)

Lol

Depends on how badly Boris will fuck up once he has to open his mouth in this campaign. The membership did elect a man they hated before because he came across well.

can’t believe a man who walked across afghanistan and speaks dari would be so two-faced, smdh

calz otm re catz

Whippets are dog hardware using cat software, can’t we all just get along?

It's too late, they've already spread their mind control parasites to most of humanity.. all is lost!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/we-went-to-parliament-to-play-with-dogs-because-its this is for calz (and I should add that I also have a dog who is a complete moron but I still prefer cats)

There's a reason the thread is called, "The cat's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel"

rob halford joining me in tapping the sign

zhttps://twitter.com/mhn_animals/status/1138180230902734849

Rob Halford (Judas Priest) pic.twitter.com/Ae8mJmReHr

— Metalheads n animals (@mhn_animals) June 10, 2019

lol ffs

the cat's on fire

i'm sure ILX can come to a consensus that a cat would make a better leader of the Tory party than any of the candidates running