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

but just *imagine* the calamitous faux pas of waltzing up to a bloomsbury soiree garbed in assorted rural-rich hand-me-downs

No, I’m talking about the type of schmutter Andrea Leadsom would have brought there in bin bags.

Leadsom also terrible but I don't think her terribleness is signalled by her dress sense either.

Also rural-rich hand me downs eg. tattersall shirts, utilitywear and grandad’s tweed jackets are fairly de trop amongst the Lamb’s Conduit massive (I’m scared to ask a few of the non-Labour ones what they think of Rory Stewart, but I know they all fucking hate Boris Johnson).

Leadsom dresses just like the c.1998 shit Tory landlady I had, who was v. good at telling you what a Christian she was while withholding part of a deposit, after being presented with a flat left much cleaner and better decorated than when we had found it.

boris has broken 110 :(

She dresses like many, many lower middle-class women of her age dress, particularly outside London I think. If your point is that people who dress like that are all "telegraphing their terribleness" then I'll understand but I wouldn't agree with you.

xp this seems like... terrible news.

it's 105 he needed to be be on the final ballot.. god help us.

Boris Johnson - 114
Jeremy Hunt - 43
Michael Gove - 37
Dominic Raab - 27
Sajid Javid - 23
Matt Hancock - 20
Mark Harper - 10
Rory Stewart - 19
Esther McVey - 9
Andrea Leadsom - 11

Fuck's sake

But she isn’t LMC! She’s from a family of offshoring gazillionaires! That dress style is also very Christine Hamilton so it’s handy for identifying female golf Nazis.

So he's now automatically on the final ballot no matter what? Or he could lose if people switch away from him?

xp Suzy, your question was about dressing a certain way telegraphing terribleness. I don't think it does, though I'm sure many terrible people dress that way.

Be that as it may, at least Boris Johnson isn't about to be PM.

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Oh hang on, he is.

His fashion sense is extremely concerning.

i dunno man, Stewart is gaining some traction

Was going to spectlulate about who might pick up votes now, but cannot even attempt to venture into the diseased mind of someone who would choose Andrea Leadsome to be the prime minister.

Tories love a winner, they'll all swing behind Johnson

What a sick and sad world.

and now live to MR Seumas Milne for his response to this ballot

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/emperor-palpatine-1555323736.jpg

poor shit McVey and her 9 socks

I don't think BJ is *guaranteed* to be in the postal ballot by virtue of 33%+ of the votes (i.e. guaranteed top-two if this was the penultimate ballot), but it's clearly over as a contest. I guess they'll go through the motions and he'll end up beating Hunt 220-93 or something by the end of next week and then on July 22 arrrrrrrgh

That's that then, congrats new pm lol boris legend

DJ Nihal on Five Live - whose lightweight celebrity gossip steez i normally avoid like the plague - doing an excellent "why are Tory MPs supporting career racist Boris Johnson?" bit at the moment

Be good to get a dynamic operator behind the wheel of the flaming car

we need Lorraine Kelly to go off on Johnson now. Save us Lorraine!

Can't believe the Tories have walked right into Labour's trap.

A taste of the new regime

NEW: Ballot closed and I’m told by sources on ‘22 that it was decided to disallowed phones in room because of an aggressive whipping operation from Team Johnson. Told had been instructed to take photo of their ballot paper to prove they’d backed Johnson.

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 13, 2019

after being so secretive for years they have disclosed they have 160000 ish members left now - because it will come out in the wash anyway, and every dead vote for boris will count as well.

kinda looking forward to the more pie-eyed end of the FBPE massive getting to see what a Tory party in full self-preservation mode looks like tbh

the boris project: slouching blond beast who can or shrunken cowardly lump who was never going to

also i think it will be hunt #bantz #huntz #secretweapon #weapon

― mark s, Friday, May 24, 2019 12:59 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When you think about it, the dead should count for more, they have so much to teach us.

agree that Boris can still be stopped

Boris will not be stopped

Nothing quite says ‘Tory leadership contest’ like #politicslive recollecting Thatcher only won the nomination because the frontrunner suggested “very poor people should be sterilised”.

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) June 13, 2019

Worth emphasising that the frontrunner in question was her mentor and she was effectively standing in his place.

also she probably agreed with him

I think at this stage boris could probably say the same and get away it by saying he merely misspoken.

the bloke on the radio this morning said exactly that for the 'fuck business' comment - 'he probably didn't mean it'

Why would he need to ‘get away with it’? Seems like a solid vote-winning platform

He got away with:

- Made up articles about how 'orrible the EU is when still a journo
- A blatant lie on the side of a bus
- Racism
- Xenophobia
- Doing 180s on "where he stands", promises etc

He's very much like the 'mini-Trump' mentioned in today's Graun article abt Europe being mortified about the prospect of PM Bozzers.

this one https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/mini-trump-across-the-channel-european-media-on-boris-johnson-as-british-pm

I didn't think thatcher had any positive qualities but actually she would have been even worse if she'd gone in for bantz, so perhaps that's something in her favour

What is it that especially outrages people about Johnson? We've just had May as PM who is also racist, xenophobic, did 180s on a weekly basis, has blatantly lied to us (and the Queen lol). She wasn't a journo but she would totally had a symbiotic relationships with the gutter press.

At the moment Johnson is walking over like May did with very, very little scrutiny and on his record as London Mayor - as if his tenure at the Foreign Office never happened.

hitler

billy bremner ..

May lied more and just as seriously as Boris. Let’s also not forget that she made him foreign secretary during a period pretty much most other PMs would have let him slink away

Anyway

Jess Phillips saying Boris Johnson's "authenticity rubs off with even the slightest brushing" pic.twitter.com/0lrz4BLZTJ

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) June 13, 2019

Thought it was very cool how most journalists expressed some concern at his MP supporters booing one of their number yesterday - only presumabley to go back to breathlessly devoting pages of coverage to him like that never happened.

jess is the gold standard authentocrat, so that's such a very serious burn!

You don't have to like May to think Boris is a cunt.

We should probably stop baiting Andrew F

Johnson's 'I was a great mayor' schtick is entirely aimed at people who have never lived in London but are nevertheless convinced Sadiq Khan has 'ruined it'

— Jack Saundrs (@jack_saundrs) June 13, 2019

expecting a dead cat poll bounce for CONs once he is installed + a summer of LAB infighting -> BJ will fall into same trap as TM and drink his own look aid. will then try to crush the saboteurs, pivoting to NDB to put nigel back in his box. october election will probably return a LAB (minority?) govt on a derisory share of the vote

in the meantime we’ll have liz truss chancellor