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

If the rest of the Tory leadership election is going to be like this I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to win.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) June 18, 2019

:-(

She went on to say "Hahahaaa wankers.." possibly.

Xpost TIMING!

Oh no, beware the curse of Hodges

Tbf to big dan, he was pretty otm this evening

Rory’s got the only support that matters lads

No, London @EveningStandard IG1 postcode is definitely not Barking. It is Ilford South. And I would be delighted to invite my friend Rory to my constituency. pic.twitter.com/ukaIbNXgfi

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) June 18, 2019

Mike Gapes has walked across Stanford-le-Hope and speaks Dairy

Johnson's rivals aren't using the Ratcliffe case at all are they?

There is a contest but no scrutiny so far.

If they actually pointed out any of the bad things he's done then they wouldn't have any chance of being in his cabinet

And it would really damage him from the start.

But that's the thing one thinks it would come out in a GE. Maybe Trump going on to win has blinded ppl.

She’s not white, the general public didn’t give a fuck before and they won’t now.

Further filigree would complicate going to war!

Whoever wins is going to end up having to hand over £450m to a country they just accused of trying to start WW3, one way or another, and i'd guess they don't want that to be perceived as linked to the case or a Tory problem.

nick cohen tweet, so pinch of salt

Talked to a Tory MP last night who was backing Johnson
"Do you think he'd be any good as PM"
"No"
"What on earth will he do about Brexit"?
"No one knows"
"Why do you want him, then?"
"He's the best hope we've got"
"By 'we" you don't mean Britain do you?"
"No the party, of course"

— Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) June 19, 2019

well, yeah

Sounds like a Tory to me.

I think I see in this arsehole what others see in MLC:

I’m in position outside the committee room where Tory MPs will be voting. Ten mins until it starts. Andrew Rosindell is ready to take the names of MPs as they come in. He is wearing a Back Boris badge

— Owen Bennett (@owenjbennett) June 19, 2019

(check the thread if you've a high gag reflex)

jfc

Yup, very much MLC vibes agree.

This is also something worthy of her:

What Boris Johnson’s filthy car tells us about the aspiring PM https://t.co/jEu8i3g40X

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 19, 2019

Not sure if that’s worse than this:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/jun/15/tory-leadership-race-kitchen-cabinet-rachel-cooke

She’s not white, the general public didn’t give a fuck before and they won’t now.

― govussy blues (gyac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's more about being clumsy, and the consequences and to whom. Maybe ppl won't care in this case but they might elsewhere.

xp we're gonna die etc etc

Rory Stewart he “certainly hopes” he’s won Southend MP David Amess by offering to make his town a city. And he offers to do the same for other Tory MPs. “More towns, definitely definitely. Anyone who wants to vote for me... anyone can be a city.”

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) June 19, 2019

tbf I am not sure the candidates are any less obnoxiously whimsical.

but doesn't city status open up towns to more grants and funding etc?

My god the desperation to hold this worst of all jobs is quite something.

Some of it (not Stewart) is probably more looking to get closest to the job, nab a cabinet position, then judge the right time to resign when it all catches fire.

Back here again in a few months.

but doesn't city status open up towns to more grants and funding etc?

I don’t think so, it’s status and bragging rights more than anything else.

My town was a city for 1300 years and messed up the paperwork to lose it in the late 90s. It took them four years to notice.

Owen Bennett is the guy who’s writing a book about Gove and brags about it, iirc?

strong testament to the human capacity for optimism imo
xps

Stewart is such a nob but the Boris-baiting is starting to get fun

lol bold

Rory Stewart he “certainly hopes” he’s won Southend MP David Amess by offering to make his town a city. And he offers to do the same for other Tory MPs. “More towns, definitely definitely. Anyone who wants to vote for me... anyone can be a city.”

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) June 19, 2019

Boris Johnson 143
Michael Gove 51
Jeremy Hunt 54
Sajid Javid 38
Rory Stewart 27

... the dream is over.

the May deal dies its last death and a set of reality-deniers get to try it all over again.

Election by autumn, I guess

will be vaguely interested in what desperate delusion centrist rory stans will cling to next

RIP big man, heaven needed a rando dwelling heaven talking to other rando's

Thinking of you in these difficult times, xyzzzzzzzz_

xps yes for the others, with Boris there's a 50/50 chance that he sticks a sprig of parsley on it and calls it The Great British Bulldog Deal, he'll do that thing where he waves his jowls and spittle goes everywhere, it'll be great.

Don't think they'll VONC a new leader this year. Those principled Remain Tories will fold like steel in burning jet fuel

tory leadership election looking about as competitive as the SPFL premiership

rip big man, we’ll always have kabul

xxp and they’ll be backed by the “regretfully I must” rump CHUK party plus assorted ne’er do wells.

the intrepid opium smoker and great white hope of the moderates doesn't even get a podium finish.. lol!

Look, the EU is the most important thing in the world except for pwning the Left

will be vaguely interested in what desperate delusion centrist rory stans will cling to next

the latest thing I saw (before these votes so there are probably some hot new takes already) is that Rory wasn't trying to win, just show that he's an adult ready for next time to clean up after any Boris-induced mess

and if that is his thinking, well, that means he isn't going to do anything to stop Boris making a mess, no? def no resigning the whip, prob still no voting to stop No Deal, only VONCing if sure it won't go through - do the bare minimum to keep the "finally a sensible Tory" murmurs going but the bigger the mess, the more chance he must see of capitalising on it

tears will ensue, excuses will be made (again), etc

brb, gonna become an opium addict

honestly smoking opium at a wedding in iran sounds like a good laugh

Kwasi Kwarteng's defence of Boris against accusations of racism seems to be that he's been accused of that before - like there's some sort of statute of limitations in operation or a limit on the number of times you can criticize someone on the same subject.

xp. pass the fesenjan please, Ali. *nods off*

Who is Kenneth Clarke going to back now?

Hunt started as Remainer then went crazy for the Brexit. Maybe Gove's crossed him going the other direction, I've lost track.