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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
well, yeah
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Sounds like a Tory to me.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
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)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
jfc
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Not sure if that’s worse than this:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/jun/15/tory-leadership-race-kitchen-cabinet-rachel-cooke
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
xp we're gonna die etc etc
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
but doesn't city status open up towns to more grants and funding etc?
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
My god the desperation to hold this worst of all jobs is quite something.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Owen Bennett is the guy who’s writing a book about Gove and brags about it, iirc?
― govussy blues (gyac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
strong testament to the human capacity for optimism imoxps
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Stewart is such a nob but the Boris-baiting is starting to get fun
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
lol bold
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson 143Michael Gove 51Jeremy Hunt 54Sajid Javid 38Rory Stewart 27
... the dream is over.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
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
― stet, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
will be vaguely interested in what desperate delusion centrist rory stans will cling to next
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
RIP big man, heaven needed a rando dwelling heaven talking to other rando's
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Thinking of you in these difficult times, xyzzzzzzzz_
― govussy blues (gyac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Don't think they'll VONC a new leader this year. Those principled Remain Tories will fold like steel in burning jet fuel
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
tory leadership election looking about as competitive as the SPFL premiership
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
rip big man, we’ll always have kabul
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
xxp and they’ll be backed by the “regretfully I must” rump CHUK party plus assorted ne’er do wells.
― govussy blues (gyac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
the intrepid opium smoker and great white hope of the moderates doesn't even get a podium finish.. lol!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Look, the EU is the most important thing in the world except for pwning the Left
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
brb, gonna become an opium addict
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
honestly smoking opium at a wedding in iran sounds like a good laugh
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
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.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
xp. pass the fesenjan please, Ali. *nods off*
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Who is Kenneth Clarke going to back now?
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Hunt started as Remainer then went crazy for the Brexit. Maybe Gove's crossed him going the other direction, I've lost track.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Sajid Javid voted Remain.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Ha, yes I'd forgotten that. What a world.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
He's relying on everyone else forgetting about it.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Kwasi Kwarteng's main responsibility seems to be appearing on C4 News, sighing and saying "Look..." in a condescending manner in defence of whatever shit his leader/future leader is up to.
― fetter, Thursday, 20 June 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
BREAK: Round 4 Results Johnson 157Hunt 59Gove 61Javid 34JAVID OUT— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 20, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson - 157
Jeremy Hunt - 59
Michael Gove - 61
Sajid Javid - 34
xp
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
Should have put some money on boris in early june, nothing whatsoever has changed but he's gone from 3/1 to 1/10
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/may/28/tory-leadership-contest-odds-tracker-whos-up-and-whos-down
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
ah 2 spoiled ballots - dick move at this juncture
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
look, Rory's a passionate guy
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
One spoiled ballot obv May, the other...?
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
xxxpyou can still get 7/4 on next GE in 2019, isn't that buying money?
― calzino, Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
Kenneth Clarke (xp)
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
johnson, gove and cunt - perhaps the most challenging marry/fuck/kill lineup in history
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link