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

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One spoiled ballot obv May, the other...?

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:24 (six years ago)

xxxp
you can still get 7/4 on next GE in 2019, isn't that buying money?

calzino, Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:24 (six years ago)

Kenneth Clarke (xp)

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:26 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

it was saj, he was a politician

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:38 (six years ago)

Pretty sure Ken Clarke will vote Boris tbh.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:43 (six years ago)

B-but he is the father of the commons wtf

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 12:48 (six years ago)

Really, Tom?

Last week he was pretty damning. Spoiled paper sounds about right.

On Boris Johnson, Clarke is withering in a way that borders on contempt. He says he was a “disaster” as foreign secretary, and when asked if he could be equally terrible as prime minister, he answers in an instant. “Yes, he certainly has the potential to be. Unless he suddenly starts taking it seriously. I am not sure he knows what he would do to get us through the crisis.


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/15/kenneth-clarke-bring-down-no-deal-government?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Alba, Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:20 (six years ago)

Yes, really.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:40 (six years ago)

c'mon he listens to miles davis, you've got to take his word as bond!

calzino, Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:46 (six years ago)

when boris is anointed and calls a snap GE with BP standing aside to give the CON’s a free run... do we reckon CONs win that election? or are they losing from column B (social liberals who leak to LDs) what they pick up in column A (hard case BP wingnuts)... and thus being hurt in the marginals required for success?

||||||||, Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:46 (six years ago)

If Boris Johnson wins the leadership race it will be the first time we've had an openly racist Prime minister since the beginning of the month.

— Ed Poole (@edwardpoole1975) June 20, 2019

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:56 (six years ago)

"one helluva finale"

40 minutes to go in the final ballot, and it’s one helluva finale. Senior Gove team source says they’re confident they have half of Sajid’s backers, with most others going to Boris: “Hunt only beats us now if Boris lends him votes, and that’s a really bad look”.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) June 20, 2019

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 15:58 (six years ago)

his whole party's a bad look

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 June 2019 16:54 (six years ago)

If my ambition and conduct in this contest has set an example for anyone, then it has been more than worth it. My message to kids like me: pic.twitter.com/jaa2cMxM4z

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 20, 2019

Sajid did it for the children

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:00 (six years ago)

for the kids with just a few private tutors, not many

Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:02 (six years ago)

Boris Johnson 160
Jeremy Hunt 77
Michael Gove 75

Bozza v. the Cunt

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:06 (six years ago)

oh shi

nashwan, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:08 (six years ago)

I am a man who would fight for your honour
I'll be the hero you're dreaming of
We'll live forever, knowing together
that we did it all for the glory of Gove

ussy

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:09 (six years ago)

http://www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:10 (six years ago)

Actually considering now if Johnson lent him a vote or two there

stet, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:15 (six years ago)

Really disappointed that I missed my few hours window to make a "cock, muff or bumhole" joke

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:22 (six years ago)

8/1 on Hunt is tempting.

ShariVari, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:24 (six years ago)

making BJ the party leader is big last throw of the dice energy

||||||||, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:25 (six years ago)

shamima begum’s baby died in vain then. nice one sajid

||||||||, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:29 (six years ago)

8/1 on Hunt is tempting.

Worth a cunt, sorry, punt.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:29 (six years ago)

Working for Jeremy Hunt, a memoir by Luke Turner: https://thequietus.com/articles/08944-jeremy-hunt-levenson-enquiry-hotcourses
(apologies to those who've already snickered lengthily at it)

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:30 (six years ago)

“Cunt to win” too ambiguous a bet

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:36 (six years ago)

Can’t believe Gove couldn’t snake his way into the final...we can only hope he invests his pent-up energies in flinging tons of shit

govussy blues (gyac), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:36 (six years ago)

Wonder who the spoiled vote was?

govussy blues (gyac), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:37 (six years ago)

in a way, they're all losers

Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:42 (six years ago)

https://www.enca.com/sites/default/files/WEB_PHOTO_SPOILTVOTE.jpg

mark s, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:52 (six years ago)

stephen crabb is still an MP !

||||||||, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:07 (six years ago)

The French version of being 'between a rock and a hard place' is more eloquent in this instance: choisir entre la peste et le choléra literally means having to choose between the plague and cholera.

pomenitul, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:16 (six years ago)

Did you think he’d just scuttled off?

govussy blues (gyac), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:16 (six years ago)

How long does this shit go on for?

Matt DC, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:17 (six years ago)

22 july I think

||||||||, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:18 (six years ago)

Another month?!

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:55 (six years ago)

shamima begum’s baby died in vain then. nice one sajid

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Probably isn't that important to state this but...it would've been carried out anyway whether Sajid got the job or not. And should there be an opportunity to send that msg again (because that's what it was) then it will be taken.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:59 (six years ago)

xp could be even longer than that

May will only resign when she is sure her successor has confidence of Commons, No 10 says - live news https://t.co/iGbsGMsLIu

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2019

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:00 (six years ago)

🤮🤮🤮

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:02 (six years ago)

Popcorn time!

Matt DC, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:04 (six years ago)

Oh wait that's weeks old. Theoretically that means the DUP and a handful of Tories could torpedo whoever wins though?

Matt DC, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:07 (six years ago)

It could in theory be sooner if the first polls are 75-25 to Boris, and Jeremy decides that he'd rather not fork out the £150k that that CCHQ want both of them to pay for the hustings. And possibly by sparing Boris that hassle, he might have a spare cabinet post going?

But more likely he'll figure that just by getting Boris to repeat all the various and contradictory things that he's been variously saying to get backers from Steve Baker to Matt Hancock, he might yet win.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:09 (six years ago)

wasn't the 'May only resigning when it's clear her successor has confidence of Commons' thing a response to reassure people concerned that the tories could bring forward the parliamentary summer recess (to shortly before the end of the leadership contest), and the new PM would then have a month in office without having to face parliament

soref, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:17 (six years ago)

My take on it is that he'll need to enter into new DUP talks. Doubt there will be any Tory resistance as no chance of any of that shower of cunts triggering an election.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:39 (six years ago)

“I’ve been the underdog right from the start and I like to prove people wrong. And the way I’m going to win this race is by showing that the best way to Brexit is by sending the European Union a prime minister they can engage with, a tough negotiator, someone who has a bottom line and won’t give up until I get what is right for our country. But also someone who is prepared to walk away.”


So you won't give up, but you hold in reserve the threat to give up at any time.

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:11 (six years ago)

A tough negotiator prepared to shoot him self in the foot if he doesn’t get what he wants

stet, Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:36 (six years ago)

So the race for pm boils down to the age old question of:

The EU mostly resembles:
a) Nazi Germany
b) A Soviet prison

If a), vote Bozza. If b), vote Hunt.

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:46 (six years ago)

stalag stalin

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:48 (six years ago)


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