like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

Look at this cunt.

Of all the things you could criticise the current Conservative Party for, “people from ethnic minorities can’t do well in it” strikes me as a tough one to sustain.

— Tom Hamilton (@thhamilton) July 9, 2022

Another tell the truth/cut government to the bone/kick the woke truther.

I was going to call her the "let them eat culture war candidate" but there are at least two of them in the race already. Like all political claims to tell bold truths, it prefaces a recitation of cliché and bromide – in which the median Tory member will feel very much at home. https://t.co/ch2yOxT1pj

— James B (@piercepenniless) July 9, 2022

it might be true to say that Conservative MPs as a whole are more ideologically diverse than the PLP at this point

of course they're all terrible ideologies but still

none of the ethnic minority Tory MPs have been treated as badly as Apsana Begum. Labour are given more leeway by the media to be racist, as long as they are left-wing MPs.

of course it's also a factional thing as well with her ex-husband involved

but still the islamophobia in the PLP is possibly even worse than in the Tories. I mean subjecting your own voters to racist slurs in a by-election has left a legacy that will be around for a while.

The Apsana Begum treatment is misogynist as well as racist, like the party has sided with her abusive husband over her. It’s entirely indefensible.

it's a scandal and there is barely any coverage and seeing Labour members parroting the party line on it is sick making.

Especially when you compare it to the coverage Luciana Berger got.

Luciana Berger is also a red princess, so there’s that too (her great uncle was some Lab grandee).

Ben Wallace not standing for the leadership. Who will racists vote for now?

Ben Wallace has a track record of posting positive things about Jeremy Corbyn in 2015!

He could never have withstood scrutiny of these scandalous statements!

I don't think that one tweet over Corbyn made over five years ago is the reason he is not running.

Berger situation not comparable IMO. Whatever you may think of her, she was subject to antisemitic harassment from white supremacists, several of whom were jailed for doing so. I believe her when she says the party didn’t do enough to support her - that goes back to the time she was first elected, because if there’s one thing that remains true, it’s that the Labour Party is truly awful at supporting any of its MPs. She also called out Alistair Campbell for the antisemitic posters when she was going out with Blair’s son, so it’s never been something she’s stayed quiet on. Do I think everything she says was in good faith? No. But I think it’s easy to see if you look back as far as 2005, when she was calling Blair’s Labour out, that antisemitism is (obviously) extremely personal to her and something she feels strongly about. If I felt I wasn’t getting support from my political home during a time of harassment, idk if I’d be necessarily fucked to stand up for them, you know?

I don't think that one tweet over Corbyn made over five years ago is the reason he is not running.

My prediction now is that Sunak & Mordant will be the final two, with Sunak winning the MPs handily, but Mordant easily winning among members (because they are racists) - Truss could also be the other contender but she will fuck it up somehow.

mordaunt will win bcz

(a) name ripped straight from pages of british fantasy fiction (morgoth, maugrim, you know the rest)
(b) the unprecedented alphie write-in vote

I’m not sure how Truss will cope with the full spotlight of a leadership campaign, God help us all if she does.

Mordaunt will win if she gets to the final two, unless the other person is Raab.

I suspect Alphington isn't the only one with a conflicted crush on Mordaunt. lol at the autocorrect !

#horny4penny

they tried to make me vote for Raab, but i said no, no, no

alphingtons his name now, the alg has spoken

We will both be off to the gulag soon, Calzino (and rightly so) xps

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/033/758/Screen_Shot_2020-04-28_at_12.21.48_PM.jpg

as long as it's Mordaunt putting the handcuffs on me and roughly bundling me into the back of the gulag wagon .. at least I'll be able to take that memory with me lol!

absolutely shocked at this display of left horniness for arch Tories

https://c.tenor.com/pJnatjvzCsoAAAAd/casablanca-shocked.gif

Well, that's torn it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/08/penny-mordaunts-pro-trans-stance-has-ruined-chances-becoming/

by Mason Boycott-Owen

The Telegraph Evelyn-Waugh-byline-generator has become self aware.

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

Meanwhile fascist-wing-tory twitter seems to have come out gunning for Sunak, accusing him of being the leaker behind partygate.

Are any of these candidates not going to enthusiastically implement 10 years of austerity?

well several of them are probably up for perma-austerity so

For my sanity I am choosing to maintain the delusion that they will keep managing to plough the clown car into a brick wall every couple of years in a way that causes some manner of reset

anyone in the PLP who opposes austerity will face deselection. Most Tory MPs don't even publicly admit it exists. It's just a case of the UK doing it wrong since the disasterous welfare state expansion post '45.

also unfettered capitalism has been doing a bang-up job of solving environmental catastrophe so far, we just need to unfetter it a bit more

Think there is mass Gilet-Jaune style fuel/energy bill protest brewing this summer and autumn + plus more waves of strikes - can't see that any of them - or Labour frontbench - have anything approaching the nous/experience/bde to negotiate the coming clusterfuck/polycrisis.

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

She'd better or she'll be eaten alive by the media.

I don't know what's going to happen (except more bad things), but I agree with poster Gimbel that "Mason Boycott-Owen" is pretty remarkable.

The Home Office -- the one relatively organised department? -- are building prisons, which is their plan for these protests xxp

They're going to need some bigger prisons

Colombo, Sri Lanka right now. The Presidential Palace has been stormed, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is said to have fled. Unbelievable scenes. Live reports on @IndiaToday: https://t.co/p6JV6FzCub pic.twitter.com/8zlJdBfN2P

— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) July 9, 2022

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

Meanwhile fascist-wing-tory twitter seems to have come out gunning for Sunak, accusing him of being the leaker behind partygate.

A source at Number 10 tells me that Boris Johnson intends to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday, in order to run for the Tory leadership.

— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) July 9, 2022

LOL awesome!

make this happen! lol I might join the Conservative Party as a Boris voting entryist

don't think the rules allow him to enter, guess the rules can be changed by the 1922 though

hmm i wonder who this source providing information on boris johnson to boris johnson’s ex might be

purely just to own the libs I've put £3 on a 9/2 shot called Bringitonboris running in the 7.00 at Hamilton this evening.

They don't allow him to enter if he'd actually lost the tory VONC, iirc?

i've basically said the same on Twitter but Johnson's ability to get melts and Twitter libs squawking in outrage at his refusal to play the game is pretty entertaining imo