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

that would make more sense

would also make more sense if uk politics turns out to be a fever dream i'm having

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/sda0Sgm63N

— Dave (@MediocreDave) July 11, 2022

Lol @ O-Pis in video, is she going to conspicuously wear a livestrong bracelet as well

goid morning!

ok which one of you is medicore dave real

This seems irresponsible.

Anyone who thinks that that's what you do with 43C has never experienced 43C. And I say that as someone who's never experienced anything beyond 39C. https://t.co/1UOxDIUM0E

— Giulio Mattioli (@giulio_mattioli) July 11, 2022

lol we’re all gonna fry

Time to live on toast for a few days because I'm sure as hell not firing up that gas cooker, even if it's in the low 30's

Yep. My weekly bread baking schedule is kiboshed indefinitely, because fuck that

Teach yourself how to make that Turkish shop bread!

what to say? scum

The House of Commons has voted to approve new regulations that would allow companies to hire agency workers to replace striking workers.

Under Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, it was illegal to hire agency workers to replace strikers.

— TLDR News UK (@TLDRNewsUK) July 11, 2022

Don't think a lot of rail workers can learn on the job.

It may work on other strikes..

today's Tory party: libertarian on the streets, fash in the sheets

I know they are all bad but I'm almost quite relieved to hear Suella Braverman is struggling to make the cut, not like she was going to happen anyway. But from the dangerous lunatic fringe she seems like one of the most rabid ones and you can never rule out shock results - she makes those Britannia Unchained lot seem like melts.

Kemi Badenoch is possibly worse though.

oh well, at least the Tories are doing better than Labour on ethnic representation in their party ... lol

Damn what a weird coincidence that this is coming out shortly after the government rammed through their war crimes immunity bill, what a stroke of luck. https://t.co/86BBtjXAJH

— Tom Hatfield (@WordMercenary) July 12, 2022

Ah, they felt the time was right to have 54 non-crimes taken into consideration...

Eight made it onto the ballot

Kemi Badenoch
Suella Braverman
Jeremy Hunt
Penny Mordaunt
Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss
Tom Tugendhat
Nadhim Zahawi

so these three are out

Rehman Chishti
Grant Shapps
Sajid Javid

Put them all in a weird house full of cameras, eliminate two a week by public vote.

I'm saying eliminate them all yes

it's a futile task trying to grade them in terms of "least worst". I give up.

The weird thing is that a lot of the 'policies' are twitter talking points.

It's why I highly doubt this stuff is a replacement for Brexit.

.@KemiBadenoch: "My Government will discard the priorities of Twitter and focus on the people's priorities. When we can't deliver passports and driving licences on time why are we spending millions on people whose jobs literally didn't exist a decade ago?"

— Harry Phibbs (@harryph) July 12, 2022

Badenoch is very online!

a lot of very online now has just replaced the kind of trite common sense bigotry that used to go up on staff room noticeboards and local newspaper letter pages anyway

I think Badenoch actually is the worst, she's a fanatic.

Shame this guy isn't running!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/tobias-ellwood-home-attacked-after-tory-mp-ran-over-local-cat

Julie Holland, 61, who lives opposite the former vicarage owned by Stephanie Hawa, also 61, was also not sympathetic to the MP. Holland, who owns a cat called Boris, named after the prime minister, and a dog called Stanley, after Johnson’s father, said: ‘It’s a disgrace. If he had done that to my cat I would have done something about it. But, she added: “I’m still a supporter.”

absolutely nothing new but something about the flippancy of mordaunts transphobic comments this morning and their reception really horrified me. people simply asking to live their lives with some semblance dignity and respect, reduced to a punching bag. comments which then get repeated by political journalists without any kind of acknowledgment or reflection that this is a sick and inhuman way to talk about other people; simply like "remarkably polished launch, heavy on policy". fuck this hellhole

starmer's not coming back from this

Gesturing at Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson says that any of the candidates for Conservative leader would “wipe the floor with Captain Crasheroonie Snoozefest.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 13, 2022

had to check to make sure that's real

I cannot help reading this in the style of Chris Morris on 'The Day Today'https://t.co/0BATCO5JfR

— Peter Hicks (he = Peter, they = Poggs) (@poggs) July 13, 2022

lol

Nadhim Zahawi is using NZ4PM as his leadership election tag. If you click on https://t.co/x6Twdu2bv1 you are redirected to Penny Mordaunt’s leadership home page. Comedy gold. You gotta love this contest

— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 13, 2022

Zahawi’s people say their website is launching tomorrow. Thanks to Mordaunt’s pre-emptive cyber-squatting, we know what his URL won’t be! So funny

— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 13, 2022

like a small child transfixed and delighted by a glove puppet

god help us if he finds out about memes

Hunt got the lowest votes lol. The transformation of the party under Brexit goes on.

Someone else other than Zawahi will have carry out the axe of 20% on all government departments.

Kemi Badenoch - 40 votes
Suella Braverman - 32 votes
Penny Mordaunt - 67 votes
Rishi Sunak - 88 votes
Liz Truss - 50 votes
Tom Tugendhat - 37 votes

A bit mean that we don't get to find out how many votes Hunt and Zawahi got, mind.

There’s 358 Tory MPs so that leaves 44 between them.

they each needed 20 to get on the ballot too.

we don't have an Anne Marie Waters thread, understandably, so just to note here that she has suddenly wound up For Britain today and quit electoral politics

https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/it-was-the-best-organised-far-right

https://img.kiosko.net/2022/07/13/uk/daily_telegraph.750.jpg

mo farah obviously not been through enough...

Why did BoJo only tell the truth now?

(kidding, we await...)

the trains in Spain will be free! (in the main) 🇪🇸 https://t.co/PkwHKxXLpX

— Sophia Smith Galer (@sophiasgaler) July 13, 2022

if you build a big enough network of gulags you can requisition 12000 new homes instead - what a bunch of cautious melts! It's so depressing seeing good stuff like this when you know it would be impossible in the UK within your lifetime.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2022/07/14/TELEMMGLPICT000302793722_1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgRl8BouVbC6HZnydG5Kn5pdzd29AV1S6GkBHLgjhxoY.jpeg?imwidth=1240

...more dirty tricks from the Telegraph as they print a picture that makes Sunak look about 3 foot tall.

"child seat's this side sir"

he seemed very evasive on the radio this morning.

also seems to have swallowed the lie that sending refugees to rwanda is to disuade the evil traffickers. yeah, that'll show 'em. and this form someone keen on repeating his humble immigrant beginnings.

LOL humble beginnings.