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

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.

Talking of which, I noticed this morning the fact that Liz Truss went to school in Paisley (the same primary school as me!) was mentioned as evidence of a humble background. Amazingly her father was a professor of mathematics! Where did the brains end up on that family?

she can be added to the list: Andrew Neil, Paolo Nutini, Gerry Rafferty, Liz Truss, Tom D from ILX, my dad

apparently Truss's parents were lefties who too her on demos as a kid (that's her on the right)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02986/Liz-Truss_2986380c.jpg

... where she has remained for the rest of her life.

imagine hating your parents that much

Is Mordaunt going to be the next PM?

according to the bookies, yes she's odds on. The humkble little billionaire pocket prince has drifted out to 3/1.

^^^
*humble*

xp see also lifelong Tory, Hilary Benn

Mordaunt has the advantage of relative obscurity, so no-one's seen how incompetent she is. Not yet, anyway.

Feels like she's being set up for a fall. Media will make a lot of sexist hay about her vs Rayner.

Liz Truss opposing the monarchy at the 1994 Lib Dem conferencepic.twitter.com/zU09W4c4aR

— Tides of History (@labour_history) July 14, 2022

Liz Truss - her radical student years coming back to haunt her! Also Mordaunt's team will be deleting all evidence of her Roman Catholic background from her wiki.

not a regular poster to this thread but i really hate seeing shit like this, tweeted by peter walker and then copied into the guardian liveblog: "Theresa May has arrived to vote in the second round, looking - as has often been the case in the last week or so - decidedly chipper."

like, who cares how theresa may is looking or feeling? are there more than half a dozen people alive today who are happy that she is experiencing schadenfreude? i've seen similar accounts of her walking merrily into the commons, watching boris squirm under questions. yes, we recall when she was prime minister and was then ousted, it was only a couple of years ago. neither her happiness nor her misery are interesting but her walking around with a smile on her face keeps being mentioned as though some historical injustice were being righted

Telegraph have started gunning for Mordaunt.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/13/penny-mordaunt-accused-failing-iraq-veterans-subjected-witch/

burn the witch!

Liz Truss - her radical student years coming back to haunt her!

Two years later she was in the Conservative Party.