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

Reeves has been saying some weapons grade transphobic shit, I'm sure Labour will take strong action to disassociate itself from hate speech

no wonder the right-wing press keep blowing smoke up her arse, a bigoted ex-HBOS ghoul who loves to talk about ‘ironclad discipline’ on public spending. Unfortunately for her she has an even worse voice than Starmer!

Yes, it's horrendous.

it's funny how lots of Labour trash used to be on board with CAA and expressing solidarity etc, but now they they are attacking Starmer (and quite fairly) "oh this whole organisation is a bunch of tories"

Guessing they all have air con.

poll by YouGov today for Times finds tackling climate change is the lowest priority for Tory membership in a list of 10 policy areas

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 18, 2022

british people struggling in this heat wave... stay strong... your ancestors colonized entire countries in this heat 💕💕💕

— Panic! At the Discourse (@kinjaldave7) July 17, 2022

lol was just thinking the exact same as this yesterday while reading Late Victorian Holocausts

Tomorrow's Tory leadership debate cancelled, thank fuck for that. Couldn't they cancel the whole sorry farrago and just not have a PM at all?

do a Belgium and have no government for a bit

Will probably be better.

100%

it's not like the vast majority of people watching have a vote in this thing.

Utterly indulgent of TV commissioners to put on three debates for 100k people.

Most of whom have never worked out how to get anything other than BBC 1 & 2, ITV and Channel 4 on their TVs.

one of the debaters will be the next PM so it's pretty solidly in the public interest but it's true you run the risk of essentially staging a party political broadcast for free

It's been a total PR disaster for the Tory Party tbf.

a good week for the leader of the opposition to play it cool, not attract any controversy and

Not sure if the contest to be PM is in the public interest, as we vote on the party of government.

even if PMs were chosen directly by the house of lords it would still be in the public interest to see the contenders debate the issues of the day!

Let's build more airports.

pic.twitter.com/kn2ClMlZHK

— London Luton Airport (@LDNLutonAirport) July 18, 2022

xp: except I don't see how they are debating issues of the day when they actually have to appeal to 100k people with a particular take on what's needed.

Corbyn: Why are 14 million people in this country living in poverty?
Johnson says he does not accept Corbyn’s case. He says 14 million people voted for his government.

i see the tugmentum has once again dribbled to a premature conclusion

better luck next time big man

Rishi Sunak - 115 votes (+14)
Penny Mordaunt - 82 votes (-1)
Liz Truss - 71 votes (+7)
Kemi Badenoch - 58 votes (+9)

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Tom Tugendhat - 30 votes (-2)

Oops, Tom the hat got 31, making -1 this time.

Huh, I'd tip Bad Enoch from here. Truss han't nailed down the ultra nutbar vote and got into the top two after several ballots and is an obvious liability- think her support might start to bail in favour of the up and comer. And the most culture war brainwormed and not-Sunak candidate will be hot favourite in the members vote

What a saga

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https://i.imgur.com/gMaJM46.png

edith its spelled delet smdh

I just searched that on Google Images so you don't have to, nothing to see other than photos of him guffawing like a cunt thankfully

the farage plane crash pics are hot in a jg ballard way imo

Huh, I'd tip Bad Enoch from here. Truss han't nailed down the ultra nutbar vote and got into the top two after several ballots and is an obvious liability- think her support might start to bail in favour of the up and comer. And the most culture war brainwormed and not-Sunak candidate will be hot favourite in the members vote

― Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 18 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Two u-turns on net zero in 24 hours. If we don't make Kemi PM I'll be massively disappointed.

time to be massively disappointed

Bad Enoch out, punchable AF.

Rishi Sunak - 118 votes (+3)
Penny Mordaunt - 92 votes (+10)
Liz Truss - 86 votes (+15)

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Kemi Badenoch - 59 votes (+1)

I am! Though I think her response to these crises is the future for the Tories.

Can see much of Badenoch's votes going to Truss now xxp

Badenoch's the scariest because she actually believes in what she says

But she will be brought low by scandal eventually; do we really need another Candace Owens with a rich husband? One was too much.

So, that's sixty votes, thereabouts, to split between Penny and Liz, discounting all the "ah, might as well vote Rishi then"...

I reckon that's it for Liz.

I reckon that's it for Penny.

Yeah she hasn't gained much.

She's been treading water, all the trans/woke stuff being used against her has worked.

think it depends how many mps are voting for their real favourite and how many are voting tactically to keep Liz (who even in this awful field is an embarrassing liability and a fucking idiot) out of the top two. the "sensible" wing is probably depleted enough by now that it may be a close thing.

Plus all the stuff about her being lazy and ambitious, something that you can rarely accuse a Tory PM of being, eh?

Liz Truss as PM will be like a straight to DVD British comedy from the early 2000s, only less funny.

More The Wright Way than The West Wing.

isn't there an epic series of posts somewhere on ilx about the wright way or have i imagined that?

I thought there might be enough MPs who hate Sunak and know that Truss is not playing with a full deck for Mordaunt to make it onto the ballot, but who knows.

She's been treading water, all the trans/woke stuff being used against her has worked.

― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Her campaign wasn't as slick as Sunak's, she tried throwing trans ppl under the bus to little effect. Also the curse of the front runner to it. We'll see.

If Sunak wins, we'll get the Britannia Unchained stuff for the next 18 months and if that fails at the ballot this weird libertarian wing (?) of Badenoch's might take over. Her rise is the main lesson from the contest.

How many of the Sunak supporters dislike Truss enough to lend Mordaunt their support for the next round?

Polling is showing Sunak would lose against Morduant. He would be favourite against Truss?

He’d have a better chance

Today's YouGov poll of Conservative Party members has Liz Truss defeating Rishi Sunak in the final round by a large margin. pic.twitter.com/5y1vaq94sl

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 19, 2022