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

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

busy and ambitious right-wing nutjobs who are out to make a name for themselves are always more dangerous than plodding career pols.

accidentally seeing two young Tories on the BBC discussing the leadership candidates, I don't have the strength for a murderous rampage so I think I just wanna die, which they seem keen to facilitate

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Nothing special. The attack on education and humanities will carry on whoever is in charge. Britannia Unchained are now in charge.

Looks like Rees-Mogg will also be given a cabinet post.

Or we could burn...stuff...to generate heat.

Martin Lewis’s face when she brings out the fucking tin foil pic.twitter.com/NGW8qou5r9

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 5, 2022

Screaming at this Liz Truss sculpture pic.twitter.com/2JKoc1nYob

— Stephen Leng (@steveleng) September 4, 2022

surely that's DomCum in a wig

dunno if that was closer than expected

anyway, here's to the sweet embrace of the apocalypse

I wonder which one of these diabolical freaks the Putin's bot army section of the Tory membership voted for

It was closer than expected.

Closer than the Chilean referendum but less close than Indyref1.

This Morning have started offering to cover people’s energy bills for the next four months on the Spin To Win feature. pic.twitter.com/lEIEKhwGe6

— David Chipakupaku 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇲 (@David_Chippa) September 5, 2022

seeing as just about anyone in the world with money to donate could join the party and vote in this leadership election, then perhaps the Con Home polling was never going to be that accurate

zero mandate. lowest ever margin, never gone through a general.

I heard someone making a Corbyn comparison the other day, as in she's detested by most of the party and popular with the membership. And they also said there will be letters of no confidence in as early as next week.

Melt media dragging Truss's unpopularity, presumably they haven't noticed any of the opinion polls on the public's view of Kieth

Yeah, at least one Tory politician was saying that people had been coming up to him in the street and asking what happened to that nice Boris Johnson, we trust him, he'd see us through this crisis!

It would at least be funny to see him implored to return after a confidence vote and having to explain that he's really sorry but the Shakespeare biography's at quite a delicate stage right now...

was going to put this on the Real England thread but too depressing

#ThisMorning has turned completely dystopian and Black Mirror by offering to pay energy bills as a competition prize. pic.twitter.com/hs1DD6NXbo

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 5, 2022

This was pretty much exactly the result I expected. She was never going to win new supporters on the campaign trail lol, but she had such a formidable advantage to start with there was no pissing it away. Maybe if it had gone on for another three months.

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Who will replace Liz Truss as the next Conservative Party leader?

Kemi Badenoch & Kwasi Kwarteng open as joint favourites.https://t.co/yVRtYvsLMO pic.twitter.com/UNzERL50eE

— Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 5, 2022

Media class watching Boris go pic.twitter.com/MAGRhZXjrC

— Peter G (@pgofton) September 5, 2022

This is a tad premature.

Anyway, this is deffo the Queen’s final Prime Minister

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) September 5, 2022

its like he didnt even glance at the thread title

or a tad late depending how you look at it

Ok but who is replacing her.

BREAKING: Priti Patel is quitting as Home Secretary and returning to the backbenches

— Sam Lister (@sam_lister_) September 5, 2022

surprise peerage for Eddie Dempsey

rumour is suella braverman for home secretary

lol we’re all gonna die

This news won’t make Back to School headlines today, but it ought to be everywhere: Under this gov, a child born on 5th September 2006 can, if taken into care tonight, be placed in a hostel, caravan/barge with no guaranteed adult supervision. And their 15-year classmate, who is

— Rebekah Pierre (@RebekahPierre92) September 5, 2022

"Same Old Tories" from a rag that will tell you to vote for Kieth.

The Thing (dir: John Carpenter, 1982) pic.twitter.com/GhKzPRF9nb

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) September 5, 2022

This is just crazy

2/Energy companies would take out government guaranteed loans to bridge the gap between the wholesale price in the market and the fixed price they are charging customers. Those loans would be repaid over the next 10-20 years through supplements to customer bills...

— Simon Jack (@BBCSimonJack) September 6, 2022

I think ILX should start a new UK politics thread today.

why? nothing much has changed.

i think we should await until they own up to the Queen being dead, pace mark s and the ascencion

THIS THREAD is our TRUE QUEEN and can NEVER DIE

maybe the next DCMS minister won't be someone who publically admits to leeching someone else's netflix account. parliament's loss is literature's, er, gain?

Lol was a single hospital built?

Fucksake, Guto. pic.twitter.com/UV0tY59kol

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 6, 2022

Start a new thread when we get a new hospital.

I always admired the way he addressed social care issues and built new hospitals in such a very modest + quiet under-the-radar manner, that nobody actually noticed he'd done this.

lol we're all going to dye

Every now and the NY times publishes a voice that cannot be done so over here.

Has anyone come up with an explanation.

Nobody:
Absolutely nobody at all:
The New York Times: Well obviously the only possible inspiration for Liz Truss's policies is Enoch Powell pic.twitter.com/2uXBz7HYO2

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) September 6, 2022

this fucking guy

The people at the NYT really are obsessed with denigrating the UK for some unfathomable reason. Any ideas?

— Alan Lyons (@alanlyons33) September 6, 2022

Multi xp don't need a new thread for general politics but something for Energy/cost of living crisis seems timely.

Well well..

It’s a reasonable view that we live in Powell’s Britain - we left the EU, immigration is the centre of debate, and the racism of the discourse about race is barely concealed by language of “woke”.

Welcome to the Long 68 - which has also given us equal marriage and dance music.

— John McTernan (@johnmcternan) September 6, 2022

What's the big deal with invoking Enoch Powell? Thatcher was worse in many areas and they have no problems with her being mentioned every five minutes.

powellism is just british politics in the so-called post-colonial era but I guess he's still considered an extreme figure than your average establishment tory despite his views having long since become common sense in our media and politics across party lines

this patriotism of getting all pissy when outsiders point out obvious things about this country and its culture that are shit is one of the many shit things about this country and its culture

Thatcher when young was an economic disciple of Powell's iirc

i definitely read a good piece once about how Powell was one of the original movers in the Tory party to introduce monetarist economics and Thatcher was his agent

remember a few years ago when Amol Rajan broadcast an actor reading the full the rivers of blood speech and boasted that his team "done an amazing production job" on it because it was a completely normal thing to do on rainy fascist island. Especially as even most of the opposition party had been doing years of "legitimate concerns" and the Tories were heading even further towards full fash at the time.

it's easy to forget because so much of the other content is basically the same

I didn't even consider the economic angle and I need to find out more about that because it sounds important I was mostly thinking in terms of the cultural and national and racial aspects of what became thatcherism but of course the economy is a big part of that too

Powell was anti capital punishment, pro trade union and pro welfare state, I mean obviously he was a racist wanker but then so was Thatcher.