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

btw were the tories always so blatant about having their mask off psychopaths in headline cabinet positions? feel like back in the day they used to hide them on the backbenches more successfully

problem is the repeated barrel-scraping exercises after the successive ousts/purges after Brexit, 2017 election, Boris winning in 2019 and slinging out Brexit wets etc. etc. It leaves only the headbangers plus serial incompetents like Grant "internet personas" Shapps

Sunak with Mordaunt as deputy, I reckon. If there's only one candidate they don't need to ask the members, which they clearly do not want to do... ever again.

Badenoch is expected to run lol.

don't rule out Kemi!

the banter timeline lives

🚨Boris Johnson expected to run for Tory leadership.

(This is not a drill). https://t.co/1ZrwrIlfw7

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) October 20, 2022

oh so they are putting this to an online membership ballot and "Boris Johnson is expected to stand again" lol

So far we have Johnson, Badenoch and Braverman announcing their candidacies. The adults are back in the room!

Lol

As I said just now on @itv, deep concern that rapid electronic voting by Tory members for new leader brings risk of overseas bad actor, like Russia, hacking the poll and choosing Britain’s new prime minister

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 20, 2022

hard to see them doing any worse

Read that as "rabid electronic voting" which works too

A quick recalibration for the bantz

Tip of the iceberg: The romainer who because became a champion of vote leaf… a rocket rise etc https://t.co/3uKgiaMDtu

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) October 20, 2022

can’t believe boris won his gulag

"oh dear, here again ALREADY?"

I wanna laugh at this but then I remembered I'm from the USA

*fist bump*

for Christmas i would like Johnson back in charge, calls a snap election, hammers Labour

i don't care what happens after that i could die laughing

Let's hope Truss didn't get the chance to strip out the gold wallpaper, wouldn't want everyone's tax dollars paying for it all over again

Don't really buy Peston's argument. Estonia uses electronic voting far more than any other country, for both governmental business *and* GEs, and they have more to fear from Russian interference than most.

Truss isn't strictly speaking the shortest lasting PM...that'll be William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, who was around for just two days in 1746, but couldn't find more than one person prepared to serve in a Cabinet with him!

Pesto doesn't have arguments, just set-ups

well NV, he's in the wrong job and as out of his depth as Truss then!

"Those who can laugh can live, those to can love can laugh. Those who cannot laugh or love cannot live. Those how laugh last live last. "

btw were the tories always so blatant about having their mask off psychopaths in headline cabinet positions? feel like back in the day they used to hide them on the backbenches more successfully

wikipedia editors have been busy today

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure

I'm not even joking here, but if Johnson was to return I believe he would beat Kieth in the next GE. And it would be fucking hilarious. And he's only a couple of points higher odds to be next PM than Mordaunt.

although the more sensible pragmatic elements of the party will want to go for someone more trusted to calm the markets - the current fav Rishi. They might think they will be doing it at the expense of paving the way for a Labour govt, so maybe take a chance on someone who can beat a damp squib opposition leader.

xxxp I mean, Norman Tebbit was a thing.

I'm curious whether, if the Halloween Budget is the Monday after the Friday the leadership contest ends on, there's a free Hunt as chancellor for the winner.

I imagine Hunt is not running on the understanding he remains chancellor.

I guess..

I think Americans are so enamored with British politics in times like this because it's wild for us to see people being forced out of powerful offices by telling them they suck shit and should quit over and over again

— Paul Curst (@pblest) October 20, 2022

yeah normally they're used to seeing the CIA organise a coup

what news of long-game gove?

not heard a peep out of him today. Rishi has been conspicuously quiet as well but his supporters haven't.

the bookies are quoting everything between 500/1 to 33/1 on Gove in the next leader betting, some of them respect his long game more than others.

So if candidates need 100 nominations to proceed to the final vote, what happens if no-one gets that many? Not that I really give a fuck.

100 MPs is the threshold.

So, if Richi gets 99, and Penny gets 99, and Boris gets 101, then the big dog's back again (cue Scott Walker...)

i like to imagine Kieth and his Wormtongues losing a few nights sleep worrying about Bojo Resurrection

I'd love it and get myself a "Tory Enabler" T-shirt printed out for election night

Kieth: "I'm sorry, did you forget something?"

xp only reason i want a general election is so i can change my Twitter handle to Tory Enabler

what news of long-game gove?

― mark s, Thursday, 20 October 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Heard he isn't standing.

Long game = 2029. He can be PM over the ruins.

I've heard he's barely standing. He's not so much yesterday's man as the day before yesterday's man tbh.

meanwhile the underlying structure emerges

https://i.imgur.com/MKY5VIn.png

Someone remind me, was it Steven Gerrard that got subbed on in that one game, then clattered someone within the first minute and promptly got red-carded? His heat map was basically a straight line to the centre circle and back again

oh yes

Gerrard's heat map pic.twitter.com/jCqwMaPNJq

— Hasnain (@HasnainMobeen) March 22, 2015

Came on, absolutely blatted the economy, straight back off again

Channeling the spirit of Don Revie IIRC

Tenure of Clough

Get David Peace on it!

I wonder what Truss is going to do with herself now? She's only 47 years old (looking at wikipedia it seems like she's the youngest PM at time of leaving office since F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich who was in PM from 1827-8) so she potentially has another four decades or more to fill.

115k a year for not very much. not sure there'll be much of a demand to hear her talk.

she won't last four decades in the gulag tho