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

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

https://studyfinds.org/british-adults-lack-joy-in-lives/

ffs get it right, Sky you cunts, Liz Truss did not grow up in Glasgow.

Even I didn't think she would be this bad and I wrote an article comparing her to Enoch Powell!

— Kojo Koram (@KojoKoram) October 20, 2022

Newsnight doing a “sad montage” to Rihanna’s Take a Bow like Liz Truss just lost the Euros

Now three Tories including Peter Bone talking about it with Victoria Derbyshire. Not exactly balanced??

So this is the gang Corbyn kept losing against?

no in many many ways not at all really and quite a simplistic and ignorant contrast to make, and also please fuck off and die

Calz, seriously? I know you're angry, we all are, with good reason, but how is that ever acceptable to make such a vile attack on another poster for committing the "crime" of not coming from the UK and having the audacity to come onto a UK politics thread to ask an innocent, albeit ill-informed question? How much do you know about the machinations of Belgian* politics?

* guessing a bit here, could be Dutch, the upper case 'V' normally is how Belgian surnames are styled, with Dutch ones tending to begin w/ lower case....time to let VHS answer for themselves.

("Van Horn Street" is from Red Dead Redemption, a computer game)

Van Horn Street is also a worthless trolling arsehole who hasn't been permabanned from ILX yet.

think that post deserved that response and yes all is well in the thread

GG - maybe you don't know VHS, who is so angry he is hated he now comes in and drops little sad trolly posts in politics threads and will never argue his stupid positions anymore.

No, xyzzzz, that is a fair point. I don't know him. For good or ill, I don't find consuming large screeds of the boards to be good use of my time and stick with the threads I know for the most part. I saw he wrote a fair bit about US sports, but I remain in blissful ignorance of the bile directed at him (unlike, say, Fred, where it is pretty obvious) and the reasons behind it.

VHS is like Fred, just more of a poundshop version.

Fred was at least passionate, VHS is just sneery.

Fred had good taste in films.

Lol VHS this is how hated you are, we are now trotting out some of Fred's good points!

Fred definitely had his good points!

in co-op this morning at least 4 of the papers had pics of boris on the front.

Fred did a brilliant post about an imagined Oasis biopic which made me lol irl, VHS never even raised a performative chuckle

yeah so Boris has the backing of 120 MPs, that puts him in the final two, members still love him, sounds almost like a done deal?

Is 120 confirmed? That's fantastic.

it was quoted on Radio 4 this morning, still in the realm of rumour though

certainly Peston from last night looks way off

To get on ballot, candidates have to get 100 nominations by 2pm Monday. I am told that @BorisJohnson will struggle to get to that threshold

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 20, 2022

It’s not remotely confirmed according to the Guido spreadsheet he has 52.

Also, as ever

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.)
Posted: 21 October 2022 at 07:51:15
Van Horn Street is also a worthless trolling arsehole who hasn't been permabanned from ILX yet.

would be hilarious if he wins, then the privileges committee finds him guilty, then he says "I have already resigned once over this, that's the matter closed"

Boris as britain's berlusconi

Borislusconi