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

Just reading a thread now...such a horrible thing.

Back to other matters.

NEW: I’m told Boris Johnson now has more than 100 backers and so could be on the ballot if he chooses to be

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) October 22, 2022

This is quite good but there's so much ego and shamelessness there.

Here's why I think Johson bottles it

1. Privileges Committee
2. Poor situation to inherit - loathes making painful decisions
3. Thinks Tories will lose in two years - a comeback then is a better bet
4. Would hate to be soundly beaten by Sunak in the indicative vote of MPs

— Chris Jones (@ChrisJones_1) October 22, 2022

Have to assume Johnson and Sunak thrash out some kind of treaty of whoever takes the job is gonna be facing the same instability

He definitely does not want to lose to Rishi Sunak. I assume Johnson will be pressurizing Sunak to drop all these pesky investigations into his behaviour and record in office.

I don’t know if PM can do that, wouldn’t Bojo himself have done that when he was still in office? No 10 was handing stuff over when he was still there probably.

I'm sure he'd have tried to find a way to bend the rules once the findings came out, Sunak has no reason to do so. The other thing is he's a racist so I'm sure he will not liking losing to someone who might not even support England in Test Cricket.

Always true, but Chris Mason needs sacking. Lol who I am I kidding

Reporting this as fact without declaring the source of the claim, when his actual declared number of backers is only at around half this number, isn't great. pic.twitter.com/qwPTEJWPJJ

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 22, 2022

Is this thread copium? Has a mueller report era #resistance vibe to me but what do I know?

If Boris Johnson became PM again, given the views of many Tory MPs, this is what I'd be tempted to say if I was Keir Starmer or Ed Davey: "The PM is not fit for office. Nor is the Tory Party. We know that many honourable Tory MPs feel the same way. Now is the time for...' 1/

— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) October 21, 2022

David Gauke is a moron

Even worse he's a boring moron.

People stopped officially giving a shit about fitness for office in 2019

Literally the “have you no decency, sir” of arguments

Lol @ Mason, dickhead.

Caek: yes, that thread is nonsense, from (as I recall) a former Con MP.

It was retweeted into my feed by David edgerton but I guess retweets are not endorsements

There's a left polprof who I follow on Twitter who's pointed out that further erosion of the unwritten rules is not good for the state of government and I can see and nod at the technical points he makes but the genie is not just out of the bottle it's been running amok for several years now

prof Edgerton would be better sticking to history and writing about the innovative rivets used in hawker hurricanes or whatever, because he frequently sucks on UK politics.

britain's war machine is good book though!

Yeah I meant Scanlan who I think is good people

Always wary of Egerton's takes

pic.twitter.com/WGXYP5t6Od

— Wefail (@wefail) October 22, 2022

time to face things as they are

(and fuck sauron)

i will never fuck sauron

Some days, you fuck Sauron...

"Jacob-Rees Mogg is being interviewed on BBC One. He says that Boris Johnson will stand for the leadership, and the two have spoken."

Badenoch has been disciplined.

The party needs a unifying figure to do what’s right for the UK. At this moment, I believe that person is Rishi. I’m a fan of Boris but his return, given all that’s happened would not bring people together. We all need to set aside our differences and work for the greater good. https://t.co/xVZdoXU0rw pic.twitter.com/ILxXJoyF0s

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) October 22, 2022

She wants a job in that new cabinet.

Sunak has just announced he'll stand.

...on the mouldering carcass of the British parliamentary system

So if Johnson does get 100 nominations he only doesn't win the race if: Mordaunt also gets on the ballot and he's voted out in the first round of MP's voting; he withdraws his nomination; or the party membership prefer Sunak to him if they're the last two standing. Um.

This process was obviously set up to ensure Sunak won, so this cunt showing up to throw a spanner in the works is hilarious if nothing else. I still don't think he'll get 100 noms though.

i love it

Source very close to Boris Johnson texts to say that even if Sunak wins with MPs by a real margin, he will “trust the members” to make the right decision

— Luke McGee (@lukemcgee) October 23, 2022

he's still only got 55, despite gulling Mason into posting 100 yesterday.

xxxp He doesn't have a nomination to withdraw yet - this round will be repeating farce as tragedy and he might have a vague idea that his usual twinkling won't cut it.

You mean he has an inkling about his twinkling?

I thought that BJ would be holding back on declaring anything in order to avoid the humiliation of defeat. He will spend the rest of his life denying that he was in this race.

But then today I saw two newspaper front pages of him posing on a telephone call to a Con MP, implying that he is seeking to be Con leader.

It seems to me that BJ will not succeed and Sunak will.

Hard to credit, but…

Outgoing PM Liz Truss partying at Chequers
https://archive.ph/BOAh9

I love Mad Nads (now she is nowhere near power)

If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks.

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) October 23, 2022

All manner of right wing nutjobs - Badenoch, Braverman, Baker - supporting Sunak... and that's just the Bs.

Probably Brady on the quiet too

someone convince me this doesn't come from a place of pure sexism:

15.55 BST
Mordaunt refuses Johnson request to drop out of contest - reports

As reported at 3:38pm, PA Media is reporting a line briefed out that Boris Johnson asked Penny Mordaunt to drop out of the leadership race and to back him.

“Sources close to the Leader of the House of Commons” told the news agency that Mordaunt refused, warning that most of her support would switch to Rishi Sunak if she did.

stoked 4 the madness

A not unlikely scenario is Johnson gets 100 just. Mordaunt drops out. Most of her MPs go to Sunak giving him close to roughly twice as many as Johnson in final indicative vote of MPs. If Johnson then wins among members with big maj of MPs not wanting him...it is utter chaos.

— Toby Helm (@tobyhelm) October 23, 2022

Bring it on.

Really can't see them allowing themselves to do this, surely some kind of compromise will be done?

:) 🪓 👍🏽

Hébert to Robespierre during the Terror: "To be safe you must kill everybody." pic.twitter.com/xgG5NDsaYG

— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) October 23, 2022

this is precisely how factional wars in political parties should be fought but I get the feeling there is a fair bit of hyperbole from whoever is briefing Dan Hodges here.

i on the other hand am hoping for classic british understatement

No madness.

BREAKING:

Boris Johnson pulls out of the Tory leadership contest

He says he hoped he, Sunak and Mordaunt could come together and unite but they have been unable to do so

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 23, 2022

good so i guess that was all worth it then

aww