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

Read in a report Morduant has 27 confirmed supporters. Shame because I think she might've won with the membership being unable to go against a white person. Would've enjoyed his humiliation.

can we now get boris johnson moved to the house of lords (and then abolish the house of lords)

Pure Trumpism would be him trying to appoint himself to the house of lords in his resignation honours.

“Now is not the right time” is not what you say when you’re planning for the House of Lords.

is spelling it "morduant" some joke im not getting

spare a thort for the pore sub-editor its driving me nuuuuuts

would you prefer mordor?

what if johnson hasn't been on holiday at all, but has just been escorting the queen on her travels

Still time for the cunt to slope back and finish off his hols, I'm assuming they still have the sun loungers booked

"is spelling it "morduant" some joke im not getting"

Is the joke that I can't spell for toffee?

If I have spelled it Morduant (and I have) it's because I can't remember how to spell it, if she becomes PM then I will probably learn.

I don't think you'll need to learn.

Can't the British have proper surnames like John or Davis?

Insist that Mordor stand in a ballot with him then.

middle class background and a leading fee-paying school. But some of the racial, ethnic and religious prejudice that has been a bar to individual advancement has gone. And that, in a UK of widening economic inequalities, should be a source of comfort.

— Robert Peston (@Peston) October 23, 2022

nobody is better placed than Robert Peston to discuss the level of racial, ethnic and religious prejudice in the UK

Yeah we're not long shot of a Prime Minister who "quipped" about Leo Varadkar, "Why isn't he called Murphy like the rest of them?" We're doing great.

Starmer stating he wants longer prison sentences for protestors pic.twitter.com/Ueiz2Fsayq

— j (@jrc1921) October 24, 2022

just on my way to post that!

may i add: VOTE LABOUR

while we're playing the hits:

Sir Keir admits there is "not a great deal" between Labour and the Tories on immigration policy.

Two exceptions:

He wants the "best possible students" to come here to the UK.

And he won't continue with the Rwanda-plan.

— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) October 24, 2022

VOTE LABOUR

For a forensic immigration policy

No doubt we’ll soon have some dipshit popping their head into this thread to whine “bUt ThEy’Re ThE lEaSt BaD oPtIoN.”

Re Varadkar (old Dawn tweet)

My favourite Leo Varadkar/Irish Times thing since his socialist dad was interviewed and said “He was adorable, a gorgeous baby and then he went into Fine Gael. And that’s it.”

— The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan (@DawnHFoster) October 25, 2020

She comes from a Fianna Fáil family. Ashok voted Labour when he was in the UK. There wasn't this big moment when he came out to them as a young Fine Gaeler?

“He never said it. We just found out.”

His father hoped his son would follow him into medicine – and he did, for a little while. “And then he became a member of Fine Gael.” Ashok shrugged. “Maybe he was revolting.”

Is the joke that I can't spell for toffee?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, October 24, 2022 7:42 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not in good company tbh

Penny Morduant should drop out this am. She can’t command the support of a majority of MPs. An uncontested election of Rishi Sunak today would reinforce the return of market credibility & show the Tories have rediscovered a will to win. She should then be part of his top team

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) October 24, 2022

Penny Joe.

I don't think you'll need to learn.

"I have friends who are aristocrats, friends who are upper class and friends who are working class....well not WORKING CLASS!"#RishiSunak 2001 🙄 pic.twitter.com/5MRVadFcwa

— Kathryn Franklin (@DerbyDuck) July 8, 2022

the tone

But he literally grew up inside a pharmacy, sleeping on the floor amid prescriptions for suppositories and pile cream.

and then a career at Goldman Sachs, a partner worth £700M and now on the cusp of being PM, it really is Dick Whittington for a new era 🥲

just the man for the times, someone who has prioritised his own wealth and the interests of financiers at every single possible waking moment

fuck these ghouls, fuck them all. let's see how long he stays in politics "serving the people" after his time in the spotlight is over. about as long as david miliband i reckon

tbf Richard Whittington "was born, in around the early 1350s, into an ancient and wealthy Gloucestershire gentry family. The 3rd son of Sir William Whittington (d.1358) of Pauntley, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, a Member of Parliament, by his wife Joan Maunsell,[4] a daughter of William Maunsell (or Mansel), MP for Gloucestershire, Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1313.[5] His elder brothers were Robert Whittington (d.1423/4), six times a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire,[6] and William Whittington, MP, the eldest brother.[7]"

https://live.staticflickr.com/4270/34822018275_5e8cda0c20_b.jpg

🎂 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL CAKES THE KING 🎂

👑 Two supporters of Just Stop Oil have covered a Madame Tussauds waxwork model of King Charles III with chocolate cake, demanding that the Government halts all new oil and gas licences and consents.#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #A22Network pic.twitter.com/p0DJ8v3XVB

— Just Stop Oil ⚖️💀🛢 (@JustStop_Oil) October 24, 2022

Thought the lad was going to go for Camilla there, or at least Wills

they seem to have taken the "please don't deface anything worth saving" concern trolling too seriously

maybe they want madame tussaud to return to her roots*

*(waxworks fashioned from heads she found the guillotine basket)

they seem to have taken the "please don't deface anything worth saving" concern trolling too seriously

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 24 October 2022 bookmarkflaglink

The protestors knew the Van Gogh was protected by glass so I think they were already taking it into account.

very disappointed that the actual king has not been caked

I know, I was the first one to point this out on ILX! Thus why I called it concern trolling.

xpost

Ah ok.

Penny M has 90 backers, or so their team maintains. Looks like this will go to the 2pm vote.

just read that her paternal grandad was briefly in the IRA and re-joined the British army in 1924

If she can get 100 somehow then that means the membership will choose, the MPs vote will just be advisory, is that right?
If so this opens up the possibility of the membership rejecting Sunak twice in as many months, which would be hilarious.

long-game penny m!

xp

She just keeps coming back. She's like a technically competent boomerang.

https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_Penny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaFNjY8UPOo

Really love this take.

The Conservative Party will never admit it (indeed, its anti anti-racism culture war prevents it from admitting it) but Rishi Sunak's campaign is classic illustration of white privilege: he's plainly the most qualified, but keeps having to compete with woeful white candidates

— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) October 24, 2022

hmmm seems to me that though he may be "plainly the most qualified" he is also woefully under-qualified, but what do I know

Agree.

I think judging candidates on qualification is bad when it comes to politics. Leading the country isn't a job.