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

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.

"qualified" is tossed around as a technocratic characteristic above politics, but of course it's always actually about the favoured policies of the tosser offering approval

(viz on one hand RS possibly helps slomewhat mitigate attacks on the tories as racists; on the other, and trumping everything, he's an unbendingly militant austerian)

I think the view being expressed by poster Neil S, and certainly me, is not really "RS is underqualified" but just that we don't like him and don't rate him, though we can see that he could conceivably be viewed as somehow better than the other candidates in this particular race.

Johnson is more qualified. He has held a variety of different posts, has been around politics for longer, and has won an election to be PM.

"likable enough" -- oh, the barriers

outside of politics, people who slog on for decades in jobs without much progression or happiness might say as a young usurper is promoted above them: "I've forgotten more than what that cunt knows". But, yes politics is different. But still he was only Chancellor for 2 years and arguably was an overpromoted little shit to get that far.

Yeah if we were to take this shit seriously Sunak having been chancellor during the Boris govt, which was Bad, should surely make him less qualified.

There is no reason whatsoever to take it seriously ofc.

Mordaunt drops out. This means she'll spend more time in my constituency. Great.

pic.twitter.com/w76rEvJdyQ

— Penny Mordaunt (@PennyMordaunt) October 24, 2022

Here is what the last PM to go through without any sort of vote from a membership or an election is doing now.

Pix of the day — Theresa May living her best life as she opens a chocolate shop in her constituency 🍬 pic.twitter.com/y7KwxCTyeC

— Dominic Penna (@DominicPenna) October 23, 2022

aw man Mordaunt dropping out eliminates my last hope of proper schadenfreude from this

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.

― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:44 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

She might end up Foreign Secretary but otherwise...

All this effort to end up with the most boring predictable outcome ever.

Great news everyone

It may have felt like the system was failing in Britain over the past year. But actually with hindsight we can see the system worked: despite a large majority two incompetent prime ministers were ejected and the cabinet member seen as the most competent installed.

— Ben Judah (@b_judah) October 24, 2022