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

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🎂 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

so close, but so far

Who the fuck is this clown who keeps getting retweeted?

they call him "the wise one"

A senior reporter for Guido Fawkes writes

https://t.co/cK74DcbPzm pic.twitter.com/k59PQo3P4o

— Calgie (@christiancalgie) October 24, 2022

Completely nonsensical, he'll be saying "race baiting" next, what a cunt.

guido cunts do not deserve access to dril

Always love to hear from the guys whose comments are so racist that they’ve had to physically block the word “Jew”.

We're all going to hell.

Rishi Sunak should immediately re-establish his best policy: Eat Out to Help Out

— 🦛⬇️ (@stokaljona) October 24, 2022

it's your patriotic duty to turn off your boiler for a month and live on uncooked lentils so you can afford a monthly one course meal to help keep some posh Jamie Oliver mofo in the black

Just dying.

Britain enjoys its “Obama moment”: Rishi Sunak wins Tory leadership race and will be next prime minister. A British-Asian of Punjabi descent, pukka English public school boy and Goldman alumnus. Let’s give him a break and not pigeon hole him. He’ll need some luck!

— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) October 24, 2022

what does 'pukka' mean in that sentence

wont someone please give Sunak a break just this once

https://www.mlmeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pukka-Pie-All-Steak.jpg

Big moment, first deepfake leader.

Rishi Sunak has addressed the British public for the first time since being elected leader of the Conservative Party and says it is the "greatest privilege" of his life.

Watch the statement in full from the incoming PM 👇https://t.co/5vgvVlV4l7 pic.twitter.com/aeJWveiqYM

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 24, 2022

It’s got elements of a hostage video.

At times the intonation really is the male TikTok voice.

Rookie mistake saying it’s the “greatest privilege” of his life. Gotta go “second greatest privilege” and then gesture at your smiling wife, wiping her tears away with a monogrammed Kleenex

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

― xyzzzz__

Look at what you're doing, it's overflowing :(

is that anywhere near madame tussauds?

what does 'pukka' mean in that sentence

― akm, Monday, October 24, 2022 11:07 AM (one hour ago)

probably just "very" or maybe "genuine" in this context but used for the obvs racist reasons. it's worth reading the "did you know?" section of this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pukka