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

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

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

It certainly was a privilege for him to marry into that family.

will having to move into a crappier house due to a job change make them more relatable

I have been getting into green tea recently and was almost put off trying the Pukka brand because it's a word that exclusively seems to be used only by absolute wankers.

First encountered the word in chip shop windows and wondered why people wanted pies filled with puke.

Are there not members of the Conservative Party equally or more wealthy and privileged than Sunak? If so, why does his wealth and privilege seem to make him a target more than any other leader?

Am I wrong in thinking that slavery is to U.S. history what colonialism is to British history (close cultural contact and co-assimilation, discrimination, racism)?

There are probably a few Tory party members worth more than £700m but no other Tory MPs come close I don’t think.

His wealth is also brought up mostly in reaction to attempts to build a bootstrap narrative around him, which in turn ppl are doing because he's not white. No one would ever have tried to make the argument that Johnson or May becoming PM is evidence of the system working for those on the bottom.

Am I wrong in thinking that slavery is to U.S. history what colonialism is to British history (close cultural contact and co-assimilation, discrimination, racism)?

― youn, Monday, October 24, 2022 1:52 PM (twenty minutes ago)

These two phenomena are so closely related, I'm not sure this really works as an analogy, or I don't know what analytical benefit it provides. Also, what does "co-assimilation" mean?

U.S: rap, hip hop
U.K.: sandwich fillings at Marks and Spencer's