The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel - The Tory leadership elections

Fair play.

Malthouse or death.

Love Gove. McVey’s the way. Raab’s fab.

Hunt's Not A Cunt

let’s not sell ourselves short, we can have malthouse AND death

hey Malthouse has a middle-classerised scouse accent, it must have been as laugh-a-minute as being in Bread growing up in his house innit Jess?

This is sweet:

A very moving symbol of modern Britain in Woking mosque. Thank you so much for the hospitality #greenfairunited #rorywalks pic.twitter.com/n2H218792D

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) May 31, 2019

Shane it will enrage the racists in his party

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-06/1/4/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-05/sub-buzz-30790-1559379473-1.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto

curb your enthusiasm theme music is strong with this montage

what has happened to Cleverly and Javid here? I know they are both fucking running jokes ... but no more than the rest of them!

... Harper, Malthouse. Javid's one of the frontrunners, suppodely.

..osedly

Re that montage

I’d like to report a murder pic.twitter.com/XxKZ1N8lYS

— Leicester Legend Grace Petrie (@gracepetrie) June 1, 2019

god javid is such a moron

lads ye will have yere fun with thick paddy here but if ye for a second think i swallow an actual tory mp called penny mordaunt i mean rly

she’s named after a ship darragh

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but still they come...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/02/sam-gyimah-joins-tory-leadership-race-offering-second-referendum

Waiting for May to throw her hat in the ring at this point

"Stewart has done well to bump an actual contender (Mordaunt) from there."

Is that why she's not standing?

... yet.

Yeah I’d actually missed that Mordaunt hadn’t declared but I’d be very surprised if she doesn’t.

James Cleverly first to withdraw from leadership race

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) June 4, 2019

with his name as trench as a caption by matt

I'm assuming most of the no hopers, while vain enough not to see themselves as absolute no hopers, are more motivated by thoughts of selling their support to a big dog in exchange for patronage in the next cabinet than they are than they are by thoughts of winding up behind the wheel of the clown car

I didn't know he entered the race.

Tory Party has now backed itself into a situation where anything short of a full-on state of exception looks like weakness https://t.co/zoiQxpnxOV

— Will Davies (@davies_will) June 5, 2019

From earlier in that thread - this is why the Anyone But Borises have been giving way to Anyone But Raabs

NEW: Raab becomes the first leadership candidate to refuse to rule out proroguing Parliament to force through a no deal Brexit

He says ruling anything out is “weakening our hand with the EU... If I become PM we are leaving at the end of October”

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) June 5, 2019

If Raab gets a decent headwind he could split the hard Brexit vote and prevent either of them getting on the final ballot.

Is there a single Remain Tory in the race or have they all decided there's just no point?

YES! YES! YES!
THANK YOU @SamGyimah !!!
Oi!! Tories! You now have a contender who isn't going to "f*** business" (Boris) via no-deal or turn the UK into a "slave state" (Mogg) via the deal. If you want ANY chance of saving your party, Sam Gyimah is your Obi Wan!@Conservatives https://t.co/Q6aOHq7dyJ

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) June 2, 2019

excruciating

So excruciating. He was on the Trump Sucks march yesterday wearing an over-laundered T-shirt that said I’M FEMI - ASK ME ABOUT BREXIT and honestly, the FBPE provoked some serious RMDE.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/9948538.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery

detail from hieronymus bosch's "snivelling little scrote descends into hell".

Oh, he's fine with being Scottish now, is he?

Talking of snivelling little scrotes, this one stops just short of using the H word to describe Corbyn...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/05/majority-of-voters-think-boris-johnson-would-make-bad-pm-polling-expert

for starters wasn't that De Gaulle fellow a bit of an anti-semite.. anyway I thought Hancock is supposed to be mr nice guy? that's a terrible slur to make against someone and absolute hyperbolic claptrap to boot.

Excuse me, Richard Nixon?

seeing as it's already national ahistorical nostalgia week let's also pretend all Western leaders have never been anti-semites since h word.

Churchill was a raving antisemite. It’s debated that De Valera was ...oh sorry, I forgot, Ireland isn’t a “western” country when people are trying to paint Corbyn as “anti-western”..

he had the 3rd reich on speed-dial did that cunt!

@matthancockmp sends vile tweet about "queers". Cameron shd sack him now, or is this how Tories really think? pic.twitter.com/0BEEl7DGqb

— Steve Reed (@SteveReedMP) October 2, 2014

My boy restoring order to democracy:

We live in a parliamentary democracy. You can try to lock the gates of parliament. But to do so for this purpose would be unlawful. This plan is unlawful, undemocratic, and unacheivable. And the idea itself is profoundly offensive to our liberty constitution and traditions. https://t.co/2yjQiNje1q

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 5, 2019

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Interesting to compare these results with the ones from a cpl months ago - Who will be next Tory leader?

Hunt now less popular, Gove still a strong fav, Raab has fallen out of the running, but Boris Johnson, totally written off by ilx last time round is now the leading candidate.

Boris Johnson 7
Michael Gove 6
Some other Muppet 4
Jeremy Hunt 4
Rory Stewart 3
Penny Mordaunt 3
Jacob Rees-Mogg 2
Andrea Leadsom 1

With the one

Jeremy Hunt 7
Michael Gove 6
Dominic Raab 3
Penny Mordaunt 2
David Davis 2
Priti Patel 1
Jacob Rees-Mogg 1
Amber Rudd 1
Rory Stewart 1
Tom Tugendhat 1
Gavin Williamson 1
Andrea Leadsom 1
Sajid Javid 1

I can only conclude ilx doesn't have a clue

In my veins:

BREAKING: the latest YouGov poll puts us narrowly in the lead, once awareness is taken into account- ie once you remove the “don’t know enough about this candidate” I am now ahead of Boris and the other candidates. This is vital as we build awareness. Thank you. Let’s keep going.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 7, 2019

Can't help think that the Stewart vote is bit of wish fulfillment for a slightly less nasty, less Eurosceptic Tory to win.

Let's keep going on a long march into the desert to won over the natives

Cue swelling Maurice Jarre orchestration

once you remove the “don’t vomit enough about this candidate” i am in the lead

The two things that made Cameron a winner with people who didn’t really agree with him, wrt the grass roots, were that he was recognised as ‘one of us’ or a social superior and he was the kind of vaguely smart, successful person they would like their granddaughter to marry. Get through the first stage of selection by the party as an inoffensive anyone-but-x candidate and he has the laity locked down.

I may have picked the wrong Pashto-speaking, ex-forces, centre-right, upper-middle-class MP but I think this is still true.