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

Lol I hadn’t seen he’d said otherwise, sceeeeenes

.@RoryStewartUK says he will support the @jeremycorbyn @oletwinofficial initiative to take no-deal Brexit and risk of parliament being prorogued (suspended) off table. He is ploughing his own course. The audience here love him. Some of his MP colleagues will find this challenging

— Robert Peston (@Peston) June 11, 2019

(This was before his tweet when he said he wouldn’t)

Lol

Depends on how badly Boris will fuck up once he has to open his mouth in this campaign. The membership did elect a man they hated before because he came across well.

can’t believe a man who walked across afghanistan and speaks dari would be so two-faced, smdh

calz otm re catz

Whippets are dog hardware using cat software, can’t we all just get along?

It's too late, they've already spread their mind control parasites to most of humanity.. all is lost!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/we-went-to-parliament-to-play-with-dogs-because-its this is for calz (and I should add that I also have a dog who is a complete moron but I still prefer cats)

There's a reason the thread is called, "The cat's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel"

rob halford joining me in tapping the sign

zhttps://twitter.com/mhn_animals/status/1138180230902734849

Rob Halford (Judas Priest) pic.twitter.com/Ae8mJmReHr

— Metalheads n animals (@mhn_animals) June 10, 2019

lol ffs

the cat's on fire

i'm sure ILX can come to a consensus that a cat would make a better leader of the Tory party than any of the candidates running

Cats are anarcho-capitalists iirc

https://schroedingerscat.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/austerity-cat-returns_thumb.jpg

i can haz austerity

critical support for the cat comrades thriving thanks to the immortal science of juche

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/69/49/72694945e2c47a4b991a791c59e526c3.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/5250e9001f89fbfc1315e8f116e92e94/tumblr_p4f21hoFvg1vqgiqeo1_1280.jpg

my dog was barking at his own farting arse the other day. It's moments like that stop me looking too deep into the abyss!

Rory Stewart pledges to walk through every county of the UK as prime minister

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) June 11, 2019

Just posting as I find 'em

i mean if that's all he does

I first became aware of him as prisons minister, and he was promising to resign if he hadn't sorted out the violence/drugs/suicide/low staff morale problems he had inherited. but I guess there was a "if i get promoted before that year is up then fuck 'em" clause.

the first rory stewart mentions are all abt his book but I did enjoy this one from the archives

Until Chuka Umunna loses to Rory Stewart in the 2022 elections.

― Meowsy McDermott, Monday, May 10, 2010 8:30 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2019 David Aaronovitch all like yes that's right is something amusing

i'm sure ILX can come to a consensus that a cat would make a better leader of the Tory party than any of the candidates running

Chris Marker said 'A cat is never on the side of power'.

that wasn't Chris Marker speaking :p

I got into politics because I wanted to give back to our country, which has given me so many opportunities. I'm proud to be able to share my story with you. Check out my campaign video and join me at https://t.co/idVRwMVc79 pic.twitter.com/L7cypOHNmA

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 11, 2019

If he doesn't win maybe he could walk through every county dressed as a different historical figure?

Take a (Tory) cat along and he could dress as Dick Whittington.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/c7/c9/16c7c98938497632643b01261a33257e.jpg

pack yer bags pal!

although this particular cat might struggle a bit if it was a leadership candidate....

At least our entire political landscape isn’t a humiliating fucking bin fire at which the rest of the world stands agog while we contemplate which of the parade of universally unsuitable cretins will take the wheel of the shit-laden twatbus and crash it into our fucking houses. pic.twitter.com/oxZrEywsa4

— 🏳️‍🌈 Max 🏳️‍🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) June 11, 2019

Beth Rigby: Why did you call Muslim women letterboxes?
Boris Johnson: British people want politicians to say what they mean.
Audience applauds.

— Maurice Mcleod (@mowords) June 12, 2019

so this is my first proper leadership contest as an actual Westminster person and honestly it's such a hoot, someone clicks their fingers and suddenly all your pals are sorted into different teams and fighting each other while you drink with them all, huge fan of the drama

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) June 12, 2019

Would it be a bit too much to point out that MLC’s obvious terribleness is visually telegraphed by her dressing like she’s raided the sale rail of a Surrey village hospice charity shop?

xp a rare glimpse at the truth

xp I think that's one of those questions where if you have to ask it, you already know the answer, suzy - and anyway I don't see anything here other than 'when office humour happens via Twitter'

Old people leaving money to the Tory party in their will: https://t.co/2W0uPgUtvg

— Tanya Gold’s husband (who is fat) (@misslucyp) June 13, 2019

just listening to The Saj sounding incredulous and butthurt that his party might just be a teeny bit racist in snubbing him from the Trump shinding.

I thought the question needed to be asked in public especially because other French journos I know are like ‘what the actual fuck is she wearing?’

xp a rare glimpse at the truth

― ogmor, Thursday, 13 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp I think that's one of those questions where if you have to ask it, you already know the answer, suzy - and anyway I don't see anything here other than 'when office humour happens via Twitter'

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 13 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A glimpse at the truth and yet some people remain blind to it.

I think I've been on twitter for long enough and see it enough times on there but its always interesting to see how it plays in different contexts, the sheer variations of this kind of tweet (from the little I know she wasn't someone born into privilege like Boris or Osborne who are just placed into these journo offices, as oposed to MLC who is hoping to get to a powerful position by licking 100 boots a day every day) and how it presents itself. Someone who is doing it for laugh like Boris doesn't want to hang out in fucking offices! In fact they want to see whether they can burn the office down for a game. Otoh the likes of MLC see it as a game to be continuously played, that all the participants should be interested in this game (the game here = politics, instead of a matter of life and death).

Poor fools will be used and liberally discarded once they make a mistake that is picked up by enough people at the top. They aren't smart enough to avoid it.

This was just above a thread about how much she fucking despises Boris, so I guess that is me checkmated?

What is she, team Rory?

Meanwhile the con goes on:

There is a huge parliamentary majority - which includes me - for stopping no-deal. The fact that Labour failed to take control of the order paper today tells you almost nothing about how parliament could block a leader committed to no-deal. https://t.co/tg1dlgTaGa

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 12, 2019

Ban Twitter.

throw a bag of flour into the ocean who cares

Tom D is just waiting for twitter to be nationalised before he can join.

prorogue tom D

You'll never take me alive, copper.