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

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.

I'd like to thank BoJo and his bozos for greatly improving the exchange rate for non-Brits such as myself. There is no greater act of hospitality than the gift of cold, hard cash.

Just dropping this here for the anti-MLC argument

me at literally the freedom association christmas dinner 'honestly it's such a hoot. Here's who she pals around with: https://t.co/h9HKKgEEq6 pic.twitter.com/nmlkABIK4E

— Change UK The Independent Group (M-L) (@wariotifo) June 12, 2019

so who goes today? Harper? McVey? maybe Hancock?

Stewart clearly vulnerable too but hoping that rich seam of lulz isn't quite tapped out yet

Hope it's lying cretin McVey how did she even get enough names o wait

Hancock should be fine - the four vulnerable are Harper / McVey / Stewart / Leadsom.

Of some interest is whether Boris can get to 105, which would guarantee him a place on the last two.

"of some interest" is a bit MLC there -- you mean "of some ugly horror"

My devotion to her redoubles with every inept assassin!

lol people unsure if phoneless Ken Clarke turned up to vote in time

told David Davis denied a vote because he forgot his ID, trousers

Can’t wait for Rory Stewart and his backers to fall in line and “regretfully” back Boris.

xxp which part of her hanging out with her Tory m8s, their fash friends and tee-hee-hewing about politics that cast people into misery and sometimes death draws such devotion from you?

Can’t wait for Rory Stewart and his backers to fall in line and “regretfully” back Boris.

So this is what 'devotion' to MLC looks like. ok. xp

iirc it was Jess Phillips two weeks ago. I see a pattern.

xxp I know literally nothing about Marie Le Conte aside from what's been on this thread today and from this evidence she is indeed terrible.

It seems to me it's entirely possible to telegraph terribleness by the way you (I) dress but dressing as if you had "raided the sale rail of a Surrey village hospice charity shop" wouldn't be one of them IMO.

but just *imagine* the calamitous faux pas of waltzing up to a bloomsbury soiree garbed in assorted rural-rich hand-me-downs

No, I’m talking about the type of schmutter Andrea Leadsom would have brought there in bin bags.

Leadsom also terrible but I don't think her terribleness is signalled by her dress sense either.

Also rural-rich hand me downs eg. tattersall shirts, utilitywear and grandad’s tweed jackets are fairly de trop amongst the Lamb’s Conduit massive (I’m scared to ask a few of the non-Labour ones what they think of Rory Stewart, but I know they all fucking hate Boris Johnson).

Leadsom dresses just like the c.1998 shit Tory landlady I had, who was v. good at telling you what a Christian she was while withholding part of a deposit, after being presented with a flat left much cleaner and better decorated than when we had found it.

boris has broken 110 :(

She dresses like many, many lower middle-class women of her age dress, particularly outside London I think. If your point is that people who dress like that are all "telegraphing their terribleness" then I'll understand but I wouldn't agree with you.

xp this seems like... terrible news.

it's 105 he needed to be be on the final ballot.. god help us.

Boris Johnson - 114
Jeremy Hunt - 43
Michael Gove - 37
Dominic Raab - 27
Sajid Javid - 23
Matt Hancock - 20
Mark Harper - 10
Rory Stewart - 19
Esther McVey - 9
Andrea Leadsom - 11

Fuck's sake

But she isn’t LMC! She’s from a family of offshoring gazillionaires! That dress style is also very Christine Hamilton so it’s handy for identifying female golf Nazis.

So he's now automatically on the final ballot no matter what? Or he could lose if people switch away from him?

xp Suzy, your question was about dressing a certain way telegraphing terribleness. I don't think it does, though I'm sure many terrible people dress that way.

Be that as it may, at least Boris Johnson isn't about to be PM.

xpost

Oh hang on, he is.

His fashion sense is extremely concerning.

i dunno man, Stewart is gaining some traction

Was going to spectlulate about who might pick up votes now, but cannot even attempt to venture into the diseased mind of someone who would choose Andrea Leadsome to be the prime minister.

Tories love a winner, they'll all swing behind Johnson