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

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

What a sick and sad world.

and now live to MR Seumas Milne for his response to this ballot

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/emperor-palpatine-1555323736.jpg

poor shit McVey and her 9 socks

I don't think BJ is *guaranteed* to be in the postal ballot by virtue of 33%+ of the votes (i.e. guaranteed top-two if this was the penultimate ballot), but it's clearly over as a contest. I guess they'll go through the motions and he'll end up beating Hunt 220-93 or something by the end of next week and then on July 22 arrrrrrrgh

That's that then, congrats new pm lol boris legend

DJ Nihal on Five Live - whose lightweight celebrity gossip steez i normally avoid like the plague - doing an excellent "why are Tory MPs supporting career racist Boris Johnson?" bit at the moment

Be good to get a dynamic operator behind the wheel of the flaming car

we need Lorraine Kelly to go off on Johnson now. Save us Lorraine!

Can't believe the Tories have walked right into Labour's trap.

A taste of the new regime

NEW: Ballot closed and I’m told by sources on ‘22 that it was decided to disallowed phones in room because of an aggressive whipping operation from Team Johnson. Told had been instructed to take photo of their ballot paper to prove they’d backed Johnson.

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 13, 2019

after being so secretive for years they have disclosed they have 160000 ish members left now - because it will come out in the wash anyway, and every dead vote for boris will count as well.

kinda looking forward to the more pie-eyed end of the FBPE massive getting to see what a Tory party in full self-preservation mode looks like tbh

the boris project: slouching blond beast who can or shrunken cowardly lump who was never going to

also i think it will be hunt #bantz #huntz #secretweapon #weapon

― mark s, Friday, May 24, 2019 12:59 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When you think about it, the dead should count for more, they have so much to teach us.

agree that Boris can still be stopped

Boris will not be stopped

Nothing quite says ‘Tory leadership contest’ like #politicslive recollecting Thatcher only won the nomination because the frontrunner suggested “very poor people should be sterilised”.

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) June 13, 2019

Worth emphasising that the frontrunner in question was her mentor and she was effectively standing in his place.