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

"take away that Raable"

is that shit on tv now? jesus help us, time for another ale and a nap.

apparently, i'm watching my email re-index instead (currently it has 69 hours and 8 minutes to go)

nice

Have to confess that I watched the Labour deputy leadership debate in 2007, I remember that Harriet Harman was just about ok, and Hazel Blears was the absolute worst.

No interest at all in watching this one.

Gove says of Javid: "He's a hero, he has come from the background he has to achieve so much, he doesn't need an American president for all of us to recognise he's an amazing guy". Genuinely uplifting moment of the #C4Debate

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) June 16, 2019

is this real or a parody?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9NMe-wXUAAKM4y.jpg

it *seems* to be real?

Every older person should die with dignity and respect#C4debates #HastobeHunt pic.twitter.com/QUD77Cpgxi

— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) June 16, 2019

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4k_RdafinYw/maxresdefault.jpg

sort out your fucking grammar cunt

all he's doing is repeating the basic tenet that underpins austerity: dead people don't claim. Unlucky for this cunt that he needs dead people to vote tho!

look at the state of that collar

didn't fastening your top button properly used to be a fucking religious act to tory twats?

TS: Hastobe Hunt vs Hudson Hawke

Stop the presses! Hancock is backing Boris.

A lot of Hancock backers other teams thought they had in the bag are heading to Rory, I hear.

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) June 16, 2019

Hancock looks like a snivelling little creep, talks like a snivelling little creep and acts like a snivelling little creep - so he is obviously going to back who he thinks is going to win because he is a snivelling little creep.

he's blown his moderate credentials and is too insignificant + useless to gain a proper job from doing it - but that hasn't stopped the cunt progressing so far! but he will lose some friends for doing this.

there is one particular failed tory candidate in my neck of the woods who has been stanning for him for years + who might be committing hari-kari over him him backing boris tonight, well I hope so anyway.

When I withdrew from the race, I said that while I put myself forward as the candidate of the future, it’s clear from the results from last week — and talking to members around the country — that the party wants a leader for the unique circumstances of now. It’s clear the party wants a Brexiteer. While for me the future is about so much more than the details of Brexit, I am firm in my belief that the best way through is to deliver Brexit with a deal. I believe that Boris has the unique personality to bring the party together behind a Brexit deal.

I've seen a few people suggest that Johnson might be able to get parliament to vote through something that is basically akin to May's deal before Oct 31, due to having him more credibility with brexiters than May, tory MPs being more confident that he could sell this to the electorate as being something other than a sell-out, rising awareness that there isn't a better alternative etc.

Presumably this is what Hancock is banking on, given that he's repeatedly said he doesn't believe any prime minister would be able to push through no-deal because parliament will block them, and surely isn't deluded enough to think that Johnson is actually going to negotiate a substantially different brexit deal over the next 4 months?

However, Hancock said Johnson, the former foreign secretary, had given assurances he would govern as a consensual, one-nation Conservative, and would support the needs of business. On both issues, Hancock said, he would “hold him to that”.

he's a self deceptive, self-interested boot-licking coward and hope he gets a really shit position in the boris cab and disappears without a trace.

despite hating life with this eternal tory government and fretting for my own existence. I love the idea of May helplessly watching on as something identical to her deal with a tiny bit off added boris flam finally pisses it through parliament, first time, as she screams into the abyss.

truly we are blessed

Matt Hancock into 6/1 second favourite to be next Chancellor. pic.twitter.com/m7aBlRKZfm

— Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) June 17, 2019

put the NHS on the blockchain

I call app britain

Liz Truss is the only hope for Stop Boris contingent now!

I love the bit where he puts his finger behind his ear 🤣😀😂😭@johnmcdonnellMP on Rory Stewart

pic.twitter.com/k3udxT7eet

— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 17, 2019

fucking love McD more than family.

“The Turnip”, a play on raap, the Dutch word for the vegetable, allegedly "chickened out" when confronted by Michel Barnier over empty threats he made about the Irish border in a “very tense” meeting, according to the insiders.

no-one is going to be rooting for Dominic Raap aka The Turnip, when they read he is not quite the tough talking negotiator he projects himself as in UK media.

Story from the Daily Telegraph who, of course, have absolutely no bias about who becomes next leader of the Conservative Party.

xp think that went out the window when the country clocked his incredible sweatiness under pressure/stress vein in his forehead

Also fond of NDAs.

Gove: "there is no candidate in this race who understands the politics of Ireland better than I do."

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) June 17, 2019

I'm prepared to believe that that statement is strictly speaking factually correct

focus on "in this race" and "better than"

Gove compared the good Friday agreement to appeasement of the Nazis!

think what the others must be like then

I’m like cringing in horror but I think Hunt might, might??? be better?

#huntz #bantz #secretweapon #weapon

last week tonight had a clip of gove talking about how he liked rap music and it felt like it was mortifying for the entire nation, still he probably knows more about it than the others

he'd still get street-knowledge shamed by Watson though.

the drill candidate vs the dril candidate

I'd rather they were one and the same.

i was going to say that's not how internet jokes work but

this cannot be posted often enough with respect to gove

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/cartoon/2012/mar/16/1

Let me try again: ¿Porque no los dos?

xp

this is the closest i can find:

concerned about t he health of my followers, many of whom appear sickly and have chapped, unwashed elbows, stained with grime

— wint (@dril) June 1, 2018

i mean look

can we say, looking back, a decent shot at appeasement mightnt have been worth a go?

i was reading the old admin log yesterday where you couldn't work out if i was saying FP hitler or you

if they could have got hitler to sign a "only one war of annihilation agreement" that he would definitely honour at Munich '38, then possibly the nazis in europe rn wouldn't be neo-ones!

I’m like cringing in horror but I think Hunt might, might??? be better?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-sadiq-khan-london-jeremy-hunt-twitter-conservative-leadership-latest-a8961941.html

... this from the cunt who wants us to stop calling him cunt.