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

johnson, gove and cunt - perhaps the most challenging marry/fuck/kill lineup in history

it was saj, he was a politician

Pretty sure Ken Clarke will vote Boris tbh.

B-but he is the father of the commons wtf

Really, Tom?

Last week he was pretty damning. Spoiled paper sounds about right.

On Boris Johnson, Clarke is withering in a way that borders on contempt. He says he was a “disaster” as foreign secretary, and when asked if he could be equally terrible as prime minister, he answers in an instant. “Yes, he certainly has the potential to be. Unless he suddenly starts taking it seriously. I am not sure he knows what he would do to get us through the crisis.

Yes, really.

c'mon he listens to miles davis, you've got to take his word as bond!

when boris is anointed and calls a snap GE with BP standing aside to give the CON’s a free run... do we reckon CONs win that election? or are they losing from column B (social liberals who leak to LDs) what they pick up in column A (hard case BP wingnuts)... and thus being hurt in the marginals required for success?

If Boris Johnson wins the leadership race it will be the first time we've had an openly racist Prime minister since the beginning of the month.

— Ed Poole (@edwardpoole1975) June 20, 2019

"one helluva finale"

40 minutes to go in the final ballot, and it’s one helluva finale. Senior Gove team source says they’re confident they have half of Sajid’s backers, with most others going to Boris: “Hunt only beats us now if Boris lends him votes, and that’s a really bad look”.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) June 20, 2019

his whole party's a bad look

If my ambition and conduct in this contest has set an example for anyone, then it has been more than worth it. My message to kids like me: pic.twitter.com/jaa2cMxM4z

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 20, 2019

Sajid did it for the children

for the kids with just a few private tutors, not many

Boris Johnson 160
Jeremy Hunt 77
Michael Gove 75

Bozza v. the Cunt

oh shi

I am a man who would fight for your honour
I'll be the hero you're dreaming of
We'll live forever, knowing together
that we did it all for the glory of Gove

ussy

http://www.matthewhunt.com/cunt/

Actually considering now if Johnson lent him a vote or two there

Really disappointed that I missed my few hours window to make a "cock, muff or bumhole" joke

8/1 on Hunt is tempting.

making BJ the party leader is big last throw of the dice energy

shamima begum’s baby died in vain then. nice one sajid

8/1 on Hunt is tempting.

Worth a cunt, sorry, punt.

Working for Jeremy Hunt, a memoir by Luke Turner: https://thequietus.com/articles/08944-jeremy-hunt-levenson-enquiry-hotcourses
(apologies to those who've already snickered lengthily at it)

“Cunt to win” too ambiguous a bet

Can’t believe Gove couldn’t snake his way into the final...we can only hope he invests his pent-up energies in flinging tons of shit

Wonder who the spoiled vote was?

in a way, they're all losers

https://www.enca.com/sites/default/files/WEB_PHOTO_SPOILTVOTE.jpg

stephen crabb is still an MP !

The French version of being 'between a rock and a hard place' is more eloquent in this instance: choisir entre la peste et le choléra literally means having to choose between the plague and cholera.

Did you think he’d just scuttled off?

How long does this shit go on for?

22 july I think

Another month?!

shamima begum’s baby died in vain then. nice one sajid

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Probably isn't that important to state this but...it would've been carried out anyway whether Sajid got the job or not. And should there be an opportunity to send that msg again (because that's what it was) then it will be taken.

xp could be even longer than that

May will only resign when she is sure her successor has confidence of Commons, No 10 says - live news https://t.co/iGbsGMsLIu

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2019

🤮🤮🤮

Popcorn time!

Oh wait that's weeks old. Theoretically that means the DUP and a handful of Tories could torpedo whoever wins though?

It could in theory be sooner if the first polls are 75-25 to Boris, and Jeremy decides that he'd rather not fork out the £150k that that CCHQ want both of them to pay for the hustings. And possibly by sparing Boris that hassle, he might have a spare cabinet post going?

But more likely he'll figure that just by getting Boris to repeat all the various and contradictory things that he's been variously saying to get backers from Steve Baker to Matt Hancock, he might yet win.

wasn't the 'May only resigning when it's clear her successor has confidence of Commons' thing a response to reassure people concerned that the tories could bring forward the parliamentary summer recess (to shortly before the end of the leadership contest), and the new PM would then have a month in office without having to face parliament

My take on it is that he'll need to enter into new DUP talks. Doubt there will be any Tory resistance as no chance of any of that shower of cunts triggering an election.

“I’ve been the underdog right from the start and I like to prove people wrong. And the way I’m going to win this race is by showing that the best way to Brexit is by sending the European Union a prime minister they can engage with, a tough negotiator, someone who has a bottom line and won’t give up until I get what is right for our country. But also someone who is prepared to walk away.”

A tough negotiator prepared to shoot him self in the foot if he doesn’t get what he wants

So the race for pm boils down to the age old question of:

The EU mostly resembles:
a) Nazi Germany
b) A Soviet prison

If a), vote Bozza. If b), vote Hunt.

stalag stalin

Srsly, I know being pm is BJ's dream, but why *now*? Why nick the job when surely he must know he cannot do "better" than May, cannot deliver anything other than being the PM overseeing a no-deal crash out of the EU, and it will end a failure? Am I missing something that can make him the Churchillian legernd he wants to be? Is he really this daft and power mad? Is that all there is to it?

something might turn up. something always has, all his life.

I also ask myself those questions LBI. All the losers will get another shot at this in 12 - 36 months time