[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[Greg Bobkin]

My mother-in-law (in her 80s, staunch Tory voter and member) has been VERY critical of Johnson over the past year or so. But she told us last night that she'd prefer him to any of the candidates for leader. She's a very sensible and intelligent woman...but I can't work out whether (a) to be in despair at her desire to have Johnson as leader, or (b) to be highly amused at her disdain for the others! It wouldn't surprise me to hear that her views are pretty common across the party members.

I blame Keir Starmer

 

[Bold Seagull]

My mother-in-law (in her 80s, staunch Tory voter and member) has been VERY critical of Johnson over the past year or so. But she told us last night that she'd prefer him to any of the candidates for leader. She's a very sensible and intelligent woman...but I can't work out whether (a) to be in despair at her desire to have Johnson as leader, or (b) to be highly amused at her disdain for the others! It wouldn't surprise me to hear that her views are pretty common across the party members.

c) perhaps the 'very sensible and intelligent woman' needs re-evaluating? Who told you that anyway, the wife?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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[Guinness Boy]

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Yes, yes, but can they get the word 'woke' into "amusing" ice cream flavours?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Seen a few bits about Johnson seeking legal advice about being on the ballot paper for the new leader.

Surely just a ill informed rumour!

 

[carlzeiss]

Yes, yes, but can they get the word 'woke' into "amusing" ice cream flavours?

I dread to think how things would be if we had just had 12 years of a Labour government

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Seen a few bits about Johnson seeking legal advice about being on the ballot paper for the new leader.

Surely just a ill informed rumour!

There are a few accounts pushing the hashtag #BorisontheBallot but not many.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Seen a few bits about Johnson seeking legal advice about being on the ballot paper for the new leader.

Surely just a ill informed rumour!

Too late unless they restart the whole process which they won’t as it’s the Tory party not bumble***** Tory party. I think he needs to start looking for a good lawyer, as like with Trump, the shit will start coming out as soon as he’s an ex PM


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[Deportivo Seagull]

I dread to think how things would be if we had just had 12 years of a Labour government

Think of the Tories but in red and you wouldn’t be far off.


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[Bry Nylon]

I bet Carrie is desperate for Boris to be on the ballot for next leader. I'm sure when she married him she hadn't factored on that useless binbag full of custard being under her feet 24/7.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I dread to think how things would be if we had just had 12 years of a Labour government

They couldn't be any worse than things are now, and there is definitely no point in playing "Fantasy Labour PM".

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If you read this thread, apparently their constitution allows for it.

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[Guinness Boy]

I dread to think how things would be if we had just had 12 years of a Labour government

You dread to think it, and yet you must be imagining it to be able to conjure something that's worse than double digit inflation, a serving Prime Minister fined by the police and removed by his own party for basically being a liar who's lost the trust of the British public, war with a country whose Oligarchs we've been welcoming and funding in order to sustain a ridiculous property price bubble in the nation's capital, a recession on the way, more debt than they started with, despite cutting pretty much everything (supposedly), all our casual labour disappearing abroad to be replaced with inflatable loads of families who are then treated like criminals, onto our fourth Prime Minister in twelve years, three of them initially forced upon us, one of whom actually managed to turn a decent majority into a parliament that couldn't function without a couple of religious nutters from Northern Ireland, that same Northern Ireland effectively leaving the Union, real salaries down for frontline key workers, a Health Secretary who was spending lockdown locked in with his mistress, an advisor who needed to drive to Durham in lockdown to check his eye sight, a Home Secretary who has wasted a fortune not sending people to Rwanda because (guess what), it's not workable, impossibly rising taxes and people in their 30s and 40s who still can't afford their homes.

If you've come up with something worse than that in your head then it's no wonder you dread to think.......

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

If you read this thread, apparently their constitution allows for it.

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Using what criteria ? A minimum number of members on the petition or something else ? That thread is a bit light on detail. I would have thought he would have at least drawn our attention to the clause in the constitution that he is referring to.

 

[dolphins]

Badenoch knocked out...

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Badenoch knocked out...

That’s gunna annoy a decent number of members lower down the chain.

 

[Machiavelli]

Hmmm. Is that Rishi's team lending votes to Truss, so ready4 is up against liz4 too woo the membership?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Hmm.....I smell something fishy, and I’m not talking about the contents of Baldrick’s apple crumble.

 

[Machiavelli]

Given half of Tugenhadt's went Truss' way, not beyond the bounds of possiblity

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

The worst of the four remaining awful candidates bites the dust.