Who will be next Tory leader?

*personarum gratarum if we're going to give the right case and number. pip pip time for tea!

show trials for some, xox for others.

I think Mordaunt is an underrated pick. Military background, woman, cabinet experience, Leaver, grassroots love her. If it’s her and Hunt in the runoff, she’d take it.

She interviews very badly. Either comes across as clueless or malicious depending on the topic.

forget me and xyzzzz, this is the zesty content ogmor cried out for

Related to Angela Lansbury, though, could be a secret weapon with the demographic.

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If I was related to any Tories, I could make an educated guess about how she might poll with their voters. Alas.

She is obviously very right wing, but that’s who the members want to vote for, and has a voting record that’s progressive on enough social issues that wavering wettish voters will pull in with her. I could see her winning. And a third woman? That’s another thing to bash Labour for.

She’s also got some gorgeous cats.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/15/penny-mordaunt-brings-her-own-cat-to-westminster-office-in-order/

committed socialist angela lansbury must be v disappointed in penny

I dunno, I am thinking that the Tory party is not going to elect a female leader for quite some time.

How likely is Gove this time around? He strikes me as one of those guys who is popular among Tories but absolutely no one else.

never in a million years

Still seems most likely to me if not Hunt.

Definite if he gets through to the final two, but he will be hated by the public. Never stopped them before though.

xxxp He's a hard worker, but he's mostly been working hard to piss off everyone - opportunistic Leaver but also gave an impassioned defense of the WA a month or so back, his knife firmly in Boris's back at the last leadership election, good at the Environment but then also good at the Environment. My impression is that nearly everyone considers him a grasper.

not only is gove a snivelling little shit with a face like ten pounds of severed genitals stuffed into a five-pound bag, but he's scottish ffs

Give it to Guto

his official portrait makes him look like a third-rate comedian giving the edinburgh fringe one last try before throwing himself off a bridge

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Official_portrait_of_Michael_Gove_crop_2.jpg/800px-Official_portrait_of_Michael_Gove_crop_2.jpg

Why Leave when you can Grieeeve

Bookies have Gove as favourite at 5/2 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/next-conservative-leader-odds-runners-14195519

Any Gove GE campaign is going to have to have someone google “how to drink water like a human” first.

just one of the many human behaviours he will need to master

http://cogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Michael_Gove_clapping.gif

http://fantastiq.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Dead-of-Night.jpg

Then again, how much money is Sarah Vine making at the Mail and will she want to give that up when it comes down to it?

Ugh, just thought of her in No 10 😩

Hunt, I reckon, at some point.

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I think Raab's in with a shout also.

i'm a yank, so i probably shouldn't have voted, but i voted for Gaz Coombes.

Gove, The Great Orator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qQL5L31-1E

The first guy listed in the HuffPo piece on this very topic was Javid, he seems to have a good balance of working-class cred and horrifying views. Any reason he wouldn't be in contention? (I don't know anything about him beyond like a one-graph bio)

I think Raab’s wasted his chance when he accepted Brexit Secretary.

The real question would be next Labour leader cos, like, who???

(xp) He has a slight tinge.

The real question would be next Labour leader cos, like, who???

― gyac, Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:38 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*wakes up*

The real question would be next Labour leader cos, like, who???

― gyac, Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:38 PM (two minutes ago)

Starmer.

Should I poll or is that ILE saturation?

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not a chance!

Saturation, I reckons.

if Starmer was the most left wing candidate the job would be really fucked, otherwise the membership wouldn't go for him over a Corbyn/McD candidate.

Starmer is my MP. He could win (am dreading people advocating for Yvette Cooper) and he’d shred at the Despatch Box.

YC’s moment has passed I think. Tom Watson will 100% position himself as the moderate who tried to hold back Corbyn & take all the blue Labour votes.

My preference is Laura Pidcock, but she needs more experience.

make a thread!

How would Corbyn go? ;-)

After handing over a supermajority to his successor, AN MP.

Corbyn is practically immortal! Unless there is a complete overhaul of the leadership voting rules or a massive upturn inProgress membership. T Wat is no serious contender, nor any other tories in disguise.

nobly recognising his service is through and handing a ceremonial toy tank to laura pidcock/whoever

tbh i don't think corbyn should go anywhere except in a worst-case scenario

i was mousing over labour constituencies recently and looking at each MP's name, thinking 'some of these people must have more substance than backbench dross'

i look forward to heralding the premiership of Alex Sobel, our first gamer PM

good on environment, jewish so they can't use the antisemitism thing, h8s nukes, i'm listening

All of Watson’s enemies will spend a lot of time and effort on things like ‘eh, £500k from Son Of BUF?’ and pointing out that there’s never been a leader he hasn’t tried to back-knife.

Omg yes! He’s a gamer & often does late night shitposting on twitter. He’s Co-Op though possibly a bit sus.

Both the Lauras (Smith & Pidcock) are v good and v left. Think Dan Carden will also have strong left support cos of his ties to the unions.

Its not one book. There are over 30 books on Middle Earth. Tolkien was probably the finest philologist this country has ever produced

— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) March 27, 2019

:'D

As Miliband proved, the gutter press would just go back to dog-whistle AS and he’d not necessarily gain Jewish voters who started leaving when EM made it policy to recognise Palestinians.

Pretty sure Other Brother wasn’t down with changing Labour’s pre-2014 I/P policy of constructive ambiguity.

In my head i frequently confuddle DMil with Ed Balls which is probably like my head otm

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Tom Tugendhat has the most regrettable name so whoever that is

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

compelling evidence here that gove is a tier 1 menace https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/michael-gove-premiership-would-be-another-blow-british-muslims

summary of charges: reckless renegade, confidence masking deep ignorance, history of fabrication, islamophobia & liked by peter oborne