Who will be next Tory leader?

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.

― Lammy's Show (Tom D.), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:23 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

xp

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.

sobel is also a supporter of the west papuan independence movement, has completed final fantasy 7 and is a scott walker fan, how greedy can we get?

Sobeltum now imo.

corbyn has been going on 15K runs wth

jewish so they can't use the antisemitism thing

this tends not to stop ppl

Thanks to @ben_machell for featuring me in his gaming piece in @TimesMagazine. Great piece. One minor niggle I was ST not Amiga. Looking forward to getting a console in London so I can play more often. Maybe @tom_watson will let me play on his! pic.twitter.com/ehp1rkxrff

— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) May 19, 2018

ST is a massive dealbreaker

alex is cancelled

I think this Sobel dossier in progress is already looking very bad!

Sorry repeating a bg post. My pc blew up yesterday and am restricted to phone shit posting.

ST wtf

rip big man, heaven needed calz's personal computer

Enjoy the 600gb of free jazz flacs heaven, cos my neighbour will be sure glad they gone!

If McDonnell stood and got on the ballot he would be very likely to win but I'm not convinced that's a given. He's already had one heart attack and may lack the appetite for the top job at this stage.

One Labour figure who seems to be in the ascendancy is Angela Rayner, already has a senior shadow ministerial brief, not a natural Corbynite but has been very vocally supportive and loyal to the leadership. Appears to resemble a normal person as much as any politician does, friendly with the unions and would be able to position herself as a unity candidate. It might come too early for her though, same with Rebecca Long-Bailey.

i assume 'jazz flacs' is a euphemism xp