like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

absolutely shocked at this display of left horniness for arch Tories

https://c.tenor.com/pJnatjvzCsoAAAAd/casablanca-shocked.gif

Well, that's torn it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/08/penny-mordaunts-pro-trans-stance-has-ruined-chances-becoming/

by Mason Boycott-Owen

The Telegraph Evelyn-Waugh-byline-generator has become self aware.

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

Meanwhile fascist-wing-tory twitter seems to have come out gunning for Sunak, accusing him of being the leaker behind partygate.

Are any of these candidates not going to enthusiastically implement 10 years of austerity?

well several of them are probably up for perma-austerity so

For my sanity I am choosing to maintain the delusion that they will keep managing to plough the clown car into a brick wall every couple of years in a way that causes some manner of reset

anyone in the PLP who opposes austerity will face deselection. Most Tory MPs don't even publicly admit it exists. It's just a case of the UK doing it wrong since the disasterous welfare state expansion post '45.

also unfettered capitalism has been doing a bang-up job of solving environmental catastrophe so far, we just need to unfetter it a bit more

Think there is mass Gilet-Jaune style fuel/energy bill protest brewing this summer and autumn + plus more waves of strikes - can't see that any of them - or Labour frontbench - have anything approaching the nous/experience/bde to negotiate the coming clusterfuck/polycrisis.

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

She'd better or she'll be eaten alive by the media.

I don't know what's going to happen (except more bad things), but I agree with poster Gimbel that "Mason Boycott-Owen" is pretty remarkable.

The Home Office -- the one relatively organised department? -- are building prisons, which is their plan for these protests xxp

They're going to need some bigger prisons

Colombo, Sri Lanka right now. The Presidential Palace has been stormed, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is said to have fled. Unbelievable scenes. Live reports on @IndiaToday: https://t.co/p6JV6FzCub pic.twitter.com/8zlJdBfN2P

— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) July 9, 2022

She will do a TERF u-turn, it's not like any of these people have any principles.

Meanwhile fascist-wing-tory twitter seems to have come out gunning for Sunak, accusing him of being the leaker behind partygate.

A source at Number 10 tells me that Boris Johnson intends to stand down as Prime Minister on Monday, in order to run for the Tory leadership.

— Petronella Wyatt (@PetronellaWyatt) July 9, 2022

LOL awesome!

make this happen! lol I might join the Conservative Party as a Boris voting entryist

don't think the rules allow him to enter, guess the rules can be changed by the 1922 though

hmm i wonder who this source providing information on boris johnson to boris johnson’s ex might be

purely just to own the libs I've put £3 on a 9/2 shot called Bringitonboris running in the 7.00 at Hamilton this evening.

They don't allow him to enter if he'd actually lost the tory VONC, iirc?

i've basically said the same on Twitter but Johnson's ability to get melts and Twitter libs squawking in outrage at his refusal to play the game is pretty entertaining imo

Bringitonboris finished 4th and the outsider Dutch Decoy steamed from last to first in an impressive display! There is no hope for any decent outcomes in UK democracy any more, it's a sad state of affairs but if all that is left is the prospect of sneering at libs when things don't go how they expected them to, so be it!

Ofc, 2017.

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson lobbied for a public role for a young woman who says he abused his power to have a sexual relationship with her

The PM was confronted at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, when she told him she was still “shaken and upset”https://t.co/FZtujTL2D1 pic.twitter.com/h85BlqHRNw

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) July 9, 2022

All this stuff that’s been known about for years is going to come out now to force him out

it's mad that they've probably got a warehouse of genuinely serious criminal harm caused by this bastard that has been kept under wraps till now and were reduced to using a Corbyn like for an antisemitic mural 10 years ago to totally destroy his character.

They're all briefing against each other or briefing against someone before they brief against them or briefing against some who they thought had briefed against them, fun times ahead.

lol

"I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are you know working-class but- well not working-class..."

Rishi Sunak in his own words. pic.twitter.com/tzStoaa4vO

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) July 9, 2022

working class to him = lived in a large 3 bedroom Victorian terraced house and went to a grammar school

Wonder who is this going to help

Source:https://t.co/AohHW37a4c

— British Electoral Politics (@electpoliticsuk) July 9, 2022

xp

this sort of reminds me of Starmer's pathetic class flexing against Nandy in the leadership election when he declared that he came from a town as well!

omg it's all coming out now, the only one they've got no dirt on can't run because she's not enough of a terf.

Selling trans rights down the river at the first opportunity. Not that it will stop there.

I hope in, in the next few days we’ll able to discuss how we get our economy growing again and enable our citizens to live well. Right now, I’d like to address another question that I’ve been asked: pic.twitter.com/OImF6kUVzx

— Penny Mordaunt (@PennyMordaunt) July 9, 2022

Penny Mordaunt immediately making everyone (including me) who was like “ok, she’s got one (1) good opinion look like a fool”

On sport, I raised this years ago. This was important to me because I’ve trained alongside men in the Navy. I support a science-based approach. @uk_sport has done good work, as have @sharrond62 @Daley_thompson and others. The biology is overwhelming important. pic.twitter.com/maAA6gwuwl

— Penny Mordaunt (@PennyMordaunt) July 9, 2022

That didn't take long, did it?

fan fucking tastic

maybe they could bring back Section 28 too

That will be asked for. Penny won't hesitate.

May as well call it now, no matter who they choose as leader, the next election is going to be the Trans Election. The Tories and the media are going to hammer this relentlessly, the way they did with Corbyn/anti-Semitism, because they really have nothing positive or tangible to campaign on.

Don't feel that's a huge issue if fuel prices are sky high.

Brexit was a promise of prosperity once we are out. It was a positive message.

xp to make it a battleground, Labour would have to commit to some trans-supportive ideology, and that's not going to happen

hate this country, so fucking much

True. They are still going to bring it up at every opportunity.

for better or worse i cannot see Trans rights becoming any kind of key election issue. i'm not sure any part of the culture wars is gonna sway anybody who hasn't already entrenched opinions. it's scary and incredibly sad that this leadership election might amplify the hate speech of a few mainly online evil bigots tho. most optimistic i can be is that nobody, including the candidates, will give a shit what's been said during the campaign once the contest's over

Lol

Grant Shapps seemingly alone among Conservative candidates in dismissing the trans women question.

"Let people live their lives," he tells Sky.

"I just don't think we need to get caught up in some US-style debate and aggressive war on these issues. It's just not necessary."

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 10, 2022

weird how little it takes to make somebody look just a shade less cuntish than their peers

Assume Shapps is not running.

Would seem to be a waste of time to do so.

oh he is running

xxp Then you remember it's Grant Shapps.

most optimistic i can be is that nobody, including the candidates, will give a shit what's been said during the campaign once the contest's over

a number of them (braverman, truss, badenoch, javid) already seem deeply committed to transphobia and would very likely turn it up to 11, there's room for much worse than the current situation where boris seemed to think it was politically useful but didn't really give a shit personally. braverman has been attacking the equality act etc.

Labour would have to commit to some trans-supportive ideology

as shit as labour are, starmer & the party are still publicly committed to GRA reform, despite his refusal to do anything about the vocal and committed transphobes within his ranks. wouldn't be surprised if they fold on GRA reform before the next election as the tories ramp everything up to 11, but they haven't yet at least.