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

Kemi Badenoch - 40 votes
Suella Braverman - 32 votes
Penny Mordaunt - 67 votes
Rishi Sunak - 88 votes
Liz Truss - 50 votes
Tom Tugendhat - 37 votes

A bit mean that we don't get to find out how many votes Hunt and Zawahi got, mind.

There’s 358 Tory MPs so that leaves 44 between them.

they each needed 20 to get on the ballot too.

we don't have an Anne Marie Waters thread, understandably, so just to note here that she has suddenly wound up For Britain today and quit electoral politics

https://scoutnews.substack.com/p/it-was-the-best-organised-far-right

https://img.kiosko.net/2022/07/13/uk/daily_telegraph.750.jpg

mo farah obviously not been through enough...

Why did BoJo only tell the truth now?

(kidding, we await...)

the trains in Spain will be free! (in the main) 🇪🇸 https://t.co/PkwHKxXLpX

— Sophia Smith Galer (@sophiasgaler) July 13, 2022

if you build a big enough network of gulags you can requisition 12000 new homes instead - what a bunch of cautious melts! It's so depressing seeing good stuff like this when you know it would be impossible in the UK within your lifetime.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2022/07/14/TELEMMGLPICT000302793722_1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgRl8BouVbC6HZnydG5Kn5pdzd29AV1S6GkBHLgjhxoY.jpeg?imwidth=1240

...more dirty tricks from the Telegraph as they print a picture that makes Sunak look about 3 foot tall.

"child seat's this side sir"

he seemed very evasive on the radio this morning.

also seems to have swallowed the lie that sending refugees to rwanda is to disuade the evil traffickers. yeah, that'll show 'em. and this form someone keen on repeating his humble immigrant beginnings.

LOL humble beginnings.

Talking of which, I noticed this morning the fact that Liz Truss went to school in Paisley (the same primary school as me!) was mentioned as evidence of a humble background. Amazingly her father was a professor of mathematics! Where did the brains end up on that family?

she can be added to the list: Andrew Neil, Paolo Nutini, Gerry Rafferty, Liz Truss, Tom D from ILX, my dad

apparently Truss's parents were lefties who too her on demos as a kid (that's her on the right)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02986/Liz-Truss_2986380c.jpg

... where she has remained for the rest of her life.

imagine hating your parents that much

Is Mordaunt going to be the next PM?

according to the bookies, yes she's odds on. The humkble little billionaire pocket prince has drifted out to 3/1.

^^^
*humble*

xp see also lifelong Tory, Hilary Benn

Mordaunt has the advantage of relative obscurity, so no-one's seen how incompetent she is. Not yet, anyway.

Feels like she's being set up for a fall. Media will make a lot of sexist hay about her vs Rayner.

Liz Truss opposing the monarchy at the 1994 Lib Dem conferencepic.twitter.com/zU09W4c4aR

— Tides of History (@labour_history) July 14, 2022

Liz Truss - her radical student years coming back to haunt her! Also Mordaunt's team will be deleting all evidence of her Roman Catholic background from her wiki.

not a regular poster to this thread but i really hate seeing shit like this, tweeted by peter walker and then copied into the guardian liveblog: "Theresa May has arrived to vote in the second round, looking - as has often been the case in the last week or so - decidedly chipper."

like, who cares how theresa may is looking or feeling? are there more than half a dozen people alive today who are happy that she is experiencing schadenfreude? i've seen similar accounts of her walking merrily into the commons, watching boris squirm under questions. yes, we recall when she was prime minister and was then ousted, it was only a couple of years ago. neither her happiness nor her misery are interesting but her walking around with a smile on her face keeps being mentioned as though some historical injustice were being righted

Telegraph have started gunning for Mordaunt.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/13/penny-mordaunt-accused-failing-iraq-veterans-subjected-witch/

burn the witch!

Liz Truss - her radical student years coming back to haunt her!

Two years later she was in the Conservative Party.

glory hunter

is the feeling amongst the nutbar right that Mordaunt is simply not nutbar enough and therefore must be stopped?

re dogs's post: this is what all political journalists and commentators are like, it's halfway between gossip and sport to them, which is why they'll be near the front in the guillotine queue come the day

(xp) Yes.

They've decided they're throwing their lot in with Liz Truss, who is hopeless and will be IDS Mk. II.

Sunak can't beat Mordaunt in a head to head, not sure if Truss is more vulnerable in that situation.

One thing I have learned from this nonsense is how to pronounce Tugendhat.

every one of these candidates is a tory ghoul and therefore has a long history of hypocrisy, ever-changing positions, corruption, general evil-doing, etc. and we will expect them to have all of this flung at them if they continue in the contest, however Mordaunt seems to be the one best equipped to bat these away by reversing her position or just ignoring it and moving on in the Johnson/Trump style, this is why I suspect she will win.

Also I suspect there's a bit of Thatcher fetishism going on.

Approval Ratings:

Boris Johnson (CON): 31% (+6)
Keir Starmer (LAB): 28% (=)

via
@RedfieldWilton
, 10 Jul

Kieth with a lower approval rating than a flop political corpse that is scheduled to be dissolved in acid. The knives will be out for him when he's hitting Corbyn numbers against a new PM and whatever shit new attack strategy he's attempting isn't working.

Sunak can't beat Mordaunt in a head to head, not sure if Truss is more vulnerable in that situation.

polls have mordaunt winning all the head-to-heads, no idea if that holds up and i kinda suspect it's just because she's relatively unknown compared to truss/sunak? i certainly have no idea who she is more broadly

the right of the party is surely going to unite around truss? so it probably just comes down to whether some of sunak's supporters worry he'd absolutely lose the head-to-head vs truss & decide to push mordaunt to the final round instead?

oh good the terfs have got an #AnyButPenny hashtag on the go

housing policy in this country is absolutely criminal and those responsible need to be put before some sort of people's tribunal https://t.co/Wg89PqxC0a

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) July 14, 2022

lol was mordaunt's incredibly transphobic and hateful tweet thread the other day not enough for them??

you've got to have a long track record of hate-speech and transphobia to win over this mob, you can't just turn it on like a tap and get instant results!

nothing will ever be enough for the transphobes

Yes, this is already being weaponized against her and I expect much more of the same.

Her voting record is not of a transphobe apparently, so that will need to change too.

Suella Braverman has been eliminated.

Seeing that the terfs were foaming about her made me think she might be the best of a bad lot but I also saw the transphobic tweet so in summation - fuck everything

only one left who appears not to be actively hostile to trans rights is tugendhat who isn't any sort of ally but doesn't seem to have any interest in culture warring there

mordaunt is clearly overcompensating for her past pro-trans comments and would probably do anything the transphobes beg of her now. sunak seems more in the johnson camp of not really personally caring but seeing it as politically advantageous, his rhetoric is a fair bit less deranged & he's been focused on the very minor issue opposing gender neutral language instead of e.g. bringing back section 28 and repealing the equality act like the rest are advocating for.