Who will be next Tory leader?

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

Lol!

Free ones at that, no wonder your computer blew up.

such blatant disregard for dan j arvis itt

Angela Raynor is likeable but I found her opinions on the Blair years completely bollox once. I dont know if she has changed any since then, but if you don't what is wrong with past mistakes etc....

rayner is so normal it's hard to imagine her as PM. as a charismatic working class soft left type she is popular the base, idk beyond that. long-bailey is v environment focused & serious, comes across well in person (not afraid to admit ignorance). both definitely on the team.

xp lol

As the group owner of Dan Jarvis For Leader, I would like to announce that I am withdrawing all support and this group will cease positing from tonight. You cannot ignore members and conference on this most important issue. It's time to put country before constituents. https://t.co/zMjg0u8qbn

— Ben (@DanJarvisLeader) March 27, 2019

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.

I remember, at the time of that GE, Jewish voters being interviewed and saying they wouldn't vote for Miliband because he was Jewish - the logic being that he'd be bending over backwards to show he wasn't biased.

Have to admit I was surprised that Dan Jarvis was even still in Parliament, I thought he'd just quietly gone off and done something more worthwhile at the last election.

It's pretty amazing that anyone would stan that hard for Jarvis without knowing where he stood on the biggest single issue of the moment, but it does generally fit with the pattern of people building him based on no substance whatsoever.

You not seen his tough soldier selfies in Afghan? If that doesn't burnish your political rep then thank fuck!

He’s the mayor for Sheffield now!

Can confirm at least one legend of the left is still glad he’s around:

If Ken Loach really cared about politics & the oppressed he would have filmed my script about Dan Jarvis freeing Marine A from a prison cell

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) February 13, 2017

I saw Jewish voters interviewed about Ed Miliband (a lot of bubbies in Finchley, basically) and they were fans of the Other Brother, who had been ‘stabbed in the back’.

Sir Micheal "warm your hands on my balls" Fallon used that one against Ed in the 2015 election cxampaign as well, in a vaguely dogwhistle manner iirc.

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