Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

[Xizor]

Oh goody, more dung from the criminal forthcoming.

Given the news yesterday that Johnson hasn't done a lick of work for GB News since being unveiled as their hottest new signing 10 months ago (a period of time that includes not just a general election, but the first general election since his victory in the one prior), you do have to question the mindset of any of these would-be media moguls looking to get him on board.

The ultimate lazy chancer, he's been found out so many times but still finds people wanting to spaff money up the wall by putting it in his pocket.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[john jako]

Sniff that Priti

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Sniff that Priti

This was my biggest wish of the day!

 

[Xizor]

She's yesterday's news. No real talent anyway and just owed everything to Johnson, who is increasingly irrelevant in UK politics. She tried to make a big deal out of not being involved in the Truss or Sunak 'projects' which could have been a decent shout but clearly just took her out of people's thinking instead. I suspect Jenrick has nabbed a lot of her natural supporters and has a better story about flouncing out of Sunak's government rather than just not getting involved in the first place.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Priti Patel knocked out of Tory leadership contest

Former minister Robert Jenrick tops the poll among Conservative MPs on 28 votes, with Kemi Badenoch second.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Charro]

Don’t get why people celebrate stuff like this.

It’s the Conservative Party. Whoever takes over will be horrible.

 

[Blue 1]

Don’t get why people celebrate stuff like this.

It’s the Conservative Party. Whoever takes over will be horrible.

Wish they could all be out.

Hope we don't end up with that spiteful little homunculus, Jenrick.

 

[Xizor]

Wish they could all be out.

Hope we don't end up with that spiteful little homunculus, Jenrick.

It's a balancing act, isn't it. Shorn of some glorious miracle, there will always be a Tory party or something of its ilk, and it will always have a leader, or be choosing one.

So from anti-Tory perspective, ideally you want someone in there who isn't remotely electable, but also someone that isn't going to try to pull the political conversation into darker places (because as LOTO they still have some parliamentary sway).

 

[JimmyJeffers]

It's a balancing act, isn't it. Shorn of some glorious miracle, there will always be a Tory party or something of its ilk, and it will always have a leader, or be choosing one.

So from anti-Tory perspective, ideally you want someone in there who isn't remotely electable, but also someone that isn't going to try to pull the political conversation into darker places (because as LOTO they still have some parliamentary sway).

People thought Johnson wasn’t electable 10/15 years ago. There will always be a Tory party in power now and then so we should hope that they are at least led by someone who isn’t batshit crazy/ racist/ hates poor people.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Boris? Shady? No no no. Best there was, apparently.

Boris Johnson faces ‘serious questions’ over new business with uranium entrepreneur

Former prime minister also under fire for hiring ex-aide Charlotte Owen as VP despite her lack of energy sector experience

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rita_Poon]

Boris? Shady? No no no. Best there was, apparently.

Boris Johnson faces ‘serious questions’ over new business with uranium entrepreneur

Former prime minister also under fire for hiring ex-aide Charlotte Owen as VP despite her lack of energy sector experience

www.theguardian.com

Boris Johnson ‘refused to be open’ with watchdog about hedge fund role

Acoba chair Eric Pickles says rules on post-ministerial jobs are ‘unenforceable’ after former PM avoids answering questions

www.theguardian.com

Morning after: Boris Johnson recovers from Lebedev’s exotic Italian party

Exclusive: New prime minister refuses to say if he abandoned security for 2018 night in billionaire’s castle

www.theguardian.com

The plebs deserve no answers, the plebs get no answers.

 

[mahermi1]

Priti Patel knocked out of Tory leadership contest

Former minister Robert Jenrick tops the poll among Conservative MPs on 28 votes, with Kemi Badenoch second.

www.bbc.co.uk

"Dame " my God, when a Trollope like that can be titled for doing so little except having a face like a smacked arse when she was continually put in her place during government.

 

[Xizor]

"Dame " my God, when a Trollope like that can be titled for doing so little except having a face like a smacked arse when she was continually put in her place during government.

Maybe it means she'll be doing Panto, if she can't find a role as a traditional Dame there she can always fall back on playing Smirky the Dwarf in Snow White.

 

[Thomasc]

An old woman who’s house I was working at last week told me he was, in her words “a brilliant man”.

6 months ago I’d have gone to town in that, but i seriously just CBA anymore with people who have this weird mentality where they refuse to look facts in the face and admit he was quite comfortably the most corrupt, incompetent and dishonest politician ever to get to the dizzy heights of PM.