I don’t even know the background for the Rishi hate by members. Because of his policies during the pandemic? The ‘backstabbing’ of Boris (even though in reality the loyalty remained far too long)? Because he has South Asian heritage? What exactly is the hate?
Maybe a mixture of all, I can think that there would be quite a lot of people who would think that he didn’t get the people’s mandate as well.
What @JU97ICE said…he’s viable in a ‘Finally there’s an adult in the room’ kinda way…
Pity no-one is saying that there should have been an adult in the room all along…
And also pity that that adult will continue to fuck the poor via his clean-cut right-wing economic orthodoxy…but here we are.
Off with their heads, I say!!
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Excellent stuff . Made me laugh like fuck. Especially the bit about Rees Mogg and the laudanum. Bravo !
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The amount of U-Turns is incredible. I was shocked at the number of MPs to throw Boris under the bus as he was leaving in July (who all made statements about how he was terrible for the country), to then suggest he should be PM, then as little as 6 hrs later are backing Rishi now.
We’re fucked as long as these self interested cunts are in charge.
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Plus more. He does come across a bit odd. He’s very very wealthy. The whole tax situation of his family etc
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If they had any integrity they’d bin the Conservative party and coalesce into their different factions…create a whole range of new parties.
RWNJs, cunts only in it for the money, cunts only in it for the cruelty, the Centre Right Party etc etc…
If I was Sunak, I’d want this to go to a membership vote.
Do you seriously believe that any other party would call a GE in the current situation?
Does that mean all parties, and politicians by extension, are primarily self serving?
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Absofuckinglutely. They’re human. Maslow is your expert here.
I’m not sure he would want it to as he doesn’t seem to poll well with that group and he clearly wants to be PM. In which case why jeopardise that if you don’t need to. He already has the majority of MPs onboard, and it’s not really the membership of the party who he will be relying on in the general election.
I was chatting to my kid’s coaches yesterday at a tournament - Conservative voting leavers, and I asked specifically not to converse about politics because I know them working me up would be beneficial to no-one,but they steered the conversation in that direction anyway. Beyond one of them saying they would like Boris back because 'hey its better to have a known corrupt politician in office than a corrupt politician that we don’t know is yet (strong logic is strong in this one), he also said ‘they (politicians) are all the same anyway’. That’s the point that I went and found another seat away from them.
Its a line used to excuse themselves of their piss-poor judgment on voting day. Tory’s gonna Tory.
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I agree and disagree. I agree he doesn’t need the broader count to be PM. But. Right now there are all the die hard Boris fans that are saying that this is a coronation and “undemocratic” and that it should go out to the membership (who know best presumably). This will keep being a thing and fester in the background. He should “clean house” in a way, and go to them and say back me or her. He should win and get that particular monkey off the new governments back. If he doesn’t win then the Conservatives are finished as a party. If he doesn’t go out to the membership then the next election will be highly damaging and the aftermath of that more so.
I wasn’t here for that, but did Brown have to call a GE?
And the result of that is more misery thanks to the utter incompetence and selfishness of a few…
And I don’t just mean the politicians.
Yes, but Penny told us she has 100 backers…
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Jesus H Jackie…(some vox pop on the BEEB)
Of all the possible outcomes, I don’t think a hung parliament is one of them…
We do not need an election at this time. It will only lead to a hung parliament and an inability to get things done. The Labour leader, if he really was a leader, would be concentrating on ending the strikes that are crippling our economy.
Jackie Osborne
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