Apparently, James Cleverly has been knocked out of Tory leadership race:
Iām not sure that the Big Brother leadership selection method is doing them any favours. And like Big Brother, I am surprised to learn it still exists, I donāt care in the slightest who wins, and most of the contestants come across as egotistical halfwits.
Presumably this is the best news that Keir Starmer has had in weeks.
Jenrick v Badenoch.
Wonder who the membership will choose? I canāt see a load of male, middle-aged (or older) gammons electing a black woman, but who knows?
Either way, the new leader will be chasing the Reform vote and not trying to reclaim the centre ground. Which would be hilarious, except that theyāll be backed by the mainstream media and the inevitable result will be the political landscape in the country being dragged even further to the right.
Difficult to say just looking at themā¦
Apparently Cleverly supporters were trying to vote strategically in that round, weakening his support to manipulate the results to set up his victory in the next? That is absolutely hilarious.
John Crace is fond of calling him Dimly. Turns out the same applies to his supportersā¦
The Conservative party have form for this type of vote rigging. There were similar suspicions with the MPs vote that lead to Truss getting the job.
Sunakās team were said to have done it too when he won.
He (Cleverly, that is, not Crace) is widely known as āNotsoā in Westminster circles.
I think they took the meesage to vote Cleverly as to vote tactically.
That Jenrick is a real smarmy cunt isnāt he?
Big time. Iām trying to remember what scandal he got caught up in. Something with housing from memory. Earned him the name Honest Bob.
That was before ordering the painting over of kids murials in an asylum seeker refuge.
Same thing, really.
Which one?
In all seriousness though I think youāre looking at the Westferry development where he unlawfully permitted a scheme that would save a party donor Ā£150m.
(Despite the identical link previews, they point to different parts of the page)
This one, but i thought there was more to it somehow.
Fixed
I think I am underselling it.
Specifically because it looks like straight up corruption combined with petty political vindictiveness (the founds would have gone to the then Labour-controlled local council).
Yeah i serm to remrmber thinking how is he still in post? But here we are, potentially the new opposition leader.
In reality none of the candidates that put themselves forward as candidates for leader of the Conservative Party should be anywhere near it or politics for that matter.
Canāt wait to see the rightwing media frothing at the mouth over something which affects barely 0.5% of the population.
Why read it then?