Tory leadership contest?

[jobotic]

Ask about his haircut.

Ask how he got to be such a Ledge.

[Danger Man]

You need to have done PPE at Oxford to become Prime Minister. How can he become Prime Minister when he read Classics?

[Cuellar]

He said 'if we kick the can again we'll kick the bucket'!!

That's witty isn't it. Isn't that witty. What a wit.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Mr Johnson says yes, and jokes that she had made a "minestrone of observations" but there was "one crouton" in there.

Using his skills with language to cover up what a terrible PM he would be.

[sick as a pike]

Johnson says the economy is achieving Grand Prix speeds [...] He says the economy has grown since the Brexit vote. The "commercial dynamism" of the British people has insulated them from the crisis of our politics.

According to the Office for National Statistics, gross domestic product (GDP) plunged by 0.4% in April from a month earlier

Is he... lying?

[poodlefaker]

I wish someone would ask "Why do you do that to your hair? Because it's deliberate, isn't it? It's not just that you've forgotten to comb it; you deliberately mess it up, don't you? Why?"

[Cuellar]

Jonhson says...as mayor,he had to sell the UK abroad.

If he is PM, there will be no more committed salesperson for the UK

Ha! What an ambiguity.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Did you take cocaine?

*dodge*

Why did you say "fuck business"?

*dodge*

LEGEND BORIS, THE STRAIGHT-TALKING MAN YOU CAN TRUST

[Huxleys Babkins]

Will you resign if we aren't out on 31st October as you've explicitly promised we will be?

*dodge*

[Alberon]

No wonder they only let him take six questions. He's doing fine until he's exposed to the press, but hiding is a strategy that can only go so far.

[Cuellar]

It got May elected

[Fambo Number Mive]

Voting records of Tory leadership contenders as pictograms: https://twitter.com/SvenShaw

[Howj Begg]

Bring Boris on, I say. I'm not afraid of the lying, shambolic, self-contradicting cunt at all. He will be meat to Labour.

[Fambo Number Mive]

@DennisMcLindern

Boris' launch speech and Q&A performance was so good, I stood up and clapped at my computer. I'm backing #Boris

And Boris is attracing the bigot crowd (may be NSFW): https://twitter.com/philscowcroft/status/1138757991530995712

[pancreas]

Bring Boris on, I say. I'm not afraid of the lying, shambolic, self-contradicting cunt at all. He will be meat to Labour.

I tend to agree.

[Blue Jam]

And don't forget most of the press (or its owners) are behind him, most of the public will only hear what his masters want them to.

Yep. Just look at how worked up the right-wing media get about the fact that Corbyn once had a totally legit and unremarkable relationship with Diane Abbott, while their silence on Boris's lovechild is deafening.

[pigamus]

Bring Boris on, I say. I'm not afraid of the lying, shambolic, self-contradicting cunt at all. He will be meat to Labour.

I want to believe this. I want to believe people will see through his bullshit. But people like the cunt, that's the problem.

[sponk]

Nick Cohen wrote a pretty good takedown of BJ but because it was written by Nick Cohen it's hard to take seriously

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/boris-johnson-everything-about-you-is-phoney/

[Endicott]

Voting records of Tory leadership contenders as pictograms: https://twitter.com/SvenShaw

Those are their badges of honour.

[Howj Begg]

Boris could also fuck Tory chances of seats in Scotland:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/a-boris-johnson-victory-spells-trouble-for-ruth-davidson/

[olliebean]

Here's how many Tory MPs are supporting each of the leadership candidates:
    Boris Johnson - 74
    Jeremy Hunt - 32
    Michael Gove - 30
    Dominic Raab - 22
    Sajid Javid - 19
    Matt Hancock - 16
    Mark Harper - 8
    Rory Stewart - 7
    Esther McVey - 6
    Andrea Leadsom - 5

I don't know if I've misunderstood, but I thought they needed at least 8 supporting them just to get into the first round of voting? So does that mean Stewart, McVey and Leadsom won't be on the ballot?

[Paul Calf]

All true enough but nevertheless I still believe that if you can't tell the difference between Ken Clarke and, say, John Redwood, you're a fucking fanatic, whether you vote Labour or no.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10115/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe/votes#welfare

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10115/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe/votes#environment

He's not much of a breath of fresh air. Plus, he was extremely rude to my wife.

[Paul Calf]

I don't know if I've misunderstood, but I thought they needed at least 8 supporting them just to get into the first round of voting? So does that mean Stewart, McVey and Leadsom won't be on the ballot?

    Boris Johnson - 74
    Jeremy Hunt - 32
    Michael Gove - 30
    Dominic Raab - 22

Look at that top 5. Jesus. It's like roll-call at Shitheel Academy.

[Howj Begg]

Thread by Britain Elects on that electoral calculus bollocks from The Telegraph that biggytitbo triumphantly/hubristically posted yesterday:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1138770283207319553

The use of an election calculator to project how certain candidates would perform as leader of a political party based on an opinion poll (https://www.comresglobal.com/polls/comres-daily-telegraph-poll-june-2019/ ...), and to then make it a news story, is both an unreliable use of polling and an inadvisable way to report polls.


The reporting of the poll makes the incorrect assumption that the candidates are equally known. YouGov has 64% of the public saying they don't know enough about Matt Hancock to offer an opinion about him. This is compared to just 11% for Boris Johnson (https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/kfmg0dljim/Internal_190604_ConLeader_w.pdf ...).

The full YouGov figures are here:

% of the public who don't know enough about [X] to offer an opinion about them:

Johnson: 11%
Gove: 22%
Hunt: 24%
Javid: 31%
Leadsom: 40%
Raab: 44%
McVey: 46%
Stewart: 60%
Hancock: 64%
Malthouse: 74%
Harper: 75%


This matters. To poll the public on how they'd vote if [X] was Con leader when large %s of the public concede they don't even know enough about some of those candidates, and to then use what figures can be found to project an election result, is just an unreliable use of polling.

[Paul Calf]

Neolibby made a post that didn't adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and objectivity? I'm not having that, mate.

[Buelligan]

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10115/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe/votes#welfare

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10115/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe/votes#environment

He's not much of a breath of fresh air. Plus, he was extremely rude to my wife.

Well, I've been in a lift with Redwood more times than your wife's had Aioli and there was not a steak nor a chink of human daylight to be seen.  He's not just a vampire, he's a fucking Nazi Vampire.

[pancreas]

I don't know if I've misunderstood, but I thought they needed at least 8 supporting them just to get into the first round of voting? So does that mean Stewart, McVey and Leadsom won't be on the ballot?

The total doesn't add up to the >300 MPs they have so something's wrong.

[jobotic]

Members of Parliament booing a journalist because she asked their hero a question.

Trumpism. Lock her up.

[Fambo Number Mive]

As long as enough people think like this person Johnson will do well: https://twitter.com/cdj8382/status/1138796142743961600

"So? He's not applying for Mastermind"

[finnquark]

I don't know if I've misunderstood, but I thought they needed at least 8 supporting them just to get into the first round of voting? So does that mean Stewart, McVey and Leadsom won't be on the ballot?

Some MPs nominate or support candidates they don't want to win.