2022 Tory leadership election

[Buelligan]

Wessy Boy on the news saying "All summer [Truss has] created a whole series of hostages to fortune to herself by making a whole series of pledges.. to appeal to party members".

Funny, he doesn't normally have a problem with leaders not keeping to pledges.

Don't worry, I have a feeling he'll be bringing it up soon.

[FalknerHinton]

Yeah of course, but Braverman is taking over. Another psychopath.

While she is a disaster of a human being, Braverman has the distinction of being even thicker than Truss. Which takes some doing.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Is Patel the clever one in this scenario‽

[jobotic]

Excuse me, she's Attorney General, she can hardly be thick.

Bet you're not even Attorney Sargeant

[Zero Gravitas]

Interrobang, nice.

Hard to believe it has only been three Priti years, I'm not sure clever as much as a face saving reaction to her looming replacement.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Seems like only yesterday she was sacked for committing treason.

[FalknerHinton]

Excuse me, she's Attorney General, she can hardly be thick.

Bet you're not even Attorney Sargeant

Actually I think you'll find I'm Attorney Admiral. I have a big hat.

[Dex Sawash]

When's the Miss Truss(t) thread starting?

Can't Truss(t) This
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Was best I could do so didn't

[walktothewater]

I don't think there was any great conspiracy to give the leadership to some thick person to take the fall and then install the true leader after she's gone. That's giving them far too much credit.

All of them will fight like mad to grab the title even when it's the poison chalice to end all poison chalices.

yeah. Like one could develop a conspiracy theory around why there so many candidates (six or seven, IIRC? was it to split the moderate vote and ensure a right winger got through?), but actually Occams Razor says it's more likely they were all motivated entirely by careerism.

[imitationleather]

Once they've reached being PM they'll always be in the history books and have their photo on that staircase in Downing Street (which must have got incredibly cramped in the past decade), and that's all that matters to them.

[Jittlebags]

Surely though, going down in history as being a worse PM than a pint of piss doesn't do too much for the ego. But, I expect these fuckers are just delusional.

[Jittlebags]

Hope she revives Gordon's old tradition of sticking a banger up The Chief Mouser's arse for Bonfire Night.

[dr beat]

Just catching up on Truss' speech. Her podium is made of Lego.

[dr beat]

Oh well at least we've got the Danes behind us.

[Fambo Number Mive]

The co-director of Liz Truss's campaign has been lobbying the UK government on behalf of Libya's controversial parliament and a company that won the biggest PPE deal of the pandemic through the VIP fast-track lane.

Mark Fullbrook, an ally of Boris Johnson's former strategist Lynton Crosby, is expected to enter Downing Street as Truss's chief of staff after working on her campaign this summer.

The political consultant set up his own company, Fullbrook Strategies, this spring and has since been lobbying the UK government. His clients included Libya's house of representatives, which has twice attempted to overthrow the UN-established government of national unity in Tripoli, and Sante Global, formerly Unispace Health, which was awarded a £680m PPE contract in 2020.

The parliament, which was last elected in 2014, is seen by some as a block on democratic elections in Libya, and is allied to the rival government in the east of the country, which is seeking recognition from the UK and others.

When Libya's elections were postponed last year, the UK's diplomatic mission in Libya published a message on its Twitter account saying it continued to recognise the interim government of national unity "as the authority tasked with leading Libya to elections and does not endorse the establishment of parallel governments or institutions".

Fullbrook Strategies also lobbied this year on behalf of Sante Global, formerly known as Unispace Health, which was one of the biggest beneficiaries of Covid contracts during the pandemic to the tune of £680m, despite having previously been a subsidiary of an Australian office design company.

Unispace was referred to the VIP lane for fast-tracking Covid PPE offers from companies, with the referral disclosed as having come from "GCF Covid-19 Enquiries, mailbox, Cabinet Office".

In February, the Department for Health said Unispace Health, now Sante Global, had supplied the NHS with £484m worth of items of PPE from April 2020 till December 2021, adding: "We are working with the company on a commercial resolution for the remainder of the contract." In June, the government said it had "established a contract dissolution team to maximise the value obtained from contracts for personal protective equipment".

Chris Bryant, Labour MP and chair of the standards committee, said Fullbrook should "come clean on all his financial interests and clients over the last year before he gets into Downing Street".

A spokesperson for the Truss campaign said: "All commercial clients of Fullbrook Strategies Ltd are declared on the UK Lobbying Register. The company suspended commercial activities on 31 August."...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-chief-staff-lobbied-libyan-parliament-ppe

[Spudgun]

My predictions:

1) Promises, promises turn to dust
2) Election pledges turn to rust
3) Dustbin for Liz Truss

[Fambo Number Mive]

I've made a new thread now Truss has been elected leader: https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=97140.0

[pigamus]

My predictions:

1) Promises, promises turn to dust
2) Election pledges turn to rust
3) Dustbin for Liz Truss

Don't marry her, fuck me

[Alberon]

Once they've reached being PM they'll always be in the history books and have their photo on that staircase in Downing Street (which must have got incredibly cramped in the past decade), and that's all that matters to them.

Just tape a Polaroid beneath Johnson's portrait. That'll do.

[Buelligan]

Gah!  What of?!?

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Gah!  What of?!?

Whatever's cheapest.  Lucozade?

[lipsink]

Boris' plane took an age to take off as it probably struggled to lift the fat cunt.

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Boris' plane took an age to take off as it probably struggled to lift the fat cunt.

Apparently he was a fat, entitled, cigar-chomping baby as well, and upon dropping him off at his birthplace his stork wished a premature death upon him.

[idunnosomename]

Well, it's possible. Wealthy trust fund kid who joins the Tories to take the piss? I assume not every single member is over 90. The fees are only £25 a year.

more likely from the children of decrepit parents opening their mail for them

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more likely from the children of decrepit parents opening their mail for them

Unlikely to be very left wing if they are anticipating a hefty inheritance at some point.

[idunnosomename]

Unlikely to be very left wing if they are anticipating a hefty inheritance at some point.

they could be FBPE brainwormers who voted lib dem in 2019 and they write "YOU BLOODY COCKWOMBLES" on it

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oh yeah