Just read the full Guido list, 16 of the 52 names are just made up entities.
He's not getting 100.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
Just read the full Guido list, 16 of the 52 names are just made up entities.
He's not getting 100.
Steve Bruce.Originally Posted by Ben
Lewis finally gets a go. He gets the boot as soon as he calls Kier a slur at his first PMQs.
There are made up entities in Sunak's list too, I just assumed they were people who hadn't formally announced but the site had the inside scoop that they were going to.
If they are going to he's got half of what he needs already, if they're not then he's on a third and either way, he's not even in the sodding country yet.
Big Dog on 52 now. Dishi Rishi catching up on 47.
In all seriousness, they cannot possibly re-appoint Boris, can they? They can’t be *that* idiotic.
I don't know why people are saying this, we've literally just seen the shortest serving Prime Minister of all time and the assumption is that they can't make another bad decision?
The people who made a bad decision were the members, among MPs Sunak would have pissed it last time and they have now seen what happens when the 'Tory right' get their way, so other than the hardcore (most of whom are already in the declared list) the MPs will know that Sunak must prevail and the members must not be balloted. They'll find a way to fix it by Monday.
People like Peter Bone have been wrong about everything for 40 years, they can't just admit that their working lives have been an incompetent sham, so they'll push on to the bitter end, but the mass of the party will have an instinct for some form of self-preservation now if they didn't in the summer.
I think there’s a difference between giving someone a go for the first time and going back to someone who has already failed.
I truly hope you're right, but 100 doesn't seem a high enough bar to guarantee keeping Boris away from the members, particularly given he's got 72 hours+ to press the flesh. Lovely image that.
Dunno, America might try.
There is, but Boris had already succeeded too, with a thumping majority. Now there are obviously more reasons for that than just Boris, but there must be dozens of MPs who are occupying a red wall seat that see him as the only possible way for them to stay in it. "He's done it before" etc.
I mean, just look at that poll. After all of this he's still somewhat popular.
Deep.
Sunak's taken the lead! 53-52.
This shit is no better than my transfer tracking.
Boris has 59 now according to that spreadsheet, which if it's in any way close to being accurate suggests it's a done deal that he'll get the 100.
I mean:
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace rules himself out of the Tory leadership race but says he is currently leaning towards backing Boris Johnson
This is the logic they'll be going with:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63338261
You couldn't make it up.
Can’t have an Asian man in charge of your right wing party.
The shipping manager at my company (a 60 year old woman) is a good example of the support that Boris Johnson has.
He fathers children out of wedlock: 'I still like Boris'. He has parties during lockdown: 'I know, but I still like Boris'. He enables sex pests: 'I know, but I still like Boris'. He lies to parliament on multiple occasions: 'I know, but I still like Boris'. Truss resigns: 'I think they should bring Boris back. I like Boris.'
He has some kind of magical hex on people.
Get with the programme, that's 2000s talk. Indians are right wing as fuck these days.
His odds are tumbling by the hour. He's now 2.32 on Betfair, with Rishi at 2.1
It's very hard to avoid conspiracy talk and think the disastrous Truss reign was not part of the plans to reinstall the bovine which is pretty frightening stuff.
There's enough gammon support out there for it, the news channels were full of their fucking rotund, red and blotchy faces and their brainless dialogue.
I agree with Taz. I was always of the opinion that the whole leadership fiasco through the summer would lead straight back to Boris carrying on. So bar a Cloughie at Leeds cameo from Truss, it’s what I expected.
I'm not joking when I say there should be rioting if Boris is the next PM.
I know we're in a polarised, balkanised society now where there isn't a mainstream and everyone only hears from their own echo chambers, but there seems to be a lot of myopia in some quarters about how much of a laughing stock the country will be if about 50,000 people (and that's all it will be) manage to force through such a thing.
The problem I have with suggesting that Boris to Truss to Boris was some sort of Machiavellian style masterplan is that it gives all involved far too much credit. If they were capable of pulling that off, it would have been far easier just to run the country properly.
They also aren't capable of pulling it off.
Yeah, not a chance it was some grand masterplan.
We're a country of mugs. Covid proved that.
Pulling what off? All they did was give the worst candidate enough rope. Even before he resigned there was enough people saying he'll be back soon enough for it not to be planned (if not specifically planned, an obvious outcome).
Both the quoted tweet and the actual tweet.
WhatsApp restores anyway (unless you don't back up). It's device dependant more than anything else.
You are describing your relationship with the Tory party perfectly here.
Find a time when I've said I like the Tory party.
He was briefly odds on earlier, but has now drifted back to 2.5. I'm gutted I didn't get on at 16 yesterday.
Every time you've voted.
Indeed. It's Brexit and Trump all over again.
If they stay in power and vote him back in as leader then you lot really do need to go French.
I wrote X next to them, not 'I like you'. Though I have voted LD in the past and will probably do so again.
Is choosing what you deem to be the least worse option the same as liking something?
That’s when you don’t bother.
Yeah, but some people see it as a form of duty [I guess you can spoil your ballot, I always thought that was a bit pointless]. Jimmy seems like a strong voter.
Come on, do it, you mad fucks.
Is this about partygate or different/more mundane corruption? If it's covid rule breaking then does anyone really give a fuck anymore?
It's about him lying to parliament, which I think triggers some sort of mechanism whereby he has to go back and fight a by-election (which I think he would probably lose).
Boris in for November and out by Christmas. Truss in for New Year
That's not what he does though. He posted the other day that he agrees a Labour government would be best for the country but he still won't vote for it.
At that point, yeah it's just a case of "yeah but I still like conservatives".
Anyone who doesn't give a fuck any more has literally zero self respect.
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