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Twinset and pearls, headscarf in a tank. She's a Maggie tribute act

Sunak presenting himself as a moderate "centrist" is absurd. He's a fiscal conservative on the Thatcherite right.

Penny Mordaunt launches her campaign complaining that newspapers using pictures of her on The Dive are misrepresenting her.

Rory Stewart can get fucked.

Hear this a lot. Genuinely cannot fathom why he bothers people so much compared to other former Tories.

Didn't think Rory Stewart could run given he's not an MP.

Last thing I heard was that he was splitting his time between a development project in Jordan and teaching at Yale in the US. Would be surprised if he wanted to reenter politics.

Every time I check this thread the shower of cunts turns into more of a downpour.

Last intervew I saw is he would be interested in coming back if the party went more centrist again.

Have just seen that Jeremy Hunt has pre-torpedoed his leadership bid by saying he will have Esther McVey as his deputy.

Odd insult “solipsistic weirdo” can you explain more?

Yeah, I thought it was just me

Badum tish!

Would rep etc

Nah, she's just fucking terrible. Watch the select committee where she attempts to explain away murdering a journalist and how often she has brought up human rights abuses with the Saudi leaders.

Sergey Lavrov is a malevolent cunt but even he took time out to take the piss out of Truss

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"Grant Shapps pronouns are they/them"

My answer would be better if I could find the exact quote from him that I read in the Economist. But when he left the Tories his failed leadership bid, he was quoted as calling the Tories something close to evil. I can't remember the exact words, but It was way stronger than a bit constructive criticism.

My point being that weeks prior he was hoping to ride that same bunch of cretins into power. But what did that matter as long as he could be the center of it all? That's why I consider him a solipsist. It's alway about him isn't it. Everyone else are just badly drawn background characters in the epic narrative that is his very existence.

Choosing Esther McVey is like thinking a millstone is a buoyancy aid.
She one one election on the Wirral then had to be transferred to a safe seat in Cheshire.

I hope Penny Mordaunt has all the appropriate video content license agreements in place for her launch video. If not she seems to be plundering footage from Getty Images to the BBC - oh and the general vibe from that old Hovis ad directed by Ridley Scott.

https://youtu.be/swGdVIbbm2c

I have family from Rostov on Don, for whom this has become a running joke.
Their comment was "Literally the whole world knows that Lavrov is a wolf in sheep's clothing, does she not even have staff to brief her on the basics and spare her the humiliation"
Much capital was made of this on Russian TV, used as proof the Britain is a spent force role playing it's Empire delusions unaware of its own absurdity...

wow so bad, just stock footage and her badly cropped pic at the end?! Gotta hand it to Rishi's agency for its sleekness. Using wordpress instead of nationbuilder too.

Choosing Esther McVey is like thinking a millstone is a buoyancy aid.

It is, if you're drowning in something extremely dense

Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorious as the celebrity cameo at 1:03 is a bold choice

A copyright takedown would be very on brand

Shit! That's genuinely a copy of the Chris Morris crisis video, even same music.

https://youtu.be/T72TopWbXJg

Sunak’s was probably a year in the making though.

Britain is a spent force role playing it's Empire delusions unaware of its own absurdity

TBF it's true.