The fall of the Tory party

Group WhatsApp probs.

Sorry you lost your seat, - insert name here -, but hope you enjoy spending time with your family(s) on the holiday house/yacht/duck house that we helped you grift. Love, Rishi.

Sounds about right and they’d probably just send the genetic template rather than personalise it

I was imagining it sent to everyone exactly like that with a mail merge fail.

I never understood why she thought she was a Tory.

Me too!

Kenny Ken for home sec.

I'm even happier than I was on Friday morning.
I just checked and disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox also lost his seat in Rishi's Tory Wipeout:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Somerset_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

There was much rejoicing here in north Somerset.

Would Labour have been able to wipe the floor with the Tories if they stood on moral principle? I doubt it.

Not if that was the only dimension to the response. But imagine if the main thrust was pointing out how manipulative and dishonest such rabble-rousing is, and that it's a dead cat tactic to divert attention from what's really been fucking people over all these years. Then conclude with the moral dimension, illustrating what despicable filth these scumbags have to be in order to carry on like that.

Of course, the drawback with that is it requires Labor/Labour to not be in on what's been fucking people over all these years... Probably the reason why this obvious path was never taken.

This is a good read, it highlights the underlying faults that the next Tory leader is going to have to address, and it’s a long list:

https://www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/the-post-mortem-part-i

I hope there were burnt effigies.

Had her pegged as the one to take them to their ultimate fiery end, but she's burned her own bridges now:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/home-office-flying-of-pride-flag-was-monstrous-thing-says-suella-braverman

Hope they don't pick someone remotely sensible. Jenrick and Badenoch both seem suicide bomber-y enough.

Apparently Priti Patel is the favoured candidate of the right.

If they think Robert Jenrick is the answer, then you have to ask what they think the question is.

The biggest obstacle to the tories returning to power in five years is the complete absence of talent in the parliamentary party.

Hope they don't pick someone remotely sensible

Depends whether they stick with the membership choosing the leader or the parliamentary party (not that there are enough of them, I suppose!). If it's a straight vote from the membership, someone suitably frothing will be picked, like last time.

It's likely to be a repeat of the Blair Years.
Who can fail to raise a smile at the memory of the serial inadequacy of
Hague, IDS & Howard?

Thanks for that link.
I've forwarded it to both winners & losers from last Thursday.

Who can fail to raise a smile at the memory of the serial inadequacy of

Hague, IDS & Howard?

That was fun because they were in opposition. Having had to deal with the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak evil clownshow was... less fun. We're owed a few years of entertainment and internal bloodletting from them now.

Under the current rules, just 18 Tory MPs would need to submit a no confidence letter to trigger a leadership election.

What's that, about 3 1/2 of them? :)

Actually, this is an interesting point. Given how few of them there are and how the proportion of the malcontents looks to be up, they could threaten leadership elections every couple of months (is this now possible since the rule change)? It could be hilarious.

The 1922 Committee:

Around Westminster, that hallowed committee is currently going by a different name, “Bob and Geoff”, after its two remaining members.

The MP for Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner, David Simmonds, also survived last Thursday's cull of less than useful Tory MPs:

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So according to Cruella, the Home Office flying the Pride Flag was a "monstrous thing".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/home-office-flying-of-pride-flag-was-monstrous-thing-says-suella-braverman

The things actual monsters find monstrous are often odd.