Boris leadership 2019

I was unaware, but Cameron bet old "Thick as mince" in a ballot that went to the members. Apparently the tories has 300,000 members back in 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Conservative_Party_(UK)_leadership_election

Stewart apologises for smoking opium.

"I shouldn't have done it, it was wrong" but it "had no effect on me."

This is the most bizarre leadership campaign.

God, Esther McVey is awful...

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/esther-mcvey-squirms-bbc-breakfast-16351933.amp

She really is.

A great fit for the Tories.

The basic problem here is the 'og dfds Laim Fox gambit'.
Stand for leadership, knowing you have not a chnce in Hell of winning,
but,
raise your profile sufficiently that the incoming new Leader cannot ignore you
when filling all the vacancies in the new Government.
Of course her performance at DWP,
let alone the lying to Parliament,
should be enough to disqualify her from any elected office for ever.

The case for the defence:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/10/the-350m-line-on-the-brexit-bus-was-wrong-the-real-figure-is-higher/

On the other hand Sarah Wollaston resigned from the Vote Leave campaign when the £350m. figure was revealed as a lie. She had almost 20 years experience as a GP before becoming a tory MP

She had almost 20 years experience as a GP before becoming a tory MP

Bonkers isn’t it, she the one who needed to go on poverty tour to see the error of her Tory ways.

Bucking the trend here is someone who is not a candidate

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5151279/lord-buckethead-who-took-on-theresa-may-hangs-up-his-helmet-1.5151358

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I wonder if Trump's interjection will actually help Boris.

What I do know is that Raab must be gutted. Trump is right in his short-fuse reactionary target demographic, but it looks like Trump doesn't really know who he is. I bet he's the one (if anyone actually is) that asked for Trump's backing.

I think the grey welfare comment has probably just killed Raab’s chances

Googled but got no beans, what are you talking about?

https://twitter.com/PropertySpot/status/1134422322667036673?s=19

Ta. I was thinking grey as in undefined, rather than a more literal grey. Guy is pretty extreme, some kind of measure of the departure from the manifesto delivered in the last general election should be in place to rein in situations like this

I didn't know either so I googled it. The third hit I got for 'raab grey welfare' was a piece called 'Raab - The Shabby end of a pitiful career' from less than a year ago when he flounced as Brexit minister....

Amazing how quickly they can turn themselves around!

Amazing how quickly they can turn themselves around!

Lizards routinely shed skins.

On his first day of work, the son of a major right-wing figure was brought to lunch by senior management, and chose to share his views that old people should not be looked after by the state and left to die if they couldn't afford their own medical care. We were appalled.

The next Tory PM will be elected by people very much counting on Grey Welfare (AKA state pension), so I think this was a bit of a silly thing for Raab to say. It is, at least, a sign of his true beliefs I suppose.

An account of Johnson's time at the Foreign Office. It's nuanced, but it's certainly not positive.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/boris-johnson-uk-prime-minister-donald-trump

Yes, it risks being received in a similar way to Nick Timothy's fatal dementia tax proposal.

Ha yeah I saw that too, incredible really

Raab really is quite spectacularly stupid

Here’s a quick primer on Dominic Raab for those unfamiliar with his work
https://youtu.be/_ynpIUTRftM

And yet still they come, new ones every day. Last night it was Mark Harper, the immigration minister who resigned a few years back after admitting he could not find the documentation for his cleaner. He was praised as a man of integrity. She was arrested at her own daughter's wedding. Apart from that moment of pronounced moral bleakness, he has no accomplishments.

https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/05/31/week-in-review-the-brexit-story-we-re-not-talking-about

.... and then there were 13!