The fall of the Tory party

Most perplexing thing is Sunak called this snap election, would love to know what analysing he was being given that this was the best time

The rumour is that he was about to get ousted by letters to the 1922 committee. His only option to prevent the leadership contest was to call a GE. He wanted to go out as PM and blame the catastrophic loss on all of the Tory party, not just him.

Yes, most have already forgotten the results of the Local Elections in early May, which contributed to fewer motivated Tory volunteers for the GE campaign.

You have to admire the “burn it too the ground” approach.

Oh good. Another leadership bunfight.

I would like to try and explain :)

• I live in Chingford and Woodford Green, so was all up for voting for Faiza Shaheen and getting rid of IDS.
  
• But then Labour deselect her, parachute in an out of constituency candidate and IMO remove a person who should be inside the Labour Party contributing to policy and being a voice of difference.
  
• This annoys me so much I can not bring myself to vote Labour.
  
  

So Faiza Shaheen decides to run as an independent, never with any real chance of winning. Whilst she is well knownlocally to political geeks, she does not have the profile of Jeremy Corbyn and is never going to win. All she will do it split the Labour vote and let IDS back in.

I think it was a little self-indulgent & vindictive to run, so I found it hard to vote for her.

Finally, my dream outcome of the election at this point was that Sunak loses his seat and IDS becomes interim leader of the Tory party (a la Michael Howard) which then helps to set in train the death spiral we all wish for. IDS is too wet for the Right, too Right wing for the remaining 'sensible tories' and too incompetent a political operator to keep the party together.

So, that is why I found myself voting for IDS yesterday morning.

Given Sunak's resignation, it might come true!

Tldr: 'I'm a shy tory?'

hardly.

I want to vote, see no point in a spoiled ballot, there was no Binface or Raving Loony option so I went with entertainment value.

Most perplexing post of the whole campaign.

^^^I spoke too soon.

Bets on the new Tory leader to be a white male?

Will they now try to out Farage the Farage in order to get the racists back in the fold?

I just hope we don’t have to hear about any of them for a while.

Just pulling your leg.
I don't know what I would have done in your case.
IDS as a 'senior' figurehead, while the Tory party completes sepuku is amusing.

With Priti vs Suella vs Kemi there might not be enough Tory MPs for a 4th candidate.

Good point.
That’s not a very appetising menu is it 🤮

Shadow cabinet is going to be be great amusement.

Thread name change?

'The rise of the reform party'?

that is why I found myself voting for IDS

Whilst I (vaguely) follow your logic, it still strikes me as a strange move.

Badenoch, Braverman, Mordaunt are decent bets probably. Still think Johnson also.

How does it work if the leader of the opposition isn't a sitting MP?

This is an interesting point from a Lewis Goodall thread on Twitter.

"Btw will only take about 20 MPs to trigger a leadership contest on these numbers. Good luck to the new chair of the 22."

'Farage is a cunt and Reform are shit'?

Mordaunt

She fell on her sword.

Ape-man Gullis is out and it wasn't even close.

He's so thick he probably doesn't realise it yet.

She fell on her sword.

#rep

There’s something not right about her infatuation of him and how good he is.

Shes a mortifying thicko