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There isn’t a good candidate and that’s not just me being anti-Tory.
The landscape hasn’t changed THAT much since, three years ago, they picked Johnson and the alternatives help to explain why.
Tom Tungendhat seems the least awful, safest and most sensible option to me.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I know he is not universally popular in this parish but Peter Hitchens sums it up rather well today:
“If he (Johnson) is not fit for office, and actually he never was, those who brought him down were not fit to remove him. We have just seen a coup d’etat against the useless, by the pointless.
Or perhaps it was the other way round. I struggle to care.”
On this occasion, it’s hard to argue with Hitchens, though I’d amend it slightly.
Johnson was “enabled” by those who took an awfully long time to remove him.
Now some of the enablers want to replace him.
Only Johnson’s most consistent critics have any legitimacy running for Tory Leader IMO.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I wouldn’t countenance Sunak. He is a very bright man but it doesn’t seem to help any. As far as I’m concerned he has stoked inflation and no doubt considered it transitory. A very ill judged stamp duty holiday, the housing market really needed propping up didn’t it. That has wrecked the aspirations of millions and trapped many into being beholden to the likes of Zahawi and their strong arm tactics.
When inflation is back in the box, probably next year due to the prices we are having to put up with now I’m sure he’ll be all for printing money to keep interest rates artificially low. Avoid.
Hitchens proving yet again to be the polar opposite of his hugely talented late brother
What exactly is that quote other than 3rd form juvenile crap? He’s paid for this is he?
He should stick to his creepy support of putin
How exactly has he stoked inflation? Did he “stoke” it in every other oecd economy too? Because it’s not just the uk as it happens.
This comes on the back of posters believe that he was entirely reponsible for all the economic headwinds over the last two years having clearly personally initiated the spread of covid and started the war in Ukraine
So kier has no legitimacy as labour leader then having propped up and campaigned for Corbyn (who is anything but a labour politician and is emphatically opposed the human rights and freedoms that labour are supposed to stand for) ??
I’m really going to go at Hitchens because he’s a stupid lazy journalist with a vile world view and a horrible pompous patronising manner.
I avoid him whe I can but compare this “they are all useless!” (Like some miserable bitter old man sat next to you at the football) with Matthew parris’s (I’m not always a fan) elegant and perceptive piece on the contenders and boris in the times yesterday. In addition it contained useful insights I hadn’t been aware of which is suspect the billynomates Hitchens would never ever be able toproduce
…… innit?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysSunak was happy to continue printing money for too long. Furlough was quickly but very poorly thought out, wide open to fraud on a huge scale and grossly unfair. House price inflation was no doubt seen by him as a very good thing. I don’t see much difference in his hope to get borrowing ratcheted up through inflated house prices from previous failures.
They all hide behind the ‘global situation’. Brown and Darling tried that too.
The bitter pill of truth. I was overzealous in stating I was all greened up – On checking I was a fiver down on all but my gang of four. I have just – well @ 12.22 laid Penny for a large fiver at 4.2. the three figure lay on offer at 4.3 has been taken and she is quite rightly on the drift. I have had £2 on Jeremy – he may not win an election but he is a capable safe pair of hands – maybe he will get energized and leap out of his skin. Sunak wrote a letter of resignation but did not make a destructive leaving speech, as far as I am aware – that was a clever move. He has a good chance if the curtain twitchers are overtaken by the heat.
Good day for a white wedding – shotgun wedding – is still the theme tune but with a possible difference in that not that much previous bad behaviour or a leaning to licentiousness ( possibly by association ) will be tolerated. Penny’s true odds are no better than 10/1 but obviously you are free to. form your own opinions.( That was 3.2 for Penny not 2.2. – corrected)
Pilgarlic your comments do not lie but this is not a General Election just a rather messy wedding.
There are those who think gamble should be banned from the Lounge during the Vernal Equinox.
I cannot support this – not least because I’m not entirely sure what a Vernal Equinox is.
Sunak back out to 2.98 at Betfair Exchange.
I look at the top nine in the betting and see seven candidates who aren’t white men.
Four female, five non-Caucasian.
Always take the positives.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"If commodities and supply chain issues are driving up inflation in every single economy then that’s not “hiding” behind global issues
That’s it
Never considered that gamble. Not making a resignation speech is a smart move yes
Javids was good though
Tim shipman good on all this in times today (as ever) boris was probably more incompetent than anyone actually understood. Some achievement
Andrew rawnsley superb as ever and makes the point that there is zero sympathy for him upon his removal from anyone which is pretty well a first amongst pms
Think last three. May Cameron brown. Had faults but may and brown genuinely respected across the house and few would say that Cameron was anything other than pretty likeable
gamble – yes, thanks, that’s elucidated it as usual. I give it six months.
Won’t be of much relevance to me when it comes to a General Election as Labour are impossible to unseat here in boyo Kinnock’s old seat. I last voted for them when Sunny Jim was doing us proud. I would want an acceptable Tory leader though as the Senedd get very uppety when Labour are in the ascendancy nationally.
Will the Lounge massive join with me in thanking Penny “PM, same letters as Prime Minister” Mordaunt, with her excellent “The Day Today” throwback campaign video, for reminding the nation that none of us has been buying nearly enough loaves of Hovis lately?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"A shrewd political betting friend reckons Suella Braverman might be a bit of value.
He told me to back Keir Starmer at 3/1 to become the next Labour Leader at a time when Rebecca Long-Bailey was favourite.
I’ve consequently reinvested some of the profits at 30 at Betfair Exchange.
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