Tory leadership contest

[albie]

1922 Brady has the 48 letters, so there will be a contest if anyone steps up to challenge the Maybot.

I reckon the pimple Gove will declare.
The bloke reminds me of a zit on the arse that just won't pop.

Who else is going to try and remove the Duracells from the Maypole?

[Glyn_Wigley]

After all that Mogg has said about her, if no-one else stands he has to or else look a complete gimp.

[RedJ]

He is a complete gimp.

[tommy toes]

Great options to replace her...

The tousled haired psychopath.

The Minister for the 17th century.

The Scottish chameleon with the permanently surprised look on its ugly mug.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Biggest crisis facing the country since 1940 and look at the bunch of chumps in the running to pick up the reins.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1072535987291635712

f**k.
Me.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've got to say, I'm torn.

One part of me wants it to be Johnson. Just so the odious Kitson has to deal with the vat of shit that he's prepared. Has to face the ridicule of the entire f**king world.

But the other half of me doesn't want my country being represented by that waste of an ejaculation. I have to work with a lot of non-British people. I'm not sure I could cope with the embarrassment.

[tommy toes]

No let's have that Dominic Rhubarb. At least he's willing to learn about things such as the importance of the port of Dover.
He could have Harry Enfields Tory boy as his advisor.
And he's only 7/1 ffs!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Dominic Raab.

To quote an old political put down, he has risen without trace.

What the f**k has he achieved in his career to put him remotely in with a chance of even being considered as PM material?

His career consists of putting forward a handful of deeply anti-working class ideas, then making a prick of himself as Brexit Secretary for 3 months.

[albie]

The process is that Tory MP's now have a vote of no confidence in the Maybot.

If over 50% back her, she is in position for at least a year.
That means any early GE will be with the Maybot at the helm...the worst nightmare for many Tory MP's.

So the MP's need to decide on whether to replace her now, with the risk of a contest splitting the party by giving the membership the vote over the new leader.

Thing is, Tory MP's and the elderly membership have little common ground over the future of the party.
The early days of a disintegration?

[BillyStubbsTears]

The 50% figure is meaningless. If more than 80-100 Tory MPs vote against her, even a PM as unaware of the concept of humiliation as May would step down. Or be taken on one side by senior backbenchers and told to step down.

[Bentley Bullet]

Thank f**k for Jeremy Corbyn - Our saviour in waiting!

[SydneyRover]

ABB anyone but boris

[Donnywolf]

Just when you think the crock of s**t COULD NOT get worse - and now this mess as well

[SydneyRover]

Just when you think the crock of s**t COULD NOT get worse - and now this mess as well

Sorry DW this has been predicted for some time, but what a mess!

[Filo]

Like the referendum and the rest of the Country, the Tory Party had a vote, surely they can’t have another vote because they don’t like what they’ve got 😂😂😂

[BillyStubbsTears]

Deeply depressing thought.

The referendum was supposed to sort out for a generation, who ruled the Tory party.

(Those of you who think it was about giving you a say in taking back control...ahhh, bless!)

It has f**ked the country and we are still no closer to finding an end to the Tory party's civil war.

This isn't going to stop, no matter what the outcome. The utterly dysfunctional Right in our politics is going to carry on thrashing about in this battle and we are all going to have a much more difficult future as a result.

[GazLaz]

Biggest crisis facing the country since 1940 and look at the bunch of chumps in the running to pick up the reins.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1072535987291635712

f**k.
Me.

It’s a bad squad isn’t it. I literally couldn’t pick the best of a bad bunch.

Live just been thinking though, just imagine the stress May must be under, it must take its toll. I know it’s been brought on by herself and her party but she must be exhausted.

[Boomstick]

Biggest crisis facing the country since 1940 and look at the bunch of chumps in the running to pick up the reins.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1072535987291635712

f**k.
Me.

It’s a bad squad isn’t it. I literally couldn’t pick the best of a bad bunch.

Live just been thinking though, just imagine the stress May must be under, it must take its toll. I know it’s been brought on by herself and her party but she must be exhausted.

Everyone of them is certainly better than anything labour can cough up

[Donnywolf]

Lets see what todays "sound bite / dogmatic saying is"

Strong and stable Lectern ? Even that cant believe it - and is playing up like the Letters at their Conf

Stuck and stubborn Car door


Maybe Sir Graham Brady will be saying later to her " we have to honour the result of the Tory Voters" BUT imo she will klingon (sic) - either way its still a s**t storm (Cheers Cameron - Mogg Johnson Gove etc etc)

[BillyStubbsTears]

Gaz

The stress of being PM must be beyond belief at the best of times. It can't be healthy. It times of crisis, it will be off the scale.

During the Suez Crisis (another existential national crisis brought on by sheer incompetence from a Tory Govt...there's a pattern here) Anthony Eden was guzzling down Speed in order to keep going. Working 24 hours a day trying to walk a tightrope between losing Britain's position as a Great Power and starting WWIII. When the crisis was over, he had a nervous breakdown and was packaged off to the Carribbean for six weeks to recover.

Everyone who becomes PM will go through experiences that we can barely imagine. Where the stakes are mountainously high and their options limited.  I genuinely don't know why any sane person would want that.

As a human being, I do have sympathy for May. It must be a horrific experience.

[Filo]

I think she might survive, which then puts the ball in the Tory rebels court to back Labour in a no cofidence motion

[GazLaz]

I think she might survive, which then puts the ball in the Tory rebels court to back Labour in a no cofidence motion

If she survives there cannot be another leadership vote for another year can there?

[MachoMadness]

She's contesting the challenge. f**king hell, just go!

[Filo]

I think she might survive, which then puts the ball in the Tory rebels court to back Labour in a no cofidence motion

If she survives there cannot be another leadership vote for another year can there?

In the Tory Party, but what about a HoC motion?

[BillyStubbsTears]

No there can't.

One thought.

What a bunch of self-serving t**ts those loathsome flat-earthers in the ERG are.

The country's biggest crisis in generations and they choose to tip us into even deeper confusion.

We're 3 months away from the Leave date. We have no plan, no policy, no deal. By midnight we might not even have a PM. If that happens, we'll spend the next month flailing around trying to find out what we think our policy and leader should be. At THIS time of all times.

They do not give a f**k how badly the country gets damaged by a this. It's all about them taking the reins of power.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Filo

A HoC confidence vote can be brought at any time.

Ideal result for Labour: May wins tonight, but Lab has a deal with the DUP that they would vote against the Govt in a vote of confidence.

Normally in a confidence vote, a loss doesn't automatically trigger a GE. It may be just a mechanism for the House getting rid of the PM and having them replaced by one who could command the confidence of the House.

But in this scenario, the Tory party would have just backed May. If the House then votes no confidence in HER Govt, I can't see any way the Tory party could replace her as PM and them carry in in Govt. It would have to be a minority Lab Govt or a GE.

[DonnyOsmond]

Surely this one's against current Tory leadership but a Labour one would be no confidence in the current government?

[BillyStubbsTears]

DO.

Precisely.

[Filo]

Filo

A HoC confidence vote can be brought at any time.

Ideal result for Labour: May wins tonight, but Lab has a deal with the DUP that they would vote against the Govt in a vote of confidence.

Normally in a confidence vote, a loss doesn't automatically trigger a GE. It may be just a mechanism for the House getting rid of the PM and having them replaced by one who could command the confidence of the House.

But in this scenario, the Tory party would have just backed May. If the House then votes no confidence in HER Govt, I can't see any way the Tory party could replace her as PM and them carry in in Govt. It would have to be a minority Lab Govt or a GE.

But the ERG don’t want May, if they lose the vote tonight the only other option for them would be to back an opposition no confidence motion

[BillyStubbsTears]

No. Because they prefer May to Corbyn.