O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[GranthamPie]

Here you go:

Christ… they swapped John Mann for that prat?

[BigFatPie]

Yep, he's a Notts supporter

I know we’re supposed to be All Notts but I wouldn’t include that troglodyte.

[the_anticlough]

There's one way to stop Pfeffel

Tell him the £129,000 annually for ex-PMs, which Truss gets now for her 44 days of wrecking everyone else's finances, would be stopped if he became a current PM. He'd turned straight around and go back to the Dominican Republic.

[Carlton_Pie]

Interesting. The bookies seem to think it's Ritchie Rich's by a good margin.

Current odds:

1.80 Sunak
2.50 Boris

Sunak odds have shortened in the last hour

[cher1]

According to this graphic from Sky, Boris now seems to be taking support directly from Mordaunt. What a bloody awful state of affairs this mess is.

[countygump]

According to this graphic from Sky, Boris now seems to be taking support directly from Mordaunt. What a bloody awful state of affairs this mess is.

Provided all contestants get 100 backers, Tory MP's vote on the final 3, (that's the max number there can be). The top 2 are then voted on by MP's to determine the winner, but either can ask for the final result to be taken to the members in an on-line vote as a decider. That's the way I interpreted it anyway?

[countygump]

There's one way to stop Pfeffel

Tell him the £129,000 annually for ex-PMs, which Truss gets now for her 44 days of wrecking everyone else's finances, would be stopped if he became a current PM. He'd turned straight around and go back to the Dominican Republic.

I think she was an adviser to Nick Clegg? No idea what she does now.

[cher1]

Provided all contestants get 100 backers, Tory MP's vote on the final 3, (that's the max number there can be). The top 2 are then voted on by MP's to determine the winner, but either can ask for the final result to be taken to the members in an on-line vote as a decider. That's the way I interpreted it anyway?

Yeah, I think they are hoping that the lower scoring 'finalist' will defer to the higher scoring one, so no member vote. My point was really more that Penny Mordaunt and Boris seem to be vying for votes from the same pool of MPs.

[Elite_Pie]

So Boris clearly couldn't get the 100 nominations he needed, but he's still lying through his teeth (no surprise there) and claiming he had.

Lets hope this is the end for the obnoxious tw@t.

[i961pie]

So Boris clearly couldn't get the 100 nominations he needed, but he's still lying through his teeth (no surprise there) and claiming he had.

Lets hope this is the end for the obnoxious tw@t.

That might depend how their next leader does? If as expected they get hammered at the next election
then who knows they could still send for Boris God help us.

[countygump]

That might depend how their next leader does? If as expected they get hammered at the next election
then who knows they could still send for Boris God help us.

Boris Johnson has dramatically pulled out the race for 10 Downing Street after admitting he cannot unite the warring Conservative Party.

The former prime minister had the public support of 59 MPs but required 100 to continue in the contest.

The race is now wide open for Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, who has more than 140 Tory MPs backing him. Penny Mordaunt lags behind with the public support of 25.

Mr Johnson said he had "reached out" to leadership rivals Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt to see if they could work together in the national interest, but it had not proved possible.

In a statement, he insisted he had secured the 100 nominations needed to get onto the ballot paper - and that if he stood there was a "very good chance" he would be back in Downing Street by the end of the week.

He went on: "But in the course of the last days I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do. You can't govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament.

"And though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny - because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest - we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

"Therefore I am afraid the best thing is that I do not allow my nomination to go forward and commit my support to whoever succeeds."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/23/boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-latest-penny-mordaunt/

[cher1]

So Boris clearly couldn't get the 100 nominations he needed, but he's still lying through his teeth (no surprise there) and claiming he had.

Lets hope this is the end for the obnoxious tw@t.

Surely you're not suggesting that Boris didn't really have 102 backers... Scurrilous accusation Elite

I don't like Penny Mordaunt, but she must have come under intense pressure from Boris and co to withdraw her bid (and had the offer of a top job no doubt). I'm glad she told him to eff off; his ego is too big to risk defeat, which would have been certain without the support of her backers.

[GranthamPie]

Boris Johnson has dramatically pulled out the race for 10 Downing Street after admitting he cannot unite the warring Conservative Party.

The former prime minister had the public support of 59 MPs but required 100 to continue in the contest.

The race is now wide open for Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, who has more than 140 Tory MPs backing him. Penny Mordaunt lags behind with the public support of 25.

Mr Johnson said he had "reached out" to leadership rivals Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt to see if they could work together in the national interest, but it had not proved possible.

In a statement, he insisted he had secured the 100 nominations needed to get onto the ballot paper - and that if he stood there was a "very good chance" he would be back in Downing Street by the end of the week.

He went on: "But in the course of the last days I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do. You can't govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament.

"And though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny - because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest - we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

"Therefore I am afraid the best thing is that I do not allow my nomination to go forward and commit my support to whoever succeeds."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...enny-mordaunt/

So.. the fat git is still lying? Good riddance to him… everything wrong with UK politics encapsulated in one man.

[BigFatPie]

How many times do the various halfwits that represent Notts and Lincs for the Tories be make to look absolute tools by a man who treats them like sh!t on his shoe?

https://twitter.com/bren4bassetlaw/status/1584100129639759872?s=46&t=AqbSvwOsXEYKOz9TI9nLhA

[Elite_Pie]

How many times do the various halfwits that represent Notts and Lincs for the Tories be make to look absolute tools by a man who treats them like sh!t on his shoe?

To be fair to those various halfwits, 'sh!t on his shoe' is an accurate description of them.