Rishi Sunak - Chancellor and Sajid Javid - Health Sec. Synchronised Resignations

I was listening to that chap who was the first to announce he was running. Tom Tugendhat. I sort of liked him. So, I checked him out... NOT a member of WEF.
Wish Milliband would come back as leader of Labour.
Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel

To be honest Jane I've not really looked into some of the candidates....but I'm sure I will do before long.
I don't know much about Tom Tugendhat either.

I wish John Smith was still around.
The current Labour bunch are as pitiful as their Tory counterparts.
I thought Lisa Nandy was ok and believe it or not I didn't really mind Angela Rayner.....until recent events unfolded and she became infected the wokery virus.

a reply to: gortex

Not a chance. He'll be out in the second or third round.

I think my thread has run it's course.

If you want to follow the race for the top spot, 8 candidates remain. I opened a new thread here:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

And then there were 6.

Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt fell at the first .

A total of six candidates made it through the first round of voting, with chair of the backbench 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady revealing the number of MPs who had supported each of them.

But Mr Hunt and Mr Zahawi failed to meet the 30-vote threshold, only getting 25 and 18 votes respectively.
news.sky.com...

Sunak is out front with 88 votes with Penny Mordaunt second on 67 and Liz Truss with 50.

a reply to: gortex

I wonder what may be disclosed about Rishi? From sources definitely not close to Boris, of course. He's not bitter at all. Of course.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

His in-laws are obscenely, dirty, filthy rich....you don't get that rich without there being a fair smattering of scandal, impropriety and ne'er-do-welling.

originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: Oldcarpy2

His in-laws are obscenely, dirty, filthy rich....you don't get that rich without there being a fair smattering of scandal, impropriety and ne'er-do-welling.

Not going to hold his in-laws wealth against him. Marrying up is smart move.

However his wife's non dom status while he was chancellor is another matter.

a reply to: ScepticScot

Agreed. He has skeletons in his cupboard that are gonna come rattlin' out. Still Kemi for me. But I'm nothing if not fickle.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: ScepticScot

Agreed. He has skeletons in his cupboard that are gonna come rattlin' out. Still Kemi for me. But I'm nothing if not fickle.

People were willing to vote for BJ and his skeletons were more out in the open than an evil dead movie.

a reply to: ScepticScot

Its not their wealth as such but rather how it was acquired....and how much good people do with it.

And then there were 2 , Sunak and Truss will be voted on by the Tory membership in a few weeks , unless the Johnson team find anything juicy to leak out before the vote it would seem our next pm will be Sunak ... but a week is a long time in politics and we have several weeks to go.

A little parting dig perhaps.


God help us.

a reply to: gortex

My vote was for Kemi.

I used to like LT but now fear that she dreams of being the new Thatcher, which is just plain disturbing.

So much for any hope for change.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

We've had a Tory in No.10 for the past 12 years. Cameron got an excess of ambition after winning three public votes (no voting reform, no Scottish independence and then the 2015 General Election) and screwed up the EU vote so badly that we had to commit to the catastrophe that has been Brexit. May started out with a series of shuddering compromises, screwed up the 2017 election and finally fell after being backstabbed by Johnson. Johnson won a thumping 80-seat majority at the 2019 election (after lying through his teeth about his oven-ready, super wonderful Brexit deal that was nothing of the sort, plus he was up against the utter screwup that was Jeremy bloody Corbyn) and then just self-destructed due to his inability to stop lying about everything and everyone around him.
And now we have the Tory Party (if they can be woken from their zombified state) being given a choice between an inexperienced plastic man who has no idea how badly the average voter is being hit by the cost of living crisis and a woman who I've been told is regarded as being certifiably insane by more than one member of the Government.
Reform? We're screwed.

a reply to: AngryCymraeg

Agreed 100%.

Abandon all hope.

And even after Corbyn, there is still no effective Opposition.

a reply to: AngryCymraeg

Pretty much sums it up.

Tory party members have started a petition to have Boris included in the final vote , obvious dissatisfaction with the way this soft coup has played out and the choice of candidates they've ended up with I think.

originally posted by: gortex
Tory party members have started a petition to have Boris included in the final vote , obvious dissatisfaction with the way this soft coup has played out and the choice of candidates they've ended up with I think.

Classic

This is an extract from Dominic Cummings's personal blog (it's usually behind an expensive paywall) posted on Twitter:

Read to the end...

a reply to: gortex

You know something.....words I never thought I'd ever utter, and I mean EVER; they might have a point.
People must be insane if they think Liz Truss is fit to be Prime Minister of this country - the piece quoted by Encia22 in the post after yours is just one of numerous example of this.

I can't help but laugh at the shear absurdity of it all.....sadly either way there are going to be some serious repercussions.

a reply to: Freeborn

rule number 1 of fight club is never talk about fight club. But rule number 1 of clown world is different. it's "expect the stupidest thing you can imagine to be the next big thing". Hope that helps.