Next Prime Minister

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Well she knows that Boris's picture is going to be on most pro-independence Posters.

[Snake Plissken]

She's supported Javid, Gove and now Hunt so far. She knows how to pick a winner.

[Benjm]

On Newsnight yesterday, Ruth Davidson clearly stated that she wants the next PM to have mental capacity. Aim high and dare to dream.

[Satchmo Distel]

Regarding voting methods, it would make sense for gammons to go postal.

[Satchmo Distel]

Give the Tory Party some small credit- they've embraced the Age of Steam, universal postal services and mass media.

If Johnson's going to fcuk up, he will. Even if being caught on the job with Arlene Foster and a dead horse might not be enough to do it...

You're going too far. Dead horses have better taste.

[Lucy Waterman]

True. But I expect there won’t be any consequences, as per.

[E10 Rifle]

This is all like the Jeremy Kyle show for rich people. If nothing else this whole circus is at least shining a light on a degenerate class

[Lucy Waterman]

Who should we trust out of Boris Johnson and Max Hastings? Let's ask convicted fraudster Conrad Black!

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/...id-trust-more/

[Guy Profumo]

Given the age profile of the average Tory member, safe to rule out any form of electronic voting.

Eh?

You're advocating a demonstrably corruptible voting system should be used instead of an indelible mark on a piece of paper?

[Guy Profumo]

So.

Buller Boi vs Rhyming Slang Man


Huzzah!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Hunt edges out Gove, 77-75.

If it had been 76-all would there have been penalty kicks on Westminster Green?

[Nefertiti2]

Hunt edges out Gove, 77-75.

that's so tight there's been a LOT of shenanigans

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/anandMenon1/status/1141755836202672128

[Diable Rouge]

Johnson up to 160 votes

[Diable Rouge]

Hunt edges out Gove, 77-75.

[Diable Rouge]

I'm not really sure why they even need, what, five weeks or so, for the members to decide. It's hardly going to be two unknowns slugging it out. Their policy positions, personalities, strengths and weaknesses are well-enough known. If the plan is for hustings the length and breadth of the country and then a couple of weeks for the postal votes to be delivered to CP HQ or whoever's doing the count (the ERS perhaps) then fair enough, but if all we're talking about is a couple of TV debates, which are unlikely to yield any surprises, then it seems too long.

I still can't really see any way that Johnson loses. If his poorly thought-through Brexit plans were up against another candidate's water-tight strategy and were exposed as such, I could just about see the CP membership moving to the latter. But Gove and Hunt's ideas are no better that Johnson's.

Given the age profile of the average Tory member, safe to rule out any form of electronic voting.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Johnson and his ego will want to destroy Gove but his team will want Hunt. I'm just sure we're totally fucked whoever wins. It's just SNAFU or FUBAR really.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'm not really sure why they even need, what, five weeks or so, for the members to decide. It's hardly going to be two unknowns slugging it out. Their policy positions, personalities, strengths and weaknesses are well-enough known. If the plan is for hustings the length and breadth of the country and then a couple of weeks for the postal votes to be delivered to CP HQ or whoever's doing the count (the ERS perhaps) then fair enough, but if all we're talking about is a couple of TV debates, which are unlikely to yield any surprises, then it seems too long.

I still can't really see any way that Johnson loses. If his poorly thought-through Brexit plans were up against another candidate's water-tight strategy and were exposed as such, I could just about see the CP membership moving to the latter. But Gove and Hunt's ideas are no better that Johnson's.

[ursus arctos]

If you are Gove or Hunt, might you be better off in the long term if you come third, thereby avoiding being monstered by the Boris-Besotted media for the next month?

[Nefertiti2]

He was in the Bullingdon Club with Cameron, wasn’t he? I presume they all had the same induction ritual ...

I hold no brief whatsoever for David Cameron, but that unsubtantiated rumour was printed in a book ghost written by the vile Isabelle Oakeshott paid for by Lord Ashcroft who had a vendettta against Cameron because he didn't give him a promised job, possibly after his financial affairs came under scrutiny

[Nefertiti2]

That's a very disappointing timescale. All the previous ones have given around two months for membership voting, which would have given much more scope for Boris to fuck up.

Well there's a surprise....

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

He was in the Bullingdon Club with Cameron, wasn’t he? I presume they all had the same induction ritual ...

[Duncan Gardner]

Give the Tory Party some small credit- they've embraced the Age of Steam, universal postal services and mass media.

If Johnson's going to fcuk up, he will. Even if being caught on the job with Arlene Foster and a dead horse might not be enough to do it...

[Lucy Waterman]

That's a very disappointing timescale. All the previous ones have given around two months for membership voting, which would have given much more scope for Boris to fuck up.

[Nocturnal Submission]

There's no reason why Javid's votes should break in one particular direction so if Hunt's vote shoots up assume that some of Boris's camp are voting tactically.