Now stock up on popcorn. We are in for a wild wild ride.
Kemi Badenough vs Dishonest Bob. Who’d have thunk it.
woody83060 on
The Tories lurching to the right seems to be the story of the last 20 years.
EdmundTheInsulter on
Have they done their maths ok? 2024 Tory vote + a lot of remain > Starmer vote – loss of votes
Also Badenoch is capable of withering Starmer in debates.
Downtown_Category163 on
They’re both absolute dogshit people but the UK culture industry will intensively gaslight us that their mindless bigotry and appeals for us to strip ourselves of our hard-won human rights is “making some good points”
Mellllvarr on
Good on Badenoch, I was concerned she’d be ousted for Cleverley but now I think she’s got this sown up, I’m not sure the Torys can win in 5 years but I think Badenoch will be a great figurehead in the interim.
Matt6453 on
I’m increasingly hearing political pundits saying something went wrong, a miscalculation where Cleverly supporters tried to knock out the next strongest candidate. With only 120 MP’s they screwed it up.
Loreki on
They seem determined to become the US Republicans, without understanding the key elements of Republicans strategy. Crucially that the multi-layered nature of US politics means that efforts to secure power locally can be used to manipulate the national system, such that you don’t actually need many votes at all to win big national victories.
The Conservatives here haven’t done anything like the amount of ground work and hard graft which Republicans have done for the past 30+ years to get the system to a place where their insane ideas can succeed.
TokyoBaguette on
Dumb and dumber – not sure which way.
How does this even happen?
Where are the normal competent people?
miksa668 on
I wouldn’t be too gleeful. If Labour don’t miraculously undo 14 years of Tory damage in less than 5, you just know we’ll end up with a far right government like the rest of Europe.
imminentmailing463 on
The reaction from some Labour and Lib Dem supporters makes me uncomfortable. The gleeful certainty seems to learn no lessons from how volatile politics has been in recent years, and seems naive to what a right wing populist as the Tory leader might do to politics and general discourse.
Innocuouscompany on
We’ll be voting ourselves out of the ECHR in no time. We love a lying Tory.
narayan77 on
It was dumb to eliminate Cleverly. James has decided to have a mood dependent name, today he is James Disappointingly.
pubemaster_uno on
Complacency that is badly misplaced. A Labour/Lib Dem person might look at these two and consider them “extreme”, “unelectable” etc, but the people voting are going to be the same population that voted for Brexit, gave Boris a landslide, and are already very fed up with Labour. It’s highly likely that Badenoch/Jenrick will appeal to that pissed off set of people.
Critical-Engineer81 on
The funniest part is no one can admit that this was a fuck up as it makes them look incompetent.
SuomiBob on
James O’Brien said on his show the other day that if the tories elect Badenoch to the leadership, Labour will have to officially declare it as a gift.
MrSierra125 on
Hahaha Tories just gave the labour party another term for free. Jenrick is a no name whose only claim to fame is being the opposition to Badenoch, a crazy racist moron.
Tories, as always, being the Tories worst enemy.
ThatGuyMaulicious on
Kemi is gonna dig her teeth deep into everyone she goes against.
Able_Donkey2011 on
Not sure why they are gleeful about a weak conservative party or anything that gives reform a boost for that matter
TheWorstRowan on
> One Nation wing of the party yet are left with a choice between two rightwingers as a result of attempts at tactical voting. “We’ve just been too clever by half,” one said.
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Now stock up on popcorn. We are in for a wild wild ride.
Kemi Badenough vs Dishonest Bob. Who’d have thunk it.
The Tories lurching to the right seems to be the story of the last 20 years.
Have they done their maths ok? 2024 Tory vote + a lot of remain > Starmer vote – loss of votes
Also Badenoch is capable of withering Starmer in debates.
They’re both absolute dogshit people but the UK culture industry will intensively gaslight us that their mindless bigotry and appeals for us to strip ourselves of our hard-won human rights is “making some good points”
Good on Badenoch, I was concerned she’d be ousted for Cleverley but now I think she’s got this sown up, I’m not sure the Torys can win in 5 years but I think Badenoch will be a great figurehead in the interim.
I’m increasingly hearing political pundits saying something went wrong, a miscalculation where Cleverly supporters tried to knock out the next strongest candidate. With only 120 MP’s they screwed it up.
They seem determined to become the US Republicans, without understanding the key elements of Republicans strategy. Crucially that the multi-layered nature of US politics means that efforts to secure power locally can be used to manipulate the national system, such that you don’t actually need many votes at all to win big national victories.
The Conservatives here haven’t done anything like the amount of ground work and hard graft which Republicans have done for the past 30+ years to get the system to a place where their insane ideas can succeed.
Dumb and dumber – not sure which way.
How does this even happen?
Where are the normal competent people?
I wouldn’t be too gleeful. If Labour don’t miraculously undo 14 years of Tory damage in less than 5, you just know we’ll end up with a far right government like the rest of Europe.
The reaction from some Labour and Lib Dem supporters makes me uncomfortable. The gleeful certainty seems to learn no lessons from how volatile politics has been in recent years, and seems naive to what a right wing populist as the Tory leader might do to politics and general discourse.
We’ll be voting ourselves out of the ECHR in no time. We love a lying Tory.
It was dumb to eliminate Cleverly. James has decided to have a mood dependent name, today he is James Disappointingly.
Complacency that is badly misplaced. A Labour/Lib Dem person might look at these two and consider them “extreme”, “unelectable” etc, but the people voting are going to be the same population that voted for Brexit, gave Boris a landslide, and are already very fed up with Labour. It’s highly likely that Badenoch/Jenrick will appeal to that pissed off set of people.
The funniest part is no one can admit that this was a fuck up as it makes them look incompetent.
James O’Brien said on his show the other day that if the tories elect Badenoch to the leadership, Labour will have to officially declare it as a gift.
Hahaha Tories just gave the labour party another term for free. Jenrick is a no name whose only claim to fame is being the opposition to Badenoch, a crazy racist moron.
Tories, as always, being the Tories worst enemy.
Kemi is gonna dig her teeth deep into everyone she goes against.
Not sure why they are gleeful about a weak conservative party or anything that gives reform a boost for that matter
> One Nation wing of the party yet are left with a choice between two rightwingers as a result of attempts at tactical voting. “We’ve just been too clever by half,” one said.
Even when they lose they think they’re smart.