Who's next then?

[Deleted member 49]

Disagree. Couldn't suspend disbelief at Carling ("Where's yer tool?") flinching from Gandhi.

Sir Ben Kingsley claims the character of Don Logan is largely based on his grandmother.....they never had carpet in the bathrooms at borstel.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Mordaunt's Twitter video had to be reposted because people featured objected to the implied endorsement. It's still almost beyond parody. She's still a total bellend.

She's also a liar. She put out a whole Twitter thread last night about what a staunch defender of women's rights she is. Journalists and other politicians have been calling her out on it all day today, even quoting Hansard.


View: https://mobile.twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1546046734605975553

 

[Deleted member 28]

Is the question who we think will be the next Tory leader, or who we want to be the next Tory leader?

I would imagine you wouldn't want any of them would you?

 

[Deleted member 28]

It is a lot like having to pick a favourite flavour of dogsh!t.

No one has asked you to pick anything, just asking who you think it might be?

Love it!

 

[winjim]

Is this the position we're in as a society? A leadership election where the candidates are prepared to lie to appear more transphobic than they actually are in order to win votes? Or is someone lying about the lying? I don't know but it was clear from the start that this campaign was going to feature 'anti-woke' rhetoric as a major theme. Right now it's transphobia but rest assured they'll be after other minorities, perceived out groups and women as well. It just happens that trans people are a very easy target with a good amount of shock value and the added bonus is that by attacking them you can pretend to be a feminist at the same time.

 

[Xipe Totec]

No one has asked you to pick anything, just asking who you think it might be?

Love it!

That's a thing called a 'metaphor', Shepster. Don't sweat it.

As of now I couldn't guess which of this array of towering luminaries it might be. Whichever one is most likely to pander to the Vote Leave demographic that were so head-over-heels for Johnson in 2019. I guess that's why they're all going in quite so hard on the Culture wars bollocks.

 

[icowden]

As of now I couldn't guess which of this array of towering luminaries it might be. Whichever one is most likely to pander to the Vote Leave demographic that were so head-over-heels for Johnson in 2019. I guess that's why they're all going in quite so hard on the Culture wars bollocks.

This is an interesting thing - it is the notorious Westminster list from 2017 of unknown provenance:

View: https://twitter.com/mi6rogue/status/1545869633135300609


No idea if it is genuine. Certainly Rory Stewart and Sophie Bolsover both responded that their entry was untrue. On the other hand Chris Pincher's entry is right on the money. Kwasi Kwarteng seems to have been very close to both Liz Truss and Amber Rudd. Doesn't say if it was at the same time... (apols if I have put you off your breakfast).

 

[Deleted member 49]

This is an interesting thing - it is the notorious Westminster list from 2017 of unknown provenance:

View: https://twitter.com/mi6rogue/status/1545869633135300609


No idea if it is genuine. Certainly Rory Stewart and Sophie Bolsover both responded that their entry was untrue. On the other hand Chris Pincher's entry is right on the money. Kwasi Kwarteng seems to have been very close to both Liz Truss and Amber Rudd. Doesn't say if it was at the same time... (apols if I have put you off your breakfast).

I mean it's hard to imagine anything odd about everyone's favourite Tory Rory innit....allways seems utterly charming 🙄

 

[jowwy]

Cant see them all getting the 20 votes needed to enter the first round of ballots……….

 

[AuroraSaab]

Is this the position we're in as a society? A leadership election where the candidates are prepared to lie to appear more transphobic than they actually are in order to win votes? Or is someone lying about the lying? I don't know but it was clear from the start that this campaign was going to feature 'anti-woke' rhetoric as a major theme. Right now it's transphobia but rest assured they'll be after other minorities, perceived out groups and women as well. It just happens that trans people are a very easy target with a good amount of shock value and the added bonus is that by attacking them you can pretend to be a feminist at the same time.

Refusing to remove the word 'woman' from legislation about women is not transphobic.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Calum Macdonald had a nice line on Times Radio yesterday morning when he referred to Boris Johnson as "the third Prime Minister to be brought down by Boris Johnson".

 

[Deleted member 28]

Calum Macdonald had a nice line on Times Radio yesterday morning when he referred to Boris Johnson as "the third Prime Minister to be brought down by Boris Johnson".

Whoar edgy!

 

[icowden]

Refusing to remove the word 'woman' from legislation about women is not transphobic.

Indeed. But Mordaunt is claiming that she did that, when in fact she campaigned for the opposite.

 

[winjim]

Refusing to remove the word 'woman' from legislation about women is not transphobic.

The candidates are making efforts to appear transphobic.

Please don't tell me you believe any of them are doing any of this in order to try and stand up for any sort of feminism or women's rights.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Regardless of what you think of their other policies, or competence, both Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch have long been outspoken on single sex spaces and changes in language. Speaking about either of these things is not transphobic. You want it to be regarded as transphobic in order to shut down the discussion.

The fact is that noone needed to talk about any of this 5 years ago because until recently we all knew what 'woman' meant and the rights of women to have single sex spaces was taken for granted. Talking about women's rights isn't transphobic. Men denying them the right to do so is misogyny though.