Politics Thread 7: Dishy Rishi's Cabinet of Horrors

[Garth]

twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1786154720937001425

[Garth]

twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1786241380349530443

26% swing

[Rex Kramer]

What comes first? Tory leadership election or GE?

[Garth]

twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1786263371995562195

Sir John Curtis says that the results in the local elections so far are 'not far short' of catastrophic for the Tories

They are 'one of the worst if not the worst' Conservative performances in local elections for 40 years

He says that Tories are losing half the seats they are contesting

Blackpool South represents third biggest swing in post-war election history

twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1786262072071709119

[Cuttooth]

What comes first? Tory leadership election or GE?

I think anyone plotting to get rid of Sunak will realise they've left it too late. They won't find anyone willing to go through the motions of a leadership contest to just become one of the shortest serving Prime Ministers ever, and the Conservative leader that leads them to one of, if not their worst election results ever.

[Moggy]

What comes first? Tory leadership election or GE?

I think anyone plotting to get rid of Sunak will realise they've left it too late. They won't find anyone willing to go through the motions of a leadership contest to just become one of the shortest serving Prime Ministers ever, and the Conservative leader that leads them to one of, if not their worst election results ever.

Assuming they give a new leader long enough to beat Truss, I think there are plenty of Tories who'd love to be PM for a few months, even if they'd lose the GE badly.

[Samuel_1]

twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1786263371995562195

Sir John Curtis says that the results in the local elections so far are 'not far short' of catastrophic for the Tories

They are 'one of the worst if not the worst' Conservative performances in local elections for 40 years

He says that Tories are losing half the seats they are contesting

Blackpool South represents third biggest swing in post-war election history

twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1786262072071709119

I'd be much more excited about this if Starmer wasn't such a lying prick.

[Rex Kramer]

What comes first? Tory leadership election or GE?

I think anyone plotting to get rid of Sunak will realise they've left it too late. They won't find anyone willing to go through the motions of a leadership contest to just become one of the shortest serving Prime Ministers ever, and the Conservative leader that leads them to one of, if not their worst election results ever.

Given that the Tories could spend a reasonable amount of time out of government, this could be their only shot at being PM. They all know they are going to lose so it would purely be about damage control now. I think we'll see Brady on the news a lot in the next few weeks.

[Victor Mildew]

People voted for that dozy flump. A disturbing number of them probably still would.

I'd go for a pint with him!!!!!!!!!!

[Victor Mildew]

Tories taking a strawberry floating kicking

[Benzin]

Du du du du, strawberry float the Tories!

[Victor Mildew]

Hopefully now this guy will be elected, and we can finally have the bald Olympics in Birmingham

[Godzilla]

Full Steam Ahead!

[Victor Mildew]

Full Steam Ahead!

You made that joke before, and it wasn't funny then.

[Hypes]

What comes first? Tory leadership election or GE?

Always whatever's in the party's best interest

[Garth]

twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1786280828772757709

[Victor Mildew]

STOP THE BOATS!!!!!

*thumb fist gesture*

[Garth]

The Conservatives are having a very, very rough time. They have lost around half of the seats they are defending.

If this rate of loss continues across all the seats being fought, it would be in line with their worst performance in a set of local elections when looked at as a proportion of their seats lost - which was back in 1995.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-poli ... type=share

[Moggy]

"We've been corrupt, incompetent and strawberry floating horrible to literally everyone.

Why don't they want to vote for us?"

[Victor Mildew]

The guy on the news saying the results only look bad this time because they did so well last time that it was always going to look worse. What