[Boiler]

No Prime Minister has a personal mandate. That piece is utter bollocks from the very top.

Someone on the Today programme slapped that one firmly down in the week - the PM does NOT have a mandate as we don't have a Presidential System. The party has the mandate, but then you'd expect the Cunt In Chief to believe it's his and his alone.

[Oboogie]

And at the end of the day, with the Tory party, we all know what "mark" Sunak carries

Precisely, so in Sunak vs Truss, Truss wins.
Starmer vs Truss at the dispatch box will look like bullying.

[Youngian]

I think Wallace would have been the leader who would have the best chance of securing an election win for the Tories because he is one of the few Tory ministers who has done a good job in office.

This man has bedazzled us with his track record of being at his desk doing stuff he’s paid for.

[Crabcakes]

Shapps is officially standing. No chance, but probably hoping for another nice job in return for throwing his (feather)weight behind someone later.

[Abernathy]

Hmmm. Grunt Schnapps has now also declared.

What an embarrassment of utter dross.

[Oboogie]

I think Wallace would have been the leader who would have the best chance of securing an election win for the Tories because he is one of the few Tory ministers who has done a good job in office.

This man has bedazzled us with his track record of being at his desk doing stuff he’s paid for.

Exactly. I'm afraid I don't buy the admiration for Wallace. Defence Secretary is often a tough gig, in peacetime defence spending is low priority and war is unpopular for obvious reasons.
So Wallace has had a remarkably easy ride: pretty universal support for military aid to Ukraine and there are no body-bags being repatriated to the UK. I can't think of any hard sell battles he's fought.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hmmm. Grunt Schnapps has now also declared.

What an embarrassment of utter dross.

Brave of Grant. He was unimportant enough before to get away with his business history.

Might not be the case if he gets going in this campaign.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak or Javid at least won't tank the pound, which has something to recommend it in the current climate.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, I'm sure that the electorate want tax and spending cuts, Justin.

[Abernathy]

"The truth will set you free".


See also "Arbeit Macht Frei"

[Tubby Isaacs]

It was also Bolsonaro's 2018 slogan.

She's going to be caught lying very soon, and have this chucked back at her.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Zahawi in, and Trust apparently about to be.

I think I make Truss favourite, well placed to gobble up the Braverman and Badenoch supporters. Don't see Sunak having enough to be beat that. He'll get buried for being relatively honest on tax. That'll be seen as not believing in Brexit.

[Samanfur]

I see that Shapps is making it very clear which wingnut vote he's pitching for:

"Thanks to Brexit, we are now a free nation. Let's not just talk about the opportunities that follow, let's take them."

The former education secretary added that he wants to "focus on letting children be children, protecting them from damaging and inappropriate nonsense being forced on them by radical activists".

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good God. Last time, this stuff was mostly left to Esther McVey.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I see that Shapps is making it very clear which wingnut vote he's pitching for:

"Thanks to Brexit, we are now a free nation. Let's not just talk about the opportunities that follow, let's take them."

The former education secretary added that he wants to "focus on letting children be children, protecting them from damaging and inappropriate nonsense being forced on them by radical activists".

Actually, I think that's Zahawi, isn't it?

Wasn't he Secretary of State for Education when this was all happening?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I see that Shapps is making it very clear which wingnut vote he's pitching for:

"Thanks to Brexit, we are now a free nation. Let's not just talk about the opportunities that follow, let's take them."

The former education secretary added that he wants to "focus on letting children be children, protecting them from damaging and inappropriate nonsense being forced on them by radical activists".

The ones with nothing to say just go for culture wars bullshit...

[Watchman]

Cunning move by Grunt, if first bid fails he can fall back on Green, then Fox

[Samanfur]

Actually, I think that's Zahawi, isn't it?

Wasn't he Secretary of State for Education when this was all happening?

It was definitely Shapps. I first saw the quote in a story that didn't mention Zahawi's candidacy at all.

[Bones McCoy]

Dacre recruits former Revolutionary Communist Party cadre to hold the line. On a human level Jonathan Harmsworth needs to give Paul a hug. Never seen such sad desperate copy.

Can we get and "Up the'RA" for old times sakes Mick?
Your new best mate Farage managed one.

[Watchman]

Every time I read “X” has entered the race, my continuation of that is; but the Homo sapiens sent them back