[RedSparrows]

In my weaker Abernathy moments Mordaunt seems a rather good example of a public school boy's matron fantasies. What awfulness do I need to know to corral my weaker instincts?

[Bones McCoy]

In my weaker Abernathy moments Mordaunt seems a rather good example of a public school boy's matron fantasies. What awfulness do I need to know to corral my weaker instincts?

Yes she his what used to be known as the "Joan Simms medium".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

In my weaker Abernathy moments Mordaunt seems a rather good example of a public school boy's matron fantasies. What awfulness do I need to know to corral my weaker instincts?

See Matron. She'll put some bromide in your cocoa. And have a cold shower.

[Abernathy]

Just been watching a bit of the Tory leadership candidates’ debate on C4. In reply to the question from Krishnan Guru-Murthy, “ Is Boris Johnson honest? Yes or no.” , Tom Tugendhat was the only candidate to answer simply “no.”, and got a hearty round of applause from the audience in the studio for doing so. EVERY other candidate equivocated quite pathetically.

He’d get my vote were I a gammon.

[Abernathy]

Another significant moment occurred when Guru-Murthy asked for a show of hands by the audience on whether people thought they could trust politicians. Not a single hand went up. This is what Johnson has done. If the candidates on the platform were concerned about this (and they bloody well should be), they didn’t show it.

Fuck a duck.

[Abernathy]

Christ. Liz Truss is just appalling.

[Dalem Lake]

I'm just waiting for her to kick off with a robot dance. What on earth is going on with her eyes?

[Watchman]

Charlie Gove’s not helping her out, is he ?

[satnav]

I caught Truss answering the first question about trust in which she basically said she backed Johnson out of loyalty but did have a quiet word with him in private about his behaviour. She was also trying to big up how she stood up to Putin I must have missed that particular confrontation.

[Youngian]

Charlie Gove’s not helping her out, is he ?

He’s backing Kemi Bad Enoch to troll the lefties.

That’s the funniest Tweet Matt’s posted and it wasn’t even his intention.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Mail still pushing Liz Truss tmrw. I see she came last in the debate.

[Bones McCoy]

I'm just waiting for her to kick off with a robot dance. What on earth is going on with her eyes?

It's Theresa May wearing Fabricant's face as a mask.

[davidjay]

Another significant moment occurred when Guru-Murthy asked for a show of hands by the audience on whether people thought they could trust politicians. Not a single hand went up. This is what Johnson has done. If the candidates on the platform were concerned about this (and they bloody well should be), they didn’t show it.

Fuck a duck.

It's hardly great political insight, but I've been saying for a long while that Johnson's greatest legacy will be to have normalised sleaze, corruption and fraud in politics and make the electorate think "They're all like that".

[kreuzberger]

More "hardly great political insight" but, as I drift increasingly remote from any understanding of the UK, I progressively lose the control of my jaw with these people.

Their courtship of party members seems to me to be so diametrically opposed to what actually matters to just about everyone else that it is counter-intuitive. Surely, one of their number actually mentions the utter madness in this. No?

Regarding the candidates themselves, Tugendhat doesn't fill me with creeping horror. That eases him in to the Assets column. But the rest of them, is this really it?

It probably salves a few intellectual wounds that Brayver, Brarver, Bravverman has been shuffled out of the picture. Few would disagree that we are talking about a hamster-faced cabbage whose only interesting features are her kink (fair enough) and the fact that she would set Northern Ireland ablaze by dint of Belarusian-level withdrawal from international norms.

As far as Morduant is concerned, she seems to have a reasonably impressive set of breasts for her age but which are not out of proportion to the rest of the upshot of eager nourishment. But that's it - if we try to shudder ourselves in to the perspectives of these party members who exercise this absurd Solomonic control over the short to mid-term future of the country.

Truss is for me, at least, the scary one. This is a person of such limited faculty that she fails to chew her own cheeks, so the only conclusion must be that she is malleable to the nth degree. There won't be too many prizes for guessing who is pulling the strings but I remain buggered if I can work out why they even bother. What is the end game? They have eased themselves into the free-range tax dodging status which fuels inter-generational wealth. The likelihood of a Putin-flavoured bust is now vanishingly small and the only consideration left on the table is pure vanity.

I simply don't get it. And much of that is because they won't elect Tugendhat, the only candidate who could stabilise their ship in the face of Starmer.

[Youngian]

I simply don't get it. And much of that is because they won't elect Tugendhat, the only candidate who could stabilise their ship in the face of Starmer

This is the result of a party that’s moulded by Johnson and Brexit. Mainly low life chancers, swivel eyed loons and bottom feeders. For this country to be taken seriously again, this incarnation of the Tory party needs to be wiped from political life forever. They’re at least making it an easier task.

[Samanfur]

[Bones McCoy]

This is not a cosplay festival.

[Bones McCoy]

Back at ConservativeHome, finger on the pulse

Leadership candidates need to spell out where they stand on fox hunting

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Simply a shibboleth.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Dan Neidle is an ex partner in a City law firm, so would be surprised if he was wrong about this. Upshot of this thread is that Zahawi may have a lot of extra tax to pay (not just the amount avoided but the same amount again as a penalty), and could even be prosecuted for evasion.

Surely he can't be in the Cabinet with this hanging over him?