[Abernathy]

Pitching yourself as the loser in a leadership contest is a brave strategy.

Looks very much like Sunak’s last, desperate roll of the dice.

[Spoonman]

I see there's been a leak as to what Liz Truss is expected to have as her frontline cabinet if she becomes Tory Leader & PM.

Now, remember back in 2017 there was a list of Tory MPs that went around on Twitter at the time when sexual misconduct allegations surrounding the party was in the news? That list which noted a number of MPs & the allegations as to what misbehaviour and/or in-party sexual relationships were going on? Well, Liz Truss' name was in it and it referred to her having a "certain" relationship with a "certain" male Tory MP - funnily enough, that same male MP's name is listed in the leak mentioned above to be appointed in quite a high role of public office.

Odds-on that if Truss wins & the leak is accurate, that this will all end in tears.

[Andy McDandy]

Kwarteng, wasn't it? Getting into that pork market.

[Abernathy]

Not Kwarteng, I think. Mark Field was the married MP taking on the responsibility of exciting the Truss fadge at the time.

[Andy McDandy]

Was he the one who manhandled a protester out of a Tory beano?

[Abernathy]

Was he the one who manhandled a protester out of a Tory beano?

From Wikipedia :

On 20 June 2019, Greenpeace accused Field of assault, after a female activist who interrupted Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond's Mansion House Speech was pushed out of the event. Field said he reacted "instinctively" and referred himself to the Cabinet Office for an investigation. He apologised to the Greenpeace activist for "grabbing her" and said he was worried she might have been armed.[26][27][28] As a result of the incident, he was suspended as a minister on 21 June, while investigations took place.[29] The City of London Police reviewed the events and declared that it would be taking no further action.[30] When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, Field was dropped from his ministerial role at the Foreign Office as part of a cabinet reshuffle. The Whitehall investigation was closed, as he felt that it was a "matter for the previous PM concerning his conduct during his time as a minister under her appointment".[31]

A Cabinet Office investigation into the assault allegation, published in December, concluded that he had breached the ministerial code but that he would not receive any sanction as Field was no longer in Parliament

[Youngian]

Knives out for Truss before she even starts the job. Marvellous.

[Abernathy]

It does increasingly look as if Truss is going to be the leader that almost nobody wanted.

[Bones McCoy]

It does increasingly look as if Truss is going to be the leader that almost nobody wanted.

Deeply divided party divides further.

[Watchman]

Bit more grist to the “Bring Back Boris” mill

[Yug]

And bringing back "Boris" would divide the Party even more.

I'm absolutely loving watching these cunts tear themselves apart.

[Watchman]

Anyone know what happens if it’s a draw?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Anyone know what happens if it’s a draw?

Handbags at dawn?

[Andy McDandy]

Thunderdome?

Meanwhile, John Crace files his last report:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... w-at-least

A niche psychodrama for the 160,000 people allowed to vote. One with very little actual drama as we’ve all known who was going to win from the moment MPs reduced the candidates down to the final two.

Given a choice of a halfwit with half an idea and a flatlining ideologue with no actual ideas, the Conservative members were always going to vote for the most hopeless.

You’d have thought that Boris Johnson might have wanted to use his last two months in office to shore up what was left of his already tattered reputation. But no. His main achievement was to make sure he could use up most of his holiday allowance.

Nadhim Zahawi has been on a mission not just to do nothing but to be actively seen to have done nothing. So every week he has been sure to let everyone know that he hasn’t done anything. Now he’s even nipped off to the US to let them know he isn’t doing anything.

There isn’t a question they haven’t been asked and they have shtick off pat. Well, almost off pat in Radon Liz’s case. She still sounds surprised if she makes it to the end of a coherent sentence.

As well she might. She is an intellect and charisma free zone.

All the polls suggest that Radon Liz is a certainty to become the new Tory leader on Monday. What on earth have the rest of us done to deserve her?

[davidjay]

It does increasingly look as if Truss is going to be the leader that almost nobody wanted.

Was it here that someone said she isn't the choice of the MPs (that's Sunak), the party membership (Johnson) or the electorate (Starmer)?

[Watchman]

Fuck! Forget to vote

[Spoonman]

I see there's been a leak as to what Liz Truss is expected to have as her frontline cabinet if she becomes Tory Leader & PM.

Now, remember back in 2017 there was a list of Tory MPs that went around on Twitter at the time when sexual misconduct allegations surrounding the party was in the news? That list which noted a number of MPs & the allegations as to what misbehaviour and/or in-party sexual relationships were going on? Well, Liz Truss' name was in it and it referred to her having a "certain" relationship with a "certain" male Tory MP - funnily enough, that same male MP's name is listed in the leak mentioned above to be appointed in quite a high role of public office.

Odds-on that if Truss wins & the leak is accurate, that this will all end in tears.

Well, those tears came a lot quicker than I expected!

(BTW, Andy was right!)