Well that’s novel.. blaming the Tories’ own failures over the past twelve years not on the *last* Labour government, but the one before *that*!!
>July 07 2022
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>“There must be a new generation candidate on the ballot,” one young MP who quit a government post yesterday said. “We’ve got to wipe the slate clean and start again.”
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>A candidate is yet to be identified but among those cited as plausible contenders last night were Kemi Badenoch, who resigned as a levelling-up minister, Simon Clarke, the chief secretary to the Treasury, who as of last night was a Johnson loyalist, and Suella Braverman, the attorney-general, who said on ITV last night that she would run for the leadership. Badenoch, 42, and Clarke, 37, were elected to the Commons in 2017. Braverman became an MP in 2015 and is 42.
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>A member of the 2019 intake told The Times that there was a “widespread view that somebody should stand”. There is, however, concern over whether anyone with the requisite ministerial experience to become prime minister is sufficiently distanced from the Johnson premiership to offer a fresh start.
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>One member of the 2017 intake said: “There is no way we are electing somebody who has been in this cabinet. They are all complicit. They have to be drummed out.”
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>Some said they believed that the trio were examples of ministers who were junior and unknown enough that they would represent a new start.
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>(*Times:* [*We need to move on: junior Tories seek a fresh face*](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-need-to-move-on-junior-tories-seek-a-fresh-face-65f2wbth9) – [🪞](https://archive.ph/3FIRv))
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This youger lot of Tories aren’t any less f’ing crazy or different than the crazy there at the moment.
I say this purely as a point of interest, not as an endorsement;
Badenoch was my landlord for a few years. Her and her husband were very decent people and didn’t muck about when things needed fixing or with the deposit which was returned promptly and in full when I left.
I detest the tories and everything they’ve done to our democracy. I just note this as a point of interest.
Decisions decisions……
Do you support a closet bigoted boomer or a young thrusting anti wokery/decency/everything they can label delusional tiktokker, who are quite happy a few months ago to continue to support a priminister and govt so deep in sleaze and corruption they needed air tanks to breathe, whilst singing the praise of brexit and all its benefits…. Which they can’t identify, quantify or deliver, but insist that if we all get together and belieeeeve hard enough then magically they will appear. And if they don’t it must be because of the EU or those nasty nasty remainers who whilst unable to actually effect anything just won’t accept the magic of brexit and keep breaking the spell by pointing out its a fucking illusion for the delusional.
Still, better that than a Labour govt from 20 years ago, apparently. Who hadn’t even heard of getting brexitdone because they were soooo out of touch with the peeeeeple.
Rinse and repeat.
Tom, Dick and Harry have also announced leadership bids.
Never heard of him.
It’s a hilarious inversion of irony that the candidates being talked about so far are all either black or Asian. Badenoch, Kwarteng, Sunak, Braverman, Javid, Zahawi and a Jew, (Tugendhat)… I’m sure the tory base is delighted with this offering, I’ll just just be watching this shitshow from the side with my popcorn
“limited government”
the tories dont know have to do small or limited government to save their lives as they want to police what people do with their unemployment benefits, police gender, censor the internet under the pretense of “save the children”, removing human rights because it doesnt suit them etc etc.
I’m sure pretty much everybody would agree that government should be no bigger than is necessary, but Badenoch is starting from the assumption that it’s *already* “too big”, when, after over a decade of their swathing cuts and “sell/outsource it all to our mates” ideology, it’s now actually too *small*, too limited, to deal with the bare minimum that the country and its people need.
>Britain today requires “a nimble centre-right vision” that “can achieve things despite entrenched opposition from a cultural establishment that will not accept that the world has moved on from Blairism.”
What? Does she not realise Tony Blair hasn’t been in power since 2007? Insanity they’re still blaming Labour for their own fuck-ups after being in power for nearly 13 years.
I know of another Conservative group that’s spent generations promising they’re the party of limited government, in the land of the stars and stripes. That has gone about as honestly as I would expect from any Conservative.
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Well that’s novel.. blaming the Tories’ own failures over the past twelve years not on the *last* Labour government, but the one before *that*!!
>July 07 2022
>
>“There must be a new generation candidate on the ballot,” one young MP who quit a government post yesterday said. “We’ve got to wipe the slate clean and start again.”
>
>A candidate is yet to be identified but among those cited as plausible contenders last night were Kemi Badenoch, who resigned as a levelling-up minister, Simon Clarke, the chief secretary to the Treasury, who as of last night was a Johnson loyalist, and Suella Braverman, the attorney-general, who said on ITV last night that she would run for the leadership. Badenoch, 42, and Clarke, 37, were elected to the Commons in 2017. Braverman became an MP in 2015 and is 42.
>
>A member of the 2019 intake told The Times that there was a “widespread view that somebody should stand”. There is, however, concern over whether anyone with the requisite ministerial experience to become prime minister is sufficiently distanced from the Johnson premiership to offer a fresh start.
>
>One member of the 2017 intake said: “There is no way we are electing somebody who has been in this cabinet. They are all complicit. They have to be drummed out.”
>
>Some said they believed that the trio were examples of ministers who were junior and unknown enough that they would represent a new start.
>
>(*Times:* [*We need to move on: junior Tories seek a fresh face*](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-need-to-move-on-junior-tories-seek-a-fresh-face-65f2wbth9) – [🪞](https://archive.ph/3FIRv))
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This youger lot of Tories aren’t any less f’ing crazy or different than the crazy there at the moment.
I say this purely as a point of interest, not as an endorsement;
Badenoch was my landlord for a few years. Her and her husband were very decent people and didn’t muck about when things needed fixing or with the deposit which was returned promptly and in full when I left.
I detest the tories and everything they’ve done to our democracy. I just note this as a point of interest.
Decisions decisions……
Do you support a closet bigoted boomer or a young thrusting anti wokery/decency/everything they can label delusional tiktokker, who are quite happy a few months ago to continue to support a priminister and govt so deep in sleaze and corruption they needed air tanks to breathe, whilst singing the praise of brexit and all its benefits…. Which they can’t identify, quantify or deliver, but insist that if we all get together and belieeeeve hard enough then magically they will appear. And if they don’t it must be because of the EU or those nasty nasty remainers who whilst unable to actually effect anything just won’t accept the magic of brexit and keep breaking the spell by pointing out its a fucking illusion for the delusional.
Still, better that than a Labour govt from 20 years ago, apparently. Who hadn’t even heard of getting brexitdone because they were soooo out of touch with the peeeeeple.
Rinse and repeat.
Tom, Dick and Harry have also announced leadership bids.
Never heard of him.
It’s a hilarious inversion of irony that the candidates being talked about so far are all either black or Asian. Badenoch, Kwarteng, Sunak, Braverman, Javid, Zahawi and a Jew, (Tugendhat)… I’m sure the tory base is delighted with this offering, I’ll just just be watching this shitshow from the side with my popcorn
“limited government”
the tories dont know have to do small or limited government to save their lives as they want to police what people do with their unemployment benefits, police gender, censor the internet under the pretense of “save the children”, removing human rights because it doesnt suit them etc etc.
I’m sure pretty much everybody would agree that government should be no bigger than is necessary, but Badenoch is starting from the assumption that it’s *already* “too big”, when, after over a decade of their swathing cuts and “sell/outsource it all to our mates” ideology, it’s now actually too *small*, too limited, to deal with the bare minimum that the country and its people need.
>Britain today requires “a nimble centre-right vision” that “can achieve things despite entrenched opposition from a cultural establishment that will not accept that the world has moved on from Blairism.”
What? Does she not realise Tony Blair hasn’t been in power since 2007? Insanity they’re still blaming Labour for their own fuck-ups after being in power for nearly 13 years.
I know of another Conservative group that’s spent generations promising they’re the party of limited government, in the land of the stars and stripes. That has gone about as honestly as I would expect from any Conservative.
I don’t think she stands a chance