Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will become next PM after Penny Mordaunt knocked out of contest

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  1. Reminder that Truss will be heavy favourite to win this now.

    May God have mercy on our souls.

    Talk about failing upward – a true skill in the Tory party.

  2. Omg imagine if we get Truss. I would be so fucking embarrassed to be British.

    I don’t like Sunak at all but at least he isn’t as glaringly brain dead as Truss.

    Over a decade of Tory rule and we’re going from Boris fucking Johnson to one of these two clowns. This has to be the worst state British politics has been in for decades, surely?

  3. It seems obvious to me that some Rishi allies, confident that he would come top, switched to voting for Truss because they know that she’s less favourable with the members than Mordaunt. Tactical.

  4. I don’t think Rishi has a chance here.

    Not that it matters when the choice is between cat shit and dog shit.

  5. My god, they’re actually going to appoint Liz Truss as the next PM. At least it will only be for two years, but buckle up, everyone…

  6. As awful as truss was, she wasn’t idiotic enough to be a brexiteer back in 2016 – in fact she was a strong remainer

    Rotten Sunak meanwhile was a Brexiteer from the start. Combined with his terrible management of the economy that has literally put hundreds of thousands if not millions in effective poverty, I think Truss is the better option

    Also from reading her Wikipedia page, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss, SOME of her positions seem actually OK – such as wanting to put more emphasis on maths in U.K. schools and wanting to push/encourage more pupils to take more rigorous and academic subjects

    However, she is still dangerously economically far right in a country already ravaged by economic inequality and corporatism

    But both are truly awful, hopefully enough so that the British public won’t vote Tory in the next election. But i won’t hold my breath with this country.

  7. Hope Sunak gets in purely because Truss is about as helpful as, well, Truss. That’s literally the worst it can be.

    Neither stand a hope in an election, and I doubt that Tory power will happen again for quite some time with people like this being elected by them

  8. Haha fucking Pork Markets gets into the final two. Absolutely hilarious.

    I hope she wins the entire thing. She’s like a shit version of May.

  9. Be honest with ourselves there has been no voting going on here it’s a Punch & Judy show
    We all knew it would be these 2, now we wait to see whom the puppet masters really wanted in charge since before the story began.

    “He’s behind you”

  10. Two years for Truss to completely destroy our international standing, the damage may be irreversible. This could be even worse than Boris.

  11. Whatever your thoughts are on the final two candidates, the final three were split 137, 113, 105. That’s closer to a three-horse race than two strong candidates. It’s ridiculous that they’re not just putting all three to the party members.

  12. Liz Truss, who was famously incensed that we didn’t make all our cheese domestically.

    You know, cheese, which is a regional foodstuff?

    No Liz, we don’t make *Parmigiano Reggiano* in England. Funny that.

  13. The hit job done on Mordaunt in the course of just a week has been truly astounding to watch.

    As someone with both a political and media background, this stuff should be taught to students – actually fascinated by the effectiveness of the job they did.

    Concerted campaign backed by mystery people completely nobbled her from being a Conservative membership darling to being denounced by members as a woke fake Tory in a matter of days.

    Can’t think of any other smear campaign that’s been as effective as quickly as this has been.

  14. Short term Penny seemed the best bet. Distances from Boris, and didn’t seem completely awful

    Long term though Rishi and Liz are both absolute morons so looking good for a Labour General Election victory

  15. All aboard the truss police state train.
    Stations include:

    Decade long prison sentences for peaceful protest

    What economy its great; ignore the cold; starving homeless everybody.

    Off shore camps totally not torture totally not death sentences

    Report your minority to the police today and have them removed.

    LGBTQ+ are the root of all problems hunt them not us tories.

  16. I remember when David Cameron was resigning and we all thought May was a cuntier Cameron. Then she resigned and we thought it can’t get cuntier and then they chose Johnson, a way cuntier May. Now they’re likely to choose Truss who’s like May, but cuntier and maybe less cunty than Johnson, but still a massive cunt.

  17. You know in video games where you have a really strong team and you get wiped out, so you start sending on your unlevelled characters and they just get one-shotted until you’re out?

    That’s where the Conservative party is at right now.

  18. FFS

    A criminal, or someone criminally out of their depth.

    Beating Rishi in a general election will be a piece of piss; partygate, eat out to help out, green card, nom-dom wife, out of touch elitist, expensive coffee mug.

    Truss can barely string a decent sentence together. She will dig her own grave.

  19. I can’t believe Liz Truss is going to be our next PM. She’s truly a moron, but I guess there’s more chance of Labour getting in at the next general election than if Sunak becomes PM. Silver Linings I suppose.

  20. Just a reminder, Liz truss recently spent £500,00 of taxpayer’s money on a private jet to Australia… £500,000!

  21. Don’t worry the permanently startled looking Truss will give Putin a stern telling off whilst dressed as a halloween Thatcher then launch into an angry diatribe about cheese based issues that obviously are the top of everyone’s agenda at the moment.

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