Yep, Corbyn.
There was someone on the radio half an hour ago pointing out how many grass-roots Conservative associations no longer have an MP but still want to take part in choosing the leader. Good heavens, they were already far enough detached from reality when they did have an MP. What will they do now ?
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Corbyn had the (in that case, appalling) impact of giving Johnson an 80-seat majority.
I’m hoping for an extremely dirty campaign,and them blaming each other for why they lost the election.
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This is the only (and most amusing) way forward
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And why shouldn’t they?
If you are a member of a democratic institution you have an interest in its future and a vote.
The fact that the first part of the process is totally undemocratic (only MPs can vote) just shows how much the Parliamentary party are scared of their own membership.
I didn’t say they shouldn’t. I’m just looking forward to the damage they’ll do.
I guess it’s obvious that party members aren’t going to be politically centrist. Under normal circumstances they’ll be out in the wings of the bell curve. Extremists, if you like. It’s no surprise that when they’re the ones making the decisions there are, um, consequences …
We really need another word to sit alongside ‘democratic’ just to cover the OMOV bit of it. Demos somehow suggests it’s the people, or at least a representative sample of them, choosing the outcome when in fact, as a senior Tory once said, ‘the associations are all mad swivel-eyed loons’.
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Barrel well and truly scraped.
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How many of the candidates will explain the shift to the left by asserting that the Tories were just not right wing enough?
Because they’re all nutters
Another ego can’t resist
It’s not just the size of the ego that astonishes. It’s the level of self delusion. Patel combines the popularity of Myra Hindley with the competence of Liz Truss and yet she thinks fuck it, I’ll have a go anyway. What a throbber.
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Braverman so horrible that not even the tories like her.
She gone.
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But Badenoch in!
6 now in the hat
After Braverman I’m hoping for her or Jenrick.
All so repellent as to keep the tories out of power while some technocrats (and I don’t care of what hue) repair the damage they’ve done.
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“Cunt” and “Fuckwit”, eh… Strong stuff! 
Double Down Jenrick!
I bet you none of the contenders have the gumption to state what we all know. They got drubbed because they were proven to be incompetent, mismanaged the economy and systematically destroyed every single public service during their disastrous tenure.
This shite about not being hard enough on immigration, not being Tory enough, not reducing taxes it’s all secondary to the man on the Clapham omnibus who is not interested culture wars, dogma or ideology. He just wants competent government that leaves him in peace to get on with his life.
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But this time they don’t care what the electorate think, only Conservative Party members, so will stand on issues popular with the membership, who are as deluded as they are.
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