None of the current crop have any chance of power. Might be a good office temp, but not election fit. The membership is waiting for the next great white hope. Think Lozza Fox but a smidge less fascist.
Place your bets early: Alexander dePfeffel Johnson Will Be Back…
God’elp us all! ![]()
Agree, see post above, the winner is irrelevant, but the leader has to be an MP
Isn’t Fox still the Reclaim party who did a [deal with Tice and Reform?
Not sure he would get selected as a Conservative candidate let alone win a by election
Would certainly be a popular choice, easy to forget there were over 50 resignations from his own Government (who all presumably made errors of judgement) and those that are left would toady up to him again.
As said previously. Power at any cost!
This.
Trump / Johnson are like shit boomerangs - Shitterangs if you will.
Poomerang
Didn’t see that coming. Thought Cleverly would make final two.
Tories fail to win election because they are too right of centre, so lurch to the right!
Looking forward to see who can outcunt the other one over the next 3 weeks
Ahahahahaha they’re so fucking dumb.
They’ll have to swing around now to face the membership rather than the MPs. Let’s see how that goes.
Fuck me, Bad Enoch, she’ll have me in prison!
Luckily not a fucking chance of winning an actual election.
Was listening to R4 this morning where the small risk of Cleverly being knocked out was explained. They surmised that those tactically voting wouldn’t be so daft. Oooops.
Oh, so needing to lurch even further to the right to please that audience ![]()
They didn’t really mean it!

Other point of view is that neither of the two candidates will be leader come the next election and will just be a modern day IDS.
The Cleverley can swoop in at the next leadership election and take the party on to the next GE.
(But I really don’t think they are clever enough to have planned such a sequence of events, too much like 4D chess!)
Reckon Johnson will be back in time for the next election after winning a safe seat by election,he is probably the tories only hope of keeping farage at bay.
Also a dangerous game for much of the membership as many won’t last another 5 years.
You can never underestimate the Tories ability to punch themselves in the face.
They’ve descended from fearsome election winning machine to scat orgy in a clown abattoir in the space of 5 years. Largely down to the superiority complex of Boris Johnson.
