Tory leadership race: James Cleverly knocked out - leaving Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch in final two

I didn't see the original, but someone posted that with the current whohaha about undeclared gifts a labour MP said do we declare the Tories voting out Cleverly as a gift?

He's the only one I half liked so I tend to agree.

@BonfireLady when Teresa May & Co were doing that ‘standing with legs apart’ thing at their Tory party conference a few years ago, I did think of Prince George and his manly posing in Blackadder 😂

This was the article specifically on him a few days ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj04enrz02mo.amp

(Edited to add: that thumbnail photo reminds me of King George practising his speech techniques with the Shakespeare actors in Blackadder 3rd, if anyone remembers that episode 😁)

Quite! What a bunch of right wing bigots they are. Oh.. wait.

I'm personally amused by the possibility of it being the Conservatives electing the UK's first black female leader of a major party.

Have they covered RJ?

I wonder if they are a bit softer on KB as in five years we may be in a different place re border control and there are limited ways to deal with that

This is probably where my thoughts on her land.

However, as the leader of the opposition she could do some great stuff on a) calling out the impact of the enforced belief in gender identity and b) calling out the throttling of free speech e.g. the current "hate crime" and "non-crime hate incidents", the stopping of the Free Speech Act from its progression in to law and the potentially forthcoming Online Hate Act - all with specific relation to point a.

We're years off a new government and I would value her knowledge and clear articulation on the above. As the Tories are no longer in government and we're nowhere near an election she can also now go further and talk about the impact of the GRA relating to enforced belief too. I suspect she's been biting her tongue on that bit.

They are all awful.
KB laughs about poverty and wants to stop or decrease maternity pay.
JC is a known liar with an equal lack of empathy for anyone who is struggling. Remember how he denied calling Stockton on Tees a shithole in parliament when the Stockton mp was talking about child poverty? JC was actually caught on camera but still tried to weasel and bluff his way out of it.
RJ is a treacherous idiot who wants to take us out of the court of human rights.
None of them would be a safe leader if the conservatives get into government in the future.

I don't like any of them. And Badenoch is fine on GC but her other ideas are not particularly women friendly, if her comments on maternity pay mean anything.

Seems to put the lie to the idea, popular among some posters, that MPs hate KB?

There is also shock and surprise (me) at this remarkably attack-free positioning by the BBC of Kemi Badenoch:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0g15y2ln3o.amp

Surely they're missing another opportunity to have a dig at her? Obviously the BBC hasn't ever gone full Tennant and said that the world would be better if she didn't exist, but they've definitely called her a "little whingeing f*cker" previously in relation to how she address gender identity issues, albeit without those exact words.