Roll up, Roll up, place your money on the tory party donkey derby leadership race

[MisterMist]

big clown shoes to fill, who do you fancy

Tom tugendhat. Purely because his name sounds like posh slang for a walk!

Wank obvs!

Can we have Tess back?

Fetch the suitcase, I'm going to the Co-op!

I want Tobias Ellwood to step forward please

Tobias Ellwood I think shall be next leader (maybe not so soon)

I like him but I would prefer a centre left government

He isn’t good news for Labour

I'm a lifelong leftie. But if the Tories manage to elect two female leaders of the country already, then the first leader of the country of Asian descent, before Labour have managed to field one women or PoC as leader of the party, who really is the party of inclusion?

Talk the talk or walk the walk?

Suella has apparently announced she would run.

(Please note this post is emphatically not an endorsement. 😆)

Who was of Asian descent? I'm wracking my brains and can't think of anyone

Sunak and Javed are both of Asian decent.

This.

I'm wracking my brains and can't think of anyone

Sorry I got it now. They have already selected women. If they NOW select an Asian person they will be fielding the first leader of the country oC.

@Lingoflaming @MrsTerryPratchett I obviously misread, I thought you meant they'd already had a leader of Asian descent rather than potentially having one. I'm hoping for Sajid Javid personally, he seems the best of a bad bunch

Donkeys deserve respect, please don't refer to them in the context of the Tories.

Whoever they choose will have some morals (unlike Mr Johnson) and be less bad.

V. disappointed to see Hunt at 12/1. I stuck a tenner in him a couple of years back and I'd be looking at £250-ish.

Who the fuck is Ben Wallace?

On him. Not in him. I dislike Tories but I don't think they pay out like that.

Oh fuck no to Penny Mordaunt. She’s not a thinker, she has told whopping lies, and she has ‘history’ with Johnson, and she’s been no friend to women and children in her complete capitulation to bloody Stonewall.

'Thinkers' in the Tory party are thin on the ground. Especially female ones. I didn't care for May but this crew make her look like a good bet, retrospectively.

I quite like Tracey Crouch. At least she's got some integrity.

Ben Wallace (Defence Secretary) is the choice of Conservative Home.

Otherwise Tobias Ellwood, Julian Smith and Tom Tugendhat seem decent but can’t see any of them getting it.

Wasn’t her brother friendly with Man At The Bus Stop at one time?

I) Tobias Ellwood.
2) Rishi

I'd like to see Bim Afolami take the lead. I'm not tory but I was very impressed with him a few years ago on QT.

Nadhim.

DH worked with Penny Mordaunt when he was in the MOD and she was in defence.

She is apparently "the densest person to ever exist, even thicker than my sister".
If you met DH's sister you'd understand just how thick Penny must be.

Apparently they are/were close, yes. She is reputed to have introduced him around to many Conservatives in her constituency community.