Bye Bye Big Dog. Who is going to take over? Truss V Sunak Thread 12

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www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4589396-the-one-where-big-dog-is-still-here-and-the-race-to-be-the-new-top-dog-thread-11?page=40&reply=118674329

Here we are.

There is only one good thing that Mr Johnson politically has done since becoming Prime Minister, and that is accept Mr Grayling's resignation.

But even then he tried to rig the election for Graying to become Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Fortunately, Grayling was so useless that he still lost.

Taking back control

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on delays at the UK-French border twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1550884317013970946?t=6IZP5IWS1L4J-Ptqa2yQZQ&s=19

UK UK UK UK UK UK

(not quite as catchy as USA, USA,USA)

Ostrich?

Stupid woman. And we’re seriously going to have a PM like this? I despair.

Stupid woman. And we’re seriously going to have a PM like this? I despair

Well we’ve got another 5 weeks of this __competition now, I think there’s a good chance she’ll come across as even more of a numpty than she has already, and we end up with Sunak as pm by default, because he doesn’t look so utterly stupid by the time summer is over.

How do you know it was fake? RAF took him up in a Typhoon and now suddenly they've been grounded as they've realised the ejector seats don't work. Will the army be recalling all their grenades tomorrow?

Sunak meanwhile seems have forgotten who have been in power for the last 12 years and what his role was by saying Britain is facing a national emergency on economy, NHS backlogs & illegal migration

nicely summed up by the i newspaper

Batshit and the billionaire

inews.co.uk/news/politics/we-wanted-fresh-start-weve-ended-up-with-batshit-and-billionaire-inside-tory-leadership-war-1757970

That's behind a paywall. Is there a screenshot?

CNN's piece on the leadership race is interesting: the Conservative MPs they have spoken to are worried the party is too divided between the candidates to govern and will collapse into infighting followed by an early GE. Something to look forward to, along with unrest, war and inflation this winter.

edition.cnn.com/2022/07/23/uk/boris-johnson-successor-mess-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html

Is Sunak after an endorsement from britain first?

Rishi Sunak unveils his “radical” plan to deal with illegal immigration. It includes withholding aid from countries that don’t cooperate on returns, and imposing an annual cap on the number of refugees allowed in the UK
twitter.com/adampayne26/status/1550951794255269888?t=5gcs3EVzEAWV4OLmbVIlbg&s=19

That really is all dog whistle stuff, isn't it? Shameful.

Has he set out what he is going to do about the deepening cost of living crisis?

Mail on Sunday
"Ireland has seen a surge in asylum seekers after Britain introduced Rwanda policy, Taoiseach reveals as Liz Truss pledges to send MORE migrants to Africa."

Or the Tea Sock as Truss calls him. It seems the Tories and Britain First are on the same page.

While simultaneously wittering on about what a warm welcome his immigrant grandparents received 60 years ago.

Schapps is deluded as ever

Hang on - so we’ve taken back control of our borders cos we no longer want to be part of the EU, but Grant Shapps still expects the French to let us come and go as we please across their border. Have I got that right? As they say somewhere, quel culot ce mec
twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1551113091580059653?t=HKpPkpkfGwa9rb-pjzqAUw&s=19

Ah, he had read my earlier post on the subject, excellent.

How does that work then, if say Russia decides to invade Poland? Do we just tell the refugees "Tough, you're too late, we've had our quota for this year. If you are inconsiderate enough manage to escape slaughter for a few more months we might think again in January"?

I hope that Liz Truss learns to pronounce 'Taoiseach' if she becomes Prime Minister. Two years or so of Tea Sock would be head wrecking.

The Express today carries an article about how Boris Johnson has actually been a brilliant Prime Minister. It was written, perhaps inevitably, by Boris Johnson. I wonder whether he wrote another one describing how awful he’s been & decided at the last minute which one to file…
twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1551162653225140231?t=UI_TAy_ptr1PaYVi2Za4xA&s=19

A year or so ago I would have thought "seriously?" But now now I think "naturally"

.@trussliz will be travelling the country wearing her earrings which cost circa £4.50 from Claire Accessories. Meanwhile…

Rishi visits Teeside in Prada shoes worth £450 and
sported £3,500 bespoke suit as he prepared for crunch leadership vote.

twitter.com/nadinedorries/status/1551459390502440960?s=21&t=kS0klGoUkfFZ0EZlXNdUsQ

Is this a joke post? I have no idea! 🤪

The funny thing is Dorries didn't criticise Johnson for spending £50-60k of party donors money on the flat refurbishment.

But Sunaks suits and shoes were presumably paid for out of his own pocket.

Heaven knows why I am defending Sunak.

Oh bless Nads. ‘Cheap’ runs through her like letters through a stick of Blackpool rock.