Thread 31 Sunak: Court, Conflicts and Complications

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Well, maybe he has been watching Nick Eardley on the BBC...who said the same.

It's patent bollocks in both constituecies.

In a sign of just how bad the government currently is, looking at those charts I'm like, yeah, that's kind of as expected, no big surprise there.

The Tamworth tory candidate walked out seconds into Labour Sarah Edwards' speech. How rude.

https://twitter.com/LewisJWarner/status/1715207893828452455

Helicopter boy extending his mini break with a day in Egypt

Hot and sunny in Cairo

Still trying to steal the limelight with his Mickey Mouse diplomacy

He was on Sky saying everybody was happy with the work Rishi was doing. I was half expecting him to finish the sentence by reeling if the 5 pledges or promises or whatever they are now.

So what is their excuse, I have seen that low turn out being mentioned but that didn't stop their 'win' in Uxbridge

Bad weather made people vote Labour apparently.

Via Beth Rigby

MP texts: Says quote below is what some 2019-ers are saying on MP whatsapps groups, and that they are “deluded”

‘Our voters stayed at home they DIDN'T switch. Come the General the public who sat in their hands will come out to back us.’

That fits with something Sam Freedman tweeted the other week about parts of the party being completely unaware of how much trouble they are in.

On LBC Nick Ferrari is wanging on about Mark Drakeford now being less popular that the Tory leader.

But Wales is the new But Corbyn.

I'm encouraged by the Mid Beds result in particular given that the bloody Lib Dems didn't stand aside. I think John Curtice has it spot on when he suggests it looks like 1997 all over again.

It seems that Monday is the first date a leadership contest can begin (although letters can be put forward before then, they just won't count before the 23rd).

x.com/samfr/status/1715269632268046549?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Andrew Bowie on Sky earlier

https://x.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1715214778224783734?s=20

Do the Tories need to change after two byelection defeats? No, says this minister….

Do watch our discussion:

Gooood Morninnnng! 😀😀
I am loving the spin already... protest vote, mid term, low turnout, blah de blah. Greg will be placing his grubby note and tired flip flops as I type.

Nah, she'll be claiming it's all Rishi's fault.

One lesson to be learned is that Sunak's tactic of appeasing the hard right doesn't work. If Braverman thinks this is her route to the leadership, she's very mistaken.

Prepare to cringe...

x.com/Richiemuso/status/1715234813559373910?s=20

Noble's thread is full of it.

And the sore loser. What an idiot.

x.com/WKWilliams/status/1715242070472863885?s=20

Tory Whatsapp group not a happy place🤣🤣🤣https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1715284483312636073

Beth Rigby

On letters into the 1922, one MP tells me: “I think some will [send them] but the mood is that the game is up and even if letters went in he’d win a vote. The MPs are literally blind and they back him because he’s bought off so many with jobs”

If they are all going to spoil their ballot in the GE, isn't that a good thing for the Labour party?

You'd think. And then the rest of them won't turn out to vote.

So, Blackpool South and Wellingborough next then?

When will they be called?

Thought Nick R handled him really well on radio 4 this morning.