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To ask if you a Conservative Party Member who you like to see in the final two and who would you vote for?

483 replies

BreadInCaptivity · 12/07/2022 19:57

As the title says.

We will have a new PM and the decision on who it is will ultimately reside with CP members.

I would rather this wasn't a political thread in the sense of Conservative/Labour/LidDem/Green etc.

I'm simply very interested to understand the direction of travel here for party members and would ask that people posting respect that and don't pounce on party members who post.

For reference I'm not a party member, but my uncle is and in his constituency he's saying it's a run off between Sunak, Mordant and Badenoch in terms of local support.

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MarshaBradyo · 16/07/2022 16:13

stuckdownahole · 16/07/2022 16:09

I noticed Kemi Badenoch nodding in agreement with Sunak a few times and occasionally looking across to him.

I wonder if there has been some sort of contact between the their camps and she will publicly endorse him after being voted out by MPs. It seems quite unlikely that she will make the final two. If the final two is Sunak v Mordaunt then she will naturally gravitate towards him as she seems to genuinely dislike Mordaunt.

As a non-Tory voter I thought Sunak won the debate based on the fact that the job on offer is Prime Minister, not leader of the Tory party. He's the only person who convinced me he could take on that role.

Tugendhat did well under no pressure but I thought that Badenoch slew him with her remark that it's easy to sit at the back of the class and keep quiet. Tory members have great regard for power and those who stand up to be counted. They would never tolerate a Corbyn figure - a perpetual malcontent on the back benches who says "I never agreed with any of this". The Labour membership were impressed by his principles whereas all the Tories I know were mystified that Labour had elected a man who spent 25 years sitting there with his thumb up his arse.

I agree with all of this post - and enjoyed the tempo of it good last line Grin

Blossomtoes · 16/07/2022 16:44

I thought that Badenoch slew him with her remark that it's easy to sit at the back of the class and keep quiet

Interesting. I thought it made her look a complete bitch. She said a couple of other things that reinforced that impression. I really don’t like her.

Bigmouthshouthotair · 16/07/2022 17:18

Blossomtoes · 16/07/2022 16:44

I thought that Badenoch slew him with her remark that it's easy to sit at the back of the class and keep quiet

Interesting. I thought it made her look a complete bitch. She said a couple of other things that reinforced that impression. I really don’t like her.

I agree with you. It made her look childish and ridiculous.

If she is going down that road, she can't complain about the gvt that she was/is part of.

No record of her complaining about the things she now is before.

Tegelflughafen · 16/07/2022 19:26

Someone on LBC today made the comment that 'anti-woke warriors' Badenoch and Bravermann are both hypocritical in that they benefited from 'woke' policies over the last 20 years and are now pulling up the drawbridge on everyone else. Actually pretty spot on !

C8H10N4O2 · 19/07/2022 08:16

Tegelflughafen · 16/07/2022 19:26

Someone on LBC today made the comment that 'anti-woke warriors' Badenoch and Bravermann are both hypocritical in that they benefited from 'woke' policies over the last 20 years and are now pulling up the drawbridge on everyone else. Actually pretty spot on !

Economically I'm light years from Badinoch, Braverman is beyond that.

However in what way did "woke" policies get them into their current position? Unless the caller was saying that women and minorities can only reach high office by being forced in over white men.

MadeleineBassettHound · 19/07/2022 11:14

Quite. There are all sorts of appalling reasons why we ended up with Braverman as AG. Her Indian heritage is not one of them.

(Before writing this I checked her Wikipedia page to see whether her family was from India, and in doing so learned that her first name is not actually Suella but Sue-Ellen. Obviously her parents were Dallas fans!)

poshme · 19/07/2022 11:31

Boobear1972 · 16/07/2022 14:04

Tom Tugendhat is a real person who shares parenting with his clever, busy wife and has no fear! He can look someone in the eye and give them a straight answer. Hoping he wins!

I'm fairly sure most MPs share their parenting- but don't feel the need to performance share it on Twitter!

And easier to 'share parenting' more often when your constituency is in Kent- a bit more difficult to do so during the week when the kids are in eg Scotland...

RaggedBlousedPhilanthropist · 19/07/2022 12:23

Whichever one we get, I’m still not voting Tory. I just think that whichever one we get, better it’s a woman, and if so let’s home we get a woman of colour for a change!

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