The Westministenders / Media Baron Hunger Games continues. Who is trying to outmanoeuvre who?

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Don't worry we've all lost track.

In the Blue Corner
It started out with Cameron and Osborne trying to win the battle of the Tories, but they got stung in a UK wide vote. Some of us thought it was about the 'EU'. Instead it has turned out it was an internal Tory Bitch fight between some old Oxford and Eton mates, whilst for others a protest vote at being disenfranchised.
Gove and Johnson stabbed Cameron & Osborne in the back to run for Team Leave. Then they won when they didn't expect to. And there was no Plan. Uh Oh. Then it all started to go really wrong.
Cameron quit in disgust. Johnson went all President Churchill, before he also got stabbed by Gove (possibly with the assistance of the dark influence of Osborne).
We now have a Tory Smackdown with the shadowy influence of the Media Barons in the background.

#Team Gove has been doing their best with the knives. This is a mission to stab as many Tory MPs in the back as possible in order to become PM. Sponsored and supported by Murdoch

#Team Leadsom has been selling more unicorns and trying to pretend her CV and tax return are completely transparent. Think positive and the economy will be just fine. She is the homeopathy of politics. Sponsored and supported by Arron Banks, Leave.eu, UKIP and Britain First.

#Team May has been threatening to deport everyone if the EU don't play nice. Sponsored and supported by The Daily Mail's Dacre

In The Purple Corner
Tragically, it appears that not only do UKIP have a Plan A, they also have outwitted everyone by having Plan B. Yes that’s right TWO plans.
Farage has swanned off –sacked—for a life on CBB so they are looking for a new leader.
The potential candidates are all equally loathsome. They include Arron Banks himself, a suspended member of the party and several other people with an uncanny ability to put their foot in their mouths.
If this wasn't horrible enough, Team Leadsom is increasingly starting to look like a UKIP take over bid of the Conservative Party, which might be a neat way of avoiding a leadership battle of their own considering the quality of the candidates on offer.

In short, its a bit like a Bad Dystopian Movie that invokes Godwin, set in 2016 Westminster. Except its real.
In the Red Corner
Meanwhile the WMD has finally gone off in the Labour Camp, as Chilcot has been published. However the Chicken Coup rattles on regardless.

Corbyn is STILL clinging on, putting in a good claim for the Westminster 'Charlie off Casualty' Award. He has however had his Big Moment in the Commons. Which was a bit of a let down really. ...

The Unions have been trying to talk some sense into everyone. Meanwhile everyone else is has given up and are now just praying for a ruddy miracle to end this torture and give the country an opposition party.

Angela Eagle is still outside for the 5th day in a row, going "I will stand. Soon. If he doesn't quit" The BBC now qualify for a discount deal at the local Travel Lodge.

We FINALLY know who the fuck Owen Smith is! He's a Welsh MP and sounds like he's not completely away with the political fairies.

George Galloway appears to be trying to make a late bid to be included on the ballot paper for any leadership election.
Bliar's cried. We didn't. Chilcot took over 2 million words to tell us everything we already knew. As well as the fact that Mi6 like Nicholas Cage a lot.

The Cult of Momentum are still worshiping their Dear Leader by sending death threats to PR companies they suspect of disloyalty. Somehow they still manage not to get the title of the most vile pressure group in the UK.

And I suppose I should ask, when will a50 be triggered....? And by whom?

All these questions and more.
Tin foil hats now available upon request

Sense of humour compulsory. No experience necessary though

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The nightmare scenario for NI surely has to be Loathsome taking a lead from Gove? She's looking like a bull in a china shop already with her determination to activate a50 immediately, and I can't see anything that says she'd be willing to slow down and compromise for the sake of NI or Scotland.

You suppose it's basically going to be "thank you thank you for voting me in as PM.... Now HIT THAT BUTTON!" ??

If she does try that immediate hit of the button, and its dependent on a parliamentary vote in some way, you have a recipe for an immediate rebellion if she doesn't make any assurances about Scotland / NI.

I simply don't think the rest of the MPs are that stupid, even if it ends up causing the party a MAJOR headache, and risks their jobs and a GE.

I think she's possibly daft enough to try it, with the emotional blackmail of what that will do to the party so soon after a leadership election.

Its the Corbyn situation on steroids.

And now for a laugh.

I have found the PERFECT leader for UKIP. He has apparently applied to be in the running after checking their constitution to see if he is eligible and finding nothing to stop him.

He is a former poker player. Click on the link for the punchline. Its worth it!

#The4%

That's fab!

Has Loathsom published her tax return yet? She was going to do it immediately if she made it to the last two.

She has not. But she can't put it off much longer.

I've very much enjoyed this & previous thread (must admit I haven't read the others sorry!)

I do know (bit of insider info) that AL is not accepting any money from horrible arron banks, and in fact absolutely doesn't want him to spend money on her campaign. That's because there is a limit on spending, and the AL campaign want to spend the money as THEY want, not have him spending any money, which could be counted as her campaign expenditure, even though she hasn't asked/ doesn't want it.
They are trying to distance themselves from him.

And No, I'm not her!

I thought he was offering his 'contacts' rather than dosh?

Let's see your tax return Andrea.

Because you have no plan to show us. And no unicorn either.

Being a Tory is clearly a very ageing thing. First they told me that Gove is only 48 and now I'm being told Leadsom is only 53. Maybe being a Tory is like being an old school Hollywood celeb, you have to shave ten years off.

Don't think they want those either. Would you? Blergh.

Glad gove has gone. Couldn't stand him. In education he was like a little destructive tigger jumping up and down saying 'what can I change? What can I change? How can I make teachers and kids life as crap as I can?'

And can you imagine if his wife was in number 10? Daily mail would've had a daily diary no doubt.

Unicorns are tax-deductible aren't they?

Leadsom's Brexit strategy in a nutshell.

Certainly !

Loathsome might be marginally better than Gove for NI. At least she hasn't said that the NI good Friday agreement was a gross abdication of our sovereignty which combined with his comments on soldiers gladly dying yo fight for freedom in WW1 is fucking terrifying.

Is this a mum unicorn?

I think being a Brexiter is very aging - Farage, Gove and Loathsome all look at least 10 years older than they are.

Not as aging as making us go to war.see t Blair

Place marking

Loving the new UKIP leader candidate link red... happy also to promote him to PM, actually

Love the unicorn. It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!

How old are Farrage, Gove and Loathsome?

I could google, I suppose, but tell me if someone knows.