Westminstenders: Tory Natural Selection

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Here we go again...

The cat vote worked fr Anne Widdecombe..she has 6+

The following tweet, is a caption competition. Sorry.

Guido Fawkes @guidofawkes

dear god that photo!! his advisors should get on to him pdq and tell him to stop manspreading immediately

Michael Gove arriving for cabinet meeting this morning.

Why does he permanently look like a ventriloquists dummy, even when walking???!!!

The cat vote worked fr Anne Widdecombe..she has 6+

Explains a lot

Politico article is truly frightening and depressing

Gove ... I’ll just leave this here:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqyf7a4xFM

Michael Gove makes the original Thunderbirds puppets look fully animated in comparison.

Red Morning ! How on earth are they going to hide Johnson for the next what fortnight? Including the TV debate?

If you have no confidence that he’s not going to drop a bollock debating amongst his own party how can he be possibly trusted to run a country??? That’s nuts.

Anybody know how accurate ‘Electoral Calculus’ is a time seat prediction because that has BJ losing his to BXP.

Why does he permanently look like a ventriloquists dummy, even when walking???!!!

...I remembered this from a while back. Perhaps he's like Coppelia or Pinocchio?

Meanwhile in the real world:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-48558495?__twitter_impression=true
Nurseries in deprived areas 'face closure over funding gap'

A report by the Early Years Alliance (EYA) found 17% of childcare providers surveyed in the most deprived areas of the country "anticipate closure in the next twelve months".

Some nurseries said they had lowered the quality of food given to children

And

Paula Williams who runs a nursery in Bradford said it could be forced to close if government funding did not increase.

All the 48 children at the centre are supported by the government's scheme, with no fee-paying students. Ms Williams said 80% of the budget was spent on staff costs.

"Our funding went down yet our costs have all increased because national living and minimum wage is going up year on year and also we had to start paying pensions for all staff," she said

Women as always, screwed first...

Sajid Javid @SajidJavid
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He's got a dog. A cute fluffy dog. How does the dog v cat vote stack up?

Robert Halfon @halfon4harlowmp
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Ffs, they are even trying to sell it on the dog.

Dunno about dogs, but a fox just run under our kitchen window. Broad daylight, little cul de sac in suburbs of Birmingham.

Not sure what would happen if it met one (or all) of the local cats ....

are even trying to sell it on the dog

That dog looks poodlesque. In our family (being of the Hitchhiker's generation) we often speculate that poodles have been so successful perhaps they are like Douglas Adams' white mice. Sajid's poodle could be in charge and conducting a huge experiment on us all.
Sajid's video is quite good if his Brexit stance and behaviour at the home office didn't project the exact opposite of what the video suggests..

No, the poodle kills it for me, move on folks!

If Johnson doesn't make it to the last two, will the comfortably off Tories of the South East feel they have been cheated?

Last time Johnson himself let them down, and May seemed a safe bet, so I doubt if they were upset then.

Going for the cat-lovers vote? Leadership contender Rory Stewart pats @Number10cat outside cabinet this morning

I think it was Peston that describes Stewart as "reassuringly bonkers". I don't particularly want Rory (or any other Tory) to be PM but he is at least human and his campaign is obviously homegrown, unlike Doris's.

Which of the candidates is most and least likely to lead to an early GE?

fullfact.org/news/unelected-prime-ministers-common-or-not/

You know when we all said, way back then, that May, however awful, was head and shoulders better than all the others? We were so right. (Except for Rory, who is the right sort of bonkers.)

Before TM - nine Conservative PMs came into office without there having been a general election. Only five went on to win a GE. So there's only a roughly 50% chance of the one chosen being in office for more than two years.

Sorry Born - x posting. I'm finding the leadership election as depressing as Trump's visit. At least the latter was over quickly.

That Rory Stewart picture makes me wonder what they'd think of me if I was running. I'd be the person having a full on conversation out loud with Larry hello Larry, are you coming in or staying out? Etc

To make you laugh, even if it's a hollow laugh:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/ten-tory-candidates-sent-to-country-house-to-start-murdering-each-other-20190611186497