Westminstenders: Tory Natural Selection

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Here we go again...

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How on earth does Raab score so highly on human and LGBT rights when he's so anti women and wanted to repeal the Human Rights Act?!!!

I don't like McVey but she's getting a hard time for being marked significantly lower than Raab.

appreciate that Howabout, in fairness she's usually pretty clear tbh agree with her or not.

Sebastian Payne @SebastianePayne
There's speculation abound that Theresa May has backed Jeremy Hunt in the first round of voting - or the "Runt" ticket of Rudd/Hunt ticket as some senior Tories are describing it.

Downing Street sources add that "nobody, but nobody knows who the PM voted for" today.

What about Gove?

lol where did you find those!?

I was also going to ask for Gove's

"Esther McVey's super power: Looking like an ordinary person"

How did I miss Gove

thanks for those!

How does Gove only get 4 for recreational drug use?!

Mother remember when we used to not be able to imagine Trump as president?

mutters under breathe about inaccurancy of those otherrwise cool cards

15 mins until we know the result of the really important Brexit Vote.

Woooo.

It looks like Rory thinks hes only going to scrape through:

Matt Dathan @matt_dathan
Rory Stewart's team are on a desparate hunt for Ken Clarke, who hasn't turned up to vote yet. He doesn't own a mobile phone either. 23 minutes to go until polling closes. Rory says he'll blame Ken if he loses by one!

Ken has since been located and escorted to vote.

Beats Dinosaur Top Trumps or maybe there's scope for a cross over event

Beth Rigby@bethrigby
NEW: Ballot closed and I’m told by sources on ‘22 that it was decided to disallowed phones in room because of an aggressive whipping operation from Team Johnson. Told had been instructed to take photo of their ballot paper to prove they’d backed Johnson.

So suggestions of voter intimidation...

So suggestions of voter intimidation...
Who is surprised?

In other news:

Brexitcast is taking over the This Week slot. Andrew Neil certainly knows how to nurture his proteges.

The BBC is now spoiling us with highlights of previous tory leadership elections.

That's an indication of the ethos of a government under Johnson

Dh has also just pointed out, not just his fear of BoJo as a PM - but the people he would choose to be in Cabinet

....Evans, Francois, IDS, Deadwood, Braverman, Baker.....

JRM we both agreed would refuse to go into Cabinet: much easier for him to snipe from the snidelines without taking any responsibility for actually delivering (after all, he has already acknowledged that it would take c50 years for the economy to recover ,)

Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall
I suspect one of the big themes of the next few months, especially if Johnson or other senior Brexiter wins, will be a purge of the machine, all senior officials associated with May's Brexit strategy will be gone. Civil servants easy scapegoat for political masters' failings.

This.

Tim Montgomerie on rumoured TM endorsement of Runt ticket:

"Poor Jeremy Hunt. He doesn’t deserve this."

Switching over from a programme about serial killers to coverage of the leadership election.

Spot the difference

• Dh has also just pointed out, not just his fear of BoJo as a PM - but the people he would choose to be in Cabinet 

....Evans, Francois, IDS, Deadwood, Braverman, Baker..... *

Oh shite...I hadn't even got that far with my thinking. I'm going to Canada in a few weeks, I may not come back. Would this be reason enough to apply for refugee status?