The Tory Leadership Candidates

Mark Harper

Matt Hancock

Michael Gove

Boris Johnson

James Cleverly

Esther McVey

Rory Stewart

Jeremy Hunt

Dominic Raab

Andrea Leadsom

Kit Matlhouse

Sajid Javid

It's All Cock!

What do you, Matt Hancock, have that Theresa May doesn't? #newsnight pic.twitter.com/6RiWmfr7Dg

— Andrew Brooks (@taxbod) May 29, 2019

Labour Purge Latest

As a former Labour MP and Minister, I voted Green in the European elections. I await my expulsion papers: https://t.co/Sl7N3WW7rI

— David Lock QC (@DavidLockQC) May 28, 2019

Everyone Wants To Be A Leader - Except Ken!

It seems that the entire parliamentary Tory Party is thinking of standing in the leadership contest, apart from Ken Clarke.

Which is really rather a pity I think!

Factoid: briefly (very briefly) encountered him many years ago in the Diplomat Hotel Stockholm. A thoroughly charming, unpretentious and courteous man!

A Dignified Resignation Speech

#TheresaMay May to quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving way for contest to decide new UK prime minister#TheresaMayResign https://t.co/d0bKog67GN

— Sussex Incidents (@SussexIncidents) May 24, 2019

Good-bye-ee! Good-bye-ee! Wipe a Tear Baby Dear From Your Eye-ee

Theresa May is back in the building - has arrived at no10
And expected to meet sir Graham Brady soon

— iain watson (@iainjwatson) May 24, 2019

Resigns as leader, but stays on as PM to meet Trump and attend 75th anniversary of D Day memorial..oh and until Tories elect new leader.

What A "Time To Be Alive"!

update pic.twitter.com/CAXa5GUNVt

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 23, 2019

Gone by Monday (possibly as early as Friday).

Then who takes charge whilst the Tories elect a new leader, and will Trump still pay a state visit?

Vote Brexit To Get Rid of May

As I noted on The Brexit Blog:

"May has managed to make a terrible situation worse, and it is clear that aside from being delusional she is deliberately trying to make the situation untenable/unfeasible for whoever replaces her as PM.

When a leader goes mad he/she abrogates the right to loyalty and must be removed immediately, lest that person builds their funeral pyre on the lives of others!"

As such she needs to go ASAP, for this to happen the Tory Party needs to grow some balls (as they had when they ditched Maggie).

Sadly the only way they will grow their balls is for them to be given one hell of a shock, with luck this will be provided by the Brexit Party smashing it on Thursday.

Therefore, those Tories who want May out need to vote Brexit.

More MPs Like Sir Nicholas Soames Are Needed!

"A really stupid, bovine thing to do."

Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames reacts to breaking news that the Tory whip has been removed from Lord Heseltine - after publicly endorsing the Lib Dems. pic.twitter.com/eY0x7JBw58

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 20, 2019

Change UK Does an SDP

Change UK might not exist by the time of the next general election, interim leader Heidi Allen says - and hints at a merger with Lib Dems: “The format might be slightly different. I see a modern world of coalition” #r4today

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 20, 2019

Question For Sir Graham Brady

You do know that May can delay the vote on the withdrawal agreement don't you?

As such methinks she has conned you, again!

Go Now!

Theresa May should quit now, says her former chief of staff Nick Timothy. He writes in today’s @Telegraph: “Her premiership had failed. Her authority is shot.” pic.twitter.com/enJDocxj8I

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) May 16, 2019

Question For James Brokenshire

A source close to Mr Brokenshire insisted he did not have four ovens, simply “two, normal double ovens.”https://t.co/tVqAvdiWOh

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) May 14, 2019

Why do your oven clocks show different times?

The House of Cards Comes Tumbling Down!

WATCH | Wow. Conservative MP @CrispinBlunt calls on his party (under a new leader) to agree an electoral pact with the Brexit Party at the next General Election.

Nigel has achieved more in British politics from the sidelines than the majority of MPs in the Commons put together! pic.twitter.com/C6a8mKSFAw

— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) May 13, 2019

Who's My Bitch Now?

 

Theresa May's aides reported Gavin Williamson – who was then Chief Whip - to her in 2016 for allegedly telling other MPs she was “a charisma free bitch ”.

The Sun reports that in a defiant riposte that showed the PM thought she could control Mr Williamson's ways, Mrs May told her staff: “Well he’s my bitch now”.

Time has effluxed, and the tables appear to have turned!

Advice To George Osborne and Gavin Williamson

@GavinWilliamson guys, I realise this is a jolly jape etc...but please remember that the country is fucked because of jolly japes like this. If you have the slightest consideration for your fellow citizens, stop showboating and act with integrity, dignity and courage!

— Ken Frost (@ken_frost) May 9, 2019

May Leading Us To Oblivion! - #Mayxit

via GIPHY

This is not an unusual view... bring bill back, it goes down unless miraculously Labour comes on board, so does May - hang on without doing so, then more humiliation at euros, then Peterborough maybe, then national convention, then forced out? https://t.co/tOwrbxyfP0

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 9, 2019

When a leader goes mad he/she abrogates the right to loyalty and must be removed immediately, lest that person builds their funeral pyre on the lives of others!

Mercer Nails It!

Some line from Jonny Mercer this morning - ‘there’s nothing loyal about watching the car go over the cliff and not doing anything about it’

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 9, 2019

Mayxit Roadmap Demanded

EXCLUSIVE Tory MPs give Theresa May until 4pm on Wednesday to set out 'roadmap' for her exit https://t.co/5wVF2OB943 via @Telegraph

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) May 7, 2019

Spolier alert:

SHE WON'T DO IT!

Just Go!

The time has come,
The time is now.
Just go, go, go!
I don’t care how.

You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Theresa May,
will you please go now! https://t.co/stG2GaOdan

— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) May 6, 2019

The Local Elections

The two main parties have received a well deserved kicking, thusfar (be aware that many results have yet to be announced).

Thusfar the two issues that have pissed people off are:

1 Brexit (sort it!), and

2 Corbyn (dump him).

I can guarantee that neither of the two main political parties will address these two issues!

Gavin Williamson, Innocent or Guilty? - The Telegraph Holds The Key

Gavin Williamson insists that he was not responsible for the Huawei leak, May insists that he was and has sacked him.

Now, aside from Williamson, there is at least one other party who knows for sure if Williamson is the leaker; namely the Daily Telegraph which broke the news of the Huawei deal, based on information received from the leaker.

Today's headline in the paper reads:

"You've got the wrong person".

Up until Williamson was sacked, the Telegraph had an "ethical" duty to protect their source. Now that he has been sacked, and the fact that he continues to insist that he is innocent, that "ethical" duty only stands if he wasn't the leaker.

In the event that he is the leaker, and that he denies it, the Telegraph has a duty to out him as a bare faced liar......if he is the leaker.

I note that they have not outed him!