Yeah but the other lot.
Still least joy at Tory fucking it
Yeah but the other lot.
Still least joy at Tory fucking it
Give it to Steamer until the end of the season
Not correcting that
I donāt want to get my hopes up for a spree of big names dropping out, but then I thought that the last time Javid made a big announcement about stepping down and then all hell gloriously broke loose.
Well itāll be quite something if King Charles has to depose Starmer for being too left-wing.
I think the fact that the deadline for Tory MPs deciding whether to stand again is three days after a by-election result showing that the polls are right and theyāre probably going to lose the next election is hilariously bad planning. Javidās not even in a marginal, heād probably keep his seat, he just doesnāt fancy being in opposition.
KEITH. STREAMER.
Chinny reckon.
Still a year for him to get the āBoris Partyā up and running.
The Reform Partyās there, wonder if heāll just go there instead. Farage seems to have lost his shine, they could use a new brexity figurehead. Although they probably all hate each other
Any way Boris chooses to humiliate himseff is fine by me!
This is a good point - given the number of multi-millionaire Tory MPs out there, what is the appeal for them to stay on having to potentially do boring low paid (arf) constituency MP work* in opposition for a minimum of five years**?
I guess people like Chope stuck it out throughout the New Labour years, presumably purely to sow evil wherever possible
*Yes - I know that they happily outsource everything possible.
**Assuming Keithās party doesnāt collapse in on itself via a black hole of his ego. Which it almost certainly will.
Thereās always the chance for some back-channel grifting for more cash
Didnāt know this but Chope lost his seat in 1992 (a Southampton one) and came back to Parliament in 1997 after a spell in consultancy, so either he didnāt like the private sector hours or he just really loves being an MP (which is probably true given how involved he gets with Private Members Bills).
I also did not know this
But yes, he does appear to love the wrecking power him and his chums have regarding private member billsā¦
I guess maybe there could have been a certain amount of acceptance the entire Tory party would be gutted so if you were standing newly in that election youād know you would likely be in a much stronger position to shape the new party and even get put into a possibly shadow cabinet place?
I think having stood for the leadership 3 times without getting anywhere near, heās probably realised that heās never going to be allowed into that position, and I canāt see someone like Javid being as interested in the hard work of fixing the party as governing - heās never seemed to be into doing heavy lifting as far as I recall - strikes me as a āset the direction and delegateā type individual.
Oh I was meaning Chope standing in 1997.
Oh, right. Yeah. Perhaps realised that in the right seat itās probably a job for life without any risk of people worrying about if heās doing it well.
To be fair to Javid (what a thing to say) he really stuck his neck out on housing, a proper toxic issues with the Tories. He basically got how tumbling home ownership rates were an existential threat to the party continuing so wanted loads more money for affordable and general market homes and related investment, but Philip Hammond was too busy being boring and cheap.
Sounds like Gove might be following Javid out of parliament as well.
Heād lined up a Times column when Truss was PM, but Sunakās elevation has meant that heās been more involved and not taken up the option of the writing gig.