Kemi Badenoch out of the race.

HousePlantQueen

Can you imagine the plotting and dealing that is going on now as the final two try to get over the winning line? All the job promises....I am glad though that Femi is out, she has a very shaky relationship with the truth, and frankly, we have had enough of liars in office. Sunak is a snake, but is unlikely to blunder about the world stage making a complete arse of himself, Truss is completely unsuited for high office. Not so long ago, I pondered why a country the size of the USA was left with a choice of Trump or Biden, now here we are, but we haven't even got the choice. Did everyone see Theresa May's reaction to the baying supporters as Johnson left his final PMQs today?

And to think that, back then, many of us thought of Theresa May as being the best of a bad bunch. Look how far the party has sunk since then. Anna Soubry currently telling it like it is on Sky News.

That was meant to be a reply to Namsnanny.

I meant all those who appeared to have no policies that were as important to them as creating - or rather continuing to create - conflicting notions of national identity and values, and fostering polarisation.

I do not mean that Sunak and Truss won’t do that, but that they at least focussed slightly more on other issues.

A search shows Annaram1 has been a poster for some years.

Elegran

I think it is just possible that the (new) poster with the name Annaram1 has a bridal makeup salon which also does sari draping (presumably for the same brides) in a place called Annaram. That would account for the post being deleted. I didn't see it (too busy eating) but that it what appeared top of the list after a bit of Googling.

Not too useful to grannies in the UK.

Annaram is a town in India.

My old neighbour used to wear a sari, in fact she was wearing one the first time I met her. I wanted one.
Then I realised she just wore it for work and usually wore trousers and a top, so disappointing.

Can you imagine the plotting and dealing that is going on now as the final two try to get over the winning line? All the job promises....I am glad though that Femi is out, she has a very shaky relationship with the truth, and frankly, we have had enough of liars in office. Sunak is a snake, but is unlikely to blunder about the world stage making a complete arse of himself, Truss is completely unsuited for high office. Not so long ago, I pondered why a country the size of the USA was left with a choice of Trump or Biden, now here we are, but we haven't even got the choice. Did everyone see Theresa May's reaction to the baying supporters as Johnson left his final PMQs today?

Where did you hear that, Karmalady ?

I think it is just possible that the (new) poster with the name Annaram1 has a bridal makeup salon which also does sari draping (presumably for the same brides) in a place called Annaram. That would account for the post being deleted. I didn't see it (too busy eating) but that it what appeared top of the list after a bit of Googling.

Not too useful to grannies in the UK.

fishi rishi, I heard that he has been manipulated by fil and that he loves the china government. I don`t trust him at all.

Oh, it's gone.

What is this sari thing that is so important to you Annaram1?

I'd have a Klingon in preference to Johnson.

By the way, he might be PM, not king.

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chelseababy

Down to Rishi and Liz now

She's just deleted her tweet saying that she was "ready to hit the ground from day one"

Down to Rishi and Liz now

Zonne

I’m pleased to see that all those who relied on pure culture war nonsense have gone.

Can you explain please?

Why would anyone want old-fashioned conservatism back? Badenoch is most unpleasant and a little chancer.

JaneJudge

vegansrock

Truss would be out of her depth in a birdbath

best laugh I have had all day!

I heard someone say "Truss would be out of her depth on a damp pavement"

Elegran

RichmondPark1

It seems that several hundred Tory party members have written a letter asking that Johnson's name should be added to the final ballot paper.

Were all the letters in the same handwriting and posted in the postbox near Downing Street?

That made me laugh Elegran, thank you.

Heard yesterday.
The Tory party choosing a new leader from their ranks after offing Johnson is like soiling your pants and then only changing your shirt.

Hope you're right about the next GE, Urmstongran (although sooner would be even better). It's the only hope we've got.

Well I was gutted Kemi is out of the running. My overall feeling is the Tory MP’s were happily rearranging the deckchairs of the Titanic rather than taking Kemi's lifeboat.

Kemi was offering an old kind of Conservatism, one that had been abandoned as the party moved further and further to the left.

And should the appalling Mordaunt get in, then they might as well re-name themselves the Conservative Liberal Democrats.

Kemi Badenoch was the Conservative's future. And their ‘business as usual, blinkered, pudding-headed MPs have blown it. Labour will be delighted with Truss. Her wooden delivery makes even Keir Starmer seem charismatic. Labour will win the next GE now in January 2024.

During one of the TV debates, Kemi B mentioned in passing that Brexit was done. FFS of course it isn’t! If that’s not lying I don’t know what is.

vegansrock

I can’t take credit for the “Truss would be out of her depth in a birdbath” line as I read it somewhere else but it is hilarious.?

Love it!
I think a writer in the Times described Truss as having all the personality of a boiled sprout - unfair to sprouts.
Personally I think she is a very dangerous woman , despised and mocked abroad as Foreign Secretary and with the flakiest grasp of Economics since Cadbury invented the Milk Flake. In charge? God help us.
Anyway as it is all rather gloomy, I hoped this Matt cartoon might cheer us up

I can’t take credit for the “Truss would be out of her depth in a birdbath” line as I read it somewhere else but it is hilarious.?

Callistemon21

It's irrelevant now, anyway.

Unfortunately, it isn't because she'll probably be given a high profile cabinet job.

Galaxy

I might disagree with her on issues but there was nothing particular in there that indicated lying.

She lied when she promised to move to her constituency, if elected. She lied about her background in Nigeria. She deliberately misled about her career as an "engineer".