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The Tories had the first, second and to date only female PMs, they're almost certainly going to have the first BAME PM too
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Having nearly all the PMs sure helps
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Jul 9, 2022 12:01
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The Tory membership don’t give a poo poo about skin colour as long as you’re a Tory.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:01
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jiggerypokery posted:Having nearly all the PMs sure helps Okay let's count all of the leaders of the opposition that could have become PM who weren't white men
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Jul 9, 2022 12:04
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Right wing people actively stamp down on people who aren't "like them". They have no particular framing for what counts as "like them", they just instinctively know and often race or skin colour is as important as anything else.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:06
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Nadine for PM https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1545441957803134977?t=aGcNbear-Ex8Zu1IBBzWSg
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Jul 9, 2022 12:08
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I'm not heightist but sunak cannot be allowed to be pm. It feels like he is deceptively short, what else is he hiding? can't be trusted.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:11
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Dorries or Truss would be good picks, I’d much prefer a Tory PM so devastatingly stupid that it takes them three goes to put their shoes on the correct foot over an unfathomably evil one
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Jul 9, 2022 12:12
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crispix posted:like guys you're in the tory party and you're not white, you're never going to be leader
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Jul 9, 2022 12:17
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https://twitter.com/gabrielmilland/status/1545702819478622209?s=21&t=rvNpC9E4REm0l71X7zUtKA This is the point. Tories will happily elect a leader from an ethnic minority because they’re Tories and explicitly don’t attempt to raise any difficult issues.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:23
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Guavanaut posted:The membership will vote for Bad Enoch on the ballot. Are you a bad enoch dude to become the prime minister?
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Jul 9, 2022 12:25
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crispix posted:when you're such a oval office that carter burke is the good guy Carter Burke for Tim is perfect. e: Nah, the Tory membership is racist as all gently caress and would never pick an ethic over a god-fearing whitey.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:31
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peanut- posted:https://twitter.com/gabrielmilland/status/1545702819478622209?s=21&t=rvNpC9E4REm0l71X7zUtKA Yes. Plus (as mentioned) the unparalleled joy of being able to say "First woman PM, first BAME PM...Party of Equal Opportunity" to the lefties, which a non-zero percentage of the Tory party membership will hold their blatant racism in check to achieve, and a bigger portion will blunt their more unconscious prejudices with 'one of the good ones' and 'this brown-skinned man says racism doesn't exist...he talks common sense' thoughts. The worst thing is that they have a point about that first bit - Labour has a pretty shocking record of promoting and voting women and BAME members to the upper levels, let alone as leaders or potential/actual PMs (all besuited white men). And the ones that do get to the higher levels seem to get treated especially shittily, on a spectrum from outright abuse to the 'Blair's Babes' patronising girlboss stuff.
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Cimber posted:By the way, why do conservatives have the nickname Tories? Does Labour have a nickname, or don't they because their name is already one syllable? The other, non-Tory party was known as the Whigs back when the nicknames were being handed out, which is a good couple of centuries before Labour or socialism had been invented. The Americans had them for a while too (their Tories meanwhile were associated with, well, us, so stopped being very popular around 1776).
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Jul 9, 2022 12:32
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I made a thing https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1545733928148926465
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Jul 9, 2022 12:39
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Wallace is out. Good news as he seemed to have a decent chance and was also the most boring of all possible choices.
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OwlFancier posted:ed milliband was the leader of labour during the coalition government, 2010 to 2015. He ate a bacon sandwich in a slightly ungainly fashion and was photographed doing it, which was considered a terrible thing because clearly a man who cannot eat a bacon sandwich in a dignified fashion could never be prime minister, I say, in 2022, putting on the clown makeup. Also, I note, he's Jewish, and this is back when antisemitism was considered cool and good by the rightwing press rather than a massive stain upon the Labour party and only the Labour party, so y'know, there was a big ol' wink and nudge there in a 'bacon sandwich' context. Think he also got criticised for having two ovens? Which, again...
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And yeah, if there were two otherwise identical candidates, one white, one not, the membership would obviously pick whitey. But they will absolutely go for a PoC Brexit loon/culture warrior over a white person who just wants to be quietly evil.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:43
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Unlike the left, who are the real racists, I care about qualifications over colour. The qualification is "must be a big oval office."
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Jul 9, 2022 12:46
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Miss Daisy doesn't mind if her driver is black, just so long as he knows he's not picking the destination.
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TACD posted:Dorries or Truss would be good picks, I’d much prefer a Tory PM so devastatingly stupid that it takes them three goes to put their shoes on the correct foot over an unfathomably evil one Dorries is so thick and gullible it ticks over into evil.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:56
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I'm most worried about Sunak, he's a big fan of austerity plus and cutting every bit of public spending he can get his hands on. No action under climate change under him, for certain.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:57
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Objectively cool. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1545738149908942851?s=19 Looks like the Corbyn tweets sank him before he began.
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Jul 9, 2022 12:58
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There aren't enough Boris loyalists left to get her past the first round, unfortunately. PM Dorries is exactly what this country deserves, IMO. PM Braverman would be almost as funny, though, and she's in with an outside shot since she has the ERG behind her and is sufficiently psychotic to win over the membership.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:I'm most worried about Sunak, he's a big fan of austerity plus and cutting every bit of public spending he can get his hands on. No action under climate change under him, for certain. It’d be a weird one because he’s desperate to wield the axe and chat about the deficit but the general public is not in the mood for austerity, at all. Boris was actually correct about that.
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Jul 9, 2022 13:01
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Sunak would basically be a return to Cameron/Osbourne competently destructive evil, except less popular. Doesn't mean he wouldn't beat Keith's Labour though, lol.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dwp-could-monitor-your-bank-24429526 2 months in to labor goverment: GOVERMENT SPENT OVER 100 MILLION TO CATCH 10K OF FRAUD. these retrospective reviews inevitably get bogged down in the facts 1) that people who need benefits have complicated lives and fiances and 2) not all that much actual fraud usually occurs compared to the noise 1 generates. It likely wont even be set up to catch the most common kind of fraud, impersonation. I always love how they never get asked where they get their estimates for fraud, because its inevitably their rear end.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm not heightist but sunak cannot be allowed to be pm. It feels like he is deceptively short, what else is he hiding? can't be trusted. I stan a short king, but Sunak gives short 'duplicitous courtier' vibes.
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Chinese Gordon posted:Sunak would basically be a return to Cameron/Osbourne competently destructive evil, except less popular. Doesn't mean he wouldn't beat Keith's Labour though, lol. He will get in, not do anything major until a GE, in which he will beat Starmer, and then enact public spending cuts so deep Cameron/Osborne would blush.
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Jul 9, 2022 13:15
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Nads to Follow Johnson in Top Job
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Night Tories will have a really difficult job of shaking the Long Johnson off.
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