With the high number of nominations required they may have effectively made it a one horse race already.
Yep. 100+ might well mean only one candidate reaches the threshold. If this is the case I doubt it's accidental.
It's not surprising that Johnson supporters have their colours pinned to the mast from the get-go. I suspect the majority will be involved in discussion of a "unity" candidate that bypasses another destructive run off with Johnson involved though.
I think it could be Mourduant. The Sunak backers won't back Boris. The Boris backers won't back Sunak. Morduant could be put forth as a unity candidate [stop laughing at the back]. The party will want to keep it out of the hands of the coffin dodgership, their decision-making got them into this mess. We'll probably be back here in another couple months whoever they pick. EDIT - Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
From the BBC News website: “Usually, Tory MPs vote to whittle down a field of leadership candidates to two, who progress to a run-off decided by the party's membership. The last Tory leaderships contest took two months from the date Mr Johnson announced his resignation as PM in July this year. But there is little appetite for another long and divisive leadership contest so soon after Ms Truss won the last only six weeks ago. Instead, Conservative Party bosses have set a higher bar of 100 nominations for Tory MPs to enter the race to replace Ms Truss. The contest has been geared towards narrowing the field as quickly as possible, without needing a final vote among party members.”
As mentioned the 100+ threshold does seem to be designed to leave only one candidate, so no membership vote. However, if there are 2 (or 3) there will be a an online membership vote: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jake-berry-parliament-mps-gchq-b2207314.html
Well, we will see what actually happens. Worryingly, it looks like it is possible, if not actually likely, that BoZo could win…
Top lols if it happened [which it won;t, bc may would've done it if it was an option] Imagine if Trussterfuck's 'resignation honours' gives de Pfeffel a peerage, yeeting him into the Lords.
Regardless of how ****ed-up the Tories are, I just can't see them letting Boris back in. Failure of imagination on my part, perhaps? Mordaunt is hanging around, hoping to appear as the least evil choice. i.e. Truss 2.0 Yeah, Rishi Rich might just get the job, despite being completely out of touch with the public and being caught on camera bragging about cutting financial support for deprived inner cities. Actually, put that way, he's probably the ideal Tory candidate.
I saw a quote earlier of a senior tory saying they'd burn the building down if boris was put back in.
I need a laugh, Boris getting back in would be hilarious. Forced to resign because everyone quit underneath him, brought back because who the **** knows. Amazing.
Ask yourself: what is the absolutely most absurd, ****ed-up crazy town thing the Tories could do now? Of course it's going to be Boris.
