Tory leadership battle (plus highly biased guide to it!)

[Drogue]

Clarke would be great, but if I were a Tory I'd probably be rooting for Liam Fox. He's hardline enough not to split to party - to be a proper tory - yet his roots as a GP makes him personable and charismatic. He's young enough to be vibrant but has a list of high powered roles in government. He's a better, younger, more electable, more charismatic and slightly less right wing version of David Davis.

I'll celebrate if Clarke gets in. And possibly end up with 3 parties I'd consider voting for

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
The Tories need a new man to lead them forward!

Bloody hell. He's actually starting to look like a Tory now, isn't he?

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Dauphin


He'll raise his public image.

no, it's profile.

and btw well done for bringing this important issue to light

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Drogue
Clarke would be great, but if I were a Tory I'd probably be rooting for Liam Fox. He's hardline enough not to split to party - to be a proper tory - yet his roots as a GP makes him personable and charismatic. He's young enough to be vibrant but has a list of high powered roles in government. He's a better, younger, more electable, more charismatic and slightly less right wing version of David Davis.

He's reactionary NIMBY ****pig.

[Zulu Elephant]

Gonna stick my neck out. If the tories choose anyone other than Ken Clarke they're completely screwed.

[Provost Harrison]

We know that in terms of winning an election, but this is the Tories we're talking about...they're probably about to walk off a cliff

[Zulu Elephant]

Worst of all for the Tories, does anyone think that people just entering politics now, with the kind of views held by Ken are joining the Tories? Of course not.

If they don't get out of being a bunch of fools, spouting an unpopular message soon, they'll find themselves having no normal people in the party at all.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


Bloody hell. He's actually starting to look like a Tory now, isn't he?

I know, that's what I thought when I saw it...scary or what?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I think they're hoping that if we get enough terrorist attacks on Britain, getting in a right-wing hard man might reassure people.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
The Tories need a new man to lead them forward!

Is that the guy who posts at Apolyton? What was his nickname?

[Provost Harrison]

Toryboy.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
I think they're hoping that if we get enough terrorist attacks on Britain, getting in a right-wing hard man might reassure people.

clearly.

[Agathon]

I hate to say it, but the Tories are irrelevant. They have no idea of how to run a modern society or economy, and they are tired and old.

[molly bloom]

Funnily enough, they showed Jon Ronson's documentary on Omar Bakri Mohammed again on Channel 4 last night, and Ronson went to Torquay to interview Tory adulterer Rupert Allason (before he lost his seat):

As we drove to the garden party, it crossed my mind that perhaps Rupert and Omar were not as unalike as they imagined. For instance, both were opposed to gay and lesbian rights and both were vigorously in favor of the death penalty. But Rupert considered my thesis to be fanciful and inaccurate.

"I believe," he said, "that every man is entitled to a fair trial. If he is convicted, he would be taken to a lawful place of execution where he'd be put down in the most humane method known to science, either by hanging or by lethal injection. Whereas Omar Bakri believes in dragging someone to the nearest square and stoning him to death in a manner I consider to be not only barbaric, but also wholly uncivilized."

http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE%20PAPER:SALE:0743233212:6.98&page=excerpt

What was also amusing was what looked like a collection of sun dried crocodile skin surmounted by bleached iron wool, but was in fact a Tory woman of a certain age who expressed her fondness for capital punishment and bringing back the birch.

No resemblance whatsoever to Omar Bakri Mohammed there then.


If only the Tories could stop some of their M.P.s ******** adulterously or being discovered dead, cross dressed with fruit in mouth, then they could embrace a version of Islam and rebrand themselves.


Certainly hanging and flogging would go down well with less moderate Muslims, and people would probably pay to see Ann Widdecombe in a burqa.

Naked Widde-flesh, eurgh:

[C0ckney]

seeing as both molly and agathon have dismissed them, i think it's safe to say that we can all look forward to a tory government after the next election.