Next British PM

I honestly haven't a notion what she's even trying to get at. It's bananas.

The fear is astounding. People from dreary shthole towns that no immigrant would be caught dead in worried it will be "over run" with black, asian and South American people like they are told the London boroughs are.

And now they're over to Ireland today to wow approx 500 Tory members. The Tory chair in the North was saying on Morning Ireland how he's become more and more impressed with Liz Truss as time has worn on.

I think he meant he's become more and more impressed with Liz as it became clear she was going to win and he wanted to back the winning horse.

He was asked about the NIP and couldn't really explain why it was bad and also something something green channel. It's farcical.

You also have places like Bradford that voted to leave, they already have a sizeable 'immigrant' population, in the sense that the immigrants arrived 50-60 years ago. These are effectively pulling the ladder up behind them, voting for the tories to do this and supporting the guys who would have subjected their families to discrimination and racism on arrival, and ideally would have kicked them out.

Labour have a constituency office organisation in the North but they are not registered as a party. They have usually endorsed the SDLP at election time.

The LibDems similarly use Alliance as their proxy. Similar to how the Tories used to use the UUP.

The Green Party is an all-Ireland party and GPNI is a regional branch in essence, though I note that they have recently changed their corporate identity.

Yes, people from ethnic minorities supporting the Tory Party is a bizarre one.

But then again, the concept of the "Red Wall" Tory voters is equally absurd. People who have lived in poverty all their lives but who can't make the connection that the Conservatives and the toffs in England are mostly responsible for their poverty.

Is this the logical end of going for pure populism? Two candidates with zero appeal pretending to be whatever they think is trending right now. Total fakes. The media can't even drum up a modicum of excitement around the contest.

Will the Republicans end up the same after Trump, uncharismatic chancers trying to pretend that they're the real thing rather than the non entities that they are.

Terrible for a future PM to get caught saying, but isn't she right. Other countries have different work structures and a lot of British people do want the easy option like other western countries.

Mussolini restaging the march on Rome after the event so he could get photos of him in front 🤣

I think there is opposition build to Johnston's bid. He se.scto be struggling to get beyond the 50/60 signiture mark.

I think there is to much of a risk with the probes into him over party gate. Getting to 100 will not necessarily get him to a run off. I think the real problem is the indictive vote unless he got well above 150 he would come under huge pressure to stand aside especially if Rishi had the backing of 100+ more MP's more than him. Penny Mordaunt will withdraw in the next 24 hours if she back Rishi it will be hard for Johnson's bid to continue

Well it's Rishi. Boris has thrown in the towel. He says he had the hundred votes, I doubt it says Croker. When Rees Moggs was on this morning I knew he was bluffing. Busted flush.

Will the stop Rishi campaign manage to get behind Penny Mordaunt. I suspect not. Even if she get to 100 I think the indictive vote would force her to withdraw.

Rees Mogg's knifing of Truss at the fracking vote has backfired. I think it time to put manners on the ERG mob