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Rule breaking Rishi wins the debate as Kemi puts the bad in Badenoch – politicalbetting.com

SystemSystem Posts: 12,150
edited July 2022 in General
Rule breaking Rishi wins the debate as Kemi puts the bad in Badenoch – politicalbetting.com

A snap Opinium poll of 1,001 people who watched the debate shows Rishi Sunak won, with 24% of those surveyed thinking he performed best, followed by Tom Tugendhat (19%)Penny Mordaunt got 17%, followed by Liz Truss (15%) and Kemi Badenoch (12%) https://t.co/dFXRsPHra8 pic.twitter.com/RTEmBebBE5

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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,492
    Test
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589

    Test

    Match Special
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    Andy_JS said:

    kle4 said:

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    Why do you think Truss will go up and Badenoch down?
    Truss has received endorsements from Braverman and other significant Brexity types, and her performance was punchy and confident, very much framing it as her vs Sunak. I think it will have reassured that wing she is the right candidate and Sunak's lame attempt to derail her as a former LD and remainer will only make them more determined to back her.

    Badenoch had a quiet evening, but even without that after the impressive opening rounds I feel like the MPs will have been thinking about her lack of experience over the weekend. I think she and Tugendhat will both suffer as their backers ponder what the point is of continuing to back them when they clearly will not be in the running much longer, so I think some of hers will drift away.


  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,886
    Tories to play Coronation Chicken to stop Sunak
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,928
    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    kle4 said:

    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.

    So did 15% of the audience, but thems the poll numbers.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.

    So did 15% of the audience, but thems the poll numbers.
    Indeed. No standout winner though really. Sunak with some clear water between him and the others, but its a river not an ocean.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,886
    edited July 2022
    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    The Tories real problem is that their membership is so mentalist that they can't see this. If they are very very lucky the PMs will remove her from consideration.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    FWIW, Labour supporters don't especially want her either. There's only so far I can push enjoying watching the Tories fuck things up before I become seriously concerned that people are going to freeze or starve this winter.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 122,658
    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,037
    FPT:
    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    Wait.

    Who said that the BoJ did a great job keeping inflation low? That's a spectacularly moronic comment.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    kle4 said:

    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.

    So did 15% of the audience, but thems the poll numbers.
    Indeed. No standout winner though really. Sunak with some clear water between him and the others, but its a river not an ocean.
    The question is: was that because no one stood out, or was the audience just seriously unimpressed with any of them? Is there a sentiment tracker appended to that?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,037
    FPT:

    I was recently watching Stephen Kinnock at a Britain in Changing Europe event. Interesting that he was against any kind of regulatory divergence with the EU. So although Labour's policy is NOT to rejoin the single market and customs union they want us to comply with all the rules anyway. Presumably this is so we can rejoin the SM and CU at some point without too much difficulty.

    Before you mock him it isn't clear that the conservative party has much of an idea either. We left because we didn't want to be subjugated to the EU's rules. However we'll happily copy whatever rules they have and may also introduce in future so we can trade easily with them. So we have inflicted a substantial amount of economic pain on ourselves for effectively nothing. We do have control of migration policy now but the response at the moment is to import essential workers from outside of Europe to replace the ones who have gone home to Spain etc. I'm not sure this is what leavers had in mind.

    Do we want to chart our own path or not? And I notice there has been almost no talk in the Tory leadership debate about Northern Ireland. I would have thought that with Johnson, the man who flat out lied to them, removed from power it might be slightly easier to resolve the internal border issue. Perhaps we'll just continue with the 'we'll threaten a trade war if you insist on us sticking to the agreement we signed' approach.

    I have no problem with regulatory divergence, but it is worth noting that there is likely to be only a very small market for products that don't comply with FCC, UL and CE standards.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    Mordaunt made part of her appeal that only she had won a former Labour seat, and that only she could win the next election. Sunak simply has to upend that if he is to have any chance with members, make them see they may not be enthusiastic, but only he can win.

    I'm not sure he can do that.

    Against Truss it may not matter as I don't think she will argue only she can win, she will campaign to be as pure a tory as ever existed.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,479
    edited July 2022
    If Badenoch goes out, most of her supporters will move to Truss and Truss will be one of the two to go through to the membership. I'm not sure whether the other one will be Sunak or Mordaunt.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,295
    On topic, the polling is hardly overwhelmingly conclusive, is it?

    It’s still basically, “Hmm, not sure.”
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,037
    kle4 said:

    Andy_JS said:

    kle4 said:

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    Why do you think Truss will go up and Badenoch down?
    Truss has received endorsements from Braverman and other significant Brexity types, and her performance was punchy and confident, very much framing it as her vs Sunak. I think it will have reassured that wing she is the right candidate and Sunak's lame attempt to derail her as a former LD and remainer will only make them more determined to back her.

    Badenoch had a quiet evening, but even without that after the impressive opening rounds I feel like the MPs will have been thinking about her lack of experience over the weekend. I think she and Tugendhat will both suffer as their backers ponder what the point is of continuing to back them when they clearly will not be in the running much longer, so I think some of hers will drift away.


    TT's power will never be as great as it is today and tomorrow. His withdrawing from the race and giving an endorsement has the power to potentially ensure a top two finish for any of Liz, Rishi and Penny.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    The actual detail of what she said I'd regard as largely irrelevant.

    She won, relative to Mordaunt, in my eyes because she seemed the most anti-Sunak, had no major presentational problems, and Mordaunt seemed oddly subdued.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,492
    Andy_JS said:

    If Badenoch goes out, most of her backers will support Truss and Truss will be one of the two to go through to the membership. I'm not sure whether the other one will be Sunak or Mordaunt.

    Nah, she and they will endorse Rishi, they are singing from the same hymn sheet as Sunak on tax and spending.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,295
    edited July 2022
    rcs1000 said:

    FPT:

    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    Wait.

    Who said that the BoJ did a great job keeping inflation low? That's a spectacularly moronic comment.
    The Truss. I was hoping she’d say the Swiss Central Bank.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,117
    edited July 2022
    I'll be amazed if Kemi and Tugendhat are not out in the next round. One or both may be back in the future, though.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,479
    edited July 2022
    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    These are the voters who matter. Tory MPs take note when voting tomorrow.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    rcs1000 said:

    kle4 said:

    Andy_JS said:

    kle4 said:

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    Why do you think Truss will go up and Badenoch down?
    Truss has received endorsements from Braverman and other significant Brexity types, and her performance was punchy and confident, very much framing it as her vs Sunak. I think it will have reassured that wing she is the right candidate and Sunak's lame attempt to derail her as a former LD and remainer will only make them more determined to back her.

    Badenoch had a quiet evening, but even without that after the impressive opening rounds I feel like the MPs will have been thinking about her lack of experience over the weekend. I think she and Tugendhat will both suffer as their backers ponder what the point is of continuing to back them when they clearly will not be in the running much longer, so I think some of hers will drift away.


    TT's power will never be as great as it is today and tomorrow. His withdrawing from the race and giving an endorsement has the power to potentially ensure a top two finish for any of Liz, Rishi and Penny.
    So, endorse PM to exclude Lizzie.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 53,755
    For the reasons I have given before I think Kemi will back Sunak. She seems to have very good memories of working with him in the Treasury and there is a lot of mutual respect. Whether her supporters will follow her is less certain but some will.
  • MikeLMikeL Posts: 7,698
    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    This reinforces the point that membership support for Truss isn't that deep - she does worst vs Badenoch.

    I still think after a campaign there is every chance the members vote Sunak over Truss.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,492
    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.

    So did 15% of the audience, but thems the poll numbers.
    Indeed. No standout winner though really. Sunak with some clear water between him and the others, but its a river not an ocean.
    The question is: was that because no one stood out, or was the audience just seriously unimpressed with any of them? Is there a sentiment tracker appended to that?
    There was no studio audience I don't think
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    Sunak as PM and Badenoch as CoE actually would not frighten me as much as might be expected. I think they might just steer us through choppy waters without the dreadful damage that Truss would inflict.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    IshmaelZ said:

    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    OnboardG1 said:

    kle4 said:

    Bit harsh on Truss. I thought she spanked Mordaunt as the leading Anti-Sunak candidate.

    So did 15% of the audience, but thems the poll numbers.
    Indeed. No standout winner though really. Sunak with some clear water between him and the others, but its a river not an ocean.
    The question is: was that because no one stood out, or was the audience just seriously unimpressed with any of them? Is there a sentiment tracker appended to that?
    There was no studio audience I don't think
    Referring to the selected audience that Opinium had as a panel, sorry wasn't clear.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,552
    kle4 said:

    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    The actual detail of what she said I'd regard as largely irrelevant.

    She won, relative to Mordaunt, in my eyes because she seemed the most anti-Sunak, had no major presentational problems, and Mordaunt seemed oddly subdued.
    That doesn't match the post debate poll. Mordaunt beat Truss, albeit narrower than last time.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    I know who "mad" is, but who is "terrible" and who is "difficult"?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,087
    Andy_JS said:

    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    These are the voters who matter. Tory MPs take note when voting tomorrow.
    The Tory membership had Mordaunt in the lead only two days ago. The next survey won't have Badenoch nearly as high after tonight's debate performance.
    MPs know these characters way better than all of us so they shouldn't be too influenced by surveys of members who barely know them.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    Just to stick my neck out on prediction again.

    Tory contest prediction 17 July

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,605

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Good stuff Labour.
  • jonny83jonny83 Posts: 1,270
    kle4 said:

    Mordaunt made part of her appeal that only she had won a former Labour seat, and that only she could win the next election. Sunak simply has to upend that if he is to have any chance with members, make them see they may not be enthusiastic, but only he can win.

    I'm not sure he can do that.

    Against Truss it may not matter as I don't think she will argue only she can win, she will campaign to be as pure a tory as ever existed.

    I think she can get a lot of appeal if she can get to the membership vote stage. She has won a Labour seat, and if she can sell the belief that politics is broken and needs to change especially in the Conservative party following Boris then that's powerful stuff.

    Right know I don't think she's going to make it, Sunak will get the MPs and so will Truss. But in two years time when they need someone to lead them in opposition she could be a good bet. She would have to really take the time to learn a few things these next two years, develop her policies more and establish her stance on certain issues. Not an unrealistic prospect at all.
  • MrEdMrEd Posts: 5,578
    Andy_JS said:

    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    These are the voters who matter. Tory MPs take note when voting tomorrow.
    I suspect this is what most of us on here are missing about the Badenoch vote. The MPs voting tomorrow will have that in their head more than the debate.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    Foxy said:

    kle4 said:

    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    The actual detail of what she said I'd regard as largely irrelevant.

    She won, relative to Mordaunt, in my eyes because she seemed the most anti-Sunak, had no major presentational problems, and Mordaunt seemed oddly subdued.
    That doesn't match the post debate poll. Mordaunt beat Truss, albeit narrower than last time.
    That's why I said 'in my eyes'. Moonshine clearly felt Truss did poorly too.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,552

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    That is a great little tweet.
  • MrEdMrEd Posts: 5,578

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718
    edited July 2022
    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    Not just a dream for Labour. SNP, SG and PC will be overjoyed. As indeed you imply.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    I do wonder if part of this is truculent members being more Anti-Sunak than mightbe the case once we get to the members stage, as they seek to express their displeasure at him being in the final two, but he cannot rely on that and it must concern him.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,492
    edited July 2022
    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You're nearly as obsessed with race as the GOP.

    You're so woke.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    edited July 2022
    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    Er, even were that so that doesn't make any sense in the context of the tweet, since that was not an attack on Badenoch specifically, it was an attack on the Tories as a whole by slagging off the entire field. It merely used a convenient quote of hers.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Jonathan said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Good stuff Labour.
    Infantile

    And always remember who you are batting for: Mogadon Man. Just think how this contest would have looked in 1995 with a LOTO who was not one of the undead.
  • RochdalePioneersRochdalePioneers Posts: 28,886

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You're nearly as obsessed with race as the GOP.

    You're so woke.
    As are quite a lot of Labour activists. A female black migrant as Tory MP would have had their heads explode.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,073
    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    Gosh. And the MPs are going to exclude her from the run-off. The members will be livid. Imagine going to a restaurant and the dish you want - the one you've been really looking forward to ordering - is 'off'.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,332
    edited July 2022
    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.
  • StuartDicksonStuartDickson Posts: 12,146
    Carnyx said:

    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    Not just a dream for Labour. SNP, SG and PC will be overjoyed. As indeed you imply.
    Truss is definitely our dream result, but I just don’t think we’re going to get that lucky.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    kinabalu said:

    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    Gosh. And the MPs are going to exclude her from the run-off. The members will be livid. Imagine going to a restaurant and the dish you want - the one you've been really looking forward to ordering - is 'off'.
    Nah. They had barely heard of her 2 weeks ago, will retain some fond memorie of her 2 weeks from now, but will move on.

    The chef said they were out of the beef, but the pork was still available, and you end up loving it.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,087
    kinabalu said:

    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    Gosh. And the MPs are going to exclude her from the run-off. The members will be livid. Imagine going to a restaurant and the dish you want - the one you've been really looking forward to ordering - is 'off'.
    I wouldn't pay too much attention if I was an MP, the membership wanted Mordaunt half an hour ago. Now they're right off her.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,332

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Rather naughty, but quick and slick.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,745
    Betfair next prime minister
    2.36 Rishi Sunak 42%
    3.4 Penny Mordaunt 29%
    4.7 Liz Truss 21%
    13.5 Kemi Badenoch 7%
    140 Tom Tugendhat
    220 Dominic Raab

    Next Conservative leader
    2.38 Rishi Sunak 42%
    3.3 Penny Mordaunt 30%
    4.5 Liz Truss 22%
    14 Kemi Badenoch 7%
    170 Tom Tugendhat

    To be in final two
    1.06 Rishi Sunak 94%
    1.7 Penny Mordaunt 59%
    2.46 Liz Truss 41%
    10 Kemi Badenoch 10%
    100 Tom Tugendhat
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,287
    Don't know how HYUFD feels, but my sense (certainly talking to folks on Friday in now super marginal Esher and Walton) is that Sunak can beat Truss. His Thatcherite fiscally responsible line will command a (grudging) respect from members.

    Not predicting that outcome yet, but the notion that Liz will be the inevitable victor is fanciful.

    PS And being on the same side as Dominic Raab is slightly perturbing... but needs must.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718

    Carnyx said:

    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    Not just a dream for Labour. SNP, SG and PC will be overjoyed. As indeed you imply.
    Truss is definitely our dream result, but I just don’t think we’re going to get that lucky.
    Quite. Admittedly somewhat to my relief, given she would probably start a nuclear war just to improve her postings on Conservative Home, and generate a cosplay Maggie set against a mushroom cloud or three.

    Hint: MOPP 4 noddy suits don't do a great deal for one's blonde hairstyle.
  • StuartDicksonStuartDickson Posts: 12,146
    Liz Truss would 'undermine the Union', say Scottish Tories

    THE Scottish Tories have insisted Liz Truss will undermine the Union if she becomes Prime Minister and set back the party's recovery north of the border.

    The six Scottish MPs and 31 MSPs are currently split on who to support in the leadership race, with West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine MP Andrew Bowie, Highland MSP Donald Cameron and mid-Scotland MSP Dean Lockhart throwing their weight behind Rishi Sunak, while others have chosen to support Penny Mordaunt including Berwickshire, Roxburgh, and Selkirk MP John Lamont and Glasgow MSP Annie Wells.

    The SNP maintains that all five candidates are out of tune with Scottish opinion and continue to deny democracy over a referendum, but some nationalists believe that a Truss victory and her association with Johnson would play most to their advantage.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/20284822.liz-truss-undermine-union-say-scottish-tories/
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,307

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    Like I said - blank canvas we projected our hopes and dreams onto.

    Now we see a few colours being added and they're not exactly Michaelangelo.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,518
    Sunak now a clear favourite on Betfair, 2.4. Mordaunt out to 3.45, Truss 4.7, Badenoch 14.5.

    That said, Sunak is almost sure to make the last 2, so 2.4 means he's not odds on yet. I really liked Badenoch and felt she could potentially reach beyond the Tories, but I agree with others that she's had her moment - enough for a good Cabinet seat, not more. I'd be surprised if she endorses Sunak but it might stop Truss if she did - otherwise I think Truss will edge it to the final 2.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,737
    rcs1000 said:

    FPT:

    moonshine said:

    Did all those saying Truss did better watch the same thing as me?! Does no one have anything to say about her praising the Bank of Japan for “keeping inflation low”? What a helmet. All those years round Cabinet and her grasp of economics is frighteningly poor.

    Wait.

    Who said that the BoJ did a great job keeping inflation low? That's a spectacularly moronic comment.
    That would be Liz Truss.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,552
    edited July 2022

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Rather naughty, but quick and slick.
    I liked the dying Magic Money Tree as a logo for it too. Very clever.


  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 62,958
    edited July 2022
    Good evening

    I have been readying for our trip to Scotland and the Caledonian canal and only caught the end of the debate

    Sunak seemed to be the best and I just find the rest very run of the mill

    While we are talking of hot weather, we lost a local 24 year old female paddle boarder in Conwy on Friday evening, notwithstanding all the efforts of the RNLI and the coastguard, my son and his colleagues rescued a father and son who had fallen out of their kayak and been in the sea for 40 minutes the night previously, and tonight they have been out to rescue a lilo floating out to sea with its occupant

    Indeed the coastguard are receiving numerous 999 calls at present, and people need to respect the sea and not put their lives at risk or the volunteer RNLI crews
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    Foxy said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Rather naughty, but quick and slick.
    I liked the dying Magic Money Tree as a logo for it too. Very clever.


    Yes, that was a good touch.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    JohnO said:

    Don't know how HYUFD feels, but my sense (certainly talking to folks on Friday in now super marginal Esher and Walton) is that Sunak can beat Truss. His Thatcherite fiscally responsible line will command a (grudging) respect from members.

    Not predicting that outcome yet, but the notion that Liz will be the inevitable victor is fanciful.

    PS And being on the same side as Dominic Raab is slightly perturbing... but needs must.

    I'd have put money on Raab backing the continuity Boris candidate rather than the traitor Sunak, as Boris and co clearly see him.

    I wonder if he was offered a good post, and the reason for that was to help with members to blunt the continuity Boris attacks - after all, Raab definitely was loyal to the end with Boris.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718

    Liz Truss would 'undermine the Union', say Scottish Tories

    THE Scottish Tories have insisted Liz Truss will undermine the Union if she becomes Prime Minister and set back the party's recovery north of the border.

    The six Scottish MPs and 31 MSPs are currently split on who to support in the leadership race, with West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine MP Andrew Bowie, Highland MSP Donald Cameron and mid-Scotland MSP Dean Lockhart throwing their weight behind Rishi Sunak, while others have chosen to support Penny Mordaunt including Berwickshire, Roxburgh, and Selkirk MP John Lamont and Glasgow MSP Annie Wells.

    The SNP maintains that all five candidates are out of tune with Scottish opinion and continue to deny democracy over a referendum, but some nationalists believe that a Truss victory and her association with Johnson would play most to their advantage.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/20284822.liz-truss-undermine-union-say-scottish-tories/

    Hehehehehee. *sprays coffee over keyboard*
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    edited July 2022
    Foxy said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Rather naughty, but quick and slick.
    I liked the dying Magic Money Tree as a logo for it too. Very clever.


    I'm not convinced that many people take in that the Tory logo is a tree. Nor are they, clearly, hence needing a label.
  • OnboardG1OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589

    Good evening

    I have been readying for our trip to Scotland and the Caledonian canal and only caught the end of the debate

    Sunak seemed to be the best and I just find the rest very run of the mill

    While we are talking of hot weather, we lost a local 24 year old female paddle boarder in Conwy on Friday evening, notwithstanding all the efforts of the RNLI and the coastguard, my son and his colleagues rescued a father and son who had fallen out of their kayak and been in the sea for 40 minutes the night previously, and tonight they have been out to rescue a lilo floating out to sea with its occupant

    Indeed the coastguard are receiving numerous 999 calls at present, and people need to respect the sea and not put their lives at risk or the volunteer RNLI crews

    We've had a lot of deaths in Scotland this year because of people getting into trouble in Loch Lomond and the like. Hot weather makes it worse.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718

    Good evening

    I have been readying for our trip to Scotland and the Caledonian canal and only caught the end of the debate

    Sunak seemed to be the best and I just find the rest very run of the mill

    While we are talking of hot weather, we lost a local 24 year old female paddle boarder in Conwy on Friday evening, notwithstanding all the efforts of the RNLI and the coastguard, my son and his colleagues rescued a father and son who had fallen out of their kayak and been in the sea for 40 minutes the night previously, and tonight they have been out to rescue a lilo floating out to sea with its occupant

    Indeed the coastguard are receiving numerous 999 calls at present, and people need to respect the sea and not put their lives at risk or the volunteer RNLI crews

    Absolutely right. Same with the mountain rescue folk.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,705
    Hilarious that Peston is writing along the lines of "god look at this Tory blue-on-blue" when it was basically the ITV-chosen format of the debate that encouraged that.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You're nearly as obsessed with race as the GOP.

    You're so woke.
    As are quite a lot of Labour activists. A female black migrant as Tory MP would have had their heads explode.
    Even so, better sooner than later, re female black migrant.
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,258
    Truss looks value at current odds no? Supposedly a bit ahead of rishi in 1:1 contest and perhaps a bit more likely to pick up support than Mordaunt.

    What am I missing?
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 62,958
    Carnyx said:

    Good evening

    I have been readying for our trip to Scotland and the Caledonian canal and only caught the end of the debate

    Sunak seemed to be the best and I just find the rest very run of the mill

    While we are talking of hot weather, we lost a local 24 year old female paddle boarder in Conwy on Friday evening, notwithstanding all the efforts of the RNLI and the coastguard, my son and his colleagues rescued a father and son who had fallen out of their kayak and been in the sea for 40 minutes the night previously, and tonight they have been out to rescue a lilo floating out to sea with its occupant

    Indeed the coastguard are receiving numerous 999 calls at present, and people need to respect the sea and not put their lives at risk or the volunteer RNLI crews

    Absolutely right. Same with the mountain rescue folk.
    Very much so
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 3,027

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    It’s all funny really - I started off as “yes, Mordaunt looks good” to coming around to the fact that Sunak looks the best bet

    Having thought debates never made a difference, they obviously have here
  • MrEdMrEd Posts: 5,578
    edited July 2022
    kle4 said:

    Just to stick my neck out on prediction again.

    Tory contest prediction 17 July

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    FPT:

    Not sure about this.

    Take a look at Nick's summary about how well each one came across personality-wise. I'm not saying Nick is right (and there seems to be a wide range of opinions on her about who did well) but he is an ex-MP and so may have a better understanding of how MPs look at these things. I thought his comment about Badenoch was interesting in that she seems to be looking to broaden her appeal. She almost certainly will benefit from the Con Home survey released today. Truss did enough tonight to probably stop the doubts but I don't see why Sunak would pick up so many votes as his performance tonight was pretty much like his performance on Friday.

    TT definitely looks out after tonight. The one I would question about is Penny M. I didn't think she was that great and her closing statement was a bit weak. I can see a few of her backers thinking that she will never get over the self-ID when it comes to the membership and, together with not that inspiring a performance, wondering should they switch.

    I think the only safe assumption I would make about this race at the moment is that TT will be out tomorrow.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,492
    rkrkrk said:

    Truss looks value at current odds no? Supposedly a bit ahead of rishi in 1:1 contest and perhaps a bit more likely to pick up support than Mordaunt.

    What am I missing?

    She's a Lib Dem Remainer that will go down badly with the Tory members.

    Then add in her republicanism.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,552
    kle4 said:

    JohnO said:

    Don't know how HYUFD feels, but my sense (certainly talking to folks on Friday in now super marginal Esher and Walton) is that Sunak can beat Truss. His Thatcherite fiscally responsible line will command a (grudging) respect from members.

    Not predicting that outcome yet, but the notion that Liz will be the inevitable victor is fanciful.

    PS And being on the same side as Dominic Raab is slightly perturbing... but needs must.

    I'd have put money on Raab backing the continuity Boris candidate rather than the traitor Sunak, as Boris and co clearly see him.

    I wonder if he was offered a good post, and the reason for that was to help with members to blunt the continuity Boris attacks - after all, Raab definitely was loyal to the end with Boris.
    Raab was shoved aside so Truss could get FCO.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,518
    edited July 2022
    FWIW prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 110 (+9)
    Mordaunt - 84 (+1)
    Truss - 89 (+25)
    Badenoch - 50 (+1)
    Tugendhat - 22 (-9)
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    kinabalu said:

    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile ConHome finds Badenoch trounces Sunak 60% to 34% and Mordaunt 59% to 31%.

    Badenoch also easily beats Truss 61% to 31%.

    However she likely goes out before the last 3

    https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/17/the-complete-run-offs-from-our-next-tory-leader-survey-badenoch-first-truss-second-sunak-third-mordaunt-fourth-tugendhat-fifth/

    Gosh. And the MPs are going to exclude her from the run-off. The members will be livid. Imagine going to a restaurant and the dish you want - the one you've been really looking forward to ordering - is 'off'.
    Do the members matter? They are predominantly nutters, they are only worth 25 per head per year, and it is in most cases very easy for individual MPs to persuade their own constituency parties that their own individual vote (which is secret anyway) was right but thwarted by the herd.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,342
    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    Not just a dream for Labour. SNP, SG and PC will be overjoyed. As indeed you imply.
    Truss is definitely our dream result, but I just don’t think we’re going to get that lucky.
    Quite. Admittedly somewhat to my relief, given she would probably start a nuclear war just to improve her postings on Conservative Home, and generate a cosplay Maggie set against a mushroom cloud or three.

    Hint: MOPP 4 noddy suits don't do a great deal for one's blonde hairstyle.
    I don't get the dressing up. It's so thuddingly literal. It's not 'power dressing for the 21st century' like Theresa May and her tennis ball necklaces, it's literally 'I'm going to wear an identical Maggie blouse'. Does she think it's subtle? She'll be doing the Maggie walk with the inclined head and carrying her handbag by the crook of her arm next.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718
    ydoethur said:

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    Like I said - blank canvas we projected our hopes and dreams onto.

    Now we see a few colours being added and they're not exactly Michaelangelo.
    School of Jackson Pollock?
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 3,027

    Liz Truss would 'undermine the Union', say Scottish Tories

    THE Scottish Tories have insisted Liz Truss will undermine the Union if she becomes Prime Minister and set back the party's recovery north of the border.

    The six Scottish MPs and 31 MSPs are currently split on who to support in the leadership race, with West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine MP Andrew Bowie, Highland MSP Donald Cameron and mid-Scotland MSP Dean Lockhart throwing their weight behind Rishi Sunak, while others have chosen to support Penny Mordaunt including Berwickshire, Roxburgh, and Selkirk MP John Lamont and Glasgow MSP Annie Wells.

    The SNP maintains that all five candidates are out of tune with Scottish opinion and continue to deny democracy over a referendum, but some nationalists believe that a Truss victory and her association with Johnson would play most to their advantage.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/20284822.liz-truss-undermine-union-say-scottish-tories/

    Of course she will - she’s as dull as dishwater
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,117
    edited July 2022
    ydoethur said:

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    Like I said - blank canvas we projected our hopes and dreams onto.

    Now we see a few colours being added and they're not exactly Michaelangelo.
    I don't agree here. I think she has real skills as an emotional communicator none of the others have, but I also think Sunak is in marginally the better position for now. The idea from another poster that she might be the most ready in two years' time, I find quite plausible.
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,287
    kle4 said:

    JohnO said:

    Don't know how HYUFD feels, but my sense (certainly talking to folks on Friday in now super marginal Esher and Walton) is that Sunak can beat Truss. His Thatcherite fiscally responsible line will command a (grudging) respect from members.

    Not predicting that outcome yet, but the notion that Liz will be the inevitable victor is fanciful.

    PS And being on the same side as Dominic Raab is slightly perturbing... but needs must.

    I'd have put money on Raab backing the continuity Boris candidate rather than the traitor Sunak, as Boris and co clearly see him.

    I wonder if he was offered a good post, and the reason for that was to help with members to blunt the continuity Boris attacks - after all, Raab definitely was loyal to the end with Boris.
    Speculation in the Sunday Times that he might be Home Secretary in a Rishi govt.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,718

    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    TimS said:

    FPT

    I think this is shaping up to be a nightmare for most of us but a dream for Labour.

    Mordaunt really seems to have fluffed her lines. Badenoch won’t quite make the cut, so it’s going to end up being a runoff between dull and flawed but fundamentally fairly professional Rishi, and Truss.

    The membership will vote for Liz. She will prove to be every bit as bad as her predecessor, and surrounded by the same clowns. Meanwhile the economy will get worse as will relations with the EU and the coherence of the Union, The public will think “bugger this for a laugh” and seriously shit on
    the Tories in 2024.

    Out of all the candidates, the one who will generate zero polling bounce or even a new nadir is Truss.

    Not just a dream for Labour. SNP, SG and PC will be overjoyed. As indeed you imply.
    Truss is definitely our dream result, but I just don’t think we’re going to get that lucky.
    Quite. Admittedly somewhat to my relief, given she would probably start a nuclear war just to improve her postings on Conservative Home, and generate a cosplay Maggie set against a mushroom cloud or three.

    Hint: MOPP 4 noddy suits don't do a great deal for one's blonde hairstyle.
    I don't get the dressing up. It's so thuddingly literal. It's not 'power dressing for the 21st century' like Theresa May and her tennis ball necklaces, it's literally 'I'm going to wear an identical Maggie blouse'. Does she think it's subtle? She'll be doing the Maggie walk with the inclined head and carrying her handbag by the crook of her arm next.
    It is, more than a bit. That bow-tie thingy ( @MoonRabbit would know what it is, but I'm only a poor ignorant male) was so blatant.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,479
    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.


  • MrEdMrEd Posts: 5,578

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You're nearly as obsessed with race as the GOP.

    You're so woke.
    Totally, it's my middle name.

    But a Black Tory PM would still cause many Labour activists to froth.
  • MrEdMrEd Posts: 5,578

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.


    The irony meter just exploded.
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  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,840
    rcs1000 said:

    kle4 said:

    Andy_JS said:

    kle4 said:

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    Why do you think Truss will go up and Badenoch down?
    Truss has received endorsements from Braverman and other significant Brexity types, and her performance was punchy and confident, very much framing it as her vs Sunak. I think it will have reassured that wing she is the right candidate and Sunak's lame attempt to derail her as a former LD and remainer will only make them more determined to back her.

    Badenoch had a quiet evening, but even without that after the impressive opening rounds I feel like the MPs will have been thinking about her lack of experience over the weekend. I think she and Tugendhat will both suffer as their backers ponder what the point is of continuing to back them when they clearly will not be in the running much longer, so I think some of hers will drift away.


    TT's power will never be as great as it is today and tomorrow. His withdrawing from the race and giving an endorsement has the power to potentially ensure a top two finish for any of Liz, Rishi and Penny.
    Yes, but he’d look an idiot backing Truss, and although I am sure he could work with Sunak, endorsing him would be a stretch given his ‘clean handed outsider’ pitch on the clown, so realistically he can only come out for Mordaunt.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,737

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    It’s all funny really - I started off as “yes, Mordaunt looks good” to coming around to the fact that Sunak looks the best bet

    Having thought debates never made a difference, they obviously have here
    Sunak has been giving every impression of having never turned up to the economics lectures during his PPE degree. He’s still banging on about “the nation’s credit card” and indicating he wants to balance the books even during a recession.

    Osborne was heavily criticised for trying to bring down the deficit a full 2-3 years after the crash, Sunak says he wants to do it during what will likely prove the most difficult fiscal year for growth in the next decade.

    I hope it’s just messaging and he knows better. But he talks about it with the closest he gets to passion. And that should be more than a little worrying for us all.

  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,258

    rkrkrk said:

    Truss looks value at current odds no? Supposedly a bit ahead of rishi in 1:1 contest and perhaps a bit more likely to pick up support than Mordaunt.

    What am I missing?

    She's a Lib Dem Remainer that will go down badly with the Tory members.

    Then add in her republicanism.
    Do you think she makes final 2?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994

    Hilarious that Peston is writing along the lines of "god look at this Tory blue-on-blue" when it was basically the ITV-chosen format of the debate that encouraged that.

    Besides, it's what you want and expect at a time like this.

    I really feel like media people are trying to hype disagreements over tax and some minor personal sniping as more significant than is the case.
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  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.
    Linguistic oddity, that. "Nasty piece of work" used to be the expression, pow itself being neutral and good, bad and indifferent pieces of work being on the cards.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 95,994
    MrEd said:

    kle4 said:

    Just to stick my neck out on prediction again.

    Tory contest prediction 17 July

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    FPT:

    Not sure about this.

    Take a look at Nick's summary about how well each one came across personality-wise. I'm not saying Nick is right (and there seems to be a wide range of opinions on her about who did well) but he is an ex-MP and so may have a better understanding of how MPs look at these things. I thought his comment about Badenoch was interesting in that she seems to be looking to broaden her appeal. She almost certainly will benefit from the Con Home survey released today. Truss did enough tonight to probably stop the doubts but I don't see why Sunak would pick up so many votes as his performance tonight was pretty much like his performance on Friday.

    TT definitely looks out after tonight. The one I would question about is Penny M. I didn't think she was that great and her closing statement was a bit weak. I can see a few of her backers thinking that she will never get over the self-ID when it comes to the membership and, together with not that inspiring a performance, wondering should they switch.

    I think the only safe assumption I would make about this race at the moment is that TT will be out tomorrow.
    I'm assuming Sunak picks up some from the bleedage from Tugendhat and some from Mordaunt, though she picks ups enough elsewhere to still move forward slightly.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    IanB2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    kle4 said:

    Andy_JS said:

    kle4 said:

    So, second round was:

    Sunak - 101
    Mordaunt - 83
    Truss - 64
    Badenoch - 49
    Tugendhat - 32
    Braverman - 27

    Prediction for the next round:

    Sunak - 116 (+13)
    Mordaunt - 88 (+5)
    Truss - 84 (+20)
    Badenoch - 45 (-4)
    Tugendhat - 25 (-7)

    Penny loses the big mo but just retains her place. Badenoch and Tom run out of steam.

    Tom then endorses Mordaunt, and she slightly increases her lead over Truss.

    Badenoch's support then splits mostly for Truss and some for Sunak, putting Sunak and Truss in the final two by a gnat's whisker.

    Prediction for the fourth round:

    Sunak - 119 (+6)
    Mordaunt - 104 (+16)
    Truss - 92 (+8)
    Badenoch - 40 (-5)

    Prediction for the final round:

    Sunak - 133 (+14)
    Mordaunt - 110 (+6)
    Truss - 112 (+20)

    Why do you think Truss will go up and Badenoch down?
    Truss has received endorsements from Braverman and other significant Brexity types, and her performance was punchy and confident, very much framing it as her vs Sunak. I think it will have reassured that wing she is the right candidate and Sunak's lame attempt to derail her as a former LD and remainer will only make them more determined to back her.

    Badenoch had a quiet evening, but even without that after the impressive opening rounds I feel like the MPs will have been thinking about her lack of experience over the weekend. I think she and Tugendhat will both suffer as their backers ponder what the point is of continuing to back them when they clearly will not be in the running much longer, so I think some of hers will drift away.


    TT's power will never be as great as it is today and tomorrow. His withdrawing from the race and giving an endorsement has the power to potentially ensure a top two finish for any of Liz, Rishi and Penny.
    Yes, but he’d look an idiot backing Truss, and although I am sure he could work with Sunak, endorsing him would be a stretch given his ‘clean handed outsider’ pitch on the clown, so realistically he can only come out for Mordaunt.
    Same applies to Truss. his "clean skin" shtick means it has to be PM or Kemi.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,117
    edited July 2022
    moonshine said:

    I just don't understand Mordaunt-mania. Having watched both debates, I've concluded she's clueless - just producing a random word salad, and showing no depth of understanding of anything at all. I strongly suspect that if you transcribed every answer she gave and read it out of context, it would read as gibberish. For this reason, I suspect Tom T will, reluctantly, endorse Sunak rather than Mordaunt, if he endorses anybody. He won't be keen on style over substance.

    And I say this as a Labour chap who, if asked a week ago, would have said: a) PM was my preferred PM out of the candidates, and b) PM would be the one Labour feared most.

    Not any more. I neither want her as PM, nor fear her as an opponent.

    It’s all funny really - I started off as “yes, Mordaunt looks good” to coming around to the fact that Sunak looks the best bet

    Having thought debates never made a difference, they obviously have here
    Sunak has been giving every impression of having never turned up to the economics lectures during his PPE degree. He’s still banging on about “the nation’s credit card” and indicating he wants to balance the books even during a recession.

    Osborne was heavily criticised for trying to bring down the deficit a full 2-3 years after the crash, Sunak says he wants to do it during what will likely prove the most difficult fiscal year for growth in the next decade.

    I hope it’s just messaging and he knows better. But he talks about it with the closest he gets to passion. And that should be more than a little worrying for us all.

    Indeed. I also think Mordaunt's stance against this in the debate was correct, and the sort of position that may lead to Tugendhat lending her some votes, despite his professed and more public position of extreme caution.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,332
    MrEd said:

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You're nearly as obsessed with race as the GOP.

    You're so woke.
    Totally, it's my middle name.

    But a Black Tory PM would still cause many Labour activists to froth.
    No, it really wouldn't.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,342

    MrEd said:

    I always said Badenoch was overrated and way too inexperienced.

    No surprise Labour are using her responses in tonight's debates in their attack ads.

    https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1548751253068562433

    Or maybe they don't like the idea of the Conservatives having a black female PM.

    You really are a piece of work, throwing around groundless accusations of racism.


    Who does he think he is, Jolyon?
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    Carnyx said:

    Johnson next permanent role

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    Ambassador to the EU 80/1
    Commissioner for Standards in Public Life 100/1
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