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ComeOnYouOs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:41 pm Mordaunt is not the right wing media's choice, so they were always going to do a job on her.
They want Truss, so she'll get an easy ride even though she's thick as mince.
As an aside, I am surprised in this digital age, that the right wing press still seems to have a lot of power.

StillSpike wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:59 pm

ComeOnYouOs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:41 pm Mordaunt is not the right wing media's choice, so they were always going to do a job on her.
They want Truss, so she'll get an easy ride even though she's thick as mince.
As an aside, I am surprised in this digital age, that the right wing press still seems to have a lot of power.

I suspect that's because on broadcast news programmes, they still have "What the papers say" or "News Review" and so we're still subject to the slant on the news from the press barons.

It's extraordinary that the broadcasters seem so willing to gift that power to them, and yet they do.

Beradogs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:56 pm Kemi into 7-1. Go on girl.

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:42 pm Still way to early to say, Mourdant has gone from odds on to over 7/1 in 5 days after being found out multiple times

Truss/Sunak are basically the same odds, probably because Sunak is a polished performer and Truss is anything but inspiring.

Don't underestimate the Truss is a remainer/former Lib Dem angle either

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:07 pm Mourdant was the one that spooked the Labour leadership most. Truss becoming pm would be a real watershed moment in the country's decline into fantasy, absurdity and irrelevance. Can't quite bring myself to believe the Tory membership will be bonkers enough to actually do it, but the fact it's even a possibility.

C&c quids in anyway.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:07 pm Mourdant was the one that spooked the Labour leadership most. Truss becoming pm would be a real watershed moment in the country's decline into fantasy, absurdity and irrelevance. Can't quite bring myself to believe the Tory membership will be bonkers enough to actually do it, but the fact it's even a possibility.

C&c quids in anyway.

CEB wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:52 pm I suspect it’ll be Sunak now. The next GE seems like Labour’s to lose now

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:59 pm

CEB wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:52 pm I suspect it’ll be Sunak now. The next GE seems like Labour’s to lose now

Somehow Tories still odds on to get most seats

Guess the starting point for Labour being at an 85 year low may be a factor

CEB wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:06 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:59 pm

CEB wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:52 pm I suspect it’ll be Sunak now. The next GE seems like Labour’s to lose now

Somehow Tories still odds on to get most seats

Guess the starting point for Labour being at an 85 year low may be a factor

Not that this is ever a great conversation starter here, but considering that Truss, who is exceptional only for her mediocrity (at best) is likely to become prime minister within 18 months of publicly committing to scrap reform of the gender recognition act, and that Penny Mordant’s campaign faltered once it was shown that she was a weather vane on the subject, it might actually finally be worth some people actually working out what they think on the issue, because it isn’t going away. Truss is thick as mince but there’s a live political issue where she can currently make Labour look like fantasists. I wonder if Labour will stop telling people not to talk about it and work out a coherent position? I wouldn’t bet money on it, when Dawn Butler has publicly said “babies are born without a sex” and Stella Creasy says “I’m one of those women who believe women can have a penis”