27 funny tweets to bring you up to date with the Tory leadership race
15.
The other candidates should relax. Since when have the Conservative grassroots ever voted for a leader who's patently unqualified for the job?
— Stephen McGann💙 (@StephenMcGann) July 13, 2022
16.
BREAKING: After three consecutive disastrous Tory prime ministers, the UK is trying to solve its problems with a fourth consecutive disastrous Tory prime minister. I really think it might work this time x
— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCFLauraKT) July 13, 2022
17.
It’s funny how every leadership candidate instinctively understands that all people care about is cutting taxes and being anti-woke, rather than tedious things like the cost of living crisis, the NHS, child poverty or the Brexit shitshow.#ToryLeadershipRace
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) July 14, 2022
18.
Just heard David ‘Dave’ Davis on radio 5 saying that Penny Mordaunt is “very popular in Scotland and with young people” and I can’t help thinking this is probably the first Scotland and young people have heard of it.
— GlennA (@GlennAirey) July 12, 2022
19.
Only the Tories can free us from the exhaustion & incompetence of the current government pic.twitter.com/c8slRyOPrU
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) July 13, 2022
20.
Zahawi missing a trick here.
Who else can offer warm stable government ?— Steve Scott (@scott_steve) July 13, 2022
21.
Are Mordaunt's male supporters called 'Guys for the Penny'?
— Mark (@worgztheowl) July 14, 2022
22.
The great tragedy is that we may never see Suella Braverman defeat the Blairite Leftist Consensus.
— Paul Sinha (@paulsinha) July 14, 2022
23.
Suella Braverman can now return to her day job of being terrible at her job
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) July 14, 2022
24.
Lord Frost saying Penny Mordaunt is "not up to the job" and given his track record he is an expert in being not up to the job
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@davemacladd) July 14, 2022
25.
Another Tory leaves the contest pic.twitter.com/y3EeVcqKtJ
— Paul (@bingowings14) July 14, 2022
26.
can they not make the next round of the #ToryLeadershipContest more like red light green light in Squid Game just to zhuzh it up a bit
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@davemacladd) July 13, 2022
27.
The human body has 7 trillion nerves and Liz Truss manages to get on every single one of them.
— Otto Von Jizzmark (@Ottojizzmark) July 14, 2022
Paul Sinha had a suggestion that could have increased political engagement by several thousand per cent.
They should have just called it The Biggest Brexiteer, got Graham Norton to present, JRM and GoNads to judge rounds like "How much do you hate Brie?" "What's that in inches?" And "Trans or Man?".
— Paul Sinha (@paulsinha) July 14, 2022
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The Tory leadership race is part circus, part cattle market, all farce – 28 favourite tweets
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