Not So Clverley

[New Judge]

It is suggested that “tactical voting” may have led to the downfall of James Cleverley in the Tory Leadership contest:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/09/james-cleverly-tory-plots-losing-conservative-leadership/

(It’s a Telegraph article so hit “escape” as the page is loading to avoid the paywall)

[ToraToraTora]

Well it's a form of natural selection really, do we want someone stupid enough to do this as party leader?

[New Judge]

Or even Cleverly!

Mr Cleverly had 39 votes in round 4 of the ballot. In the final round he needed just 2 of the 20 votes which had been cast for Tom Tugendhat (who was eliminated in that round) to be sure of making It to the members’ ballot. However, not only did he not gain those two votes, he actually lost two.

It is believed that MPs were more interested in eliminating Mr Cleverly’s closest rival than they were in ensuring he went through. So who is the architect of this fiasco? Step forward none other than Grant Shapps, former MP and Secretary of State for most things before  being unfrocked in the GE. He was the chairman of the Cleverly campaign, supposedly “master of the spreadsheet”, whose job it was to make sure this sort of thing could not happen.

Mr Shapps didn’t need a spreadsheet. All he needed to do was to ensure Mr Cleverly secured 41 votes. How do such idiots make it to the top tier of government?

[nicebloke1]

How do such idiots make it to top tier of government? I've spent many years wondering just that. I'm pretty sure I will go to my grave still wondering :0)

[davebro3]

And now the moderate Tory members are binning their ballot papers because Kemi & Jenrick are both too right wing😂

You just couldn't make it up!

[gulliver1]

This grovelling bunch of defeated Tory politicians couldn't even organise a pee up in a Brewery🤣

[davebro3]

not like SKS's beer & curry party during covid eh?

[gulliver1]

They couldn't even organise a secret Pee up in Downing St "Partygate" Without being discovered .Bunch of Amateurs

[Canary42]

A far-fetched conspiracy theory IMHO.

[Khandro]

Ockham's razor states that, among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

In other words; the simplest explanation is usually right! 

 In this case - not enough MPs wanted him as their leader. 🙂