Suella Braverman or Priti Patel as Conservative leader ‘disaster for the party and country’

“We managed to toxify ourselves. It took a long time to detoxify ourselves. Common sense would say, don't do that again.”
Outgoing Tory MP Sir Bob Neill says it would be “a disaster” for the Conservative Party to lurch to the right if it loses the election and installs someone like Suella Braverman or Priti Patel as leader.
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[@chrispalmer7893]

Oh, stand up and applaud this man's bravery. Takes real courage to wait until it's clear that it's all over before speaking out against Boris. Bravo...

[@edmurth]

Isn’t amazing how the hours and the workload is so much, makes you wonder where they find the time for their 2nd and 3rd jobs.

[@alexvince461]

Who created this dreadful environment of division and hatred, oh yes you mr tory, its practically your partys only ability

[@user-dt3iv5oc6f]

You think Labour will be better 😂😂😂😂

[@woodencreatures]

Cameron, the man of real substance who legged it at the first opportunity having begun the wrecking of this country through brexit

[@nicks4934]

Tory one nationers have stood by and allowed the mayhems of Johnson

[@user-dt3iv5oc6f]

Yeah and allowed a neo liberal Government 😂

[@steveharrison4176]

An MP from the north knew before getting the job that they would be away from home but they do get one provided for them in London .Your right Bob people are not towing the line anymore as you lot have not been doing so have you ? maybe not you personally but your party and did you leave ,did you protest ?,no you kept quiet on the back benches and watched the lies an corruption continue .

[@adblocker276]

Suella Braverman or Priti Patel as Conservative leader ‘disaster for the party and country’ -talk about immigrants taking the job that no one else wants.

[@diverguy3556]

Braverman's solution to child hunger is for the rich children to eat the poor children.

[@user-dt3iv5oc6f]

Oh shut up

[@sparkiefire8525]

Absolutely, people wonder politics is so toxic these days with comments like that from @diverguy3556

[@lw1zfog]

Just write it out as ‘Conservative leader disaster for the party & the country’ .... that’ll do.

[@hungry_sailor9470]

'Tough life being a politician...' Regardless of how hard you think you might have it, you're working in a privileged environment, you're home every weekend at least, your lifestyle is subsidised by the taxpayer, you're payed 3 or 4 times the average salary, and the pension sets you up for life, not to say about the opportunities for earnings after serving as an mp... Swap that for a service person who has to spend 6-9 months deployed most years, in grotty conditions, for a quarter of what you're earning, and gets shafted post service...

[@smarcier2719]

Normally I'd say the most nasty one would be ideal for a Tory leader. But you've got me here, they're both fecking horrendously nasty.

[@Mkalikapisa-ui7by]

Sorry to hear he finds constituents' so hard to handle BUT he's supposed to represent their views

[@chrispalmer7893]

Being our representatives doesn't - or shouldn't - entail opening yourself to the level of intimidation and abuse that MPs currently face. That said, moderates like Neill are probably those most to blame for the current contempt with which politicians are held. The Johnsons, Patels and Bravermans of this world are what they are, they are being true to their - admittedly vile - nature. Moderate Tories who knew better but nevertheless stood by and allowed their more venal colleagues to take over with barely a murmur of protest, they knew where this would end up and made no attempt to prevent it. It's no use trying to warn us now.

[@jamesandrew1750]

​@@chrispalmer7893 Who knew better than to attempt to reduce taxes, bureaucracy and control immigration?

[@bauer9101]

Sorry, Conservatives are going to have to face their Waterloo and sort themselves out on the opposition benches.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Sorry? I doubt that you really are. I am not.

[@BrianFairlamb]

My god end this nightmare

[@TheLiverpolitan]

Utterly deluded, left the country a smouldering ruin.

[@sophiabee8924]

Again.

[@user-dt3iv5oc6f]

According to a Liverpool person anything that isn’t a socialist paradise is a ruin 😂

[@TheLiverpolitan]

@@user-dt3iv5oc6fthere's no such thing as a socialist paradise, but in 14 years you'd think they'd have managed to improve at least one metric x

[@annamariadangelo7296]

What a load of lies. They don’t have a clue on what hard work is, and getting paid minimum wage???

[@Pigblossom]

The One Nation Tories have a lot to answer for. It's all very well them bleating now, but they've stood by while the right wing tail wagged the Tory dog

[@Cherrytune386]

Who approves of Cameron as a Lord????? 🤬🤬🤬

[@geraldbutler5484]

More proof the system is pathetic and corrupt. How the House of Horrors(Lords) has dug its claws into the UK and hung on into 2024 is remarkable.

[@smrriles5668]

How approves of anyone as a lord?

[@rodbenson5879]

Not convinced Corbyn would have been worse than Johnson. Sunak is not a good person.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

I am convinced Corbyn would have been better than Johnson. 2 points for starters: 1)really compassionate and consciencious. Therefore, old people would not have been dying in their thousands. 2) not corrupt. Therefore no Mone scandal, no eat out to help out. He might not have pushed vaccination as much as the tories did...but he would have caused fewer deaths. Is it not outrageous that the UK having started to vaccinate earlier than other countries still has a higher Covid death ratio than comparable countries????

[@Chickenpie113-bb5gh]

He'd have been awful on Ukraine. He'd also never held any kind of serious government or opposition post before he became leader, never proposed a bill of his own, never made any good speech, never done anything noteworthy on a committee...he'd have been useless as PM. Johnson had at least been mayor of london and foreign secretary. Corbyn was also weak and was hopeless at holding his party together. He was not a leader.

[@sophiabee8924]

His only worry; how much it will cost to heat the swimming pool.

[@user-dt3iv5oc6f]

@@annepoitrineau5650give your head a wobble , no clear economic policy , living in la la land

[@annepoitrineau5650]

@@user-dt3iv5oc6f Have you actually read Corbyn's policies and manifesto??? Give your head a treat and read them.

[@markstevens6568]

Nice guy but it doesn’t matter which Conservative MP you listen to it’s always somebody else’s fault.

[@willc1294]

Politics is the art of deflecting blame on to some other group.

[@user-bd5kl9cd5u]

His voting record would suggest he is anything but nice. Evil would be more accurate

[@monkeyboy8424]

Penny Mordaunt has a dilemma - after she moves into number ten is it worthwhile unpacking the boxes.

[@user-ld6ik5qm4m]

She's not likely to still be an MP or have a job anywhere in politics after the general election.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

I do not think she wants the job. Not now anyway.

[@user-ld6ik5qm4m]

@@clarevoyant6322 is there such a thing as a SAFE SEAT for a Tory candidate to stand in now ?? Rishit has completely ruined the conservatives and any reputation that they may have had previously.

[@swordfish211]

Please say this is a joke

[@chrispalmer7893]

Fixing the justice system would need a restoration of social care to the levels of decades past. The justice system - and the NHS and our schools - are having to step in where once social services would have been there to assist those in need. You'll never get the sort of policies that needs from a Tory government because they are always, to one degree or another, too dependent on appeasing their right wing to engage in anything compassionate or progressive.

[@danthsmith]

Sorry, it's a fantastically cushy job with a pension to die for and the longest holidays imaginable especially in a safe seat like this guy has

[@saminatharbastiampillai8234]

Both cannot be trusted. They are not suitable for the job.

[@earlofdoncaster5018]

Which Tory can be trusted?

[@catherinemartin6258]

If any of these two get to be leader of the Tory party it will be the end of the Tory’s . Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

[@BCync]

Yay, more south asian women playing making more bigoted oneupmanship stunts in the Tory party!!

[@TheLucanicLord]

You don't get the consultancy work & token directorships in opposition. Presumably it's because your talent and intelligence mysteriously evaporate, and nothing to do with having no strings to pull at all.

[@thomasmyers4089]

I am under opinion that the politicians spend most of their work time in the bar, this may perhaps explain some of their decisions they make.

[@neilmcclary]

where have all the good ones gone .there are none and there never where they all have there price

[@mattwright2964]

Wise words. If the Party had any sense (they don't have a lot) they would have someone like Andy Street lead them. They need to totally face down their hard right once and for all and stop pandering to them.

[@bradwhiteuk]

I agree, but they're so rudderless (and talentless) that it's gonna take a humiliating defeat for them to realise this.

[@jeremygreenwood1021]

Its going to take a long time for the Tories to detoxify themselves.

[@thecheesefactor]

From my point of view they were toxic in 2010. Austerity was a trick to make the poorest pay for the banking crisis. Things got worse after Brexit when the electorate bought the 'blame the EU' rhetoric. It wasn't the EU. It was the Tories.

[@shaunelliott2967]

I've had a good run and I'm bailing now so I don't have to explain tory government and knowing you're losing your job in next election

[@davidpearn2484]

Rats leaving a sinking ship comes to mind.

[@RichardBrook-kq8dm]

What "great things" has this man done?

[@willhovell9019]

Matt the master of the daft closed question

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@neurojitsu]

Looking forward to the Sunak one imminently...

[@valparker1426]

Freedom is in peril defend it with all our might what plans. When the country's in the defend it its soon with unrest have a good rest while the rest of us are defending the country that you left.

[@neilmcclary]

they all do what suits them best the voters are at the bottom of the list , thats where they like them and to stay there

[@KevinMole-cj3kl]

Yeah put them in please the tories will never get in again those woman are loathed.....

[@timothycook5880]

Suella or Badenock.

[@CBM902Q]

Are you having a laugh

[@monged4life442]

Was waiting to hear how he would blame 14 years of crumbling justice system on Labour, while being head of of the justice select committee himself. Somehow he found a way

[@TrevorBarre]

'Spending more time with the family'. Old as the hills and still a smokescreen.

[@thecheesefactor]

Yeah, I think he had to call an election to avoid a no confidence vote. It would have been better on 2 May. Local Conservatives were thrown under the bus to buy two more months for the central Tories.

[@hecter3008]

Cameron is a class act. These people are deluded.

[@donmac7780]

Cameron is completely responsible for the destruction of the UK, first with austerity and then with Brexit.

[@thecheesefactor]

A University of Glasgow study has concluded that Austerity policies were responsible for about 330,000 excess deaths between 2012 and 2019.

[@tmc1054]

"Done great things" and "needs good people", there is a touch of narcissism here.

[@hecter3008]

The police trashed,courts trashed, prison trashed, but nothing to do with the Tories. Remember Cameron, Osborne and that creature clegg did this.

[@BrentDesouza]

Never thought I would say this … but if either of them were leader I would vote reform.

[@Cherrytune386]

Surely you wouldn't vote Cons or Reform? 🤮🤮🤮

[@IOSARBX]

Times Radio, Subscribed because your content is fantastic!

[@FTFLCY]

So right about May. She is the reason Brexit turned out even worse than it could have.

[@endintiers]

Intelligent young professionals would like to join a rejoiner party.

[@johngetitdone9355]

I😊

[@colinm1082]

Still fill yer pockets with cash + perks.

[@harrylyme2913]

Priti or Suella would be great leaders. Kemi would be fantastic too. Jenrick if he survives would be brilliant too.

[@springchicken893]

Non of the above!

[@bodger97]

Braveman's BOSS

[@Oluinneachain]

Empire is coming home. Karma. Let the children of the lesser gods reap the rewards.

[@tesbahta4500]

I tought I came to Britain, it looks some where

[@johnholkham2420]

Like saying would you like Strychnine or Arsenic to eat.

[@keithsewell8389]

This man is a fine example of why I would never vote Conservative again.

[@1pauljs]

Corbyn; a fundamentally decent man, would be worse than an egotistical chancer. Of course he would mate. Same with Cameron, pure chancer. The referendum proves that on its own.

[@clivedavies5618]

Very little said about Braverman/Patel, only mentioned in the last 2 minutes and that it wouldn't be a good thing(!)

[@MrHmjg]

"little britain" character...

[@debbywilliams9172]

There a disgrace

[@davidjupp961]

Umm i think you'll find the disasters already happened Bob

[@dan_swann]

Interesting that when challenged about failings at the MoJ and also funding, he references the government of Tony Blair...who stepped down as PM in 2007! What a bunch a blovioation and obfuscation this interview was.

[@dlk1dlk1]

And Rishi is not a disaster??

[@earlofdoncaster5018]

If by 🅳🅸🆂🅰🆂🆃🅴🆁 you mean endless schadenfreude amusement-a-thon as the Tories circle the drain, then yes, a disaster.

[@Martin36544]

I’ve never voted Conservative but Bob Neill was my MP for years when I lived in Bromley. He is an amazing constituency MP and thoroughly decent man.

[@michaelspencer6318]

Yeah i remember him standing up in the house saying he would reserve judgment on Boris johnson when the whole country knew he was lying .

[@nicks4934]

But stood by Windrush austerity and cuts. Complicit in harm

[@gio-oz8gf]

If Bob Neil was a thoroughly decent man, he wouldn't be a Tory MP.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@gio-oz8gf tribal and inflammatory and plain untrue. I’ve voted Labour in every election since my teens in the early 80s and I worked in Westminster for 20 years and can confirm, even though they’d never get my vote, there were plenty of decent One Nation Tories. Chris Patten, Ken Clarke, Rory Stewart, Justine Greening, Philip Hammond, Patrick McLoughlin, Amber Rudd, Anna Soubry. I met many of them first hand and they were decent people and light years away from the nest of vipers Johnson infected our body politic with post 2019.

[@gio-oz8gf]

@@gerardmackay8909 " tribal and inflammatory ". Try using your own language. I don't care what names you throw out, they were all part of a government that caused unnecessary suffering and deaths to countless lives. Before you argue with me, look up the voting records for each one of them. Actions speak louder than words. Tories are inherently vile people. Justine Greening sample. Generally voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices 0 votes for, 2 votes against, 3 absences, in 2013. Comparable Conservative MPs consistently voted against. Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability 0 votes for, 13 votes against, between 2011-2016. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted against. Consistently voted for increasing the state pension age 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2011. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted against. Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits Amber Rudd sample. Consistently voted for increasing the state pension age 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2011. Consistently voted for reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax") 5 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011-2014. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted for. Consistently voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices 0 votes for, 5 votes against, in 2013. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted for. Consistently voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits 29 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, between 2011-2016. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted for. Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability. 0 votes for, 13 votes against, between 2011-2016. Comparable Conservative MPs almost always voted against.

[@eatonmje27]

BS click bait and a poor interview.

[@robertcreighton4635]

I'd prefer a genuine English/scot/wrlsh person to run the country. Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse

[@nicks4934]

Genuine? Explain please

[@KoleBlackwood]

Well, well - the resident brainiac in this particular video discussion has spoken, it seems... 😏

[@ISuperTed]

Oh dear. Going to Elon on Daddy’s money doesn’t make you a good prime Minister.

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@nicks4934 I'm not sure that level of stupidity can be faked...

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Yes, cos Cameron, may or johnson were such great successes.

[@terencenicholls-oh5wy]

Both these Mps are useless cou[d not lead a duck to water.

[@LuffyDaGoat]

At least priti Patel is fit and fine af

[@wcfields547]

😂 best comment! Are you her dad ?