16 scathing reactions to Channel 4’s Tory leadership debate
Channel 4 hosted a Leadership debate between some of the remaining candidates to become Conservative Party leader, and therefore the PM, although Boris Johnson had absented himself, preferring to wait until Tuesday’s BBC debate.
It was much as you’d expect – candidates mostly avoiding answering the questions directly, in favour of making their own soundbite-driven campaign speechlets, and Twitter had plenty to say about it.
1.
Looks like an episode of Fifteen to One for cunts pic.twitter.com/C03vA0Z1Qc
— joe heenan (@joeheenan) June 16, 2019
2.
The obviously pre-written content. Four white guys, one brown guy and no women. This is isn’t a leadership debate, it’s a comedy panel show. #C4debate
— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) June 16, 2019
3.
To summarise, they *all* want to invest more in the NHS, education, social care, early years support & mental health provision.
Yay, us.
If *only* they’d been in power for the last 9 years to make these commitments happen. #C4Debate
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) June 16, 2019
4.
This is like waking up tied up in a basement and hearing a group of incompetent out of their depth kidnappers arguing about what to do with your corpse #C4Debate
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 16, 2019
5.
“What is your biggest weakness? “
“A chronic lack of self-awareness”.
One day someone will say it. #c4Debate
— Jane Garvey (@janegarvey1) June 16, 2019
6.
“What’s your greatness weakness?”
In fairness to one of these candidates, that answer is confidential and subject to an NDA.#C4Debate
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) June 16, 2019
7.
"Judge us by what we do"
Which basically means we can judge Dominic Raab as an terminally inept failure who quit as Brexit Secretary having accomplished absolutely nothing of worth before or since.#C4Debate pic.twitter.com/Wdf5XKA4gA
— Graham Lithgow (@grahamlithgow) June 16, 2019
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Jeremy Hunt: I joined the conservative party when I was 19. My dream was to buy a house…"
Narrator: Years later, Jeremy bought seven houses and forgot he'd bought then#C4Debate
— Sir Andy Murray (@mrsbiltawulf) June 16, 2019
