The most disappointing thing of the entire election is Cruella Braverman keeping her seat, truly unforgivable.

That's the guy who moaned at the Grenville Enquiry for wasting his valuable time. He knows about entitlement.

Truss gone ,Lettuce rejoice

Lord, dragging Pickles out of the bin of history. Someone who is part of the downfall of the Tory Party.

Imagine the humiliation of being called entitled by a man called Lord Eric Pickles

Petty criminality (insider betting) and a lack of morals and ethics displayed by a Party routinely is disgraceful. However the real crimes only become evident over time and it took 14 years, the aftermath of a financial crash, a pandemic and brexit to make it plain to the electorate what the Conservatives were really up to. That was implementing disaster capitalism which saw a massive shift of wealth from working (and unemployed) people, to the richest. The new Labour Government must ensure that shift of wealth is stopped and indeed reversed.

Lord Pickles: "...a bit of contrition and self-awareness would be welcome..." Oh, reeeeaaaalllly? 😮

Hello, Police? Yes, this is Starmer, 10 Downing St. I'd like to report the theft of a Sky Dish and receiver..... "

I remember Pickles being completely humiliated by a TV audience member when Pickles was justifying his high pay and privileges by talking about getting up and going to Parliament, sometimes having to do extra hours blah-de-blah and a bloke in the audience yelled "That's called going to work!". He really does think he's a cut above us mere mortals. His attitude at the Grenfell Inquiry was shocking but it was good to see him squirm as the barrister laid into him.

Seems like Lord Pickles has been eating ALL the food in the UK. No wonder food banks are popping up everywhere.

So that's where all the biscuits went.

He says partygate was “a small think”!!! He STILL doesn’t get it

This Gentleman is not having trouble? No cost of living crisis? Not missing a meal ?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.If they had behaved with any contrition and or self awareness during their long long years in power they might have come across as having some semblance of humanity,they didn't.

Too many pies ruined Lord Pickles!

Labour appointing credible ministers and also having specialist ministers to support the government,at last much improvement from constant changes,chaos lies and inexperienced friends sycophants and family 🤡🤡😡

Bit rich coming from someone who refused to give up their ministerial limo when all ministers were asked by Cameron to do so.

Pickles part of the problem

Fleecing its Voters and Treating the country with disrespect dont adhere with Voters

Jeez,how many ermine have to be sacrificed to cover his house of lords robes

Jabber the Hutt is frankly the kind of Tory we sent packing.

Entitlement? I remember in the 2010 election Pickles & the Tory candidate McKeever were passing through the village I lived in at the time, Milnthorpe. They pulled into a one-way section in their large minibus & parked there, blocking the road while they went into the village square to get lunch takeouts. They left it in the road with traffic building up behind until they had collected their orders. It’s one of the most symbolically Tory things I’ve ever seen.

650 having your cake and eating it dear god there’s a man who appears to know all about that

The Tories have been Pickled.

The Conservatives entered government in 2010 with a very clear plan, begin the transfer of public wealth to privateers. They had identified sources of public wealth managed by public bodies such as schools, local authorities, Police forces, Fire services, the NHS etc and the Conservatives began to squeeze those organisations to offload land and real estate at cut down prices to the private 'sector'. Schools were forced to give away playing fields, Police forces were forced to give away Police stations in prime locations and so on and so on. The Conservatives used the withholding of central government funding as a tool to force these public bodies to comply and, in the process, they have bankrupted them and made them incapable of providing their services. Services that the government were responsible for delivering in the interests of the public. Privately 'owned' wealth has grown in Britain in direct proportion to the managed decline of publicly owned wealth. The Conservatives even robbed banks (google Conservatives target 'dormant' bank accounts, do you really think this money was used for 'good causes'?).

Lord Pickles, one step above Lizz Truss. What DID he do for the party! "a bad product" well we can't argue with that can we.

Brilliant question “Is the Tory leadership selection process flawed?” Why would the TImes ask that? I mean, why???

Eric pickles is the embodiment of Tory entitlement.

Eric Pickles would make a great shopkeeper in Coronation Street.

Don't agree with the House of Lords. Should be scrapped.IMO

Love the way this joker wants to give the Tory party membership more rather than less say in choosing the leader of the party. He obviously missed the bit when the membership gave us, consecutively, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Its just no good shovlelling more power into the hands of a tiny sliver of the population when that tiny sliver's judgement is so obviously flawed.

No more privite helicopter on expenses no more lavish lunches Tories have yo pay for everything from their on pocket now

I did hear that Tories were in a bit of a pickle. Sorry i just can't stop myself, despite being on the receiving end due to my surname. It also didnt help that he actually looks like a pickle (in a good way ofcourse).

Nice suntan ……. From the fridge light!

Their entitlement didn’t help but appointing supposedly loyal brexiteers resulted in the dim and incompetent running the country. Speaking of which is pickles the best you could get?

*THE GREENS CAME 2ND IN 47 SEATS....!!!* no seat is safe any longer

Strange how so many Conservatives are now calling out the lack of morality in the party and the disgusting behaviour during Partygate, but stood up and supported those responsible at the time and didn't speak out when the party was in power.

It needs Tories to tell the truth for once, implement policies that are good for the country, not for themselves. And have some integrity!

What the party needs to do first is think thoroughly about what modern conservatism should be, how they define it and would be able to communicate it, before they pick a new leader.

We go now live to Jabba’s palace on Tatooine

Alderman Foodbotham (ask your Torygraph reading Grandad) has spoken! I didn't know he was still alive...

Good job pickles had sumo wrestling to fall back on.

They should listen to him but they won't.

I hope they pick a leader that makes them more disliked by public and more scandals expose over the following 5 years and they loose worse next time

I hope they pick Braverman or Badenoch as leader!

Blimey....a Sontaran

''we're in a pickle''

Without glasses, Clark Kent is Superman. Without glasses, Lord Eric Pickles is ........Captain Underpants.

Lord Pickles. 😂

we know who ate all the pies then ??

Yea public service is a great thing, it's full of secrets...seems like a contradiction in terms to me, I.E.... " Public / Secrets ".....

I never had a lot of affection for Lord Pickles when he was a government minister, but perhaps I was too harsh to him. He is absolutely right that the betting scandal reveals something had gone seriously wrong with the culture of the Conservative party. The country needs the Conservative party to get its act together, or something more malign will take its place. So I hope they listen to what he says.

The talking big toe is right.

The biggest gravy train supper of the trough ?

I wonder if pickling them extends their best before date.l seriously doubt it.

That sounds about right the Tories ran the country for themselves and their cronies

Pork Pie

Is this Count Binface?

Lord Pickles sounds like a cartoon character 😂 he’s a big lad int he? 😬😂

Lord Pickles? 😂

Oh look: Tories having a leadership drama! Because nothing says leadership louder than coup plotting. And the Times et al will drool all over the details. Downward spiral continues. Hey, Pickles may be right. Tories may not yet have hit bottom.

‘Lord’ Pickles complaining about entitlement lol

Tories must become conservatives again and fight or educate people what reform really is. We need a conservative party.

We must bring the last five PM and cabinets to the British courts for justice and get them locked up for their crimes

Lord Pickles is talking absolute sense, the fact that their are fewer and fewer people of principle on the right of British politics should be a worry for everyone. That's the environment that spawned Boris, Truss and Farage

Pickles?

All of the tories jiggery pokery to try to cling to power backfired on them.

Eric Pickles looks like someone painted a face on a thumb

He's the archetypical example of the result of a diet of black pudding, pork sausages and beans.

I hope the Tories regain their moral compass and prioritise public service as the last thing we need is for it go down the sewer chasing votes from Reform.

“Lord Pickles”?? England us a ridiculous country!!

Blobby Pickles. As his record shows, just another corrupt Tory surprise shocker.

Stop being a Ban-It party. The smoking ban bill was the last straw for me. We can take people in to the armed forces, put them in harm's way, but ban them from having a smoke to calm their nerves. Its just outrgeous frankly. BTW I don't smoke.

Baffles me the people whose protest against the conservative party whose policies did so much harm by choosing a party even more conservative! Ouch, burning myself with this match hurt, better douse myself in petrol!

Labour entitlement will work better?

What sort of Scots accent does this guy have? It's comical.

Lord Pickles clearly doesn’t know how to spell “incompetence “.

We have witnessed a seismic change in British politics. The days of the political elite sitting in Westminster ignoring the views, opinions and needs of the public are over. The Conservatives are finally beginning to understand this, but in all likelihood we will now see Labour making the same foolish mistakes.

Says the guy who works full time for jewistan

Prime Minister Truss and Prime Minister Sunak might have had less than good reception than people would have liked in Britain, but around the world on the international stage, both Truss and Sunak have made The United Kingdom look like a proud and honorable democratic country with strong democratic values. It is the hardest thing in the world in our era to be president or prime minister of any country, anywhere, but Truss and Sunak talked the talk and walked the walk. The new Prime MInister has got a lot to do and he'll give his all to help get your country going well too.