So we are down to 3 and close to the point where 150 thousand (very) odd crusty Tories get to choose not only our prime minister but also our future relationship with the EU. Democracy's great eh?
Anyway, I have to say (for as far as I'm aware the first time) that I agree with Malcolm Rifkind: anyone but Gove please.
Quite apart from being a treacherous backstabber, the guy is a fanatical lunatic. Everywhere he goes he tries to rip everything up in a year 0 ****storm and leaves a trail of utter chaos. He would be a complete and extremely dangerous disaster as PM
These are his ideas (written a couple of years after the Good Friday Agreement) for Northern Ireland. It's difficult to know where to start with the utter wrongness of the whole thing:
https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports...ichaelGove.pdf
Having said that, I'm absolutely sure he'd guarantee Scottish independence.
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06-07-2016 08:51 AM #1
Tory party leadership
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06-07-2016 09:01 AM #2
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I get your point about democracy, but we are only a year on from a general electiob where the tories won convincingly, so its hard to claim its not legitimate. We dont vote for PM, even if it is increasing pitched like that by the media.
That being said, i think another general election could be good thing.
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06-07-2016 09:32 AM #3
ABG
Anyone But Gove
Some hilarious responses
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...b073366f0faf62There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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And as other posters have said there is no vote for the people on who will be PM so Tory's, Labour or whoever the situation would be the same.
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06-07-2016 06:52 PM #5
1. Andrea Leadsom gets elected as scapegoat.
2. Scapegoat is hounded by tories for some perceived misdemeanour.
3. Vote of no confidence in government.
4. Government resigns before article 50 is invoked and a new general election is called.
5. Both labour and the tories campaign for government with pro Europe manifestos.
6. One of them win (probably labour with a lot of tory seats going to UKIP).
7. The new Prime Minister revokes the referendum results claiming he was elected on a pro EU manifesto.
8. Nigel Farage is forced out of retirement.
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06-07-2016 10:51 PM #6
Shouldn't the new PM be a Brexiteer?
After all, they got us into this situation.
Let's see how they propose to make the best of it.
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07-07-2016 06:40 AM #7
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There are no good outcomes in this. Leadsom is beyond Thatcherite. Gove is a dangerous right wing oddball. It's only because of the company she's in, that makes May look somewhere normal. Under any of these, the country is taking a lurch to the right.
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It doesnt mattet anymore, the vote happened, the people have spoken.
It should now all be about getting the bestpossible deal fpr the uk, and i would like to think all sides would subscribe to that.
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Also there is potential to grab a huge swathe of working clasd voters in norrhern england who are drifting away from labour. Maybe not unlile thatcher did actually.
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The 3 of them are extremely dangerous. I can already invasion total anarchy within 1-2 years of any of them becoming PM. The economy is failing and they are going to ensure that the wrong people get landed with the burden. Watch this post, it's going to be utter chaos.
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What a strange world you live in...'total anarchy' really?
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The trick for May is sounding mad enough to get elected without actually making herself a hostage to hard-Brexit fortune.
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07-07-2016 03:25 PM #17
So, it is Alien v Predator for #ToryLeadership
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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imo better to have May if we're stuck in the UK but Leadsom if we get and win Indyref2 ... but thank **** it won't be Gove. Phew.
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07-07-2016 04:11 PM #20
This is em ...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...rliament-video
... actually too surreal for comment.
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07-07-2016 04:23 PM #21
I can't believe they managed to rustle up such a detestable bunch of utter creeps that it would almost be a relief to have Theresa May as Prime Minister.
Surreal and very worrying days indeed.
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Did you not say on another thread that you were 12 when the iraq war happened?
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I was brought up in a mining village and my mum was a nurse - I can assure you that Thatcher was not a pleasant experience for anyone I knew at the time.
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At least she has backbone and balls.
Better than a jellyfish. Even a posh one.
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08-07-2016 09:23 AM #28
Leadsom seems like the dream candidate for Scottish independence.
Wants a hard and fast Brexit, has previously advocated scrapping employment rights (min wage, maternity pay, recourse to employment tribunal) for employees of small businesses and thinks we're subsidy junkies.
Scotland already receives about £1,500 more each year per annum from the public purse than us poor English.
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Anyway May is a cert I reckon and to be honest is probably not a bad choice, determined but more middle of the road than your average Tory so it will be interesting to see how she gets on. Tough gig tho that's for sure!
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May believes Sharia law is good for the UK????
The thought of that is scary and very disturbing!
Most of their laws contradict ours.
How many wife's can you have again? As if we have 2 we get jailed for bigamy.
Also Halal meat is being brought in in many places.
Sorry but my Christian belief does not believe in making animals suffer for meat.
The world has gone bonkers....and very soon we will be an Islamic country! Mark my words!
Is this really what was fought for in the great wars???
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