Tory Leadership Election

[anonymous-user]

Greg66 said:

May. BoJo has made enemies with his latest caper.

Bed form to quote oneself, but it seems Gove is one of those enemies...

[Puggit]

Greg66 said:

Greg66 said:

May. BoJo has made enemies with his latest caper.

Bed form to quote oneself, but it seems Gove is one of those enemies...

Apparently the Boris camp is muttering about treachery...

[130R]

May. Hopefully.

[Puggit]

May: no Article 50 trigger until deal is clear.

[fatjon]

Gove is the only credible one. Boris, nice guy but international statesman? May, no I don't want a camera in my living room thank-you. The rest are nobody's.

[johnxjsc1985]

May sounding very PM like (no not Dave) and will appeal to a far broader section of society than Boris.

[JagLover]

Well Gove putting himself forward changes things.

He is hated by the left over education as he was one of the few politicians who actually wanted to improve education, rather than leaving the Teaching Unions to it on the basis their own children were educated privately or in a selective state school.

I actually think that he would be a better Chancellor than PM, and in many respects Chancellor is the more technically demanding role.

However he seems to actually GET IT and can see what the country was saying on Thursday.

Maybe Gove for me now then.

[klootzak]

This is genuinely hilarious. Gove is the Tories' Corbyn. Loved by party activists and apologists, utterly loathed by normal people.

At last ... a fair fight for the Labour party.

[Puggit]

Guido said:

Sources: Boris mulling over quitting.

[Gandahar]

Gove or May far better than Boris.

May is an intelligent and hardworking politician, talks sense. Handbag not as big as Maggies though ( perhaps a good thing, at least for Labour )

[paulrockliffe]

klootzak said:

This is genuinely hilarious. Gove is the Tories' Corbyn. Loved by party activists and apologists, utterly loathed by normal people.

At last ... a fair fight for the Labour party.

That won't matter. Gove is the best person to sort out the EU stuff. He clearly doesn't want it and would step down once the EU has been dealt with. He also wouldn't hold a General Election before sorting the EU out as that would allow remainiacs to muddy the will of he people.

[Puggit]

May - no longer advocates pulling out of ECHR, and says no red line for free movement of people in EU negotiations.

[Sam All]

May sounds a bit meh.

[dandarez]

May just says no going back on Brexit. The people have voted.

She wants the job!

She gets it imo.

Gove household.
Miiiiiccccchhael!! Where's my bloooody breakfast!!!!

Sarah Vine wants to stand on steps of No. 10 - No chance.

[With these feet]

Gove and Leadsom, as much as Gove upset many - no doubt given the instructions from above - they were IMO the 2 strongest in the leave campaign, both kept to the script and IMO are the only two that havent jumped sides for their career prospects.
Leadsom is a big outsider, as some have said, never heard of her - DM article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3521977/Br...

[Axionknight]

dandarez said:

Sarah Vine wants to stand on steps of No. 10 - No chance.

Perhaps the cleaning contract is up for renewal?

[klootzak]

paulrockliffe said:

He also wouldn't hold a General Election before sorting the EU out as that would allow remainiacs to muddy the will of he people.

So ... he wouldn't go to the people because that would "muddy the will of the people".

Mmmkayyy.

Like I said: the Tories' Corbyn.

k

[BlackLabel]

Puggit said:

May: no Article 50 trigger until deal is clear.

That could take years then.

[paulrockliffe]

klootzak said:

paulrockliffe said:

He also wouldn't hold a General Election before sorting the EU out as that would allow remainiacs to muddy the will of he people.

So ... he wouldn't go to the people because that would "muddy the will of the people".

I don't think that's the case. A General Election that elected a different party on the basis of a multi-policy manifesto would be 1-1 at best. Of course that muddies the water, the winner would claim a mandate to remain in the EU that wouldn't be there. The referendum result was clear and should be respected.

There's no need for an election because of a change of leader and you can look to the history of both parties to see there is plenty of precedent.

[eharding]

paulrockliffe said:

The referendum result was clear and should be respected.

The will of the people as of 23rd June 2016 is noted, and respected. The will of the people in October 2016 may well be very different.