Rory Stewart MP
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knk

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1,330 posts

295 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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A really impressive man.
Intelligent, principled, cultured, compassionate.
Proven leadership under conditions that were incredibly testing.
He could be the saviour of the conservative party, but I fear they will not let him save them.
As a leader he could bring in a new era of considered, compassionate, consensual and costed debate and policies.

matchmaker

8,970 posts

224 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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I'm currently watching him on Sky News. I am impressed.

Turn7

25,391 posts

245 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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knk said:
A really impressive man.
Intelligent, principled, cultured, compassionate.
Proven leadership under conditions that were incredibly testing.
He could be the saviour of the conservative party, but I fear they will not let him save them.
As a leader he could bring in a new era of considered, compassionate, consensual and costed debate and policies.
This.

Theyve already printed the Retards speech and painted another fking bus with more lies.

Lotobear

8,716 posts

152 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Our local MP - he seems popular and is 'every socialist's favourite Tory' which is why it won't be him.




knk

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1,330 posts

295 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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It is come down to "Boris" v "Not-Boris". I doubt he will have enough support to be the second option and if he was I doubt the party members would vote for him.
Such a shame.

Murph7355

40,984 posts

280 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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He seems to be a very nice man but incredibly wet.

He's also not averse to promising stuff that isn't deliverable.

Persisting with May's deal is what got her the boot (rightly so) and "citizens assemblies" are as likely to break the impasse as the HoC sitting on its sweaty arse for another decade.

There is no "compromise" possible between those who rabidly wish to leave and those who rabidly wish to remain. You cannot be half in/out. And most people just want it over with. That means grow a pair and either rescind or get out on 31/10 with no WA.

biggbn

30,675 posts

244 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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I like him but jeez he made a hash of his interview the other night, could not have looked more contrived and untrustworthy if he tried. Shame, needs to listen to himself not advisors

PositronicRay

28,686 posts

207 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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The tories believe they can deliver brexit (they can't) so won't back a moderate.

knk

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1,330 posts

295 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Wet?
He is a proven leader, calm and composed in some incredibly dangerous situations, both as part of a team, leading a team, and on his own without support.
Read up on what he got up to in Iraq & Afghanistan.

petemurphy

10,764 posts

207 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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he's been good on twitter but wonder if he looks right to represent us on the world stage. as they say on twitter

"Rory Stewart is the love child of Eddie Redmayne and Willem Dafoe in a Wallace & Grommit cartoon"

bitchstewie

64,415 posts

234 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Listening to him on the radio earlier he reminds me of Tony Blair in tone and manner.

Seems a decent bloke and I suspect he doesn't have a cat in hell's chance with the party faithful.

Murph7355

40,984 posts

280 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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knk said:
Wet?
He is a proven leader, calm and composed in some incredibly dangerous situations, both as part of a team, leading a team, and on his own without support.
Read up on what he got up to in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I'm not judging him on that, but on what he's saying and how he's saying it now.

He comes over, to me, as if he's in a constant state of apology. And his ideas won't deliver anything.

essayer

10,369 posts

218 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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My prediction: Boris PM, loses GE to Corbyn, Rory Stewart replaces him as leader

jtremlett

1,612 posts

246 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Murph7355 said:
...There is no "compromise" possible between those who rabidly wish to leave and those who rabidly wish to remain. You cannot be half in/out. And most people just want it over with. That means grow a pair and either rescind or get out on 31/10 with no WA.
Exactly and the sooner the HoC accepts that and gets on with it the better.

Otis Criblecoblis

1,078 posts

90 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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His citizen assembly idea of getting Brexit rejected this way, is ludicrous - might as well just have the Question Time audience decide for him.
He is more believable than many others in saying no second referendum or revoking article 50 , but then so did May make all the right sounds for a while.
No one seems keen to have a Remainer do Brexit again.
Shame, any other time I think most would support him.

V8RX7

28,982 posts

287 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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knk said:
Wet?
He is a proven leader, calm and composed in some incredibly dangerous situations, both as part of a team, leading a team, and on his own without support.
Read up on what he got up to in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Sorry but he appears wet to me too.

It's his face / mannerisms.

In politics as in so many things these days, it's not what you say, nor what you do but how you are perceived that matters.


anonymous-user

78 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Otis Criblecoblis said:
His citizen assembly idea of getting Brexit rejected this way, is ludicrous - might as well just have the Question Time audience decide for him.
He is more believable than many others in saying no second referendum or revoking article 50 , but then so did May make all the right sounds for a while.
No one seems keen to have a Remainer do Brexit again.
Shame, any other time I think most would support him.
Or do it via a sponsored Saturday night thing with Graham Norton taking the phone in votes.
Nice bloke ,wrong time, probably wrong party

Ayahuasca

27,560 posts

303 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Did he mention his Afghanistan experience in the interview by any chance?

rscott

17,079 posts

215 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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petemurphy said:
he's been good on twitter but wonder if he looks right to represent us on the world stage. as they say on twitter

"Rory Stewart is the love child of Eddie Redmayne and Willem Dafoe in a Wallace & Grommit cartoon"
And the main contender for the role does look right to represent us?


Turn7

25,391 posts

245 months

Tuesday 11th June 2019
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And I thought I hated Bliar.

This loser is just such a clown Im embarrassed to be English.