Theresa May (Vol.2)

[Hub]

7 June? What a missed opportunity - A week earlier and we could say quite literally that it is "the end of May"!

[CharlieH89]

Give it to Bran.

[mikal83]

Now the "fun" starts. Knives out, old alliances up and running.

[cuprabob]

Hub said:

7 June? What a missed opportunity - A week earlier and we could say quite literally that it is "the end of May"!

Like most things in this country, it slipped a week

[Leicester Loyal]

saaby93 said:

Jinx said:

saaby93 said:

The cards wouldnt let her do that though. If it was heading to no deal theyd have made sure it was no Brexit

Nonsense - article 50 had already been invoked. If she did nothing then we would have left on the 29th March.

Have you been with Elon Musk for the last 6 months? Parliament has been blocking every sign of heading to no deal.

It'll now either head to customs union (possibly via an election) i.e. closer to staying in than May's deal
or abort the whole idea

Weren't those Parliament votes non-legally binding, so she could have taken us out without a deal on the original specified date? Just like a new PM could do.

[saaby93]

Leicester Loyal said:

saaby93 said:

Jinx said:

saaby93 said:

The cards wouldnt let her do that though. If it was heading to no deal theyd have made sure it was no Brexit

Nonsense - article 50 had already been invoked. If she did nothing then we would have left on the 29th March.

Have you been with Elon Musk for the last 6 months? Parliament has been blocking every sign of heading to no deal.

It'll now either head to customs union (possibly via an election) i.e. closer to staying in than May's deal
or abort the whole idea

Weren't those Parliament votes non-legally binding, so she could have taken us out without a deal on the original specified date? Just like a new PM could do.

You'll probably find theyd have found a way of losing the PM before that happened
oh wait...

[jtremlett]

saaby93 said:

Have you been with Elon Musk for the last 6 months? Parliament has been blocking every sign of heading to no deal.

It'll now either head to customs union (possibly via an election) i.e. closer to staying in than May's deal
or abort the whole idea

Probably so but No Deal is still the default and this article indicates how it could come about: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/new... and another way is for the EU not to grant another extension, of course.

[57 Chevy]

red_slr said:

BoJo and Trump... who would have thought it...

[Leicester Loyal]

As if that odious little rat Rory Stewart has put his name forward as a leadership candidate.

[Carl_Manchester]

Leicester Loyal said:

As if that odious little rat Rory Stewart has put his name forward as a leadership candidate.

Fax machine boy is merely showing that he is ambitious enough to be considered for a cabinet post as Bojos footrest.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Jean-Claude Junker is said to be stting himself that we might get a PM who knows what they're actually fking doing.

[Camoradi]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Jean-Claude Junker is said to be stting himself that we might get a PM who knows what they're actually fking doing.

I've checked all the front runners' credentials and he has nothing to worry about

[chris watton]

She hasn't resigned yet. Let's not forget, this is the creature who insisted 'Brexit means Brexit', so best treat anything she says with a huge dose of salt.

[biggbn]

Camoradi said:

I've checked all the front runners' credentials and he has nothing to worry about

Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss....

[biggbn]

Ironic...a pm with a degree in geography but she couldn't find her way out of Europe......

[Durzel]

Robertj21a said:

Zigster said:

Boris would be a disaster. Loved by the Tory party faithful; loathed by the rest of the electorate. A bit like JRM.

I couldn’t vote for a party that thought BoJo the Clown was in any way fit and appropriate to lead the country. And I voted for BoJo as London mayor - I think he was good in that role.

Boris as PM would help Labour into power at the next election.

Partly agree, but Boris isn't a detail man. He's likely to be just the charismatic figurehead, with everyone else doing the real work.

Pre 2016 I think Boris would have been a lunatics choice, but nowadays in this post-Trump, post-truth world it doesn't seem to matter how stable or even competent a leader is, as long as they bang the correct drum in the most offensive and dog-whistle way, that will do for the majority.

The biggest danger is believing that our nation is more enlightened than America. That's the mistake the Democrats made, believing the polls, assuming people wouldn't be that dumb, but here we are.

Boris has to be odds on favourite to win, in spite of his sometimes horrific comments and observations (which I'm sure endear him to some on here "telling it how it is").

[johnxjsc1985]

They need to get Boris in No10 so they can either laud him as the best PM ever who put the EU agreement to the sword and made Britain great again or grt him out for being an idiot before Christmas.
I suspect many of us don't give a flying fk anymore.

[Vaud]

JagLover said:

No it isn't because gender "pay gap" reporting is a nonsense that isn't comparing like with like and is so crudely calculated that it doesn't even include benefits in kind.

I didn't say it was the solution. It is a step in the right direction. We can agree to differ.

[CaptainSlow]

Squiddly Diddly said:

But she remains PM until the successor is selected.

She'll no longer be the Prime Minister...she''ll want to be the Minister Prime, and if not agreed, ask for an extension to her leaving.

[saaby93]

Is the Tory party going to vote for someone pro brexit?