Conservative Party Leadership first ballot results
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Doesn't matter. He only needs top 2 to get through to the membership, and they will vote for him.
He's the next PM. It's all but confirmed.
You'd think the Leadsom and McVey votes will go to Raab or Hunt. Stewart might pick up some of the Harper votes.
Always hard to say as politically the first round votes are just niceties and you'll see more move to the serious contenders quite quickly to gain favour.
Always hard to say as politically the first round votes are just niceties and you'll see more move to the serious contenders quite quickly to gain favour.
Sexist vote. No surprises there. Johnson is a shoo in because they know how much pull he's got with the knuckle dragging section of the public.
Not sure what us more laughable/tragic, Trump as President or Boris as PM. Democracy has failed.
PM Bojo then
Not shocked at McVey being dead last not even double digits. She strikes me as an absolute idiot.
The thought of Boris being PM and Trump being President is too depressing to think about. It's also likely to happen. Stop the world I want to get off.
its not impossible that johnson drops a bollock but certainly would be a brave person to put their money on any other candidate at this point
Already polling over 50% of the membership and likely to pick up more of the "leave" vote when people drop out
Already over 1/3rd of the MP's backing him which ensures he is in the final 2 (and as soon as MP's believe its inevitable he wins they will all switch allegiance and start looking for government payroll positions)
So yeah its seems hard to see him not winning
Gut feel is that Stewart might do well in the hustings but not well enough to get significant numbers of MPs and quite likley that he, Hancock and Javid are out in the next round
Could see Raab dropping out and backing boris for a cushy role leaving Gove and Hunt to battle for the final spot... though it may be a race to see who can quit first to prevent a mauling at the hands of the membership vote
all hail king boris
I suspect his cabinet will be something along the lines of
Mogg as chancellor
Raab as brexit secretary
and a bunch of other prominent hard brexity types
perhaps with the poisoned chalice of Ireland to somebody he hates to deal with the inevitable border issues... probably gove and hes probably desperate enough for any power to take it
Stewart seems to be doing well.
Fait accompli.
Collusion between Johnson, Trump and Farage.
Collusion between Johnson, Trump and Farage.
Our politics has become a sad, sad joke. Sigh.
if he won half the MP's would defect to the brexit party I think
certainly couldnt see the likes of mogg, redwood, bone, baker letting him run things... they would defect to brexit and force a GE - then its all hail king farrage.... ffs wheres my milkshake
He's going to be pushed by the BBC just like Cameron was. He's the most presentable of the pro EU candidates so he will be their darling.
The British ruling class
Jokers
Agreed. Still ringing in my ears are the last words said by Tusk when the EU granted the end October extension - Don't waste it.
Well. As you say the terrible Tories have completely ignored those words and instead of making the most of that opportunity, they are, as usual looking inward and thinking only about themselves and not the country.
I'm afraid that Boris has been pushed so hard for so long by the media that it won't make any real difference.
If I was to nominate the least worst then Stewart would get my vote.
But. Yet again, our next PM will not be decided by the country but by the Tories who are by far and away the least popular party in history.
The Race to NUMBER 10
And the Brexiters will be so happy - their PM will be decided by a few hundred Tories, British democracy at its finest, they've taken back control and can't see the irony.
Quite agree.
And the only reason that they can get away with it is because the main opposition party is close to being un-electable.
If Labour had any sense and ambition to be in power they would do the right thing and kick out Corbyn and replace him with an electable leader.
Is there such an MP though....
Think Boris being PM is worse than Trump being president.
Remember when you all felt superior laughing at America for electing Trump. Well you've let PM Boris happen.
Boris as PM will be the best thing to happen to the Torys, extinction awaits.
Including Boris, our last two prime ministers would have been decided by a group of people who wouldn't fill my local town hall.
Tgere needs to be a change in constitution, a party in government can't change a leader more than once without a GE. Look at this mess ffs!
Tgere needs to be a change in constitution, a party in government can't change a leader more than once without a GE. Look at this mess ffs!
I seem to remember Boris himself calling trump a Bellend, now they're best mates.
Welcome to the resistance, Roderick James Nugent 'Rory' Stewart OBE FRSL FRSGS MP.
For the UK at least.
I'm really, really, hoping this will finally make people in Scotland vote for independence.
Sky's Lewis Goodall:
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I hope you are right about this, how do you foresee it happening?
Isn't that the guy who crowned himself as the "British Obama" ? If that's your last and best hope you're truly screwed
It be interesting to see where all our prime ministers attended. Be interesting to see how long the one from the *least* prestigious unis term was.
Isn't that the guy who crowned himself as the "British Obama" ? If that's your last and best hope you're truly screwed
The comparison is definitely harsh - Obama's got a far better chance of ever becoming PM than Chuka.
Christ...
I'm in the Boris camp. Forget his policies which will be little different to anything the others come up with, after years of the likes of Brown, Cameron, Miliband and May more than anything we need someone with some character. In British history the greatest leaders have been the ones with the force of personality to get things done, Churchill, Thatcher, George, Attlee and so on. Boris might act the buffoon but he'll get people talking about politics again instead of the current malaise and negativity whenever the topic comes up. Corbyn would have been a step in the right direction if he wasn't completely unelectable and surrounded by incompetents.
And me. If only for the reason he's our problem and it's our country he's going to destroy.
Boris is totally un-electable. That's why they are not having a general election but having an in house election instead.
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