Who to replace Cameron?

He has gone up imo. He has had the wit to know he would not be up to the job. I wonder if Sarah Vine's email. pushed him ?

Oh Mamie- it's a bit like my teatowel about the rules of cricket - only this time it is truly tragically funny

And Bojo now not standing- I mean (excuse me but there are no other words) WTF!?!

Johnson rules himself out!

Stop this discussion of Sexual Orientation. Durex have shoved an advetising strap on GN. I should be so lucky.

Whats all this about being Gay or not? What has it got to do with Politics?

No idea, jinglbells. Ask his wife.

thank you dj. I pass all your stuff to my husband. He is a dyed-in-the-wool Tory and needs to see the bigger picture! When he finds out I am planning to have the guardian, he will have a seizure.

I suppose it's a bit like having to agree with Cameron over the EU.

So Dacre and Mudoch dislike Johnson, thanks Jen, you have made me accept I am in agreement - for once - with these two

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/29/michael-gove-sarah-vine-leaked-email

About the leak, not the leak which is above.

Do we know if Liam Fox is gay? Not that it matters one way or the other. I was just thinking about the Adam Werrity thing a few years back.

Makes you wonder who runs the country, the politicians or their other halfs. (Beammeup's post)

You got the not listening to experts bit in the wrong party, Mamie. That's Gove in the Tory party.
Sorry to be picky. Brilliant otherwise. Understood every word of it.

Love that, Mamie!

This might interest some people. The power behind the throne?

news.sky.com/story/1719331/goves-wife-raises-johnson-leadership-concerns

Just copied that to OH Mamie. Loved it. Thanks

Theresa May, she has a stateswoman like demeanour and as a remainer has enough euro scepticism to fight the cause whilst maintaining manifesto commitments.

Please not Boris. Bit comical as mayor. Running the country? If there were, god forbid, a war? Please! And not Jeremy Hunt. Rightly or wrongly, there was a referendum. He is saying he'll hold another. It would make a mockery of democracy (and the end of referendums. Pointless if you can have another one just because you didn't like the result). If I could choose, personally. Sir David Amess. (yes I know, not in the running as far as I know). So, Big sigh. I guess Teresa. She's probably the best person for the job to reunite the party. All a bit depressing really. It's an interesting question re political leaders. OH and me discussing this morning. We discussed, whilst wandering along, like this one, not sure of that one, but I always think 'Who would I like in charge if there were war'. It does put a whole new 'take' on it (and especially if you look back through history). But for sure, NOT Boris!

That's it in a nutshell Mamie

Clear as mud! But funny! Good one. Nice to see a bit of humour returning. Anyone know much about Kwasi Kwarteng? Listened to him last night and sort of 'took to him'. You know how you had those teachers at school that were as weak as water, then others you felt had a calm authority and you had respect for. I must confess, not researched him yet, so will stand corrected.

Mamie

Have just seen this on Mumsnet. Doing the rounds on Facebook apparently.

"So, let me get this straight... the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they'd all done nothing to help them.

Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn't lose, did - but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who'd always thought he'd lead next, campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash - and he was, but it did, but he's not resigned, but, like the man who lost and the man who won, also now can't become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.

Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party's view of this view is the opposite of the opposition's. And the opposition aren't yet opposing anything because the leader isn't listening to his party, who aren't listening to the country, who aren't listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However, none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about, so there's not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.
Clear?"

It can be a chimpanzee in a dress or suit for all I care as a general election will follow of which I hope they lose for getting this country in such a mess.

Not Donald Trump! (Please...!)

Perhaps the Irish and the Scots will gang together and march on England. Revenge for hundreds of years of oppression. Put that with an hostile Europe and we are f...... Perhaps the yanks will again come to our rescue?