Who will replace May?

Voters want centre politics , the election results show this, no party had a majority and UKIP cannot be blamed

By the way where is May?! She's back to her default setting of acting like a submarine

Trying to decide who she wants as her assistant in number 10?
Who she thinks should take over when she retires? Lots of bits of paper in a hat for that one.
Gone for a walk in the Welsh hills?

She is going to be told what is going to happen on Tuesday at the 1922 meeting.

The behind the scenes men in charge will take over now.

The other thing we have to think about it is will the British voter tolerate yet another unelected PM?

She's appointed Gavin Barwell as her advisor. He's a staunch Remainer and one of the more softer Conservatives.

Did anybody see Heseltine and Osborne on Marr?

Snowdonia is a mountain range not a hill

dd yes "Mays a dead woman walking -it's just a question how long she'll be on death row". Wonderful -Sweet revenge from Osborne

He was an MP who wrote a book about how to win a marginal seat. I think the new Labour MP must have read it.
He was housing minister who built very few houses.
He sounds like a safe bet not to advise Mayhem.

Is that where she is, Annie?

I don't follow her moves Jen, have far more important things and people to concentrate on

I've no faith in any of the potential Tory leaders. The only Conservative who is speaking any sense is Michael Heseltine. The people did vote in June 2016 but the people are as fickle as ever; the electorate screwed UKIP and that must say something. To replace TM at this time would be political suicide for the Tories at the moment.

Listening to Michael Fallon on Andrew Marr. The government is still in hock to UKIP, the Brexiteers still fail to understand that a hard Brexit is plain stupid. As for the DUP they are not to be trusted by anyone.

Parliament must assert its authority and restore some sanity to the wretched business.

So why did you tell me about Snowdonia?
I get it - one of your more important things to do is follow me on GN and criticise everything I say.

I never suggested she was walking in Snowdonia, I said the Welsh hills.
Do you not have any hills in Wales?

Surely the point is, we British are very different from our European cousins. They simply don't "get" us - our quirkiness and our sense of humour. I'm not saying our fundamental values aren't similar, but our country needs someone a bit more charismatic and transformational.

Boris would be fine for me. He communicates (in several languages as has been said), in addition he is a man of action not just words and if an idea don't hold water, (his infamous Wasserwerfer), he is happy to laugh at himself and move onto the next thing. "Stable" may not be his favourite way of governing, but up against the likes of Trump he would be able to spring surprises and give as good as he gets. Boris transcends traditional politics and his appeal to Joe Bloggs in the East End of London equalled his popularity to the toffs and dolls of Knightsbridge, therefore he can employ this like-ability/charm around the world.

My DH is a kind of Boris and though he is selfish, puffed up and infuriates some, he does get the job done and underneath is prepared to apologise when he messes up. Maybe the Conservative party should have chosen Boris first time round. I'm sure if he does become leader he won't entertain all this backwards and forwards nonsense we see currently and he would be a forceful, effective figure for the Opposition.

I see you have a follower dj

Neil has a very balanced panel I see. Not !!!

In 2010, when Mayor of London, Boris got the job done of removing barriers on London Bridge because they were ugly.

Boris wanted the Garden Bridge, and would probably start it again as a vanity project if he became PM.

Does your husband know you consider him a kind of Boris? Poor man.

Boris does things without thinking. He made things up when he was working in Brussels. In other words he is a serial liar.
I really think being PM deserves someone more serious.
Perhaps he should become UK ambassador in Washington. I think there's still a vacancy.

1922 chairman in Neil , looking very unhappy. Terrified of another election. He who speaks with forked tongue

Yes, Whitewave. Some people find my views very attractive.

I am watching Peston at the moment. It's strange that everything now is about Ireland, not the UK as a whole.
Is May really going to go ahead with linking up with the DUP, and undoing the whole of the peace process?
How would other EU governments respond if UK asked for more time?
Everyone else is ready.

You will need to enlarge this.

Don't forget the airport on an island in the Thames estuary!

I expect the inhabitants of Tuvalu would be amused and delighted to have Boris as ambassador.

I bet a lot of Tories complain to the BBC about Marr not mentioning Trident and the IRA

On a sticky wicket with that and the DUP though!! Let's hope that nonsense is finally put to bed.

Gavin Barwell's record.

'If anything signals Theresa May’s utter failure to make any good decisions, it is the fact that she has replaced her two useless advisors Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill with one who is so bad that – after writing a book on how to win an election in a marginal constituency – he couldn’t win an election in a marginal constituency.

What is his advice going to be worth?

Barwell is the man who – as a housing minister – misdirected the public to believe that Labour had been responsible for the lowest house-building rates since the 1920s. In fact, that nadir was reached by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition in 2012-13, after George Osborne slashed investment by 60 per cent.

So when Mrs May said of Mr Barwell, “He has been a first-class minister and is widely respected,” she was completely wrong in the first instance and also wrong in the second.
He also used new powers, passed by the Tories, to stop development plans in Bradford, despite those plans having won public approval – because Shipley MP Philip Davies doesn’t like them. The action signalled that the Tories would stop any plan they don’t like – as favours to each other.'

Sounds perfectly suited to Mayhem.

Soubry is making the very same case as Corbyn - good to hear agreement about Brexit.

Soubry is suggesting that the Tories work with Labour!!!

How the mighty do fall.

Humble pie anyone - it is a bit bitter but soooooo good for you

Soubry for PM?

Some interesting stuff on this website about the situation - not just this link. Others are worth reading.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/how-make-minority-government-work