Next Tory Leader.

Sorry, Lemongrove| I said 4 and meant 4. It was just after the war, my father was was serving in the army in India and my mother and grandmother listened, read and talked about the news and politics a lot - and there was a lot to talk about in the late 1940s. I was interested in the things that they clearly considered important so initially listened to the radio and, not much later, read the newspapers as well.

I was in hospital for some months when I was 6 and my parents asked me if I would like a comic every week. I opted for the Children's Newspaper and the first thing I read was the article about events in Parliament.

I have many memories of news events from my very early years and thanks to Google I have since been able to confirm that I remembered them correctly.

I can also remember being disconcerted when I started school to find no one shared my interest.

It is a family thing. Both DS and DGS developed fairly unusual interests in their early year and were quite clear by the age of 4 what their future careers would be. DS now holds a senior position in that profession and DGS has some time to go yet but it is difficult to imagine he will not do the same.

PMQT. Johnson v Corbyn

Monica .....you can’t be surprised that other posters thought that 14 was more likely.
What you say is utterly flabbergasting.

Maw Ah, that sounds about right ( about the ‘Scotch’ poem.)

Boris Johnson has form on the anti Scottish rhetoric. This from Today's Herald:

BORIS Johnson is at the centre of a row over a sustained series of attacks on the funding system used to calculate public spending in Scotland.

"The former Foreign Secretary, who is the favourite to become the next Prime Minister, described a Conservative promise to keep the Barnett Formula as “reckless” and said it would be better spending money in Croydon than Strathclyde."

Let's see what comes out on the AM show this morning.

Heseltine was favourite after Thatcher but Major won the leadership

I think RS is positioning himself to be the next but one leader. He has clearly completely distanced himself from BJ so that when he (BJ) completely f***s up (as he will if elected) RS will have clean hands but will be able to say that he was willing to lead.
I wonder how things will pan out in the next few days - several will withdraw possibly after having swapped support for a particular candidate for the promise of a cabinet position.

I don't want another Tory PM it will be the same neoliberal politics the cause of austerity.

We need a General Election

New government Socialist Labour.

I think the same maryeliza

There isn’t a socialist party

Surely, the most important step now is to press the reset button and call a General Election. Otherwise, we will have a Prime Minister, chosen by roughly 100,000 people who are mainly male, white, middle-class and pensioners.

"Research has confirmed that 70% of party members are male and 97% are white British.

"The average age is 57, although over 40% of the group is aged 65 or above.

"Members are concentrated in the southern half of the country with six out of ten living in Eastern England, London, the south-east and the south-west.

"Some 86% of them fall into the ABC1 category, used by researchers to describe the top social grade."

This means:

People of colour are disenfranchised
Women are disenfranchised
The young (under 57) are disenfranchised
The poor are disenfranchised

This group voting for the Prime Minister of our United Kingdon doesn't represent any of these people.

Obviously, the Conservative party must choose their leader but then surely we need a General Election?

We also need to reset the basis for leaving the EU. May's second biggest mistake was to call the general election believing she was personally popular. Her first even more arrogant than that, was to decide after consulting only the hard Brexiters, that Brexit meant no single market, no customs union and no ECJ in any form.

A small majority voted to leave, they did not vote for any specific form of leaving and neither did the rest of our countries. Two out of four of the countries voted to remain and another has since moved to this view. The arrogance of May, that the stability of her party meant more than the stability of our union and our economy, has led to everything that followed for the last three years.

A general election would allow us to say "let's find out which 'leave' people actually want - or don't want" now we all know so much more. The dictatorship of a small majority in a vote one day in June 2016 is destroying our democracy. We need a General Election.

Reference: metro.co.uk/2019/05/25/theresa-mays-replacement-will-chosen-100000-male-pale-voters-9690079/

I liked Gabriella's post-------AFOAMCL. Brilliant ! Agreed.

GG and EV how absolutely infantile and pathetic. ??

What is AFOAMCL ?

It's good to revert to juvenile behaviour now and again ?? although I'm potty.......................................?
trained and stopped dribbling from both ends ages ago. ????

Why not Andrea Leadsom, she's always impressive on TV, calm, assured and a sense of humour. Good judgement too. Boris and Rory too radical in opposite views.
kasp123

Labaik
Sorry. Only the initiated can be told the code.
If you can go shopping with the right leg of your jeans rolled up to knee height and tap the side of your nose when asked why, then I can effectively disclose the code. Proof (as in a photo) is crucial.

I have no idea either Labaik ! Hope someone clues us in!

It’s a comment about his looks - how mature.

I’m trying to work it out ....

A female or a male ..... is as far as I can think (but obviously that might be completely wrong!)
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AFOAMCL- who cares. Leave the titterers to it.

Hence his nickname I suppose?

FFS - a face only a mother could love. Now just grow up

I like tittering sometimes.
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