WHO DO YOU FANCY FOR OUR NEXT PM, AND WHY?

Sadly, the plain facts are these:
- a (small) majority voted to leave
- the leave campaigns lied to the voting public (and, indeed, were fined for doing so)
- the effect of leaving, on the UK economy, will be a disaster.

There can be no serious doubt that leaving will cost each and every reader of this post possibly several thousand pounds in (depending on your current position):-

- higher cost of living (because we pay more in some tariffs; and the value of the pound falls against other currencies)

-poorer job prospects (we have lost a major trade deal and have little or nothing in place to replace it; plus the supply chain make sit more difficult to manufacture complex high value products - cars being just one example)

- poorer pensions for those who have or will have a pension pot invested in UK companies

Other countries will only negotiate trade deals with us on terms that are favourable to them; as they know that the UK will be desperate for trade deals. Trump, in the US, is just one extreme example - he has already made it clear that he wants access to OUR NHS. If you look at the US, their health service is a financial disaster for anyone who gets ill, especially in old age.

The sad irony of the current situation is that the conservatives were supposed to be the party of business - yet it is they who have and are continuing to create these massive problems for business and the UK economy - and they are actually quite open that they are only doing it because they are worried about losing a few votes to the far right.

Unfortunately the 'Brexit means Brexit' mindless slogan ignores the fact that we were not told what Brexit meant; and nobody seems to have mentioned the effect on the UK economy.

So - any of the current set of politicians will be a disaster!

No doubt, I will get a few negative comment about the above - but frankly I have tried to give a TRUE analysis.

Around here the French are horrified and laughing at the same time.
Do know what - I don't really care what the French think of us any more. They need to get their own country sorted out - and pdq.

PS The only politician I have ever felt had any integrity and decency was Alan Johnson; sadly he is retired, and I haven't traditionally been a Labour supporter anyway!

Whoever it is we got into this mess because Cameron was afraid of Farage - if we leave will Farage go away? It seems they are all self serving and don’t care about the ordinary people. I liked Rory Stewart but it’s not going to happen - Boris the buffoon will get it

The "leader" elections will involve all of 9000 Scots ..thats the total tory party membership here .They will deliver another unelected PM from a party that Scotland hasn't voted a majority for since 1955...64 years ..to deliver a Brexit we voted against .Democracy? I think not

I am reinforcing Offa's Dyke

'None of the above' except Rory is the best of a bad bunch. What is really wrong is the system. At this crucial time, why should the paid-up members of any political party have the right to decide the individual who will govern us all? This is not true Democracy but a corrupted version of it.

Oh, forgot to say - Nicola Sturgeon would be a good PM.

Please - NOOOO

If it is to be another female PM then Andrea.
Esther ? thanks but no thanks who tends to 'rant'
which leaves me feeling a need for air and the question 'what the was all that about.?'
Rory? yes, who delivers a convincing speech but can he put into practice what he preaches ?

However bad this lot are, surely, Jeremy Corbyn and his bunch would be even worse. They are in complete disagreement as well. I think the Monster Raving Loonies would be the best solution,or have we got them already?

Unfortunately the reality is if the next PM doesn’t “deliver Brexit” the Conservative Party is finished.

The Labour Party will lose its “leave voters”.

The above leaves the door wide open to Nigel Farage...........?????

Martin321
What's the weather like on your planet?

Funckygran has a good point there. 12:03:32

sorry for spelling mistake in name

makes it look a bit rude

I'd like to see Boris get the job. Anybody but Corbyn and the Labour Party!

What a shower they are - not one of them with any integrity or even ideas. Bojo will become PM simply because he's the only chance the Tories have of seeing off Farage & Co - it's all about saving the Tory party and to hell with the rest of us.

martin321. I think you have summed up very well. As for Johnson, are we really to be expected to applaud him and his 30 year old mistress as they enter no 10? She is the daughter of a family friend which just proves the depth of his moral code. Pitiful

In defence of Lindylou I think she was quite right to highlight Like and Bet and it never occurred to me she was shouting.

Yes, the majority who voted to leave 2016 was tiny: 1.27 million, meaning a swing of only 635,000+ would have brought a different result. 33.5 million voted out of a population of around 65 million. Put it another way, 37.4% of voters voted leave, 34.7% voted remain, 28% of the electorate did not vote and 62% did not vote to leave. And now we have career politicians furthering their careers on the back of this.

ABSOLUTELY ( yes I’m shouting) agree with Maisie. Yay Maisie. For all you still unconverted leavers , I suggest you watch Years and Years on BBC. A v prescient picture of what is around the corner. People who support Boris can’t be real Conservatives ( who would admit that publicly anyway) because we always get family values pushed down our throats from them and HE has none. Multiple affairs, wives, children and at least one ‘ love child ‘. How is he not Elite. Just like ex banker Farage. They have no idea at all of what normal life is like let alone for those in poverty.

Well, we’ll, well! Interesting views - I don’t really know. They say the favourite doesn’t usually win. In this case I think Boris will win but I think Gove might be better, in that no one is going to laugh at him and he seems very keen to do well. Rory S is a strange one but I don’t think it’s his time now. He needs fattening up a bit - he looks ‘a bit’ ill? Can’t really understand the appeal for Boris - it’s all a bit of a worry. I don’t think he’s capable of behaving. It would be nice to have a normal looking, smart, clever, trustworthy guy in the line-up!!

I want Ian Hislop foe PM

Me.