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

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Lyndiloo Thu 13-Jun-19 02:14:31

Well, there's 10 left in the race to be our next Prime Minister and voting starts tomorrow.

Who would you LIKE to be the next leader of the Tory party?

And who would you BET on?

Elvive Fri 14-Jun-19 10:13:27

Oh hang on we have " a man of experience"

and " a man with balls".

We will easily reach 6 good things.

Momof3 Fri 14-Jun-19 10:12:21

Do you really think the U.K. is so important the EU will cave so easily. Leaving aside the fact the U.K. has been so arrogant over Northern Ireland and the good Friday agreement it’s just disgraceful.

Elvive Fri 14-Jun-19 10:11:44

Annie/Corbyn/Yawn

Elvive Fri 14-Jun-19 10:10:32

6 good things about Boris please anybody?

So far we've had " he's fun" so that can be number one.

GG, you start as you have inside knowledge due to your extensive contacts.

Alexa Fri 14-Jun-19 10:10:06

If Mr Johnston prorogues Parliament then Rory will be supported by of most people in the country . Our parliamentary democracy is too good to be treated as if it's disposable.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 14-Jun-19 10:05:46

Annie I studiously avoid your obsessive posts as I don’t think they are healthy either for you or the rest of us who have to keep reading them over and over. So please do try to keep them to the correct thread, then we know which ones to avoid. Thank you.

Firecracker123 Fri 14-Jun-19 10:04:38

Greta nothing is certain only death.

Anniebach Fri 14-Jun-19 10:02:57

Johnson is avoiding tv interviews, reminds one of Corbyn
who refused to take part in any tv debates during the referendum campaign, he even went on holiday.

Grany Fri 14-Jun-19 10:01:50

Whitewavemark2

Yes I know Ha Ha

Whitewavemark2 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:57:21

Careful grany you’ll have day6 coming down on you like a ton of misguided bricks.

Grany Fri 14-Jun-19 09:53:51

Rene72

Perhaps your husband has got something right choosing to back the Labour Party, no one wants an obnoxious bully agree with you about that.

There has been and still is an awful lot of lies spread (did you know ?) in the newspapers to smear Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

And with all the other parties not worth much Lib Dems backing of Tories austerity etc. Labour have loads of excellent polices worth a look a fully costed manifesto. And will deal with climate change which is very urgent right now, with only 10 years to do something about it before catastrophic change.

Your husband would have a valid reasons to want to persuade you to vote Labour, just saying.

Article from 2017
In an interview with the Guardian Professor Noam Chomsky the radical intellectual threw his weight behind Jeremy Corbyn, claiming that Labour would be doing far better in opinion polls if it were not for the “bitter” hostility of the mainstream media. “If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for him,” said Chomsky,

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/labour-partys-future-lies-with-momentum-says-noam-chomsky

Urmstongran Fri 14-Jun-19 09:51:30

I think Boris will win. But I still wish it was Raab. I think he is Maggie in trousers. A man of principle who resigned from the Cabinet - putting his money where his mouth is.
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Greta Fri 14-Jun-19 09:49:10

Firecracker123: ...time for a change someone with actual life experience who hopefully has the balls to stand up to the EU.

... someone with actual life experience... Meaning what exactly?
Also, ...*who hopefully has the balls to stand up to the EU.* You are not sure then?

It seems Boris has the balls to get into all sorts of problems.

How do you think Boris is going to stand up to the EU? Bully them?

Glammy57 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:45:15

Renee So, you’re blaming Jeremy Corbyn for your obnoxious husband becoming more of a bully than he always has been? ?

Whitewavemark2 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:43:42

The only good thing that could possibly come of Johnson’s premiership is that he will see off the Tory party for good.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:43:39

I am in a somewhat different position re Boris Johnson, as I knew a very close relative of his for 15 years (we have lost touch these last 2 yrs).

I would still rather him than anybody from the Labour Party front bench.

Watched Rory Stewart today - cringeworthy - no than you!!

gran5up Fri 14-Jun-19 09:41:57

Larry the cat is the best candidate-and he lives at Number 10 already!

Whitewavemark2 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:39:57

Yes maizie I read that. I must admit I was surprised by that, but given the fact it comes from so many sources I realise that he does indeed support complete freedom of movement

blondenana Fri 14-Jun-19 09:33:50

Boris wants to bring back fox hunting and was all for the Badger cull and agrees with bullfighting, also wants to lower tax for the rich,
All those things want me to not want him to win

MaizieD Fri 14-Jun-19 09:25:34

We all know that Johnson was completely indifferent as to whether or not we left the EU. That he chose to back Leave because he thought he would get political advantage from it.

Here's another interesting story about him. It might come as a surprise to his adherents that he is actually in favour of Freedom of Movement.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1139067505094402049.html

I suggest that Leavers who pin their hopes on him getting us out of the EU may be badly let down. He could change his tune in the blinking of an eye. Leaving utter chaos in his wake, of course.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:22:51

It comes to something when even Johnson’s minders can’t trust him enough to “allow” him to talk to anyone.

One he’s off the leash as PM, the bubble will rapidly pop, but we will be left with an idiotic and incompetent.

M0nica Fri 14-Jun-19 09:20:34

Boris Johnson has experience of life? Good God, a privately educated, Oxbridge graduate, who has spent the whole of his adult life in the the hot house of political London. and whose experience of office so far is being a less than successful London Mayor and a Foreign Secretary, who cannot get his facts right and puts British citizens he should be protecting in even greater danger.

Or do you think that being a serial adulterer, qualifies as experience of life. If so it is not one I admire. Wherever Boris puts his balls he won't be wasting them on the EU.

GillT57 Fri 14-Jun-19 09:20:10

rene72 thank you for sharing your story. Your husband sounds like a bully but his Labour party membership is irrelevant. MOnica very well summarised, we are indeed in a sorry state and all this whistling in the dark by firecracker and urmonstongran does not alter this fact. And, fact it is; Johnson is a proven liar, and no amount of whataboutery changes this.

Lazigirl Fri 14-Jun-19 09:15:59

I would hope for a person of integrity to run this country and do not see anyone, with the exception of Rory Stewart filling this role. He would possibly make a good leader - of the Lib Dems? My one joy is that Ms McVey, who was the cause of misery to so many in this country is out, but fear we could be in for even worse.

Bridgeit Fri 14-Jun-19 09:15:21

Boris’s life experiences are not of the calibre required to run this country .