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Who next for PM?

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DaisyAnne Wed 13-Apr-22 09:11:03

Listening to the closing interview on Today they seem to think nothing will happen until after the May Local Elections.

The suggestion was that, if Johnson is defenestrated, the next PM could not be from the current Cabinet as they are now all tarred with backing Johnson. Hunt name was the only one they could suggest.

What are your thoughts? I can't see how, if he goes, the government can continue but I do understand I have an underlying bias.

effalump Sun 17-Apr-22 11:23:15

Laurence Fox would do for me. grin

Nannan2 Sun 17-Apr-22 11:24:50

Casdon- it reminds me of Boris?and Coastpath- yeh, the Lucy one is right too- omg theyre all peanuts cartoonsgrin???

Nannan2 Sun 17-Apr-22 11:26:56

They need to have a General Election now, not just shove yet another wanna be Tory in.?

sazz1 Sun 17-Apr-22 11:39:24

Definitely not pretty ugly I can't stand her.

katy1950 Sun 17-Apr-22 11:41:12

I would like to see liz truss but definitely not richie sunka or Jeremy hunt

Grantanow Sun 17-Apr-22 11:46:16

Keir Starmer is honest. But if it has to be a Tory probably J Hunt though he lacks charisma. None of the Cabinet and especially not Dorries. Nor Tugendhat - he is too hot headed to my mind.

Jaye53 Sun 17-Apr-22 11:52:18

Not Nadine D! shes an embarrassment!

volver Sun 17-Apr-22 12:14:04

I know Spike Milligan isn't with us any more, but...

Stick with it to the end, it's only a minute long.

twitter.com/Johnnypapa64/status/1515224513809637377

Camelotclub Sun 17-Apr-22 12:26:07

Rory Stewart. Always thought he had some integrity which is more than can be said for the current lot.

Juniper1 Sun 17-Apr-22 12:28:19

Dorries, pleaseeee. She would be hilarious and would ensure they don’t get in at next election. Truss would be good for the lols as well.

Joesoap Sun 17-Apr-22 12:45:21

I am not into Politics, but if the PM goes my thoughts go to Jeremy Hunt who nearly got in instead of Boris last election, he must have been popular then.

seadragon Sun 17-Apr-22 13:06:11

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-21-tory-rebels-who-face-the-sack-from-boris-johnson_uk_5d6ec8f1e4b011080455fb20 All subsequently sacked for opposing a 'No Deal Brexit'.

polly123 Sun 17-Apr-22 13:45:14

A dire selection indeed. Maybe Tobias Ellwood. Never, never drooling Nadine Dories or dreadful Liz Truss.

Lupin Sun 17-Apr-22 14:00:56

My vote would go to Jeremy Hunt.. He seems sober enough of nature not to put his foot into his mouth and not to take foolish behavioural risks, and has served well in various roles since 2007. He has long serving ministerial experience, although he is wasted where he now is. I think Boris can't stand the competition. His constituents like him and yes, I know it's a safe Tory seat. During the last competition for Tory leader I heard it said of him that he had the necessary grasp of what was going on across the ministries.
In the last election I could not vote for Boris. The warnings were all out there about his disloyalty and lies. Neither could I vote for Jeremy Corbin. I would gladly have voted Tory if Hunt had been their leader, and I am one of those who votes for whichever party seems the best qualified to run the country at that moment.

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 17-Apr-22 14:06:13

I wanted Jeremy Hunt to win the last leadership election. Not Boris. When I voted Conservative at the last general election it was not a vote for Boris but for the party. I’d like Hunt to be PM. Sensible man with integrity who doesn’t showboat.

Allsorts Sun 17-Apr-22 14:13:35

Someone not around at the moment. Can’t think of anyone. You need a motivating orator, intelligent, not afraid of the opposition or his own party, yet. listens to what people care about. Chooses his battles and not browbeaten by the mob brigade, who only ever focus on an insignificant thing and blow it up out of all proportion, what a waste of energy, completely missing the things that are vital.l

MayBee70 Sun 17-Apr-22 14:16:11

Hunt was health secretary when operation Cygnus showed that the country wouldn’t be able to deal with a future pandemic. He ignored it. His saving grace is that, unlike most of the potential candidates, he looks and speaks like a real person and not a caricature of one.

coastalgran Sun 17-Apr-22 14:17:03

Ruth Davidson should have stayed on and she would have ended up with the job even although she was the Conservative leader in Scotland. There would have been no nonsense from Ruth a good Fifer schooled in the mining town of Buckhaven at the local High School, ex forces who even took the Church of Scotland to task over her want to marry her female partner and other mum to Finn. She would be ideal for the job.

volver Sun 17-Apr-22 14:18:45

Nooooo!!!!

???

Katie59 Sun 17-Apr-22 14:25:49

coastalgran

Ruth Davidson should have stayed on and she would have ended up with the job even although she was the Conservative leader in Scotland. There would have been no nonsense from Ruth a good Fifer schooled in the mining town of Buckhaven at the local High School, ex forces who even took the Church of Scotland to task over her want to marry her female partner and other mum to Finn. She would be ideal for the job.

You are joking of course

Aren't you!

Keffie12 Sun 17-Apr-22 14:40:18

There isn't anyone. We have a right wing, populist government. All the moderates were got rid of at the last election and this is what 43% of those who voted wanted.

Sunak was the only plausible one who wasn't tainted. He now is.

My own view is we need a general election. That's 2 years away so we are stuck with whatever corrupt person they vote in next

Whitewavemark2 Sun 17-Apr-22 14:50:06

I think the issue is that we have seen the Tory government slid ever deeper into incompetence, lies, corruption and crime.

This is not what the U.K. is but we are stuck with them. They badly need to lose and then get their house into order.

Daftbag1 Sun 17-Apr-22 14:53:55

Sadly, it all irrelevant, BJ won't step down or be kicked out, anymore than his side kicks Rishi or that revolting woman who has decided to make a deal with the same country BJ was accusing of things to manage the immigration issues, (sorry I have aphasia and it's bad today), in relation to human rights

But interestingly Neither BJ or his pals have offered a room to Ukrainian family's

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 17-Apr-22 14:58:30

Don’t you think there might be some security problems around the PM or a member of the cabinet offering space in their home to refugees?

MayBee70 Sun 17-Apr-22 15:00:57

Germanshepherdsmum

Don’t you think there might be some security problems around the PM or a member of the cabinet offering space in their home to refugees?

I know. They might, unlike the PM, have links with Russia….oh, hang on a minute….