The Tobacco industry pays good lobbying money, nearly as much as the oil companies.She's claiming that the proposals to curb smoking are being promoted by 'unelected' civil servants in the Department of Health.
Smoking ban: Liz Truss takes aim at ‘unelected’ health department officials
Former PM launches apparent attack on civil servants over plans she said had been put ‘in the bin’www.theguardian.com
TTsskkk! Bloody experts.
Join the dots backwards and those speaking against anti smoking measures can usually be connected to tobacco industry lobbyists. Many of who are often resident in a Tufton Street office. Or in the case of Priti Patel who once stood up in parliament to condemn cigarette packaging measures, a former PT 'consultant' for the baccy industry. Never bite the hand that previously fed, eh....
Can't argue with that. Once an elected PM falls we elect another one. Leave it to the "jam and jeruselem" mob or Tory MPs and look what you end up with.
And two of the other contenders for that accolade have come in this parliament!
I think it should be purely the remit of the MPs to pick their own leader/Prime Minister.
They do pick their own leader. Every single one of them has been picked by the party.
The last 9 years just demonstrates what a shambles the tories have been, because they've picked the leader every time and then turned on them quickly.
It feels to me like this is the obvious outcome of Brexit. The idea was to put the Europe question to bed but it has made it worse. It has split the party completely and has brought out to the open the issue we all knew ie that the Tory party consists of two different elements that have muddled along for power. Boris purged many of the Europhiles but it has brought divisions further to the surface and now the europhobes are splitting into extreme and less extreme.
Liz Truss didn't win a single round of voting amongst Conservative MPs. In all except the final round that eliminated Penny Mordaunt, she came 3rd.
I would argue that is just another example of how shambolic the tories are. In theory, the parties pick the leader.Liz Truss didn't win a single round of voting amongst Conservative MPs. In all except the final round that eliminated Penny Mordaunt, she came 3rd.
Who do you mean by "the parties"?
Agree about Labour but, as to your question, not for me. You don't vote for a PM, you vote for a candidate who is generally the representative of a party in a constituency.
I caught some of her interview on the Newscast pod this morning and one thing is crystal clear, the women has bullet-proof, iron-clad confidence in a) herself and b) her believe that she is 100% blame-free for the fiasco that was her tenure as PM.
I’d say a fair few vote for the leader in my experience of one to one convo’s on the subject…although I agree it should be the local candidate…I fail myself on occasion
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Boris has just enough brains to know he is a liberal.
Sadly you are right. I'd estimate around 50% of the electorate meet one or more of my criteria for being f***ing stupid. This ranges from those who will be voting tory because of Brexit all the way to those who will be voting conservative because they support conservation, with a large group who won't vote Labour because they are not labourers, in between.
