I suspect that would put the Tories in opposition for years - my gut feeling is that if Cameron loses in 2015 then many in the party might turn to Boris.
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I suspect that would put the Tories in opposition for years - my gut feeling is that if Cameron loses in 2015 then many in the party might turn to Boris.
The honourable member for Lewes is a prize ****, but I also detest Dianne Abbott, Gove & Pickles
Flex Your Head
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Jeremy Hunt is an utter shit.
Mind you, most of them are nowadays.
Mind you, most of them are nowadays.
Geriatric Seagull
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Gove wins by a mile. An odious little....who wants to put all us plebs back where he and his public school "chums" KNOW (cos they're always right) we belong. I bet he was thrilled by last night's Panorama about North Korea. It fitted his idea of education perfectly.
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Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
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Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
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Iain Duncan Smith gives CJTCs a bad name
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shaolinpunk
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Michael Gove makes my blood boil - a definite CJTC if ever I've seen one
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I don't know - I'll get this out the way, I find him personally odious BUT
He has influential friends in the media
He's only really p*ssed off teachers who aren't going to vote Tory anyway.
He's young (ish) and unencumbered by scandal (yet, see point 1)
I think he's (somewhat laughably) seen by his own party as a dynamic moderniser. He certainly doesn't appear to be fixed to either wing of the party.
Albion_Dave
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Sorry, can't get past my least favourite however hard I try. David Belloti 
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I've thought that for a while, I get why it might be a consideration but it would be an awful lot of faith to show in someone who has stuck his foot in it publically repeatedly. He gets away with it now but as PM?
Agreed - he is a danger but given he's defeated Ken Livingstone, who despite his love of newts was a fairly decent mayor, I think many Tories hold him as the key to true election success. Regardless of your politics, he does at least brighten up an otherwise bland set of current politicians.
I think Boris, if elected Tory leader, would become PM. He is the likable friendly face of the party. He is upper class without the condescending 'I'm just like you, call me Dave' act. People like him.
Lets face it, policies don't seem that important anymore. Cameron in opposition didn't have much policy beyond criticising the Government and Milliband has adopted the same tactics. I can see Boris getting in on personality alone.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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i understand this is Gove kicking season, but i think you'll find he's very popular within his party.
janee
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I remember this old dear having a go at me in 1985 for being a single mum spouting the gospel according to john redwood.
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He can't be teflon Boris for ever, he's already got away with far more than others in his position would. Put it this way, if I were a Conservative voter as much as I could see the value in having someone with a considerable public profile as leader, I wouldn't be able to concentrate for fear of him affecting diplomatic relations with another country in the same way as his outrageous slurs on Liverpool in the wake of the Ken Bigley tragedy did.
Gove as ridiculous as it seems appears to be a safer pair of hands to me who should appeal to both wings of the Tory support.
Anyway I don't really care... just an outsider looking in if you will.
SouthCoastOwl
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The very thought terrifies me! Time to hire Martin Q Blank.
I think that just illustrates how out-of-touch a lot of the Conservative Party are.
All fair points, I hadn't really put the problem on it's head and thought about it like that before. Boris has got away with a lot during his career.
You are correct about Gove - Tories love him!
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I didn’t mind Portillo, actually. Thought he had a fair bit of weirdly gawky panache.
Mellor was awful, as was Michael Howard. And Archer is probably themost unanimously hated? But for me, Widdiecombe takes some beating.
Of the current lot, I find Loughton & Balls hard to stomach.
Edit - forgot GALLOWAY. Bleurgh.
Mellor was awful, as was Michael Howard. And Archer is probably themost unanimously hated? But for me, Widdiecombe takes some beating.
Of the current lot, I find Loughton & Balls hard to stomach.
Edit - forgot GALLOWAY. Bleurgh.
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I think his political demise actually taught him some very valuable lessons. He'd be a far better MP now than when he actually had a seat.
And Doris Karloff (as much it pains me to say this) was a proper old fashioned conviction politician, who I have a great deal of respect for, even if I don't share her political views. She would have been an excellent leader of the Tory party if she was bothered about the image side of things.