[Politics] Next Conservative Leader - Rishi Sunak

[BLOCK F]

Braverman needs to get absolutely nothing in Sunak cabinet imho. Her completely engineered resignation t'other day should put paid to that. Let her cool her heels on the back benches for a while

I reckon she’s nuts and shouldn’t be anywhere near a position of authority.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Mordaunt has dropped out.

Sunak wins.

200 or so MPs choose the PM....the will of the people?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Different clown. Same circus

But to be fair, now the Chief Clown has stepped down and the interlude with the junior clown exploding the car, we have the 2nd most powerful clown of the last 3 years taking over. Proppa succession planning

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

200 or so MPs choose the PM....the will of the people?

The PM is whoever has the confidence of the commons.
I don't like the current Conservative party but their MPs are entirely within their rights to select whoever they like as their leader.
Let's see how they cock up next

 

[beorhthelm]

Strictly speaking, Liz Truss was the first woman to be elected by the Conservative membership.
The election for Theresa May didn't go past the MPs, and the election for Margaret Thatcher was only between MPs.
As far as Labour's concerned, it's absurd that a woman's never been elected and I'm not going to try and defend it.

to be fair its not absurd, apart from Cooper none of them have looked like leadership material. the selection of Truss, lacking any leadership, charisma, economic competance or administrative ability, was absurd.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

200 or so MPs choose the PM....the will of the people?

Lesser of two evils. The Tory party member freaks in the Shires would have had BJ reinstalled in Number 10 in two shakes of a lamb's tail given the chance

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

200 or so MPs choose the PM....the will of the people?

Better than Jerry the Tory member deciding I guess:

Sangita Myska dismantles caller's claim that Rishi Sunak 'isn't even British'

Sangita Myska this afternoon took a call from a Conservative party member, who claimed "eighty percent" of Tory members back Boris - and that ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak "isn't even British"

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Peston babbling incoherently outside Number 10 on ITV lunchtime news is worth a watch

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Fabricant being interviewed on Sky News at the moment. Never really realised just what an odious orange faced bewigged little toad he is.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

to be fair its not absurd, apart from Cooper none of them have looked like leadership material. the selection of Truss, lacking any leadership, charisma, economic competance or administrative ability, was absurd.

It's absurd in principle. There are deeper questions about why so few women who are deemed to be credible candidates have stood for the leadership over the years in the first place (I was quite fond of Lisa Nandy in 2020 as it happens, but there we go).

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's absurd in principle. There are deeper questions about why so few women who are deemed to be credible candidates have stood for the leadership over the years in the first place (I was quite fond of Lisa Nandy in 2020 as it happens, but there we go).

Penny Mordaunt's day will come - if she's got the stomach for a decade in opposition

 

[Brovion]

How many bags of taxpayer’s money are going to go on redecorating the place this time? Maybe the billionaire father-in-law could stump up for it. I doubt the chinless wonder even had time to steam off Johnson’s old wallpaper in her 44 days in the hot seat.

I don't think it is/was Taxpayers' money? I think it was done by private donation, the name Lord Brownlow rings a bell.

And out of all the things Johnson did that was small potatoes. Even if it was taxpayer-funded he was only ever a tenant, it's not like he got the Taxpayer to fund the redecoration of one of his private properties.

 

[peterward]

But to be fair, now the Chief Clown has stepped down and the interlude with the junior clown exploding the car, we have the 2nd most powerful clown of the last 3 years taking over. Proppa succession planning

And second most popular with electorate and tory party membership...... thus why they won't be asked to vote and give the wrong answer!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[peterward]

It's absurd in principle. There are deeper questions about why so few women who are deemed to be credible candidates have stood for the leadership over the years in the first place (I was quite fond of Lisa Nandy in 2020 as it happens, but there we go).

Cooper was never really that credible imho and Rayner is just a gobby northern bird. The female John Prescott.

The do need to move beyond white men though.

 

[A1X]

So 200 people now get to arbitrarily choose who our PM is, and the public are entirely excluded from the process?

Some "democracy".

 

[Madafwo]

“It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s the sale of the f**cking century” (Jason Statham, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)

Wrong Jason, it was Flemyng that had that line.

 

[The Clamp]

So 200 people now get to arbitrarily choose who our PM is, and the public are entirely excluded from the process?

Some "democracy".

We don’t live in a democracy. We never have. Democracy is what we are told we live in to keep us subservient and docile.
FPTP is undemocratic.
A monarchy is undemocratic.
Getting a say in who rules us only when they say we can have one (up to five years) is undemocratic.

The whole thing is rotten and broken. And we are expected to scritch and scratch around their feet to heat our homes and feed our children while they hide billions away in offshore accounts and tax evasion schemes. And it is tax evasion. Just because they call it avoidance and the law is written by them to let them get away with it, it is evasion.

Sticking feathers up your arse doesn’t make you a chicken.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Cooper was never really that credible imho and Rayner is just a gobby northern bird. The female John Prescott.

The do need to move beyond white men though.

I've not mentioned Cooper once on this thread, to be clear. I think she's fine.
Rayner has never stood for the Labour leadership.

 

[beorhthelm]

So 200 people now get to arbitrarily choose who our PM is, and the public are entirely excluded from the process?

Some "democracy".

well not really. 200 odd MPs representing their constituents. thats the idea of representitive democracy.