> For example Boris Johnson
Dear lord that would put a ribbon on everything!
Re:UK election: Conservatives lose majority
by arethuza on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:32AM
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I'd imagine the hardcore Conservatives will see BoJo as the only possible "Stop Corbyn" candidate - Amber Rudd is too high risk and not well known enough, even though she did very well in the campaign.
The problem is that, by all accounts, while BoJo might come across as a nice guy by all accounts he'd likely make an awful PM (e.g. read about the chaos that was his last leadership attempt).
He would be an absolutely shambolic PM.
Re:UK election: Conservatives lose majority
by davidgerard on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:03AM
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"Idiots love Johnson’s contrived, clownish TV persona, and so will vote for him even if his policies mean they’ll be living under a flyover and cooking rats over a brazier." - Daily Mash http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/br...
The only 'chaos' I recall was trusting Gove, was there something else?
Re:UK election: Conservatives lose majority
by arethuza on Friday June 09, 2017 @09:47AM
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"All Out War" by Tim Shipman has a lot of the details of the post Brexit manoeuvring for power - Boris appeared to be completely disorganised and with a poorly managed team. One particular event described is where Boris probably lost the PM role because he got mixed up about sending a text to tell his team to tweet that Andrea Leadsom was joining the Boris & Gove team. Leadsom backed out after hearing nothing from Boris and announced that she was running on her own behalf and then Grove did the same.
Just out: "May has no intentions of resigning" (!)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/09/theresa-may...
But on the bright side (for us in the rest of EU) it's also more likely to result in a "softer" brexit, if the election result is seen as a vote against May's Conservative plan.
That said, whoever replaces May - once she has been eaten by the Tory backbenchers - is likely to have been an original Brexit backer, which May was not. For example Boris Johnson. So it's all very uncertain at this point.
Edit: Was unsure about the exact date of negotiations - they were set to start on june 19th but it's uncertain if it can now.
Someone actually created a throwaway account to deliver a salty (now removed) comment that I should shut up if I didn't know what I was talking about - referring to "I believe.." in my original comment. Otherwise this would "Turn into reddit".
Someone is having a bad morning.