The New Prime Minister

[whiskeryron]

Yet again the majority ( however slim) of the electorate have been totally disregarded. By selecting a Tory MP who is a stay ( in the EU) MP, to be Prime Minister, the establishment is cocking a snoot at the will of the people of the UK. The new Prime Minister by default should be a firm Brexiter.

[naomi24]

jno, //well, the Brexiters should have stayed and fought for the job. //

Well, they didn't - and I doubt any of them would have succeeded if they had so they did us all a favour really by cutting the process short. It is what it is.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"They did us all a favour really by cutting the process short".

Agreed in spades.

[DTCwordfan]

My betting is Gove gets the negotiation job; after all, he is a skilled lawyer. The interesting one is whether she gives Bonking Boris a job....or is he dead-meat politically?

[naomi24]

I don't think she will give Boris a job - but I might be wrong. I wouldn't - but it's not my call.

[Gromit]

Gove and Boris will be in the wilderness for the near future.

[grumpy01]

She may well decide better to have them in the tent p.....g out than outside the the tent p.....g in.

[Gromit]

Johnson did not have a cabinet position before the referendum vote, and he definitely has not earned once since.

Gove seemed well respected before the referendum, but his disloyalty shocked a lot of people besides Johnson and Cameron. I don't think any colleagues will trust him again. His dismal showing in the leadership election (most of his votes were May supporters trying to keep Leadsom off of the ballot paper) suggest he is now very marginalised.

But we shall find out shortly.

[Davemano]

May has said that a Brexit negotiating team will be formed - will no doubt be Stayers and Leavers so it is not something she is going to do on her own as some of the posts give that impression.

[Smowball]

I've read tonight that it could take 6 years for us to leave the EU. Surely not??

[Jackdaw33]

Although May is classed as a 'Remainer' she campaigned with nothing like the passion that Cameron did for the cause. We might be pleasantly surprised.

[Smowball]

I guess she has said that Brexit is Brexit....... Not sure of anything anymore lol

[Hopkirk]

I am a strong Brexiteer, but am more than happy seeing Theresa May as PM.

I don't follow this belief that it had to be someone who was on the Leave ticket.

She's the best man for the job.

[Smowball]

I'm also a strong Brexiteer and do find it ironic that Cameron resigned as a remainer he felt he couldn't move us forward, and yet May who was also a remainer has replaced him. However, I do feel and hope that she is a woman of her word....

[Hypognosis]

@whiskeyron

How many of us have had a boss who wanted us to do a task in a certain way when we thought we had a better way of doing it?

We grit our teeth and do it the boss' way. That's the position Theresa May is in. She doesn't agree with the outcome but nevertheless must carry out the people's instruction, to the best of her ability, building her reputation on the world stage.

And, as sp1814 rightly said, go on to implement the rest of the 2016 manifesto. But that will be rather tame and mundane, by comparison with the precedent-setting fallout from Brexit.


What I find disturbing is how Boris' recoil at winning the referendum reminded me of the way people react when a ruse has gone wrong. Like he expected to lose yet still add another leadership notch to his CV. He wasn't supposed to win, which was why he had no strategy or plans in place to expedite Brexit. Like he was serving the purposes of the Remain side of the party, who were supposed, having won, to welcome the prodigal back home and train up, via cabinet positions to become a Winston-like figurehead.


(c) Me, 2016. Any similarity to persons living, dead, or undead, is entirely coincidental.

[mikey4444]

Snowball. I am not surprised that Dave resigned after the Ref.

He put his heart and soul into the campaign, which was a central policy plank of the Tory Party, and when he lost, it was the honourable thing to do.
He said long before the Ref. was announced, that he was going anyway, so why string it out ? He is basically an honourable man and I hope history will judge him as so.

What Britain needs now is a firm secure hand at the top, not someone who has only half his suitcases packed.

[Gromit]

Mikey,
Cameron was a weak politician who failed to win an election convincingly. His inability to have any authority over his split party led to him conceding again and again to the Euroskeptic right, which eventually led to his downfall. He jumped before he was pushed.

[Gromit]

May faces the same problem as Cameron. The Conservatives have a small majority, and are at the mercy of a few rebels. There may be a honeymoon period, but they will return to make her job more difficult than it need be.

[mikey4444]

Gromit...08:43....then its as well he did....to continue on with uncertainty at the top is just what Britain doesn't need now.

[fiction-factory]

In theory we vote for MPs though, not for a particular PM

[mikey4444]

If more than a few voters could name their local MP, I might have some sympathy with that FF !


I can remember the time when the candidates party wasn't mentioned on the voting slip at all. I would strongly suspect that people going into the booth will just scan up and down and look for the Party of their choice, not a name.