Who To Follow May?

[AB Editor]

I can't see if there's anyone called June on the Tory party list.

But who could possibly take over with any credibility?

I've seen Boris and Reese-Moog mentioned - but clearly they are not serious contender as they have little mass appeal.

Who are some likely candidates to fill Mrs May's leopard print heels?

[AB Editor]

Anyone think Gove will make another attempt?

[Jackdaw33]

No, he lacks the charisma.

[Tilly2]

Please don't let it be Michael Gove!

[Hopkirk]

There's no great rush, but the men in grey suits won't want her leading them into the next election.

Is there a Jim Hacker in the background they could push forward?

[scooping]

Mikey4444: I'm not going to be 'strangely quiet'. You've got to hand it to Corbyn. For the first time in British political history he galvanized, helped organise, motivated and inspired a remarkable movement - of the stupid. The stupid (where's the dosh), the naive (let's all live in a Red La La Land) and the downright ignorant. That's without mentioning those who chose to ignore, or didn't understand, that someone who has applauded terrorists like the IRA, which slaughtered children, pregnant mothers and hundreds of others in the United Kingdom, is not fit to become leader of this once great country. May the Devil damn him, and his colleagues, black.

[jim360]

So, in summary, you're not best pleased with the result then?

[naomi24]

scooping, but he didn't win - even though his supporters are behaving as if he did.

[scooping]

Jim360: I'll give you that one.

[Bazile]

scooping
Blame the electorate - that type of thinking could catch on - it's novel - give you that

[scooping]

Naomi24: I know, but ***d off with the plaudits for that dreadful excuse for a man.

[kvalidir]

Rather than Teresa May's Tories Scooping who have actually gone into government with the IRA's paramilitary adversaries- and you call us stupid lol.

[scooping]

Kvalidir: Don't understand.

[kvalidir]

It's quite simple just read what you wrote in your long diatribe about how stupid Labour voters are then read my comment- perfectly simple.

[scooping]

Oh I see: You're saying DUP MPs are, or were, paramilitaries. You must have inside knowledge because it's news to the rest of us.

[Baldric]

Nor does she!

[Baldric]

That ^^ was @ 1753

[jim360]

I'm racking my brains, but I can't come up with another recent election where some of the side that came out worse off got all upset at the "stupidity" of the electorate for the decision they made, and were roundly criticised accordingly...

If you want to respect this result, you should probably start by accepting that maybe the electorate, as a whole, knew what it was doing. After all, they didn't give Corbyn any hopes of a majority, or Abbott any hopes of being Home Secretary, so the worst warnings of Project Fear didn't materialise. It's just that they didn't find what May had to offer very attractive either. Because she was an arrogant, conceited, inward-looking leader who treated the electorate with contempt and offered them the most extreme version of something that, while inevitable, was also decided off a close result that demands that *both* sides be listened to and taken seriously, in shaping the inevitable future.

Stupid it was not. Perhaps May shouldn't have been so stupid as to call the election in the first place -- and perhaps she should have been more honest about the reason, rather than falling back on some pathetic excuse that the opposition was trying to, err, oppose her. An especially hollow excuse when at no point had any of her plans been actually blocked.

Blame the electorate if you like, but above all, blame the choice they were offered. And the person who offered it to them.

[scooping]

Kvaldir: I didn't call Labour voters stupid. I called them stupid, naive or ignorant.

[scooping]

Corbyn's just repeated that people 'voted for hope'. As the Tories won 58 seats more than Labour and gained more votes, that must mean that us Tories represented hope.