....and We're Off......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395905
I reckon it'll be Bojo v Raab in the final, what say you?

[ichkeria]

I was just being pedantic g :-)

[Ken4155]

Love the moment where, right at the end of the speech, her voice breaks as she realises she may have to visit the Job Centre on 10 June and have to wait 5 weeks for Universal Credit:-)

[gulliver1]

11.41 Mushroom, " the electorate don't get to choose the Party Leader".
The Cons themselves , their very own MPs are going to choose the new party leader, and everyone expects that to be Johnson , then come the next G/E which the Cons expect to win, but they are terrified of ,and will hang on to the last dying second, but if they do pull it off, then Hey Presto Boris will be PM. So if this happens [ God Forbid ] then johnson will have been voted in by the people

[dannyk13]

FAO, Gulliver
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/conservative-party-leadership-contests

[mushroom25]

the UK parliamentary system requires that governments must be supported by the majority of Members in the House of Commons. if BoJo becomes leader of the conservative party that rule still applies and if he's as much of a useless buffoon as suggested in this forum, he may not command a majority.

[youngmafbog]

Not sure Bojo will get through to the final round, too many ready to stab him.

Of course if he doesnt then I suspect it will be the end of the Tory Party since it seems the Tory grass roots (not me I hasten to add) want him as leader.

It certianly would not surrise me for two Remoaners to be in the final two. Again, curtains for the Tories forever but they just dont seem to care. I guess too many are on handouts for their 'farms' from the EU.

[aelmpvw]

the bookies have boris as favourite but i think they've got it wrong this time (i haven't got a favourite because i don't care any more)

[dannyk13]

ymb, It won't be a Remainer, it will be a Brexiteer.

[zebo]

The red suit was to disguise the blood from the knives that her 'colleagues' have stuck in her back.

[ToraToraTora]

elipsis: "Parliament calls a no confidence vote in the Government and wins it." - how? the Tories+ DUP have enough to stop Labour. The next GE is in 2022.

[mushroom25]

//Love the moment where, right at the end of the speech, her voice breaks as she realises she may have to visit the Job Centre on 10 June and have to wait 5 weeks for Universal Credit:-) //

she'll be waiting a lot longer than that Ken - it's means tested and given the net worth of her partner, she won't qualify.

[goodgoalie]

I think Rory Stewart would be a breath of fresh air. For a start, anyone who says they'd immediately get rid of hospital car parking charges gets my vote. He seems like a good bloke:

http://www.rorystewart.co.uk/

[dannyk13]

GG, But is he a Brexiteer?

[ToraToraTora]

of course hospital car park charges is the hot topic of the day!

[Ellipsis]

> how? the Tories+ DUP have enough to stop Labour

That's if all the Tories+DUP are prepared to usher in a no deal Brexit ...

[Peter Pedant]

// Looks like Boris to me TTT.//
are any of you Tory party members
or just on-lookers, gawkers or blaaarters?

[david small]

Good riddance to the harpy. She should have gone long ago.

[ichkeria]

There may, somehow, not be an election until 2022 but that assumes many things, one of which is that there will be no further defections from the Conservative party on the back of whatever happens during the leadership stuff. Or that somehow any who might defect decide to back the govt in any future no confidence vote

[ichkeria]

Graham Brady has gone too I see.

[Peter Pedant]

// The red suit was to disguise the blood from the knives that her 'colleagues' have stuck in her back//

yeah we have the vice of the 1922 ctee ( chief assassins)
and the interviewer (ie Beeb hack) did NOT say
I hope you have wiped your hands before shaking mine

and he kinda said - you are next