Party Politics

[Paigntonian]

Can't help but think we'd be better served by people with integrity and intelligence. Not a Part-political point but Tony Blair and Michael Howard, William Hague and John Smith could out-perform these pygmies in an instant.

[ichkeria]

There might be a problem with John Smith :-)

Rumour has it if Johnson were to return he'd actually reach out to the top talent in the party. Rather than doing as he previously, and Liz Truss, did namely fill the cabinet with your mates and political soul mates. We definitely need people in the cabinet for their ability, not just because they've been promised something in return for a vote.
It seems as though the election will go to the members unless there's only one candidate who gets 100 nominees. If there are 2 remaining, the MPs vote, and then the members.

[emmie]

if he is running, then he needs the best people around him, were he to win the race, a minor miracle i must admit, then the country should support him.

[Spicerack]

^Boris would be a certainty if he gets to a membership vote.
Could we see 3T's switching to yet another 'horse' mid race.

[emmie]

i think TTT has already made his choice clear, he has switched back to Boris i believe?

[Untitled]

The Iraq Inquiry DID interrogate Blair and found that he had deliberately distorted the evidence of a threat to the UK... unfortunately Blair was no longer PM (or an MP i think?) by the time the inquiry was completed and its report published.... if he had then it certainly would have been over for him

[emmie]

he was treated very leniently, as far as i am concerned.

[Untitled]

that's because he was not held accountable quickly enough emmie... by the time he was actually caught he was out of parliament already.

hopefully the same mistake will not be repeated.

[emmie]

he should have been sent to a war crimes committee.

[Untitled]

agree

[naomi24]

Untitled, Blair remained PM for four years after he took us to war on a lie - and finally went of his own volition.

[emmie]

indeed.

[emmie]

and passed the PM job to that dolt Gordon Brown.

[Untitled]

i know that

[Untitled]

the reason that happened is because the investigation into whether or not he misled parliament (among other things) took an extremely long time to conclude… if it had happened while he was still PM then it definitely would have been the end of him and rightly so

[Untitled]

gordon brown was a better pm than any of the last three tory pms… arguably the last four!

[Gromit]

naomi/emmie,
You are conveniently forgetting Tory MPs voted enthusiastically to go to war with Iraq. Many Labour MPs abstained or rebelled, but a substantial number of Tories supported Blair.

Conservatives voted in the Commons:
For war 146
Against war 17
Abstained 2

[emmie]

Brown sold off gold reserves for a song, and plundered pension pots, he was uniformly unpopular as leader.

[emmie]

then shame on them for voting it in

[Untitled]

many MPs voted for it because they trusted blair’s claims about a threat to the uk gromit… emmie and naomi are right, he should have been held accountable for that much much sooner than he was.

I hope that the same mistakes will not be repeated again.

[Untitled]

Brown’s action in response to the financial crisis in 2008 was lauded and imitated across the world… the pensions “raid” is a bit overstated

https://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/factcheck%2Bdid%2Bgordon%2Bdestroy%2Bour%2Bpensions/171020.html