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CON leadership vote 3rd round of MPsGove 51Hunt 54Javid 38Johnson 143Stewart 27

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  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    Unreliable polls? Has this ever happened before?
  • kyf_100kyf_100 Posts: 3,911
    The sound of a thousand PB'ers ripping up their betting slips...
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Good riddance to Stewart.

    Seems odd he's lost MPs.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 9,688

    Unreliable polls? Has this ever happened before?

    All previous polls in the history of the world have been as expected.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    Hunt, Gove and the Saj maintain their holding pattern with the margins between them almost unchanged.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    edited June 2019
    TBH It's not that crazy to exclude Rory. He couldn't possibly lead the party in its current state, which is a sad fact but one has to be realistic. Any of the remaining contenders could, if necessary.
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,279
    edited June 2019
    Given their behaviour in 2016, when May walked over them both, the same doubts about Johnson and Gove remain. Why did they stand aside in the first place?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    Either he was gifted some backers for tactical reasons, or some MPs felt he deserved a shot at the debates, but did not see anything that made them think he should continue to get that support.
  • QuincelQuincel Posts: 3,949

    TBH It's not that crazy to exclude Rory. He couldn't possibly lead the party in its current state, which is a sad fact but one has to be realistic. Any of the remaining contenders could, if necessary.

    Fair point. He's not as bad a fit as Corbyn is, but he wouldn't be a million miles off.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    So that's good riddance to the centre ground and good riddance to Northern Ireland.

    Your little narrow band of extremists won't win a General Election. Just so you know.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    Problem is Rory may have appealed to 2017 Labour and LD voters (the latter especially) but few if any would have voted for a Stewart led Tory Party.

    However lots of 2017 Tories would have voted Brexit Party under a Stewart led Tory Party.

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one
  • RH1992RH1992 Posts: 788

    TBH It's not that crazy to exclude Rory. He couldn't possibly lead the party in its current state, which is a sad fact but one has to be realistic. Any of the remaining contenders could, if necessary.

    I agree, and that's as a nominal Rory supporter. It wasn't his time this time and I knew that right from the start, but I want the others to have their feet held to the fire and that's happened.

    I think the job of Tory leader at present is even more of a poisoned chalice than 2016 and I can't foresee the next leader lasting more than a year*

    *Unless something magical happens and the WDA does get approved before approximately the end of November
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    Seems odd he's lost MPs.

    Not odd at all. Anyone who saw last night's debate where Rory seemed unable even to work a chair will not have been surprised. The fact that we could use last night's shambles to explain any one of the five being eliminated need not detain us.

    I suspect, however, that what did for him were the joke tweets he sent about Amess's 20-year Southend campaign and biscuits and so on. It is like Boris in 2016. You need to be seen to be taking the process seriously.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    Please please please have all, or nearly all, of those MPs backing Javid/Rory and one of Hunt/Gove back the non Boris final option. It would be very funny if Boris somehow did not win the MPs ballot, or only just managed it.

    Seems improbable though. Some number of those now freed up will like Boris better than the rest, others will jump on a winner. We can dream though.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    edited June 2019
    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
  • Gove and Hunt will be desperate to talk to Stewart and Javid tonight. I'd not be at all surprised to see the Saj drop out before further ballots... there's no realistic route for him, and he's just seen from Stewart what happens if you hang on a day too long.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
  • eekeek Posts: 24,797
    RH1992 said:

    TBH It's not that crazy to exclude Rory. He couldn't possibly lead the party in its current state, which is a sad fact but one has to be realistic. Any of the remaining contenders could, if necessary.

    I agree, and that's as a nominal Rory supporter. It wasn't his time this time and I knew that right from the start, but I want the others to have their feet held to the fire and that's happened.

    I think the job of Tory leader at present is even more of a poisoned chalice than 2016 and I can't foresee the next leader lasting more than a year*

    *Unless something magical happens and the WDA does get approved before approximately the end of November
    This - anyone who thinks they as PM can fix this Brexit mess is nothing more than utterly delusional.

  • blueblueblueblue Posts: 875
    It's not that crazy - centrism is in retreat before the populist left and right both here, and in the US, and in the EU, and in Australasia, and in India, and in Brazil.....

    The Tories cannot allow - as they did once before by electing the charisma-vacuum May - the forces of populism to find their only electoral expression on the left. That's how Corbyn almost upended the country in GE2017.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,010
    HYUFD said:

    Problem is Rory may have appealed to 2017 Labour and LD voters (the latter especially) but few if any would have voted for a Stewart led Tory Party.

    However lots of 2017 Tories would have voted Brexit Party under a Stewart led Tory Party.

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    I'm not sure anyone will stand much chance of being Tory prime minister once Johnson has done his stuff.
  • chloechloe Posts: 308
    I am disappointed Rory is out of the race. For me he was the only candidate being realistic about the challenges of Brexit.
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    HYUFD said:

    Problem is Rory may have appealed to 2017 Labour and LD voters (the latter especially) but few if any would have voted for a Stewart led Tory Party.

    However lots of 2017 Tories would have voted Brexit Party under a Stewart led Tory Party.

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    In many ways you are right but remember also that Rory is no LibDem. Much of his programme was old-fashioned, fiscally responsible, one-nation Conservatism. Calling out rivals for pissing billions up the wall in gimmicky tax cuts would have been seen as orthodoxy just a few weeks ago. The current Chancellor made the same complaint.

    And we can tell the tax cuts were gimmicks because Gove could not explain his new sales tax and Boris was rowing back on his tax cuts for the rich (and bribe for MPs) faster than Steve Redgrave.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    Chris said:

    HYUFD said:

    Problem is Rory may have appealed to 2017 Labour and LD voters (the latter especially) but few if any would have voted for a Stewart led Tory Party.

    However lots of 2017 Tories would have voted Brexit Party under a Stewart led Tory Party.

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    I'm not sure anyone will stand much chance of being Tory prime minister once Johnson has done his stuff.
    Deliver a FTA for GB and an overall Tory majority you mean? Plenty of scope for future Tory Mps there
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,928
    Rory the not-so-Tory?
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 20,901

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    It’s painful when this happens. Sympathy and empathy.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    There is no candidate left who is prepared to work with the deal on the table. This makes both no deal Brexit and revoke more likely.

    Who is going to lead any kind of drive to compromise now?
  • Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039
    kle4 said:

    Please please please have all, or nearly all, of those MPs backing Javid/Rory and one of Hunt/Gove back the non Boris final option. It would be very funny if Boris somehow did not win the MPs ballot, or only just managed it.

    Seems improbable though. Some number of those now freed up will like Boris better than the rest, others will jump on a winner. We can dream though.

    And the MPs don't have a final two ballot. Which is probably sensible, as quite often the winner at the round of 3 won't have an absolute majority and so a polite fiction can be maintained if the membership vote the other way.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    blueblue said:

    It's not that crazy - centrism is in retreat before the populist left and right both here, and in the US, and in the EU, and in Australasia, and in India, and in Brazil.....

    The Tories cannot allow - as they did once before by electing the charisma-vacuum May - the forces of populism to find their only electoral expression on the left. That's how Corbyn almost upended the country in GE2017.

    Indeed, though centrist left liberals still in power in Canada, France and Spain.

  • JackWJackW Posts: 14,787
    Very disappointing score for Rory.

    The contest will be much duller with the telling questions Rory raised left unanswered. Will Javid now pull out ? .. if so the bun fight between Hunt and Gove will be ferocious.
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    Seems odd he's lost MPs.

    Not odd at all. Anyone who saw last night's debate where Rory seemed unable even to work a chair will not have been surprised. The fact that we could use last night's shambles to explain any one of the five being eliminated need not detain us.

    I suspect, however, that what did for him were the joke tweets he sent about Amess's 20-year Southend campaign and biscuits and so on. It is like Boris in 2016. You need to be seen to be taking the process seriously.
    Rory was pretty terrible last night (in a terrible format where none could shine). e.g. they all kowtowed to the imam Abdullah (who, of course, turned out to be a Corbynite anti-Semite and misogynist who has now been suspended, well done the Beeb), but Rory was particularly cringe-worthy (and tacitly offensive), saying:

    "I would firstly say to Abdullah as-salāmu ʿalaykum, and that I am very very very proud very proud to have you in this country."

    God help us. I liked his style, he was refreshing and direct. But he needs to toughen up if he wants to win, one day.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    I don't understand why Javid is still 130/1.

    https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Hunt is surely the most dangerous opponent for Boris because he enables a direct comparison: Who was the better Foreign Secretary? Gove or the Saj would be easier opponents, and probably in that order.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,928
    blueblue said:

    It's not that crazy - centrism is in retreat before the populist left and right both here, and in the US, and in the EU, and in Australasia, and in India, and in Brazil.....

    The Tories cannot allow - as they did once before by electing the charisma-vacuum May - the forces of populism to find their only electoral expression on the left. That's how Corbyn almost upended the country in GE2017.

    Almost - he only won four more seats than Brown did in GE2010!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408

    kle4 said:

    Please please please have all, or nearly all, of those MPs backing Javid/Rory and one of Hunt/Gove back the non Boris final option. It would be very funny if Boris somehow did not win the MPs ballot, or only just managed it.

    Seems improbable though. Some number of those now freed up will like Boris better than the rest, others will jump on a winner. We can dream though.

    And the MPs don't have a final two ballot. Which is probably sensible, as quite often the winner at the round of 3 won't have an absolute majority and so a polite fiction can be maintained if the membership vote the other way.
    Figured that would probably be the case, but Gove 161, Boris 152 would have been pretty amazing.

    Well, hopefully the eventual loser will be able to climb to 100 backers. 1/3 of the MPs will probably mirror what they get in the members vote.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    Jonathan said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    It’s painful when this happens. Sympathy and empathy.
    At least Labour did it in opposition.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    edited June 2019

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
  • blueblueblueblue Posts: 875
    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    He could lend votes to both Hunt and Javid in an effort to eliminate Gove.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    AndyJS said:

    I don't understand why Javid is still 130/1.

    https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics

    Because Team Boris is pulling all the strings?

    15 of those votes could disappear next time.
  • oxfordsimonoxfordsimon Posts: 5,831
    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    The Boris ego is so large that he will want every vote - and not give any away
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 24,968

    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Hunt is surely the most dangerous opponent for Boris because he enables a direct comparison: Who was the better Foreign Secretary? Gove or the Saj would be easier opponents, and probably in that order.
    That's a good point.

    Hunt could also point to his record as being an effective Health Secretary.

    Effective that is for the purposes of the Conservative party, I'll let others decide how effective he was for health purposes.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    So that's good riddance to the centre ground and good riddance to Northern Ireland.

    Your little narrow band of extremists won't win a General Election. Just so you know.
    Boris is actually reportedly planning a NI referendum on the backstop to enable a GB FTA
  • OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143

    TBH It's not that crazy to exclude Rory. He couldn't possibly lead the party in its current state, which is a sad fact but one has to be realistic. Any of the remaining contenders could, if necessary.

    If Stewart has the opportunity to say "I told you so" in November he has to think about the best way to [not] do that. It would be all too easy - as the texts variably praising intellect in his fellow MPs show - to mishandle it and push people away rather than rally them to him.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
  • RoyalBlueRoyalBlue Posts: 3,223

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719

    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Hunt is surely the most dangerous opponent for Boris because he enables a direct comparison: Who was the better Foreign Secretary? Gove or the Saj would be easier opponents, and probably in that order.
    That's a good point.

    Hunt could also point to his record as being an effective Health Secretary.

    Effective that is for the purposes of the Conservative party, I'll let others decide how effective he was for health purposes.
    Doctors may disagree
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 27,842
    Off topic. Looks like we've got a decent contest in the cricket finally.
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578
    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    So that's good riddance to the centre ground and good riddance to Northern Ireland.

    Your little narrow band of extremists won't win a General Election. Just so you know.
    Rory is not the centre ground. Everyone insists on portraying themselves, or most especially die-hard remainers as the "centre".

    As for NI, if that went it would be much better for our taxes and resolve this whole problem neatly.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 20,901
    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    If Boris tries to play games or manipulate others outside his party, he will come unstuck quickly.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,820
    RoyalBlue said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
    Both are true. However, clearly a no=deal crash-out is worse, it will never be forgotten.
  • In reality, I think all remaining Tory contenders (since Raab left the field) knew Stewart was broadly right on Brexit.

    But they also knew that confronting the Tory Party with the "truth" wasn't actually the way to get to the right answer. The way was to win the leadership and steer it round using sleight of hand and the advantages a newly elected leader has and a discredited sitting PM lacks.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    Nah. He's not in favour of no deal Brexit, therefore he is basically a LD. As foolproof as those Telegraph comments sections calling David Cameron a LD. You could tell by the way he led the Conservative Party to a majority.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
    Win a snap general election after the EU refuse to renegotiate (which Boris will only try for show anyway), hold a referendum in NI on the backstop, then use his majority to ignore the DUP and deliver the WA and a FTA for GB.

  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 50,780

    There is no candidate left who is prepared to work with the deal on the table. This makes both no deal Brexit and revoke more likely.

    Who is going to lead any kind of drive to compromise now?

    Probably Boris.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,697
    That's Rory's five minutes of fame then done then! :D
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,072
    Byronic said:

    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
    Then why was he a sh*t foreign secretary?
  • TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    His body language when talking about tax cuts yesterday was awful. It was like he had been asked to eat his own lung. Negative and timid. Not surprised his support fled.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,096
    Gove and Hunt working together is the only chance of taking Johnson on.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038
    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Bear in mind that Stewart’s core vote of 27 MPs are also now in play and those can’t be gamed by Boris.

    If the objective is to piss him off then they should all go to Gove.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    Nah. He's not in favour of no deal Brexit, therefore he is basically a LD. As foolproof as those Telegraph comments sections calling David Cameron a LD. You could tell by the way he led the Conservative Party to a majority.
    Cameron cut inheritance tax and income tax for low earners and called the referendum that enabled Brexit
  • nichomarnichomar Posts: 7,483
    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    Fortunately there is not a majority in the country for an anti EU pro rich people’s tax cutting party.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038

    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Hunt is surely the most dangerous opponent for Boris because he enables a direct comparison: Who was the better Foreign Secretary? Gove or the Saj would be easier opponents, and probably in that order.
    I think Gove would shit Boris up more.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    You and Rory are really Peelite Liberals not Tories
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,010
    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    It's an amusing thought that Margaret Thatcher's pro-European views would disqualify her as a Tory by present standards.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 9,688

    RoyalBlue said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
    Both are true. However, clearly a no=deal crash-out is worse, it will never be forgotten.
    I agree its unlikely to be good, but a no-deal-crash-out Brexit may not be forgotten for all the right reasons. Elizabeth I made a foolish decision or two. They worked out, and magnificently so.

    Also bad things get forgotten sooner.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    nichomar said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    Fortunately there is not a majority in the country for an anti EU pro rich people’s tax cutting party.
    There is on current polling
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 20,901
    They openly talk about keeping no deal on the table to get a good deal, which completely undermines what little value that ever had as a negotiating tactic. Brinkmanship is dumb, as May found out. Telling the world you’re about to embark on brinkmanship is even dumber.

    Yet that is what our next prime minister says they will do.
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    DavidL said:

    There is no candidate left who is prepared to work with the deal on the table. This makes both no deal Brexit and revoke more likely.

    Who is going to lead any kind of drive to compromise now?

    Probably Boris.
    He follows the line of least resistance. I can’t see him risking the fury of the Maenads in the ERG.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038

    RoyalBlue said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
    Both are true. However, clearly a no=deal crash-out is worse, it will never be forgotten.
    If I were Boris I’d try and get a three-way referendum through the House. It’s the only way this will be resolved. If MPs try and take May’s Deal or No Deal out then their names will be on the record and they’ll have to be accountable to their voters.

    This HoC will block anything else.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    Chris said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    It's an amusing thought that Margaret Thatcher's pro-European views would disqualify her as a Tory by present standards.
    Thatcher also cut taxes and would have backed Leave in the referendum (she endorsed IDS and almost certainly Redwood after all)
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 47,096
    This game playing by the front runner with the order of elimination is a good illustration of why AV is superior to a multi-round election.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 49,964

    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    The Boris ego is so large that he will want every vote - and not give any away
    Boris has already been playing games. That he has the support to do this shows just how far ahead he is. But they will all be there for the final vote tomorrow.

    He must be wondering who would he like to face in the hustings though. Must be a part of him that would love to see Gove get eviscerated by the members for f*cking up the past three years under May.....
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
    The key to Boris getting a deal through parliament by the end of October is simple. Take May's WA and massively increase the transition period from two years to (say) six or eight. This kicks the backstop into row Z, and gives years rather than three months to reach a final settlement.

    It is the backstop that creates all the problems for the ERG so they can vote for Boris's WA with the cover story (which may even be true) that it will allow the development of technical solutions to the Irish border problem.

  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 38,548

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    So that's good riddance to the centre ground and good riddance to Northern Ireland.

    Your little narrow band of extremists won't win a General Election. Just so you know.
    Rory is not the centre ground. Everyone insists on portraying themselves, or most especially die-hard remainers as the "centre".

    As for NI, if that went it would be much better for our taxes and resolve this whole problem neatly.
    Stewart was not a die-hard remainer. It's kind of obvious from the way he batted strongly for May's deal, which was to leave.
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,092
    HYUFD said:

    Good riddance to Stewart.

    So that's good riddance to the centre ground and good riddance to Northern Ireland.

    Your little narrow band of extremists won't win a General Election. Just so you know.
    Boris is actually reportedly planning a NI referendum on the backstop to enable a GB FTA
    Is there anything solid behind this rumour, which you have mentioned several times?
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 20,901
    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    You and Rory are really Peelite Liberals not Tories
    In that case, most Tory leaders are not Tories. Thatcher, Churchill, Macmillan, Cameron, The lot.
  • The_TaxmanThe_Taxman Posts: 2,979
    Byronic said:

    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
    What are the legacies of Mayor Johnson? Boris bikes, Water cannon's nobody can use or wasting money on bridges that cannot be built? Far from being a good Mayor he was a Night Mayor!
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,010
    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
    Win a snap general election after the EU refuse to renegotiate (which Boris will only try for show anyway), hold a referendum in NI on the backstop, then use his majority to ignore the DUP and deliver the WA and a FTA for GB.

    Perhaps you could give us a rough sketch of how you see those events fitting in between 22 July and 31 October?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 116,719
    edited June 2019

    DavidL said:

    There is no candidate left who is prepared to work with the deal on the table. This makes both no deal Brexit and revoke more likely.

    Who is going to lead any kind of drive to compromise now?

    Probably Boris.
    He follows the line of least resistance. I can’t see him risking the fury of the Maenads in the ERG.
    Boris wants a FTA for GB not No Deal, he could not care less about the backstop.

    All he needs is a majority then he can tell the DUP to sod off and deliver it
  • ByronicByronic Posts: 3,578

    Byronic said:

    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The m.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
    Then why was he a sh*t foreign secretary?
    Of course I asked myself the same question. I think he was shit because 1. the Remainery media decided he was shit from the get go, 2, he really is prone to undiplomatic speech so making him Chief Diplomat was always a risk, 3, many of his colleagues abroad hate him for leading Brexit, so they were bound to make life tough, plus 4, a dash of his usual laziness and complacency, born of intellectual arrogance

    The same problems will attach to him as PM, BUT in that job he will get to hire and fire the whole team, and run the whole show. It may just suit him better.

    I am clearly whistling in the dark here, but when it is so dark, that's all you have left to do.
  • MJWMJW Posts: 1,283

    TGOHF said:

    Will be tempting for Boris to lend Hunt 30 votes tomorrow.

    Hunt is surely the most dangerous opponent for Boris because he enables a direct comparison: Who was the better Foreign Secretary? Gove or the Saj would be easier opponents, and probably in that order.
    I think Gove would shit Boris up more.
    Indeed. The problem with Hunt is that he's just a wet. I can't imagine him doing anything that would even risk poisoning his relationship with the likely winner and probable elevation to Chancellor. Gove on the otherhand...and he knows where the Brexiteer bodies are buried and probably possesses a better technical understanding of the vagaries of Brexit than Boris does.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,072

    Byronic said:

    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
    What are the legacies of Mayor Johnson? Boris bikes, Water cannon's nobody can use or wasting money on bridges that cannot be built? Far from being a good Mayor he was a Night Mayor!
    I see what you did there.
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,092
    GIN1138 said:

    That's Rory's five minutes of fame then done then! :D

    10 more left according to Andy W.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    AndyJS said:

    I don't understand why Javid is still 130/1.

    https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics

    Because Team Boris is pulling all the strings?

    15 of those votes could disappear next time.
    Indeed it looks like some games are being played. last two votes have firstly seen the primary rival on the right for Johnson being eliminated, followed by the preciptious drop in Stewarts support today.

    If Johnson is pulling strings then the question is if he lends votes to his favoured opponent in the final round, or pulls 'home' all the votes to himself to give himself the biggest mandate.

    I think the latter is more sensible.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,038

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    Whilst I think that’s true he didn’t actually say that, which I think was one of his biggest problems.

    His rhetoric was often non-Conservative and at odds with his real position.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
    Win a snap general election after the EU refuse to renegotiate (which Boris will only try for show anyway), hold a referendum in NI on the backstop, then use his majority to ignore the DUP and deliver the WA and a FTA for GB.

    You think Boris will run a GE with that as a plan? Surely running promising no deal is the only way to neutralise BXP?
  • nunuonenunuone Posts: 1,138
    Thank God.

    The media fawning can end now.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 48,928

    Byronic said:

    blueblue said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    Ditto. The good news - in a sense - is that Boris is likely to very soon face a 'conquer-or-die' moment that risks his rapid and humiliating ejection from the position he has sought all his life if he fails.

    Just as a classic conservative believes that bakers bake and butchers make sausages in their own interest, not the public's, and yet both sides benefit from the exchange, so I think the fact that Boris' career will be on the line from the very beginning of his premiership should help to force out the best in him.
    Yes. Exactly.

    And also Boris is actually quite good at several things (and terrible at others). Importantly, he is a good hirer and delegator, he spots talent, he employs bright people, he's open to being persuaded - it's one of the reasons he was an effective London mayor. He knows how to put together a decent team - he's clearly done it for this campaign.

    Teresa May did not have these skills and that's one reason she was a total disaster.
    What are the legacies of Mayor Johnson? Boris bikes, Water cannon's nobody can use or wasting money on bridges that cannot be built? Far from being a good Mayor he was a Night Mayor!
    He also cancelled a proper (useful) bridge in east London:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Gateway_Bridge
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,010
    Chris said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    kle4 said:

    Byronic said:

    The clever, ruthless way Boris and his team have commanded and manipulated this entire election, gives me very very very faint hope he might not be a total disaster as PM.

    Faint. I did say faint. Faint hope.

    The reason it is faint is that this part is within his control and he has probably spent most of his time in the last few years working toward it. But he cannot control parliament so easily, or the EU.
    Boris voted for the Withdrawal Agreement remember, he wants to deliver Brexit and a Deal but needs to be elected leader first and has now eliminated his most dangerous opponent, Raab and the candidate with the most momentum, Stewart
    He wants a deal but how does he get one unless the EU are the greatest bluffers of all time? He would bring forth the WA with mere cosmetic changes to the PD again, with BXP breathing down his neck? Please.

    Wanting a deal has never been a problem with the Brexit process. Getting one through parliament is. Boris eventually backed the WA, but everyone now in the race says they can get a better one. If he, or they, cannot, they seem keener on no deal than returning to the deal that already exists.
    Win a snap general election after the EU refuse to renegotiate (which Boris will only try for show anyway), hold a referendum in NI on the backstop, then use his majority to ignore the DUP and deliver the WA and a FTA for GB.

    Perhaps you could give us a rough sketch of how you see those events fitting in between 22 July and 31 October?
    PS Don't forget the legislation that will be needed after the Withdrawal Agreement is approved. Last time around I believe people were allowing nearly two months for that.

    PPS Don't forget the Summer Recess.
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    HYUFD said:

    Chris said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    It's an amusing thought that Margaret Thatcher's pro-European views would disqualify her as a Tory by present standards.
    Thatcher also cut taxes and would have backed Leave in the referendum (she endorsed IDS and almost certainly Redwood after all)
    When you say Thatcher cut taxes, you forget the first thing she did was increase taxes.
  • The_TaxmanThe_Taxman Posts: 2,979
    RoyalBlue said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
    The 17.4 million were given the opportunity to vote Tory in 2017 and they decided they did not want to do that...
  • RoyalBlueRoyalBlue Posts: 3,223

    RoyalBlue said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into a death cult.
    How uncharacteristically hysterical!

    17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Many of them would vote Tory if there were economic disruptions, provided that Brexit has been delivered. Few will vote Tory if we don’t.

    The only thing that will utterly destroy the party is cancelling Brexit. If it doesn’t happen and someone else can be blamed, we will survive, but be out of power for a generation.
    Both are true. However, clearly a no=deal crash-out is worse, it will never be forgotten.
    The people who would never forgive us have already stopped voting for us, and aren’t going to for another 10 even if we end up staying.

    Can you explain why the Tory Party should pay such heed to people who have no intention of supporting it?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 91,408
    Jonathan said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    He's anti stupid and irresponsible tax cuts, which is bang slap in the middle of Conservativism. And he's anti a chaotic ideologically-driven crash-out which would destroy jobs and disrupt citizens' lives, which is pure Conservativism.
    You and Rory are really Peelite Liberals not Tories
    In that case, most Tory leaders are not Tories. Thatcher, Churchill, Macmillan, Cameron, The lot.
    Well, all those years of Labour government were not really Labour government either, so one does wonder who on earth has been ruling us for so many years.

    In all seriousness, while I have criticised parties for attempting to pretend unity, to claim a bigger tent of support than is reasonable or reflects reality, some really do go so far in the other direction, arbitrarily deciding certain strands of conservatism or labour are not really Tories or Labour after all, much to their own shock I am sure.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,010
    HYUFD said:

    Chris said:

    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Rory has more chance of being the next Liberal PM than a Tory one

    Or of leading a new centre-right One Nation Party if Boris is stupid enough to crash us out in chaos and thereby convert the Conservative Party into an unelectable death cult if it's not one already.
    Rory is anti tax cuts and anti hard Brexit, his agenda was more LD than Tory.

    He may as well join Umunna in the LDs if he really wants to be PM, there is little room for a pro EU, anti tax cut 2nd Tory Party
    It's an amusing thought that Margaret Thatcher's pro-European views would disqualify her as a Tory by present standards.
    Thatcher also cut taxes and would have backed Leave in the referendum (she endorsed IDS and almost certainly Redwood after all)
    "Would have" backed Leave in the referendum?

    Surely you've discussed it with her many times ...
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