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The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:40 pm
by Chuckles1188
The prize:
The contestants:
Boris Johnson
Theresa May
Stephen Crabb
Liam Fox
Angela Leadsom (rumoured)
Michael Gove
May is currently the front runner, but in the normal way of things that means she's not going to get it (which must f
uck with the bookies something chronic).
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:42 pm
by RWC2015
Would suggest putting that poo in a chalice with some rat poison
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:54 pm
by Yer Man
You could photo-shop Nigel Farage into position (trousers down by his ankles) directly over that pile of poo
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:06 pm
by Mahoney
I'm genuinely surprised anyone wants to do it. Are they completely nuts?
If you're a Remainer, why not let a Leaver pick up the shit?
And if you're a Leaver, are you really that keen to be the next Spencer Percival?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:09 pm
by Insane_Homer
has to be Boris, it's his Circus.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:11 pm
by easyray
Insane_Homer wrote:has to be Boris, it's his Circus.
As has been explained, he doesn't want it. In fact, he didn't even want to leave the EU.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:14 pm
by AND-y
fudge the conservatives. Nob heads.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:15 pm
by RWC2015
AND-y wrote:f**k the conservatives. Nob heads.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:15 pm
by Mahoney
easyray wrote:Insane_Homer wrote:has to be Boris, it's his Circus.
As has been explained, he doesn't want it. In fact, he didn't even want to leave the EU.
Parliamentary Tory party don't want him to have it, either. I'm torn - quite a lot of me wants him to have to make the calls and take responsibility for the fall out. On the other hand it does matter what happens and I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Has he actually been nominated yet?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:25 pm
by Slider
I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:26 pm
by Insane_Homer
easyray wrote:Insane_Homer wrote:has to be Boris, it's his Circus.
As has been explained, he doesn't want it. In fact, he didn't even want to leave the EU.
He was so good at the fluffing he ended up with cum all over his face, I'd like to see him clean it off.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:30 pm
by croyals
I'm on the Crabb train. Or should that be boat?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:33 pm
by zt1903
The Conservative Party does have a tendency not to vote in the favourite and can be harder to call that other parties e.g. Major over Heseltine, Hague over Clarke and Cameron over Davis.
This leads one to suspect that the next leader may not be BoJo.
Given that it's about time we had another Scottish PM then I would suggest Liam Fox.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:33 pm
by Ledzep
Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:36 pm
by Chuckles1188
Ledzep wrote:Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Err okay
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:36 pm
by zt1903
easyray wrote:Insane_Homer wrote:has to be Boris, it's his Circus.
As has been explained, he doesn't want it. In fact,
he didn't even want to leave the EU.
Nah, not having that.
IMHO he made a very reasoned case at the start of the campaign before the rhetoric all went tits up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016 ... he-change/
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:37 pm
by Ledzep
Chuckles1188 wrote:Ledzep wrote:Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Err okay
Err okay what?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:38 pm
by Chuckles1188
I am far from convinced that your assessment of him is accurate
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:39 pm
by Mahoney
Ledzep wrote:Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Certainly not silly - he's an extremely competent con artist with an enormous gift for PR. A pretty entertaining writer, too.
It's his ability as an administrator and diplomat I doubt.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:42 pm
by Ledzep
Mahoney wrote:Ledzep wrote:Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Certainly not silly - he's an extremely competent con artist with an enormous gift for PR. A pretty entertaining writer, too.
It's his ability as an administrator and diplomat I doubt.
If you take all the emotion out of the recent events with Boris what you see is certainly not what you get. He looks like a buffoon but is a very shrewd operator. Apparently he is literally like a bulldog in negotiations which is what the UK will need in the coming months.
He was also Mayor of London for 8 years so must have diplomatic skills.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:14 pm
by SaintK
Liam Fox and Ian Duncan Smith...............dream ticket
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:31 pm
by Dai another day
Stephen Crabb will win. Here. First.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:41 pm
by slick
I thought I saw that Liam Fox had declared he was IN
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:45 pm
by Calculus
Ledzep wrote:Mahoney wrote:Ledzep wrote:Slider wrote:I have very little faith in his ability to actually do practical stuff.
Me too, and that trumps all other factors.
Not defending the leave campaign but Johnson is certainly not a silly fellow. We actually need somebody like him in the negotiations with the EU. Theresa May would be a disaster and the rest are not in the running.
Certainly not silly - he's an extremely competent con artist with an enormous gift for PR. A pretty entertaining writer, too.
It's his ability as an administrator and diplomat I doubt.
If you take all the emotion out of the recent events with Boris what you see is certainly not what you get. He looks like a buffoon but is a very shrewd operator. Apparently he is literally like a bulldog in negotiations which is what the UK will need in the coming months.
He was also Mayor of London for 8 years so must have diplomatic skills.
Very shrewd when it comes to his own image management. By the accounts of some people who have worked with him, including his former boss at the DT, he is utterly disorganised and a thoroughly nasty piece of work who would be a disaster as PM.
Why would Theresa May be a disaster?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:56 pm
by zzzz
Boris. Of course.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:00 pm
by Seez
Metro letters today. Somehow Boris and Gove are anti-London establishment and IDS is a man of integrity.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:40 pm
by bimboman
How on earth do fox and hunt think they're right to lead the country?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:43 pm
by toweliechaos
May, Crabb and Davidson will be the choices.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:45 pm
by backrow
Must admit, this is not the first internet link about Teresa May I have clicked on
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:46 pm
by bimboman
toweliechaos wrote:May, Crabb and Davidson will be the choices.
Well better than fox and hunt I spose. Actually I really like Davidson. fudge me that would be a great radical choice.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:49 pm
by unseenwork
Does Crabb not have homophobic links?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:51 pm
by PCPhil
Corbyn. Only man who can unite the party.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:51 pm
by Yourmother
zzzz wrote:Boris. Of course.
silver linings
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:51 pm
by Ledzep
FAO: Bimbo -
Its a matter of opinion regarding Boris I suppose. With regards to May I think she's been a poor home secretary who failed on immigration, the police and also went missing in Campaigning on the recent referendum. I suspect she may have been hedging her bets and knew what the result was going to be!
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:52 pm
by Plato'sCave
unseenwork wrote:Does Crabb not have homophobic links?
Yeah, by both associations and parliamentary voting patterns.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:54 pm
by Yourmother
Has Hunt not put his name in the hat already, or did I mishear?
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:55 pm
by unseenwork
Plato'sCave wrote:unseenwork wrote:Does Crabb not have homophobic links?
Yeah, by both associations and parliamentary voting patterns.
Thought he was dodgy.
Anyway Boris as a negotiator? The man could barely sort out a night time tube and you expect him to go against the best that Europe has to offer? Jog on.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:02 pm
by Petros
SaintK wrote:Liam Fox and Ian Duncan Smith...............dream ticket
Two dodgy right wingers with bad track records
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:06 pm
by Emily
bimboman wrote:How on earth do fox and hunt think they're right to lead the country?
..from listening to the voices in their head.
Re: The OFFICIAL Conservative leader race thread
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:15 pm
by kagamusha
zt1903 wrote:The Conservative Party does have a tendency not to vote in the favourite and can be harder to call that other parties e.g. Major over Heseltine, Hague over Clarke and Cameron over Davis.
This leads one to suspect that the next leader may not be BoJo.
Given that it's about time we had another Scottish PM then I would suggest Liam Fox.
Liam Fox is a complete prat and is also as thick as pig shit...
My Mrs works in school, Gove has just created one of biggest education messes since that Labour prat in the 1960s who abolished the grammar schools....