I actually named Hunt in a draft for my previous post. He's been quietly restoring his rep since lockdown started. Expressed reasonable criticism of Boris, but otherwise kept his head down. I think he wants to be PM, and I think he might be a good person to take the job. Cabinet experience (row with junior doctors notwithstanding), and I think the right mix of boring stability that is needed post-Boris.
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I actually named Hunt in a draft for my previous post. He's been quietly restoring his rep since lockdown started. Expressed reasonable criticism of Boris, but otherwise kept his head down. I think he wants to be PM, and I think he might be a good person to take the job. Cabinet experience (row with junior doctors notwithstanding), and I think the right mix of boring stability that is needed post-Boris.
clapham_gull
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Hunt is definitely doing a bit of light training, including the "we made mistakes when I was Health Minister" warm up.
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Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Hunt is the obvious best of the very bad bunch but this comment is also not his finest hour given Russia's attempts to reclaim a sovereign independent former USSR state.
https://news.sky.com/story/foreign-...ompares-eu-to-prison-of-soviet-union-11513718
Still, until the Crime Minister actually goes, and we see who is standing it is impossible to have a favourite beyond ruling out the obvious "most grim".
There are 1 or 2 better than Hunt, I suspect. Wallace and Ellwood spring to mind instantly.
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Flex Your Head
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Will the hard right nutjobs, led by 'Brexit hard-man' Steve Baker, accept a Remainer as leader, or will they be a permanent thorn in his side?
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Well given what they did to May
Mind you, they did get their preferred swivel-eyed nutjob and that hasn't exactly worked out, has it
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Thought they'd moved on ?
Flex Your Head
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They will doubtless be fearful that he would somehow 'water down' their precious shitfest, 'betray the country', or simply negotiate with the EU as an adult.
nicko31
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A lot of Tory members though still have an obsession with Lizz "CTRL C, CTRL V" Truss, I have a friend who worked with her before she entered politics. I don't like what I hear.
The four favourites in the betting (Hunt, Truss, Tugenhadt and Wallace) all voted Remain.
Dorset Seagull
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Seems a little crazy that a new leader could come in and be PM. The manifesto they put forward could be so far removed from what the electorate voted for. However, I accept that nobody would replace their leader if that scenario existed
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BBassic
I changed this.
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"The police decided that Boris Johnson attended several illegal parties entirely legally" is an excellent quote.
Raab sent out this morning in an attempt to dampen expectations that 54 is / will be reached with a vote to take place next week.
This afternoon, it's Dorries - who apparently believes this is all an ambition-fuelled plot by 1 or 2 Tory MPs witht he vast majority of the Tory party 100% behind Boris. Oh and the entire Partygate thing is only relevant within Westminster now and the electorate just want to move on.
This afternoon, it's Dorries - who apparently believes this is all an ambition-fuelled plot by 1 or 2 Tory MPs witht he vast majority of the Tory party 100% behind Boris. Oh and the entire Partygate thing is only relevant within Westminster now and the electorate just want to move on.
Hmm.
A lot to unpack with today’s Boris Johnson interview for Mumsnet. It starts off fairly skewering him. But then melts into a homely and at times, sycophantic and chummy conversation.
You can see how he wins people round. I was almost courted into a begrudging empathy for the man until my senses kicked in again and I realised “you’re a ****ing liar”.
Ultimately I came away feeling dirty. Like I’d been groomed. Because he almost had me fooled at times.
I’m loathed to say it, because I know he’s a rancid, lying, deceitful bin-bag full of tramp shit but yes, I can see why simpletons fall for his schtick.
Having said that, it’s interesting to watch him answer some pretty tough and frank questions outside of PMQ’s when we don’t have the jeering mob of overgrown toddlers yelling and hollering over the answers. And that jeering comes from both sides, might I add.
It’s twenty minutes but rather worth your time, I think.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=irhtoo35VQo
A lot to unpack with today’s Boris Johnson interview for Mumsnet. It starts off fairly skewering him. But then melts into a homely and at times, sycophantic and chummy conversation.
You can see how he wins people round. I was almost courted into a begrudging empathy for the man until my senses kicked in again and I realised “you’re a ****ing liar”.
Ultimately I came away feeling dirty. Like I’d been groomed. Because he almost had me fooled at times.
I’m loathed to say it, because I know he’s a rancid, lying, deceitful bin-bag full of tramp shit but yes, I can see why simpletons fall for his schtick.
Having said that, it’s interesting to watch him answer some pretty tough and frank questions outside of PMQ’s when we don’t have the jeering mob of overgrown toddlers yelling and hollering over the answers. And that jeering comes from both sides, might I add.
It’s twenty minutes but rather worth your time, I think.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=irhtoo35VQo
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Has he offered to sit down with [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] yet to answer NSC questions?
Has he offered to sit down with [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] yet to answer NSC questions?
He was going to but Guinness Boy banned him ;-) quite rightly.
And POTG kept PM’ing him requesting dick pics.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Medwayseagull
JCB
Did he reply by sending him photos of the cabinet ?