[Politics] Next Conservative Leader - Rishi Sunak

[Kalimantan Gull]

It wasn't all bad though, you mustn't be too blinkered, he got some big decisions right.

1. Vaccine rollout, I got my first jab four months before the Spanish inlaws
2. Furlough Scheme, again the Spanish inlaws got no help
3. Head above the parapet and went large in his support for Ukraine

So what you're saying is that we should encourage the Spanish to elect Boris Johnson as their Prime Minister? I'm all for that, definitely

 

[Titanic]

I simply cannot believe that there is a serious discussion about the return of Boris.

What a strange world we live in.

 

[peterward]

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Vaccine roll out before the AZ jab was properly tested. Nobody has an AZ booster now, it is all Pfizer and Moderna. Macron was right to be cautious about it.
The furlough scheme was good, but that was Sunak rather than Johnson.
Ukraine,I'll grant you but Johnson loves to look like the hero, until it comes to facing the press when he hides in a fridge or refuses to appear on certain tv channels.

Erm loads said that at the time and got called anti vax nut jobs!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I simply cannot believe that there is a serious discussion about the return of Boris.

What a strange world we live in.

Meanwhile, in the real world.

 

[Doonhamer7]

Anyone of quality wouldn’t go near this. if your any good you’ll wait until after next election, Labour will win the election then whoever takes over has a chance in 2028 or whenever.
if the Tories vote in Johnson again then they show they care only for the Party and not for the Country.

 

[beorhthelm]

It doesn't really matter.

In my view growth is simple. It's either delivered through improving the way things are done (efficiency) or by having more labour in the market to drive output.
The conservatives generally struggle to spend on infrastructure projects and services due to having privatised most of them to address the former (see current historic lack of energy investment for details) So instead they look to cut services. They are not willing to open immigration to support the latter.

It's diminishing returns for any future governments unless they are willing to tackle growth properly with some heavy investment.

investment comes from private business too. was looking at National Grid, have £8bn investment programme for example.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What is it with the media. Stanley Johnson on GMB this morning and Rachel Johnson being interviewed? Does any other MP tout their family around the media circus, and if not, why do the Johnson family?
They even tried to call Carrie Antoinette the First Lady, at one point, when even the most patriotic shouted out the the Queen was the first lady, not some tart, who committed adultery with Johnson whilst his wife was being treated for cancer.

 

[CHAPPERS]

If Johnson can show, with evidence, when he did a last proper day's work as an MP then he should be allowed to run. He's basically been on holiday since he resigned.

He hasn't got any votes recorded since July.

 

[Eric the meek]

Penny Mordaunt has just announced she is running.

Larry the cat has given this the paws up.

 

[rogersix]

I've changed my mine from Ben (he's not interested in the job) Wallace to #bringbackboris

Never ever thought those words would ever come out of my gob, but there you are. Bumbling clown he might be, but looking at the opposition he might be the best option. These are truly strange times we live in.

would you want another tory administration tho?

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Excellent stuff people of Lewes

Excellent stuff people of Lewes

Excellent stuff people of Lewes

One of those who resigned in order to make him do so. I wonder what now makes her think he is the man for the job. It seems to me now fairly inevitable that he will make the members' ballot paper - he supposedly has over 50 backers already, while Mordaunt is struggling to get anywhere near that figure. He will no doubt hammer Sunak in that ballot.

The only thing is, I suppose, that if the Tories are going to be thrashed in the next General Election, it might as well be Johnson who faces that defeat. If they are not almost eliminated, one of the sensible ones (I qualify that - the actual sensible ones were ditched in 2019, and Sunak and Mordaunt were both Brexiteers, with Mordaunt telling some fairly dodgy porkies at the time) can take over and rebuild the party. It will solve any dilemma I have about voting in 2024. I might have been in two minds if Sunak or Mordaunt had got in and done a good job.

However, whoever wins, I think they have been in too long, and Labour need to be given the opportunity to govern. Iraq aside, I had little to complain about Blair's government (apart perhaps from not reversing the disastrous privatisation of the railways and not keeping the banks under tighter regulation). I worked for them for a few years, and they were pretty competent, especially the two Ministers I worked most for, Paul Goggins and Baroness Scotland.

Oops - I see I have quoted KG three times. I'm still trying to get used to this new format.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[The Clamp]

People are stupid. People voted for Brexit. People admire Johnson. People believe the lies.

If convicted criminal, Boris Johnson takes back the Nasty Party, they will likely win the next GE.

Working class Tory voters will be on the pavement watching their houses being repossessed and thanking their lucky stars Corbyn never got into power.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

One of those who resigned in order to make him do so. I wonder what now makes her think he is the man for the job. It seems to me now fairly inevitable that he will make the members' ballot paper - he supposedly has over 50 backers already, while Mordaunt is struggling to get anywhere near that figure. He will no doubt hammer Sunak in that ballot.

The only thing is, I suppose, that if the Tories are going to be thrashed in the next General Election, it might as well be Johnson who faces that defeat. If they are not almost eliminated, one of the sensible ones (I qualify that - the actual sensible ones were ditched in 2019, and Sunak and Mordaunt were both Brexiteers, with Mordaunt telling some fairly dodgy porkies at the time) can take over and rebuild the party. It will solve any dilemma I have about voting in 2024. I might have been in two minds if Sunak or Mordaunt had got in and done a good job.

However, whoever wins, I think they have been in too long, and Labour need to be given the opportunity to govern. Iraq aside, I had little to complain about Blair's government (apart perhaps from not reversing the disastrous privatisation of the railways and not keeping the banks under tighter regulation). I worked for them for a few years, and they were pretty competent, especially the two Ministers I worked most for, Paul Goggins and Baroness Scotland.

Oops - I see I have quoted KG three times. I'm still trying to get used to this new format.

How convenient to just brush aside Iraq. A war! Surely that was enough? British soldiers killed and maimed on a contrived premise? I'm sure David Kelley is turning in his grave. Blair was as big a liar as Boris.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

People are stupid. People voted for Brexit. People admire Johnson. People believe the lies.

If convicted criminal, Boris Johnson takes back the Nasty Party, they will likely win the next GE.

Working class Tory voters will be on the pavement watching their houses being repossessed and thanking their lucky stars Corbyn never got into power.

Spot on (sadly)

 

[vegster]

Some of the guff being spouted by pro Johnson MP's is truly breathtaking, it's really Stalinesque in its reappraisals of Johnsons life and time in government, was it just 4 months ago that 50 of his senior and junior ministers resigned because they had no confidence in him ? have they conveniently obliterated that from recent history ? .. truly we need a General Election, they have no mandate to govern in reality.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Yup. Let's just blame the old people!

Well as the majority of Tories members are of advancing years then just may be.

 

[Jackthelad]

That list is truly horrific. I fear it's either going to Sunak or Mourdant both are awful people.
If the Tories had one ounce of decency they would give the people a general election now.

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[The Lemming Stomper]

prey for granny