The Conservative Party leadership contest [Gove to run against Boris (oh, wait)]
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East Preston Gull
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I think this was the plan all along. We are being played big time. Boris in the negotiations team was never going to work.
More confident in our exit team now.
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happypig
Staring at the rude boys
As it was written in big letters on a bus and was a pillar of his campaign, probably not.
tinycowboy
Well-known member
Good old Boris and his tactical scheming - like Cameron, sees that the next two years will present intractable problems for the PM: there is no way the majority of the people will consider themselves satisfied with whatever happens. He's going to sit back, hoping to retain as much goodwill as possible from Brexiters, and that Remainers will cool off. He will then enter from the wings. Either that, or he's developed a conscience.
Machiavelli
Well-known member
This really is a turn up for the books. Perhaps he realised that he's whipped up a catastrophic error, leaving someone else to attempt to pick up the pieces.
Bozza's right Boris has run big time.
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looney
Banned
- Jul 7, 2003
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Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
No chance. Gove stabbed him in the back and Boris has alienated a significant proportion of the Tory Party with his shameless scheming. Boris doesn't do conscience, he does do face-saving though.
Theresa May for PM please.
This is all very intriguing now. I wonder if Boris sees exercising (and negotiating) Article 50 as a poison chalice? Perhaps he could be playing a very long game, taking a punt that whoever ends up in charge will be unpopular with both the party and country as a result of the EU deal they strike. Moving in for the kill just before 2020? He certainly seems ambitious and cynical enough. Or, perhaps Gove has just outmanouvered him. Gove is a man, after all, who had his au pair enter his kids' sports day parents' race in order to win it.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
How can Michael Gove become Prime Minister? That to me would indicate he thinks he's some sort of expert and we've had quite enough of them in this country, thank-you very much.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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or he doesnt and never has wanted to be the PM or leader? its only so much news paper pundit talk that suggests it was ever an ambition.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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This, by " withdrawing " at this point he gets a second chance if/when the time is right.
[MENTION=25]Gwylan[/MENTION] missed out, big time
I did.
I just thought that Boris had too big an ego not to stand. But having been stabbed in the front by Cameron electing to resign and then stabbed in the back by Gove, he had little chance of getting through.
The irony, of course, is that if he had been one of the final two, he'd probably have won but now he can contemplate a wasted political career
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Boris never wanted leave to win the vote imo. He thought a narrow remain vote would leave Cameron vulnerable enough for him to make a leadership challenge and become PM with a referendum remain win.
skipper734
Registered ruffian
MMmm. Fox or May? May it will be then.