Fair point well made, sod it then, time for a Dictatorship…
I like your thinking Bob, but that will only work if I’m the dictator.
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Joking aside, to all intents and purposes a dictatorship is what we have. The population of the UK is around 66 million people, but the next Prime Minister will be chosen by a ballot of 120,000 members of an elite political party. Democracy my arse.
You vote for your MP, not PM. We don’t have a president despite Blair’s efforts to become one
We are supposed to be governed by cabinet - it’s just that the retards in Westminster have forgotten that
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Fast forward six months.
It is a bit crap though, which is why most PMs seek to renew their mandate quickly. Gordon Brown famously bottled it, giving the financial crash time to bite and Cameron enough time to get his party electable.
John Major didn’t, and won an election on his own terms in 1992. Massive turnout for that one. I guess people really didn’t like Kinnock.
The Tories have got to pick a Brexiter as PM. If they don’t convince the flock to come back, their vote is going to split to The Brexit Party and Corbyn gets a landslide.
I suspect that those who voted Brexit this time would return to the Tory fold to keep out Corbyn - i will probably never vote Farage again because what I wanted got delivered today
As to leaders, I quite like Rory Stewart although I think this may have come too early for him
Only if you’ve got a serious Brexiter in charge.
If the favourite, Boris Johnson gets in, Farage is going to have a field day with him. The man wrote two entirely different articles before the referendum, one for a Leave result, another for a Remain result.
All the Brexit Party has to do is remind the world of his Remain version and he’s toast.
Help me out here, because i might be remembering it incorrectly, but didn’t a lot of people say voting for The Racist Party had no meaning concerning other elections.
You seem to disagree with that.
What an ugly bunch of cunts… and Penny Morbidcunt ? FFS…
I can understand why Brown “bottled it”. Blair and Campbell had made the party so thoroughly toxic that by the time he finally got the keys to number 10, had he called an election it would have been suicidal, even more of a disaster than May’s.
Pretty sure I didn’t say that.
The bit you’ve quoted doesn’t say that. Indeed, it’s about what the Tories need to do to have any hope of winning a general election which hasn’t even been called yet.
Boris seems to be the bookies favourite to replace tearful Theresa. I do wonder, however, whether Gove is going to say “Boris - here is some material I held back” 
The semi-regular Tory knife-fight begins now. One time it was so bloody Michael Howard emerged from the fray as leader 
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What a legacy.
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I’d say daily we have someone contact us about homelessness. No ide of the numbers where our department has to pay for housing.
Never mind, Boris will sort out. Him being a man of the people and all that!
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Pretty much what I’m expecting, or at least something along those lines. There are certainly plenty of Tory MPs who really don’t want to see Johnson as PM, but preventing him from finishing out of the top two would be tricky to do.
Last time, as I recall, Gove didn’t actually reveal anything about Johnson - he simply delivered a pretty excoriating rundown of why Johnson would be a dreadful choice as PM, following which Johnson pulled out of the competition. It certainly looked at the time as if Gove had stuff on Johnson that he’d be more than willing to reveal; does this mean that he has a couple of snippets up his sleeve to scupper Johnson’s chances this time?
If this whole thing weren’t so fucking serious it would be massively funny.
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