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waterbabys · 07/07/2022 09:18

So sounds like BoJo is finally about to be dragged out and I'm wondering who would be best to replace him in terms of being sympathetic to a GC's point of view?

I was thinking Savid Javid potentially? Any thoughts from anyone else?

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achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:55

Time is our friend.

minipie · 07/07/2022 11:53

It won’t be a snap election. If a new Tory leader called a snap election in the next few months they’d be shot down in flames purely by association. They need at least a year to prove how different they are from Boris, and hope people move on from their current anger.

Hopefully in that year things will have moved on enough re extreme trans ideology that even Labour might think twice about self ID. Recent developments have been encouraging.

Ridcully82 · 07/07/2022 11:52

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60037657

Quite a few ex forces experience, across right,left and centre.

Also, Mordant being a former Magician's assistant made me smile: tricks and false claims of an illusionist.

LarryBlackmonsCodpiece · 07/07/2022 11:52

@MarshaBradyo & @achillestoes keep hearing via media, others discussing it, lucky for you if you know that’s not the case, others not so up on politics as you two obviously.

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:50

There’ll be an election by the end of the year, probably.

FigRollsAlly · 07/07/2022 11:49

People talking about snap elections are thinking that new PMs who haven’t been voted for as leader in a general election can be under pressure to prove their authority by gaining a mandate from the electorate.

MarshaBradyo · 07/07/2022 11:49

I actually swing to feeling sorry for him as he can’t help his voice but then I still can’t listen without effort

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:46

I don’t mind listening to Rayner. Reeves is unbearable.

FigRollsAlly · 07/07/2022 11:46

Starmer has a strangulated quality to his voice which makes it sound a bit peevish.

MarshaBradyo · 07/07/2022 11:43

His voice does that to me too

unbearable

but I find them all like that I just can’t listen - Reeves, Rayner, Starmer sure there are others

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:41

He makes me want to drill a hole in my head just to drown out his voice.

MarshaBradyo · 07/07/2022 11:40

Oh his is he

on the plus side they loaded so much on the personality of Johnson and partygate he goes that goes with it

It’s all they had

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:39

Starmer’s saying “twelve years... twelve years... twelve years...”

Even now he’s boring.

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:37

Starmer droning on about a general election.

beastlyslumber · 07/07/2022 11:36

I love Kemi Badenoch, but I don't think she's ready yet. Another few years, maybe!

Savid probably the best bet for GC right now. There are some good politicians in the tory party these days. Incredibly diverse party as well.

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:32

I think a snap election is unlikely as well.

MarshaBradyo · 07/07/2022 11:31

Why do pp think a snap election is a possibility?

I don’t want it either but feel fairly ok with where we are - Johnson resigning and a new leader will keep the 80 seat majority

Am I missing the risk

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:29

I’d be happy with Wallace if he showed the same backbone on the issue Javid and Truss have shown. It’s not enough to agree with us privately. There’s work to be done.

LarryBlackmonsCodpiece · 07/07/2022 11:28

I’m going from being absolutely relieved that the floppy haired muppet is going but very anxious who they might replace him with. Also very worried about snap elections, concerned Labour will get in & we’ll all be ‘under his eye’.

JustAnotherViper · 07/07/2022 11:27

I suspect Wallace knows exactly what a woman is, and won’t be interested in the woke agendas or women’s rights unless he can gain advantage from them. So no real change for us politically.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 07/07/2022 11:27

PearlClutch · 07/07/2022 11:18

For what reasons, then?

Is it hypothetical relationship purposes?

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They don't call him Dishy Rishi for nothing... 😉

Sistanotcista · 07/07/2022 11:26

Phobiaphobic · 07/07/2022 09:52

I'm just worried there'll be a general election and Labour will get in and immediately implement self ID

It’s such a shame, as I admire Keir Starmer, and I think many of the Labour politicians are decent people who genuinely want to serve their people and the country. And I don’t feel that way about most of the Conservative politicians. But I would never vote for a party that supports self id and dismisses women’s hard earned rights.

JustAnotherViper · 07/07/2022 11:24

The makeup stuff I think is about standing out. The entire point of the uniform is to appear uniform. Society is conditioned to see women in makeup as the norm (and the rules allowing it are decades old) and men in makeup as unusual.

Gay men in the military. Having seen how straight men in the military behave around women/sex I imagine that’s about judging gay men by your own low standards. So they anticipated gay men behaving as sex pests in barracks and didn’t fancy being the target.

LarryBlackmonsCodpiece · 07/07/2022 11:20

Not Mordaunt!!!

achillestoes · 07/07/2022 11:19

Tugendhat is a no. I’m reading he was very keen on reform of the GRA.

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