Penny Mordaunt as PM

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https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/16/conservatives-slam-bonkers-plot-to-topple-rishi-sunak-before-election
I’m wondering if Sunak’s days as PM are coming to an end ? I read a few articles, such as the one above, that seem to suggest there’s a plan to oust him and replace with him Penny Mordaunt? I actually quite like her.

Absolutely! It’s so weird that people even care.

The Tories are finished!! And by the time they get to another election, there’ll be less old people and more young people voting to keep them out.

Its a disgrace what they’ve done to this country.

I strongly doubt she's interested right now. There's no point becoming leader now while they're heading into a general election they're definitely going to lose.

Far better to wait until the inevitable defeat, take over then and be leader of the opposition for a few years without any of the baggage.

Perhaps we could make this the deciding factor and save time on all that voting.

It worked for King Arthur...

She should have been made leader instead of Truss but the Daily Mail ran a smear campaign and wanted their 'true Tory budget'.

She is another useless airhead.

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Yeah because that's an important qualification for a PM. Being able to hold a sword for hours.

Perhaps we should bring back jousting to decide who's PM

We need a general election so people can decide who should be the next PM.

That’s not what general elections are for. They are to decide the ruling party, you don’t vote for a pm. For obvious reasons, they change who leads the party.

Miaow…

Why would she even want it? 6 months as PM and then a trouncing at the general election.

You can factor it in ll you wish, but you factually are not electing a pm.

It appears to be the basis on which a lot of people are deciding she's suitable.

For obvious reasons they usually do not, in fact, change who leads the party, and certainly not on an annual basis. The only reason the Tories have ended up doing so is because the leaders they have had have royally fucked up and have been unable to govern their own party, never mind the country.

I think she's probably confident enough (other words sprang to mind but that was the kindest) to think she can turn it around.

Bang on.

'@Freakinfraser

That’s not what general elections are for. They are to decide the ruling party, you don’t vote for a pm. For obvious reasons, they change who leads the party.'

Stop being obtuse and I don't need a lesson in what a GE is.

If you vote labour at the next election you know full well you will get Starmer as PM.

Just like people who voted for the Tories last time knew they were getting Johnson as PM.

The point I was making, as you well know I would say, is that we have been through several useless Tory PMs by now and that this farce has gone for long enough so it is time for a general election.

Talk about purposely missing the point...

I thought Penny had said that men can become women. For that reason, it's a no from me.

While I largely agree with your post, she was stitched up to get Liz Truss on the ballot for the membership.

Who knows what will happen. Even if the Tories don’t get a majority at the next GE, who’s to say they won’t secure a coalition arrangement with another party just as Cameron did with the Lib Dems in 2010?

I agree but Liz Truss (disgracefully imho) qualified for the £115,000 annual stipend awarded to ex pms after only 44 days in office so it’s obviously worth it financially! And she did it having caused a massive financial crisis.

According to the polls they are not going to be in a position to form a coalition, and, if they were, with whom?? The only party they remotely align with is Reform, and they're not going to be in a position to be king-makers. It's not 2010.

We need a general election to let people decide who they want to represent them. Anyone foolish enough to vote for the current crop of Conservatives deserve everything they get. Sadly they inflict the shite (in the rivers and seas) on the rest of us. This lot have made every single person I know have a worse life. Through wrecking the economy via Brexit for decades and the Tuss budget. they have shattered public respect of parliament (partygate, prorogue of parliament, dodgy contracts, anything lee Anderson, Johnson, Rees Mogg has ever done), made the rich richer than they ever have been. Sold off the NHS. Not sorted out gender bollocks despite being in power for over a decade, stirred up racial hatred just to stay in power.
Penny represents all of that

This is just pointless proficating and is utterly cringe. We call all post the same. Anyone foolish enough to vote for the current crop of labour/lib dem, deserve everything they get.

at least form a cohesive argument as there is no credibility when it’s just insults.

She’s talking sense. Your commmet is ridiculous. This government have brought this country to its knees.