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To be excited that David Cameron could be gone in 4 months

149 replies

feellikeahugefailure · 20/02/2016 14:05

I'm assuming now that BJ will support the brexit campaign and if we vote to leave DC will have no choice but to resign and BJ would be the obvious replacement.

Also I do think SC came across really well on bake off, she did seem lovely. I wouldn't mind her being PM.

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Chipstick10 · 20/02/2016 15:31

Eh? Gove should join UKIP? Why?because he doesn't agree with his party on Europe. ? Utterly confused by that statement.

Chipstick10 · 20/02/2016 15:32

There are no kinder politics from the left. All I hear is spite and bile and angry stereotyping.

antimatter · 20/02/2016 15:34

Boris Johnson better than Cameron?

Have you actually ever heard BJ saying anything of substance?

wasonthelist · 20/02/2016 15:37

Eh? Gove should join UKIP? Why?because he doesn't agree with his party on Europe. ? Utterly confused by that statement.

The Tories have a policy on Europe (not saying I agree or don't - but they do). Cameron is allowing people to campaign to leave the EU from within the party - but only so they don't have to leave the party. If they had any honesty or decency they'd join a party that stands for what they believe in, not stay in the one they're in for expediency. People like Gove want their cake and eat it.

OhGoveUckYourself · 20/02/2016 15:39

If Cameron goes then it will split the Tories which won't be good for the country and( unfortunately) Labour isn't in any fit state to form a government. We need Cameron to hold things together for now regardless of party politics. God alone knows what will happen with Johnson, Gideon or Gove in charge.

wasonthelist · 20/02/2016 15:39

There are no kinder politics from the left. All I hear is spite and bile and angry stereotyping.

You will hear what you want to hear. The person on here you quoted may or may not be a Corbyn supporter, but you chose to assume. Remind me who's doing the stereotyping here?

wasonthelist · 20/02/2016 15:40

If Cameron goes then it will split the Tories which won't be good for the country

The Tories are already split - otherwise Cameron would be able to tell them all to toe the party line.

wasonthelist · 20/02/2016 15:42

I don't think there'd be a GE after DC resigns. They complained about Brown, yes, but politicians (of both sides) apply differ standards to themselves and the opposition.

^ This - and posted before I noticed (and then posted something similar)

lorelei9 · 20/02/2016 15:42

OP, why would you want BJ in charge of anything? He runs the GLA like a dictatorship.

Alfieisnoisy · 20/02/2016 15:43

Haven't the Labour Party won a number of elections by a landslide....but with a deafening media silence?

NB. No idea how true this is but it keeps coming up on my FB feed.

stargirl04 · 20/02/2016 15:45

YANBU. I know of a lifelong member of the Tory party who is so appalled at Cameron's goverance that he's resigned his membership.

I am not a Tory myself!

YesterdayOnceMore · 20/02/2016 15:48

OhGove- Cameron is going though. He has already said this. He will not lead the Tories into the next GE. Realistically, they'd want a new leader at least a year before that, so the question is really is he leaving in 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019.

The referendum will split and damage the Conservatives. Cameron is irrelevant.

ILoveACornishPasty · 20/02/2016 15:52

I don't think he would resign, nor do I think he should. He promised a referendum and a referendum is what we have. He has an opinion and could just enforce it upon us but instead is giving us the choice. I can't say he's my favourite person in the world but on this issue I really do feel that he's done the best he can.

ILoveACornishPasty · 20/02/2016 15:53

And I'm afraid the thought of a government potentially led my Teresa May (who is a Ukipper in a Tory disguise IMO) makes my blood run cold.

DeoGratias · 20/02/2016 15:56

Many of us support Cameron.
The vote will be to stay in which is also best for Britain.
Even if it goes the other way (unlikely) Cameron will stay, thank God.

If we get another female leader that would be good- something the sexist unreconstructed hard left ancient male Corbyn lot have never managed.

The Tories are best for women and Britain.

Let us hope we win a second 5 years.

OhYouLuckyDuck · 20/02/2016 15:59

*The Tories are best for women and Britain.

Let us hope we win a second 5 years.*

Deo, what makes you say that?

Samcro · 20/02/2016 15:59

"The Tories are best for women and Britain."

what utter bollocks
scameron and his ilk have targeted the disabled and sick. lots of them are women.
i would like to see the back of him(and don't get me started on his awful wife)

antimatter · 20/02/2016 16:05

The Tories are best for women and Britain

buahahaha

what have they done for women in the last 7 years?

NameChanger22 · 20/02/2016 16:06

I don't know one single person that's going to vote to leave the EU, not one.

I would love to see the back of Cameron, but it would take more than leaving Europe to make him leave, he's like a cock cockroach.

NameChanger22 · 20/02/2016 16:08

I very much doubt SC is lovely. I've never met her, but she thinks DC is ok, so something's not quite right there.

lorelei9 · 20/02/2016 16:08

I quite like Theresa May but I admit to being biased after a personal conversation on flexible working. Plus i think she's more willing to be tough and I know someone who works for her (indirectly) and hear good things.

I'm not a committed Labour or Tory person and I like a lot of what Corbyn has to say, so I tend to look at individuals rather than have a line I follow.

But really surprised that anyone would welcome BoJo taking over.

I actually think the referendum result might be "in". I should probably examine all the odds on offer....

Chipstick10 · 20/02/2016 16:10

corbyn and his motley crew haven't a hope in hell. When they speak most people just hear whale speak. It's a foreign language .

CornishDoll82 · 20/02/2016 16:14

I seriously doubt people will vote to leave EU - surely most people will see it makes no sense and would leave us isolated in a world where one needs allies.

We are a tiny little country currently being run into the ground by austerity. I actually feel a bit panicked thinking about what would happen if we exited Europe and someone as self- centred and inexperienced as BJ took over as prime minister.

ILoveACornishPasty · 20/02/2016 16:16

You see I think that it's the personal experience that makes the difference. Bojo was our MP for a long time and was really fabulous-very intelligent and articulate man when you meet him and very funny but whenever I see him on the TV he comes across like a total buffoon.

lorelei9 · 20/02/2016 16:19

OP, why do you think BoJo will do a much better job than DC? (I don't have an opinion on DC really).

Is there anything in particular you think BoJo will do better?