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AIBU to fear Theresa May being dead set to be a PM

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Leta86 · 26/06/2016 22:31

From what I've seen so far, she is biting like a shark for no.10 allready, while Johnston is reluctant at best to
take it on. I always had a nasty feeling she keeps Thatcher's photo in a silver frame on her nightstand. Even the possibility of her at the helm is blood freezing, IMO...

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MrHannahSnell · 27/06/2016 00:19

Please, please let it be May. All the others are too awful to contemplate.

kirinm · 27/06/2016 00:20

As an absolute lefty I would take May over Boris any day of the week. He is a fucking joke and I would feel ashamed to have him in charge of negotiating anything.

OlennasWimple · 27/06/2016 00:22

She is seriously impressive. Maybe it doesn't come across too well on TV, but she is

LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt · 27/06/2016 00:23

She's the best of a bad lot, IMO. And Boris's latest move seems deliberately calculated to lose the leadership contest.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 27/06/2016 00:27

I believe her DH is a major shareholder in G4S who have made quite a lot of money in the last few years.
Ruth Davidson seems like a decent sort so wtf she's a Tory is beyond me

GiddyOnZackHunt · 27/06/2016 00:30

Strikeout failBlush

Effic · 27/06/2016 00:35

Boris - the leading campaigner for Brexit who has remained virtually silent all weekend while the country has been in turmoil whilst he negotiates his fee with the daily telegraph rather than getting out and reassuring Britain that he and his fellow Brexit have a plan. And what a plan it is ......We'd be LUCKY to get Theresa May. And we're going to need a consummate politician to sort this not a self publizing lying twat. And don't get me started on Gove - the man who delights in chaos and who sees us all as laboratory rats in his experiments - dismantling everything just to see what happens and enjoying the resulting carnage as we all turn on each other. He's an actual psychopath. God I'm depressed :(

Alisvolatpropiis · 27/06/2016 00:46

I think she's the best from a very bad bunch.

There's a reason I didn't vote Conservative at the last GE though.

KeyserSophie · 27/06/2016 00:46

I like Theresa May. She's smart, can broker a compromise, has extensive experience as Home Sec so properly understands the ins and outs of immigration (which, like it or not, is something that was a contributory factor) and isn't overly associated with either side.

Mind you, if she gets it, it's 2-0 to the allegedly unprogressive party. Labour better start sorting through their options.

Alisvolatpropiis · 27/06/2016 00:48

Davidson cannot be PM, she's an MSP, she doesn't have a Parliamentary seat.

She seems decent though.

waitingforsomething · 27/06/2016 00:59

I think she's best of a bad bunch. The thought of Gove or Johnson is terrifying.

Withtheirdogafterthewar · 27/06/2016 01:11

I saw May speak at my dc's school - was expecting a pretty slick politician performance, but instead she was surprisingly shit: no charisma, no presence, and rambled on with loads of waffly cliches. I wouldn't vote Tory ever, but it put me right off her as she didn't seem to be able to think on her feet at all.

But yeah, I think she might be biding her time, waiting for the opportune moment.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 27/06/2016 01:15

Darn. Fair point Alis

thecatfromjapan · 27/06/2016 01:17

Johnson. That's what he's spent the weekend doing. I WISH there would be a Conservative rebellion but that looks as though it's fizzled out.

People seem to love him and forgive hime everything - not in spite of him being a mendacious, lizard-blooded, self-serving, back-stabbing, irresponsible, buck-shifting bastard but because of it.

I don't get it. I really, really don't. For five minutes - when he was standing at that plinth, with Gove, looking like a child who'd finally been told to clear up the classroom after he'd incited the rest of the class to wreck it - I thought the BoJo bubble might finally have burst. Finally, the clown dispensation might have been rescinded.

But no. I don't think it has.

What a wanker. As PM. The cherry on top of the cake. Historians of the future are just going to boggle at this.

KeyserSophie · 27/06/2016 01:37

The parliamentary Conservative party has a difficult job ahead.

They didnt campaign for Brexit but that's what they've got. However, they also know that a lot of their supporters (and critically their donors) didn't vote Brexit. What they therefore need to do is come up with a structure that appeases both sides.

Re Theresa May and charisma, yes, that's possibly true, but, to misquote
Henry VIII, what they need now is not a rabble rouser but "a very able administrator" who can have a lot of conversations and broker some palatable solutions, and that is her.

It definitely wont be Gove- he's anti-free trade which would bury the Tories. There's no way they'll go with him.

thecatfromjapan · 27/06/2016 02:11

I hope you're right, KeyserSophie. I hope they go for a very able administrator. I just do not feel optimistic about this.

DioneTheDiabolist · 27/06/2016 02:38

The Conservative party are fucked. They will lose the next election, no matter who takes over. Why should TM take the fall? She's a clever woman and will be a brilliant Shadow Cabinet minister.

Let Boris take the fall.

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 27/06/2016 03:57

johnson is reluctant at best to
take it on
johnson is a remaine undercover

Johnson is not reluctant to take it on where the fuck did you get that fucking idea why do you think he chose to U turn and join the Leave campaign when as you've said he's actually a remainer because he saw a way of getting in to no 10!

He's power hungry!

nuttymango · 27/06/2016 04:01

Dyed in the wool labour here. May is the best Tory option we can hope for it. Off to wash my mouth out with soap now. Confused

nuttymango · 27/06/2016 04:03

Dione that's a very good point.

Inkanta · 27/06/2016 04:06

Andrea Leadsom is the one for the job I think.

MoonriseKingdom · 27/06/2016 04:22

I'm a (currently rather depressed) labour voter. Out of the current well known Tories I'd pick May. I've said for a while that I don't know why they keep pushing forward various Bullingden boys ahead of her. She's far more statesman (person?) like than Osbourne or Johnson. She's the only one I can imagine negotiating successfully with Europe.

However, why should she? Whoever takes it on has got a terrible job ahead of them with not a lot of thanks to be had. I suspect many leavers will be upset when they see what's actually on the table. The leavers got us into this mess they really should be the ones to sort it out.

MoonriseKingdom · 27/06/2016 04:28

The Conservative party are fucked. They will lose the next election, no matter who takes over.

You really should be right. However, labour are in total disarray. Unless they get a new leader and sort themselves out they'll have another decade in the wilderness.

troubledsoul12 · 27/06/2016 04:31

I am all for T.May or Gove .

WeekendAway · 27/06/2016 04:32

I think she's probably the best option at the moment.