Mrs May. Who's going to replace her as PM?

[longwayoff]

After her performance yesterday it's simply a matter of time? Or is it? Who is fit to replace her? I can't think of a time when there was nobody I'd entrust the country to by voting for them but now here we are. What on earth is going to happen?

[Eatmycheese]

Buddy the Elf

[longwayoff]

Would have laughed my head off the other day to see parliament exercising its sovereignty - that thing the brexiteers desire so greatly and insist we that we don't have - by finding Mrs Mays government in contempt. And coming close again yesterday. However, its ceased to be funny. Everything is dreadful.

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

The ne 2nd vote stance is ridiculous. "The People Voted To Leave, we must respect that, if there was a 2nd vote and it was remain, there would be riots blah blah blah"?

Why? If the brexiteers think Brexit is the will of the people, what are they scared of? whatever the outcome of a 2nd vote was, that would also be the will of the people - just a somewhat better informed people.

[WendyWoofer]

What, like at the last pro-Brexit 'march'? Didn't three people and a dog turn up to that? I'm quaking in my boots

At the time brexiteers had nothing to rebel against. Brexit was definitely on the cards.

If TM and her government decide to remain do you think over half the country, who vociferously voted leave, will lie down and accept it??

[RatRolyPoly]

Kier Starmer.

I can dream.......

I'm calling on the magic of Christmas, please let it be!

[beenandgoneandbackagain]

The only reason she is still PM is because no one else wants the job. I think it's called "the glass cliff" as opposed to the "glass ceiling". The glass cliff is where a woman gets the job because no man wants it.

Sajid Javid - but only because it will give me shadenfreude to know that Tory voters would be torn between having to vote for someone with Pakistani parentage or vote Labour.

All of the front runners are self-serving wazzocks.

[DarlingNikita]

If TM and her government decide to remain do you think over half the country, who vociferously voted leave, will lie down and accept it??

Well, I don't think they'll be out in their hundreds of thousands with pitchforks. Apart from anything else, a) I think 'vociferous' Leavers, inclined to public disorder, are in a serious minority and b) many of them have died off now.

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

If TM and her government decide to remain do you think over half the country, who vociferously voted leave, will lie down and accept it??

I don't know what proportion of the country would accept it, that's why we need a 2nd vote - one based on what we can now see Brexit really involves, rather than the pro-Brexit lies peddled last time.

[longwayoff]

I dont have a problem with Sajid Javid but I do think it might push the loons over the edge. I havent forgotten the joyous ignorance of many 'you're going home' brexit celebrants.

[MadeleineMaxwell]

If TM and her government decide to remain do you think over half the country, who vociferously voted leave, will lie down and accept it??

YouGov: European Union membership referendum Scenario:

Remain vs. May Deal

Remain: 62% (+12)

Leave: 38% (-12)

linky

I think the will of the people has changed a bit...

[Mrscog]

I think Sajid Javid too - the stories would love to gloat about having had 2 women and a Muslim PM when labour have managed neither.

I suspect he’s been quietly waiting in the wings, he’s not hated or tainted.

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

I dont have a problem with Sajid Javid but I do think it might push the loons over the edge. I havent forgotten the joyous ignorance of many 'you're going home' brexit celebrants.

For that reason alone it would be great karma. Especially as the govt is looking to south Asia for a lot of the immigrants we're going to need.

[howabout]

JC of course.

For the Tories Sajid Javid is at least starting to make a decent fist of sorting out the mess TM and AR left the HO in.

As far away as possible from the NHS makes the FO the perfect place for JH - he should stay there.

[NameChanger22]

I think TM was a bit of an idiot to think she could make Brexit a success. We can't have idiots in charge, although there seems to have been a run of them lately.

I think Caroline Lucas should replace her, after a 2nd referendum. Then things can just go back to normal again.

[trulybadlydeeply]

Got to be Harry Redknapp, surely?

[CaraCarbonara]

Why are you going on about her health? She's an intelligent woman who knows how to manage her T1 diabetes through diet and insulin. Do you want her and other people with chronic conditions to stay at home and do some flower arranging?

And I'm fed up of this poor woman doing a difficult job that no-one else could do better narrative. She is a ruthless politician. She has lied to the country and shown contempt to our Parliament. She doesn't care about you or your family, her priority is keeping the Tory party in power no matter what damage it does to the UK.

[DarlingNikita]

Cara, I don't disagree with your character assessment of May. But I wouldn't blame her an ounce if she resigned citing ill-health.

[surferjet]

Got to be Harry Redknapp, surely?

😂

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

Why are you going on about her health? She's an intelligent woman who knows how to manage her T1 diabetes through diet and insulin. Do you want her and other people with chronic conditions to stay at home and do some flower arranging?

No, but relentless stubbornness in persisting with an exhausting workload, stress and pressure in an older person with diabetes is the kind of situation that can lead to a collapse/heart attack/stroke/etc. Of course she manages it well and deserves to work in whatever job she likes, but normally that would also involve getting a break. You are straw-manning with your flower arranging.

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

To my mind, what's needed is some experienced business leaders running this show - that way we'd almost certainly have got a better deal out of Brussels, except that most probably wouldn't touch politics with a bargepole

I'm with Jeremy Paxman on this, who said correctly that politics has become a lifestyle choice for deadbeats. With too many noses in the trough and the institutional pro-EU attitude which results, I'll say again that we were never going to come out of this well with any of our current politicians in charge

What's needed is a new centrist party with a lot of fresh talent to turn this round, though whether we'll get it is another matter

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

Got to be Harry Redknapp, surely?

Well if we are playing fantasy PM I'll have Jo Brand.

[Childrenofthesun]

What, like at the last pro-Brexit 'march'? Didn't three people and a dog turn up to that? I'm quaking in my boots

At the time brexiteers had nothing to rebel against. Brexit was definitely on the cards..

The last pro-Brexit march was only 2 days ago. Just 3000 people turned up and they were outnumbered 5 to 1 by counter-protestors.

Javid is a reasonable option compared to say, BJ or DD isn 't saying much but you can't pretend there aren't a lot of older Tory grassroots voters who probably wouldn't like a Muslim leader. Sadiq Khan has faced racist abuse as Mayor of London.

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

Javid isn't a Muslim, he's not religious.

[NotAColdWomanHenry]

(Not that that makes any difference to how he'd fare in the job, but I don't think he should be seen as representing that particular demographic.)

[longwayoff]

Harry Redknap, there's a thought and Mrs Redknap too who 'does all the writing'. Sorted.