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

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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?

Wow, really?!

Yep, really - they still try to tell me now. I just laugh and say hell would freeze over before I wasted my vote on that loser. They just tell me I'll regret it and how the country would be a right mess with X or how a vote for the X is a wasted vote because they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and how Y is the only decent party.

In a Labour supporting remainder and I'd vote for Ken Clark in a heartbeat.

Jeremy Hunt. The man who my NHS friends say can't spell his surname.

Yes again Ken Clarke.

IME the press and broadcast news regularly call politicians "Mr Cameron" and Mrs May" (or "Ms Eagle" or however they style themselves) usually after using their full name at the start of a report.

I agree with this. The press will refer to her as Theresa May as they would to Michael Gove or Sajid Javid. They will refer to her as Mrs May where they speak of Mr Gove. The only time she’s referred to differently is where he would be called Gove. Then, I agree, they use Mrs May and not just “May”. But nothing wrong with using it per se; as a pp said, it’s how she would style herself and is therefore perfectly polite.

*ooh,
I just thought of a Tory I could support

Ken Clarke
the only one brave enough to vote against invoking A50*

This! And Labour should hang their heads in shame as well. It should have been obvious to the dogs on the street that nowhere near enough preparation had been done to start the clock ticking. It was criminally irresponsible.

Keir Starmer is the only man for the job imo.

What I would sincerely like to know, is exactly how our membership of the EU adversely impacted the lives of all those people who voted to leave...concrete examples e.g. Albanians washing your car, Poles building your houses, Italians err...cooking your pasta..?

I rather fancy Keir Starmer.

Can I ask a question to the leave voters: Who do you think the best person is for PM? Who would do the best job to get the outcome you voted for, in your opinion?

Gavin Williamson will gave his eye on the job. He’s a devious bloke and fancies himself as a top player.

Ideally I would like Paul O’Grady, Billy Connolly, John Lydon and Prof Brian Cox on a job share.

Pumper, personally I think boris should have taken the job for the duration of negotiations then stepped aside after we had left.

LOLing about Mr Raab.....
I 'knew him' way before he was a Eurosceptic purely for the purposes of advancing his political career .....

I'll literally be cringing on a daily basis if he gets to be PM, his daily appearances on the news as Brexit secretary were bad enough

Ken Clarke, yup. All day long. But I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I thought Keir Starmer was in the Labour Party.

Why would anyone want to be PM? It gives the worst before / after pics of any job short of crystal meth tester, surely? And it doesn't pay as well as top jobs in business.

Maybe we should just have really good civil servants running the country, and do away with the farce of elections. As for referendums (fuck off pedants I KNOW), we should never, ever have one again.

Take a binary question that divides the nation bitterly but not along party lines, then offer one side a win. What could possibly go wrong?

OopsIShaggedaTory
Reading of a couple of posts a certain number of ladies will be a little jealous.

Forgot to say Keir Starmer is a labour mp.

Morris he is Labour, just seems like the best man for the job!

OopsIShaggedaTory hang your head in shame! :o

No one it's a shower of shit on all sides!

There are no big players left in my view they all seem like kids playing at it - even the old ones! Need someone with some gravitas and presence. I'd wheel Portillo and Heseltine out of retirement to sort them all out!

Notacold believe me I already am. Born and bred lefty and Europe-loving remainer so I practically contort with all the cringing I do.

Ken Clarke is a Tory - but had enough spine to NOT vote for A50

Keir Starmer is in the Labour party - but is also in the real world unlike Corbyn

Hezza and Portaloo would not come back at the moment

Maybe we should just have really good civil servants running the country

But are there any "really good" civil servants - at least any with the kind of negotiating skills we so badly need? I'm reminded of Margaret Thatcher's remark about Yes Minister: "not so much as sitcom as a bl**dy documentary"

No, as I said before my own choice would be a panel of proven business people, even though I know they wouldn't touch it

I'll say this though: it takes a lot for so many MNers to agree on anything to do with politics ... it's just a shame the subject's the utter uselessness of those supposed to be running the country

Ken Clarke

Ken Clarke has enjoyed a reputation for integrity and decency for as long as I remember. He must be too old now though. Britain's loss, never more so than now.

It should have been obvious to the dogs on the street that nowhere near enough preparation had been done to start the clock ticking. It was criminally irresponsible.

YY to this. My dh has never stopped going on about it too.

I'm always amazed whenever people say they want 'business leaders' to run the country. People in business are concerned with profit. That's it. That's their job. Not people's lives, or long term development strategies or building sustainable systems. Or making the best of a bad situation. The NHS is being handed to business leaders and people will die as a consequence.

Oops it would probably do a lot to redeem him and give his career a boost if you could testify on mumsnet to him being a generous and sensitive lover...

I predict another woman or a non-white man being scapegoated as leader if May is ousted/steps down for health reasons. What a bloody thankless task.