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What can you tell me off politics and Dominic Raab

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Alicewond · 26/05/2019 02:51

I clearly don’t have any say in the next elected leader of the Conservative party. All I have to go on for my own opinion is Wikipedia and news sites. I knobs if like him though and have been so used to disliking all mps that’s surprising. Tell me something to prove I’m an idiot for liking one!

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Alicewond · 26/05/2019 02:55

Well this in unfortunate autocorrect in that meant to say I now like him, turned to I knobs. Maybe a sign I’m mistaken! 😂

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FoldyRoll · 26/05/2019 03:00

He's the one that didn't realise the importance of Dover-Calais as a trade route when he was Brexit secretary. So if you're looking for competence, he's not your man. Nor are any of the other current candidates in the leadership race, to be fair.

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Alicewond · 26/05/2019 03:10

I agree there’s not one I’m fully confident in. I have no say in this, it’s not an election so I resorted to reading their Wikipedia pages. He was the only one who stood out. I don’t want Boris though!

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dreichuplands · 26/05/2019 03:13

Dominic Raab has admitted he did not realise "the full extent" of how much UK trade relies on the Dover-Calais crossing.

He is an enthusiastic Brexiteer but perhaps not actually the best person to be put in charge of running the country.

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Alicewond · 26/05/2019 03:23

I’ve already agreed this point and I’m not voting, who would you say is a better alternative?

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Reiti · 26/05/2019 05:01

Genghis Khan

lljkk · 26/05/2019 05:52

Gove grasps detail.
He told NFU that No Deal was a grim prospect.
I wonder what he thinks, if maybe he realises that this isn't what he thought he was supporting, either.

If we're gonna go to shit in handcart anyway, I kind of fancy Boris. Would be a hell of a spectacle to watch. Whatever his enormous faults, he is captivating.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/05/2019 05:59

If we're gonna go to shit in handcart anyway, I kind of fancy Boris

The band playing as the Titanic goes down kind of thing.

I can't see that anyone can sort this crap out now.

Unfinishedkitchen · 26/05/2019 06:47

Wasn’t Raab co-author of ‘Britannia Unchained’ which was basically about how we’d be better off if everything was privatised, the market was totally free and the citizens worked as hard as the Chinese because we’re lazy?

Songsofexperience · 26/05/2019 08:29

I personally can't see much difference between him or Boris or a most of the other contenders. The Tory membership will pick whoever is likely to be most offensive to our main partners and allies. By that i mean the EU of course, not the US as there is no possible relationship of equal with the US whereas we have one with the other 27 members of the EU because we ARE (still) the EU.

We'll get a rabid brexiter, that's all I see.

Snapespeare · 26/05/2019 08:34

not a feminist

Usingmyindoorvoice · 26/05/2019 08:38

He’s a self serving slime ball of the first order, with IMHO quite objectionable views

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/who-dominic-raab-brexit-secretary-12882420

MaMaMaMySharona · 26/05/2019 08:49

Someone on here linked to a good article yesterday which gave me a bit of hope if we do end up with BJ as PM:

www.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/only-boris-can-bury-brexit/

TheAngryLlama · 26/05/2019 08:51

Out of his depth in the office he held before resignation. Not up to the challenge. Would crumble in the first three months.

AlexaShutUp · 26/05/2019 08:55

He's vile.

I'm in the curious position of feeling that, if we have to have a Brexiteer at all - and that seems to be the general consensus - then Michael Gove is starting to look like the least worst option.

It's a sad state of affairs that things have come to this.

hopeishere · 26/05/2019 09:07

Ran was promoted to Brexit because there was no one else willing to do it. Not because he was competent. And now he actually believes his own hype.

Gove is like Boris wants it for the power. Plus his wife is ghastly.

Also there's no way a woman with as "colourful" a private life as Boris would get the job. Total double standards.

hopeishere · 26/05/2019 09:11

Raab not ran...

EspressoPatronum · 26/05/2019 09:16

What's Gove's wife got to do with anything? Hmm

lljkk · 26/05/2019 09:19

Sarah Vine's opinions could be shared by Gove which is why she matters in my mind... then again, maybe not. My willingness to tolerate her ghastly opinions are indicative of how bad the other candidates are.

Look at the Conways. Sometimes couples don't agree.

Chippychipsforme · 26/05/2019 09:23

Dominic Raab looks like that sleazeball in a bar you just can't get rid off. He'd sell his own family for power.

Matt Hancock seems like the best worst option. He may act be a human.

TheAngryLlama · 26/05/2019 10:05

Sarah vine may be not very nice but she’s a step up from these Tory wives that Raab and his kind drag into the limelight to show they are vaguely normal ( which fails - that stepford wife BS is so unrealistic). I respect gove for not doing that. Plus he is quite clever. A better bet than Raab

leghairdontcare · 26/05/2019 10:29

Raab was brexit secretary when we got the current deal and has spend the whole time since slagging it off. I like to think that if he was capable of negotiating a better deal he would have done it at the time. He has literally nothing to offer other than empty posh boy confidence.

AnyFucker · 26/05/2019 10:32

He's been Brexit secretary

If he couldn't sort it then...why would he be able to as PM ?

Pretty much sums them all up, tbh

Songsofexperience · 26/05/2019 10:33

Well on Andrew Marr he just confirmed his aim to antagonize the EU, not much of negotiating strategy besides that:
Marr pointed out that he was not liked in Brussels. Raab said that showed he was doing a good job.
Says it all really. Might please the most jingoistic among us but won't do the country much good.