Calling Conservative voters

[JanH]

Which leader would you choose of the 4?

I once met Michael Howard and oily little creep does not even begin to describe him.

Has Cameron ever had a career outside politics?
that was the Hagues problem, imo. apart from being a tory of course.

I wanted Clarke too, but my friend who is a died int eh wool Tory always desctibes herslef as an ABC - anyone but Clarke.

Knew he wouldn't make it to the final vote, if he had he would have walked it.

Out of the remaining three - probably Cameron.

I don't know why but I think that having a disabled child will have helped humanise him from the Eton boy that he was.

emphatically NOT a tory but really would like to see some sort of opposition going on, this situation is not healthy for the country I reckon.
I love Ken Clarke (especially love to see him with arm around his marvellously homely wife, if that isn't an appallingly un-pc thing to say) and I think he was by far the most electable.
Liam Fox bleugh
David Cameron is Proper Clever and that can only be a good thing. I think it is sad though that he is dismissed for the school he went to - just as narrow minded as dismissing me for having been to Scumbag Comp. Snobbery and prejudice.
he is terrifyingly young though.
edam - TB and Leon Britten! god he would LOVE to hear that!

JT, Im not scared to come out! I vote Tory too . I like Hague but mainly because I found his voice a bit of a turn-on .

I like DC and I also like Clarke. Cant stand DD, he is as dull as they come. I think Dc is rather charismatic and could knock Blair off his perch. Dont know much about his policies though, he is more moderate than Liam Fox.

David Cameron - have met him and he is a really nice bloke who knows his stuff. He actually comes across quite stuffy over the TV but he really isn't like this.

PLUS and a BIG PLUS....He is the one leading Group B Strep's campaign to get the law changed so that routine testing is offered to all pregnant women. I was very impressed with his knowledge and ability to hold a good argument and back it up with facts (not heresay).

Hmm, really must start watching QT or the news so I can make my mind up! I'm bloody hopeless - too busy, must take an interest

LOL at Hague's voice being a 'turn on' Hmm, not sure about that but he did once absolutely wipe the floor with TB on QT once. TB is a bloody quivering idiot - get him out for Gawd's sake

Oops, too many 'once' in there!

Liam Fox is indeed apparently in hock to a deeply Conservative bunch of MPs called Cornerstone - anti-abortion etc.
Also not a Tory and sorry Kenny has gone, but feel David Cameron is likeliest to provide us with what we need - more credible opposition and a more balanced political scene as a result. Agree that his experiences as a parent of a profoundly disabled child and as the close relly of a drug addict might bring him more into the real world as lived in by voters.

KS, who is Old Mad Eye Moody?? I like Ken Clarke because he's always so jolly but I don't think he would have been the right person. I think the problem the Tories have is that the sort of leader the party faithful want is not one that will appeal to the country in general. Maybe DC is the one but would it be a case of shooting their bolt(!) too soon with him?

David Cameron definitely.

The others all give me the creeps and I am a lifelong tory.

Oh, Rifkind! He was never going to get in, don't know why he bothered, well past his sell-by date.

Yes, I think MK is quite human, but imo he's part of the old guard, tainted with Maggie. I think the Tories are where Labour was 15yrs ago, and they need to find their Tony Blair. I don't think there's much fear of them getting back into power until at least the election after next, teehee!

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I'm a Tory too!

Coming out of the woodwork thick and fast aren't we!

Was reading some of Cameron's bumf and it was very good. Glad people have met him and like him, dh didn't like the look of him from his photos without even reading anything about him.

I thought it doesn't take a leap of imagination to see david Cameron as a pm

which makes a change

can't imagine who I would vote for next time

always a case of the least worst with politicians and politics

But doesn't Cameron's total lack of experience put you all off? there was an interesting arrticle in the Guardian (sorry!) this morning saying that the tories are a bit deluded to go for Cameron thinking he's a Blair-type who will halp them win when possibly the electorate will want a bit more substance next time (ie Glowering Gordin with his firm economic hand).

What experience had Tone had when he became PM?

That's not a sarky comment - I honestly don't know.

Then again that doesn't make it a recommendation for DC

he'd been an mp since 83 (ish) had been minister at Trade and industry, energy and employment departments and also shadow home secretary.

But why are the Tories (I'm not one!) so keen to find their TB when they all purport to despise him?