Politics Thread 5

[Vermilion]

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Potentially (she’s got no chance) our next leader.

The airport on St Helena is actually functioning correctly now too (which was how the treasury office there was able to send me the 50p coin i requested via air mail).

[Moggy]

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Potentially (she’s got no chance) our next leader.

The airport on St Helena is actually functioning correctly now too (which was how the treasury office there was able to send me the 50p coin i requested via air mail).

So it wasn’t foreign aid, wasn’t on a continent and it is working.

No wonder Lorraine Kelly hates her.

[Moggy]

114 votes for Boris.

McVey, Leadsom and Harper out.

[Drumstick]

The only way Boris isn't winning this is if everyone that's voting elsewhere has an 'anyone but Boris' mentality.

[Garth]

Yeah it looks highly likely it'll be Prime Minister Boris Johnson

What an awful state we're in.

Rory Stewart isn't doing well even at this stage:

Boris Johnson: 114
Jeremy Hunt: 43
Michael Gove: 37
Dominic Raab: 27
Sajid Javid: 23
Matt Hancock: 20
Rory Stewart: 19
Andrea Leadsom: 11
Mark Harper: 10
Esther McVey: 9

[DML]

The only way Boris isn't winning this is if everyone that's voting elsewhere has an 'anyone but Boris' mentality.

Don't forget it goes to the Conservative Party members, it won't matter ultimately what the MPs think. If it were up to MPs, Boris would already be having his coronation.

[Harry Ola]

Unless Boris now sheds some votes, it is impossible for him not to make the top 2. There is obviously no way to split the remaining 200 votes so that 2 other candidates both get over 114.

Think if he makes the top 2 it will be pretty plain sailing with the party members.

[OrangeRKN]

I genuinely hate Boris Johnson with a passion, how can anyone think he is in any way fit to be an MP, let alone the Prime Minister. He's selfish, deceptive and demonstrably unprincipled.

[Harry Ola]

All that said, I am not convinced he'll be PM. Not clear he can command a majority.

[BID0]

In what strawberry floated up universe is Dominic Raab in 4th

[Blue Eyes]

Are they actually going to vote for the PM today?

[Rex Kramer]

No, another ballot to thin the field and then a further set next week to narrow it 2 candidates which then go out to the party members. Unless of course everyone else pulls out.

[Blue Eyes]

No, another ballot to thin the field and then a further set next week to narrow it 2 candidates which then go out to the party members. Unless of course everyone else pulls out.

strawberry floating wanks.

[Moggy]

All that said, I am not convinced he'll be PM. Not clear he can command a majority.

The Tories will get behind him and I don’t see the DUP jumping ship.

[KK]

By the looks of it either Jo Swinson or Ed Davey is going to be the new leader of the Lib Dems.

Hugh Bonneville's a lock to play Ed Davey in a C4/BBC2 docu-drama nobody will watch, confirmed.

[captain red dog]

I don't see this going to a party vote. I think by the time we get down to the final two, it will be clear that Boris will win and one challenger will drop out leaving him unopposed.

As much as I dislike Boris, Prime Minister Hunt sounds even worse.

[Vermilion]

At least McVey's gone, good riddance.

[Photek]

So now we’ll have 2 of the dumbest leaders in modern day History in charge of the UK and USA.

[Vermilion]

So now we’ll have 2 of the dumbest leaders in modern day History in charge of the UK and USA.

Boris may be a lot of things (many of which aren't very pleasant), but i wouldn't say he was dumb.

[OrangeRKN]

Boris Johnson is a malicious idiot who thinks himself a deserving mastermind pretending to be a harmless idiot.