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Who will replace Theresa May?

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Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.
The agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street. Link

for May’s successor, Brexit will be a binary choice: no deal or no exit. The first choice crashes the UK economy and dooms the Conservatives just as Black Wednesday did. The second averts economic disaster but breaks a fragile party. Either choice dooms and defines your premiership.

Of course, anyone who genuinely believes they can be PM must also believe they are a man or woman of destiny, the sort of person who can change history and cheat the odds. Maybe one of our would-be leaders can see a third and better option if the May deal dies. And maybe they’ll be right. Link.

She's going to go if she loses the vote and she's also going to go if she wins the vote. I couldn't name a more incompetent PM in my lifetime and that's saying something. Reading the Spectator article, I can agree the two choices. No deal crashes us as many hard Brexiteers want and no exit crashes the Conservative party. You can also see why even though Corbyn is not a true Remainer, he's not made much effort to agree a deal. The death of the Conservatives will see Labour in power for a decade just as when Blair promised a different destiny from the Conservatives in the 90's.

Lots of successors - I don't see much success in any of them unless they really can change our destiny as a nation.
 
Johnson is favourite, though a lot of MPs hate him.
 
Go Boris!

The man's an incompetent, self-serving idiot. Everything he says or does is based on what he thinks is good for his career progression.
 
The man's an incompetent, self-serving idiot. Everything he says or does is based on what he thinks is good for his career progression.

Iyo. BJ was a highly competent Mayor of London. Imo he is the only contender who might save the Conservative Party from extinction.
 
Iyo. BJ was a highly competent Mayor of London. Imo he is the only contender who might save the Conservative Party from extinction.

Are you kidding me? £43m of taxpayers money wasted on his garden bridge that was never built, and the water cannons that he bought and then had to sell for scrap at a huge loss?
His time as Foreign Sec was just as useless, where his big mouth got an innocent British woman in jail in Iran a longer sentence.
 
Are you kidding me? £43m of taxpayers money wasted on his garden bridge that was never built, and the water cannons that he bought and then had to sell for scrap at a huge loss?
His time as Foreign Sec was just as useless, where his big mouth got an innocent British woman in jail in Iran a longer sentence.

It was the barbaric Iranian Islamic theocracy, who gave an innocent English woman a longer sentence. But it suits you and the Jew hating Islamophile Brit Socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to try to shift the blame onto BJ.
 
It was the barbaric Iranian Islamic theocracy, who gave an innocent English woman a longer sentence. But it suits you and the Jew hating Islamophile Brit Socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to try to shift the blame onto BJ.

In BoJo's own words, that is an 'inverted pyramid of piffle'.
 
It was the barbaric Iranian Islamic theocracy, who gave an innocent English woman a longer sentence. But it suits you and the Jew hating Islamophile Brit Socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to try to shift the blame onto BJ.

They gave her a longer sentence because Johnson has zero diplomatic skills - which is kind of an important skill of being a Prime Minister. In your rush to absolve him of blame, you ignored the fact that Johnson had to apologise in the House of Commons for his comments which led to her sentence increase.
 
Iyo. BJ was a highly competent Mayor of London. Imo he is the only contender who might save the Conservative Party from extinction.

IYO...

The same was once said about David Cameron after years of Conservative wilderness. That's where Brexit will take them again however this time there is a Brexit Party that could kill them off. For me, the Conservatives need to split in two, Europe has lost every Conservative PM their hold on power since 1973.
 
Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.

Theresa May set out a timetable for Brexit and look how well that's gone, so ...
 
Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.

Theresa May set out a timetable for Brexit and look how well that's gone, so ...

Nigel Evans of the 1922 Committee confessed that the leadership contest is in full swing already - despite rules about a second election within a year.

Funny that the EU referendum can't be discussed (according to the ERG) but all other elections can be re-contested at will.
 
Are you kidding me? £43m of taxpayers money wasted on his garden bridge that was never built, and the water cannons that he bought and then had to sell for scrap at a huge loss?

Don't forget the miles and miles of cycle lanes around London that are hardly used and cause daily gridlock around the capital.

Nice one Boris the Buffoon!
 
She's going to go if she loses the vote and she's also going to go if she wins the vote. I couldn't name a more incompetent PM in my lifetime and that's saying something. Reading the Spectator article, I can agree the two choices. No deal crashes us as many hard Brexiteers want and no exit crashes the Conservative party. You can also see why even though Corbyn is not a true Remainer, he's not made much effort to agree a deal. The death of the Conservatives will see Labour in power for a decade just as when Blair promised a different destiny from the Conservatives in the 90's.

Lots of successors - I don't see much success in any of them unless they really can change our destiny as a nation.

Go Sadiq Khan!

Might as well go all the way.
 
~ miles and miles of cycle lanes around London ~

Something has changed in the cyclists you cross in London. I used to cycle around London and never had any problems with cars but cycle lanes have made cyclists into very aggressive people who will run you down just as soon as look at you.
 
Something has changed in the cyclists you cross in London. I used to cycle around London and never had any problems with cars but cycle lanes have made cyclists into very aggressive people who will run you down just as soon as look at you.

Don't get me started with road cyclists.

They seem to think they are a law unto themselves.

What niggles me is that the majority appear to have no road sense at all, and no awareness of other road users around them.

They are exempt from taking any kind of compulsory highway test, have no insurance, are unregistered - so are unidentifiable in a road rage incident (of which there are many)

If Boris was so keen to spend millions on providing them with their own highways, he really should've introduced some new laws to keep cyclists in check.
 
Don't get me started with road cyclists.

They seem to think they are a law unto themselves.

What niggles me is that the majority appear to have no road sense at all, and no awareness of other road users around them.

They are exempt from taking any kind of compulsory highway test, have no insurance, are unregistered - so are unidentifiable in a road rage incident (of which there are many)

If Boris was so keen to spend millions on providing them with their own highways, he really should've introduced some new laws to keep cyclists in check.
Lol you do understand that cyclists have to follow the same rules as car drivers right?

Also I suspect that the reason so many cyclists are "ass holes" is because so many car drivers are ass holes who don't follow the law either. And the older you get, the less you follow the law.

As for the Tories.. Party needs to be split in 2. It has been a problem for decades and is now costing the UK billions.


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The man's an incompetent, self-serving idiot. Everything he says or does is based on what he thinks is good for his career progression.

FYI, every politician does that.
 
She's going to go if she loses the vote and she's also going to go if she wins the vote. I couldn't name a more incompetent PM in my lifetime and that's saying something. Reading the Spectator article, I can agree the two choices. No deal crashes us as many hard Brexiteers want and no exit crashes the Conservative party. You can also see why even though Corbyn is not a true Remainer, he's not made much effort to agree a deal. The death of the Conservatives will see Labour in power for a decade just as when Blair promised a different destiny from the Conservatives in the 90's.

Lots of successors - I don't see much success in any of them unless they really can change our destiny as a nation.

nothing can keep the UK together as it stands today .... uk is living on borrowed time no matter who is in charge in London
 
Lol you do understand that cyclists have to follow the same rules as car drivers right?

REALLY?

You must have been top of your class!

Obviously you don't frequent the streets of London. A lot of cyclists have no idea what the rules of a car driver even are.

Yes, there are lousy car drivers - but they can be held accountable.
 
REALLY?

You must have been top of your class!

Obviously you don't frequent the streets of London. A lot of cyclists have no idea what the rules of a car driver even are.

Yes, there are lousy car drivers - but they can be held accountable.
Haha they can? If the lousy car drivers were held accountable, then the court system would be in chaos. I would say 70%+ of drivers over 50 could not pass a drivers test today and that number only goes up the older you get. Even the freaking police break basic laws and you are bitching about very vulnerable cyclists?

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Lol you do understand that cyclists have to follow the same rules as car drivers right?

Also I suspect that the reason so many cyclists are "ass holes" is because so many car drivers are ass holes who don't follow the law either. And the older you get, the less you follow the law.

Ah, a clear sign you've not walked the streets or driven in London since the cycle lanes were introduced. As a pedestrian, cyclists are far more aggressive than car drivers where pedestrians are concerned. They have little regard for the safety of others sharing the same pavement. On the streets, they cross red lights and weave through traffic.

~ very vulnerable cyclists?

Are you out of your mind? Just try walking on the same pavement where there is a cycle lane. You'd be safer and given more regard as a pedestrian if you had to step into the road.

As for the Tories.. Party needs to be split in 2. It has been a problem for decades and is now costing the UK billions

That, I can agree. The split is right down the middle and the levels of anger between the two wings are incredible. The old wings of "wets" and others are not the same as the "pro" and "anti" EU rift.
 
Even the freaking police break basic laws and you are bitching about very vulnerable cyclists?

If they're that vulnerable then surely a compulsory basic proficiency test would be in their best interests, along with compulsory insurance and some form of registration.

Do feel free to "bitch" about every other road user (except the poor misunderstood cyclists) on the roads of London - roads of which you have no real understanding of.
 
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