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Tory Leadership Race Updates

What a damn fiasco... at this point assuming Boris takes this I am unsure anyone can secure a Brexit deal.
 
This is the Tory MP vote.

The proof in the pudding will be presented when the pudding is served. That'll be when the membership gets to choose between the two remaining candidates.
 
It doesn't really matter who will be the British PM he won't stand for long with the way the British politics works, they all end up weeping in a sudden Downing street announcement.
 
OrphanSlug said:
What a damn fiasco... at this point assuming Boris takes this I am unsure anyone can secure a Brexit deal.
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For convenience's sake, copying this (in its pertinent part for here) from the other thread:

Chagos said:
~.......................What BoJo is aware of however (I've pointed out that he's not stupid despite having the buffoon record) is that if he pursues a no-deal exit, he's going to face a no-confidence vote in parliament. Which the Tories will lose on account of not every Tory's loyalty to the party stretching that far. Many of those that voted down yesterday's motion are aware of plenty of future opportunities to scuttle a no-deal scenario and will, if push comes to shove in that manner, swallow the toad of general elections.

IOW we're all no further than before in the sense that Boris is or will be just as hamstrung as Theresa was. I suspect that, should the Tories hoist him into the saddle, most will do it in the awareness of his being able to secure a deal that is only along the lines (IOW not much dissimilar) to the one we already have. Just that his charisma will assist him into spinning it thru parliament better than May was able to.

Of course the ERG fraudsters won't share that view but they do not constitute a Tory majority.
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....with my having bolded the part over what sort of deal seems probable.

One need add that if Boris attempts to prorogue parliament to push anything thru without it (he's so far ducked that issue despite robust questioning), he'll be toast as much as the whole government will be.

In his presentation of yesterday and the questioning that followed, he showed his past mastery at side-stepping. That may disgust many but is, in his case, not unwise. If you have no idea of what you're going to do, committing yourself to ANY sort of future action would be stupid. But that can cannot be kicked indefinitely.
 
PoS said:
OrphanSlug said:
What a damn fiasco... at this point assuming Boris takes this I am unsure anyone can secure a Brexit deal.
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Boris will. ;)
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Boris will become PM barring a major foot in mouth scenario and he will probably deliver the Canada+++ agreement that was offered by the EU some 2 years ago - it's how much he will stitch up Northern Ireland that remains the question.

In years to come, when people ask how the whole of Eire was reunited, they will point to Brexit and then the not insignificant part Bojo played in both.
 
If Boris Johnson becomes our prime minister, not that many of the other lot are much better... but God help us, I mean really, if this is what British Politics has come to... **** it really.
 
Jetboogieman said:
If Boris Johnson becomes our prime minister, not that many of the other lot are much better... but God help us, I mean really, if this is what British Politics has come to... **** it really.
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Yeah. The collective cognitive dissonance is getting a bit much.
 
Jetboogieman said:
If Boris Johnson becomes our prime minister, not that many of the other lot are much better... but God help us, I mean really, if this is what British Politics has come to... **** it really.
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Snazzy said:
Why exactly is he a racist p.o.s?
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Because he has a long history of making racist comments.

Calling black people picaninnies with watermelon smiles, comparing Muslim women wearing burkas to letterboxes and bank robbers, saying Africa should be run by European colonists because the natives weren't doing a good job, etc, etc.

He also has a history of sexist and homophobic comments.
 
PoS said:
So you dont like Turks?
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That's what you get from that comment? That a racist piece of **** like Boris is not only a 3rd gen refugee, but from Turkey totally ignored?

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PeteEU said:
That's what you get from that comment? That a racist piece of **** like Boris is not only a 3rd gen refugee, but from Turkey totally ignored?

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That just about answers my question, thanks.
 
PoS said:
That just about answers my question, thanks.
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No it does not. I have no problems with Turks (non religious fanatic types). My problem is with racist right wingers who ignore their own heritage and family.
 
PeteEU said:
Which is hilarious since he is part Turkish...

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He's related to most of the crowned heads of Europe too, and was born in New York. Not exactly a local.
 
Severe miscalculation by the Johnson/Gove factions. They've doxxed the outsider Rory Stewart as James Bond!

"Journalist: Did you work for MI6?
Rory Stewart: no
J: If you had worked for MI6 would you admit it?
RS: no
J: So was this a stupid question to ask?
RS: yes "
 
Manc Skipper said:
He's related to most of the crowned heads of Europe too, and was born in New York. Not exactly a local.
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So he is an anchor baby...

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So we are down to the final two, BoJo and Hunt.

It was glaringly obvious from the off that Bojo would be getting the keys to #10, so I'm not sure why they bothered with the candidate selection circus?

Perhaps to give the public some sense of fairness?

What a waste of time, and good luck Blighty with the new PM - dark days ahead me thinks!
 
The next phase of the contest to elect a new Conservative leader has begun amid claims tactical voting prevented Michael Gove reaching the final two.

Boris Johnson's team has denied such tactics - but at least one backer suggested some MPs may have switched votes to end Mr Gove's campaign. Link.
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First Raab is ejected by tactical voting, then Stewart and now Gove. We also have tactical moves by Brexit Party members and supporters to remove remain minded MP's by sneakily joining local community groups to push for deselection of rivals.
 
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