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Boris The Buffoon
So we are destined to suffer this utter buffoon in Downing Street just to keep the Tory Party together and in power. God help us all .....and they think it is democratic????
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There are two or three rounds of voting to go, so it might not be the foregone conclusion it appears now. And Boris is only ever 5 minutes from an embarrassing gaffe, so it could all go pear shaped very quickly. It is scary that someone so obviously unsuitable is the front runner to lead a scary and unsuitable Government.
18:07 Thu 13th Jun 2019
Indeed Gromit. I have over simplified the arithmetic. But so has Danny.
There are actually 156 "floating" (I.e. non-Boris) ,votes. If Gove gets 80 of them and Hunt 76 then Boris is out. The permutations are many and various, but it is not so cut and dried as some would make out. Since the Tories began electing their leader in 1965 only once has the favourite won. There are dark forces at work which trump simple arithmetic.
NJ
// There are dark forces at work which trump simple arithmetic. //
Agreed.
Sir Lynton Cosby is advising Johnson, the same man who ran May’s disastrous 2017 election campaign and who advised her to avoid the televised debates. Rather than get the 100 majority that she wanted, she got no majority.
So a man with a proven record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, is running the Boris campaign.
(Still think he will come 2nd and win the members vote).
// There are dark forces at work which trump simple arithmetic. //
Agreed.
Sir Lynton Cosby is advising Johnson, the same man who ran May’s disastrous 2017 election campaign and who advised her to avoid the televised debates. Rather than get the 100 majority that she wanted, she got no majority.
So a man with a proven record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, is running the Boris campaign.
(Still think he will come 2nd and win the members vote).
Harper, McVey, Hancock and Leadsome were all hard brexiteer candidates, so Boris should pick up many of their 50 votes.
But in the referendum 185 Tories voted to Remain and 139 to Leave, so you would expect the final two to be one Remainer and one Leaver.
Boris is the frontrunner to get the Leave vote, but he has a bad reputation amongst his fellow MPs.
But in the referendum 185 Tories voted to Remain and 139 to Leave, so you would expect the final two to be one Remainer and one Leaver.
Boris is the frontrunner to get the Leave vote, but he has a bad reputation amongst his fellow MPs.
"In a 2007 column for the paper, Johnson blasted Gordon Brown six days before he officially took office and succeeded Tony Blair. Johnson hit out at the former Chancellor for taking the job at Number 10 without winning his own general election as leader, calling it a ‘gigantic fraud’. ‘It’s the arrogance. It’s the contempt. That’s what gets me,’ Johnson wrote. ‘It’s Gordon Brown’s apparent belief that he can just trample on the democratic will of the British people."
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