Completely fair point.
That bloke is fudging dangerous.
The only positive I can see from him becoming the next PM (which he surely will) is that he will have to take full responsiblity for Brexit. He thoroughly deserves the whole mess.
And I'm not a big Owen Jones fan, but you are right, it is a fair point. Consider the pelters that Gove is getting for doing coke 20 years ago, pales in comparison to Johnson's misdeeds. And I can't stand him either, but he is a much better candidate for PM than Johnson. Which might be an indictment of the current Tory Party as much as anything else.
If you fear social conservatism (which I do too), your fears are better placed on someone more competent.
Johnson is a Trump. And Trump is fine because he's not one of the competent dead eye fudgers like Paul Ryan.
Things like this are important to pay attention to: https://righttolife.org.uk/news/tory-leadership-candidates-abortion-2019/
I just cant imagine people would put him in that position.
If he becomes PM then the whole system needs tearing down.
I just cant imagine people would put him in that position.
If he becomes PM then the whole system needs tearing down.
I dont fear any particular ideology, I do fear a man who has shown he will change the course of history just to service his own ego. Just as I fear a man who would do that and then go on to display such a complete lack of intelligence, sense, respect...
He is dangerous.
If he gets to the last two (which seems likely) then he is overwhelmingly the favourite amongst Tory members whose votes will decide whether he becomes leader (and by extension, PM).
Personally, I think it should be that if MPs resign the whip it should automatically trigger a by-election, and if the governing party changes leader, it should automatically trigger a General Election. Sadly, these aren't the rules.
On Johnson, it's interesting that his advisors figure he is such a gaffe prone qunt, their strategy is to keep him away from TV interviews and high profile campaigning.
If he gets to the last two (which seems likely) then he is overwhelmingly the favourite amongst Tory members whose votes will decide whether he becomes leader (and by extension, PM).
Personally, I think it should be that if MPs resign the whip it should automatically trigger a by-election, and if the governing party changes leader, it should automatically trigger a General Election. Sadly, these aren't the rules.
On Johnson, it's interesting that his advisors figure he is such a gaffe prone qunt, their strategy is to keep him away from TV interviews and high profile campaigning.
Dirt shows best in the light. He won't last 2 months as PM before a scandal brings him down. It will be as easy as destroying the BNP by simply giving them a chair on Question Time one week
As with GB, I agree with the first but absolutely no the second. We dont vote for a PM, we vote for a party and a manifesto.
It defies belief that anyone who is serious about anything would look at Boris as a solution, as a leader, a figurehead - the public fact of a party....
...its unbelievable people could go for it.
That said, look at Trump....
As I said - look at Trump. Boris would be ours, and I suspect just as hard to remove.
And how did that go last time?
There isnt enough talent in the Tory party to offer a credible alternative.
Boris would Trump it up big time, normalise insane and bigoted comments to the point where people just accept it.
I didnt say she was dangerous, only that Boris would be.
The point was - May was crap, a no confidence vote was made, and she is still there. So your "simple vote of no confidence brings ours down" line really isnt as absolute as you might hope.
I just meant the mechanism is there to prevent excesses. Whereas you need impeachment to bring down a president.
I know the technicalities, but in reality the leader is a big factor for many people when they cast their vote.
As horrible as it is, Johnson is the next step in rearranging the system (not bringing it down - too apocalyptic).Ahem the only reason Boris has a realistic shot at PM is because of those who believed the ‘whole system needs tearing down’. Just like No Deal was never on the table Boris was a joke who’d never run the party or nation.
Now with Farage and Brexit he is the ‘solution’!
Careful what you wish for.
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Interesting that Mordaunt has just said she's not standing, and is backing Hunt instead. The only Brexiteer in cabinet not backing Johnson
Conspiracy exists but not in the places you are looking.
If you want to to know why so many refugees AND immigrants are coming in to Europe, you need to look at the state of their countries, war torn and poor. It's for a safer more prosperous future for themselves and families... Not to irradicate the 'white race' (what the fudge is the 'white race' anyway? where do you as a Greek (if I remember correctly) fit into this so called 'whiteness'?
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