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A woman will succeed PM Cameron and lead UK's exit from EU
Two women Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are battling to become the next leader of the British Conservative party and thus prime minister, the first time since the late Margaret Thatcher. After the second MPs ballot on Thursday, Home Secretary May finished with 199 votes, Energy Minister Mrs. Leadsom 84 and Michael Gove, the justice secretary, 46. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesExcellent choice. Handbag at the ready, behave yourselves..
Jul 08th, 2016 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good to see Gove getting what he deserves.
Jul 08th, 2016 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Either candidate would be fine, I am sure. It would be good to see some real debate and less mud-slinging.
Andrea wants to bring back persecution of foxes. Someone at Invesco Perpetual told me she isnt what she claims. Don't thing a right winger is what is needed, Mays pledge to govern for everybody is what is needed. Meanwhile tbe Denis Skinner party is thriving too. It now includes the naive, the usual suspects with punk hairdos and dogs on strings often seen at demos and most of the Trots. Labour party has dissolved. No opposition is not good. Hopefully May will handbag Wonderwoman.
Jul 08th, 2016 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am more concerned with Andrea's intolerance to gay marriage. We don't need to step back to the 50's but look forward.
Jul 08th, 2016 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree the lack of credible opposition is a dangerous development.
It seems strangely irrelevant that the next Prime Minister will be a woman after everything that has happened in the last two weeks. I'm glad Gove is out though.
Jul 08th, 2016 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've never liked May, she wants to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights because it's been inconveniencing her in deporting extremists. Shows a terrible sense of priorities IMO.
She also apparently managed to get this highly critical article removed from the Telegraph: http://web.archive.org/web/20160701095930/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/01/theresa-may-is-a-great-self-promoter-but-a-terrible-home-secreta/
I really know nothing about Leadsom though, wouldn't have recognised her name before the referendum campaign.
Of course there's also the issue of putting someone who was in favour of remain in charge. Presumably the Brexit supports (excluding Boris naturally) actually had some kind of plan for what to do afterwards, unlike May.
@5 ”Presumably the Brexit supports (excluding Boris naturally) actually had some kind of plan for what to do afterwards,….”
Jul 08th, 2016 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not so much. Farage who spent 25 years throwing stones at the establishment and campaigning for Brexit threw in the towel immediately. I am sure he never thought it would happen and had not a clue what to do. Though he and his wife will still take their annual £500,000 plus of tax-payer's money for a few more years.
Farage, Corbyn. Sanders. They are only any good throwing stones but are hopelessly inadequate when they actually have to govern.
Who are the Corbyn supporters, Tory infiltrators? Surely they cannot be serious, the mans unelectable.
Jul 08th, 2016 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whoever gets the job will have to lead from the front,
Jul 08th, 2016 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and not only negotiate to get us the best deal possible,
but will have to solve all the other problem that are still with us ,
A divided country for a start.
@6 ElaineB
Jul 09th, 2016 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Farage never needed a plan. He's not in the government and thankfully has no chance of ever being in the government. I'm sure you are right that he has no idea what to do, but it's irrelevant anyway.
I was thinking of the Tories who supported Brexit, I would hope at least some of them have plans for what to do afterwards although I suspect I won't like their ideas very much. Sadly most of the leave campaign was fluff and nonsense so we have very little idea what to expect.
@7 The Voice
I think the Corbyn supporters have a lot in common with the Leave voters. They are people who feel they have no representation in the current parties and their concerns are ignored by most politicians. Probably introducing PR would be the best way to fix this as we could then have a greater range of parties representing a greater range of viewpoints. However the changes of this happening seem slim.
I agree Corbyn is unelectable. If he wasn't before he certainly is now that 75% of his MPs are refusing to support him. Who would elect such a divided party?
@9 He is an MEP and a leading player in UKIP (though even they couldn't stand him). But he has been a high profile campaigner for Brexit for 25 years. Why step down now?
Jul 09th, 2016 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1o ElaineB
Jul 09th, 2016 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's got what he wanted and UKIP are more or less redundant now as they are a single issue party. No doubt he wants to leave someone else to clear up the mess he's made. I wasn't expecting anything better of him anyway.
I think the Tories who supported leaving were more influential as some of them were serious politicians who the public might reasonably expect to know what they were talking about. However there seems to be no plan for what the government should even aim for in the exit negotiations, and the only thing they are doing at the moment is damage control.
@11 Yes, I had very low expectations of Farage. I heard someone likening his actions to raising a child, getting them ready for school and dropping them off the first day with the words, “My job is done, I want my life back”. The work of raising the child is nowhere near completed. The man is a fame-whore. Perhaps he will go to rehab and get his drinking under control.
Jul 09th, 2016 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Politicians are perfectly adept at looking at the bigger picture. The people have spoken, they serve the majority and they will get the best deal they can. I would like to see the candidate with the strongest will and best diplomatic skills take up the challenge. Though it really should be a cross-party negotiation as this will affect generations to come, not one term of a PM.
@12 ElaineB
Jul 10th, 2016 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0It probably should be a cross party negotiation but the Labour aren't in much of a state to take part at the moment unfortunately. Seems they are suffering from an excess of democracy as much as the Tories.
It seems we have May as our next P.M.
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