Anyone who wants to be PM has to appeal to the great majority of British people so it's not surprising they won't appeal to the nutjobs* on this forum.




* antivaxers, people who fear lizards, racists etc etc

Bill Gates, PURE EVIL
Obviously Nobby thinks it's ok for Gates to admit injecting genetically modified organisms in little kids arms

He literally says it on camera FFS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_hOSfHUJV4&ab_channel=PetterErlands

Most meat sold in the UK has been raised on GM crops so I take it Timber is a vegan.

Yeah I know a lot of Tory party members are racists and don't want dirty foreigners coming to the country but if you want a functioning economy then you need a good supply of cheap labour.

well put ur money where ur mouth is or u ain't saying a darn thing
2.92 > 3.0 to lay for a grand..free money,then?

The winner of the current Conservative leader election will become the PM. It's the Government that decide when the next General election is held so it's highly unlikely one would be called without a new PM in place.

thanks pp,  so what happens if the tories support labours vonc, would whoever faced starmer have to be declared permanent pm before it? or just a caretaker one?

An election next year is a decent price, imo. Even though it's obviously not a presidential system, every PM that has took the role up mid term in my adult lifetime has struggled for authority.

thanks snc   , cant actually believe some of the dross in the betting, we re fckd either way it seems

most of them are as complicit and corrupt as johnson!

lux

Politicians can and do promise all kinds of bollox. At the end of the day the economy comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th because it it falters the government falls.

The cost of lockdown crisis is baked in. The energy firms will collect the DDs whether it's very cold or not. You can be pretty confident that the cap won't be favourable for the gvnt.

I'd make a 2023 election fav personally. There are still a lot of Boris fans about, and when it goes t1ts up, the new administration will get the blame from them too.

If it's a freezing winter in Europe the price of gas will shoot up and the price cap review in spring might put the cost up over £4k a year for the average household.

In my opinion that will require the government to nationalise old gas fields and get fracking.

Enter stage right Priti Patel ?

I was in Portugal in 2020 and there was a lockdown.

That's my point, mainstream media wanted lockdowns, restrictions and handouts. They don't want regular joe to know the cost of lockdown crisis is the same, or worse elsewhere.

Who still thinks Zahawi can win?

Chris Skidmore: Conservative MPs don’t need the equivalent of Lord Buckethead on the ballot paper this week

Chris Skidmore was Universities, Science, Research and Innovation Minister 2018-19 and 2019-20, and is MP for Kingswood.
Sometimes in life you have to be cruel to be kind.
And while I don’t mean to be cruel to some of my colleagues, the firing of the starting gun of a Conservative Party leadership race (now an all too familiar sound) inevitably results not just in a crowded field gathering for the start of this political Grand National; it quickly descends into the farce of many of these candidates falling lamentably at the first hurdle – or failing to even get out of the starting blocks.
For some, taking soundings from colleagues or false friends, believe they actually have a chance of winning. Others clearly calculate that standing might raise their profile in the hope of a ministerial job.
Either way, allowing any backbench MP (step forward Alfred J Prufrock) and their dog to be nominated for the leadership contest with barely a handful of supporters encourages those with perhaps less self-awareness than one might hope to put themselves forward ‘willing to serve’, with ‘fresh ideas’ that inexplicably are never actually articulated.
Still, if this is rewarded with a seat in the Today studios or an appearance on Newsnight, perhaps the colleague thinks that this is job done. Some sensibly retreat after this, backing the candidate they had always planned to from the start. Others, having by this time taken too many swigs of the Kool Aid or publicity, press on – to the inevitable car crash of not getting enough signatures to be nominated, or being the first to be eliminated in the first round.
During the last leadership election, colleagues needed just eight nominations to stand in the contest – two per cent of the Parliamentary Party. No deposit was required, either. Contrast this with a general election, in which joke or vexatious candidates are eliminated from the start with the threshold of a deposit which is subsequently lost if less than five per cent of the vote is received.
It is clear that with the Conservative Party in government and the next leader automatically becoming the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the consequences of this election is of utmost importance and seriousness. The eyes of the world will be watching the contest, which needs serious candidates who already command the support of a sizeable number of colleagues. This is not the time for narcissism.
Rather, it is time that the 1922 committee looked at revising the rules of the contest so that within the truncated timetable of the election, colleagues are presented immediately with a realistic field of contenders – each of them potential candidates for Prime Minister – rather than suffer the Conservative equivalent of Lord Buckethead on the ballot paper.
That’s why when the new 1922 executive meets on Monday, they should agree to change the rules of the contest so that no candidate can stand without ten per cent of the selectorate nominating them. At the very least, perhaps 20 MPs should be the threshold, weeding out time wasters who never have a chance of winning. Serious times demand serious candidates. Then we can focus on the policies – and not the personalities – that matter.

I don't recall Oscar Pistorius in version one? Jonnie Peacock is the sprint blade runner.

Mr Hunt, if elected PM, would want Ms McVey as his deputy. That's has put me off even if his inclination to re-join EU has not.

Mr Sunak is probably the cleverest of the lot, but I do not trust me eg Green Card. I do not think he's as much empathy to the lesser able folks; he was generous during the pandemic, but a hike in NI so soon after is not the way forward esp in the present level of increasing inflation.

If only the people are allowed to vote for their choice of PM and dep PM of the winning most seats Party. I think Labour despite in opposition since 2010 is still in a re-building and infancy stage to govern.

Personally, I'd like to see Mr Hunt, Ms Truss and Mr Javid for the top 3 jobs in government for me.