Sadly he pocesses more than enough smug arrogance to keep the Tory faithful happy for the foreseeable…
I voted that he was lying because that’s a given, but then read the piece.
I think it depends on how well they think they’ll do. If they think Corbyn’s a joke and not up to much he’ll stay to see it through and then bail a la tosspot tony. If they think it’ll be a harder fight than it ought to be (to them) - see the story about people being denied access to hearing aids in t’ news today - then I can see them bringing in the “charismatic” Boris to hoover up votes from UKIP and the like. Either way, he’s due his turn as leader due to his membership of all those porcine-friendly clubs I have just heard about.
Struggle to see anyone other than Boris taking over if I am honest. It’ll cause friction, and there’ll be some infighting, but I think it’ll be Boris about 1/2 years off from the election.
Which makes me think, would we ever have had one PM handing over the keys to #10 to someone they went to school with?
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If he can ride out getting a gobble from a dead pig, then surely he will be confidrent of further victory.
If.
We don’t know that he has. Next set of elections should be very interesting.
Thing is will the results be a reflection of the shitty way folks have been treated or the shitty way he treated that deceased porker?
Dunno Pap, mid-termers are generally used to vote against the government to register disproval, give them the proverbial kick up the cahooney as t’were…
This term, then his Tory replacement in for the next term. Then back to labour, in the game of pass the buck!
Three and a half years giving who ever is next a year of being prime ministerial before walloping Corbyn in the election.
Too long. Whatever the actual time he will be PM is. His possible replacements, BJ, Nicky Morgan, Theresa and that one with a red brief case all fill me with dread.
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I thought they were playing pass the pig ?
Three years and then a passing over to Boris. I would be confident of another win with Cameron in power, but I would be supremely confident if Boris was taking over.
Anything that keeps May out if power.
Sign of a popular party “Hide your conference badges!”
Seriously, I know the likes of Britain First have people picketing them, but can you think of any other mainstream party so reviled that it’d need to make this statement?
W ould love to see Johnson and Coryn duke it out for the PMs job. Finally some characters fighting for the highest office. The women love Boris. When I worked for The Spectator we were doing a promo at WHS in Sloane Square. Boris was editor at the time and we persuaded him to come along and help the promo. The women were queuing up to meet him and I had to fight them off for him.
I agree, it really is a sad state for the country that members of a political party can’t express themselves for fear of violence. Guess it’s what it’s like in the North though (it’s grim up there).
Just seen this on that Twitter dot com thing. A poll from “Conservative Home”, whatever exactly that is.
Found it slightly surprising, especailly such a lead.
Osborne = 32%
Javid = 17%
May = 15%
BoJo = 14%
Fox = 12%
Gove = 6%
Hunt = 2%
Morgan = 1%
As a Tory voter (not a member I hasten to add) I would go for David Davis but highly unlikely that he would win. Johnson would be a disaster, can you imagine him up against Corbyn, the public wouldn’t know where to turn. Osborne looks a safe bet and is looking more and more assured all the time.
You would have to question the point of your career as a politician if Gove had a better chance of winning than you.
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I think he’ll go all the way into the next election. IMHO, before the last election, he didn’t think he’d have a clear electoral mandate and I would guess that this may have chanegd things for him. I reckon he’ll contest the next election as Tory leader.
The Prime Minister would appear to agree with you, judging by his recent interview with Jon Snow. However, many of the conference speeches, including Osborne, Boris Johnson and Theresa May’s, have been about asserting their own ideas and putting a stake in the ground for leadership.
So we’ve got conflicting information.
You’d have to look at John Major as the most recent example of a politician that became Prime Minister in between elections and went on to win the next general election. He had just short of two years to make his case, but managed to convince the electorate anyway.
I think he’ll be gone by 2017.