Tory leader - place your bets

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thirdcrank wrote:I see Gove has admitted taking cocaine / mentioned snorting coke (?) depending on POV.

Will this detract from his popularity among the traditional party membership?
Or endear him to a younger, less bigoted type of voter?

And who cares? Except for BJ that is?



I hear Boris is playing the drug thing both ways. He has admitted and denied taking cannabis.
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Theresa May is never leaving. She has stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party, but she now says that she won't step down as PM until she thinks the new Conservative leader has the confidence of Parliament. As none of the candidates will have the confidence of Parliament, May stays. It's possible that she would still win a vote of confidence, and free from party constraints, who knows what she'll do. Revoke? No deal?
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Mike Sales wrote: ... I hear Boris is playing the drug thing both ways. He has admitted and denied taking cannabis.


Don't believe a word he says, even if he contradicts himself.

bovlomov wrote:Theresa May is never leaving. She has stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party, but she now says that she won't step down as PM until she thinks the new Conservative leader has the confidence of Parliament. As none of the candidates will have the confidence of Parliament, May stays. It's possible that she would still win a vote of confidence, and free from party constraints, who knows what she'll do. Revoke? No deal?


Like her role model, the lady's not for turning.
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thirdcrank wrote:I see Gove has admitted taking cocaine / mentioned snorting coke (?) depending on POV.

Will this detract from his popularity among the traditional party membership?
Or endear him to a younger, less bigoted type of voter?

Could anything make him popular with anyone?

And who cares? Except for BJ that is?

Yep,he'd probably want the number of Gove's supplier :)

Coming next: Sarah Vain reveals the truth about tattoos.

Hare and hounds perhaps? :shock:
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thirdcrank wrote:
Mike Sales wrote: ... I hear Boris is playing the drug thing both ways. He has admitted and denied taking cannabis.


Don't believe a word he says, even if he contradicts himself.

Yep he believes and doesn't believe himself at the same time and sees no contradiction in that belief! :roll:

Like her role model, the lady's not for turning.


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not much choice is there?

drug addicts, philanderers, liars.
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I'd assumed they were all on drugs, what other explanation is there?
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PH wrote:I'd assumed they were all on drugs, what other explanation is there?

Probably LSD :roll:
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bovlomov wrote:Theresa May is never leaving. She has stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party, but she now says that she won't step down as PM until she thinks the new Conservative leader has the confidence of Parliament. As none of the candidates will have the confidence of Parliament, May stays. It's possible that she would still win a vote of confidence, and free from party constraints, who knows what she'll do. Revoke? No deal?

Oh my goodness, what fun. Or not.
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mercalia wrote:... Come back Mrs May all is forgiven


Do try and keep up. She can't come back before she's gone.
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reohn2 wrote:
PH wrote:I'd assumed they were all on drugs, what other explanation is there?

Probably LSD :roll:


Or £sd.
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Mrs May's worst thing was running through a wheatfield. Her goody two shoes background didn't make her a prime ministerial success. Nor even someone with a moral compass.
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It won't make any difference who the next tory leader is. Democracy has lost its' meaning, What will follow will resemble the last scene from the film "The fall of the Roman Empire". Spivs bidding against each other while the rest of the ne'er-do-wells in Parliament point the self righteous finger at everyone but themselves.
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bovlomov wrote:Theresa May is never leaving. She has stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party, but she now says that she won't step down as PM until she thinks the new Conservative leader has the confidence of Parliament. As none of the candidates will have the confidence of Parliament, May stays. It's possible that she would still win a vote of confidence, and free from party constraints, who knows what she'll do. Revoke? No deal?
Have you a source for that statement? Can't find any reference on any of the news sites. Sounds improbable.
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windmiller wrote:It won't make any difference who the next tory leader is. Democracy has lost its' meaning, What will follow will resemble the last scene from the film "The fall of the Roman Empire". Spivs bidding against each other while the rest of the ne'er-do-wells in Parliament point the self righteous finger at everyone but themselves.


True, true. But ...

I yam very worried about the spivs queuing up to take the place of the present spivs. Stealin' Yatterbox Lummox for Home Sec, perhaps? A Ron Bankrobber as Chancellor? Nige can be The Speaker, thus ensuring that no one else can speak.

Wot U fink? Should we all start practicing our one-arm salutes yet?

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