May has gone - ding dong the utter, utter, total failure of a prime minister is gone
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PBlakeney wrote:rjsterry wrote:I thought you wanted MPs to not be noticed. Grieve will be lucky to keep his seat if there's a GE. Boles is no longer a member of a party so will need to join another to win a seat at the next GE. He'll need to join a party, then get selected as a candidate, win that seat and then work his way up. More likely he will change career entirely.
Anyway what is this experience you mention?
Current batch of MPs will have sussed out that a coalition is most likely soon and will be positioning themselves to be active in that. Better a big fish in a small coalition party than a back bench for a big party.
Experience? Viewing and voting from the 70s. Not got a clue who to vote for today.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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rjsterry wrote:I'm not suggesting there are no MPs who fit your description, but even 40+ years of voting is only 12 general elections. If you moved constituency every few years, that's still a very small sample out of 650. The media love to portray them all as venal and dishonest, but having someone in the family who has been heavily involved in local and national politics, I just don't think that's true of most of them, most of the time. Taking the example of the expenses scandal, the reporting gave the impression that they were all at it, when the number of MPs found to have broken the rules was less than 30 (out of 650). Still too many, but less than 5%.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
rjsterry wrote:PBlakeney wrote:rjsterry wrote:I thought you wanted MPs to not be noticed. Grieve will be lucky to keep his seat if there's a GE. Boles is no longer a member of a party so will need to join another to win a seat at the next GE. He'll need to join a party, then get selected as a candidate, win that seat and then work his way up. More likely he will change career entirely.
Anyway what is this experience you mention?
Current batch of MPs will have sussed out that a coalition is most likely soon and will be positioning themselves to be active in that. Better a big fish in a small coalition party than a back bench for a big party.
Experience? Viewing and voting from the 70s. Not got a clue who to vote for today.
Probably doesn't help that the ones that get much of the air time at the moment are so often the privileged ones with the sense of enormous personal entitlement. If you think that really, actually, obviously you should be PM and that it is only a matter of time before you are then why would you place the needs of the country ahead of your own needs? After all, by becoming PM the country is benefitting from you being PM. It should be duly grateful to you for deigning to run it. Less arrogant people would think that it is you that is being privileged to be put in that position.
I am sure that the vast majority of MPs are decent folk whatever their political persuasion. They are people like everyone else. 10% will be really nice, 80% will be OK and 10% bad (hello Messrs Johnson, Mogg, Corbyn).Faster than a tent.......0 -
PBlakeney wrote:rjsterry wrote:I'm not suggesting there are no MPs who fit your description, but even 40+ years of voting is only 12 general elections. If you moved constituency every few years, that's still a very small sample out of 650. The media love to portray them all as venal and dishonest, but having someone in the family who has been heavily involved in local and national politics, I just don't think that's true of most of them, most of the time. Taking the example of the expenses scandal, the reporting gave the impression that they were all at it, when the number of MPs found to have broken the rules was less than 30 (out of 650). Still too many, but less than 5%.
What's worthiness got to do with it. There's a choice of half a dozen serious candidates in each constituency - just pick which one you think is best (or least worst if you prefer). The rest is out of your hands anyway unless you want to get more involved in politics.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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^^^^^
Which is the point. There are none worth a vote.
And if I don’t vote then I have no say. Catch 22.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
PBlakeney wrote:^^^^^
Which is the point. There are none worth a vote.
And if I don’t vote then I have no say. Catch 22.
What constituency?0 -
orraloon wrote:There was a breakfast meeting this morning between business leaders various and de Pfeffel. (I have my sources, redacted works for redacted etc etc.) I trust said redacted went armed with a baseball bat to knock some sense into that f-wit.0
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KingstonGraham wrote:PBlakeney wrote:^^^^^
Which is the point. There are none worth a vote.
And if I don’t vote then I have no say. Catch 22.
What constituency?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
PBlakeney wrote:KingstonGraham wrote:PBlakeney wrote:^^^^^
Which is the point. There are none worth a vote.
And if I don’t vote then I have no say. Catch 22.
What constituency?0 -
I get that Williamson is not someone anyone should want to support and IIRC you don't want to support Amanda Solloway, so what's wrong with Lucy Care? You might say she's unlikely to win, but that's not a reason not to vote for her.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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A protest vote and a gander at the other thread shows a little light at the end of the rabbit hole.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
PBlakeney wrote:A protest vote and a gander at the other thread shows a little light at the end of the rabbit hole.
Not entirely sure where your politics sit, but why does it have to be a protest vote? From the results of the 2010 election, it was a 3-way marginal not that long ago and the Lib Dems are having a resurgence. Even if your candidate doesn't win, cutting the winner's majority will keep them on their toes a bit more.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Your last sentence is the very definition of a protest vote.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
PBlakeney wrote:Your last sentence is the very definition of a protest vote.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Well that's one way to top May's achievement: ministerial resignations before he's even taken office.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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If Boris can't command a majority, does May still resign?0
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KingstonGraham wrote:If Boris can't command a majority, does May still resign?
I think you will find that Leave means Leave. There doesn't need to be any forward planning, we will be fine.0 -
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Rick Chasey wrote:KingstonGraham wrote:If Boris can't command a majority, does May still resign?
Election, no?
Surely May goes to see the queen and resigns. Boris goes to see queen and gets permission to form Govt. JC calls motion of no confidence do the the undemocratic way he became PM. I expect all Tory MPs to cheer him to the rafters.0