BoJo not standing for PM

Clarky

not sure how funny i think this is yet...

snakemanStoo

I have a feeling that Ian Hislop will be laughing for weeks.

Fretwired

snakemanStoo said:

I have a feeling that Ian Hislop will be laughing for weeks.

Not sure .. it's robbed him of acres of amusing cartoons and print in Private Eye and gags on HIGNFY

mgaw

imagine being outmanouvered by Gove

Teetonetal

my my. David Cameron's legacy perhaps? To make sure that we don't end up with BoJo.

richh

I wouldn't think that Gove would stand a chance in Hell though would he?

I'm no expert on politics but I'd have thought that Theresa May would be a more likely leader.

PolarityMan

Words.......fail..........so........fucking.....angry.

Fretwired

richh said:

I wouldn't think that Gove would stand a chance in Hell though would he?

I'm no expert on politics but I'd have thought that Theresa May would be a more likely leader.

Gove took out Boris to help May. Gove for chancellor?

ThorpyFX

So the whole country has been put through the ringer so that several upper class buffoons can play power games. Wonderful.

SRich

PolarityMan said:

Words.......fail..........so........fucking.....angry.

Are you OK.............need a hug?..........

thomasw88

he's bottled it as he's a spineless opportunistic buffoon..

Knows that the next pm is going to have a) trigger article 50, b) try and work through the massive clusterfuck that will ensue..  Plus there is quite a lot of anger at boris at the moment within the Tory party - pig shagger and co were alleged to be running an anti boris campaign for pm...

So I think he's biding his time to being the tory leader after the next one methinks..

FX_Munkee

Fretwired said:

richh said:

I wouldn't think that Gove would stand a chance in Hell though would he?

I'm no expert on politics but I'd have thought that Theresa May would be a more likely leader.

Gove took out Boris to help May. Gove for chancellor?

This. He wasn't a stalking horse, too late to entry for that, he was used to take out the Boris vote.
Can't wait to see him as Chancellor after the sterling job he did in education.

Fatfingers

ThorpyFX said:

So the whole country has been put through the ringer so that several upper class buffoons can play power games. Wonderful.

That was always the case. This was never about anything other than Tory party manoeuvring. 

Clarky

I wonder if we'll ever find out the real reason why he didn't stand

Brize

Clarky said:

I wonder if we'll ever find out the real reason why he didn't stand

Simple: because he didn't think he'd win.

earwighoney

Presuming Corbyn won't be around for much longer, and with a new leader coming to the Tories will it be strange to see leaders of two large political parties who weren't voted in by the electorate. 

suspiciousminds

ThorpyFX;1133077" said:

So the whole country has been put through the ringer so that several upper class buffoons can play power games. Wonderful.

I was thinking the same thing tbh.
What a shower of shit they all really are.

Clarky

Brize said:

Clarky said:

I wonder if we'll ever find out the real reason why he didn't stand

Simple: because he didn't think he'd win.

that's pretty much what I thought..

also, I was thinking that he may not want to win either right now..

cos dragging the UK out of the EU will be mucky.. would he want something like that, especially if it didn't go well, on his CV

HAL9000

ThorpyFX;1133077" said:

So the whole country has been put through the ringer so that several upper class buffoons can play power games. Wonderful.

^ This. MPs showing their true colours as self-servers who have no interest in serving their country.

Fretwired

Clarky said:

I wonder if we'll ever find out the real reason why he didn't stand

Not enough support. Three of his sponsors deserted him this morning. He had no choice.

Fretwired

earwighoney said:

Presuming Corbyn won't be around for much longer, and with a new leader coming to the Tories will it be strange to see leaders of two large political parties who weren't voted in by the electorate. 

The electorate don't vote for party leaders - MPs and party members only.