This is a poll. Who will be UK's next PM?

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Who will be the UK's next PM?

Poll ended at Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:01 pm

Michael Gove
4
11%
Jeremy Hunt
3
8%
Sajid Javid
0
No votes
Boris Johnson
19
50%
Andrea Leadsom
2
5%
Esther McVey
0
No votes
Penny Mordaunt
2
5%
Dominic Raab
7
18%
Amber Rudd
1
3%
Liz Truss
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 38

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Re: This is a poll. Who will be UK's next PM?

#361 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:12 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:49 pm
I think both sides want to execute Brexit ;)))


Aren't contronyms fun?
As I said, Fox off 😀

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#362 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:21 pm

=))

Or even Fox fox off.

Foxes voting for the Hunt, who'd a thought it?

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#363 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:25 pm

I didn't realise May had 2/3 remainers in Cabinet. Don't know why doomsayers are so surprised.

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#364 Post by FD2 » Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:57 pm

I hope he returns decision making from the sofa to the Cabinet. Also takes some of those arward decisions that May was famous for prevaricating over. He's at least shovelled a lot of sh*t out of the Cabinet!

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#365 Post by FD2 » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:07 pm

Or it has shovelled itself out! You'd think by some of the left wing reactions that the Devil himself was now in Downing Street.

Great! :ymdevil:

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#366 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:54 pm

Williamson to Education???
I wouldn't have thought Education needs any more f#cking up.
I presume he's back in on the 'This'll really p!ss May off' ticket.

..and an ex-Captain in the Scots Guards gets Defence - Mentioned in Dispatches after a terrorist incident in Norn Iron.

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#367 Post by FD2 » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:01 pm

Why does the Guardian encourage writers like this? Are they just trying to stir the sh*t?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -jobs-fair

Is UK education capable of being redeemed, with so many 'experts' in positions of power and influence? Williamson might be able to get rid of some of them before his wings burn. Their efforts so far seem to have produced a lot of school leavers who can neither read nor write properly, but feel entitled to skip school to take part in protests and who can sniff out racists and other horrid people from great distances. :(

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#368 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:08 pm

The Guardian has nothing but ad hominem attacks, so they are going to go full bore on that. It sells newspapers to their reader.
Is UK education capable of being redeemed..?
I fear not.
If it was I might still be in it.
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#369 Post by BenThere » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:45 pm

I see a lot of parallels with PM Boris and President Donald. Essentially they're both outsiders, and both air their thoughts openly, which I find refreshing. But the jewel in the crown on both of them is that they strive for the best outcome for their country.

I'm hoping and expecting Boris Johnson to be as marvelous as Margaret Thatcher.

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#370 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:52 pm

So Ben you think that Boris with his Eton and Oxford education is an outsider. You really are showing a typically limited American view of the outside world.
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#371 Post by BenThere » Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:07 pm

It's not his pedigree that makes him an outsider, but his outlook. My perceptions from afar may be blurred, but from what I've observed I like the cut of his cloth.

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#372 Post by Capetonian » Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:43 am

I think Boris and his new cabinet are a breath of fresh air. I trust the UK can look forward to better times with him as leader and outside the grasp of the EU. Renegade he might be, he will shake up politics and get things moving, if he upsets people in the process, so be it. As they say, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Let's just hope it's a good omelette.

He's even appointed a home secretary who wanted to restore the death penalty, hopefully the least she will do is clear the streets of crime and criminals.

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#373 Post by BenThere » Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:26 am

Shouldn't the people of England want their old England back? When you could walk the streets, even in the East End without fear of assault or even stabbing, perhaps because you are white? You won't get any improvement on that score by voting Labor. Boris is the new hope and if our experience with President Trump ia any guide, the UK will be quite rewarded by Boris Johnson. Happy, happy days.

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#374 Post by barkingmad » Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:50 am

Listening to the news from the Downing Street watchers today I got the impression that our government had awoken from years of torpor and lethargy by the injection of a new leader.
Time will tell if the jab is going to be successful.
The EU halls of deaf complacent elites are hopefully going to have to revise their modus operandi.
But the original ill-fated attempt by Cameron in 2016 to ask them to change their ways wasn't enough to shake them out of their superstate mindset so can we look forwards to sparks & heat & maybe positive results?
Since the EU elections they are not so comfortable with reduced majority over the rebels and I watch with interest the outcome, if there ever is one.

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#375 Post by ian16th » Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:12 am

I was watching the Sky coverage of the Cabinet Shuffle and commented that Boris was having a Long Knife Night!

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#376 Post by om15 » Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:45 pm

I watched the new Prime Minister in action live this morning, his debut in the House of Commons, a huge loud breathless speech promising new policemen, new hospitals, new houses, both more and less immigration, this was responded to by the Leader of the Opposition, he was immediately squashed flat by a tsunami of counter insults, the SNP bloke lumbered to his feet and started the usual perpetual whine about Scotland being hard done by, this was swatted immediately and he was left complaining in mid air, the brand spanking new leader of the LibDems gave, with the political clout of a Tesco check out lady, the predictable whinge about Brexit, they all came off a considerable second best.

If, as seems likely, there is a General election this autumn then in my opinion Johnson will wipe the floor with the lot of them and gain a massive majority. Channel 4, the BBC, Momentum and all the lovies are just about to be challenged by someone who appears not to be too bothered about niceties, Good.

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#377 Post by AtomKraft » Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:55 pm

Agree, OM.
It's very heartening.
Boris is going to show us what a dead beat May was.

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#378 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:19 pm

Has she gone yet??

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#379 Post by om15 » Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:40 pm

There are many reasons why people wish to leave the EU, but a common feeling is I think that we are an Island Race and simply don't wish to be a "member state" of a German dominated Europe, in particular being ruled by someone named "von", it is really as simple as that.

Behind the boisterous and confrontational tone of our new Brexit position lies a much more interesting situation. Jacob Rees-Mogg has issued a style guide to people in his department, reversing the current trend of slovenly socialist induced bad grammar and phrases. The following may be of interest, if only in contrast to the dull, grey, lifeless and monotone publications issued by the EU, (try reading EASA Regulations and making sense of the drab German - English waffle.)

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#380 Post by AtomKraft » Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:16 pm

Brilliant!👍

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