Six months ago David Cameron was dominant. He had saved the Union and won an election, returning the Tory party to a majority position.
George Osborne readied himself for the succession. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson worked to overtake Osborne. The great reformer Michael Gove weighed his options ahead of the referendum. Other ministers, MPs, chums and advisers who had hitched their wagons to the Cameron/Osborne project bustled around enjoying power or proximity to power.
Underneath them, a whole social network – with its own manners, assumptions and habits – whirred away in London and nice parts of the home counties at weekends.
It might not be popular, but you're correct. Tax cuts for the middle classes, more money for the pensioners. In fairness, it's hard given that 8 years after the crash, we're still £80-odd billion in the hole.
Osborne's budgets/statements towards the end of Cameron's premiership were particularly divisive. And after all of that austerity, the government's economic policy has now been thrown into chaos as a result of Brexit.
A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM
Away you halfwit he stabbed himself. Get a life and stop attacking innocent people.
Serious question, do you suffer from a personality defect?
Malcom is Scottish.
No excuse for being a churlish prick. A personality defect is. Just trying to work out if he deserves sympathy or contempt. I'm leaning towards contempt.
If you stopped stalking his posts you wouldn't have to feel anything about him.
Am I the only one who didn't always have my attention on her face
Yes quite nice tits for her age........
And we got a nice glimpse of cl****e I'm sure it wouldn't affect my vote but then as the quote from Burke above stated, reason is but one facet of human nature and she appears to have sussed that lol.
Still, I never thought I would ever look at a UK prime minister and things like that come into my mind, certainly never did with the Blessed Margaret.
Following the referendum, we face a time of great national change. And I know because we’re Great Britain that we will rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold, new, positive role for ourselves in the world, and we will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us.
A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM
Away you halfwit he stabbed himself. Get a life and stop attacking innocent people.
Serious question, do you suffer from a personality defect?
Malcom is Scottish.
No excuse for being a churlish prick. A personality defect is. Just trying to work out if he deserves sympathy or contempt. I'm leaning towards contempt.
If you stopped stalking his posts you wouldn't have to feel anything about him.
Not right-wing enough? You do (seem) to support Trump afterall....
Yes RodCrosby is a hard right hanger flogger anti-feminist who denies the Holocaust and loves Trump
Out of all those things it was the Holocaust denial which I found most shocking. Seeing those posts, I couldn't quite believe my eyes. Being anti-feminist on PB is not that shocking. I think I may be only feminist on this site!
A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM
Away you halfwit he stabbed himself. Get a life and stop attacking innocent people.
Serious question, do you suffer from a personality defect?
Malcom is Scottish.
No excuse for being a churlish prick. A personality defect is. Just trying to work out if he deserves sympathy or contempt. I'm leaning towards contempt.
If you stopped stalking his posts you wouldn't have to feel anything about him.
Stop stalking me you wierdo.
Wierdo? Internet rule 1, if you can't spell it, you can't call it, sport.
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
I suspect there is too much of a chance they would for that to be a remotely palatable option.
Mr. Taffys, that's a serious concern. The deficit is still the major issue, yet gets mentioned increasingly rarely.
Tackling it was already being abandoned - without the LDs in a coalition to vote for it, the Tories don't have a majority to take any more difficult decisions on it, and people like IDS were implying cutting things was bollocks now anyway, not necessary.
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM
Away you halfwit he stabbed himself. Get a life and stop attacking innocent people.
Serious question, do you suffer from a personality defect?
Malcom is Scottish.
No excuse for being a churlish prick. A personality defect is. Just trying to work out if he deserves sympathy or contempt. I'm leaning towards contempt.
If you stopped stalking his posts you wouldn't have to feel anything about him.
Stop stalking me you wierdo.
Wierdo? Internet rule 1, if you can't spell it, you can't call it, sport.
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
Clarke's question and Cammo's answer at PMQs was instructive, I thought?
Not right-wing enough? You do (seem) to support Trump afterall....
Yes RodCrosby is a hard right hanger flogger anti-feminist who denies the Holocaust and loves Trump
Out of all those things it was the Holocaust denial which I found most shocking. Seeing those posts, I couldn't quite believe my eyes. Being anti-feminist on PB is not that shocking. I think I may be only feminist on this site!
Would you mind defining "feminist" as you see it please? It's often a movable feast. This is not presaging me picking a fight with you .
@DavidAllenGreen: You may doubt sincerity of what she said, but hard for any sensible person to disagree with content of May's speech.
Lurch to the centre.
May's centrist rhetoric should terrify Labour. They need to get their act together.
No, we need Labour to exit left, asap, so that the stage can be occupied by a potential alternative government more suited to the current century rather than the last.
Not right-wing enough? You do (seem) to support Trump afterall....
Yes RodCrosby is a hard right hanger flogger anti-feminist who denies the Holocaust and loves Trump
Out of all those things it was the Holocaust denial which I found most shocking. Seeing those posts, I couldn't quite believe my eyes. Being anti-feminist on PB is not that shocking. I think I may be only feminist on this site!
Osborne's budgets/statements towards the end of Cameron's premiership were particularly divisive.
They were particularly inept. He ended up turning 180 degrees on a raft of issues. If they had been his initial positions, he would have looked quite progressive. As it was, they - when linked with his End of Days take on Brexit - terminally weakened him.
IMHO, Trump will win Iowa quite easily, even as somewhere like Virginia moves out of reach, as it's now anomalous as a marginal State. It's one of those States like West Virginia or Arkansas that's suddenly swinging sharply to the Reds.
I think not.
Iowa is my GOP fools gold state II - A state that looks tight during the campaign but trends to the Democrats at the death. Demographically it is also edging blue too. Look out for the local Anne Selzer state polls.
Pennsylvania is GOP fools gold state I - Although it is the only state that is trending GOP, albeit at a snails pace, it regularly tempts the GOP to flatter it before blowing a raspberry at it on election day.
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
@DavidAllenGreen: You may doubt sincerity of what she said, but hard for any sensible person to disagree with content of May's speech.
Lurch to the centre.
May's centrist rhetoric should terrify Labour. They need to get their act together.
I actually thought it was a good speech. Of course, speeches are different to actions, but it was quite a confident pitch. The problem for Dave was that there was always a nagging problem that when he talked about opportunity and the few vs the many, everyone was aware of his background. I don't think that made him a bad politician or PM, but May did come across (whether rightly or wrongly) a bit more sincerely on that front, I think.
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
Clarke's question and Cammo's answer at PMQs was instructive, I thought?
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
Would their voters?
Honestly, I've assumed for some time Scotland was a lost cause to the combined UK, hence why Brexit was less of a risk, but if they could accept an EU lite deal (better to be a Brexit lite, in terms of terminology) as reason to stay in the UK, I would be ecstatic.
So - how many blue Labour MPs are joining Mrs. May's new centre ground tory party?
Is the Dry but not Obsessed with the Gays and Europe New Tory Party in negotiations with May?
we may be - early days yet.
Requires those headbangers beyond repair like IDS to be sat next to Cash on the backbenches for the duration.
I'm looking forward to seeing IDS face after we Brexit and the min of ag announces the UK replacement for the CAP subsidies and he discovers that rich landowners will - in line with PM Mays speech get not a penny under the new regime.
Six degrees of separation: Theresa May is the MP for Bray, the Fat Duck is in Bray, AA Grill is a restaurant critic, Amber Rudd was married to AA Gill, Amber Rudd is about to be appointed to a top job in Theresa May's cabinet.
Reliable Tory MP: Philip Hammond Chanc, Justine Greening For Sec, Amber Rudd Home Sec, Anne Milton Ch Whip, Chris Grayling Brexit Minister.
No job for Mr/Mrs Reliable Tory MP? With a name like that, how could they be overlooked?
I know Tory can be a last name, but I suspect some sort of puritan heritage with the first name Reliable. Siblings are Sensible Tory, Radical Tory and Compassionate Tory.
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
Clarke's question and Cammo's answer at PMQs was instructive, I thought?
I haven't seen it. What was said?
I don't have a transcript to hand, but the gist of it was: Clarke "what reassurance can you provide about the terms of our Brexit?", Cammo: "my advice to my successor is that we should stay as close to the EU as possible".
@DavidAllenGreen: You may doubt sincerity of what she said, but hard for any sensible person to disagree with content of May's speech.
Lurch to the centre.
May's centrist rhetoric should terrify Labour. They need to get their act together.
No, we need Labour to exit left, asap, so that the stage can be occupied by a potential alternative government more suited to the current century rather than the last.
Dare I say it but she is moving towards a european style Christian Democrat raft of policies.
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
I would be careful. By the time the interminable legal proceedings afterwards have been exhausted you may be six feet under so never get your payment
Lots of speculation about what Theresa's speech means. Frankly I doubt her rhetoric now will translate into much more than continued tinkering at the edges à la Cameron, the only thing that came across clearly from it was a kind of bland centrism; not necessarily a bad thing but she won't be a radical or serious reformer of any kind.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
I thought you needed to be in an affiliated union for 12 months so how does that work?
Expect a big kerfuffle about a new hereditary peerage in the Resignation Honours...
I never expect bit kerfuffle over honours - I expect the same old tired complaints about how honour X shows the whole system is discredited, it's automatic. So it'd have to be a big one to actually cause interest.
Would you mind defining "feminist" as you see it please? It's often a movable feast. This is not presaging me picking a fight with you .
*Typing nervously....*
For me, a feminist is someone who believes in the equality of the sexes. That is how I interpret feminism. I guess, you could say most people believe in the equality of the sexes. But often what people 'define' as equality can differ from person to person. And then there are some that may say they believe in equality, but hold sexist (or misogynistic) views. I know several men and women that claim to believe in 'equality' for example but are very critical of women's sex lives and choices in comparison to men. Likewise, these same people also seem to look down on stay at home dads (where they would not in regard to stay at home mums) and are deeply uncomfortable with men working with children.
I'll sight one issue as an example of where I stand as a feminist. Am I someone dogmatic about equality of outcome? No, I don't think we will ever get to stage where all professions are 50% men and 50% women. But I want to ensure that there are no barriers to both sexes attaining success in any profession.
May I first join with all who have thanked the Prime Minister for the statesmanlike leadership that he has given to our party and to the country for the past six years? I thank him particularly for the debating eloquence and also the wit and humour that he has always brought to Prime Minister’s questions on Wednesdays. Although, no doubt, he will have plans for a slightly more enjoyable and relaxed Wednesday morning and lunchtime in the future, may I ask that he will nevertheless still be an active participant in this House as it faces a large number of problems over the next few years? As no two people know what Brexit means at the moment, we need his advice and statesmanship as much as we ever have.
PM
I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his very kind remarks. I remember that one of the toughest conversations I had in politics was when I was Leader of the Opposition and I was trying to get him to join my Front Bench. He was on a bird-watching holiday in Patagonia; it was almost impossible to persuade him to come back.
Not many people know this, but my right hon. and learned Friend’s first act as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to fire me as a special adviser. I am proud of the fact that one of my first acts was to appoint him to my Cabinet in the coalition Government. The then Deputy Prime Minister will join me in saying that my right hon. and learned Friend provided great wisdom, thoughtfulness and ballast at a time of national difficulty with the advice that he gave us. He is not always the easiest person to get hold of—Tory modernisation has never quite got as far as getting Ken Clarke to carry a mobile phone. He did briefly have one, but he said, “The problem is that people keep ringing me on it.” In opposition, I seem to remember that we had to move our morning meeting to accommodate his 9 o’clock cigar.
I will watch these exchanges from the Back Benches. I will miss the roar of the crowd and I will miss the barbs from the Opposition, but I will be willing you on. When I say “willing you on”, I do not just mean willing on the new Prime Minister at this Dispatch Box, or indeed just willing on the Government Front Bench and defending the manifesto that I helped to put together. I mean willing all of you on, because people come here with huge passion for the issues they care about and with great love for the constituencies that they represent. I will also be willing on this place. Yes, we can be pretty tough, and we test and challenge our leaders—perhaps more than some other countries—but that is something we should be proud of, and we should keep at it. I hope that you will all keep at it, and I shall will you on as you do.
Reliable Tory MP: Philip Hammond Chanc, Justine Greening For Sec, Amber Rudd Home Sec, Anne Milton Ch Whip, Chris Grayling Brexit Minister.
No job for Mr/Mrs Reliable Tory MP? With a name like that, how could they be overlooked?
I know Tory can be a last name, but I suspect some sort of puritan heritage with the first name Reliable. Siblings are Sensible Tory, Radical Tory and Compassionate Tory.
It would be surprising if David Davis doesn't get anything decent given his kiss and make up with May. It would be a decent bit of red meat thrown to leavers like myself if he gets a top job as I have full confidence he will make the best of Brexit.
Not right-wing enough? You do (seem) to support Trump afterall....
Yes RodCrosby is a hard right hanger flogger anti-feminist who denies the Holocaust and loves Trump
Out of all those things it was the Holocaust denial which I found most shocking. Seeing those posts, I couldn't quite believe my eyes. Being anti-feminist on PB is not that shocking. I think I may be only feminist on this site!
Er hello..... you're not.
I'm glad it's not just me. I'm also glad a poster held in such good esteem on PB is a feminist
Six degrees of separation: Theresa May is the MP for Bray, the Fat Duck is in Bray, AA Grill is a restaurant critic, Amber Rudd was married to AA Gill, Amber Rudd is about to be appointed to a top job in Theresa May's cabinet.
AA Grill, wins best typo of July by a country mile.
Would you mind defining "feminist" as you see it please? It's often a movable feast. This is not presaging me picking a fight with you .
*Typing nervously....*
For me, a feminist is someone who believes in the equality of the sexes. That is how I interpret feminism. I guess, you could say most people believe in the equality of the sexes. But often what people 'define' as equality can differ from person to person. And then there are some that may say they believe in equality, but hold sexist (or misogynistic) views. I know several men and women that claim to believe in 'equality' for example but are very critical of women's sex lives and choices in comparison to men. Likewise, these same people also seem to look down on stay at home dads (where they would not in regard to stay at home mums) and are deeply uncomfortable with men working with children.
I'll sight one issue as an example of where I stand as a feminist. Am I someone dogmatic about equality of outcome? No, I don't think we will ever get to stage where all professions are 50% men and 50% women. But I want to ensure that there are no barriers to both sexes attaining success in any profession.
Thank you. I don't think someone born male can fairly claim to be a feminist; it feels slightly impertinent. However, I think we'll have finally made progress when the gender of a new PM is not noteworthy, and we do not debate the gender split in a political cabinet or board of directors.
Mr. D, apparently her constituency would be affected negatively by a new runaway, so...
Mr. Mark, one stands ever ready to refute the misunderstandings and revisionism of those who fundamentally fail to grasp classical history
I think ancient history teaches two eternal and immutable truths. The first applies to dictators only, and is: you must keep the praetorian guard paid up to date. The second derives from Athens, and is that even if you start holding all the trumps, direct (not representative) democracy guarantees decade after decade of disaster and misery followed by the failure of the state. It is a shame Boris the classicist never mentioned the second lesson to Cameron when the referendum idea was floated.
Just thinking off the top of my head... May could do an "EU lite" deal where we basically just withdraw from the political side of the EU, but retain the Economic & Social links Then... Offer Scotland a new referendum with the choice a) Stay in the UK and accept this deal b) Leave the UK and negotiate your own deal.
Would Scotland go for option "b"?
Judging by what a senior SNP MP person told me last week - in confidence - I think they would go for option (a).
We've been politicking non stop about the constitution since the start of the independence campaign in 2012. People want a quieter life. Sleeping dogs probably providing Theresa May is reasonably circumspect. The SNP rhetoric will continue of course.
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@williamglenn Agreed.
Still, I never thought I would ever look at a UK prime minister and things like that come into my mind, certainly never did with the Blessed Margaret.
Only joking lol
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/theresa-mays-first-speech-prime-minister/
Following the referendum, we face a time of great national change. And I know because we’re Great Britain that we will rise to the challenge. As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold, new, positive role for ourselves in the world, and we will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us.
ya bastard....
Reliable Tory MP: Philip Hammond Chanc, Justine Greening For Sec, Amber Rudd Home Sec, Anne Milton Ch Whip, Chris Grayling Brexit Minister.
There'll be the most horrific historical revisionism in full swing by the time you get back.
Some say she might be the next prime minister.
Internet rule 1, if you can't spell it, you can't call it, sport.
At least change your avatar? It is revolting.
Lurch to the centre.
May's centrist rhetoric should terrify Labour. They need to get their act together.
Requires those headbangers beyond repair like IDS to be sat next to Cash on the backbenches for the duration.
Mr. Mark, one stands ever ready to refute the misunderstandings and revisionism of those who fundamentally fail to grasp classical history
Please don't stay in touch.
Iowa is my GOP fools gold state II - A state that looks tight during the campaign but trends to the Democrats at the death. Demographically it is also edging blue too. Look out for the local Anne Selzer state polls.
Pennsylvania is GOP fools gold state I - Although it is the only state that is trending GOP, albeit at a snails pace, it regularly tempts the GOP to flatter it before blowing a raspberry at it on election day.
Also, PaddyPower is offering 10/11 on Corbyn to win the leadership election. Judging by Facebook and Twitter it's now widely known that Corbynites can get round the £25 cost by joining Unite for a much smaller sum, and people are really wound up about the NEC trying to move the goalposts. Would anyone care to talk me out of putting £50 or so down?
Let's see how she does.
Honestly, I've assumed for some time Scotland was a lost cause to the combined UK, hence why Brexit was less of a risk, but if they could accept an EU lite deal (better to be a Brexit lite, in terms of terminology) as reason to stay in the UK, I would be ecstatic.
Um.
I know Tory can be a last name, but I suspect some sort of puritan heritage with the first name Reliable. Siblings are Sensible Tory, Radical Tory and Compassionate Tory.
Blasphemy!
It's from the cover of Bane of Souls (by me). I use it on Twitter as well, and occasionally elsewhere, and prefer to have a consistent avatar.
[I do wonder if the octo-lemur are orchestrating chaos whenever I happen to be out of the castle...]
Mr. kle4, I agree. But it's a strategic mistake not to cut the deficit as much as possible.
What a professional...
Why does she keep counting SF within the Opposition - they will not turn up so the actual Majority is 16 (once outstanding by-election is held).
(He launched this morning)
For me, a feminist is someone who believes in the equality of the sexes. That is how I interpret feminism. I guess, you could say most people believe in the equality of the sexes. But often what people 'define' as equality can differ from person to person. And then there are some that may say they believe in equality, but hold sexist (or misogynistic) views. I know several men and women that claim to believe in 'equality' for example but are very critical of women's sex lives and choices in comparison to men. Likewise, these same people also seem to look down on stay at home dads (where they would not in regard to stay at home mums) and are deeply uncomfortable with men working with children.
I'll sight one issue as an example of where I stand as a feminist. Am I someone dogmatic about equality of outcome? No, I don't think we will ever get to stage where all professions are 50% men and 50% women. But I want to ensure that there are no barriers to both sexes attaining success in any profession.
PM
I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his very kind remarks. I remember that one of the toughest conversations I had in politics was when I was Leader of the Opposition and I was trying to get him to join my Front Bench. He was on a bird-watching holiday in Patagonia; it was almost impossible to persuade him to come back.
Not many people know this, but my right hon. and learned Friend’s first act as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to fire me as a special adviser. I am proud of the fact that one of my first acts was to appoint him to my Cabinet in the coalition Government. The then Deputy Prime Minister will join me in saying that my right hon. and learned Friend provided great wisdom, thoughtfulness and ballast at a time of national difficulty with the advice that he gave us. He is not always the easiest person to get hold of—Tory modernisation has never quite got as far as getting Ken Clarke to carry a mobile phone. He did briefly have one, but he said, “The problem is that people keep ringing me on it.” In opposition, I seem to remember that we had to move our morning meeting to accommodate his 9 o’clock cigar.
I will watch these exchanges from the Back Benches. I will miss the roar of the crowd and I will miss the barbs from the Opposition, but I will be willing you on. When I say “willing you on”, I do not just mean willing on the new Prime Minister at this Dispatch Box, or indeed just willing on the Government Front Bench and defending the manifesto that I helped to put together. I mean willing all of you on, because people come here with huge passion for the issues they care about and with great love for the constituencies that they represent. I will also be willing on this place. Yes, we can be pretty tough, and we test and challenge our leaders—perhaps more than some other countries—but that is something we should be proud of, and we should keep at it. I hope that you will all keep at it, and I shall will you on as you do.
What's not to like? ..
Edited extra bit: easy to make mistakes (I'm always wary of posting sudden F1 changes), I know.
*(Successful sporting tips will be taken into account when judging this criteria)