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The story during the final part of the MP balloting for the CON leadership was that Team Boris was working at ways to have their man fight Hunt in the membership part of the selection rather than Michael Gove.
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Yes. Coronation postponed.
I'm not sure more exposure will do the mendacious lazy adulterous charlatan Boris more good
https://twitter.com/SunPolitics/status/1142502515960946691
He has missed out on the sports car, but losing a few stone, getting some sharper clothes and a abandoning his wife for a fickle younger woman. I wonder what sort of tattoo he has picked out...
On the basis of current polling (based on hypotheticals, so to be taken with buckets of salt), if the Tories go to the country again before delivering Brexit they will be massacred. Scant comfort, but so will Labour.
The "GE to deliver Brexit" has been tried once.....
Would a Tory Party with a working majority really pursue crash out no deal Brexit when they've got a guaranteed 5 years in power?
When Chris Huhne ran into marital problems, his wife was perhaps rather too keen to comment to the press.
I am not sure Vicky Pryce made the right call.
Perhaps a marriage has broken down, but you normally want to have a relationship with your ex-partner (especially as in Marina's case, there are children to consider as well).
But unless they’re in a position of significant influence, who cares ?
Worth noting also. THREE different parties have led the national polling since the Tories last did.
(Huhne and Blunkett were in positions of significant influence when their ex-wives were invited to comment).
If the Tories call a general election before October to get a mandate for Brexit Deal or No Deal then they could well win a majority under Boris
Boris on the other hand is like a CH4 Big brother winner.
I cannot believe Boris is even being considered as PM. He is a joke with no strategy, policies or ideas. I think Tories will be in for a negative shock if they think Boris will save them....
Well one current member and the former editor of thesun.co.uk
But as the Queen told me, she hates name droppers.
If the sole criteria for this election was competence Hunt would win a landslide, but it isn't and he won't.
Boris is Trump ie the charismatic populist the liberal left establishment hates but might actually win the next general election
Trump has countless millions inherited from daddy he used to tie them into confidentiality agreements. The tabloids published his one with Ivana years ago iirc.
Politics is much more complicated than you think. The Sun backs the party it thinks will win, the Brexit supporting media were artificially boosting Farage to put pressure on the Tories to ditch May. They wont do that in a GE.
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/1138551562522046464
Hunt is Mitt Romney, ie a smooth cold fish CEO who looks on paper like the ideal candidate but likely loses the next general election.
Boris is Rudy Giuliani, ie the has-been ex-Mayor of a big city with a over-inflated reputation that collapses under scrutiny and likely loses the next general election.
Johnson if he couldn't swing an RAF freebie, he would surely get The Telegraph to bump him up to the front. Man of the people he is not, the more he is tested the more he will be found wanting. His chaotic personal life is important too because it mirrors his behaviour in office.
So 2 votes for Hunt here
Fat lot of good it did him in 2012
To me, it's a bit like choosing Jeremy Thorpe as leader. He certainly appeals to a lot of voters, but, there's always the chance of a big scandal emerging.
Like a lot of us he's utterly heartbroken about what has become of the Tory party.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1142492845334507522?s=20
Even if you're properly rich, that stings a bit :-)
Enough of that, I want a leader now who actually believes in Brexit and wants to deliver it and can win
Boris may save the Toies. Maybe.
Hunt won't.
IDS of course won the Tory membership vote himself in 2001 when he beat Ken Clarke
It’s bloody hard work working an election that requires people who have a vague idea about what they are doing and candidates who are not going to shoot the party in the foot. If you have a background in campaigning in marginals or in seats that you can win through differential turn out you’ll understand, otherwise at for the only poll that matters.
The EU will competently say no.
Hunt will then competently extend Article 50 again rather than leave with No Deal or try for a GB FTA.
Hunt will then competently lead the Tories to be slaughtered by Farage and Corbyn at the next general election as a result
If we are still in the EU by the next general election then Brexit will dominate