Theresa May - Not up to the Job of PM?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

What a complete and utter shambles of a government...a Tory party government - supposedly the party of competence.

Beginning to wonder if there is a place for a UK equivalent to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. I'm guessing Rees-Mogg, Johnson and their cronies wish there were one. Oh dearie dearie me.

 

[Hobbit]

What a complete and utter shambles of a government...a Tory party government - supposedly the party of competence.

Beginning to wonder if there is a place for a UK equivalent to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. I'm guessing Rees-Mogg, Johnson and their cronies wish there were one. Oh dearie dearie me.

I really fear for the UK. Irrespective of whatever direction the country decides to go down they are a complete joke. There's barely a handful of politicians I'd trust with a school crossing. Where o' where will our next Prime Minister come from? Corbyn? McDonnell(Himmler)? Boris, Mogg or Davies? Honestly... there isn't a one that looks like they have the statesmanship or gravitas to carry it off.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I really fear for the UK. Irrespective of whatever direction the country decides to go down they are a complete joke. There's barely a handful of politicians I'd trust with a school crossing. Where o' where will our next Prime Minister come from? Corbyn? McDonnell(Himmler)? Boris, Mogg or Davies? Honestly... there isn't a one that looks like they have the statesmanship or gravitas to carry it off.

I think Hunt will be the only acceptable candidate.
Whatever happens, after the next general election, the Tories will not see power again for many years.
Time for a new 'sensible' party to kick in, appealing to the centre based Labour and Tory voters. [ie the vast majority.]

May rebuffed straight away on her EU trip, what a waste of time

 

[User62651]

I really fear for the UK. Irrespective of whatever direction the country decides to go down they are a complete joke. There's barely a handful of politicians I'd trust with a school crossing. Where o' where will our next Prime Minister come from? Corbyn? McDonnell(Himmler)? Boris, Mogg or Davies? Honestly... there isn't a one that looks like they have the statesmanship or gravitas to carry it off.

Eton and Oxbridge educated wealthy privileged career politician with zero idea of how most Britons scrape by in life as usual no doubt.

They know best of course, doff your caps plebs. We're all in it together!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I think Hunt will be the only acceptable candidate.
Whatever happens, after the next general election, the Tories will not see power again for many years.
Time for a new 'sensible' party to kick in, appealing to the centre based Labour and Tory voters. [ie the vast majority.]

May rebuffed straight away on her EU trip, what a waste of time

Until his strongly Remain constituency kick him out at the next election...(unlikely I guess). Dr Louise Irvine of the National Heath Action Party ran rings round him (on more than the NHS) in the hustings for the last election - though Hunt still easily won the seat.

I might quite like the guy having met him a few times - but he doesn't have a great deal of oomph - or indeed that much in the way of political authenticity. Some of his more recent utterrings seem aimed at specific UK electorate and Tory Party constituencies - currying their favour for something to come? Meanwhile with May still PM - he can look very sycophantic in his support of her.

 

[Deleted member 1418]

Well according to 48 members of her party. The leadership challenge is now on.

Am expecting Gove to be PM at the end of the process.

 

[Kellfire]

How can the Tories change the PM now?

They voted for her in 2016, changing that vote now would be undemocratic!!!

 

[ger147]

Tory MP's vote of confidence in TM will take place this evening. Postponong the vote on her deal was VERY unpopular in the HoC's.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Tory MP's faced are with the impossible task of picking the least clueless of all the leadership candidates

 

[jp5]

The Conservative party calling for another vote on the PM? But I thought they already had a vote!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

How can the Tories change the PM now?

They voted for her in 2016, changing that vote now would be undemocratic!!!

Nope. They are voting over who leads the party. She can remain as PM and not be the leader of the party. Strange but true.

This argument comes up whenever a PM changes between elections. In our system we only vote for our local MP, not the PM.

 

[Colonel Bogey]

I've got a funny feeling that the Tories will vote in a Remainer type who will renegotiate the UK to follow everything the EU wants then everyone will be happy. Won't they?

 

[ger147]

Nope. They are voting over who leads the party. She can remain as PM and not be the leader of the party. Strange but true.

This argument comes up whenever a PM changes between elections. In our system we only vote for our local MP, not the PM.

She can NOT remain as PM if she is not the leader of the Tories. Conservative party rules do not allow this.

 

[Colonel Bogey]

Or John Redwood. Now that would be a shock but if they, the Tories, want to honour the vote, the referendum, he would be the man to pick. Gove and boris are wimps

 

[Doon frae Troon]

How can the Tories change the PM now?

They voted for her in 2016, changing that vote now would be undemocratic!!!

Don't worry 'we are the party for the whole nation' says May.
Totally oblivious to what damage she and her party have done to 'the nation' [and her 'precious union]

 

[Kellfire]

Nope. They are voting over who leads the party. She can remain as PM and not be the leader of the party. Strange but true.

This argument comes up whenever a PM changes between elections. In our system we only vote for our local MP, not the PM.

I wasn’t being overly serious...

 

[drdel]

A change of leader at this time will change nothing for Brexit and or the Tories except to empower the opposition -do they have no brains cells?

 

[Cherry13]

She can NOT remain as PM if she is not the leader of the Tories. Conservative party rules do not allow this.

John major would politely disagree.

 

[ger147]

John major would politely disagree.

That's when the rules were changed...
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01366

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I wasn’t being overly serious...

You can never tell on this thread