UK Politics Thread

Denis Irwin wrote:

Looks like the knives are out for Theresa. Could be gone a lot sooner than expected

Friday could be the Waterloo if things go worse than expected. The consistent loss of Council Seats, along with the a swath of MEPs could convince the last vestiges of support that even safe MP seats may be precarious, and that there could be more than one Portillo moment at any upcoming General.

It's recess tomorrow which will buy her time until the next round of voting.

Her latest deal is expected to lose by more than the 1st one which will probably trigger a vote of no confidence.

Then would of been the time to trigger a Leadership vote but they've used up that card already.

I was reading an article last week where would Theresa May rank out of every Prime Minister the UK has ever had and why.

Top 3 worst were:

Lord North - Responsible for the American independence

Theresa May - Brexit

Anthony Eden - Suez Crisis.

To be ranked the 2nd worst ever PM in history is some going LOL

Edited by coyne - 22 May 2019 at 4:28pm

Cameron was far worse. He created this mess!

I'd say she's gone tonight alright ,

and cameron should be in the top three for sure along with may , the Suez was a far smaller mess LOL

The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.

SuperDave84 wrote:

Allegedly all she wants at this stage is to survive longer than Gordon Brown did - she needs to see out another week.

Scandalous but hilarious if true.

Two days after surviving longer than Brown she beats the Duke of Wellington. The only Irish born PM's Wellington (320 days) and the Earl of Shelburne (266 days) didn't last too long.

Theresa May, Gordon Browne and whoever the next one is will go down as three of the worst. Horrendous generation of substandard politicians not up to the job.

@joncraig

Same very senior MP tells me Cabinet plotters are determined to keep Boris Johnson off the ballot paper of two candidates offered to the Tory membership. Talk of offering the members one man & one woman candidate.

Sounds like Boris is going to get knifed for the 2nd leadership election in a row  

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

TonyNotJack wrote:

SuperDave84 wrote:

Allegedly all she wants at this stage is to survive longer than Gordon Brown did - she needs to see out another week.

Scandalous but hilarious if true.

Two days after surviving longer than Brown she beats the Duke of Wellington. The only Irish born PM's Wellington (320 days) and the Earl of Shelburne (266 days) didn't last too long.

Theresa May, Gordon Browne and whoever the next one is will go down as three of the worst. Horrendous generation of substandard politicians not up to the job.

Brown was actually ranked higher than Cameron on the poll I mentioned.

Brown was literally handed a sh*t hand and got shafted by Blair so the general consensus was "Yeah he was sh*t but he was dealt a really sh*t hand"

Cameron was way down the list for reasons PM & Hetfield have mentioned + All the austerity measures in place during his time.

I was surprised Churchill's 2nd term wasn't down the list, I'd say it was worse than Eden's but they only ranked his 1st term

The only PM's who people have a negative view on but I'd feel sorry for is Brown and Major, the rest were genuinely sh*te.

Edited by coyne - 22 May 2019 at 5:27pm

There will be theses written in a few years about how milkshakes stopped the far-right! Is he lactose intolerant? That would be bit snowflake for our Nige!

Burger King’s tweet in Scotland last weekend was the sort of advertising I can get behind though!

On the subject of Farage, I thought the ‘Long Read’ in The Guardian this week was interesting about the links between 5 Star and him and their way of mobilising support.