Boris isn't standing

[Platypus]

Hopefully Gove will lose.

Theresa May then I guess.

Whoop.

[SueEllen]

This whole scenario is like punching a 6 foot brick-tulip-house in a pub...

IF YOU REALLY HAVE TO DO IT YOU NEED TO COMMIT AND GET READY TO RUN. otherwise its not going to end well.

Im really not convinced that Teresa May is that person. If we go into the EU negotiations half arsed we will be screwed.

She is euro-sceptic. That's why she was quiet.

[SueEllen]

Theresa May then I guess.

Whoop.

There is Liam Fox and Andrea Leadsom who are Brexiters.

[bobspud]

She is euro-sceptic. That's why she was quiet.

Fingers Crossed.

[CretinWatcher]

Fingers Crossed.

You mean you don't want Gove? Why ever not?

[WTFH]

Basically, this role is for an interim contract manager, not a permie.


Boris wants the permie job, but first someone has to stand up for a couple of years then fall on their sword and hand the reigns over to him.

[NickFitz]

He's realised that trying to execute Brexit is a poisoned chalice, doomed to failure, or leading to the ruin of the nation if achieved.

Or maybe somebody with their own agenda has got something on him, and had a quiet word. Murdoch is the usual suspect

[OwlHoot]

May much better I reckon.

Too bossy for my liking. (Think of all the surveillance measures she was trying to bring in, and possibly has for all we know!)

I'm rooting for Gove

[OwlHoot]

He's realised that trying to execute Brexit is a poisoned chalice, doomed to failure

or perhaps more specifically he's realised that the free market deal he wanted, with free movement an unavoidable corollary, pretty much negates the Brexit result, and most people who voted Brexit did so primarily to stop free movement as it inevitably leads to mass immigration.

[darmstadt]

Too bossy for my liking. (Think of all the surveillance measures she was trying to bring in, and possibly has for all we know!)

I'm rooting for Gove

“I am not equipped to be prime minister.” (World At One, BBC Radio 4, October 2012)

Michael Gove interview: Vote for democracy and hope. Vote Leave. 

He is also adamant that he will never be Prime Minister himself. “In order to be prime minister of this country, you need to be an exceptional person. David Cameron is an exceptional person with exceptional talents and he does the job well.
“I don’t think I have got that exceptional level of ability required for the job."
Even if he felt he could do the job - which he does not - he wouldn't want it because it would have a "grueling" impact on his life. "I have seen how someone with immense talent, more talent than I have – Gordon Brown – when he became Prime Minister it was a grueling process. And I think that, you know, that’s not for me.”

https://next.ft.com/content/ebe8018c...siteedition=uk

Gove insists he does not want to be a future Conservative leader and would be terrible at the job – but those who know him best believe the education secretary is not so sure. “I suspect there is a tension between wanting to be taken seriously as a future leader and wondering if he could make a success of it,” says one close colleague.

I wonder if the British public will remember the last couple of Scottish prime ministers