Reply to: Looking at the Sunday Times front page, Murdoch has decided May is to be removed

[shaunbhoy]

Really couldn't care less who leads the Conservative Party but the suggestion that Ruth Davidson is somehow a candidate is utterly preposterous. She's never led anything in her life

Unlike wee Krankie!!

Following the defeat of the "Yes" campaign in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Salmond announced that he would be resigning as party leader at the SNP party conference that November, and would resign as First Minister after a new leader was chosen.[1] No one else was nominated for the post by the time nominations closed, leaving Sturgeon to take the party leadership unopposed at the SNP's annual conference. She was formally elected to succeed Salmond as First Minister on 19 November.

I suppose she might have been in charge of the Coffee swindle when she was a fooking solicitor for 20 minutes mind.

That sort of pedigree is more than enough to get the backing of Braveheart-obsessed simpletons like TM and scooter though.

[SueEllen]

Really couldn't care less who leads the Conservative Party but the suggestion that Ruth Davidson is somehow a candidate is utterly preposterous. She's never led anything in her life, apart from an election campaign that completely 100% ignored anything to do with any policies and concentrated on shouting anti SNP rhetoric constantly. That will always get you the support of Jack waiving, sash wearing, flute playing morons (like Shaunbhoy).

Yes, she got people in some of the worst parts of the country to vote for her in council elections. The second these councils reconvened they cancelled services like Breakfast Clubs in primary schools which were used by the very retarded neo Nazi scum that voted for it. She's a completely unqualified gobshite. I'd love to see her leading the Westminster Tory Party.

Tory electoral policy regardless of the election has for the last 5+ years been based on smear your opponent so she did nothing new there.

All the stuff you moan about her cancelling is exactly what Tories do when they get into power to "balance the books."

In other words she is a typical Tory.

Her main problem apparently is the number of vocal racist Tories in the Scottish Tory party she can't get to shut up and that is where she falls down as a leader.

[TestMangler]

And your suggestion would be who?

Really couldn't care less who leads the Conservative Party but the suggestion that Ruth Davidson is somehow a candidate is utterly preposterous. She's never led anything in her life, apart from an election campaign that completely 100% ignored anything to do with any policies and concentrated on shouting anti SNP rhetoric constantly. That will always get you the support of Jack waiving, sash wearing, flute playing morons (like Shaunbhoy).

Yes, she got people in some of the worst parts of the country to vote for her in council elections. The second these councils reconvened they cancelled services like Breakfast Clubs in primary schools which were used by the very retarded neo Nazi scum that voted for it. She's a completely unqualified gobshite. I'd love to see her leading the Westminster Tory Party.

[scooterscot]

Fooking space cadet more like.

A longer trip than the one you'll ever take.

[WTFH]

LOL

And your suggestion would be who?

[shaunbhoy]

multi dimensional thinker

Fooking space cadet more like.

[scooterscot]

You assemble an excellent word collage, scooty. Eventually you'll put them in an order that resembles a coherent thought. Infinite monkey theorem, I believe.

multi dimensional thinker

[jamesbrown]

People who say this..

Why did you vote for Trump, cause he's straight talker. I've got a wall in the garden he want's to build one, straight talker you know.

Her gained seats are the result of a SNP backlash not seats won. She says what people want to hear, like all Tories, but underneath does not care for conservatism. Quite the opposite, sell the family silver and squeeze the poor.

You assemble an excellent word collage, scooty. Eventually you'll put them in an order that resembles a coherent thought. Infinite monkey theorem, I believe.

[scooterscot]

She'd be an exceptional candidate, certainly Labour's worst nightmare, but she isn't eligible, and there isn't an obvious route to her becoming eligible unless the next election really does happen in 2022, which seems highly unlikely. Also, she's ruled herself out, and she's a straight talker, so I believe her.

People who say this..

Why did you vote for Trump, cause he's straight talker. I've got a wall in the garden he want's to build one, straight talker you know.

Her gained seats are the result of a SNP backlash not seats won. She says what people want to hear, like all Tories, but underneath does not care for conservatism. Quite the opposite, sell the family silver and squeeze the poor.

[TestMangler]

Ruth Davidson.

Just throwing that name out there. She’s got a personality, shows signs of intelligence and isn’t scared or flummoxed by interviewers.

LOL

[jamesbrown]

Ruth Davidson.

Just throwing that name out there. She’s got a personality, shows signs of intelligence and isn’t scared or flummoxed by interviewers.

She'd be an exceptional candidate, certainly Labour's worst nightmare, but she isn't eligible, and there isn't an obvious route to her becoming eligible unless the next election really does happen in 2022, which seems highly unlikely. Also, she's ruled herself out, and she's a straight talker, so I believe her.

Of the remaining options, I see no one particularly credible in the cabinet (perhaps DD as a caretaker). Speaking selfishly, I'd love to see Johnson and Mogg as leader/chancellor, because they're full fat free marketeers, but they'd be a total disaster, electorally and probably in every other respect. Johnson has no grasp of details and Mogg is well spoken/rehearsed, but there's a lot of magical thinking in between the gems of truth.

[WTFH]

Ruth Davidson.

Just throwing that name out there. She’s got a personality, shows signs of intelligence and isn’t scared or flummoxed by interviewers.

[bobspud]

Most pundits reckoned after GE2017 that May would make it to conference season, and Murdoch has decreed the time is now. But is Boris the trojan horse, whilst they're really backing Jacob Rees-Mogg?

My bet would be Boris as PM with Mogg in number 11 as chancellor. Mogg is great but just not acceptable to the main stream.

[Jog On]

Looking at the Sunday Times front page, Murdoch has decided May is to be removed

Can we throw him to the feminists?

[motoukenin]

Well that's what brexiters call democracy

Think it has more to do with him buying Sky and getting referred by HM Gov to the competition watchdog than Brexit unless you were being sarcastic in which case I agree.