Looks like it’ll be BoJo then Started by Scrotnig, 13th June 2019 13:55 in News & Current Affairs

Not my choice but then none of them are.

Scrotnig said: ▲ Not my choice but then none of them are.

He is mine, Gove has much to answer for by spiking him earlier to let May in, those opposing him now are all creeps.

He's not any of our choices because we're not eligible to participate in his selection.

As I believe I said when Cameron turned tail, if a PM deserts his/her post there should be an immediate General Election. It is not right that the PM should be in effect a private appointment by the few people who are eligible to select the party leader. I also think anyone who asks to be placed in high office and then runs away without seeing it through when the going gets tough should be permanently barred from holding any kind of public office in the future.

Constitutional point of order: There is no requirement that the Prime Minister be a member of the majority party, nor even that the PM be a member of Parliament. It is technically a Royal appointment. It is only a convention, not a law, that the Queen invites the leader of the party that wins the general election to form and head the government. Speaking hypothetically, if a general election were required when a PM does a runner, the Queen could appoint anyone she chooses in the interim. She wouldn't appoint a permanent one for obvious reasons, but she might consider appointing a temporary PM pending the outcome of a General Election, and much as I despise the current one it wouldn't be a bad idea to ask the Leader of the Opposition to step in for a while. That way the governing party would have to hurry up and choose a leader so they could concentrate on trying to win the election.

To anyone who's not an eligible member of the governing party, the situation of having yet another unelected PM is clearly unsatisfactory, and somewhat embarrassing to a country that practically invented modern democracy.

I agree with Mem, and before I get accused of party politics I thought the same when Brown took over from Blair. There should be an election.

Fork Me said: ▲ I agree with Mem, and before I get accused of party politics I thought the same when Brown took over from Blair. There should be an election.

I agree, it's always best to have a vote and then honour the result.

Which makes me wonder why, after having a vote in 2016, you and your treacherous remainer cohorts are advocating NOT honouring it.

The hero Boris will sort out the traitors but it may take a few spankings before they realise he isn't another moronic May.

Lord Ponsonby said: ▲ It is all because of some writing on the side of a bus apparently.

The EU and their remainers.. (who profit from the from the EU) don't like it. you see!

Well I have carefully considered all the remaining candidates and disappointingly I don't fancy any of them. I mean, down a back alley (or perhaps THEIR back alley) I'd never refuse, but none of them are really my type.

Mwah.