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Jul 2022
5:57pm, 8 Jul 2022
9,504 posts
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simbil
Reports of 5th September rather than conference (October) being Tory target time for new leader. That's as fast as they can manage apparently.
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Jul 2022
5:58pm, 8 Jul 2022
203 posts
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OverTheHillToo
Reports of 5th September rather than conference (October) being Tory target time for new leader. That's as fast as they can manage apparently.
Yet, try to get down to two before the summer recess and give the party members six weeks to cast their votes.
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Jul 2022
6:03pm, 8 Jul 2022
27,736 posts
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Johnny Blaze
They need a new leader and a new Cabinet of all the talentless by conference fo sho.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Sunak has no chance. He was busted with the Green Card/non-dom thing and I can't see how he can get past that - and I don't think he should, either. I think Zahawi also has more skeletons in his closet waiting to fall out. Truss/Wallace. Probably Wallace, who I know nowt about beyond some people seeming to think he is more sane than most of them.
But I never make predictions. Because I never get it right.
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Jul 2022
6:05pm, 8 Jul 2022
27,737 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Oh, July 2020:
"I am so naive. But even 3 or 4 of those would be an improvement. Instead we have a fool, a liar, a cheat, a philanderer and an unprincipled opportunist with zero empathy and a commitment to deploying any tricks necessary to cling to power.
His downfall is coming. Self-inflicted or at the point of a bayonet he won't last the term."
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Jul 2022
6:05pm, 8 Jul 2022
205 posts
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OverTheHillToo
My guess, and notoriously bad at guessing, would be a final two contest between Rishi and Wallace.... but I have been wrong before 
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Jul 2022
6:06pm, 8 Jul 2022
1,388 posts
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paulcook
Haha. Sunak launched his bid for leader on 23rd December!!
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Jul 2022
6:06pm, 8 Jul 2022
1,389 posts
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paulcook
My guess, and notoriously bad at guessing, would be a final two contest between Rishi and Wallace.... but I have been wrong before
I saw some polling earlier that had Wallace ahead with members in almost all the head-to-heads, including Sunak.
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Jul 2022
6:06pm, 8 Jul 2022
27,738 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Oh this:
Maggie delivered 3 election victories for the Tories, including 2 majorities >100 seats. They still booted her.
Johnson is not Thatcher. He's not even David Cameron. He is going soon because the next 4 years will be an awful grind and we will still be in the shit by the end of it. Not what he was expecting at all. He is a man of weak character, and sooner or later he will bolt for the door - or they will tire of his incompetence and foolishness and eject him. He is a one term PM if that. Nailed on.
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Jul 2022
6:07pm, 8 Jul 2022
12,938 posts
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jda
Truss, surely, would be the members' favourite. (Though not mine, obvs, unless she's up against Patel or worse).
I reckon there's a fair chance of withdrawals meaning no final member ballot and a speedier replacement. No guarantees of course. It would be good if Johnson could get booted out unceremoniously at some random unpredictable time.
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Jul 2022
6:10pm, 8 Jul 2022
207 posts
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OverTheHillToo
I'd love the Queen to turn up to #10 when he is out and change the locks
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