The Conservative Leadership Thread

[phonics]

As the EU one is just getting out of hand.

Boris has withdrawn from the race completely.

[Pleb]

Lol at that then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We should stick with the all-encompassing barrel of madness thread, it's great fun and Yevrah is calling it daily.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, this has gone well. Does this make Boris the new Heseltine?

[Pleb]

More importantly do we think it's time to throw up a "Will Jeremy Corbyn last in the labour leadership campaign?" thread yet?

[ItalAussie]

I just came across this. For better or for worse, they're meant to be the sensible party at the moment. Get your act together.

Shambles. Less of a shambles than the other guys, but still. That isn't a high bar.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Theresa May will now win easily, so they have pretty much de-clowned. For Labour, that seems to be an ongoing process.

[niko_cee]

I wonder if it becomes a Gove/May run-off whether he will just step aside and agree to head up her new ministry for brexit. That would probably be the ideal (if having May as PM can ever be described as ideal) but it might be a bit too much of a stitch up for the membership.

It is quite funny to see how opposed both parliamentary parties are from the views of their own members, let alone the wider electorate.

Could end up with financial crisis style can-kicking exercise, which ends up with a seriously bad outcome (for the established political class/parties) in the medium term (UKIP government).

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wonder if it becomes a Gove/May run-off whether he will just step aside and agree to head up her new ministry for brexit.

Probably a good theory, that. He doesn't want to be PM, after all. He's just blown up Boris in the national interest.

Straight out of, how can I put this, Gideon's Bible.

[phonics]

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Bloody hell, his face when he gets asked the Gove question, I almost felt sorry for the bastard. He deffo thought he was going to be PM and now he's fucked it.

[igor_balis]

i hope they all lose

[Max Power]

When is Big Sol Campbell gonna make his move?

[Jimmy Floyd]

First person ever to be in the Conservative leader and England manager betting markets at the same time? Get it done, Sulzeer.

[ItalAussie]

Probably a good theory, that. He doesn't want to be PM, after all. He's just blown up Boris in the national interest.

Straight out of, how can I put this, Gideon's Bible.This seems to have gone unacknowledged. Well done.

[niko_cee]

So Gideon to remain in No.11 under a Gove premiership?

Is it your elections this weekend Ital?

[ItalAussie]

Yup. Getting my democracy sausage tomorrow.

It's kind of up in the air how it's going to pan out, to be honest. It looks like the Coalition should hold on, but it could tip the other way quite easily.

Malcolm has run a terrible campaign - tanked on healthcare, which gets a lot of traction with Australian voters - but he had a decent lead going in. Bill Shorten has miraculously transformed himself into a believable party leader, which is an excellent effort on his part.

[niko_cee]

The only certainty in Australian politics is that Nick Xenephon will come out on top. Someone told me he had a small band of independents on the go at the moment. The Independent Party.

EDIT: The Nick Xenephon Team Political Party.

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