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Gove is an untrustworthy slime ball who has proved today that he is quite happy to stab his colleague in the back for his own gain. His changes as education minister have had a hugely negative impact on the curriculum and schools are struggling due to some of his policies. I would have anyone before him, even Stephen Crabb who says the homosexuality can be cured!
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Preferred next Tory Leader / PM on 21:48 - Jun 30 with 5815 views
Luciana Berger....and I always had a soft spot for Maggie Thatcher, if she told you to do the washing up you would just do it,if you know what I mean. A strong woman, I suspect Widdecombe could be a bit like that also.
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Preferred next Tory Leader / PM on 05:33 - Jul 1 with 5543 views
Gove has never had public opinion. He's a very clever bloke but he has not likeability whatsoever. He's had a habit of alienating people everywhere he goes. You need to have some form of charisma about you if people are going to vote for you in numbers. There's part of me would like him as Tory leader as I don't see him ever winning an election.
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Preferred next Tory Leader / PM on 05:53 - Jul 1 with 5535 views
Gove came out of his battle with the teachers very badly and really doesn't seem to have many friends in the party. He's said many times that he is not the man for the top job which surprisingly enough puts me off having him as PM.
I'm by no means a Tory but I obviously like to see the lesser of the evils. Crabb is simply an absurd excuse for a human being and Fox will never be forgiven for the bring your mate to work scandal.
Even though everybody is looking at May gor the next Tory Leader im in the Gove camp.. Gove was fully expecting Boris to go for it and Gove would be happy with a senior brexit role.. Now that boris lit the brexit touch paper and didnt have the conviction to follow it through that meant Gove had to step forward...
I heard an interview with gove yesterday and even though im not a tory supporter i would back gove.......
As for crabb less sId the better after his deluded comment.....
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My all time favourite Dale player Mr Lyndon Symmonds
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Preferred next Tory Leader / PM on 09:35 - Jul 1 with 5391 views
Electing Gove would be political suicide for the Tories.
Hated by vast swaithes for his time in Edukashun, his dermed treachery of Boris will have alienated millions more.
I expect Boris to be as charmingly brutal back to him on political comedy shows very soon.
Bozza was doomed the moment TV started putting his dad on air, the old saying of to know a girls future look at the mother applied here too. There but for the grace of Gove go us.
25 years and it will all come out, or via Wikileaks. Fascinating stuff.
I wouldn't trust any of them, give is a backstabbing reptile who doesn't have an exit plan. May is corrupt, privatising everything to the benefit of her husbands g4s. Crab thinks gays can be cured.... Gigs and Corbyn gets hammered by the media!!!. Gove has been anointed by dacre and Murdoch, so will get a lot of support. The unelected newspaper proprietors have more power than the eu. Nowt said about that.
Well done HK Dale - some factual policy evidence rather than personality faff (sic Leighanne). Course that evidence might make May the best option if you share her right-wing views. What's interesting is that both Tory & Labour are re-running fights for the soul of their parties which have been around since their inception. For Labour it's obviously socialism v labourism. For the Tories, I understand Gove is in the long tradition of the Protectionist wing of the Party (which opposes Free Trade ) but is a social liberal. Leadsome is on course to be May's right-hand woman & gives her the 'acceptable' Brexiteer face, Fox is UKIP at Prayer & Crabb is the new breed of working class xenophobic Tory. Problem is the other wing of the Tories - the one nation grouping, which arguably included Cameron, now have no runners. Churchill and Macmillan will be turning in their graves. Again why we need new Parties & PR.
Must admit t_r, I share your enthusiasm for a shake up of the current order. It'll be nothing that hasn't happened before, at different times when circumstances cause a remodelling of political allegiances.
If we'd voted to Remain, there might've been a few ructions but nothing on this scale.
I also share your preference for policies over personalities, although the simple fact is that it usually takes personality to win people over, a key element of our democratic system. Not so sure about PR - it tends to result in watered-down politics rather than the full-blooded and clear choices required in successful government.
You're right DA, Leave's victory is the impetus for radical change and leadership does involve 'personality'whether on the Churchill or the Ghandi end of the spectrum. You fairly cite the usual critique of PR - but surely the current system delivers nothing but watered down Capitalism or watered down Socialism and the coalition government of 1940 - 45 didn't do a bad job. Above all the FPTP system ensures the real full-blooded and clear choices never get heard.
The wartime coalition wasn't really a "political" coalition though.We've had a much more recent example: 2010-15, and I guess whether you think it did a good or bad job depends on your politics! My own view is it saw us through the immediate aftermath of the financial crash, leaving us in a position where the electorate can make a radical democratic choice (Leave) without ruining the economy (it won't).
Noises off suggest our next period of government will abandon the "austerity" (i.e. deficit clearance) policy in favour of stimulus via much-needed infrastructure projects.
One of the strengths of our system is that full-blooded voices can be heard. I don't think Tony Benn or Maggie Thatcher would've regarded themselves as anything other than full-blooded, and both had huge influence in government. A move to PR would, imo, be an even bigger political event than Brexit, and much riskier!
Ha! All that's needed is a party - whilst in government - that's divided and/or desperate enough to put the choice to the electorate (I think 49th made the same point).
The thing is - there are a number of variations on PR (STV, etc.) and getting the different options rationalised to give the electorate a meaningful choice would, imo, be nigh on impossible.
If, for instance, you want PR to deliver a full range of democratic voices, the simplest format - STV - doesn't really do that. The more purely democratic the format becomes, the more complicated the system. They'd have to teach it in schools, like sex education, and hope for better results!
Let's not give up before we've started; Electoral Commission say 'Under STV Parliament is more likely to be both reflective of a nation's views and more responsive to them' - Amen to that! It's up to us - do we let 'them' keep on ignoring us or do we stand up for democracy.
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