The new PM

[enaid]

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Whips aplenty lol, left to me they would all get a bloody good whipping

[EXC]

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Not exactly reliable but May's certainly looking good with the general public.

BREAK: General public snap poll:

Who would you prefer to be PM?

May 47%
Gove 9%
Crabb 7%
Leadsom 4%
Fox 4%
Don't know 29%

[Guest]

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I want one who is a remainer. They may just sort this mess out.

Gove is a disaster, he screws up everything he touches.

I don't like May but she is a stayer. Snoopers charter and all that.

Crabbe may be a dark horse outsider, not truly establishment

Thank god IDS doesn't fancy his chances again.

As for Maggie, economically she made a difference but she was the most divisive cow ever to have lived.

[enaid]

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Crabbe may be a dark horse outsider, not truly establishment

Well he's well up on benefits and claiming lol http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-expenses.html

[PAWS]

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I forgot how good B’stard was! I remember Yes Prime Minister/Minister as well. The MPs who peed off the Top dogs got sent to Northern Ireland and the Civil servants got …...Swansea!
Who ever wins will be swinging the sword about. Shame it will not be our choice but based on favours, promises of top jobs and old alliances.
Maggie might have been a bitch but she was ‘OUR BITCH’.
Boris doesn’t want the poison chalice but he was one of the idiots who poisoned it.

[Amethyst]

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Just for ref.

Theresa May - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/104...may/maidenhead
expenses - http://www.parliamentary-standards.o...spx?conId=0292

Stephen Crabb - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/117..._pembrokeshire
expenses - http://www.parliamentary-standards.o...spx?conId=0583

Liam Fox - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/102...north_somerset
expenses - http://www.parliamentary-standards.o...spx?conId=0339

Michael Gove - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/118...e/surrey_heath
expenses - http://www.parliamentary-standards.o...spx?conId=0472

Andrea Ledsom - http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/248...rthamptonshire
expenses - http://www.parliamentary-standards.o...spx?conId=0431

[Snoopy1948]

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I've just sat and watched Michael Gove's speech in his attempt to become the next PM. Frankly, I fail to be impressed for many reasons but mainly because he comes across as a schoolboy doing his first homework presentation at school. He appears to have been schooled in articulation and his thought processes seem delayed before he speaks ( anyone remember the film 'Short Circuit' where the robot screams for 'input'?

For me, it has to be Theresa May, no ifs and no buts. She may not have been an open and ardent Brexiteer but I frankly feel she may well have been 'in the closet' on that one and therefore firmly able to deal with the wishes of the people on this one. Her speech was superb and she covered everything I personally would like to see. She had immense direction and every past a competent stateswoman. Plus of course she is already firmly ' in the establishment' and therefore, I believe, able to take over seamlessly. Any concerns that she is a woman should be buried and firmly so. And yes, I did admire Maggie T and what she brought to this country.

I just hope that Theresa May has the stamina to see out the current government to 2020 as I am aware that she may have health issues but then every candidate is physically and mentally fallible while in public duty. Anyway, my wife absolutely adores Theresa May and a woman's intuition should be challenged with great care.

[leclerc]

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I have to come out, so to speak, for Theresa May.
She has said that the people have spoken and that that will be respected and followed through.

I don't like Gove and Crabb has got some things not palatable in his cupboard. Don't know enough about Leadsom and Fox tried once and lost. No one likes a loser

[wales01man]

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I have to come out, so to speak, for Theresa May.
She has said that the people have spoken and that that will be respected and followed through.

I don't like Gove and Crabb has got some things not palatable in his cupboard. Don't know enough about Leadsom and Fox tried once and lost. No one likes a loser

Whats crabbe got in his cuboard then?

[leclerc]

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well, his interesting all inclusive unless you're gay views on traditional family life. Needless to say the pink vote won't go blue

[Amethyst]

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Fox has a few cupboard issues too, also losing him the Pink vote IMO.

Ah here ->http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15300751 and http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/29...ve-leadership/

[EXC]

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I don't like Gove and Crabb has got some things not palatable in his cupboard. Don't know enough about Leadsom

Well she's an ex investment banker and features regularly in Private Eye mainly about the issues identified on her Wiki entry:

Inheritance tax[edit]

Following her appointment, it was discovered that she had placed her shares in a buy-to-let property company, which she had started with her husband in 2003, into trusts for the benefit of her children. This is a move that is commonly used to avoid inheritance tax. She also took advantage of offshore banking arrangements for the property company in an apparent contradiction to George Osborne’s attempts to crack down on tax avoidance.^[16] A spokesperson for Leadsom said: “This is a normal corporate situation and all tax that is due is being paid. None of the loans for the properties are based offshore”.
Donations from family firm[edit]

There was further criticism when it was revealed that she had received a series of donations totalling £70,000 from a firm based in London but owned by her Guernsey-based brother-in-law, Peter de Putron, via a holding company in the British Virgin Islands tax haven.^[17] Leadsom’s husband Ben is a director of the firm which made the donations, which were used to pay the salaries of staff in Leadsom’s Westminster office after her election as MP; the firm has also made donations of £816,000 to the Conservative party.^[18] Because the firm making the donations, Gloucester Research (later becoming GR Software and Research) was based in London the donations conformed to the rule banning political donations from abroad. The Labour MP Tom Watson said: “These very large donations might be within the rules, but it certainly isn’t right that a Treasury minister has been taking money in this way. Most reasonable people will see this as completely unreasonable”.^[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Leadsom

[Amethyst]

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Seems to leave us with Gove as the only potential challenge to May ?

He looks like Harry Enfield Tim nice but dim
He's really annoying.
He is a back stabber ( yes he got rid of Boris, but he doesn't get bonus points for that - backstabbing is backstabbing)
and then there's all the balls ups in justice and education...

Any good points about him?

[EXC]

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Seems to leave us with Gove as the only potential challenge to May ?

He looks like Harry Enfield Tim nice but dim
He's really annoying.
He is a back stabber ( yes he got rid of Boris, but he doesn't get bonus points for that - backstabbing is backstabbing)
and then there's all the balls ups in justice and education...

Any good points about him?

In addition I did hear someone refer to him as ''a living caricature of himself'' but seriously I also think he's a bit of a lightweight.

Oh yes it was the head of Ofsted https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...s-michael-gove

[PAWS]

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Please not Gove!
A lightweight backstabber who once said he was in favour of capital punishment is a dangerous politician and a terrifying idea of a PM!