Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[mongers]

'Let Boris Carry The Can'

I think the serious leadership candidates will sit out the contest, be happy if Boris wins and know the disasters to follow will be labelled as Boris's failures. Then two-three years down the line, they can run to replace him.

Of course I'm assuming most of the announced candidates are delusional and actually think they can pull off a successful bexit.

[garbon]

'Let Boris Carry The Can'

I think the serious leadership candidates will sit out the contest, be happy if Boris wins and know the disasters to follow will be labelled as Boris's failures. Then two-three years down the line, they can run to replace him.

Of course I'm assuming most of the announced candidates are delusional and actually think they can pull off a successful bexit.

So same place as last leadership contest?

[mongers]

'Let Boris Carry The Can'

I think the serious leadership candidates will sit out the contest, be happy if Boris wins and know the disasters to follow will be labelled as Boris's failures. Then two-three years down the line, they can run to replace him.

Of course I'm assuming most of the announced candidates are delusional and actually think they can pull off a successful bexit.

So same place as last leadership contest?

Indeed.

[Josquius]

Remember that bit about not wasting the extension?
No tory leader and a zombie pm till the end of July....

[Tamas]

Remember that bit about not wasting the extension?
No tory leader and a zombie pm till the end of July....

It is incredible, if they do keep to that timeline.

New party leader around mid-July, means PM role handover is not done before say first week of August, then the new genius leader will need to form a cabinet, get briefed. That's easily middle/late August.

Then he/she will have to do the necessary "I am now going to Brussels to immediately get everything we ever wanted and drop everything we don't want" round, where he/she'll be slapped around, and will have to come back and start working on getting May's original deal accepted. We are now well into September.

So basically, it will be around September by the time we get to the point we were at last week.

[Iormlund]

Weiss and Benioff should be taking notes. This is a great start for the new Brexit season.

[Syt]

I see this chap is throwing his hat into the ring? He looks mildly unhinged.

[Tonitrus]

I see this chap is throwing his hat into the ring? He looks mildly unhinged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTkLoekm_0

[Syt]

He looks like Guy Smiley from Sesame Street.

[Savonarola]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTkLoekm_0

That's great.  Anyone who is that informed about the fretful porpetine is okay with me. 

[Legbiter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTkLoekm_0

Man knows his hedgehogs. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Ironically he is a sensible fellow, more typical of the Tories of former times; he has ruled out serving in a Johnson government :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-48409026/rory-stewart-i-can-t-serve-under-boris-johnson

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/05/rory-stewart-has-said-what-many-conservative-moderates-are-thinking-about

[mongers]

Ironically he is a sensible fellow, more typical of the Tories of former times; he has ruled out serving in a Johnson government :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-48409026/rory-stewart-i-can-t-serve-under-boris-johnson

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/05/rory-stewart-has-said-what-many-conservative-moderates-are-thinking-about

And the establishment / Spy agencies (allegedly) choice. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

I would imagine that he doesn't expect to win; but is hoping to get support that he can use to stop Johnson and get someone more unifying in as leader. Johnson will need the solid support of something like a third of the Tory mps to get to the final stage (the vote by party members) which he will walk. But Johnson is unpopular with Tory mps; as one of them remarked "..people like Boris, until they get to know him...".

[Maladict]

I see this chap is throwing his hat into the ring? He looks mildly unhinged.

His books are excellent though, especially The Places Inbetween about his solo walk across Afghanistan in 2002.