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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jun 10, 2019 17:22:55 GMT
So, now that nominations have closed ... who does the DU want as the next British PM from amongst the current contenders?
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Post by lidar2 on Jun 10, 2019 17:24:48 GMT
I voted Rory Stewart more in hope than expectation, but in terms of candidates with a realistic chance of winning Jeremy Hunt is probably my preferred outcome.
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jun 10, 2019 19:27:43 GMT
Why isn't Servalan listed?
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Post by doctorkernow on Jun 10, 2019 20:02:06 GMT
Hello again.
Unfortunately, for the same reason Sir Alan B'stard is not on the list. Both Jacqueline Pearce and Rick Mayall are sadly no longer with us to bring these characters to life.
Their larger than life political shenanigans would certainly fit in the toxic environment of the current Tory leadership contest.
I think The Last Leg have it right. It should be run by Alan Sugar as a series of The Apprentice. Where he gets to whittle down the field with a series of challenges. Can you imagine interview week! Then the whole UK get to vote on which of the final two gets the job.
To answer the initial post. I really cannot stand any of them.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Jun 10, 2019 20:27:50 GMT
To be honest, they are just varying shades of appalling. Stewart is probably the only one I could tolerate but I think it'll be Johnson, which makes my soul cry.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 20:34:00 GMT
Obviously none of them, but if I had to vote I'd choose Jeremy "I love the NHS"* Hunt.
The best of the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.
EDIT : removed the words 'most moderate' after his comments on Sunday about reducing the abortion limit were pointed out to me.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Jun 10, 2019 22:30:05 GMT
Obviously none of them, but if I had to vote I'd choose Jeremy "I love the NHS"* Hunt. The best (and most moderate) of the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. I think we're a long way past the bottom of the barrel. It's getting a bit toasty and Peter Cushing and Doug McClure just waved from their digging machine.
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Post by Digi on Jun 10, 2019 23:03:02 GMT
Jesus. What a race to the bottom.
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Post by number13 on Jun 11, 2019 1:01:23 GMT
I don't agree with the negative comments - I can see several names on the list who I think would make good PMs. And just to show some non-partisan spirit, if the parliamentary numbers were different, I could easily pick out a list of 'good PM' contenders from the Labour benches too, or from the Lib Dems for that matter.
I know how unfashionable this is, but the collective despising and demonising of 'the enemy' - pick your side - is something I've come to strongly dislike. Most MPs are decent people who try to do their best and intend the best even if we don't always agree with their policies or the results of their policies. I can remember all the PMs back to Callaghan and I don't think any of them were "bad people" (no, not HER either - flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, earthquake! Happy now, comrades? ) and the country moved forward under all of them. Even if I (obviously) didn't like everything that each of them did or thought they made the most of the chances they had, I can't think of any whose broad policy direction wasn't broadly right at the time imo. (And going back a bit further, I think this applies to all the PMs from Churchill 1940 onwards, even if most of them made at least one serious policy mistake, and we did get rather stuck in the later 60s and 70s trying to preserve a consensus which had been right for the 40s and 50s.)
I think we've been incredibly lucky as a nation in the PMs that party processes and elections have given us because there are clearly some people (on both sides of the House) who should never be PM and it is ultimately a 'forced choice' between two candidates at election time.
And therefore, nationally speaking, we will imo very shortly be completely stuffed.
(On topic: Rory Stewart or Jeremy Hunt please. But it won't be. )
EDIT: On rereading, oh how pompous. Oh well.
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Post by muckypup on Jun 11, 2019 3:43:59 GMT
Anyone who wants the job is probably the wrong person for it.
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Post by pawntake on Jun 11, 2019 7:21:53 GMT
Obviously none of them, but if I had to vote I'd choose Jeremy "I love the NHS"* Hunt. The best (and most moderate) of the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. I think we're a long way past the bottom of the barrel. It's getting a bit toasty and Peter Cushing and Doug McClure just waved from their digging machine. We are certainly "At the Earths Core" and fast becoming "The land that Time (Europe)Forgot"
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 11, 2019 7:37:23 GMT
Bruce Campbell.
"This is my boomstick.....Groovy"
Gets my vote.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 8:34:21 GMT
I don't agree with the negative comments - I can see several names on the list who I think would make good PMs. And just to show some non-partisan spirit, if the parliamentary numbers were different, I could easily pick out a list of 'good PM' contenders from the Labour benches too, or from the Lib Dems for that matter.
I know how unfashionable this is, but the collective despising and demonising of 'the enemy' - pick your side - is something I've come to strongly dislike. Most MPs are decent people who try to do their best and intend the best even if we don't always agree with their policies or the results of their policies. I can remember all the PMs back to Callaghan and I don't think any of them were "bad people" (no, not HER either - flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, earthquake! Happy now, comrades? ) and the country moved forward under all of them. Even if I (obviously) didn't like everything that each of them did or thought they made the most of the chances they had, I can't think of any whose broad policy direction wasn't broadly right at the time imo. (And going back a bit further, I think this applies to all the PMs from Churchill 1940 onwards, even if most of them made at least one serious policy mistake, and we did get rather stuck in the later 60s and 70s trying to preserve a consensus which had been right for the 40s and 50s.)
I think we've been incredibly lucky as a nation in the PMs that party processes and elections have given us because there are clearly some people (on both sides of the House) who should never be PM and it is ultimately a 'forced choice' between two candidates at election time.
And therefore, nationally speaking, we will imo very shortly be completely stuffed.
(On topic: Rory Stewart or Jeremy Hunt please. But it won't be. )
EDIT: On rereading, oh how pompous. Oh well. I'm going to resist the temptation to pick apart your post or debate the level of pomposity that may or may not be contained within as I have no desire to get into an argument. We will simply have to agree that we disagree on the subject. Though for the record, it goes flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, maniacal laugh, earthquake... 😉
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 10:42:08 GMT
Obviously none of them, but if I had to vote I'd choose Jeremy "I love the NHS"* Hunt. The best (and most moderate) of the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. Most moderate? The man who wants to half the abortion limit?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 11:06:34 GMT
Obviously none of them, but if I had to vote I'd choose Jeremy "I love the NHS"* Hunt. The best (and most moderate) of the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel. Most moderate? The man who wants to half the abortion limit? Damn.. thought he came across as a moderate in his speech yesterday and certainly wasn't aware of what he'd said on Sunday. What a complete 🔔🔚. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll go in and edit out my 'most moderate' comment.
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Post by number13 on Jun 11, 2019 12:06:30 GMT
I don't agree with the negative comments - I can see several names on the list who I think would make good PMs. And just to show some non-partisan spirit, if the parliamentary numbers were different, I could easily pick out a list of 'good PM' contenders from the Labour benches too, or from the Lib Dems for that matter.
I know how unfashionable this is, but the collective despising and demonising of 'the enemy' - pick your side - is something I've come to strongly dislike. Most MPs are decent people who try to do their best and intend the best even if we don't always agree with their policies or the results of their policies. I can remember all the PMs back to Callaghan and I don't think any of them were "bad people" (no, not HER either - flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, earthquake! Happy now, comrades? ) and the country moved forward under all of them. Even if I (obviously) didn't like everything that each of them did or thought they made the most of the chances they had, I can't think of any whose broad policy direction wasn't broadly right at the time imo. (And going back a bit further, I think this applies to all the PMs from Churchill 1940 onwards, even if most of them made at least one serious policy mistake, and we did get rather stuck in the later 60s and 70s trying to preserve a consensus which had been right for the 40s and 50s.)
I think we've been incredibly lucky as a nation in the PMs that party processes and elections have given us because there are clearly some people (on both sides of the House) who should never be PM and it is ultimately a 'forced choice' between two candidates at election time.
And therefore, nationally speaking, we will imo very shortly be completely stuffed.
(On topic: Rory Stewart or Jeremy Hunt please. But it won't be. )
EDIT: On rereading, oh how pompous. Oh well. I'm going to resist the temptation to pick apart your post or debate the level of pomposity that may or may not be contained within as I have no desire to get into an argument. We will simply have to agree that we disagree on the subject. Though for the record, it goes flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, maniacal laugh, earthquake... 😉
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 11, 2019 12:17:50 GMT
I dont trust any of them. but Javid is the only one id want to win
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Post by number13 on Jun 11, 2019 12:37:13 GMT
I dont trust any of them. but Javid is the only one id want to win He'd be high on my list of 'possibles' too ( if we had a vote in this!) I like him from interviews I've seen and what I've heard him saying as Home Secretary. But I think this is a single-issue selection process and he's presumably not 'Brexity' enough for the Tory members. Nor are any of the other candidates I might like!
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Post by Timelord007 on Jun 11, 2019 12:45:23 GMT
Dirty Harry.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 11, 2019 12:47:51 GMT
Thanos
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