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5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Next Tory Leader run-o... · 2 replies · +1 points

If the answer is "Jeremy Hunt", dare I ask what the question is?

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Instability versus inf... · 2 replies · +1 points

"Germany calling... Germany calling..." :)

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Next Tory Leader run-o... · 1 reply · +1 points

I was similarly impressed with him previously (his Free Schools initiative was a good idea, though predictably sabotaged in the execution) but his very public betrayal of Boris should mean he never becomes PM. BoJo is a very Marmite politician, but Gove came out of that incident looking as trustworthy as a cobra. Either support someone or don't - nobody likes a Judas.

His subsequent conversion to "green crap" (ht David Cameron) make him even less plausible as a Conservative leader. Threatening to ban cars and wood stoves might be a popular idea at London dinner parties, but goes down like a cold bag of sick with normal voters. It's incredibly tone deaf and suggests Gove has completely lost touch with the concerns of the sort of people who elect Conservative governments.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Instability versus inf... · 4 replies · +1 points

"The first option carries the risk of handing office to Corbyn. The second, that of losing it for a generation."

O, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive (the electorate)

If the Prime Minister had simply stuck to her hundreds of promises, and took us out of the EU on March 29th, the Conservative Party would now be facing a golden future. The poison of intra-party European disagreement would have been drawn. Nigel Farage would be an irrelevance. Activists and voters would not now be defecting to the Brexit Party, Jeremy Corbyn would not look like a Prime Minister in waiting, and Theresa May would be our greatest and most popular statesman since Thatcher.

But instead, the parliamentary Conservative Party has chosen extinction. There's no future for a Conservative Party that lies to its supporters and grovels to the EU. "Modernisation" is a mirage - Guardian-reading cosmopolitans who might conceivably vote Conservative so long as it ditches everything actual conservatives want simply do not exist in sufficient numbers to return another Conservative government - ever.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Brexit.... · 0 replies · +1 points

"There is something of the Del Boy about him"

True. That's why I like Farage, he's as English as eating fish and chips on a rainy Sunday while The Smiths play on your car radio.

I can see why he isn't everyone's cup of tea, but give me a politician who is a real person with an actual personality over a soundbite-spewing empty suit any day.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Brexit.... · 1 reply · +1 points

Your low-grade trolling is boring.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Brexit.... · 4 replies · +1 points

Farage-shaped asteroid approaching the political establishment

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Brexit.... · 2 replies · +1 points

Guido is reporting the latest YouGov poll has The Brexit Party on 27%, ahead of Labour and nearly double the Conservatives (!)

The Battle for Britain isn't over.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Frank Young: New divor... · 3 replies · +1 points

Because they made a solemn vow to stick together and because the children of divorce face awful psychological trauma and increased risks of sexual abuse, drug abuse, and prison

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Frank Young: New divor... · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm afraid not. Lots of marriages break up these days because the wife decides she isn't haaaapppy.

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