demagogue on 24/5/2019 at 12:56
Who's the leading candidate for a successor, and is the outcome likely to be successor-dependent or are we past the point where whoever is PM even matters now?
heywood on 24/5/2019 at 13:20
I would guess Boris is the leading candidate, but who knows what deal making will ensue. I think the probability of a no-deal Brexit just went up.
SubJeff on 25/5/2019 at 06:08
Please not him. Christ.
demagogue on 25/5/2019 at 07:47
I like this Niagara Falls metaphor.
I'm not sure even Jesus could help here.
Theresa May was a bad PM - but her resignation will do nothing to arrest Britain's long-term decline
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-resigns-prime-minister-brexit-austerity-boris-johnson-a8929656.html)
Quote:
Patrick Cockburn: There is a story about an enthusiastic American who took a phlegmatic English friend to see the Niagara Falls. “Isn't that amazing?” exclaimed the American. “Look at that vast mass of water dashing over that enormous cliff!” “But what,” asked the Englishman, “is to stop it?” My father, Claud Cockburn, used to tell this fable to illustrate what, as a reporter in New York on the first day of the Wall Street Crash on 24 October 1929, it was like to watch a great and unstoppable disaster taking place. I thought about my father's account of the mood on that day in New York as Theresa May announced her departure as prime minister, the latest milestone - but an important one - in the implosion of British politics in the age of Brexit. Everybody with their feet on the ground has a sense of unavoidable disaster up ahead but no idea of how to avert it; least of all May's likely successors with their buckets of snake oil about defying the EU and uniting the nation. It is a mistake to put all the blame on the politicians. I have spent the last six months travelling around Britain, visiting places from Dover to Belfast, where it is clear that parliament is only reflecting real fault lines in British society. Brexit may have envenomed and widened these divisions, but it did not create them and it is tens of millions of people who differ radically in their opinions, not just an incompetent and malign elite.
Starker on 26/5/2019 at 17:06
TLDR News explores some possibilities who could replace May:
[video=youtube;iSZE0DLCUZY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZE0DLCUZY[/video]
Gambling, as always, seems to be the British national sport nr 1.
Nicker on 1/6/2019 at 00:55
Angela Merkel lays out the importance of European unity for those people too insular to know or care about World War 2.
Factoid: Harvard was where George Marshal announced his plan to restore global stability, June 5, 1947. He proposed helping the aggressor countries recover, rather than punishing them with crushing reparations, as the victors did in World War 1, leading to World War 2.
She also smacks Trump upside the head without once mentioning his name.
The slow Burninating begins at 21 minutes, but the lead up is good too.
[video=youtube;9ofED6BInFs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ofED6BInFs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2St6vLmMW5KDAgbOrMulP2nuD0OIAkbolUveH4okOKlV5YOWSL9wZLnb0[/video]
Gray on 4/6/2019 at 12:31
I would rather punch myself in the balls than see either Boris or Rees-Mogg. In anything ever again. Least of all as prime minister. Posh, overprivileged rich upper class twits that will both benefit financially from Brexit, with no regard of how much it hurts the rest of the country they claim to love but really don't understand.
SD on 9/6/2019 at 02:05
Assuming he makes it to the final two, Boris is a shoo-in, but Brexit is going to finish him just as it has done the last two Prime Ministers.