Theresa May set to become British Prime Minister within days

[-:Undertaker:-]

Thought may as well do a poll thread on this to see where opinion currently is.

The way it works is that MPs will vote between the current five contenders on the 5th of July to narrow it down to a final two (expected to be a Leaver vs Remainer). The run-off vote will be decided by all paid up members of the Conservative Party and the result announced on the 9th September 2016.

A note of caution. The favourites in the Conservative Party have a history of falling, Boris Johnson was the latest casualty in a long long with that today. Secondly, even having the vast majority of MPs back you doesn't count for much (historically) as in the final ballot the members have the say and not the MPs. If i'm right in memory, David Davis had the majority of MPs backing in 2005 but unknown David Cameron won via the members vote.

A very up to date list of MP endorsements as they come in can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mKbV0UnIbX_lbiinKiquP0ghiFpsMl0owUO6_TJyzI/htmlview?usp=sharing&pref=2&pli=1&sle=true


https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1529109/conservative-leadership-contenders.jpg?w=736&h=444&l=50&t=40&q=80
From left: Dr Liam Fox, Stephen Crabbe, Theresa May, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom


You may be undecided still or unsure and things can change but like imagine a gun to your head now making you choose.

With the gun to my head I will say Andrea Leadsom tbh. The more I read and see the more I like.


Thoughts, why you want that person and who's your second favourite etc.

[scottish]

Gove > May

[Stephen]

may = cameron = osbourne

all the same pieces of shit

why is she even contending

[-:Undertaker:-]

Read that Andrea Leadsom is pro-Heathrow and Gatwick airport expansion but is anti-HS2.

Up another two notches up in my book. :P




@Stephen (https://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=36170); agreed and what increasingly puts me off Gove even as my second choice is rumours he'll retain Osborne as Chancellor.

[Mark]

I'll likely support Stephen Crabb, but May is a close second.

[lawrawrrr]

If you're interested in their votes at all I saw this earlier:

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Crabb has some pretty dodgy histories with his links to that group that believes in the 'cure for being gay', but in general his history would be a great shakeup for the country, not being a typical Etonian PM that we're so used to!

I'd not heard of Andrea Leadsom before but I had seen her on the news recently and she seemed like she had her head screwed on, Theresa May has been fairly quiet in comparison to other politicians, Michael Gove isn't trusted by a worringly large proportion of the country (after education "reforms").... and I know nothing about Liam Fox tbh.

If I was a member of the party, I'd probably vote for May because she seems to be first to Gove and I'd rather anyone but Gove tbh...

[lemons]

May > Leadsom > Crabb > Fox > Gove

tbh i dont know much about fox but anyone over gove

[wixard]

Gove > May


NO GOVE!!!!! the CTA will be 100% gone if he gets it, rip tara

hope its may

[scottish]

NO GOVE!!!!! the CTA will be 100% gone if he gets it, rip tara

hope its may

i can live with that for the sake of saying 3/4 last pm's have been scottish!!

[Empired]

May > Leadsom > Crabb > Fox > Gove

tbh i dont know much about fox but anyone over gove
I am exactly the same as that actually yes

[Red]

Andrea impressed me in the debates, either her or May.

[Lucy]

I think at this stage it is inevitably going to be Theresa May. I haven't really followed it at this stage so don't really know the pros/cons.

EDIT: Bummer, I didn't read the poll thoroughly <_< oh well.

[dbgtz]

Anyone but Gove. Ideally there will be another general election called before DC replacement does anything anyway.
Also, all of this reminded me of this classic.
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/gove/collins.png
Probs been posted somewhere recently already but yolo

[abc]

Theresa May but I respect Gove for ensuring Boris is out.

[-:Undertaker:-]

The numbers so far....

There's rumours May is going to have some of her supports back Leadsom to block Gove getting into the final two. Risky if you ask me....


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmT5jPNXgAAWc3y.jpg

[dbgtz]

Interesting numbers there. Kind of makes me realise how different party support can be to electoral. Hopefully May wins and I get some money back :(

Also relevant to my previous post: www.gove2016.co.uk

[-:Undertaker:-]

Boris backs Leadsom...

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[Mark]

I'll be voting May or Crabb

[Zak]

Theresa May

[lemons]

my opinion of andrea leadsom has plummeted during this leadership campaigning, she is trash!! admittedly I didn't know anything about her before the EU ref stuff but she is a right typical tory and not leadership material whatsoever

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lolol is a mum so is more qualified to be PM? give me a break, also theresa may wanted kids but can't due to health reasons

how low can you get

honestly i can't believe i'm saying this but gove and even BORIS would have made a better prime minister than leadsom

[MKR&*42]

Her comments about being a better candidate based on being a mother certainly made me think "urrrgh......???" earlier. I don't know what decade she thinks she's in, but whether you are a mother or not is completely irrelevant in the 21st century.
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On another note, I'm very surprised about Theresa May's educational background... she has a degree in geography then somehow became a financial advisor in her life? I'd love to know how the hell she did that.

[-:Undertaker:-]

@lemons (https://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=104567);

I don't understand the controversy over Leadsom's comments they're hardly the most shocking thing in the world, if what is being reported is a true picture. It's coming across to me as a concerted effort by the Conservative leadership and their press to stitch this thing up. The real issues in all of this, which is policy and competence, aren't being discussed when they should be - namely how is Theresa May a serious candidate for PM when she was a disaster as Home Secretary?

@Intersocial (https://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=86637);

Most people with degrees don't go into the field you'd think of tbh. My mate did History went into finance other did Geography went into administration work.

[abc]

@Intersocial (https://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=86637);

Most people with degrees don't go into the field you'd think of tbh. My mate did History went into finance other did Geography went into administration work.

Just how my degree is in Business yet now I specialise in Granite.

[lemons]

Andrea Leadsom pulls out!

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[-:Undertaker:-]

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Won't be long surely before May is invited to Buckingham Palace to form a Ministry.

It'll be weird having a woman Prime Minister, the first since Baroness Thatcher who became PM back in 1979. Added to that, our Head of State and Head of Government are now both females - but that's likely to be the last time that match occurs in our lifetimes. Here's when Thatcher became PM as a flashback.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A23PQCndPYU

[-:Undertaker:-]

Her Majesty The Queen is currently at Balmoral Castle in Scotland...

Will the kissing of hands take place there? Would be a nice change.

Sensible too, politicians should go to the monarch - especially a 90 years old one - than vice versa.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Balmoral_Castle_2.jpg

[scottish]

I thought he wasn't stepping down for 3 months

[xxMATTGxx]

I wonder what will happen to Larry the Cat.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I thought he wasn't stepping down for 3 months

That was dependent on leadership process playing out. Now that's been concluded it depends on when Queen calls.

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The last time this happened, in 2007, Brown became Prime Minister three days after officially winning the leadership contest.

@xxMATTGxx (https://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=1020); I think Larry is owned by the Treasury or Whitehall.

[FlyingJesus]

Good move by Leadsom to not drag out the process once she saw that she wasn't realistically going to get it, would still have preferred her but hopefully May keeps to her word and gets Brexit properly under way asap

[Inseriousity.]

Wednesday evening by the looks of things, we'll have our next female PM.
These people (Osborne, Johnson, May) have been planning their leadership campaign for a decade, probably imagining all sorts of pain and struggle. Osborne's oily schemes with his spider-web of contacts and allies fell apart with the Leave vote, Johnson got stabbed in the back and Leadsom just stands aside. May just waltzes into 10 downing street like a leadership election is a piece of cake lol.

[-:Undertaker:-]

She's officially party leader this very minute but not Prime Minister.

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Constitutionally this has no impact as the PM is only required to be leader of the largest party in the Commons solely by convention and not legality. It's actually possible for a Lord/Marquees/Earl/Duke from the upper chamber to be PM (as was case before 20th century) or even you and me without a seat in Parliament. It's all by convention. The last member of the upper house to be appointed Prime Minister was Earl Home by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963.

Here's where David Cameron fits into in terms of tenure of office since our first PM The Earl of Orford Sir Robert Walpole in 1721 out of a total of 53 PMs.

http://www.ezimba.com/work/160712C/ezimba13873139408900.png