Grant Shapps: Tories Within Rights To Urge May To Go

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41519601

Now its all out in the open at last. According to Shapps, an ex-Chair of the Party, she has to go. Surely May's time must now be limited....weeks or days perhaps.

[Old_Geezer]

Ex-chair. Maybe he's hoping for a career boost if there's a change at the top ?

[mikey4444]

He is being interviewed at the moment on Radio 4.

I really can't see how she is going to survive this attack.

[DTCwordfan]

Grant Shatts most appropriate name as he tries manure spreading, R4 were saying that this has no sustainability as numbers were low and no front-runner nominated. He may well have just put a large deposit in his pants over this.

[Kromovaracun]

Maybe, but it's been "any day now" for ages now. I thought someone would unseat her at the conference, but it didn't happen.

The fundamental problem is that as soon as May falls, all of the most likely replacements are either hard or soft Brexiteers. Either one of those will split the party and very likely result in the Tories losing power. Plus there are still likely to be plenty more unpopular landmarks down the road on Brexit, in which case they are hoping to use May as a human shield to absorb some of the bad polling.

I don't see how Grant Shapos has changed that dynamic.

[mikey4444]

Personally, I think Shapps is like the little boy that said that the king wasn't wearing any clothes after all.

Her ex-next door neighbour said that May was a dead woman walking, but its obvious now, that she can't even stumble convincingly.

[albaqwerty]

just what the country needs, (well, businesses and the markets) the man needs to have a look at himself,
btw, have never heard of him before :-)

[mikey4444]

Alba....Shapps should be quite well known.

[albaqwerty]

only heard this morning that he was once the Chairman of the Cons, I have no idea who is the current chair of any of the parties.

[Khandro]

mikey, you must be wetting your pants with excitement, but why?

[mikey4444]

Perhaps I am more aware of things political than most !

He is Tory MP for Welwyn Hatfield, and is also an ex-Minister under Cameron.

[mikey4444]

Khandro....no, still quite dry down there....I have just checked !

[-Talbot-]

Perhaps I am more aware of things political than most !


For whatever reason, I can not start a thread in news so as you are more aware of political things than most...

Are you aware of this mikey?
https://order-order.com/2017/10/05/anti-semitic-conspiracy-theorist-ran-stall-labour-conference/

And what do you think about it?

[gulliver1]

Have noticed how Corbyn is keeping silent about the CON CHAOS, have not heard him mentioned .

[mikey4444]

Gulliver...perhaps Corbyn doesn't want to intrude on private grief !

[Khandro]

T.May on J.Corbyn at PMQT "Yet again, he has failed to mention, on student fees: who was it who introduced tuition fees? It wasn’t the conservative party, it was the Labour party."Mrs May's slap down sparked a raucous reaction from the Tory bench.

The Prime Minister persisted in her attack, fiercely defending the Conservative Party's handiwork on the British economy.

She said: "What do we see from the employment figures? More people in work than ever before. We see more women in work, we see more 16 to 24-year-olds in work or in full-time education.

"That’s what you get with a strong economy. The Labour party would only destroy our economy as they did last time!"

Hear Hear! - doesn't to me sound like someone completely finished.

[naomi24]

If Mikey is, as he claims, “more aware of things political than most”, I’m surprised he gives this man’s opinions such credence. Furthermore, since the so-called Labour Party in all its blustering rhetoric has told only one truth to the electorate – that it intends to decimate the economy of this country – something that Mikey would clearly welcome - I wonder why he is not encouraging what he sees as a weak Prime Minister to stay. That would surely reinforce his cause. Curious.

[gulliver1]

PMSL Mikey. We've got the Blues on the run.

[EDDIE51]

By all normal standards of political conduct she should have resigned as soon as the magnitude of her mistake in calling the election became apparent. I can't recall any other situation where a politician was allowed to continue after such a catastrophic mistake.
As to Corbyn, he is just doing the right thing by sitting quietly as Mrs May wins the next election for him.

[mikey4444]

Oh ....I don't think she is completely finished Khandro, but you would have to admit, that she is deeply wounded.

I still think that she won't be in Number Ten for much longer.

If were the Tory Party Chair, I would want her out as quick as possible. The boil needs to be lanced, because otherwise it will just fester and get bigger.

Replace her, get someone else in her place, and the Tories can move on, instead of having to make that circle of wagons around her. They will still have that DUP-assisted majority, and they shouldn't have to call another Election.

[naomi24]

Eddie/Gulliver/Mikey, if Mrs May is, as Eddie claims, winning the next election for Corbyn, why are you so keen to see her go? It's what you want, isn't it?