Boris The Buffoon

[rich47]

So we are destined to suffer this utter buffoon in Downing Street just to keep the Tory Party together and in power. God help us all .....and they think it is democratic????

[Gromit]

NJ,
// There are two possible outcomes to a General Election now
2. A Corbyn government. //

You are right on the number, but not the outcomes.

2. is more likely to be a hung parliament too, with Labour and LibDems as partners. Which could be an even worse outcome than your outcome 2.

[New Judge]

Indeed Gromit. I have over simplified the arithmetic. But so has Danny.

There are actually 156 "floating" (I.e. non-Boris) ,votes. If Gove gets 80 of them and Hunt 76 then Boris is out. The permutations are many and various, but it is not so cut and dried as some would make out. Since the Tories began electing their leader in 1965 only once has the favourite won. There are dark forces at work which trump simple arithmetic.

[Spicerack]

Nigel Farage is dictating the outcome.
If the Cons vote in another Remainer their troughing days are over at the next GE.

[dannyk13]

NJ, That is assuming that Boris does not get any of the floating votes. That would be nigh on impossible.

[Gromit]

NJ
// There are dark forces at work which trump simple arithmetic. //

Agreed.
Sir Lynton Cosby is advising Johnson, the same man who ran May’s disastrous 2017 election campaign and who advised her to avoid the televised debates. Rather than get the 100 majority that she wanted, she got no majority.
So a man with a proven record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, is running the Boris campaign.

(Still think he will come 2nd and win the members vote).

[Gromit]

Harper, McVey, Hancock and Leadsome were all hard brexiteer candidates, so Boris should pick up many of their 50 votes.
But in the referendum 185 Tories voted to Remain and 139 to Leave, so you would expect the final two to be one Remainer and one Leaver.
Boris is the frontrunner to get the Leave vote, but he has a bad reputation amongst his fellow MPs.

[TonyV]

If in doubt consult the bookies!!! Current William Hill odds are.

Johnson 1/6
Hunt 7/1
Gove 16/1
Stewart 16/1
Javid 33/1
Raab 50/1
So in their view it is literally a one horse race.

[spathiphyllum]

"In a 2007 column for the paper, Johnson blasted Gordon Brown six days before he officially took office and succeeded Tony Blair. Johnson hit out at the former Chancellor for taking the job at Number 10 without winning his own general election as leader, calling it a ‘gigantic fraud’. ‘It’s the arrogance. It’s the contempt. That’s what gets me,’ Johnson wrote. ‘It’s Gordon Brown’s apparent belief that he can just trample on the democratic will of the British people."

https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/13/boris-johnson-blasted-leaders-becoming-pm-without-election-old-column-9945489/

[Spicerack]

The Brexit Party were 1/7 in Peterborough last week, Tony.

[New Judge]

The manner in which Prime Ministers are appointed mid-term has been discussed at length, Spathi.

[Gromit]

The odds on the a Conservative Majority in 2017 were 1/5.

[rich47]

NJ and Gromit, there is another hung parliament coalition possibility.----Labour and SNP. How do you fancy that one?

[Togo]

//The Brexit Party were 1/7 in Peterborough last week, Tony.//

Is there a postal vote option in this procedure Spice?

[bookbinder]

https://www.aol.co.uk/video/view/-boris-johnson-s-buffoonery-in-90-seconds-/5787633fc4d21f7966de82f2/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrL3VybD9zYT10JnJjdD1qJnE9JmVzcmM9cyZzb3VyY2U9d2ViJmNkPTE1JnZlZD0yYWhVS0V3akl4ZF92dGVuaUFoVTlTQlVJSGU4SER3MFFGakFPZWdRSUFoQUImdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmFvbC5jby51ayUyRnZpZGVvJTJGdmlldyUyRi1ib3Jpcy1qb2huc29uLXMtYnVmZm9vbmVyeS1pbi05MC1zZWNvbmRzLSUyRjU3ODc2MzNmYzRkMjFmNzk2NmRlODJmMiUyRiZ1c2c9QU92VmF3M0xhVnprcHlDY3lZWkxhYkpwaFo2Xw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACrzXZZEReiw1lFkLRoU8lxpiLEP9MHXS3Tc7TA2VDUCRWecrjeGxdvfhXuF4yS56WAQgWfMeNAnAFAPVjIZvf_nXkJ1zsRFVj_MuDHzbbcGpUTTnbpSehBXm1T03k6Qt8Y82_G22w4O2p18_Q5au52Ng2J7X2uyxYoJ8iVQ3WB6

[Togo]

//there is another hung parliament coalition possibility.--//

How about a Brexit, DUP, Conservative coalition? :))

[Gromit]

Togo,
The ballot of Conservative members is 100% postal.
Are you saying the result won’t be valid ?

[gulliver1]

Spath 15.24, Sock it to them Spath , they don't like it Up Them

[Gromit]

Togo,
How can the Brexit Party join a coalition when they won’t have any MPs ?

[Gromit]

Rich47
You are right, the SNP could be part of a coalition with Labour. A very dreadful prospect that would be.

[Togo]

//How can the Brexit Party join a coalition when they won’t have any MPs ?//

Yet. :))

//The ballot of Conservative members is 100% postal.
Are you saying the result won’t be valid ? //

Is that bloke who was in charge of Layboor's postal collection in charge of it?