Can Tessie Take a Hint?

[Brian Peacock]

I wonder how the bacon stats stack up...

[JimC]

You swine!

[Brian Peacock]

[rainbow]

Goes to Boris' hairdresser.

[Brian Peacock]

Majority of voters think Boris Johnson would make bad PM - polling expert

Many voters have a “distinct antipathy” towards Boris Johnson, which could hamper his chances of winning a future general election even if he delivered Brexit, the Conservative peer and polling expert Robert Hayward has said.

Johnson is the overwhelming favourite in the race to succeed Theresa May, in which will the field of 11 candidates – with more likely to declare – will be whittled down to two over the next fortnight.

After analysing a slew of recent polls on the parties and candidates, Hayward said a new Tory leader would not win a general election unless they were “transfer-friendly”.

“A Tory prime minister or leader can’t win without Brexiteers; but you actually can’t win without the people who don’t strongly identify with one side or the other, and are looking for good government,” he said...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ing-expert

That last point is an interesting one. Are the Tories (or any party) actually 'looking for good government,' or are they just interested in acquiring power and keeping it?

[Rum]

Except for the most cynical I suspect most politicians actually believe they stand for ideas that would be beneficial to the country. Of course given the spectrum of those ideas they can’t all be right, so there is inevitably a degree of self delusion involved.

Ambition though, is a powerful driver and I suspect trumps most other motivating factors, such as political vales, if you are in the league our Boris inhabits. One can see ambition dripping from his sweaty pores his times.

[rainbow]

That last point is an interesting one. Are the Tories (or any party) actually 'looking for good government,' or are they just interested in acquiring power and keeping it?

The majority of Con MPs know they will lose their seats in a general election, so they will try to prevent that and stay in "power" for as long as possible. Without a parliamentary majority it will remain a lame duck government lurching from crisis to crisis.
SNAFU

[Scot Dutchy]

The trouble there is no alternative and with the present political system nothing will happen which will suit the right wing greedy bastards very nicely especially when England becomes the 51st State.