The Conservative party went nuts over Brexit, won’t listen to reason and the leading alternative is Boris Johnson.
That's about the size of it.
Additionally, the Labour party under Corbyn hasn't exactly been effective either. Despite favoring remain, there were still many in the party (Corbyn included) who were Euro-skeptics.
quote:Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the race to be the next Tory leader and PM, after Michael Gove was eliminated in the final ballot of the party's MPs.
Environment Secretary Mr Gove was supported by 75 MPs - just two votes short of Mr Hunt's 77.
Mr Johnson, who was backed by 160 Conservative MPs, said he was looking forward to "getting out across the UK" and to set out his Brexit plan.
He and Mr Hunt will now be put to a vote of around 160,000 party members.
The winner will be announced in the week of 22 July.
The conservative party are shitting themselves over Farage - yet again. So yet again they're going to do something totally fuckwitted in order to avoid being totally annihilated at the next election for not delivering Brexit.
We're fucked, might as well try to enjoy it. Think of England.
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May stepped down because she was unable to negotiate a Brexit deal with the EU that would pass parliament, meaning that the UK would exit the EU with no deal. But no matter who is elected PM the UK will still crash out of the EU. So isn't the only difference between May staying and May going that now the head of government will likely be a lunatic?
I often miss many of the nuances of British government, but if I've got this right then what was the point of May stepping down?
Because her own Party was about to kick her out. They would have changed the rule that limited challenges to their leader just so they could do it, which wouldn’t have been good for the Party either. So she jumped first, because anything else was worse.
Because her own Party was about to kick her out. They would have changed the rule that limited challenges to their leader just so they could do it, which wouldn’t have been good for the Party either. So she jumped first, because anything else was worse.
The EU elections also sealed her fate. When the Brexit party took so many seats and the Conservative party lost a whole slew of MEPs, that basically put the final nail in the May coffin. If she had remained and a general election was somehow called, the Conservatives would have been trounced.
Sadly, I don't see what Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt are going to be able to do at this stage. The EU has stated they are unwilling to renegotiate and either potential PM is more hard line with regards to a No Deal Brexit. Johnson more so.
I also think there is no chance of any further extensions to the deadline. October 31st seems to be etched in stone. On Halloween no less.
If the break is bad, or if the EU tries to punish the UK, things are bad for everyone.
If the UK muddles through, then the benefits that the EU supposedly provides will be seen as less beneficial and the EU will be in danger of splitting further.
future generations will mark this day by wearing ridiculous blonde wigs and spending the day lying compulsively, to remember when the UK got its worst Prime minister ever.
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