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Topic History of: Rory Stewart Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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robbiex
Rory makes it through to the next round with 19 votes, so there is still hope. Hopefully the rejected candidates supporters will plump for him, however I doubt it since they were all brexiteers.
If he fails, I think he should join the lib dems, and become their leader, and on current polling they are in line to be the next government.
wyot
My suspicion in this era is that if he proves the best candidate and sneaks the crown, his appearence will mean he does not enjoy success with the public.
honey!oh sugar sugar.
JK2006 wrote: My suspicion is that one of the more famous contenders will win (media tools OK) and the Brexit disaster will mean whoever gets to be PM will get dumped and either Labour will win an election or Rory Stewart will take over when the latest loony loses his job.
Agreed. My hope is that either Boris or McVicious will do the Brexit stuff and then bugger off for ever!
He includes an interesting video clip of Stewart from Channel 4 News.
"Is this the person that you want writing the instructions to the nuclear submarines?" Quizzed about Boris Johnson, Tory leadership candidate Rory Stewart says when he asks Conservative members this question he trusts them "to arrive at the correct answer"." twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1138502861522952192
Buttering up Conservative members probably won't do any harm, but not sure if they're really "deeply wise"!
Noticed a comment on Facebook recently by someone who said he wasn't one of Stewart's constituents but had written to him about Brexit and received a well thought-out and well crafted reply in a hand-written envelope. So it looks as if he really is prepared to reach out to people politicians tend to ignore.
I just can't help but think that he's talks far too much sense and seems far too decent to have any hope these days, and keep wondering if he's genuine or if there's a "nasty party" core to him that would burst forth if he did become PM.
JK2006
My suspicion is that one of the more famous contenders will win (media tools OK) and the Brexit disaster will mean whoever gets to be PM will get dumped and either Labour will win an election or Rory Stewart will take over when the latest loony loses his job.