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Re Andrea Leadsom's withdrawal.


Oddly, for at least the last decade the whole family man/woman with kids thing has been played up to the max by politicians of both parties. Blair and Cameron being the best examples. Clegg and Brown also being similarly inclined. New Labour were obsessed with families and Cameron mirrored that with the Tory Party's tiresome 'hard working families doing the right thing' mantra.

 

IMO, that's not the reason at all for Andrea Leadsom's withdrawal. She got a bit of flak, as did Boris Johnson, as did Farage as is Corbyn. Yet Corbyn's standing up to relentless pressure and not buckling.  They buckled? So why?  These people promoted themselves as Prime Ministerial not shrinking violets.  What would Winnie Churchill think?

 

Banging on about families and children has never been presented as bad form before and has been milked by successful politicians.

 

IMO, something behind the scenes went down. We'll never know, but it definitely went down, IMO.

 

Why did Boris meekly step down when he'd made it known for ages that he was aiming to be Dave's nemesis? It was Gove who was really fatally compromised himself by appearing treacherous yet Boris meekly stood down when a Boris rebuke sprinkled with references to Shakespeare or a Latin phrase would have done for Gove.  Rather than enjoying the spectacle of Gove being ripped to pieces for his treachery.  Boris conceded. Then Gove stood down.

 

These events are ripe for conspiracy theories, and IMO, for good reason. There is something going on behind the scenes. Someone's pulling the strings.

 

It's not Boris, Gove, Leadsom or Teresa May IMO!

 

If Carnelian never posts again, maybe there might be a reason why! 

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Carnelian posted:

 These events are ripe for conspiracy theories, and IMO, for good reason. There is something going on behind the scenes. Someone's pulling the strings.

I certainly agree that recent events will fuel conspiracy theories, and on hearing Leadsom's blatantly false "official" reason for quitting the race I was dreaming up some theories myself.

 

However: after some contemplation I think that - as I've posted elsewhere - the withdrawal of the likes of Leadsom and Johnson owes more to their growing realisation (perhaps for differing reasons) that the job was a poisoned chalice.

Anyone who's seen the pictures of Gove and Johnson following their "victory" will surely be aware that the Tory Leave campaigners had a collective "Oh, cr@p" moment immediately following the vote.

I remain convinced that many of them - certainly Boris - didn't actually want to win. The moment they did, they realized that they would have to clear up the mess, which is almost certainly why they tried to get Cameron to stay on as PM and negotiate Brexit (and fair play to him for politely telling them to take a running jump). Besides: although it's become common practise to mock the guy, I genuinely believe that Gove was right: Johnson really isn't up to the job. Whether Boris secretly admits that too, or else merely recognizes that his public popularity would likely take a nose-dive, I'm sure he currently considers the PM job to be a dodged bullet.

 

As for Leadsom: as I've also said elsewhere, I think that her leadership campaign was based on inexperience (or if you prefer, naivety) and hubris. Once the reality sunk in as to what the job would actually mean in practise (with her every utterance being open to public scrutiny, and her CV *ahem* "exaggerations" being immediately subjected to examination and ridicule), she panicked. It was blatantly obvious from the start that she's not equipped to be PM and had zero chance of winning, and by quitting now she's saved herself from many weeks of futile torture.

 

As for May: if I was her, I'd be concerned that she's being set up as a fall-guy. I'm still convinced that many of the expectations (note: "expectations" - not necessarily "promises"   ) of Brexit are simply impossible, and there's the possibility that a couple of years down the line there's going to be literally millions of disappointed Leave voters out there. Now if a Leave campaigner was PM, they'd be left in the embarrassing position of having to admit that these expectations were unachievable. However with a Remain campaigner like May in charge, the Brexit lot can merely dismiss any failings by saying "Oh, but she was never fully committed to leaving in the first place."

 

The irony is, however, that of all those standing for the Tory leadership, May is almost certainly the best equipped to actually perform the upcoming negotiations...

Eugene's Lair
Last edited by Eugene's Lair

There aren't any valid conspiracy theories.

Cameron, fed up with the constant sniping of his right wing opposition took a risk in holding a referendum.

The British public turned out to be less informed than he thought and delivered the vote none of them were expecting, the wrong one.

Crisis of Hegemony just as I predicted :smug:

None of the people who through their misinformation and disinformation took us out of the EC wanted to run with it.

Except Andrea Loathsome who had too many skeletons in her cupboard and too much money in the Chanel Islands (see Private Eye)

May will now be under much pressure from the Business world to pretend to leave the market but retain our position in the EC otherwise our economy will tank completely.

Garage Joe

Why does JC not want to get the 51 nominations Angela Eagle has already got?

 

I know as things currently stand he doesn't need too but I still don't see why he is not willing to go that extra mile then those MP's who voted again him in the 'vote of confidence' would know exactly where they stood, if they don't already...

 

I know he has the overwhelming support of the Labour Party members but you can't form a viable opposition if your ministers keep resigning as soon as they are appointed...

Moonie

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