mooro
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So if Boris was to quit tomorrow what would happen next?
Firstly, a deputy would have to step in, most likely Dominic Raaaaaab, but he showed very little prowess in the job when Boris was in hospital and is lumbered with BJ by association, so would probably hold no more, and possibly, remarkably, even less authority in the role than Boris.
Meanwhile, prospective candidates to take over, such as Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss would inevitably have to spend some if not all of their time preparing their leadership campaigns, which shouldn't be a problem given there's nothing else really happening in their spheres to focus on. I mean it's not like there is y potential military conflict or debt mountain to deal with is there?
Then we'll have the leadership election itself, with the campaigning kicking in, TV debates, more mud-slinging and 73 rounds of voting over a period of 2-3 months before a new leader is finally elected.
They will then take a couple more weeks to finalise a new cabinet with the winner needing to be replaced in their old role and potentially one or more other leading players stepping away.
Having established their team, they will then have to set out a new (post Boris) direction to get the party, first, then the public on board, and try to convince them, that things are going to be different now.
This will inevitably not work as too many in and around Westminster will either naturally disagree, or will do so in order to further their own ambitions.
Eventually, the new PM will have enough of this infighting, and (with a public who will be screaming about the newcomer as not having a mandate) have to go to the country 'to move forward'.
Thus, everything grinds to a halt while the battle buses are wheeled out, the labour party suddenly have to think up some policies of their own, red wall Tories start promising all kinds of guff to cling on to their seats, Cummings (having manipulated the vote to get the leader he wants) dusts off his Labour folder and starts drip feeding all the scandal he's been saving up from that side of the house for years, the Scots and the Irish start demanding all kinds of things or they'll take their ball home, and Nigel farage will return with another oddly named party that stands for nothing concrete but allows him to blabber on with all to great regularity.
We will then be left with either a Tory govt with too small a majority to do anything significantly different, a coalition (probably constructed using all kinds of unkeepable promises) even less effective than the last one, a hung parliament meaning we have to do it all again, or a labour government, elected pretty much by default but still riddled with division and indecision that will soon remind everybody why they didn't want them at the previous three elections.
And thus it continues..... with new cabinets to build, new compromises to make, new promises to forget, and all the while nothing useful ever actually getting done.....
Firstly, a deputy would have to step in, most likely Dominic Raaaaaab, but he showed very little prowess in the job when Boris was in hospital and is lumbered with BJ by association, so would probably hold no more, and possibly, remarkably, even less authority in the role than Boris.
Meanwhile, prospective candidates to take over, such as Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss would inevitably have to spend some if not all of their time preparing their leadership campaigns, which shouldn't be a problem given there's nothing else really happening in their spheres to focus on. I mean it's not like there is y potential military conflict or debt mountain to deal with is there?
Then we'll have the leadership election itself, with the campaigning kicking in, TV debates, more mud-slinging and 73 rounds of voting over a period of 2-3 months before a new leader is finally elected.
They will then take a couple more weeks to finalise a new cabinet with the winner needing to be replaced in their old role and potentially one or more other leading players stepping away.
Having established their team, they will then have to set out a new (post Boris) direction to get the party, first, then the public on board, and try to convince them, that things are going to be different now.
This will inevitably not work as too many in and around Westminster will either naturally disagree, or will do so in order to further their own ambitions.
Eventually, the new PM will have enough of this infighting, and (with a public who will be screaming about the newcomer as not having a mandate) have to go to the country 'to move forward'.
Thus, everything grinds to a halt while the battle buses are wheeled out, the labour party suddenly have to think up some policies of their own, red wall Tories start promising all kinds of guff to cling on to their seats, Cummings (having manipulated the vote to get the leader he wants) dusts off his Labour folder and starts drip feeding all the scandal he's been saving up from that side of the house for years, the Scots and the Irish start demanding all kinds of things or they'll take their ball home, and Nigel farage will return with another oddly named party that stands for nothing concrete but allows him to blabber on with all to great regularity.
We will then be left with either a Tory govt with too small a majority to do anything significantly different, a coalition (probably constructed using all kinds of unkeepable promises) even less effective than the last one, a hung parliament meaning we have to do it all again, or a labour government, elected pretty much by default but still riddled with division and indecision that will soon remind everybody why they didn't want them at the previous three elections.
And thus it continues..... with new cabinets to build, new compromises to make, new promises to forget, and all the while nothing useful ever actually getting done.....
