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A Political Thread pt. 2

Some interesting more stats but basically guy in last place public like best...
 
Great to see Truss 6th in a 5 horse race and she's the one the right wing of the party want to back....
 
ncurd said:
Great to see Truss 6th in a 5 horse race and she's the one the right wing of the party want to back....
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I watched the whole debate live. Truss was terrible - she looked stiff, spoke without any real conviction and came across as very unlikeable. She failed to keep her cool and was visibly angry when Sunak called her out on her crowd pleasing plans to cut taxes. No way is she bringing home a majority in a GE.

I think the poll is not far off although I thought Sunak was better than Tugenhadt and Badenoch (who was refreshingly honest) better than Mordaunt.

I would rank:

1. Sunak
2. Tugenhadt
3. Badenoch
4. Mordaunt
5. Truss

Ironic and tragic that one of the last two will likely end up as PM.
 
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How come the Met office pretty much everywhere is 3-5c cooler than the BBC predictions and which is more accurate (Guessing Met Office)
 
AccuWeather is what I've always found to be the best
Their minutecast is crazily accurate
 
ncurd said:
Anyone watch tonight?

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I watched and it cemented my view that Truss is woeful and actually a bit thick. She was clearly gunning for Sunak from the start and set the tone for the debate. She came across as spiteful and desperate.
 
The Oggmonster said:
I watched and it cemented my view that Truss is woeful and actually a bit thick. She was clearly gunning for Sunak from the start and set the tone for the debate. She came across as spiteful and desperate.
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So has all the requirements to be PM judging by our current standards...
 
The fact she was backing Britons to go out and fight in Ukraine as FS completely rules her out for me as PM through her lack of judgement.

The others including Mordaunt - I just don't know enough about or just don't stick out for me as PM.

Sad to say Rishi is the best of a bad lot. I think that resigning just after Javid and then the rest of the ministers should save him from the "knife wielder" never becomes PM.

First ethnically Asian PM - would be a big milestone for UK. Just got to win remaining ballots and then the backing of grass root Conservative party members.
 
Bada-Bing! said:
The fact she was backing Britons to go out and fight in Ukraine as FS completely rules her out for me as PM through her lack of judgement.

The others including Mordaunt - I just don't know enough about or just don't stick out for me as PM.

Sad to say Rishi is the best of a bad lot. I think that resigning just after Javid and then the rest of the ministers should save him from the "knife wielder" never becomes PM.

First ethnically Asian PM - would be a big milestone for UK. Just got to win remaining ballots and then the backing of grass root Conservative party members.
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Yeah that was very reckless from Truss and her claiming that she would call Putin out to his face last night was just cringe.

Mordaunt's responses were very woolly and she doesn't give enough details explaining her position on things. I can't believe that her and Truss are the party membership's two favourites.
 
Anyone actively seeking out power should be automatically ruled out from obtaining it. I hate Tories more than anyone but this is a brush you can tar all politicians with. Granted there are politicians who look to do good things at a constituency level and their hearts are in the right place but for people to have lifelong ambitions to become PM like Sunak and Co are the worst types of people you want to become PM as power and prestige is all they're really concerned about.

Same applies for police. If your lifelong ambition is to be a police officer you probably shouldn't
 
Welsh Exile said:
Anyone actively seeking out power should be automatically ruled out from obtaining it. I hate Tories more than anyone but this is a brush you can tar all politicians with. Granted there are politicians who look to do good things at a constituency level and their hearts are in the right place but for people to have lifelong ambitions to become PM like Sunak and Co are the worst types of people you want to become PM as power and prestige is all they're really concerned about.

Same applies for police. If your lifelong ambition is to be a police officer you probably shouldn't
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I must admit I much prefer the Starmer/Rayner/Allin-Khan/Tugenhat people who have lived genuine/lives careers outside of politics before entering parliament. Its not an easy balance though.
 
ncurd said:
I must admit I much prefer the Starmer/Rayner/Allin-Khan/Tugenhat people who have lived genuine/lives careers outside of politics before entering parliament. Its not an easy balance though.
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Oh yeah, 100%. In the face of all the "metropolitan elite" stuff Starmer has to deal with I have no idea why he doesn't bring up his working class upbringing more. Guess it can look a bit staged or something but if that was me I'd be saying "some of us had didn't have much growing up and we had to work hard to achieve what we wanted in life unlike 90% of the Tory party"
 

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