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brooklynite

(94,591 posts) Thu Jul 7, 2016, 11:26 AM Jul 2016

Tory leadership election: Leadsom beats Gove to join May on shortlist - live

Source: The Guardian

Leadsom beats Gove to join May on shortlist for Conservative leadership ballot

Here are the results.

Theresa May - 199

Andrea Leadsom - 84

Michael Gove - 46

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/07/gove-leadsom-tory-leadership-vote-final-two-politics-live

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Tory leadership election: Leadsom beats Gove to join May on shortlist - live (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2016 OP

So the UK is Getting its Second Female PM? Night Watchman Jul 2016 #1

Nope: you're got it correct. brooklynite Jul 2016 #2

And this time they seem to have chosen well. forest444 Jul 2016 #3

She is actually pretty awful. But the other candidates for the leadership are even MORE awful. LeftishBrit Jul 2016 #4

Theresa May is the least worst candidate T_i_B Jul 2016 #5

Night Watchman

(743 posts)

1. So the UK is Getting its Second Female PM?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 11:39 AM

Jul 2016

Or is my la-ZY, stu-PID American brain missing something here?

brooklynite

(94,591 posts)

2. Nope: you're got it correct.

Reply to Night Watchman (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 11:41 AM

Jul 2016

forest444

(5,902 posts)

3. And this time they seem to have chosen well.

Reply to Night Watchman (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 11:47 AM

Jul 2016

I should not though that they may not allow Theresa May to take over, given her revelations on rampant pedophilia in UK (particularly among it ruling class).

The British PTB can't count on May to cover up for them like Thatcher systematically did for many years.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/06/britain-s-horrific-vip-pedophile-cover-up.html

LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)

4. She is actually pretty awful. But the other candidates for the leadership are even MORE awful.

Reply to forest444 (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 10:04 AM

Jul 2016

With any of them, we are likely to end up longing to have Cameron back, impossible as that sounds. But compared with Andrea Leadsom, Michael Gove, Liam Fox, Stephen Crabb or the original frontrunner Boris Johnson, May seems almost sane.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

5. Theresa May is the least worst candidate

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 05:19 AM

Jul 2016

I didn't think it would be possible for the Tories to come up with a worse candidate for PM than Michael Gove, but they have managed it with Andrea Leadsom.

The really scary thing is that I can see grassroots Tories going for Leadsom. She might have been a lousy energy minister, she might be a proven liar, her views may be either loopy or just plain wrong, but she does stand for ideological purity, especially as she backed the "leave" campaign in the EU referendum.

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