Who do you want to win the tory leadership contest?

[lifetime fan]

Home Secretary Theresa May - The 59-year-old has replaced Boris Johnson as the bookies' favourite to win the contest. She's held the Home Office brief - often something of a poisoned chalice - since 2010, and is a former Tory party chairman. She says she can offer the "strong leadership" and unity the UK needs, and promised a "positive vision" for the country's future. She backed staying in the EU.

 

Justice Secretary Michael Gove - The 48-year-old former newspaper columnist was a key figure in the party's modernisation that led to its return to power in 2010. He was a reforming, if controversial, education secretary between 2010 and 2014, and now holds the Ministry of Justice brief. He was a leading player in the Brexit campaign - which put a strain on his close friendship with David Cameron. He has pitched himself as the candidate that can provide "unity and change."

 

Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb - The 43-year-old was promoted to the cabinet in 2014 as Welsh secretary, and boosted his profile earlier this year when he took over as work and pensions secretary. A rising star of the Tory party he has promised to unite the party and country following the referendum result and provide stability. Raised on a council estate by a single mother, he has a back story to which many Tory MPs are attracted. Backed Remain.

 

Energy minister Andrea Leadsom - The 53-year-old former banker and fund manager was one of the stars of the Leave campaign. A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

 

Former cabinet minister Liam Fox - It's second time around for the 54-year-old ex-defence secretary and GP, who came a close third in the 2005 leadership contest. His cabinet career was cut short in 2011 when he resigned following a lobbying row. A Brexit campaigner, and on the right of the party, he has said whoever becomes PM must accept "the instruction" of the British people and not "try to backslide" over EU membership.

[Brownie]

Hope they all lose.

[lifetime fan]

By process of elimination I'd have to go for Crabb.

 

In reality I'd much prefer May over Gove.

[Curly]

I couldn't give a fuck. The one who fucks up trying to fuel his own agenda while maintaining the appearance of attempting to please the people.

 

Just whatever leads to the demise of the Tories and assists the coming to power of a (hopefully Corbyn) Labour Government.

[cloggypop]

They are all worse than Cameron.

 

Kinell.

[Sputnik1]

[Lee909]

Double knockout

[dennis tooth]

Prefer Gove myself, completely unelectable even with Rupert Murdoch's enourmous wrinkled phallus up his jacksy jerking his puppet to look real, Corbyn will splatter his face into liquid mush and blow a bowl of spagetthi in the side of his head with a sawn off shotgun. Metaphorically speaking.

May is the biggest threat but looks like Murdoch will not be backing her and even if he did shes still not got public support.

 

I dont think the public will accept any of them and there may be trouble unless a GE is called but I think the Tories would rather be guillotined than call a GE.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

They are all worse than Cameron.

 

Kinell.

This.

 

If it turns into the end of Reservoir Dogs I'll be happy.

[Jairzinho]

Hopefully all five fall into a slurry pit.

 

Tend to agree with dennis, I'd pick Gove. He seems the least electable.

[Mook]

I'd be quite happy if they went on a campaign bus together & it fell of a cliff.

 

There is absolutely no humour intended there either, they are fucking vermin & they're sucking this country dry.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Gove as I think he'd be the easiest to beat in an election. I think may will be the biggest nastiest twat out of all of them.

[dennis tooth]

He looks like a lanced boil. Im assuming Murdochs plan is for him to be running against Angela Eagle. Otherwise makes no sense, he is 85 now though.

[Gnasher]

They are all worse than Cameron.

 

Kinell.

I don't think they are, one thing Cameron had was a snake oil ability to act sincere. The tories will miss him and the smarmy cunt knows it.

[Section_31]

All twats. May seems like the only politician out of all of them, the rest all look like they found there way in from the puzzle palace.

 

Always said a proper tory has to pass the star destroyer test. If you can picture them on the bridge of a star destroyer then they're a legit old school tory.

[Ginny]

That Gove is a proper snide. I mean even for a Tory he is a snide. These people that are in power are proper snides. No wonder the country is in this state when you have these types of people in power

[clangers]

Gove as I think he'd be the easiest to beat in an election. I think may will be the biggest nastiest twat out of all of them.

 

That would require a credible opposition able to oppose.

 

May is the least damaging, dim witted, vain, right wing ideologues like Gove or god forbid Fox could do unimaginable damage even if they only managed to cling onto power for a couple of years. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

It's akin to asking what disease you would like. 

 

Quite a few on here thinking Gove wouldn't be electable in a GE, well Cameron and Thatcher were elected having already shown how shite they were at being Prime Minister, never underestimate the public, especially the new reality TV generation. 

[Jairzinho]

It's akin to asking what disease you would like. 

 

Quite a few on here thinking Gove wouldn't be electable in a GE, well Cameron and Thatcher were elected having already shown how shite they were at being Prime Minister, never underestimate the public, especially the new reality TV generation. 

 

Gove looks weird though. So the reality TV spackers won't vote for him.

[cochyn]

Who on here put Theresa May into the amnesty thread?

 

Or did I just fantasise about imagine it?

 

Anyway, Crabb would be my choice, but it'll be May by quite some way I think. Gove has been despised wherever he's worked and just seems to rub people up the wrong way with his 'simpering evil puppet' shtick. May will be seen as the one who'll get the best deal for Brexit. I can see her and Merkel hitting it off. (but not in that way).

[aws]

I think May will walk it which at least gives Labour a sniff at the next election as she is hardly an appealing personality. If they appointed Crabb they'd lock up the next two or three elections.

[jimmycase]

Apart from the fact that the winner will be the the sitting PM until the election at least, Im not really bothered.

 

The tories usually turn on their own who cause the encumbent leader to fall on their sword so i dont think gove has an earthly. He did for cameron and he did for johnson. I think that both sides of the referendum debate, the remainers and leavers, will remember what gove has done and take retribution. I'll be majorly surprised if gove gets past the first vote.

 

Of the other candidates, I think May will be the ultimate winner. I think she'll appeal to both factions and sides of the party but, I also think she'll get traction as the best to stop gove.

[thechap]

Although I don't know enough about Stephen Crabb to say he isn't one, the only one who seems a decent human being is Andrea Leadsom.  I'm not saying she is Prime Minister material but she seems like a good person.

 

I would have Michael Gove as my choice from the rest because I believe his views about leaving the EU are genuine and not political manoeuvring.

 

Therese May I think is a witch.  She claims to be strong and listed her reasons for saying she is.  Abu Qatada took years to deport - that dpoesn't seem strong to me.  She crows about having taken on the Police Federation.  Well, it's easy to claim success against an opponent who has no political weapons at their disposal with which to fight you.  She would have folded against the doctors or against train drivers.

 

She sounds strong when she reads from a speech.  When she has to answer on the hoof she sounds weak.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Gove looks weird though. So the reality TV spackers won't vote for him.

 

They still might, all he has to do is warble a shit tune whilst wearing outlandish clothes, but yeah, he looks like a puppet from some 70's animated children's programme. 

[skend04]

I know various governments have always messed around with education but Gove was another level of shite. There is no way he should get even a sniff of being PM because 3 years of this cunt will be something even the most socialist of Labour governments would be unable to reverse.