Andrea Leadsom quits Prime Minister race

Personally I would still favour having it even under those circumstances. I think not having it dooms us to decade after decade of stupid, reactionary politics like the current ones. We would have a better chance of modernising the country properly under PR. It's not a message that's likely to get far though, as there are too many vested interests conspiring to keep things the way they are, or have been up to now. The full collapse of Labour down to a rump might start to bring them on board genuinely at last, as opposed to the pathetic back tracking they did on the issue under Blair and Brown.

I also think that a full Labour collapse is going to open the door to more Green MPs by the way.

Personally I would still favour having it even under those circumstances. I think not having it dooms us to decade after decade of stupid, reactionary politics like the current ones. We would have a better chance of modernising the country properly under PR. It's not a message that's likely to get far though, as there are too many vested interests conspiring to keep things the way they are, or have been up to now. The full collapse of Labour down to a rump might start to bring them on board genuinely at last, as opposed to the pathetic back tracking they did on the issue under Blair and Brown.

I also think that a full Labour collapse is going to open the door to more Green MPs by the way.

Well then.... UKIP is a relevant political force

A labour collapse opens the door to more MP's for everyone.

What is possibly interesting about a split is how many go and who keeps the name.

Where do those MP's go?

The lions share of them are blairites which are soft tories. None of them will go there.

Will they go to the lib dems or create a new party? That's the interesting part


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Lol, they are relevant if you are reaching for simplistic solutions and a party of weird old Tory has-beens and amateur-hour racists.

it is the Remain Bug... if you have supported Remain recently on here you are marked with an Asterisk.... *

Personally I would still favour having it even under those circumstances.

So when will she officially be made prime minister and will there be a general election? To be honest, I don't like her.

She officially becomes Prime Minister on Wednesday evening, Cameron has just announced. She's said that she won't call a general election before it's next set date, though whether she'll stick to that remains to be seen. I'm really hoping that she will call one.

Hmmmm. I don't like her. But then, honestly I don't think I like any of the opposition leaders either. I guess I'd vote labour.

Hmmmm. I don't like her. But then, honestly I don't think I like any of the opposition leaders either. I guess I'd vote labour.

....Well this is awkard because I didn't vote remain.*

Personally I would still favour having it even under those circumstances. I think not having it dooms us to decade after decade of stupid, reactionary politics like the current ones. We would have a better chance of modernising the country properly under PR. It's not a message that's likely to get far though, as there are too many vested interests conspiring to keep things the way they are, or have been up to now. The full collapse of Labour down to a rump might start to bring them on board genuinely at last, as opposed to the pathetic back tracking they did on the issue under Blair and Brown.

My biggest issue with this is her comment that she won't be calling an early general election, leaving the UK with four years of someone that only 165 people (those being Conservative MPs) actually voted in as Prime Minister. However I stand on her policies, I fundamentally disagree with someone being in power who has not had the opportunity to be democratically voted in by all those eligible to vote in the UK.

Saying that, she's played a fantastic campaign strategy. To take a quote I saw on Twitter the other day:
"I do like Theresa May's campaign strategy of doing nothing while all of her opponents set themselves on fire sequentially."