General Discussion
There just has to be a question concerning all this at the (very appropriate) BBC tory leadership/Prime Minister hustings being held on Tuesday. Our Next Prime Minister , hosted by Emily Maitlis, will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 BST on Tuesday. A maximum of five candidates will take part, as the person who gets the lowest number of votes in that day's second ballot of Tory MPs ...
@majorp - did you phrase the question so that it could be posed to, and answered by, all the candidates? I believe that was a requirement. BoJo now agreeing to attend the BBC question and answer hustings on Tuesday but still not the live audience one with Channel 4 on Sunday. Good Grief! This is the man that supposedly will show 'Brussels' what for. Yet he's not prepared to face a live ...
If ITV costs anything less to run than the BBC I'd be very suprised. Even if I don't own or watch a television , advertisers pay to run ITV and consequently I pay for it when I buy their products. No escape! If I chose to buy a newspaper six or seven days a week, I'd pay vastly more each year than a TV licence - and the papers are supported additionally by advertising. Sky's monthly ...
Child sex abuse victims have criticised Boris Johnson for claiming police funding was being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historical allegations. And if anybody does not know what "spaffed" means, I am told by Victoria Derbyshire, that it means ejaculating against a wall. If he gets the top earners Tax cuts as he is claiming, who will be paying for that. @Lynne , I have asked a ...
@Lynne Netflix cheapest offering is £5.99 a month. Amazon is £7.99 and Sky starts around £22 so roughly £71.88, £119.88 and £264 per year. I wouldn't say £155 is value for money.
It may be the case that only Conservative members have a vote but to say it is an internal Conservative Party matter is for the birds. I'll feel free, along with many others, to express my opinion of him and any other politician whatever party they are in whether or not I am a member of that particular party. Freedom of speech and all that.
If Johnson is selected to be the next Tory leader then you can express an opinion of him at the ballot box, until then it's an internal Conservative party matter, unless you fancy joining in order to have a say.
and the nearest to being a 'man of the people' of the lot still left in the running I'd say was Sajid Javid. Boris Johnson, Eton, Oxford Michael Gove, Robert Gordon's College, Oxford Jeremy Hunt, Charterhouse, Oxford Rory Stewart, Eton, Oxford Dominic Raab, Dr Challoner's Grammar School (state), Oxford Matt Hancock, King's School, Oxford Sajid Javid, Downend School ...
Whether or not we have votes we should still have the opportunity to see what is on offer. What's the matter with Johnson? Is he frit? (to use a Thatcherite phrase).
What's the point of the TV debates, only members of the Conservative party will be able to vote for the leader, and I imagine the result is already a foregone conclusion.