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Who will follow after Boris Johnson? - 8 possible candidates

Discussion in 'Western Europe' started by Lindis, Jul 12, 2022.

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  1. Lindis

    Lindis Banned

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    Here are the names of the 8 possible candidates:

    Kemi Badenoch
    Suella Braverman
    Jeremy Hunt
    Penny Mordaunt
    Rishi Sunak
    Liz Truss
    Tom Tugendhat
    Nadhim Zahawi
     
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    Do you favour any of these eight?


    Kemi Badenoch

    Suella Braverman

    Jeremy Hunt

    Penny Mordaunt

    Rishi Sunak

    Liz Truss

    Tom Tugendhat
     
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    Tom Tugendhat is a nice Yiddish name.
    Meaning exactly what it says: "Er hat Tugend" - German for: "He has got virtue!"
     
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    Sorry, I forgot this name:

    Nadhim Zahawi
     
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    Are there any British here who have an opinion about the topic?
    Or any Europeans?
     
    Lindis, Jul 13, 2022
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    Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi are out of the race now.
     
    Lindis, Jul 13, 2022
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    Obviously not.
    A pity.
    There is a world there outside the US.
    But that seems to be little known.
     
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    I have a special interest in Tom Tugendhat because of his Yiddish-German name.
    For me it is somehow strange to see a very German word as part of a British family name.
    The German pronunciation would be something like: "too-guend-hut".
    I have never heard how he pronounces his own name when he speaks English, or how other British people pronounce his name.

    Here is more about the man whose name says that he has "Tugend" - id est virtue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Conservative_Party_leadership_election_(UK)
     
    Lindis, Jul 14, 2022
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    no
     
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    They're all unashamedly Tories.
    So to me they are absolutely vile.
     
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    Long live Tugendhat, because he has "Tugend" = virtue!
     
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    I don't have a preference, really. However, I hear Liz Truss would probably walk in Boris' steps. No, thanks
     
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    Rishi Sunak
     
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    Blimey, Labour are worse, so what adjective do you suggest for them?
     
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    @ Penny Mordaunt
    Magician's assistant at uni
    https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-p...gicians-assistant-vying-to-become-pm-12651726
     
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    Labour have been out of power for 12 years, They are no way worse.
     
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    You asked for British or European input, not American, Geez.

    It'll probably be Truss or Sunak. Sunak seems to be more favored at the moment, but I suspect the old racist elements will line up behind Truss in the end in the name of her "proven loyalty."
     
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    Liz Truss is not to be confused with Lynne Truss:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Truss
     
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    Brown sold the gold at a loss, Blair's PFI rip off, and the Iraq war. Then Keir simply thinking he can negotiate with the EU? If you hear a Keir policy before an event, it's weak and hollow because the majority of his policies he speaks of come out after the event. He's not known as Mr. Hindsight for nothing.
     
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    I am no fan of the Labour stance on the vote for the UK to leave the EU.

    Ironically it was Boris Johnson the other day in the House of Commons (Pincher scandal) who said with ‘hindsight’ he would have behaved differently.

    The Tories have been in charge and the country is wrecked, not only that, they have been presiding over a ‘democratic deficit’ since the referendum vote in 2016. The vote is yet to be honoured. In the meantime the Tories have been enriching friends and helping party donors.

    It is laughable that anybody can blame Labour for the behaviour of this government by saying they would be even worse.

    Tories are evil at heart, no other party could be worse. Boris Johnson has been a lazy lying thieving philanderer who embodies the mindset of all Tories and Tory voters, which is about ‘me first and only, you go away and die’.

    It was a Labour person who described Tories as vermin in the 1940’s and he was right.
     
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    @ Liz Truss

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62157750
     
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    As Mervyn King, ex Bank of England governor, said in his interview about Brexit, being in the EU was not financially beneficial. Interesting to note that Thatcher secured an EU rebate and Blair conceded 20% of it.

    Labourites conveniently claim Labour is a new party, out with the old as a new leader takes over, but they always claim Tories are always the Tories from the past.

    I tend to find Labour supporters say stupid things.
     
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    And the labour leader saying ‘make brexit work’ is meaningless because the word brexit can be defined by anybody to mean anything.
    It certainly doesn’t mean the whole of the UK leaving the EU as voted for.
     
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    The UK had to leave as a whole.
     
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