THREE quarters of Tory members want to leave the EU without a deal, a new survey has revealed, in a further indication a hardline Brexiteer such as Boris Johnson is their preferred successor to Theresa May. The poll found that 75% of the Conservatives rank and file membership in the UK support a no deal, while 70% back a so-called “managed no deal” which its supporters argue would allow the Government to mitigate the worst impacts of such an exit. The survey, published yesterday on the Conservative Home website, found little support among its members’ panel for a soft Brexit with just 12% backing an option such as Common Market 2.0 suggested by former Tory minister Nick Boles in the indicative votes process. There was more support for the soft Brexit option suggested by another former Tory minister, George Eustice, with 24% backing his EEA/EFTA option. Meanwhile a separate ranking of possible candidates to succeed May put ex-foreign secretary Johnson as favourite, with 22% backing him for Tory leader and PM, down from 24% since the start of the year. Former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab was ranked second with support rising from 12% to 18%. Environment Secretary Michael Gove was placed third with backing increasing from 9% to 15%. . . less pepole than are members of that wee party up north have more sway than any other in the direction of this group of nations. tuff titty, i agree, i would suport a party that looks to change this...
I took much hope from Nick Boles, He gave us the gold standard of flouncing off yesterday, I took some notes.
To proportional representation ? If I understand it correctly that would mean parties having seats based on % of votes, so parliament would be (roughly) 40% Labour, 40% Tory, 7% Lib Dem, 3% SNP etc etc. Given their recent form on cross party agreement would that not cause more problems ?
PR would give you the what Italy has. Major, weapons grade incompetence. It could be argued that we have that now but they've had 61 governments since the end of WWII. In comparison the UK has had 16 over the same period.
I don't think any of the petitions ever raised have received a response other than 'No - feck off' I was looking at a few that were for reducing politicians pay in some way, the answer always being 'it's nothing to do with us its IPSA' So I'm thinking of starting a petition saying 'Give MP's a 25% pay rise for working so hard' hoping it will go down in history as being the first one ever to be approved
Clearly a move to the American model of government is called for now. At least that way, there is a chance of getting someone who is not a corrupt, career politician in overall charge who wants to move the country forward instead of concentrating upon feathering his nest and that of his chums. Actually, this sounds like a really good idea. Making Great Britain Great again!
it does require a certain amount of maturity from its members. but still doable. i would also pull the parliment out of london. midlands somwhere. personnaly i would put it in carlisle. but hay, compromise. gov and its civil service pulls an awfull lot of tax dosh into one area which in turne disadvantges rUK. pulling and sharing? trickle down?
Pr in the eu based on current U.K. mp numbers would mean the snp have 19.5 mp's in a 650 house but in the eu they want to join , just 14 mep's in a 750 house. It would seem that pr was created by Diane Abicus and snp members have 8 toes
'Requires maturity from members' is a stumbling block I think. Would moving parliament out of London just move wealth to that area though ? How about no parliament, with modern technology the meetings could be via video link for example, then they can stay in their constituencies and save a fortune in expenses ?
there is a logic to that. i would wager that if you pour water on a ball it would flow more evenly than in to a bowl where it would just collect in one area.
