Tory woes continue as ‘other’ tops poll on who should be next party leader
David Davis, Britain’s Brexit secretary – and next Tory leader? It seems his misbehaviour towards Diane Abbott hasn’t hurt his image with party members [Image: Maja Suslin/EPA].
Mr Davis won 23 per cent of the votes – a total of 289 people wanted him as leader (so there were around 1,200 votes altogether – a representative sample?) – but nearly 30 per cent of respondents wanted somebody who was not named on the poll.
That’s 356 people – although their most popular selection (Dominic Raab, God help them) won only 17 votes.
Article author Paul Goodman makes an obvious comparison – with the leader election of 2005, when Mr Davies was also the lead candidate but was beaten by relative unknown David Cameron.
The difference is that the Tories are in government now, and not in opposition against a young, charismatic leader like Tony Blair – who Mr Cameron consciously tried to emulate.
This is the conservative party. It seems likely to This Writer that its members will support a continuity candidate, who will not change direction but will support what the membership see as successful Tory policies.
But the public is turning against those policies. Are Tory members blithely pushing their party towards oblivion again?
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Davis is as nasty and ineffective as May. Another chancer who is out of his depth and a “bastard” in every sense of the word.
Like all polls we should take it with a pinch of salt far to often of late they have been proven to be wide of the mark, and even the conservative home poll should not be taken seriously as to what conservatives think, because people like me actually go to it to see what is being said rather than supporting it, and have voted in that poll.
Lets hope that “Lord Snooty” Rees Moggy gets it. Then we will all see what a REAL Tory born to be idle rich looks like!
Tory members blithely pushing their party towards oblivion again?
Ooh, lets hope they are.