General election 2015

But the Boris rivalry is all fake isn't it? Cameron said in that interview in his kitchen that he wouldn't do more than another term and listed Bo-Jo, T-V and whathisface as possible successors. Boris is basically anointed. I reckon they may well have made a Granita style pact. Cameron will hang on for another term then hand over the reigns, surely?

Cameron will not find it that hard, Alex Salmon will have no real power with 50odd seats-he'll be no worse than Ed Balls was. Boris Johnson now has no leverage, no-one can really challenge DC now he has delivered a majority from the last 5 years shower of shit. DC will leave on his own terms

He'll leave mid term. Boris in.
World ends.

That their nationalism is small-minded was what I was arguing against. Sorry, that probably wasn't very clear.

Perhaps to clarify, from what I can tell, their nationalism isn't self-obsessed, inward and protectionist and is willing to engage on the global stage in their own right. The Union, in it's current incarnation, is one that obliges the Scottish to give a shit about Westminster without the same level of consideration being given in return. Were it otherwise, the SNP wouldn't have gained the traction that they did to win an overwhelming majority. What that says to me is that the Unionists are far more small-minded than the SNP treating Scotland as some lifelong trophy not a group of people with their own needs an interest that are equally valid.

I don't really feel much warmth for Salmond as a person but as a politician and an orator I think he's head and shoulders above the rest of anyone in the Commons and he'll be far more effective than Milliband ever was at picking Tory mendacity apart.

Re: Boris-his presence is a huge distraction and he repeatedly makes inconvenient appeals to the worst of the Tory right. He'll spend further energy doing his best to alienate the Scottish contingent more than he has to date with his purile and offensive 'ajockalypse now' type remarks to appease them when Cameron will have to take a more conciliatory approach, and Theresa May will probably castrate him when it comes to the eventual leadership contest as she'll be playing on their darth-vader/Thatcher lusts.

Ajockalypse

Favourite word so far

He'll leave mid term. Boris in.
World ends.

^ this.

The future mocks you as it approaches.
Like getting run over by a clown driving a milk float because you got your foot stuck in a grid.

Miliband speaking now.

Who's going to replace him?

harriet harmon presumably

Chukka's favourite I think.

God forbid.

bugger, can't embed tweet...

https://twitter.com/antikewl/status/596579766855180288/photo/1

Chukka.
Not Sadiq. He wants London Mayor.

Has any other PM managed to decapitate so many leaders in one shot?
God not Harriet. No chance she'll have the public support Labour needs

The term Ajockalypse is the best thing to come out of this election.

Bloody love Ed, what a PM he'd have been

She's just taking over as caretaker until there has been a leadership contest. Not a prospect.

His resignation speech was a bit crap. No human element to it at all.

Harriet Harman is acting as caretaker in the interim as befits her role as Deputy Leader.

Current bets are on Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Chukka Umana.

He should have invited em all for a bacon roll.

paxman had it right when he asked that question about ed facing up to vladimir putin

and then did anyone see milliband try and do a steely eyed look to show paxman he was tough enough ... hell no he's not tough enough

cringeworthy

45 seconds in

bye ed

Can't tell if serious.....

Which, dicki, only goes to show what an overrated sap Paxman is. What would this 'standing up to' entail? Some kind of High Noon stand off? It's a fatuous question, as if Anglo-Russian relations are a strong-man arm wrestling contest. It's Paxman being as shallow and tendentious as the Mail or the Sun.

It was in response to Greenhell (who I probably misinterpreted), but there's nothing to rule out an interim leader standing is there?