Tories Don't Trust Their Members

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This is amusing . The Tories want the MPs to choose the leader as the membership can't be trusted not to choose a loony right winger with no experience and very little talent i.e IDS

What is ironic and forgotten is that the parliamentary party gave the membership the choice of Clarke and IDS , as the party is rabidly Eurosceptic there would be only one result after that , as a few bigoted MPs on the right could not bring themselves to vote for Portillo because he admitted to gay experiences in his youth. Thus the electorate would have had to vote for someone against whom many would have been prejudiced either anti Europe or anti gay - you don't have to be a psephologist to work out that it is likely that either Clarke or Portillo would probably have done rather better than Michael Howard.

They are so self deluding. The front runner David Davis is a buffoon likely to drag them further to the right. Hopefully , oblivion awaits them.
 
As I posted on here before, I think that David Cameron will be the next party leader. Now that George Osborne has announced that he will not stand I have backed Cameron, and advised him on our "Other Sports" board - at 5/1, a price that Hills alone offer and which will not last.

One of the reasons that Howard is staying on is to try to prevent Davis suceeding him and I have little doubt that the voting system will be changed.
 
I think that all the parties should have their leaders chosen by their MPs.

There's no point in having a leader chosen by the membership if the party's MPs don't fancy him, or don't have confidence in him. The election of IDS proves that, and of course Portillo and Clarke would have been far more popular with the electorate than IDS or Howard.

With Clarke as leader the Tories could have well have won the 2005 election, but as a pro-European I suppose I'm biased. In the cold light of day, of course, I realise most people would rather become an American colony than be in Europe - just look at our Bush-bum-licking PM and the content of our TV and cinema schedules.

At the moment, it's the Tories who are suffering from this party "democracy", but I can remember when Tony Benn nearly got the deputy leadership of the Labour party.
 
Venusian it was of course the MPs that chose him for election ahead of Portillo . I am far from sure that Brian is right about Cameron . The herd mentality will probably lead to Davis.
 
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