Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Theresa May would be a good PM. She has something of the aura of Thatcher about her.

Labour officials receive legal advice on whether Jeremy Corbyn could stand for leadership re-election

If Corbyn loses the upcoming vote of no confidence, he may have to find 50 MP or MEPs prepared to back his continued leadership

Under one reading of Labour’s ambiguously worded rule book, Mr Corbyn might not be able to compete in a leadership election, because he might be unable to get his name on the ballot paper.

The party’s general secretary, Iain McNicol, has privately sought legal advice on how the rule should be interpreted if – as seems increasingly likely – Mr Corbyn is challenged and insists on fighting to keep his job.

Rule 4.2.ii of the Labour party rule book says that when an incumbent party leader faces a challenge “any nomination must be supported by 20 per cent of the Commons members of the PLP. Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void.”

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is made up of 230 MPs and 20 MEPs, which means that a challenger will have to collect at least 50 signatures on his or her nomination papers.

But does the phrase "any nomination" mean apply to the incumbent leader as well as to any challenger? If it does, Mr Corbyn would have to find 50 MP or MEPs prepared to back his continued leadership – a number he would find it almost impossible to reach.

In 2015, when the rules were different because the former leader, Ed Miliband, had quit, Mr Corbyn struggled to get the 35 names he needed to get his name on the ballot paper. He achieved that only because a number of MPs – such as Labour’s former deputy leader, Margaret Beckett and the late Jo Cox – signed his nomination papers purely to give him a chance to participate in the contest, while making it clear that they had no intention of voting for him and did not expect him to win. Four of the 36 who nominated Mr Corbyn are no longer in the Commons.

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Theresa May , She has something of the aura of Thatcher about her.

That's got to be the best joke iv'e heard all year .

osbornes not resigned yet..Must be hanging on in the hope of being
appointed May's bag boy and ego stroker...

The deputy Speaker of the Commons got a group of about 80 Tory MPs together to watch the England - Iceland match to cheer them up. Doesn't look like it lifted their spirits much.

Osborne won't resign. PMs can resign during crises but not Chancellors. It would be crazy for him to resign.

I just thought earlier how would you honestly feel now IF the remain had won , watching all those airy fairy actors and celebrities with their falseness .

Theresa May has caught up in betting.

Both 13/8

Others have fallen back

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Theresa May would be a good PM. She has something of the aura of Thatcher about her.


? The dead in the ground look.

She could have Moggie and Ozzy as pallbearers.

Labour activists were planning to join the Conservative party to vote against Boris as Conservatives did to vote for Corbyn. Sorry to disappoint them but you have to be a member for three months before you can vote.

Vicky all those luvvies, who without doubt sneer at the average Brit whilst happy to take their money have had their greedy snouts bloodied, and they do not like it one bit.
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May 31% and Boris 24% among Tory voters and May ahead in wider public.

I think May is secretly glad of the out vote , as she brought up the point about the new countries Albania , Serbia etc links to Mafia type make up , personally I think this is a big point as we would have discovered in time .

try romania (and italy of course!)

I thought those maybe obvious cynic , anyway when is this leader vote and does whoever come second get to be deputy ( please no hourly updates Hays ).

No. David Davis came second last time. The Conservative PM gets to choose their deputy. Labour vote separately for the deputy which is why Watson got the job despite Corbyn not wanting him.

So we could have two remainers at the helm .

If May wins then certainly.

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