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Originally Posted by denphone
Any suggestions?.  |
Hmm.
Someone who will trash the UK's economy for the foreseeable and ensure the upper echelons of government are an echo chamber and propaganda machine.
Man of the people Jacob Rees-Mogg would I'm sure step up if he were convinced to run. John Redwood would likewise be happy to deny dissent and continue his habitual lying to the populace. Boris Johnson may not be extreme enough.
It's tricky. You need someone that's either a total sociopath or whose dislike for the European Union is so strong it is an obsession that allows them to defy all logic, reason and informed opinion.
Actually when I put it that way it's not tricky at all to find a Conservative that fits that bill. The only complicated part is finding someone that's either deluded enough to believe their own propaganda or callous enough to not care given it'd be their name attached to the consequences for time immemorial. I suspect that's the only reason at least some don't want the job, they know that politics runs on short cycles and they know that leaving the European Union on an ideological timetable rather than a pragmatic one would cause a lot of damage to many sectors of the economy and them become a pariah.
To be honest I reckon that's the only reason Theresa May is still in charge.