[Updated] Theresa May is new UK PM
08-07-2016, 21:46
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http://news.sky.com/story/leadsom-cl...-edge-10496432
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Andrea Leadsom says being a mother makes her a better choice for Prime Minister than Theresa May because it gives her a “very real stake” in Britain’s future prosperity.
In highly personal remarks, the mother of three says she was sure the Home Secretary must be "really sad" not to have children as she suggested that her motherhood status meant she had more invested in the future than her leadership rival.
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As well as being quite odd Leadsom is coming across as very nasty as well.
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08-07-2016, 22:31
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Re: Political leaders challenge
No way - How to kill your career chances in one sentence . . .
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08-07-2016, 23:45
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Gets better.
Denied saying it and Times then produced transcript.
Evidently she hasn't reacquainted herself with reality after the referendum campaign and thought she could carry on lying.
She is either incompetent or a nasty piece of work. I am going to run with door number two based on her recent actions and policy positions, although with a pinch of incompetence. Competent politicians don't say things that unpleasant in interviews.
Over to the Conservative Party members.
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09-07-2016, 06:16
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l cannot say l am surprised at all with these views and god help us if she ever becomes Prime Minister.
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09-07-2016, 06:47
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Radio 4 are playing the tape. She must have known she was recorded.
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09-07-2016, 06:50
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Re: Political leaders challenge
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It is true though ,T May is sad at not having children ,she is unable to have children due to health reasons .It's still a horrible thing to use as ammunition by Leadsom.
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The Mays have no children, one of those “ultra-intrusive subjects” on which she has been silent until now. “It just didn’t happen,” she says quietly. “This isn’t something I generally go into, but things just turned out as they did.”
She admits to a sense of loss. “You look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don’t have.”
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This piece from 2012 is quite a good read to get some background on Theresa May
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09-07-2016, 07:51
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Attempt at damage limitation by a Leadsom supporter on Today ... failing badly at trying to convince us that she doesn't have really bad judgement .. apart from just having bad policies 
---------- Post added at 08:51 ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 ----------
Oh dear ..
Stephen Crabb embroiled in sexting scandal
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09-07-2016, 08:01
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The thing is we can all assume this will damage her, be outraged and so on but it probably won't harm her at all. Already she is spinning she didn't say it, as are her supporters, despite the existence of the recording of her saying it. She could literally hit in front of a TV screen screen showing her saying it, deny it with a straight face and the anger would be directed at the 'lame-stream media'.
Same as the £350 million to the NHS were the Leave campaigners can deny they ever said it despite it being on their bus! Politics is mad.
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09-07-2016, 08:06
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The thing is we can all assume this will damage her, be outraged and so on but it probably won't harm her at all. Already she is spinning she didn't say it, as are her supporters, despite the existence of the recording of her saying it. She could literally hit in front of a TV screen screen showing her saying it, deny it with a straight face and the anger would be directed at the 'lame-stream media'.
Same as the £350 million to the NHS were the Leave campaigners can deny they ever said it despite it being on their bus! Politics is mad.
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On their bus and on a poster behind Boris!
I know that politicians lie but the Brexit gang are perfecting the art
Nick Clegg, come back .. all is forgiven .. save us!
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09-07-2016, 08:21
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[QUOTE=Ignitionnet;35848875]Gets better.
Denied saying it and Times then produced transcript.
Evidently she hasn't reacquainted herself with reality after the referendum campaign and thought she could carry on lying.
She is either incompetent or a nasty piece of work. I am going to run with door number two based on her recent actions and policy positions, although with a pinch of incompetence. Competent politicians don't say things that unpleasant in interviews.
Over to the Conservative Party members.[/QUOTE]
more old people 
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09-07-2016, 08:50
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Perhaps some of the Cable Forum members could put themselves forward as surely they would do a better job then most of the lying , sleazy , obfuscating MP's that are currently prevalent in the Houses of Commons.
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09-07-2016, 09:09
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Perhaps some of the Cable Forum members could put themselves forward as surely they would do a better job then most of the lying , sleazy , obfuscating MP's that are currently prevalent in the Houses of Commons.
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sadly the democratic process is beyond some of our membership
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09-07-2016, 11:31
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If anyone thinks any of our glorious leaders are whiter than white, purer than pure, think again. Some are clearly far better/worse than others but I'd wager they've all said, done and thought things which, if they'd been recorded and subsequently made public, could easily damage or even destroy their reputations if not their careers. Often these things are made public at times such as these when there's an opportunity to damage one clique or the other. Sometimes the dirt is held in reserve for a rainy day and sometimes the media can 'engineer' situations in which politicians are deliberately lured into saying/saying things which they'll later regret. Is is better to have a consummate liar like Blair at the helm or someone who, perhaps, isn't quite as 'clever' or devious? 
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09-07-2016, 11:42
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