= Сообщение: 4005 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 05 Jul 16 11:36:00 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 05 Jul 16 11:36:00 Тема : Brexit FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+577b7f80 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+577ae671 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5783fc45 ============================================================================== On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 00:27:14 Michiel van der Vlist -> Kees van Eeten wrote:
MvdV> As I said, the rats are leaving the sinking ship...
Let's stop using that analogy because it doesn't do anything to further the discussion. It's just popular press rhetoric which jeers and sneers. Easy to say but little on meaning.
David Cameron resigned because he felt that, having campaigned for staying in the EU, he felt he didn't have any credibility to lead us into Brexit.
Boris Johnson withdrew his candidacy for the leadership because his friend (!) Bru.... er, Michael Gove, effectively put an end to his ability to win the leadership election.
Nigel Farage resigned as leader of UKIP because he had done what he set out to do and that was to get the population of the UK to vote us out of the EU. He has no further ambition. Indeed he was a one policy politician and had never pretended to be anything else. However, he did resign once before as the UKIP leader and within a day or so had unresigned! So he may just be persuaded to come back again, but this time it's not very likely.
Jeremy Corbyn refuses to resign as leader of the Labour party on the basis that he was elected by the grass roots party members and he says that it is for them, not the parliamentary party, to call for him to go. At the moment it looks as though the grass roots are getting stronger for him day by day! So Labour is in an even bigger mess than the country generally!
There are five Conservative candidates standing for election to lead the party and become prime minister. The front runner at the moment is Theresa May (who incidentally lives about three kilometres from me in the charming little village of Sonning on the River Thames. She is MP for the neighbouring town of Maidenhead). The others are Michael Gove, Liam Fox, Stephen Crabb and a little known late entry but who has the backing of Boris, Andrea Leadsom.
The first round of voting by Conservative MPs starts today. It will result in the candidate with the lowest votes being eliminated. There will be further similar rounds until there are just two candidates left. This takes us up to the 29th July. The two remaining candidates will then be put to a postal vote of all Conservative party members throughout the country and the result should be known by the 9th September and Parliament will then resume.
However, to quote an old English adage, "there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip." Who knows what may happen between now and then. Armageddon? ;-)
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
