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Denzil_DC

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3. No problem. The Independent site's coding's always been odd.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 08:24 PM
Oct 2017

I had to grapple with me mouse to avoid copying and pasting the whole page, then there's their weirdness with en rules that disappear in their online versions of articles.

I dunno. I haven't seen any comparative polling of the possible contenders for May replacements except within the Tory Party itself. And what little I have seen recently ranked Ruth Davidson as second.

Apart from the fact she's not an MP and might have trouble being parachuted into a seat Down South (she barely managed to scrape a directly elected MSP seat in their last "wave" election up here, and she's apparently been too busy being a telly star to demean herself to hold any constituency surgeries), it's a pretty desperate party that doesn't see through her schtick. She's also in the not too distant past been rather vocally anti-Brexit, though she always has other principles if you don't like her ones of the moment.

It's an even more desperate party that flails around between thinking Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg constitute the answer to all their problems, of course.

Here: Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #1
Thanks. Don't know why I wasn't able to do that. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #2
No problem. The Independent site's coding's always been odd. Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #3
Indeed. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #4
You've just hit the nail on the head there! T_i_B Oct 2017 #5
"Denzil may possibly be preoccupied with the idea of Ruth Davidson as Tory leader" Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #6
She cannot be the saviour of saner Tories.... T_i_B Oct 2017 #7
Well, of course, I agree! Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #8
I disagree about the "non-southern English/RP accent" bit as it happens! T_i_B Oct 2017 #9
I look forward to my hypothesis being disproven. Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #10
Heh. Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #11
There's also the "rhyming slang" issue with Jeremy Hunt. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #12
"there's the fact that most English Tories simply haven't heard of her" Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #13
I would say she's the 2nd most prominent Scottish politician... T_i_B Oct 2017 #17
Probably a fair assessment. She's been on "Have I Got News for You" and everything. Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #18
I wasn't speaking of her qualifications-just familiarity. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #19
I didn't say anything about Davidson's "qualifications", I was directly addressing familiarity Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #20
I stand corrected then. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #21
Nowadays, they have LeftishBrit Oct 2017 #15
Fair enough. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #22
Anyway, we sidetracked on to Davidson etc. because Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #16
Exactly LeftishBrit Oct 2017 #14
Ruth Davidson The King of Prussia Oct 2017 #23
Speaking as somebody with an openly gay Tory for an MP.... T_i_B Oct 2017 #24
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