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I doubt it as May and Gove loathe each other from all accounts. What a day yesterday: Johnson was a PM in waiting at breakfast and by lunchtime his career was in ruins. Great stuff.

So who is going to pick up the poisoned chalice* now?

Boris Johnson rules himself out of Tory leadership race

I don't feel qualified to comment on this but I would be interested to hear what other people think.

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The UK may not be "flavour of the month" in the EU at the moment but at least we dont have any nasty far right groups at risk of being elected.

UKIP are pussycats compared to some of these groups in other EU countries and they only have one seat anyway.

What an excellent thriller.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/...cuckoo-nest-pl/

The UK may not be "flavour of the month" in the EU at the moment but at least we dont have any nasty far right groups at risk of being elected.

UKIP are pussycats compared to some of these groups in other EU countries and they only have one seat anyway.

It's the left that are presently causing a bit of parliamentary turmoil.

Yes, I'm old school. When I voted for a free trade European alliance way back in the seventies, there was no mention of Federalisation by stealth, nor continuous expansion to encompass 28 nations. The European Parliament is awash with corruption, croneyism, and self serving bureaucrats on huge salaries.
Why do we need another layer?

By the same token we have Scottish MP's in Westminster and another layer in Holyrood.
Why do we need two layers............

Obviously Westminster is a smaller version of the same thing but some of these MPs can be voted out if they don't hold safe seats.

There's a huge amount wrong with UK democracy. First past the post denies many voters any influence.
Farage scared Cameron into promising a referendum, and Cameron thought he could win. Cameron is out of touch with ordinary voters and certainly in South Yorkshire where we live there's a huge anti-EU (and anti-Cameron) feeling.

This is tied up with over supply of cheap labour combined with minimum wage and zero hours contracts.
So this is what has played out. It's a huge protest vote against politicians both here and in the EU parliament.

And we can see from the chaos which has ensued that nobody was expecting it and nobody wants to take it forward.

This is only the beginning - wait until the next General Election in the UK.
I can also see other member states working towards exit...
.....I would like to see PR in the UK, and a single layer of parliament. But this doesn't accord with devolution.