An interesting comment from Ming Campbell, as reported in The Guardian:
“When the moment comes, it won’t just be Huhne and Clegg, there will be others, including at least one woman. There’s some very bright cookies around.”
Any similarity between that statement and this article in The Scotsman is surely coincidental:
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Perhaps he means Elspeth?”
Julia to be ‘leader after next’, but don’t tell the activists, it’d upset them.
Hmm, I’m looking for an objection to the idea m’self. Nope, not seeing one.
But not as a replacement for Ming, a first time MP fine, but a first time MP younger than me? Actually, that could work.
I still want Lynne to run.
Lyne Featherstone?
🙂
As a Conservative, I would be over the moon if you chose Featherstone!
This seems a perfectly obvious statement for Ming to make. We have talented femal MP’s. Seems to be a bit too revolutionary for some though…
Next there’ll be suggestions that one day we could even see a BME MP even going for Leader!
I’d be all in favour of a woman leader, but with one important proviso. She absolutely has to be good looking. At present, I’m not sure I can see where the “talent” lies within the Westminster lady MPs.
“We have talented female MPs”
Yes, but Julia Goldsworthy isn’t one of them.
Laurence (at 5), you are naughty, but I did giggle.
So the media have spent this conference talking about a leadership contest that exists only in their pikaian brains. But not content with that, some of them are now waxing their carrots about the next fictitious leadership contest after this fictitious leadership contest.
Perhaps there’ll be a BME candidate too? No?
Someone that didn’t slide in via posh upbringing, millions in bank and Brussels?
But no to Goldswothy, no to the millionairess, no to that crashing and burning end of her Teather woman.
Ming must mean Kramer surely? Surely?
Didn’t Maggie only become leader because she challenged a sitting male leader who was perceived as a failure when everyone else thought it better to wait though 🙂
Yes, Thatcher wasn’t exactly nurtured by the Conservative Party. She was nominated against Heath by the hard right of the party because none of the obvious candidates had a chance, all of them being barking, and she was a marginal enough figure not to have made enemies within the faction. (They might also have thought that they could control her if she won. Ha ha ha.) And allegedly Airey Neave fixed the election so that she beat Heath.
The Tories in Cornwall appear to be panicking about the chances of Julia becoming Leader. On Conservative Home leader page they are frantic about the headlines this will create in the Cornish papers, especially just before a possible Election.
Julia seems to be very popular on her home patch, and her friend,the newcomer Teverson seems to be getting there on the Truro/Falmouth scene.
Julia Goldsworthy has been my favourite for the next leader for a while (or leader after next). She’s the closest thing we have to a normal human being on our front benches but she certainly needs some more time and assistance to become real leadership material.
Lynne to stand. She has the ability, the commitment, the common touch, and the work rate.
“the newcomer Teverson”
Hardly a newcomer – she fought Falmouth and Camborne in 92 and 97.
It will be good for the cornish liberal democrats in the run up for an early general election because the Cornish Media, especially the weekly papers will indulge in a feeding frenzy, which is great publicity.
If and it is an If, Julia stands against two men she has a good chance in being a woman.
I bet the cornish conservatives are anxious with the publicity.
perhaps we wont have a woman running, perhaps we will. Its certainly a possibility considering how bloody good our few women MPs are in comparison to most of the men. I thought Jo Swinson was very good at conference although I do have a certain admiration for Susan Kramer.