I like him :) Thoughts?

He appears to be an improvement on his predecessors (sp) think I need to see bit more of him in 'action' so to speak ;)

Yea seems an OK kind of guy but then I have thought that about a few of the many leaders that have whizzed past us.  Maybe this one will deal with the real problem of modernising the party enough to make it remotely possible to accomodate the 21st century within their scope :)

He's OK.  But when the 2 Davids debated, he always seems very vague and non committal - just like a politician!!  David Davis seemed much more straightforward and I felt that I might have voted for him! :(

He looks too much like one of my friends who, although hugely intelligent, has absolutely no common sense or social skills! I think David Davis is more straightforward ... but I still think William Hague was the most sensible leader of any party for a long time. But 'the voters' apparently aren't interested in sense, just who's got the most hair. :rolleyes:

No no no - they need someone with charisma, a bit of flair, younger - David Davis didn't inspire me at all!

Robbie Williams, then? Or shall we stick with people who might vaguely know something about how to run a country? ;) :D :D (Don't forget I'm at 'that age' where many politicians are younger than me and policemen are barely out of nappies! I find it hard to put too much faith in someone who wasn't born till I was in senior school!)

I'd vote for Robbie :D

IMO the conservatives have had too many boringly predictable leaders. In order to appeal to the younger voters they need someone inspiring to take on a tired looking Blair. Either that or they continue to appear as the pensioner party :D

>the pensioner party

LOL! Yep, that's the one for me! Run by people who can spell and do sums! :D :D

Yep, join me up too!!  And they encourage people to work and be responsible for themselves, and then help those who really can't!  Just about the way that I have lived my life! :)

You don't have to be a pensioner to be responsible for yourself, or to support the theory :D

Hold on Clo - I'm not a bl**dy pensioner (quite) yet!!! :) :) :) LOL

Val, you are one person I would NOT put at pensioner age! LOL :D

What I am saying is that you don't have to have a party full of coffin dogers in order to be any good :D

I'm a recycled teenager with my tie dyed velvet skirt and music festivals!! :) 
I'm still sincerely struggling to find a political party that suits me these days though - and I do try very hard. :(

I'm sure occasionally a first-former's capable of being Head Prefect, but I'm not sure he's one of them!

:)  AH but I'm 'old' Chloe and I can recognise and value experience and wisdom!! ;)  And I think that our politicians need that too.......
For instance, I'm not at all happy thinking about John Prescott representing ME abroad!! :(

I agree. But its no use having experience and wisdom if no-one listens to you and you can't inspire folks to take notice. Lets have an inspirational leader and an experienced cabinet ;) Isn't that why he's bringing Hague back?

Tupperware toys Chloe, that's what we need!!  So that we can put together the bits that we want! 
I might even get married again if I could build a Tupperware husband!! ;(  Second thoughts, maybe not!  I like the way that I live now!! :(

I liked William Hague, a lot, very witty and clever man, and would have certainly voted for him, hair or no hair, but for the small fact he came with the Conservative party attached :p :D

Hague's one of the very few politicians I'd enjoy chatting to in the pub. I bet it'd be a fantastically interesting and amusing evening. :)

I always thought Michael Portillo would have been a very charismatic leader, think I was the only one who did tho lol :)

No, I liked Michael Portillo :D

I'm a Michael Portillo fan too. I love his late night 'This Week' with Diane Abbott :)

Daisy

That's really interesting because I find him so slimy that I don't even listen to what he's saying!!
Are you all under 40?????? :)

No :D I didn't think much of him when he was more in the political eye :) However, after watching him on 'This Week' I've been quite impressed :) Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't have wanted him as PM tho' :D

Daisy

:D wish I was under 40 Val ;) There was just something about him I liked

Val,

I'm under 40 and I find Michael Portillo incredibly slimy, yeuch, I shivered even thinking about him.......

I must say I like David Cameron, hopefully he will bring a more modern outlook to the Conservative party, if Ken Clarke had got in, it would have been cigars & jobs for the boys.    The fact that David Cameron is a younger man with a young family, another on the way, will hopefully make him keep his feet on the ground.

I think David Cameron is just what the Conservative Party need, he is a breath of fresh air, Im 21 and have voted ever since I could. Im interested in how our country is run, so have always kept in touch with politics. I think that the Conservatives should be thrilled with their new leader, hopefully he will drag the party out from the dark ages, and put it in a very strong position for the next election. Howard was the worst possible leader, and gave the party a bad rep. Hopefully Cameron will move the party onwards and upwards.

Rachel

I've totally lost faith in the whole politics fiasco.  You don't really see their true colours until they are under pressure so I am going to reserve judgement for now. 

I'm cross at the moment about the fact the local paper has announced the intended closure of one of our secondary schools.  This school was brilliant and the second most popular school out of 7 in this town up until the last head teacher left through ill-health.  Now it's on special measures so they are closing it rather than finding someone who has the experience to turn it back round.  If it's anything like other school closures in the past they will sell the land to developers and a few streets of houses will appear.  Great, but where will the children go to school?

Did anyone see in the Daily Mail sometime this week about one of the top performing primary schools. I cant remember how old the children were, but they were at the same stage as 11 years olds. I think the kids were about 8 or something like that, but they were at the same academic level as 11 year olds. The head teacher actually said that they dont follow what the goverment sets out. This head teacher said that it was rediculous what the government gave them to do. So the school did its own thing, it obviously works!

Rachel

I just think it's scary - one day he could be the Prime Minister...............and he's younger than me !!!!.
Had to happen I guess - just like policemen !.
Anyway, nice to have some new(ish) names and faces.

Val

Hmm, OH's boss' children go to private schools and he thinks that the main difference between private and state is that state schools tend to teach to pass the national curriculum which constrains the teaching to those standards if you see what I mean.  Not saying that all private school are good because I know they're not but I do think he has a point.  I have seen my own children underachieve at school while teachers try and improve the grades of those children who are struggling.  I was so frustrated with my eldest child's progress that I asked the teacher for information on the subjects she was teaching so that I could help my daughter at home.  The teacher said that if I did that then my daughter would already know the subjects before she (the teacher) came to teach them

William Hague is and was one of the brightset politicians seen in the past 30 years IMHO :)

Yes, agree :) I'm glad that he is back, although I wish that he could have been persuaded to stand as leader of the party :)

Daisy

Sadly too many people judge a politician by their looks rather than their ability :( Have they never heard the saying good looks and no brains ;)

I'm not good looking :D :D

Daisy

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LOL :D :D :D

Daisy

I certainly agree with you liberty - I'd much rather have clever man than a handsome man - but there are limits when it comes to slimy ones!! :D

I've always thought that running a business is like running a home efficiently.  If you run an efficient home you should be able to run a successful business!  And running the country is like running a (bigger) company efficiently, and so successful business should make a good job of running the country.  But tolerating those who aren't prepared (not able!) to contribute and having to be seen to be politically correct all the time, and making allowances for ego trips seems to make it just too difficult! :(

Well that a good enough pitch for me, Val, I'm voting for you as next PM :)

Thanks Isabel!  I reckon that with counting yours, I could probably rustle up about 6 votes!  I think that I may lose my deposit at that rate!!

Shame, would have been a bit of a coup for Champdogs don't you think :)

I have liked him since he was first put forward :) Hopefully he will pull the Conservatives forward :)

DC is our local MP and I can assure you he is an extremely likable man who with it is very intelligent and articulate and I have no doubt will be the next Conservative Prime Minister ;)

I haven't met him personally but know a lot of people who have and have heard nothing but praise about what a breath of fresh air and enthusiastic person he is and how he wants to make a difference :)

HI LJS

I am in witney to, he is our local MP.  I emailed him the other day to ask him about helpping us sort out a problem we have regards to discrimination when wanting to adopt as all the local authorities turned us down because where gay. However this is well against the govenments standards.  He emailed back within 35mins and stated he had already got on the case and was writing us a letter to the minister responsible.  I think that response is fantastic.  Hope he can help us but well impressed so far.