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Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".
Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.
"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.
"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."
Any other comments would be editorializing...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:01PM (21 children)
Idiots on this site???? In my memory, it was the idiots on CNN, MSNBC, and half a dozen other MSM news outlets. The more they ranted and raved about Trump, the higher his ratings went. MSM could have just shut up about Trump, and let him dry up, and blow away. But, no, they had to run at the mouth, and thereby ensure his election.
I was pulling for Dr. Carson!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:07PM (6 children)
Even at the height of the hype train, Trump could still look like a sane alternative to complete madmen like Carson or Cruz. The Republicans did this to themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:26PM
I don't think Trump was ever the saner alternative to much of anything. Most of his appeal is that he's not all that sane.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 24 2019, @04:05PM (3 children)
I've heard arguments against Carson that made sense, whether I agreed to them, or not. Your claim that Carson was/is a madman is somewhere out in the Twilight Zone. Of all the potential candidates in that election, Carson was probably the most sane, and most stable of the lot. And, I'm talking about BOTH parties here. You can argue politics all you like, but accusations of being mad, or crazy, should be reserved for those many SOB's who are definitely crazy. Like, Trump and Clinton, for instance. Cruz? Ehhhh - he has his faults, but he's not nearly as crazy as either Trump or Clinton.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @04:30PM (1 child)
Being crazy doesn't necessarily make him a worse choice than Trump or Clinton. But anyone that thinks the pyramids were grain silos is not playing with a full deck.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @05:06PM
Not to mention Ben Carson shilling for Mannatech: [sciencebasedmedicine.org]
Carson has not been all there since he quit brain surgery. Something wrong with his brain, something that turned him into a Black Republican. Kanye may have the same disease.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:22PM
Of course Dr. Carson was the most stable. He was asleep half the time, so he had slower reaction times to the news cycle's political crisis of the hour and less awake time to attempt something crazy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:25PM
And he will again when he runs against Pete Fruitijudge, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker or Beto O'Rourke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:07PM (1 child)
Where do you think the MSM get their ideas?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 25 2019, @12:33PM
Themselves. Look at how rapidly various weird phrases spread about. My favorite was the "ultra-loyal" Republican Guard of the old Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq in the months prior to the start of the Iraqi invasion in 2003. Sure, the US-led force could roll over the mundane troops of that regime, but what would happen when they met these highly trained troops, ultra-loyal to Saddam himself? Turns out they would roll over those guys too. Ultra-loyalty didn't amount to much.
Maybe the phrase was coined in some ministry of information somewhere, but it spread because other talking heads were using the phrase.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:03PM
So, you cut your face off to spite the face?
I think that is a definition of an idiot - an American voter!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:39PM (5 children)
Trouble is, all these party officials and media company employees and so forth live in a bit of a bubble, and they badly miscalculated which candidate was actually unelectable and which was only electable if running against the other.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 24 2019, @05:51PM (4 children)
And the DAILY "but her emails" stories? Were those part of the conspiracy too?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday July 24 2019, @05:59PM (3 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:08PM (2 children)
Oh, how convenient.
Any and all counter evidence simply doesn't count. Let me know when you find a True Scotsman.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Arik on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:13PM (1 child)
I'm in that unpopular 'reality based community' so that's what would impress me. Not the ease with which you interpret my viewpoint as disingenuous, seemingly without any evidence or reason beyond the fact that it doesn't agree with your own.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @07:17PM
Here you see the sheeple gently grazing on the grass genetically altered to boost stupidity.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:55PM
Likely they either took their cues from HRC (or took marching orders directly) to elevate Trump. It was probably a good plan because she and her team must have (or should have) known how much people despised her. Wasn't enough though: people hated HRC so much they voted for someone they hated more. (wish I could remember who to attribute that to -- brilliant quip).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @04:30PM
You were? Have you actually seen this idiot in action? [cbsnews.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @05:02PM
Yeah, we can only have one idiot on this site, and the job is already taken. G'day, Runaway!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @06:20PM (1 child)
Yes I remember this too. "TRUMP" was trending topic anywhere that there was a trending topic. He was way behind in the polls and yet it was buzzfeed and other shitty news sites that wouldn't shut up about him. All these "influencers" seemed to have patreon at the time. I personally think that russians were paying irrelevant SJWs. If you look at the same people these days they're still humping that dead horse like they expect the money to fall from the sky again but it never does. Anita recently got laughed out of the room after trying to shake down cyberpunk 2077.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 25 2019, @01:47AM
Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency Nonprofit Is Broke [hotair.com]. Needs a factcheck, domain's at least been around since 1995. It could just be a bunch of hot air, after all.