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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 24 2019, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-change,-again dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49084605

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...


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:18PM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:18PM (#870673) Journal

    What it meant was, the people were given an opportunity to feel important, while the politicians decided what they were actually going to do. Very much like the US, don't you see?

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:29PM (6 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:29PM (#870680)

    Yup. Look up selectorate theory, in particular the nominal selectorate vs. the real selectorate. In the US case, for example, the nominal selectorate is the Republican rank and file, the real selectorate are the rich, and large corporates.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:36PM (3 children)

      by driverless (4770) on Wednesday July 24 2019, @02:36PM (#870683)

      Forgot to add: As the winning candidate, your primary task is to reward the real selectorate, the ones that count, and you can safely ignore the nominal selectorate, in the sense of not needing to give them anything except platitudes, since they don't count for much, thus "nominal" vs. "real".

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:41PM (1 child)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:41PM (#870714) Journal

      Sounds reasonable, but I don't know why you single out Republicans. Democrats do the same thing but with a different set of favored multinationals.

      • (Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday July 25 2019, @08:41PM

        by DeVilla (5354) on Thursday July 25 2019, @08:41PM (#871248)

        I was assuming the idea was the republicans are in the white house right now and 4 years ago it would have been the democrats. Maybe I'm incorrectly assuming the post even handed.