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Murdoch: "If Cameron doesn't win majority, he's for the chop"
Ouch. Murdoch piling the pressure on Cameron with this Tweet:
Who would be your choice to replace him if it happens? I would say Boris but having seen his shambles of a performance on Marr this morning I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not even sure about May after her ridiculous comment about the SNP. Osbourne seems quite divisive too. Is anyone else in the running, do we know?
@rupertmurdoch: UK. Failure to win majority against either Brown in crisis or Miliband would mean chop for Cameron. Open talk today in party and press.
Who would be your choice to replace him if it happens? I would say Boris but having seen his shambles of a performance on Marr this morning I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not even sure about May after her ridiculous comment about the SNP. Osbourne seems quite divisive too. Is anyone else in the running, do we know?
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Despite some controversy I'd stil say it would be May who gets the nod
@Rupertmurdoch :UK. Likely approximate outcome, far from certain - Con 294 seats, Lab 265, SNP 48, LD. 25, odds 18. Everything still to tight for!
Murdoch is losing his grip.
There won't be a Labour/SNP government. Miliband has ruled out any deals with the Scottish Nationalists and we must take him as a man of his word or call him a liar.
As for Cameron, I think he'll go if the Tories can't form a majority. I can't stand Boris Johnson, and his performance this morning was an embarrassment. But then I suspect, like Jeremy Clarkson, he'd be popular enough with certain sections of the UK.
It seems that the press ability to sway elections may be overestimated...
How could anyone be "in the running"? There is no vacancy.
She has the charm, the intellect and her own tin foil hat...
http://i.imgur.com/gzdvMyP.jpg
He looks like a leader, acts like a leader, speaks like a leader and copes very well under pressure. He is relatively young, which is what the Conservatives need image-wise and experienced.
In my opinion, the reason the Tories didn't quite beat Gordon Brown and are struggling to beat Miliband is because the party itself (not the leader) has a very very bad reputation in the north of England and Scotland. The unpopular cuts to just about everything hasn't helped matters and the Tories will be blamed for them - not Labour who largely caused the problems in the first place.
I think Hunt and May will go for it.
The problem for the Tories is that Cameron is more popular than the party. So they do need to plan their next move carefully.
I thought that was obvious when Murdoch only swung from Conservative to Labour in the 90s after they became truly unelectable, and back again in 2007-8 when Brown bottled it, didn't have that election, and became a lame duck prime minister hanging on until the last minute.
Personally I like it when people go on about Cameron as if he's BFFs with Murdoch and that Miliband wouldn't do such a thing (except when he's peddled the Sun)
There will be no FORMAL Lab/SNP/Green coalition. That's obvious.
Boris is hopeless. The tories have no 'quality' in their ranks. No normal people...apart from Ruth Davidson. Whilst I disagree with her politics, she comes across as a decent, normal human being.
I disagree. It doesn't take long for the 'mister nice guy' mask to slip to reveal a not so 'mister nice guy'.
The terrible tories have a bad, bad reputation across the country. It goes across boundaries, regions and countries.
Arrogant megalomaniac -piss off & stop thinking you own the UK!
He really does think he's in charge, and he's kind-of right, with the vast influence he has through a large chunk of UK media. He's in fear of Labour getting in and forcing through anti-monopoly rules for the media, so desperate times call for desperate measures.
He possibly hopes that if there is a minority Labour government, there could be a vote of no confidence after a quick change of Tory leader, and before such legislation could be pushed through. It would be telling which other parties would risk supporting the move.
It hasn't stopped him from being elected as London Mayor twice in a city that it predominantly Labour voting.
i can see the Murdoch press (and all right wing press) continuing their support the Tories because they will be very vocal in trying to get the right leader and once their poll ratings improve and the Government starts looking a bit shakey, there is a probabilty a no confidence motion could be brought upon the government. The right wing press will love that scenario. If they swing towards Labour, it will be only after Labour have won a majority.