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A useful Guardian piece on Gove from 2012:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/05/michael-gove-next-tory-leader

If you have never met the secretary of state for education, and do not vote Tory, you may well be of the view that Gove is a nasty little rightwinger with a reactionary vision to return Britain to the 1950s. If so, the description I hear from practically everyone who has ever crossed his path will sound unrecognisable.

"I have only nice things to say about him," is the preface I hear time and again. Gove is, Chris Huhne says, "The politest man in the House of Commons. Incredibly well-mannered. Much more so than people who come from grander backgrounds." A senior Labour figure tells me, "The truth is, he doesn't act like a Tory. He is far too decent. He's in politics for all the right reasons." The political columnist Matthew d'Ancona agrees: "He is just an incredibly nice guy. A lot of people are very nice guys, 'but' – and with politicians that can have a very big capital B. But he is an absolutely nice guy. He's not a fair-weather friend at all, he's fundamentally loyal, he is a very empathetic character and very solicitous of people's feelings. I'm yet to come away from a gathering where he hasn't charmed everybody in the room. Michael is a very ironic and incredibly good at taking the piss out of himself; he's one of those people you hope will be at dinner."
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Gove is someone who would push this through however disastrous it promises to be, being clever enough to persuade himself that it won't be. Very, very dangerous.
 
CapelDodger said:
Whatever happens now we can all savour Boris Johnson getting shafted.
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But is he though......

His punishment for abandoning his previously stated position, throwing his lot in with racists and little-Englanders, throwing the entire country under the bus to further his (somewhat thwarted) political ambitions is that some other ****** will have to preside over the Brexit debacle and Johnson can continue his lucrative journalistic career whilst waiting for another opportunity :mad:
 
Michael Gove already has a 0% approval rating due to how he handled education. It's most likely going to be May.
 
Boris is being clever as someone already posted someone else will get to eat the **** sandwich.
 
You may be right.

Theresa May is proposing a cabinet-level government department for extracting us from the EU. If she wins the leadership, seldom will a cabinet appointment outside of the three big offices of state be scrutinised so carefully as who she appoints for that role. It may be a more important job than the Chancellor.
 
MikeG said:
You may be right.

Theresa May is proposing a cabinet-level government department for extracting us from the EU. If she wins the leadership, seldom will a cabinet appointment outside of the three big offices of state be scrutinised so carefully as who she appoints for that role. It may be a more important job than the Chancellor.
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She'll appoint Dominic Raab. I'm never wrong on these matters.
 
MikeG said:
You think any of the others won't? Remain lost, you know.
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But they will tackle the job with distinctly varying degrees of enthusiasm, and of course they could always hold a 2nd referendum on the Brexit terms themselves.
 
Garrison said:
But they will tackle the job with distinctly varying degrees of enthusiasm, and of course they could always hold a 2nd referendum on the Brexit terms themselves.
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Er, the UK will not be able to insist on the terms. What do we think we're going to say to the rest of the EU? "Give us what we demand or we'll change our minds and remain!"?
 
I hope that photo of Gove sitting in a child's chair haunts his campaign. On the other hand, he is an absolute gift to impressionists with his variety of expressions and his resemblance to Pob.
 

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GlennB said:
Er, the UK will not be able to insist on the terms. What do we think we're going to say to the rest of the EU? "Give us what we demand or we'll change our minds and remain!"?
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I think Garrison means the deal as it stands when the deadline looms and it's time to poop or get off the pot.
 
The Don said:
But is he though......

His punishment for abandoning his previously stated position, throwing his lot in with racists and little-Englanders, throwing the entire country under the bus to further his (somewhat thwarted) political ambitions is that some other ****** will have to preside over the Brexit debacle and Johnson can continue his lucrative journalistic career whilst waiting for another opportunity :mad:
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There'll be no other opportunity, and we'll see how his journalistic career prospers when he's clearly over the hump.
 
The Don said:
As his time as education secretary showed, pretty ******* stupid.
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I don't think so. I think he's quite a bright chap. However, his public persona is poor, his manner (whilst ultra-polite) is just odd, and he has rubbed people up the wrong way whichever department he has been in. There wouldn't be a teacher in the country who would vote for him, for instance, after his time at the DofE.
 
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