So farewell then, Michael Gove. You were right about one thing

[LeftishBrit]

he Conservative party doesn’t do carriage clocks for people like Michael Gove. They just get a note reading “You have outlived your usefulness” and a five minute head-start on the hounds....

Yes, the results are in: Theresa May 199, Andrea Leadsom 84, Michael Gove 46. Without wishing to go out on a limb here, it seems his parliamentary colleagues have had enough of the expert-slasher Michael Gove. He has emerged from the Houses of Parliament to salute the assured advent of a “female prime minister”, and explain how proud he was to have spent the past week contributing to the debate by arguing for the most vulnerable. Unfortunately, the most vulnerable has now been eliminated....

Still, at least Gove has achieved his repeatedly stated ambition of not wanting to be prime minister. It looked touch-and-go for a bit, what with there being one key group Michael had yet to formally alienate in the course of his treachery accumulator: namely, Conservative party members...



Not only has he killed the matinee idol of the Tory shires, Boris Johnson, but he has insulted the membership. The upshot for Gove – who was already polling among Tory members as slightly less trustworthy than Marshal Pétain – is that he should probably never visit the countryside again.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/farewell-michael-gove-traitor-prime-minister

(One of the few good things to come out of this mess is the humiliation of Gove!)

[TubbersUK]

1. Thanks, I enjoyed that n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Back in the day, he would've been drawn, hung and quartered.

He deserves it, but I would never personally advocate for such cruel and unusual punishment.

[T_i_B]

3. At the start of the contest I thought he would win it

However, he seemed to be running solely to scupper Boris Johnson's leadership bid.