Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
^^^^ this

I thought this whole sorry episode needed one of the " hard brexitters " to step forward before the vote and say " this is how its going to be, I will stand, lets do this " instead you had Mogg standing in the shadows looking like the snake he is

maybe i was expecting too much of a politician
They likely wouldn't get on the ballot anyway. The moderates (not a word I would use for people pushing the privatisation of the school system or clapping along to the rollout of toxic benefit reform) would organise and split their vote to keep someone like mogg out of the running. Maybe this is a good thing in some people's eyes (see Corbyn) but it does mean that the leader is unlikely to be representative of the membership.