So we just need two more contenders (by my count) declaring they're in the race, and then the newspapers can go mad with headlines like "the dirty dozen"*, or a cartoon of Da Vinci's Last Supper...
I know who would play Judas as the dining count goes up
Kit Brewery, who couldn't organise an event in a malthouse. Mind you, that applies to virtually all the candidates, though I'd make an honourable exception with Rory Stewart, not that he's going to get any more votes than Dr Fox did in the last two contests.
And there is a lot of difference between Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister. Prime Ministers make decisions, Leaders of the Opposition tell them they made the wrong decisions.
One problem that the new PM has is that there will be a number (9 at the current rate) of defeated candidates, several of whom will not be happy bunnies. Cameron only had 3, one was Ken Clarke, a fairly affable fellow who would have taken defeat well. Any slip ups and the same backstabbing that has dogged the present PM will, I suspect, return in spades. At least some experience of making vital decisions under pressure would he helpful. I can't remember Cameron having to make the sort of defining decisions that Blair and Brown made, except perhaps the referendum which he gambled and lost.
To be fair several of them are only really standing to make sure they have leverage to get a job in the new cabinet, and of the 9 I suspect half of them won't need to be seriously bought off anyway. Keep an eye out though, because one of the also-rans may well end up in Transport.
Closer and closer ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48439908 )
The only one that I could contemplate voting for is Rory Stewart - he actually seems to think about what he is about to say. Unfortunately for him, I am never likely to be in that position. To be honest, I think he will struggle to get to Dr Fox's numbers - the type of MPs who would support him have left the party.
Oh, the former. I think he might get more than three. Faroe Islands, Chile and someone else if I recall. Good job he's not on 'payment by results'. If they manage to put Brexit off until the next decade, he might make double figures. Sadly, I don't think Mr Stewart will make much more than just into double figures.
Plenty of own goals!
If Mr Rees-Mogg entered the fray he would surely play Right Back (in Victorian times).
That's true at face value, but most are in there to stand down later in order to support another candidate and get a seat in cabinet as reward.
I reckon it will go to extra time and then penalties to go back to the football analogy .
One way to look at it is every time the deadline is extended, we are still in the EU and the speculators pushing the 'leave at any cost' (ours) aren't getting their way.
Of course, - maybe I should have put an emoji with a really big grin at the end of the line.
