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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2022 11:26:13 GMT
I have not heard anyone say Boris is failing, at all. The point of an alternative will probably be responsible for that, if there was someone Boris would have been toast already. Certainly most of the cabinet have ruled themselves out apart from comedic value. Waiting for Prattly Patel to chuck her name in there as replacement but who on earth would second etc, her candidacy?
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2022 13:22:54 GMT
If I had a vote in the matter, it would be awfully tempting to vote for Voldermogg. Obviously in the interests of ensuring the Tory grave is fully dug.
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 24, 2022 15:22:43 GMT
I think his retention on post is due to a couple of things:
1. He is so publicly recognised that whoever follows will be invisible.
2. He’s left the wider party position is such a place that whoever comes in is the one who will be seen at fault for whatever happens at the next election.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jul 5, 2022 18:34:44 GMT
Surely it must be over now?
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 5, 2022 19:15:13 GMT
Nah. Hell will freeze over before Mrs B-J (I believe that’s what she’s know as below stairs) allows him to step aside of his own accord.
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Post by Alex on Jul 5, 2022 20:19:49 GMT
Nah. Hell will freeze over before Mrs B-J (I believe that’s what she’s know as below stairs) allows him to step aside of his own accord. Only way he leave no 10 is kicking and screaming with his fingernails gouging out the paint on the doorframe! |
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 5, 2022 22:37:44 GMT
Indeed. He will have to be dragged out squealing like the delinquent porker he is.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 6, 2022 7:46:31 GMT
Just Park have sent me my parking reminder for today. Basically it’s opposite the green alongside the Lords. I might just hang about with my camera as it’s PMQs. 😆
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Post by PetrolEd on Jul 6, 2022 8:33:40 GMT
Well I did think that the resignations of two high profile positions would be enough to force his arm but it seems that Bozza is more then prepared to go down with the sinking ship. Seems Zahawi is putting career ahaead of the country.
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 6, 2022 10:10:27 GMT
Craig Oliver, former comms director for Cameron, has been on air saying that Johnson previously told him it would take a flamethrower to remove him from Downing St.
If nothing else this is an interesting and timely stress-test of our unwritten constitutional principles.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 6, 2022 10:39:18 GMT
Craig Oliver, former comms director for Cameron, has been on air saying that Johnson previously told him it would take a flamethrower to remove him from Downing St. If nothing else this is an interesting and timely stress-test of our unwritten constitutional principles. I suspect there will come a point where he'll claim squatters' rights. |
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Post by Tim on Jul 6, 2022 11:22:57 GMT
Craig Oliver, former comms director for Cameron, has been on air saying that Johnson previously told him it would take a flamethrower to remove him from Downing St. If nothing else this is an interesting and timely stress-test of our unwritten constitutional principles. I suspect there will come a point where he'll claim squatters' rights. I think he'll need to be removed by the police. Not the Met though, obviously...... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2022 11:36:55 GMT
That would be the job of the The Parliamentary Security Department (https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/bicameral/parliamentary-security-department/) although they are themselves overseen by the Met.
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Post by Alex on Jul 6, 2022 17:53:56 GMT
Craig Oliver, former comms director for Cameron, has been on air saying that Johnson previously told him it would take a flamethrower to remove him from Downing St. If nothing else this is an interesting and timely stress-test of our unwritten constitutional principles. I suspect there will come a point where he'll claim squatters' rights. Maybe he's just waiting for Carrie to finish steaming the gold wallpaper of their bedroom walls. At the rate of resignations we're seeing today his cabinet is starting to look more like a worn out Billy bookcase! |
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 6, 2022 18:14:00 GMT
It’s his categoric refusal to accept the facts staring him in the face that cause most concern. He’s bonkers, basically. The MP he made chancellor yesterday has tonight attended his house to urge him to resign. Is there a message there?
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Post by PG on Jul 6, 2022 18:47:48 GMT
It’s his categoric refusal to accept the facts staring him in the face that cause most concern. He’s bonkers, basically. The MP he made chancellor yesterday has tonight attended his house to urge him to resign. Is there a message there? He does give a very good impression of somebody who has become delusional. If he goes on much longer saying that everything is fine and he won't resign, the easiest way to remove him would be t have him sectioned under the Mental Health Act. |
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Post by Alex on Jul 6, 2022 20:33:13 GMT
Gove sacked for telling him to go. How long can it go on like this?
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 6, 2022 20:34:07 GMT
I might have to stay up all night with the news on. Boris has gone Radio so it can’t be long until he rides a horse, naked, down Whitehall firing a gun in the air!
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Post by Roadrunner on Jul 6, 2022 21:16:26 GMT
It’s his categoric refusal to accept the facts staring him in the face that cause most concern. He’s bonkers, basically. The MP he made chancellor yesterday has tonight attended his house to urge him to resign. Is there a message there? He does give a very good impression of somebody who has become delusional. If he goes on much longer saying that everything is fine and he won't resign, the easiest way to remove him would be t have him sectioned under the Mental Health Act. I have been wondering at what point is he either arrested or taken away in a straitjacket? Either that, or Brenda has to step in and do something. I understand she has returned from Sandringham to either Windsor or Buckingham Palace to be a bit more adjacent. |
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 6, 2022 21:22:44 GMT
I refer to my last remark!
I thought his performance towards the end of the Liaison Committee hearing was simultaneously hopeless and worrying.
It takes a lot for me to side with Bernard Jenkin, but his questioning of Johnson was bang on the money.
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 7, 2022 8:14:48 GMT
Looks like he’s finally woken up and smelt the coffee. Reports coming in on WhatsApp that he will resign and now BBC is running it too.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jul 7, 2022 8:15:43 GMT
Well apparently he's gone. Hoorah, lets bring on the next nutter.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 7, 2022 8:47:08 GMT
He has resigned as leader but the era of buffoonery continues over the summer as he remains PM for the contest.
Who reckons he’ll stand for post?
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Post by Blarno on Jul 7, 2022 9:07:56 GMT
See ya Bozza, you spineless shitbasket, self-serving, useless bag of piss and wind.
Now we have the agonising wait for whichever deranged halfwit subhuman takes his place.
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Post by Alex on Jul 7, 2022 16:45:02 GMT
What an awful resignation speech. Just more bluster about getting brexit done and the vaccine roll out with no apologies for the utter fuckwittery which landed him in this position. Now we have two months or more with a lame duck sitting in office unable to make any decisions or to hold any sort of cabinet together. He should just go now not hang around like a fart in a lift car.
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Post by Martin on Jul 7, 2022 16:47:05 GMT
It was more of a celebration speech than a resignation, not even a hint of an apology or taking any responsibility.
Agree he needs to go asap.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 7, 2022 18:15:21 GMT
Boris has never been one for taking responsibility. I think his speech was driven more by his desire to say “I wanted to be remembered as one of the great PMs of the era: one who Got Brexit Done; kept us all alive with a vaccine roll-out; captured red-wall seats through my charismatic approach to government and created a market where there were more vacancies than candidates. Instead I’ll be remembered as a scruffy buffoon who got pissed up with my mates when I told everyone they weren’t allowed to, defended a couple of perverts, spunked a load of cash on some wallpaper and thought everything was tickety-boo. As it is I won’t mention that last sentence and hope the history books don’t bother with it as it’s not in my resignation speech.”
Whatever we say about him a life of wealth of privilege continues on for him.
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Post by Alex on Jul 7, 2022 21:13:47 GMT
It is actually a bit of a shame that he's gone this way given his achievements. He did obliterate the Labour stronghold on the North (admittedly with Corbyns help), he did get Brexit done (badly I'll grant you and probably in a way that means it isn't really done, but done nonetheless) and he did get the vaccine supply right (just don't mention the toll on the nations mental health his blundering approach to lockdown has taken) and to be fair he has been seen internationally to be much stronger in his stance on Russia than the French and Germans which means a lot to many of our fellow Brits.
But at the end of the day he has finally been called out for being the Big Billy Bullshitter that he is and has been throughout a political career which will see him be studied by historians as the ultimate example of failing to the top.
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 7, 2022 21:21:24 GMT
That's where I'm at. His dishonesty makes his position untenable.
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Post by Alex on Jul 7, 2022 22:03:45 GMT
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