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Deserves credit.
I chickened out of the dad pun, and edited my post. Thanks for the nod though RM.
Oh, and funkmasterp, don’t do yourself down. You might make a great PM!
They’re knocking up a complete new plan for the economy tonight which he’s announcing tomorrow.
So that’ll be brill.
They’re knocking up a complete new plan for the economy tonight which he’s announcing tomorrow.
Presumably based on the savings from not having any ministers...
Does anyone know, is "buoyant" a media euphemism for enjoying Columbia's finest? The Guardian reports that:
'Buoyant' Johnson determined to 'fight on'
Gove's been fired!
hahhaa, amazing. 😆
He'll probably declare war on the Russians tonight.
Will vacant be next to be fired?
Anyone knowledgeable enough to diagnose his underlying condition? Narcissist? Sociopath? Psychopath? The man is unhinged
He's just the product of an extremely privileged upbringing where he's always got his own way, never heard the word "No" and has never been held accountable for his actions. Same as Trump. Lie, cheat, bully, it doesn't matter. In his eyes he's done nothing wrong.
Gove’s been fired!
I actually laughed out loud hearing this. The whole shebang is a gift which keeps on giving.
Gove’s been fired!
Apart from previous history, I wonder what marks him out from the others that went to see him this evening. Do you think he was the only one with the balls to actually go through with saying what he thought when in the room alone with him?
too slow 🙂
I should imagine the least surprised person in the country is Gove.
That's put Gove up in my estimations
Presumably Kwarteng also to be fired, as being public about calling him to go.
Patel and Zahawi are reportedly privately telling him to go; is that enough to fire them. Zahawi in ca 24hrs would be hilarious.
Does he have enough people to take on the (proper) cabinet jobs now? Never mind the dozens of private secretaries, etc.
Such petulance
Anyone knowledgeable enough to diagnose his underlying condition? Narcissist? Sociopath? Psychopath? The man is unhinged
I believe all those labels now are considered personality disorders. Sociopath is just a mild psychopath
I would say he has narcissistic personality disorder. Common in politics and buisness and probably caused by his upbringing. Eton is a very damaging environment
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/narcissistic-p
The rest of the world must think we are absolutely ****ing mental as a country with Brexit and our politics.
Ha brilliant, it just keeps getting better.
Hopefully wake up to a £1000 grant. Good old Boris.
Does anyone know, is “buoyant” a media euphemism for enjoying Columbia’s finest?
I'd never thought of that before!
41 resignations and one sacked gove
AND a partridge in a pear tree
Smell my cheddar.
I’d never thought of that before
Gone full scarface.
The nightmare scenario is that Starmer gets fined by Durham police early next week and resigns along with Rayner.
Johnson calls GE in desperation. Tories Tory and enough go along with GE against leaderless Labour party.
Johnson gets back in an the whole circus goes round again
Could be better than that. Imagine if sks gets a fine but not rayner. That would be great
Tories Tory and enough go along with GE against leaderless Labour party.
Would that mean Johnson fighting a Labour Party with Miliband as a stand in leader?
I vote for chaos with Ed Miliband.
There it is!
https://twitter.com/mrjondeplume/status/1544771621566746627?s=21&t=L1d-_X6z91og5XiuiQWIjg
Edit - Beaten to it!
The rest of the world must think we are absolutely **** mental
Trust me, they are looking at this and brexit and just laughing at us.
The UK govenment has collapsed, what we need is an emergency interim cross-party govenernment. I belive there are mechanisms for this in genuine times of constitutional crisis.
The clownfall is amazing.
"Gullis has written a letter with the one crayon he hasn't eaten"
You have to imagine mogg and mad nad as goebbels and goring in the background too
That Clownfall video is great!
(Usually those videos are a bit stale, but I lol'd)
Nadine resplendent in her lovely blue summer frock. Could be worse people to be holed up with.
Anyone knowledgeable enough to diagnose his underlying condition? Narcissist? Sociopath? Psychopath? The man is unhinged
I believe the technical term is ‘totally ****ing hatstand!’
I know that when the leader of the country has gone completely mental you shouldn’t laugh, but…
This is brilliant, isn’t it? 😂
Looks like Doris has settled in for an evening of the new Netflix & chill: Twitter & gin.
https://twitter.com/UKCougar/status/1544785715569037313
Chapeau!!
I'm now wondering if this just a dead cat to cover up the Lebedev 'private' meetings 😂😂😂
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62068421
Gove’s been fired!
Yep, been giving his marching powder, sorry, orders
You think Boris is giving away any of his nose candy?
I would have thought that if Nads had heard Boris might be falling on his sword tonight she might have went round to see if she could fall on it too.
The nightmare scenario is that Starmer gets fined by Durham police early next week and resigns along with Rayner.
Johnson calls GE in desperation.
Believe me if Starmer gets fined he will be desperately looking for an excuse not to resign, Johnson calling a snap election would be the perfect excuse.
Although Johnson won't be calling a snap election as I don't doubt that the Queen would be advise not to dissolve parliament until the PM's position was established. The PM remains PM even after parliament has been dissolved. The Tories could still remove Johnson as leader even if parliament is dissolved.
If there was a general election Johnson would be quite likely to lose his seat.
I think the greased pigglet is dead no matter what happens. so it's almost a moot point.
The Question is, is it better he's ousted from the inside? Or should we have a GE? that's a far more complex conundrum.
If there was a general election Johnson would be quite likely to lose his seat.
Now maybe, But the longer he holds on and looks like the plucky underdog...
As a self-described "author"...
Beautiful. DrMrsPJM and I are following you after that.
The number ten insiders keep blathering on about him sticking around to grow the economy. The bit that is missing is how he will do that.
He's had nearly three years and has so far demonstrated chuff all ability to do it, let alone during the self inflicted festering wound we've currently got caused by brexit
To my mind, it's clearly an abuse of the Royal Prerogative if Boris calls a GE now, and it further highlights what a bad idea repealing the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act was.
A GE doesn't serve the national interest in any way. Boris is just desperate to hold onto power for his own sake and will cause sheer chaos to do so.
Peter Bone is on Newsnight
This should be comedy gold 😂
Peter Bone is on Newsnight
This should be comedy gold
Just when I thought the days TV couldn't get any funnier.
Mean allow a GE
Beautiful. DrMrsPJM and I are following you after that.
You weren't already? Pff. 😁
Thank you.
Peter Bone is on Newsnight
Did he just say "a vote of no competence"?
Watching GB News for a different vibe. They've got his dad Stanley on who swears vehemently that there's no way Boris will resign...
They’ve got his dad Stanley on who swears vehemently that there’s no way Boris will resign…
Well, he’s right… he won’t… Conservative MPs need to move him on, and fast.
Catching up after work - anyone drawing comparisons between Boris and Trump in their delusional inability to admit the game's up?
Simon Hart MP ^^ doesn't even give a reason for his resignation! Isn't it usual to think of a reason for resigning?
I guess he is assuming that no reason is necessary as everyone else is doing it and he doesn't want to miss the opportunity of a ministerial post under the next leader.
The number ten insiders keep blathering on about him sticking around to grow the economy. The bit that is missing is how he will do that.
Join the EU?
The difference between a democracy and a strongman dictatorship is that in the latter the men in grey suits would have discussed Boris’s resignation via the medium of small arms.
So the question arises, is it easier to change an unwanted leader in a democracy or a dictatorship. Discuss.
Please note this is an intellectual discussion and I am not advocating the use of force to remove PMs who have overstayed their welcome.
Boris is trying to have his "Churchill" moment.... when actually as per the clownfall piss take its actually a Hitler moment.
This makes the Death of Stalin look like a documentary...
Catching up after work – anyone drawing comparisons between Boris and Trump in their delusional inability to admit the game’s up?
Yep!
Nadine resplendent in her lovely blue summer frock. Could be worse people to be holed up with.
Like Eva Braun or Carla Petacci?
Did he just say “a vote of no competence”
I believe he’s just offered himself up for a ministerial position.
He’s so desperate Boris will probably make him Chancellor tomorrow. We’re well into Caligula’s horse territory now
When we were warned about a summer of discontent
Who was expecting the Conservative Party to go on strike?
If the Con party did all go on strike, the economy may just be less ****ed than its going to be with the current morons in charge.
This is more likely to be like Churchill's result at Galipoli, rather than at Dunkirk or the skies over Kent. With the youth of the day once again harmed the most for absolutely no benefit.
Braverman on Peston stating that johnson should go; also confirming that, in event of a leadership campaign, she will stand as a candidate.
Tory vultures; shut the **** up going on about tax cuts - you one trick liars. One economic 'policy' wheeled out like a roulette table.
Could've done it ages ago.
Vulture Tory MPs looking desperate - "it's time to get rid of this woke rubbish."
I can imagine this has a bearing on his not wanting to go today!
34 Neville Chamberlain 2 years, 348 days
35 Boris Johnson 2 years, 347 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_length_of_tenure
Braverman standing up as the next PM?
Nadine is going to declare next, isn’t she?
I’m looking forward to this leadership election
Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans?!!! 😂😂😂
Braverman on Peston stating that johnson should go; also confirming that, in event of a leadership campaign, she will stand as a candidate.
Genuine LOL
Braverman on Peston stating that johnson should go; also confirming that, in event of a leadership campaign, she will stand as a candidate.
So I have a letter written by her in my house somewhere, and she is telling me that BoJo is the right person for the job and 100% has her backing and support.
I think she might need to write to me again and admit that she is a poor judge of character
I love the idea of Boris doing a Trump and instigating an uprising
Trumps supporters were/are all tooled up survivalists from Idaho with a stack of assault rifles and a pick up truck, Boris’s core voters are pensioners from Eastbourne with a collection of China teapots
she is a poor judge of character
She’s hardly alone.
Nice roll call of resignations coming up now on Newsnight 😀