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John Crace has got Ms Truss down as Radon Liz! It’s quite inspired along with Ready4Rish!
That John Crace piece is excellent, as ever. He's always had the measure of Johnson
Tory MPs indulge in a mawkish farewell for their poundshop Arnie
This is so bang on
Mission largely accomplished … for now,” said Boris Johnson, winding up his final prime minister’s questions with a delusional requiem for his faded glamour. “Hasta la vista, baby.” Yet even in his going, The Pastiche Terminator left open the possibility of his return. He cannot survive without the spotlight. There is no substance to him. Just a carapace of molten neediness that feeds on attention. No matter of what kind. Better to be despised than to be forgotten or ignored. He’d torn the Tories apart once. He’d happily do it all
How long before he follows in his dad's footsteps, and gets in the news again, for breaking Carrie's nose?
How long before he follows in his dad’s footsteps, and gets in the news again, for breaking Carrie’s nose?
When the paternity test for brat #2 (*) comes through(?)
*Well 9 or 10 for him now, isn't it?
Johnson regards himself as ‘national treasure’ material – whatever the hell that means.
So was Jimmy Saville.
Makes you think.
Johnson regards himself as ‘national treasure’ material – whatever the hell that means.
Needs locking up in the tower of London?
He’ll lay low for a few years in some tax haven or other then appear in some reality show or other to boost his image.
Personally I’d like him dropped down a deep, dark hole and forgotten about.
Sounds like a great idea for a show that.
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2022/07/boris-johnson-the-death-of-the-clown
An excellent and well written take on Boris the clown ‘act’
I can't decide if that once he's no longer PM there will be less scrutiny on him
Or whether he will be less protected and the scandals will only get worse
There could well be a by-election soon too
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1550133730924146691?t=RpEMSxPCyPsS5FVzjGJCaA&s=19
Trumpian nonsense
His cultists will love it tho
Going by the craziness we've had for the last few years I wouldn't bet against it happening!
Could be interesting. Sitting on the back benches tearing the party apart without any actual real power (or doing more damage to the country).
Truss will make Boris deputy and she will resign or be sacked before Xmas '23, where upon Boris gets to spend donor money redecorating no. 10 again. 😆
Johnson regards himself as ‘national treasure’ material – whatever the hell that means.
Needs locking up in the tower of London?
Well played.
I can't see a scenario where he gets back into government in the short term. He's too toxic for the majority of the public and even the right wing press.
More dirt will come out, I can't see how any enquiry will fail to find him guilty of misleading the house. He doesn't have a big enough majority to defend his seat in a by election, especially now Labour and the Lib Dems have figured out how to play that game.
I think he'll stand down rather than fight a by election, and then go cap in hand to his paymasters to support him. And I suspect a lot of them will laugh him out the door.
Truss will make Boris deputy and she will resign or be sacked before Xmas ’23, where upon Boris gets to spend donor money redecorating no. 10 again.
Don't see how she'd resign, unless someone does a dirty tricks campaign and releases a load of scandals, but you'd think they'll be leaked by Sunaks team first
But I agree there's always more scandal to come with Johnson
More dirt will come out,
TBH how much dirt do people want to not finally realise he’s been taking them for a ride since day one 🙂
I just don’t think his apologists would acknowledge it.
TLDR the dirt doesn’t matter.
I just don’t think his apologists would acknowledge it.
TLDR the dirt doesn’t matter.
His apologists won't, but the last couple of months have shown the majority of the public have seen through and the party realised what a liability he is now.
https://twitter.com/TheBuzzerUK/status/1550798926202212357?t=zjkgXVEZZ6KsQtjr05MGQw&s=19
Top Gun last week, Commando this week.
I assume he'll be re-enacting some great sea battle next week.
Is that for real?
If so, he really is on a jolly japes holiday until September, isn't he?
It’s not though, is it.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SCUMBAGS GETTING AWAY WITH IT.
PLEASE ,PLEASE,PLEASE SEND SOME MONEY TO THE GOOD LAW PROJECT.
THE ONLY OPPOSITION WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY.
DO IT NOW.
Unbelievable
I take it a couple of cops are going to appear in his resignation "honours".
Zip, I support the good law project with a monthly s/o but have now added a one-off payment.
Why?
Because of the reported attempts to restrict disclosures in the imminent covid enquiry.
..."as far as I am aware, no Government business was discussed..."This from the man who didn't even know he was at his own birthday party or indeed what actually constitutes a party in the first place.
Last time he had a table of cheese and wine in front of him, he described it as a work meeting!
I see the torygraph is reporting that some tory MPs are lobbying (who?) for johnson to become next secretary general of NATO.
You couldn't make it up.
What a shitshow.
I see the torygraph is reporting that some tory MPs are lobbying (who?) for johnson to become next secretary general of NATO.
One step closer to a reincarnated pig in a poke churchillian caricature
Such a nice, not-sociopathic-and-narcissistic-at-all fellow.
Sacking a former Cummings aide left behind after his resignation:
She wrote that Johnson had told her: “I can’t look at you any more because it reminds me of Dom. It’s like a marriage has ended, we’ve divided up our things and I’ve kept an ugly old lamp. But every time I look at that lamp, it reminds me of the person I was with. You’re that lamp.”
Not quite as poetic as 'Welcome to Dumpsville, population - YOU!', but pretty much the same thing.
looks like the dirty digger is finally jumping off the SS Johnson as it goes down....
I probably shouldn't be enjoying this as much as I am:
How much awareness must you lack to not understand why that particular image isn't a great idea bearing in mind what happened to Sir David Amess?
No doubt I'm being 'wilfully offended' 🤣
The rumour on the island is that someone is arriving on Wednesday and staying at a house owned by someone who he has just made a sir.
Let's hope he declares it.
# I'm going to write **** Boris in the sand
Look what turned up 😃
Remember his promises of a high wage economy…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/uk-wages-cost-living-latest-bills-b2145826.html
Wages plunge at record rate as cost-of-living crisis deepens
Real wages fall 3% after inflation but government claims ‘jobs market is strong’ as public sector workers receive huge pay cut and bankers enjoy big bonuses
…it’s true for the few.
No harm in our outgoing PM taking huge gifts while still in office, right?
https://twitter.com/edwardthardy/status/1559140345035870209?s=21
Remember his promises of a high wage economy…
Assuming he remains a mp just wait and read his register of interest entries in the next few months.
Definitely going to be a high wage economy just on a slightly smaller scale than some may have thought he was offering.
Mogg really is a nasty piece of shit stirring it up about returning to the office, then flexitime, now this.
On the day that plans to slash CS redundancy terms is announced, ahead of the cull of 91,000 civil servants.
Mogg needs to remember who worked through the lockdown and delivered the government's schemes that kept big chunks of the country going and are largely responsible for the government coming out of it looking quite good (sorry about that)
Dont worry the right wing press will soon be laying into him about this appalling case of cancel culture and anti freeze peach attitude.
wont they?
Poor Pamela. Why didn’t her carer stop that…?
BBC Sounds has done a multi part Podcast about Johnson
It's an interesting study. Because it covers a lot of ground, folks are much more candid about Johnson's earlier life. They speak somewhat more freely about his time at university and as a journalist about Johnson's personality which is a completely different picture other's try to portray in some of the later episodes include Ress-Mogg and David Frost trying to shore up both their time and the reputation of Johnson's obviously failing Govt. Frost tries to spin the line that Johnson was deeply involved in the detail of the negotiations with the EU, Rees-Mogg tries to paint him as too ready to listen to his advisors - and blaming them rather than Johnson for the many episodes that marked the end of his PM-ship such as Partygate, Pincher, and Patterson
Pamela put phone down and put the kettle on...
Deary me.
Pamela could have been my aunt last week.
Politicians being held up as if they were some celebrity and not a serving member for the people.
eddiebaby
Poor Pamela. Why didn’t her carer stop that…?
I think she's pretty typical of how the public think. Didn't find it remotely funny, just sad.
(These are the people that get to vote in referendums concerning the future of the country!)
Yeah, that's a sad conversation and I can quite believe that it is a relatively typical mindset in some areas of the population.
It does highlight just how far down the rabbit hole we have gone as a nation though.
Pamela sounds very much like
Promised me the known world, he did.....
We all know a Pamela.
We all know a Pamela.
Indeed. "They'll never take what you've got..."
Love the daily fail getting all snowflakey about the mean and nasty HIGNFY, all they did was throw everything done and said by Johnson back in his face.
Have we all watched the excellent led by donkeys summarisation of the clown's time in office?
I made the mistake of clicking on a Twitter link to an article on Mailplus by Sarah Vine, Gove's ex.
It was absolutely mental.
An absolute cult.
I won't link it but here are a couple of quotes.
I was there at Carrie’s 30th birthday party where the pair danced long into the night to Abba, he awkward and ursine, she barefoot and breathless.
When it came to the disastrous Barnard Castle incident, for example — in which Cummings drove to that northern beauty spot to ‘test his eyesight’ during the height of lockdown — Johnson indulged him, defended him, expended political capital on him — and the svengali stayed.
More fool Boris. Because when Cummings finally went full tonto and turned on his loyal former boss,
Let's not forget who ousted dumbojo.
Not trendy lefties,not wet wokes it was Tory MPs.
So the hate press can once more go **** themselves.
all they did was throw everything done and said by Johnson back in his face.
After downing several pints of whisky I ventured onto the site. It was amusing how the first few paragraphs were pure outrage but once beyond that they went into the details such as call Johnson the c word => quote from tory minister and then "accused of taking cocaine" => "avoided denying it so the logical conclusion is...". Which isnt an unfair position.
So the hate press can once more go **** themselves.
This is the hard right press. They arent into personal responsibility and so prefer to blame everyone else.
Let’s not forget who ousted dumbojo.
Not trendy lefties,not wet wokes it was Tory MPs.
Yep that's an important point, his own team ejected him.
Shall we post some positive appraisals as he prepares for his last day playing at being king…?
https://twitter.com/bloomberguk/status/1566755460065239041?s=21
Don't suppose some lovely moderator could delete this entire thread now and we can pretend he never existed in our universe as PM?
You’re assuming he won’t be back?!?
Just noticed… did Liz leave Scotland out on purpose in that little speech praising Johnson?
I liked how she stopped at Carlisle. Did she decide it would be pushing it to go north of the border?
pah forgot to hit submit.
That was my thought.
EDIT: jinx!
I think to make out Bozo would be missed in Scotland would be one whopper too much for them (and they have told some whoppers)
M25 today.
Of course, one last moment in the headlights repeating his got Brexit/vaccines done speech…. Just piss off!
johnson's 'greatest hits' live from Downing St.
Shut up and go away.
He just spouted a load of lies and half truths.
The definition of gaslighting?
Does he really believe he’s made us “great”? Jeez.
He just spouted a load of lies and half truths.
Well he might as well end as he started.
Can you imagine how shocking it would be if he had done a quietly reflective speech about his failings?
Probably have resulted in more deaths than the mishandling of covid.
I see that one of his (well, ok the government’s) acts in the commons before his resignation last night was to nominate Christopher Chope to the vacant Tory place on the Privileges committee. This is the man who regularly blocks private member’s bills such as the ones on FGM and Upskirting.
He's gone! The Queen is now fully in charge. Only for a few hours... more's the pity.
Had a great idea that after the Queen dismissed him they should have released him into the Balmoral estate with only a rambo knife. Given him 24hrs and then hunted him to the death and televised it. Like hunger games but entertaining.
Does anyone know why they had a private jet each?
To feel special?
They both have form on this.
What fresh hell is this?
Is this usual for a PM leaving post? Or more evidence of the cult?
Does anyone know why they had a private jet each
Security.