I think it proves what we all knew that most (all?) Tory MP's are self serving scumbags.
Huge numbers back Johnson right up to the point that it looks like it going to look irretrievably bad for them to back him and then they all jump.
I do however echo what many are saying. He won't resign, so it's time to see if there is a mechanism for deposing him against his will.
He won’t resign, so it’s time to see if there is a mechanism for deposing him against his will.
Should be one about 17:30 after the 1922 Committee have finished changing their Leadership rules. In that time one can assume that every resignation has cc'd the committee their letter of no confidence. A further VoNC tonight or tomorrow and done.
so it’s time to see if there is a mechanism for deposing him against his will.
Some sort of malfunctioning parachute and a ride in a Lancaster, perhaps?
First test candidate after recommissioning The Human Trebuchet?
Publicity trip to the North Pole by skidoo with leaky fuel tank?
I have a letter from Suella Braverman that was sent to me earlier this year when I asked her to justify a number of her, and the Tory party's activities on various matters, she is my local MP. In it she states that Boris has 100% of her support, and she knows he is the right person for the job under these current trying circumstances.
I am now just waiting to bring it out for her to see.
finished changing their Leadership rules.
I predict something along the lines of :
The rules exist to prevent a small minority in the party continually harrying a leader with spurious votes. Never before have we been in the position where a majority of members have submitted letters. At this stage the rules relating to a VoNC do not apply as no further vote is required - it is clear the leader has lost the confidence of the party and he is removed from post effectively immediately, a leadership contest has been triggered and the deputy leader will take on the duties of leader until the outcome of that contest.
Sky is reporting that the 1922 will offer him the chance to resign before they change the rules.
So it’s discharge with or without “honours”, his choice.
So it’s discharge with or without “honours”, his choice.
Honours, there's an interesting choice of word. Can we see him being elevated after all this?
He won't resign until it's absolutely, undeniably impossible for him to continue.
But it looks like he's going to reach that point within the next few hours.
What fun.
dangeourbrain
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Honours, there’s an interesting choice of word. Can we see him being elevated after all this?
Of course we can, he "got Brexit done". You just have to ignore that Brexit is still a complete shit show
It will be such a shame that he wasn't even pm as long as May and way short of Cameron.
Cabinet Ministers off to tell Johnson to go.
In an seemingly off the cuff moment in todays select committee chairs' meeting Johnson admitted that while he was Foreign Sec he met an ex-KGB (if there can be such a thing) agent in Italy without accompaniment of FCO officials and coming straight from a NATO summit about Russia and the Salisbury poisonings.
In any other world...
While we all get excited by this, can we remember that all of this is as a result of a lying, selfish, randy toff who is significantly responsible for the crappy place we find our nation in at the moment.
Wow Johnson just threatening his MPs with a GE ?
Meanwhile Zahawi reported to have turned on Johnson after accepting chancellor's job!
His performance at the Liaison Committee is wonderfully bad.
Wragg is really putting him through it
This committee hearing is an absolute car crash.
Any of yesterdays brief faux humility is long gone. It’s back to bluff, bluster, arrogance and pomposity, lying through his teeth at every turn.
Nobody is having any of it!
His comment about meeting lebedev in Italy was in response to persistent direct questions.
Yep. Still making jokes and blustering. He’s away with the fairies.
While we all get excited by this, can we remember that all of this is as a result of a lying, selfish, randy toff who is significantly responsible for the crappy place we find our nation in at the moment.
Quite a charming lying, selfish, randy toff though. I'm not sure you can blame everything on him. Even if he is a tory.
GE PLEASE!
This isn't an act, he is just coked of his tits constantly
He’s getting torn a new one
It's cracking entertainment. I hope he holds on as long as possible.
3 cabinet ministers including Zahawi. can't buy loyalty now
Men in grey suits, including chief whip, apparently congregating at No.10. Defenestration is imminent!
Where are you all watching this?
Meanwhile,
The Telegraph @Telegraph
54 minutes ago
Boris Johnson hangs by a thread as resignations continue - live updates
Boris Johnson suffered a fresh ministerial resignation this morning as the Prime Minister struggles to stabilise his ailing premiership
I can only assume that brexit has made it difficult to import rope.
Meanwhile Zahawi reported to have turned on Johnson after accepting chancellor’s job!
I've been waiting for the fall of Boris for such a long time and so far it's been absolutely cracking. What a finale! Far more satisfying then Game of Thrones.
The Blue Wedding?
This isn’t an act, he is just coked of his tits constantly
He doesn't appear to be with it at all. Only just turned it on, he can't find the words for anything.
BBC news, just tuned in. Loving the resignations counter
It's live on BBC news channel.
Where are you all watching this?
Live feed on the Guardian website
Cheers all.
Shapps, Brandon Lewis, Simon Hart and the Chief Whip are among the delegation.... will they resign if he says no ?
Where are you all watching this?
Oldschool telly. They're grilling him live on all the rolling news channels.
the same guy who was doing the rounds this morning is now jumping ship ? will he resign ?
He’s just playing the victim
He really can’t accept he has made any mistakes.
Meanwhile Zahawi reported to have turned on Johnson after accepting chancellor’s job!
I'm just praying he rebuffs the delegation and refuses to resign. Zahawi surely would have to resign in that case. Number 1 - will that be a new record for the shortest tenure in a cabinet post? Number 2 - what the **** has happened in 24hrs that means Zahawi has gone from toadying groveler and accepting Sunak's sloppy seconds (or is it thirds?) to offing the boss?
If he says “get on and deliver” one more time
There is an easy way out, based on his current state they could easily get him sectioned
Part of me actually feels a bit sorry for him, his whole carefully constructed world is falling apart before his eyes and I'm starting to think its not that he thought everyone else bought it and isn't he a wonderful trickster but rather that he's genuinely ill and believes in his own delusion.
Boris refusing to say he won't dissolve Parliament if he loses a vote of no confidence.
He's a nutter.
