Resigning today according to BBC and Independent.
What time do we start celebrating?
😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡
Finally our Wish version of Trump is gone.
So glad it’s my day off, I’ll be in the pub as soon as it opens at noon!
It would have been funnier if the Queen had sacked him
Finally our Wish version of Trump is gone.
But his legacy will live on.
(Lord Boris Johnson)
Any thoughts of what will be his new grift?
it'll be another lie, "go 'n' tell 'em I'll resign later!" stalling tactics 😉
He can't be allowed to stay on. He's deranged.
Resigning today according to BBC and Independent.
What time do we start celebrating?
As much as I cannot stand the man, his 'politics', the Tory party et al; be careful what you wish for. Things for us plebs could be about to get a whole lot worse. Austerity on steroids is my fear 'for the good of the nation's bank account'. Yes I'm glad he is going as the man is a shameful, odious excuse for a public servant. I just have a sense of fear about what comes next.
I dont know. I think it is just he is deluded.
If he hangs on for another 29 days, he's lasted longer. I really think it's the calculation he's making. I don't think that's incompatible with being deluded.
"I want to stay on another month as Caretaker"...Uh-huh...
1 – The problem with the nation is not so much the competence of the opposition but the incompetence of the electorate. Someone above said that vox pop is the worst part of the media output and I agree. But to make vox pop you need to be able to find this dribblers out there to interview. They genuinely do live amongst us. Incredible as it might seem to anyone vaguely attuned to current affairs there are millions of peoples capable of voting but with frighteningly little understanding of what they are voting for and stupendously superficial knowledge of the matters of the day; voting primarily on family tradition and an attraction to ‘crazzzzy’ haircuts.
This. We get the government we deserve.
I did quite a few vox pops BITD.
While you tend to curate a spread of opinions, they are probably more representative than you think.
e.g. If everyone's saying the same thing you might keep going until you find someone saying the other thing, then you'll put them in. But it's still 5-to-1 in the finished article.
The (Tory) public is only now beginning to realise that his personality flaws are deeper than messy hair.
The (Tory) public voted for him because he is a liar. Because he told them what they wanted to hear and because they thought he'd pull a fast one with the EU on any withdrawal agreement. In their heads they will say it was because of Johnson's personal flaws, not their flawed world view. We've got at least one more Brexit nutjob PM to come and a bit further to sink yet. The next one will be a fully paid-up swivel-eyed loon, not a Johnny Come Lately to the Brexity cause like Johnson. Strap yourselves in.
As much as I cannot stand the man, his ‘politics’, the Tory party et al; be careful what you wish for. Things for us plebs could be about to get a whole lot worse. Austerity on steroids is my fear ‘for the good of the nation’s bank account’. Yes I’m glad he is going as the man is a shameful, odious excuse for a public servant. I just have a sense of fear about what comes next.
And this.
Any thoughts of what will be his new grift?
Straight back to the after-dinner speaking circuit, for 10x the money (drinks included).
Stay until the autumn - WTAF?
When pretty much every minister who has resigned (and presumably will need reinstating to make sure government is possible) has said they were doing so because you were a scumbag. And you want to work with them for a few more months. No normal person would want that.
Takes a look at the potential replacements
Shudders…
.....and he's off .....
Prince Andrew could step up to the plate 😉
I just have a sense of fear about what comes next.
Ramsay Bolton I think.
It'll be Hunt after this debacle.
Stay until the autumn – WTAF?
Who’ll notice? This lot don’t actually DO anything, anyway
So Brexit continues to eat it’s own.
I’m sure it’ll eat the next one too, who’s bound to be a Brexiteer and will be equally as unable to do anything about it’s ridiculous contradictions
Ramsay Bolton I think.
Que??? (Apologies if this should be blindingly obvious)
Ramsay Bolton I think.
*laughs
*cries
This is so Johnson though. Try it on, even though it is obviously untenable, then only when it becomes obvious even to him, change tack for something a bit more arsed, then change again to what everyone (except him) thought was the obvious thing to do. Part of the issue is his carelessness, he has only ever done the part of the job that didn't involve care. The idea of Johnson as caretaker is laughable.
Again... what greyspoke said... all that.
Honestly until the reports go from ‘resigning’ to ‘resigned’ I’m celebrating nothing.
Even then I will remain suspicious until he is out of Downing Street…
I just have a sense of fear about what comes next.
Stains like this chump?
Que???
Game of Thrones, he was a nasty nasty man.
fazzini
Full MemberRamsay Bolton I think.
Que??? (Apologies if this should be blindingly obvious)
Sorry, game of thrones reference.
Game of Thrones
Ah. I see. Never seen it. Released during my hermit phase. I've heard folk tell tales of it come to think 😂
Steve Baker being interviewed on BBC. A truly dangerous individual.
The idea of Johnson as caretaker is laughable.
I think it is a realistic assessment of the limits of his talents although possibly only in a small village school.
He's literally got to be dragged kicking and screaming, hasn't he. How delicious. 🙂
apparently we’re all Tories?!!
I suspect the 1922 will boot him out next week anyway, if he wants to stay on as caretaker.
Remember these are tories we're talking about and they don't like boris right now.
Honestly until the reports go from ‘resigning’ to ‘resigned’ I’m celebrating nothing.
Even then I will remain suspicious until he is out of Downing Street…
Yep, me too. I suspect the tw*t is currently supergluing himself to his desk.
I suspect the 1922 will boot him out next week anyway, if he wants to stay on as caretaker.
Remember these are tories we’re talking about and they don’t like boris right now.
1922 can't eject a PM, just start a run off to replace their party leader.
Conservative MPs need to find a way to make this quick though... it looks to me that Johnson is pushing them into a coronation for a new leader, with his intransigence. Perhaps they can choose a new temporary leader... and then start a second leadership selection process as soon as they are PM, and Johnson is out of the way.
The key thing is whether he can still form a government. Will they all come crawling back and accept the authority of a man they've been basically calling a liar for the last few days?
If he had taken the opportunity to take their advice and resign 36 hours ago, maybe, not so sure now. They may as well excise the tumour properly now he's caused this much trouble.
But in the two days (a bit less) that it took for him to do what he obviously ought to have done, he has managed to lose/get rid of most of the government, making the situation far more difficult to deal with than it would have been had he done it when he should have. Again typical Johnson. All he is capble of is destruction.
What will happen next is going to be truly terrifying. All against backdrop of a recession, rampant inflation and a cost of living crisis like we've never seen...
The leadership contest will be fought between the most hardline, thick-as-mince brexiteer headbangers, trying to out-Brexit and out-culture war each other, because that's what the Tory membership want
God only knows which loon they'll land us all with, but I doubt they'll last long anyway
This is going to be horrible
Didn't Cameron say he'd stay on for a few weeks / months to esnure a smooth transition then walked the next day?
Yes I’m glad he is going as the man is a shameful, odious excuse for a public servant. I just have a sense of fear about what comes next.
Agreed. Whilst, it’s highly amusing seeing all these loathsome MPs proposing themselves as new Prime Minister - (Steve Baker currently putting himself forward live on BBC News! 😱) - but I cannot begin to think how bad it might get.
Who is the worst potential candidate? Priti Patel? Raab? ??
Who do the ‘I’m considering voting for Starmer’ tories want?
