I wonder if that visit from Dorries was the final blow.
Aatrrrrrggghhhhhhhhhaassrrrggggghhhhhh
1922 can’t eject a PM, just start a run off to replace their party leader.
Yes sorry I wasn't clear... That's what I meant, although it's tantamount to the same thing as there's no way he'll survive an internal tory confidence vote.
He can’t be allowed to stay on. He’s deranged.
He was deranged long before this and ended up as PM
I'm not asred if he's the Tory party leader. That's not important.
We need him to resigning as PM. If he stays clinging on as PM for another 3-4 months that's even more of a disaster for the country. Same BS, same lies, same deceit, same utter incompetence.
And we know we can't trust him or Rees-Smugg not to use the time to try pull another illegal move to stay in power.
Maybe he's hoping queenie will croak it to use as an excuse to delay even more. Then a further winter Covid return to delay again. It'll be 2023 before we know it.
Maybe its time we had a military coup. Or civil uprising.
Again typical Johnson. All he is capble of is destruction.
I’d love him to scorch the earth as he leaves. His statement would start “I’ve remarkably remembered all the things that have happened over the past few years. Firstly…”
Didn’t Cameron say he’d stay on for a few weeks / months to esnure a smooth transition then walked the next day?
Dum dee dumm dee dee
Listening to 5 live is an eye opener, isn't it.... The great British public. 🤔
Comments about Bozo to stay on as a ‘caretaker PM’?! The only caretaker job he is fit for is that of a caretaker in a Scooby Doo episode
until autumn?! Seriously?!
Imagine for a moment that you're Gove. on a day where what? 50 odd ministers and assorted hangers on hand in their resignations, (and get three months pay) You alone get sacked. A friend of a friend works in social housing, and to her astonishment, found Gove not only sympathetic to her cause, but listened and acted upon all her recommendations regarding rental housing noting that "for far too long landlords have had it easy" Gone in a moment of Hubris by a man with no dignity...
What a time to be alive
Didn’t Cameron say he’d stay on for a few weeks / months to esnure a smooth transition then walked the next day?
Yeah, even if the reason for departure is a defeat at the polls, then it's hard to stay on. If the reason you're off is that your entire party thinks you a are barefaced liar and dishonourable charlatan, I can't see how you can stick around in a caretaker role.
The other problem is that his hangers-on also stay for months enacting divisive populist policies that will continue to salt the earth for any government that follows.
Has anyone put a call into Big Sam yet?
He wants to stay on as a 'caretaker'. I wouldn't trust him with a bogbrush.
Ramsay Bolton I think.
This is far to believable for comfort ...
Maybe its time we had a military coup. Or civil uprising.
I'm back in the UK for two weeks at the start of August. Willing to lend a hand /chant slogans/throw bricks.
I wonder if that visit from Dorries was the final blow.
Very good there BillMC
A leaving present? There's not a lot of point trying to get a promotion at this stage.
Traditionally, the first Cambridge Union debate of the academic year is "This house has confidence in HM Government".
They were struggling for speakers as it was....
OMG. Think it's about time Her Royal Maj sent in the troops to take over until full electoral reform is imposed.
Listening to 5 live is an eye opener, isn’t it…. The great British public.
Ask yourself what type of person has both the time and the inclination to ring up a radio show at 9.30 in the morning?
A friend of a friend works in social housing, and to her astonishment, found Gove not only sympathetic to her cause
I said it earlier, like him or loath him, Gove is an effective minister who knows his brief and works hard. Civil Servants like that sort of thing. Of course he's a snake as well. But Politics. and being the only one of 50-odd to be sacked is at least some form of notoriety in this shambles.
A friend of a friend works in social housing, and to her astonishment, found Gove not only sympathetic to her cause, but listened and acted upon all her recommendations
While I'm not a fan of his at all, he does appear to be quite competent and to throw himself into his brief - and not to be afraid of original thinking.
There's certainly no need to feel sorry for him anyway, he'll be back.
Ask yourself what type of person has both the time and the inclination to ring up a radio show at 9.30 in the morning?
I don't know, but there are some even worse people who get out of bed in time to ring Jeremy Vine.
Here is my suggestion for a solution. Boris goes today and Queenie takes over until the Tories can find a reasonable one to run the show. Granted she might not last that long but it gets BJ out of the way now. And Nicola can have a word with her about the next referendum too.
I wonder if that visit from Dorries was the final blow
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You alone get sacked. A friend of a friend works in social housing, and to her astonishment, found Gove not only sympathetic to her cause, but listened and acted upon all her recommendations regarding rental housing noting that “for far too long landlords have had it easy”
Gove was one of the few competent ministers who knew what he was doing. TBH if he were the next PM labour would have a major problem. He won't be due to his penchant for sex and drugs, but he's one of the few in the cabinet who could actually do the job at an operational level.
Imagine for a moment that you’re Gove. on a day where what? 50 odd ministers and assorted hangers on hand in their resignations
It was reported that Gove gave Johnson until 9pm to resign with the assumption otherwise he would.
Johnson sacked him just before 9pm.
And Nicola can have a word with her about the next referendum too.
I'd like a second referendum and apparently I haven't got the law on my side to do that, can you help, you're the Queen after all?
Andrew wants to go to pizza express for his birthday and seems to think I can make that work too.
I wonder if that visit from Dorries was the final blow
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That went straight over my head, but the penny has dropped. Very good😂
Gove was one of the few competent ministers who knew what he was doing.
His success rate is so so. He doesnt seem great at considering anything other than his own personal experience as being right. So on the occasions those personal experiences were right he did well but other times it all fell to bits.
A friend of a friend works in social housing, and to her astonishment, found Gove not only sympathetic to her cause, but listened and acted upon all her recommendations
I've heard exactly the same from people in environmental charities about when he was environment minister
MP on BBC News just now “He got us through Brexit” no he didn’t, we’re still going through it and will continue to do so for decades to come until we rejoin
It's a sad day when it comes to this but
I bloody hope Gove gets it to be honest. Gove for PM!
TBH if he were the next PM labour would have a major problem.
Oh... make that happen... please. I've long considered a Labour majority government a pipe dream in the current day UK... but Gove could actually make it happen.
Finally: Clownfall.
https://twitter.com/sueperkins/status/1544804291281653766?s=20&t=jZs98W3PSzbEQ252SaC0tA
Zahawi's and Donelan's resignation letters are both total BS. "I'll take the post of Exchequer/SoS for Education, provding you resign"? Er. okay.... so why take them if there will be a new PM appointing a new cabinet imminently?
I wonder if they'll draw a salary for the ~18 hours in post?
My only hope is that Boris is intensely bitter about the way he's been ousted, takes it out on the Conservative party and takes it to his grave. On siding with the brexiteers fot his own personal gain he has right royally ****ed this country.
don't think they want him hanging around like a bad odour 😀
https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1544972798044553217
Zahawi’s and Donelan’s resignation letters are both total BS.
Zahawi didnt resign. He just basically said "thanks for the job. Now can you go so I can have yours?"
Who knows what went through Donelans mind though. I guess didnt see the way the wind was blowing and thought he would be hanging on.
Fair point. MD is normally quite a canny operator, it is a puzzle.
Here's a thought, Boris obviously going to try and play for a dignified step down while the Tory rebrand and English collective memory reset happens.... If they don't allow that, does that mean Dominic Raab will be PM for the next 3 months? 😄😄
@houns re Brexit - spot on. As a business owner that imports and exports, i can categorically tell you that Brexit has NOT worked and is strangling the economy. There have been precisely zero benefits that i am aware of. Boris and his clan have made a balls of this country (albeit started by Cameron) and now he should be held to account.
