Nope, I was thinking of the Peoples Front of Judea?
Splitters!
There's a part of me, the longer this goes on, thinks Boris is doing us all a favour. That he'll do so much damage to the party image that it'll not be worth enough to bind the disparate groups and we'll see a genuine split in the into two distinct parties, the right and left ceasing their increasingly uneasy truce and simply going their own way.
The tories are so divided anyway any pm will only last a few years at most before the internal divisions cause them to fall
What’s all this “that party”, not “my party” stuff?
All part of when he wants to launch his own party obvs, he'll be playing the Farage playbook to maximise his future income.
The Tory party has prevented him from doing the work of the people.
West has no business in that part of the world especially with Ukraine.
Europe should have no interest in a European country?
I beg to disagree.
As would the Ukrainian family staying across the street that I’ve just lent (possibly given really) a spare bike to
Or the Latvian I work with whose grandfather was killed because he was a policeman when the Russians decided to suppress Latvia. (Admittedly that wasn’t Putin)
And when Putin acts like Hitler’s understudy by rolling tanks across Europe and systematically targeting civilians, then yes we are all going to suffer sooner or later. Best suffer sooner and hopefully less.
I beg to disagree.
Let's agree to disagree.
Let's return to the topic of BoJo otherwise the excitable crowds will huff and puff, and I don't want to be blamed.
Quick... get your marketing material out... jump on the bandwagon...
I see the swivel-eyed ERGers are taking it well
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1545021454751830016
Just watching the news at 1. BBC going around interviewing the public to get their reaction to BJs resignation.
I'm scared that there are so many people out there who think he was doing a good job and are disappointed that he's leaving.
Granted due to the time of day and location (golf course and high street) a number of them were older middle class voters, so not a representative spread.
But still Jesus wept.
Vox pops are not news.
chewk is taking this very badly
chewk is taking this very badly
Don’t forget he called it yesterday. Boris was never going to resign.
chewk is taking this very badly
For once you lot a happy! LOL!
You lot have been miserable for a while as far as I know.
I am glad to be an entertainment to cheer you lot up.
No, no I am not taking it badly ... there are greater concerns for me such as £2.05/litre for Super Premium petrol at Esso and food price increase.
Don’t forget he called it yesterday. Boris was never going to resign.
Indeed I have. I even bet that for £5 Tesco new Swedish coffee (rather nice but a bit acidic). But I did not lose my bet because the other person said overnight but it is actually 12.30pm the next day. LOL! Otherwise, I need to buy £5 coffee ...
Yes, I rather like BoJo to stay and does not want to see him go because the alternative is simply unthinkable. They are all clowns (all politicians)! I rather have a funny clown than a clown that does not bring laughter.
Boris was never going to resign.
To be fair... he hasn't yet.
Super Premium petrol at Esso and food price increase
All your rants about green policies and European trade and worker freedoms hitting you in the pocket then? Yes, Putin's war is also key in those food prices... but you back him as well. You should be spending that extra money, pleased that so much has gone the way you want. Be proud of the price increases, they are the result of your world view.
I despair at the number of people who genuinely think that he and his government are doing a good job.
Or even a job.
Get used to high petrol prices. We need to start taxing CO2 out of the economy. Recycling that tax into low carbon alternatives would be sensible - we need more of that.
Should there be an STW Boris Johnson divorce sweepstake?
I'll take 15 months.
I'll take 4 years in the sweepstake. She'll stick with him 'till one of them has a child with someone else. Odds on that is him, of course.
Get used to high petrol prices. We need to start taxing CO2 out of the economy. Recycling that tax into low carbon alternatives would be sensible – we need more of that.
The next govt will not last with that view. LOL! I dare them.
All your rants about green policies and European trade and worker freedoms hitting you in the pocket then? Yes, Putin’s war is also key in those food prices… but you back him as well. You should be spending that extra money, pleased that so much has gone the way you want. Be proud of the price increases, they are the result of your world view.
My world view is against sanctions which affect fuel and world grain. As for minor competition with EU after Brexit that's normal business. Anyone or business will do the same to force competition in their own ways.
I’ll take 4 years in the sweepstake. She’ll stick with him ’till one of them has a child with someone else. Odds on that is him, of course.
Crikey, you target their personal lives now? Why get so personal? You won? BoJo is no longer PM.
in his faux resignation speech he said 'in politics, no one is indispensible'... those are the exact words used against him by the chair of the liason committee that was butchering him yesterday 🤣
that means the next tory leader won’t need to be a rabid brexiteer
Well, this might be worth reading…
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/suella-braverman-boris-johnson-resigns-b2117756.html
A female Trump-analogue running the country? 😱
Oh, and Chewkw, try reading some history about Ukraine, it’s people and Russia. Ukraine was settled by Scandinavia Vikings, who became its rulers, in particular look up Saint Olga. Also Russia gets its name from the Rus, a word that is derived from the term ‘those who build boats’, that is, Vikings.
Despite all of his attempts to rewrite European history, to promote himself as Tsar Peter the Great, it’s a fact that Ukraine was a state, with its capital city Kyiv, a thousand years ago, before Moscow even existed and was, and still is, part of Europe.
Now shut up and go and learn something useful.
Balls – running a course that starts right then. Please god, don’t let anyone turn up… 🙂
One person turned up. 🙁 Have I missed anything? 🙂
Crikey, you target their personal lives now? Why get so personal?
Because by all accounts Carrie Johnson was the puppeteer behind the scenes pulling the strings that Boris Johnson dangled from.
Why get so personal?
I didn't make it personal. Johnson has tried (and in many cased succeed) to funnel public money to his series of sexual partners (that he was also married at the time isn't my concern). His personal life and his political live were intertwined by him. He should have kept them apart. Don't go blaming others for his corruption bringing together his sex life and his work time as Mayor, Foreign Secretary, and Prime Minister.
I’ll take 4 years in the sweepstake. She’ll stick with him ’till one of them has a child with someone else. Odds on that is him, of course.
And you think that'll take 4 years? I can't imagine there's not already at least one in the oven somewhere.
in his faux resignation speech he said ‘in politics, no one is indispensible’… those are the exact words used against him by the chair of the liason committee that was butchering him yesterday 🤣
Does it not fill you with dread that he actually means the 1922 committee today, then broadly the whole of Parliament tomorrow?
Because by all accounts Carrie Johnson was the puppeteer behind the scenes pulling the strings that Boris Johnson dangled from.
I see ... but it's tricky because they are husband and wife with children. Sometimes official role and family life can be blurred when they are also a family. Let them go in peace. BoJo was only a PM for a short time not forever.
Now shut up and go and learn something useful.
So Vikings were the invader then? Do we have to go that far?
Ahh.. Boris Johnson, family man... so selfless.
Totally failing to quote a tweet but, this struck home;
"Absolutely incredible line on LBC from a caller.
“The prospect of a new conservative PM is like seeing a menu of diseases and having your dad order for you”"
I said exactly the same to my mate yesterday.
I said within the year!
Sorry if this has already been suggested, but is he just trying to drag it out to reach a pension entitlement or something like that now?
I recall reading that his personal finances were a disaster.
Because by all accounts Carrie Johnson was the puppeteer behind the scenes pulling the strings that Boris Johnson dangled from.
By some accounts. Not that many though.
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I’m not celebrating as I can’t see any improvements on the horizon. Snouts playing musical chairs.
I'm not celebrating either. Although I wish I believed that it just represented a game of musical chairs.
However far from it representing no change I believe that it will almost certainly represent significant change.
IMO the biggest obstacle which has currently stopped the Tories adopting austerity, a policy very much at the heart of Tory philosophy, has been Johnson. It simply didn't suit his affable loved-by-the-people personality.
I think Sunak made that clear in his resignation letter. Whether it's Sunak or somebody else who takes over from Johnson they will in all likelihood be right hard ****s.
Johnson has constantly battled the right of the Tory Party, whether it was over taxation/ spending or lockdown restrictions and "covid socialism" as they called it, but never with the left of the party.
Whoever takes over from Johnson it is extremely unlikely that they will be more left-wing than him and extremely probably that they will be significantly more right-wing..
No one knows for sure what the outcome will be but as someone who is considerably to the left of the Tories, and based on probability, I'm not celebrating.
Because whilst making Pincher deputy chief whip was very clearly wrong on so many levels it did not have a significant affect on the lives of ordinary working people. The austerity which we have every reason to believe is likely to come post-johnson will very much so.
Less talk of dangling, please. All sorts of images come to mind.
I think Sunak made that clear in his resignation letter.
It was just a repeat of his plea for the next election, the same one as he's been making in government... "low-tax, high growth"... while delivering the opposite. Always an obvious pre-election tax cut planned. His mentioned their disagreement, but not what it was... most accounts suggest it was about the timing of cuts (both tax cuts and spending cuts) with Johnson wanting them sooner rather than later, to bolster his own support with Conservatives, and Sunak wanting to save them for closer to an election, to bolster the party's support in that election and wait 'till after what is expected to be a very hard 12 months ahead for so many voters.
but never with the left of the party
Errr... he ousted most of them at the last election. They had to sign personal pledges or ____ off. He had the whip removed, had them deselected, and ended their political careers.
Barnier indulging in some top trolling:
https://twitter.com/MichelBarnier/status/1545015642176233472
I’m scared that there are so many people out there who think he was doing a good job and are disappointed that he’s leaving.
Still seeing plenty of support for him on Linkdin....
(Makes mental note not to do business with such individuals) 😉
Should there be an STW Boris Johnson divorce sweepstake?
It's the children I feel sorry for, all 6, 7 or is it 8 of them?
BoJo is no longer PM.
You sure?
Still seeing plenty of support for him on Linkdin….
(Makes mental note not to do business with such individuals)
Got to question the acumen of anyone using LinkedIn to post about politics, regardless of their leaning.
Can we do "Brelcome Back" or "Brejoin" now everyone realises it was all just part of one big mistake?
Why are so many other mp's willing to throw their hats into the ring for pm?
" oh look, a poison chalice. Put my name on it please"
Recession, WW3 by proxy, Brexit, Covid, NHS, Fuel prices causing double digit inflation, illegal immigration, devo2, climate change plus public sector borrowing.
1 or 2 would be a headache but dealing with that lot plus all the day to day gumpf. Hell yes, sign me up baby.
They are all clowns (all politicians)!
Note, pretty much every person you'll hear say this, vote for right-wing parties.
No, not all politicians are the same, but the dodgy ones you lot vote for are.
Not celebrating either. I think that's a fair summary ernie.
It's a battle between the nationalist nut-jobs and the competent grown ups. More culture wars or austerity 2.0.
