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I'd like to see him actually start the job never mind resign from it. Fat oaf has been MIA since his wet dream came true.
Sunak’s family is probably richer than Donald Trump*. Not really a man of the people.
*Not difficult, nowadays.
press conference at 5
Patel advocating concentration camps
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/priti-patel-plans-dump-300-23194180
got to work well with the party faithful.
He’ll be gone in January to spend more time with his money
Which is probably the most likely reason for him going since its been repeatedly reported he isnt coping well on the tiny salary of the PM especially after the divorce.
I am still unsure. I cant see anyone wanting to boot him out just yet since its a bit of a poisoned chalice. Better to wait another year or so before doing so and pretending to be a fresh broom.
However I think him choosing to go now he has ticked of being PM and having "seen through brexit" is a possibility. Although on the flipside he might be dreaming of the history books and concluded that he will regain ground and turn himself into a glorious leader once the pandemic is past or at least under control.
Holyrood elections are currently scheduled for May 2021. That might be another to head off soon or, alternatively, for him to hang on and carry the can for those results too.
Just imagine if Patel gets the top job..stw would literally go into meltdown..
It would actually be quite funny to witness, other than the fact that she's an unempathetic, cruel, stupid, hypocritical beast of a woman, without a shred of human decency
and she looks like a weeble...
I actually feel sorry for boris
You mean Alexander - I.e his real name that his family and friends know him by?
Don't. He's a compulsive liar and a cheat. A freewheeling goodtime boy who wants everyone to love him, even while he's smashing up their restaurant Bullingdon style.
He only got his chance to live out his pathetic and cringeworthy Churchill fetish because of Brexit - a pack of lies sold to the gullible by crooks. He rode that horse out of personal ambition. Nothing more.
He deserves to go on trial one day for what he has done to this country in the last five years with his ****less chumocracy. He's a raging hypocrite who endorses sacrifice - so long as it someone else's. He has lived his life like a feudal lord helping himself to the wenches on the estate, offspring everywhere. Personally (and you may have already guessed this) I despise him.
Yet another pompous, opportunistic arse who spotted a quick way up the ladder to a job he is in no way capable of. Meanwhile every bugger else suffers for his inadequacy.
Just imagine if Patel gets the top job..stw would literally go into meltdown..
It would actually be quite funny to witness, other than the fact that she’s an unempathetic, cruel, stupid, hypocritical beast of a woman, without a shred of human decency
and she looks like a weeble…
She would just be another inept joke. Albeit one who really enjoys being nasty.
But like all Brexit True Believers her stupidity makes her unsuitable.
But like all Brexit True Believers her stupidity makes her unsuitable.
The problem is the only people choosing whether someone is unsuitable for the next few years are tory party members.
Many of whom share the same true believer position.
Which is probably the most likely reason for him going since its been repeatedly reported he isnt coping well on the tiny salary of the PM especially after the divorce.
I too have seen this reported. Apparently a prime minister's salary does not go far in funding an undisclosed number of child support payments.
I too have seen this reported. Apparently a prime minister’s salary does not go far in funding an undisclosed number of child support payments.
Not when you have to spend so much money obtaining super injunctions, certainly.
and she looks like a weeble…
...only from the neck down binners said. (I think it was binners, apologies if not).
His wife’s family have the vast majority of it though.
She's has assets larger than the value of the UK fishing industry. Just some perspective there. Oh and that same industry has a smaller turnover than Harrods.
He won't resign. Has wanted it too long.
Boris will go early in the new year. He’ll be replaced by an over eager second tier moron as a holding pattern while the real contender gets his sh@t together and “rides to the rescue”.
"Rides to the rescue"?
So we'll get Gove on an interim basis until Jacob Rees Mogg takes control and we all end up in the 1800's being ruled by the upper class (a bit like now, but with more pomposity).
while the real contender gets his sh@t together and “rides to the rescue”
If only there was a glimmer of hope anywhere close to that, it would be something to look forward to.
Look to the horizon, who do you see?
Where are these good people/party that will set in place a return to some form of stability?
There are none, no one is coming
I truly believe that this year has been such a plane crash that even Labour/Starmer don’t want the gig ,they look like they are waiting for the country to hit ground zero, then people might beg them to give it a go.
Hunt's obviously doing some positioning. It's funny, with Hunt as health secretary we'd probably have handled Covid far better but also he'd have used the opportunity to privatise the entire NHS. Hancock's absolutely incompetent of course, incapable of even following his own most basic instructions like "Don't sneeze all over your colleagues in the House of Commons" but I think sometimes that's still preferable to someone that's actually pretty capable in his way, and absolutely bloody horrendous.
Say what you like about Hancock, he doesn't see a disaster and think "how can I use this" like some politicians. He thinks "oh shit oh shit oh shit"
ayjaydoubleyou
Free MemberRemember that his hero and idol Sir Winston was fairly quick to depart following the end of the war, even as the victors we had suffered terribly and needed a scapegoat. He returned 5 years later…
The thing is though, Johnston doesn't actually idolise Churchill at all. He idolises his imaginary Churchill, the same one that starred in the weird work of alternative historical fiction The Churchill Factor (the Churchill who invented the RAF and saved the world after the fall of Stalingrad...) Partly because he couldn't be bothered to do even basic research before starting writing, and partly because it's almost entirely projection. When he asks "what would Churchill do" the answer is always "Whatever I want to do, that's what Churchill'd do". which is why he never struggles with the idea of invoking Churchill for Brexit, something that Actual Churchill would have opposed but which Fantasy Churchill loves to bits.
I might set up a Gofundme for him. Just enough to get a hair-triggered and dirty Webley service revolver with a single round in the chamber, and a bottle of knock-of gin that's more methanol than ethanol.
He won’t resign. Has wanted it too long.
I keep saying this. Talk of him resigning in Jan is for the birds. He may get pushed out later in the year, and quite likely before the next general election, but he’s not giving up the crown and admitting defeat just because the transition period has ended… he won’t resign because he’s damaging the UK… he has none of the honour required to do that.
Hunt’s obviously doing some positioning. It’s funny, with Hunt as health secretary we’d probably have handled Covid far better but also he’d have used the opportunity to privatise the entire NHS.
Indeed
A few years ago (before the leadership contest) a friend’s daughter did a lot of work at Westminster with Hunt.
By all accounts,not a nice individual and a bit of a raging power freak off camera.
I wasn’t surprised.
He won’t resign. Has wanted it too long
It's absolutely this. And pver the next four years he is going to pull a Trump and work on being in charge forever as is his divine right.
poolman
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I actually feel sorry for boris, got the job he always wanted, new baby, getting married next year.
Blood on his hands. I don't feel an ounce of sorrow for him.
Leading a nation off a cliff edge with the EU during a national emergency reeks of religious zealotry, for that's all Brexit is, a malignant religion.
He is utterly culpable and history will judge him so.
Johnson has no intention of sticking around when the 'fun' has gone - just ask any of his exes.
Gone by 31st March - our very own Chancellor Von Papen.
I reckon BoJo is eyeing up an opportunity to be POTUS in 4 years time. I imagine the GOP would welcome him with open arms.
I reckon BoJo is eyeing up an opportunity to be POTUS in 4 years time. I imagine the GOP would welcome him with open arms.
No, but I imagine we will see the nauseating spectacle of Dominic 'Cumstains' Cummings resurfacing with a nasty spray tan on the Melania 2024 campaign.
He has a track record in weaponising a nation's latent stupidity, so I imagine he'd go down a storm.
Johnson will just be given a safe bolt hole there to retire in comfort to whilst 'his' country burns.
If he can't afford to pay his child maintenance, how's he going to fund a multi-billion dollar White House campaign?
It's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen anyway - you have to be born in USA to be president, hence Trump leading the "birther" movement that claimed Barack Obama faked hi birth certificate.
And these guys don't pay for their election campaigns they grift money off donors and then spend the time in office channelling public money back to them.
It’s not going to happen anyway – you have to be born in USA to be president,
He was born in New York - although I don't think he's got citizenship.
And these guys don’t pay for their election campaigns they grift money off donors and then spend the time in office channelling public money back to them.
and what do you think the PPE (etc) procurement scandal is...
Boris was actually born in the US.
@hels - I'm aware of the funding but 2 things prevent this.
He's not got enough cash to start the campaign and even in the US there aren't enough idiots to pay for his campaign as most people don't know who he is
America would never stand for a British president (even with a US connection). Been on any US forums recently? Their sole opinion of Brits is that we all have awful teeth.
Realistically, it’ll be Gove as that’s what we deserve…
There is no way that it will be Gove to replace Boris. Do your really think that the "little England" Tory faithful will vote for a Scot?
he will be off sharpish in the new year
It’s not going to happen anyway – you have to be born in USA to be president
He was and until reasonably recently was actually a US citizen although he gave that up for tax purposes.
So I think he was valid once but possibly not any longer since not sure whether you can reclaim citizenship and it would be a bugger for the campaign anyway "He gave up US citizenship for PROFIT!!!"
Do your really think that the “little England” Tory faithful will vote for a Scot?
Depends on how much xenophobic/racist posturing he does.
They'd vote for Priti Patel as she embodies their petty nastiness better than anyone.
They’d vote for Priti Patel as she embodies their petty nastiness better than anyone.
She's not white so it's not going to happen.
She’s not white so it’s not going to happen.
She's perfect for them.
She's a thoroughly nasty piece of work and they can also then play the "we aren't racist, look at our party leader" card.
I wouldn't be so sure if I were you.
“He gave up US citizenship for PROFIT!!!”
There’s plenty of ‘mirkins that will see that as a positive. They’re all about not paying tax.
She’s a thoroughly nasty piece of work and they can also then play the “we aren’t racist, look at our party leader” card.
Agree with this, but is she too common?
She’s not white so it’s not going to happen.
Agree with the comments in reply. A brown person is great for the Tory faithful as it convinces them they're inclusive and multicultural and therefore can't possibly be nasty or racist. Even if the brown person in question would have gleefully ratted out her neighbours to the gestapo
US would fear a Brit would bring them evil socialist things like the NHS. Can't have citizens paying taxes that help everyone equally or help the poor. That's practically communism!
You need to stop this 'priti as PM' nonsense. It's next level dystopia and my brain can't currently handle the dark forces at play. It'd be means tested forced sterilisation, with 60000pa the cut off point. And town square hangings etc
She’s not white so it’s not going to happen.
Look at the betting odds that Sunak will be PM next. Plenty of BAME people in the conservatives, they will probably have two or more BAME PMs before Labour even elect one as leader
I wouldn’t be so sure if I were you.
I'm sure.
Besides, the minute the gloves come off he rivals will burn her to the ground over the Israel thing.
Liz Truss has a better chance as the acceptable female face of slash and burn politics.
