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Despite wanting to be PM all his life
Turns out he's much worse at it than Maybot
How many letters do the 1922 committee need ?
NO !
he should carry on pulling this sort of shit right up to the day of the revolution and then we can have the dozy ****er's head on a pike outside Westminster
Resign? Good luck with that one!
The whole lot of them should go. Can't organise a hiss up in a Brewery.
Yes.
Or be found and tried for lying.
There are many times he should have resigned during his career, but didn't.
Now he's tearing his own party apart, I'm suddenly not sure I'm so eager to see him go.
No, he wanted the job and has done some amazing conniving to get it. Make the **** stick it out and suffer at the hands of the shit storm he created.
He needs to stick it out until the the week before the next series of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
I like the cut of scaredypants jib.
So No,he has made his Tracey Emin style bed ,so he needs to lie in it.
If ,as a lot of people keep banging on about, he is really a smart ,articulate ,intelligent politician, pretending to be a bumbling idiot, then he needs to drop that act now and reveal his true masterful power .Let him show the people of Britain that there is not a tsunami scaled tidal wave of shit poised to crash over the country for Halloween .Let him put our minds to rest with an eloquent and well measured response to all enquiries at PM’s question time.
Don't hold your breath.
I think he is doing a fantastic job...of damaging his own party and making it more and more likely they will become damaged goods in any future GE. He needs to hang around a bit longer to ensure he has really wrecked them.
Unfortunately though, by remaining in post, he is also damaging the country.
How many letters do the 1922 committee need ?
15% of tory mp's, but he's just sacked the potentially most rebelious 7%.
Forgetting for a moment he’s an arse. He’s only really been in the role for a matter of days (if you consider they’ve been on recess since July), even a Premier League Manager would get a month.
Anyway, what’s the point? The Tory Party members have gone full rabid nutters they’ll only appoint the next Boris
best thing to happen to the independence movement TBH
I wouldn't put it past Boris to call a VONC in his own government before the end of next Monday, if the Benn bill gets through House Of Lords and all those silly amendments over the next day or so... And then we see if the anti No Deal parties can agree on a cabinet and leader.
On the plus side I expect Cameron's happy to have now slipped to being the 3rd worst PM this century. Now if only Corbyn actually had a chance of being elected...
No, leave him in to continue making a fool of himself. Mrs. Slow also just suggested leaving Cummings in post as he seems to be doing a great job of destroying the Tory party.
He should be pinned down and forced to have his ****ing hair brushed and cut. Every time he speaks all I hear is this guy.
Interesting take on Cummings in this Wired article:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-who-brexit-blog
Be careful what you wish for... there a Rees-Mogg waiting in the sidelines. I’m not sure which one is worse.
I'm torn. It's a bit like your children making cupcakes and leaving the lid off the food processor because they wanted to see if the mix would hit the ceiling.
There's cake mix up the walls and you could tell them there's no TV or pudding until the worst of the mess is tidied up.
OR
You could accept that there's no way on this planet that they're going to make any more than the most half arsed and incompetent attempt at removing the mess from anything more than a square inch of already clean worktop and accept that someone who knows how to use a damp cloth properly actually needs to step in.
The problem here is that many if not all of those who might step forward are not fit for the job either. In fact a few of them might see the solution as demolishing the kitchen with dynamite and then believing it would magically grow back much bigger, cleaner and with cupboards full of British bananas.
I loved listening to Ken Clarke rip the **** out of him last night!
I'm not sure Cummings will let him do something like resign.
After the last few years, I'm thoroughly enjoying the little shit getting a daily kicking.
I expect Cameron’s happy to have now slipped to being the 3rd worst PM this century.
Still in second place, probably first, TBH. He arrived, took a politically stable country and propelled it into chaos as a means of dealing with an internal political problem. May and Boris inherited chaos, and made it worse.
Bluster Only, Rest Is Shit
I dunno that May made it worse. Definitely didn't make it better.
On the plus side I expect Cameron’s happy to have now slipped to being the 3rd worst PM this century.
I'd put him neck and neck with Blair for driving us into Iraq on the back of bare faced lie, then having David Kelly killed claiming God told him to do it and leaving us with Crash Gordon in the driving seat.
I bet Bojo meant to say Snowflake instead of 'Big Girl's Blouse'.
I bet Bojo meant to say Snowflake instead of ‘Big Girl’s Blouse’.
Great Big Girl's Blouse.
Vote Boris.
Make big girl's blouses great again.
No matter how bad the present government or its leader is,Labour doesn't believe it could win a general election. This is a reflection on how most of the political class are viewed by the public.The only good thing that may come out of this debacle is that there is a complete overhaul of politics in this country.
Still in second place, probably first, TBH. He arrived, took a politically stable country and propelled it into chaos as a means of dealing with an internal political problem. May and Boris inherited chaos, and made it worse.
This.
Cameron is right up there at the top IMO.
without him pandering to Farage we'd not be in the biggest mess we've seen in 100's of years.
No.
He is only trying to do what the people voted for. Its all the other imbeciles that are undermining his negotiating position by removing the only bargaining chip he has/had in his pocket (no deal). Without that the only option you have is to except whatever ridiculous terms the EU force on us.
I’m quite enjoying watching the impotent fury of a man-baby who’s not used to hearing the word ‘no’
You can keep it like this for years, for me
But if he must go, seeing as he’s been acting like Mussolini, then that end would be fitting
You do realise that no deal is the best deal for half a dozen EU countries don't you, Trailwagger. No deal isn't a bargaining chip when it's what benefits you adversary most. Luxembourg is delighted with the prospect of Brexit, preferably no deal:
https://www.wort.lu/fr/luxembourg/que-changera-le-brexit-au-luxembourg-5c611bf0da2cc1784e33d8ee
You do realise that no deal is the best deal for half a dozen EU countries don’t you, Trailwagger.
That's like saying the bottom 6 teams in the premier league want to change the rules... Who cares, its the big teams at the top that call the shots.
The whole lot of them should go. Can’t organise a hiss up in a Brewery
I beg to differ. There are more than enough snakes in government to achieve this.
Without that the only option you have is to except whatever ridiculous terms the EU force on us.
Assuming you mean accept them, what ridiculous terms are these?
Its all the other imbeciles that are undermining his negotiating position by removing the only bargaining chip he has/had in his pocket (no deal)
Threatening to blow our own heads off, in the hope the EU don't want to get their shoes messed up by our blood and brains*, really isn't a bargaining chip.
*and lets face it, there is little evidence the country has much brain matter for them to worry about.
Frankly it's time these arrogant self-aggrendising politicains got a wake up call imo.
It was blantantly obvious that there is no simple solution to the (impossible) Brexit problem, yet BoJo stood up and basically said he could solve anything, that May had been incompetent, and that he would solve all the problems. Well guess what, he was talking complete rubbish. No one can solve Brexit because it is an impossible problem, and anyone arrogant enough to think they can needs to learn the hard way i suggest.......
Without that the only option you have is to except whatever ridiculous terms the EU force on us.
We did except the ridiculous terms, and when we had excepted them, we were left with what looked like a vaguely sensible withdrawal agreement.
Or did you mean to spell that differently?
I’m not sure Cummings will let him do something like resign.
Word is (on twitter anyway) that Cummings is about to be made scapegoat by 'Team Johnson'. Don't know if it's because he's clearly very bad at his job, or for roaming Westminster like bitter old drunk shouting at anyone who get in his way.
I'm enjoying watching him twist in the wind, so why cut him down just yet?
He should be left for a while once the threat of a No Deal has gone.
That’s like saying the bottom 6 teams in the premier league want to change the rules… Who cares, its the big teams at the top that call the shots.
Except every EU country has a veto. Just as well they aren't as into blackmail as the UK. If I were Spanish I use my veto on any deal unless Gibralta were handed back. If I were from Luxembourg I'd veto giving a banking passport. I'm French so I'll veto a banking passport and any favours to UK farmers.
It's quite remarakbale that Michel Barnier managed to get 27 leaders to sign the deal May was offfered.
https://twitter.com/misterscoop/status/1169557982490894337
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1169558442345975808
He should be left for a while once the threat of a No Deal has gone.
Not for too long though. Would love to see him wear ignominious crown of shortest serving prime minister ever. 😁
I'm quite enjoying watching him squirm while he essentially has no power to do anything.
As a classical scholar you would think he better understood the danger of "winning" at any cost. Seem to remember something about a bloke called Pyrrhus
He's gone hasn't he?
Haha! Bloke in the office here thought BoJo's brother quitting was the PM resigning. Duh.
I had some spare time.
119 days is the current record for shortest period as Prime Minister, so Boris has got to last another couple of months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Canning
I'm always wary of Twitter and what nameless Ministers / Party Officials say or don't day behind closed doors.
But apparently No10 has already had to announce that he won't be resigning (an announcement that always comes before someone resigns, and of course when they don't too) but Bojo is apparently considering resigning rather than asking for the extension himself.
Maybe he knows he's done for, quit now whilst he'd still got some fans to come back later on, or maybe he just wants to run away from his latest shitstorm.
^ the latter.
Surely he has to throw Cal Richards/Dominic Cummings under the bus first to save his own skin?
He can't resign - where's the entertainment in that?
The quicker Johnson goes the less chance there is of support for him rallying. Thatcher had a grim couple of years after her election, but then became very popular. The opposition at that time was not very dynamic, much as now. So maybe Johnson needs a Falklands war. Get rid before he has that chance.
If I type "boris johnson" into the google search bar, the first suggestion is "resigns".
Should Boris Johnson resign?
No. 🤔
It is interesting that you could cobble together a pretty decent cabinet made up only of those MP's who were kicked out by BoJo the other day.
Ken Clarke - PM
Rory Stewart - Foreign Secretary
Nick Soames - Home Secretary
etc
etc
Isn't it about now that unpopular Tory PMs look for a country to go to war with, to take everyone's attention off how crap they are?
What Johnson and others fail to realise is that there is no such thing as " no deal" we either do a deal while in the EU from a position of economic relative stability and security whilst holding a veto over European actions or we hard Brexit and try to negotiate a deal with Europe from a position of chaos and desperation as the weakest party. We are geography right next to Europe a significant portion of our trade is with them either way we need a deal and they know it. Walking away without a deal condemns us to crawling back begging.
They can't start a war they shuttered most of the armed forces and spent all the money on a promise of aircraft carriers and f35s.
Honestly!
This is the Boris Johnson resignation question.
You want the general purpose Boris Johnson observations thread for that post.
Given the Brexit content you could move up even higher to the top level EU referendum thread. It's borderline though.
It's almost like there are too many politics threads...
Turns out it wasn't this bloke that resigned. Is dizzapointed he's not an MP.
Only a matter of time before Jo has the family whip withdrawn and has to spend Christmas dinner with the servants below stairs eating his way through a deselection box
Only a matter of time before Jo has the family whip withdrawn
More the other way isnt it? I thought Alex (as it is reported he is actually known to friends and family) is the odd one out.
He would only resign if it strengthened his position somehow. He's very cunning. but also reckless, which isn't good in a PM. And, thanks to Ms Davidson, he's also Ruthless.
eating his way through a deselection box
oh very good.
I think you'll find he's playing a blinder
No, he should just find a handy ditch.
So maybe Johnson needs a Falklands war.
The British have never invaded Sweden before, one of the few countries that they haven't. Perhaps that would make a good enough distraction?
No deal Brexit is his Falklands
This popped up on my FB. 
He's making Mays time as PM look like a well oiled machine
https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/1169676333028466688?s=19
He's coming across like a drunk picking a fight at closing time now over the election. "C'mon ya beardy lefty ****, I'll do you and all ya mates. You too you wee tartan ****er, I thought you were supposed to be hard etc"
Not forgetting this gem - gotta love Yorkshire directness.
https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1169664123745054727
He doesn't even handle that very well, "can't wait to get away from all these awful northerners" !
😂
So, in order to avoid any more unfortunate incidents involving plain speaking Northerners, Boris has decided to spend today in the company of some Aberdeenshire farmers.
What could possibly go wrong?
Hopefully, lots.
Isn’t it about now that unpopular Tory PMs look for a country to go to war with, to take everyone’s attention off how crap they are?
That's what Brexit is morphing into. Whatever you offer the ERG and the Brexit Party Faragists is never enough. No Deal will not be a 'proper Brexit', eventually the only 'real' Brexit will be to nuke Europe and Boris will stand in front of Number 10 saying that the only way of getting a deal is by threatening war. And that way he really can die in a ditch. No Deal is Brexit In Name Only. You read it here first.
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The British have never invaded Sweden before, one of the few countries that they haven’t. Perhaps that would make a good enough distraction?
Errrr, that's probably not a good idea. We have a lot of reserves here and train for being invaded by bigger armies than the UK.
It would also make me really consider which side I should be on. Not sure I want to make that choice.
It's a universal truth that no matter how bad a PM is the next one will make the previous one look good. No matter how improbable this seemed during May's time as PM, it's still true!