Boris Johnson!

1922 committee will give him a choice, resign now or wait until we change the rules and boot you out.

Will be interesting to see which he would choose but I think he might hold on, not that there is much he will be able to do until he gets booted.

So, what now?

Biscuits, now we eat biscuits and wait.

TINAS, don’t forget putting the kettle on. If I am going to watch this shitshow unraveling with biscuits, I want a cuppa as well as biscuits.

Johnson has had a remarkable amount of black and asians in his Cabinet

I had noticed that there several women and brown people being talked about for the top job and their gender or race haven’t been mentioned, that I can see. Also that whilst we are queueing up to excoriate them, it’s for actual personality traits and the thing’s they’ve done, rather than -ist stereotyping. At least, not that I’ve seen.

“The job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances, when he’s been handed a colossal mandate, is to keep going – and that’s what I’m going to do.”

I don’t give resignation very high odds.

A gangplank and a lot of pushing, now that I can bet on.

How long til he dissolves parliament and declares Martial Law?

I’m going for 4 o clock

World class simpleton Greg Hands has just been on Radio 4 defending Boris. I do find it quaintly charming that these idiots think that this loyalty would be a two-way street and he wouldn’t cast them aside like a mistress with a positive pregnancy test

Careful what we all wish for. Let the words “Acting Prime Minister Raab” sink in.

I do find it quaintly charming that these idiots think that this loyalty would be a two-way street and he wouldn’t cast them aside like a mistress with a positive pregnancy test

They don’t especially, they’re just not stupid enough to think the next folks will even want their blind loyalty. If he goes, they’re done for, if he stays there a slim chance (getting less slim as he runs out of folks who want his favor mind) they might be rewarded.

Careful what we all wish for. Let the words “Acting Prime Minister Raab” sink in.

Is fine, it’s nearly summer recess and we’re all well aware Rabb isn’t cancelling his holiday to go to work.

A pretty good assessment of the state of things by Martin Kettle in the Guardian

This mutiny should be the end of Johnson. But never underestimate his sheer lust for power

His former lieutenant turned would-be assassin, Dominic Cummings, retailed a devastating Johnson remark this week which, if true, sums the whole thing up. Suggesting that he should appoint himself as his own Downing Street chief of staff and spokesman in November 2020, Johnson reportedly told Cummings: “Yes I’ll **** up all sorts, but so what? If I can’t do what I want, what’s the point of being prime minister?”

I once took an 80 seat majority, and pissed it up the wall in less than 3 years.

(stolen from twitter, but for some reason the link would work)

Scary thought: the honourable member for the 18th century has been keeping his nose out of the media recently.

Clear enough to mount a leadership bid or just trying to stay out of the fallout?

Mogg is just staying clear. No way he is a candidate for leader unless they’re trying to lose.

He was on the BBC yesterday saying he supported the pm. Did a big piece on sky news too.

Boris holed up in number 10 right now

Do you think someone will supply the handgun as well

Gove

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Michael Gove has told Boris Johnson he must go

Housing Secretary delivered message to PM this morninghttps://t.co/DUWIHFxXRt

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) July 6, 2022

It all seems to be based on his use of the words pickaninny and watermelon smiles (none of which is particularly racist)

Try using that language in a pub in, for example, Moss side. I suspect that, at a minimum, there will be a liquid diet required for several weeks if one survives the experience.

NEW: member of '22 exec says rules likely to be changed this afternoon and a vote of confidence could be triggered TONIGHT. Would require enough MPs to re-submit letters of no confidence

— Tom Larkin (@TomLarkinSky) July 6, 2022

Presumably theres been a run on commons headed notepaper so theyre having to do them 5 at a time

FIVE ministers resign in one fell swoop: Kemi Badenoch, Neil O'Brien, Alex Burghart, Lee Rowley and Julia Lopez pic.twitter.com/WAYannhrvR

— Dominic Penna (@DominicPenna) July 6, 2022

“why did we leave in the first place?”

So that Boris Johnson could claim the title of Prime Minister. It was debate he felt he could win, and use to get himself the big title. Past the point of winning, he had absolutely nothing to offer the country once in the post beyond making sure we left. Absolutely nothing. He had no plan at all. He never did.

So who do we think then?
Truss
Javid with sunak back at number 11
Dorries entirely by accident?
Gove
Patel I can see trying for it but being too much even for the Conservative party.

And another:

Breaking Another minister resigns

Mims Davies is the latest minister to quit. She was employment minister at the Department for Work and Pensions.

She says the Conservative party “needs a fresh start and I can see no other way forward than this”.

That takes the total ministers and aides who have quit to 27.

Gove a back stabbing, two-faced traitor?  No!  What a surprise…

Quote on Times Radio this morning “Boris’s favourite mode of transport is the seat of his pants”

I think this could happen fast now.

So erm will he be turning up to this liason committee thing?

I really really want him to cling on to the absolute bitter end

Well at last I can say I watched Johnson’s last PMQ’s live. Was worth it too.

Who’s going to twist the knife? Gove looks like he’s doing his best. Raab? Needs a Secretary of State to finish the job.

Dorries entirely by accident?

Joke candidates have won leadership elections in the past.

Javid with Sunak back at number 11

That’s where my money would be.
Though Hunt has been playing the long game for a while so I’m not sure I’d bet against him either.

He’s already lost 2 SOS’s Sunak and Javid.

I really really want him to cling on to the absolute bitter end

I think Johnson wants to as well.

And Gove only wrote to me the other day saying…..

“You will now know that the Prime Minster has secured the support of the Party and I know that he now feels an even greater weight of responsibility to deliver on the priorities of the British people: to ease the hardship caused by the rising cost of living, to protect our nation from the aftershocks of Covid, to stand firm against Putin’s aggression, and to unite and level up across our United Kingdom. He has my full support in this.

Thank you again for contacting me.”

What a surprise. I never thought he was listening to me. Perhaps it was my reply to this load of crap that made the difference 🙂

So who do we think then?

Nobody who has been a senior member of this cabinet

I think the Tories will revert to type this time around and elect someone nobody expects like they did with Cameron and Major

Even disgraced former defence secretary dr liam fox is sticking the boot in now

Even ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick has told him to go. Imagine him passing moraljudgement on you?

I really really want him to cling on to the absolute bitter end

I think we can take that as a given. Remember the Waco siege? We might be in for rerun

1922 committee will give him a choice,

Maybe it doesn’t even have to come to that. In the last confidence vote the only people who supported him pretty much were people who had a government job – ministers, junior ministers, PPSs etc. of which there are loads.  By nature of having that job they were pretty much prevented them from voting against him because that vote would be a defacto resignation. Now that dozens of those people have resigned anyway the PM only really has the choice of ‘people who voted against him in a no confidence vote’ in the pool of people to chose from to fill those vacancies. If there are enough vacancies he just wont be able to fill them.

oooh hes turned up to the liason committee!!
hes going to try & brass it out!!

Of course he has, There’s reports that he’ll even contest a 1922 challenge, as he thinks he still has the support of “the majority of MPs”

So that Boris Johnson could claim the title of Prime Minister. It was debate he felt he could win, and use to get himself the big title. Past the point of winning, he had absolutely nothing to offer the country once in the post beyond making sure we left. Absolutely nothing. He had no plan at all. He never did.

Yep he got to play PM and wear lots of Hi viz jackets with Prime Minster on, you got the bill.

Would have been cheaper to have paid him £1BN and forgot about it.

I think the Tories will revert to type this time around and elect someone nobody expects like they did with Cameron and Major

Good call, Iain Stewart has a bit of government experience but not in a senior enough role to really be tainted by all this. It would also do a good job of pissing off sturgeon and taking some of the wind for IS out by putting a Scottish MP in the top job, both of which will sell well to a chunk of the party.

We’re going to end up with 100 yr old Lords and Baronesses as Senior ministers, while junior slots are filled by staff from the canteen as well as cardboard cutouts of Dominic Raab.

Performance of the gov. could actually increase.

cardboard cutouts of Dominic Raab

They’d be an improvement over the real one