Boris Johnson!

This is the best thread ever at the moment. Keep the info coming in people.

Get ready for:
‘Night of the Long knives II’

I reckon I’m going to be glued to the news this evening…

I’m starting to think its not that he thought everyone else bought it and isn’t he a wonderful trickster but rather that he’s genuinely ill and believes in his own delusion.

Does anyone still think he’s incredibly clever?

Boris Johnson just came down the escalator glued to his phone. Asked him if he was going to resign when his cabinet told him. A young staffer shouted “resign!”

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) July 6, 2022

The prospect of a GE absolutely terrified Bernard Jenkin

Wow, I thought Iain Watson there was Andy Serkis for a moment.

So he said he didn’t read the bullying report as it would mean Patel would’ve had to be sacked or resign?!

This is the best thread ever at the moment. Keep the info coming in people.

34 resignations and counting.

“A million times better than anything Armando Iannucchi ever wrote for The Thick of It.”

But a bit closer to “The Death of Stalin.”

Caroline Nokes face was a picture of utter contempt regarding what she had understood the suggestion by Johnson that it was somehow an excuse for sexual assault being drunk

Oops, 35 now in the time it took me to post that.

35 on the bbc counter now

“34 resignations and counting.”

Cricket score.

…35

“I’ve got a big man date” – another one? 😁

just finished watching the liaison committee grilling

That really was a kicking wasn’t it

If the tory party have a voc in him and he looses he is still pm by my understanding just no leaderof yhe toey partu. That would take a vote in the hoc to remove him? Usually they resign but he won’t

His entire defence is to try and change subject, isn’t it.

And to say he doesnt want to talk about politics.
He might want to reconsider his career choice in that case.

Still nothing from the AG?

That was telling,

“when you get into the wheels of government” – ie, they’re in the shit when they start losing people who do the actual work.

Never seen anything like that committee session. That was a murder in broad daylight.

If the tory party have a voc in him and he looses he is still pm by my understanding just no leaderof yhe toey partu

Once the new leader is elected then he would lose the job but until then he carries on unless he choses to resign or they really cant stand him.
For example May who effectively lost a voc (as in was told they would be holding a new one if she didnt resign and knowing she didnt have a chance went for the latter) carried on until the idiot was selected.

1922 are dragging their feet on a rule change apparently.

Give him a week of breathing space?

Boris will survive no matter how many resignations there are at the moment.

If a GE is called now Boris will still survive, that’s because the alternative (opposition) is unthinkable and they can’t really make the situation better no matter how much they try.

However, with the way the world is going Boris might be weaken but his main test will come in two years time. If Conservative plays the ball right they will still be in power but that will depend if Labour or the oppositions will “bride” the population to vote for them by promising the sky (they usually do).

The oppositions are making the loudest noise at the moment but they will not win the next GE. Compare their leaders to Boris the are merely different sides of the same coin.

Angela Rayner for PM? That will learn you.

p/s: also if I were Scottish I would rather face a Conservative government rather than a Labour government …

1922 are dragging their feet on a rule change apparently.

I guess they dont want to set a precedence of changing the rules and are hoping he will do the right thing.
Good luck with that.

Local news.

Hyndburn & Haslingden MP, Sara Britcliffe has resigned “with a heavy heart” as the Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Department of Education, a post she’s held for 18 months. She calls the current political crisis “self-inflicted”.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=405585284937491

I know her dad!

The previous record for the most resignations in 24 hours was set in the 1930s.

It was 6 resignations.

In the last 24 hours we have had 26 resignations.

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) July 6, 2022

I can’t imagine any creature more clever than a slug would imagine Boris will “do the right thing”. Ever.

National treasure. 🙂

Word of the day is 'filipendulous' (19th century): hanging by a thread.

— Susie Dent (@susie_dent) July 6, 2022

What does everyone reckon, will he be gone by 6pm or alternatively is he going for the record of how many mass resignation induced cabinet reshuffles can a sitting PM have in a week?

Personally I’m just waiting for Jacob Rees Mogg to be interviewed live on channel 4 news, wearing his pants on his head while claiming that Boris has the Queen, the party, the country, the world and, indeed God, fully supporting him to continue as PM for all of eternity, then 3 weeks later attempting to resurect his flagging career by announcing that he is joining this autumns all-star celelbrity love island as a platform for his own Conservative leadership bid…

..36

I could type 37 now with confidence that it would be accurate within a half hour!

But quickly inaccurate again

..36

No biggie. They want to go then go.

“and now, let’s cut to Scotland, who is laughing its tits off.”

I’m sticking a tenner on him doing this…

He’s going to do it, isn’t he?

Just because he still can

Kwarteng has piled in on the has to go side.

If a GE is called now Boris will still survive, that’s because the alternative (opposition) is unthinkable and they can’t really make the situation better no matter how much they try.

I think I am correct that you are not living in the UK?

I would respectfully suggest you are missing the mood on the ground at the moment, and most Tory MP’s know it. ( Hence Bernard Jenkin pressing him at the end of the liaison Ctte. Meeting)
It’s clear they are terrified that he would call an election now. It’s possible that Johnson would loose his own seat in Uxbridge.

Kwarteng has piled in on the has to go side.

crikey man, that was sixteen minutes ago, keep up

You’re wrong chewy. There’s no surviving this. It’s over.