Boris Johnson!

I’m not celebrating as I can’t see any improvements on the horizon. Snouts playing musical chairs.

Had to switch it off because it was making me nauseous, but then switched on again, just hoping he might say something useful. But no.

WTF is “them’s the breaks”?

I liked the bit where he thanked his children. Good job he didn’t have to list them all by name.

that means the next tory leader won’t need to be a rabid brexiteer

Place your bets. There’s MPs, and the members… they get a say way before the general electorate. It’ll be a “real” Brexiter, with no economic policy beyond “sensible tax cuts”.

And now the summer of utter Boris madness begins, damaging the country even further until the day he actually leaves #10.

Sorry not sorry, resigning not resigning.

Or was that re-signing?

The Queen has the Royal Prerogative to appoint anyone put forward by the party grandees as an interim leader.

@martinhutch

No, she has perogative to appoint a PM put forward by the house.
The grandees don’t have the authority to put a leader in place and the party has no mechanism for doing so without a leadership election.
Without a leader they have no one who can claim enough support to be proposed. So no one the queen can assent to. They’re currently being screwed over by their own democratic process.
If they did Brady would have taken rabb up for anointment yesterday immediately after meeting Boris.

The only real way is the opposition support a candidate with moderate tory support to form a government with something resembling a majority based on that opposition support.

We’re in the farcical position where starmer needs to propose someone like May or Clarke form a government

I despair at the number of people who genuinely think that he and his government are doing a good job.

Should there be an STW Boris Johnson divorce sweepstake?

Dibs on 18months.

The man really has no shame at all.

He’s staying on as PM only because it still gives him a sliver of a chance to win the party back over.

So true

Leave means stay.

— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) July 7, 2022

He is staying on, to look for an angle, any crack that he can prise open and use to let him stay on as PM. This fire is not out yet.

The tories are as stupid as they look if they allow him to continue even for an hour more, he will burn them all in his quest for personal power.

If nothing else the resignation speech was true to form

– sees himself as the victim

– blames others

– can’t quite believe that we all think he’s shit at his job

I won’t believe it till there’s a stake through his heart and the ground he’s coffined in is sewn with salt.

— Mark Gatiss ? (@Markgatiss) July 7, 2022

He’s not resigned as PM yet – just said he will in the future …

On a side note…how on earth do you share a tweet with image rather than just a Web link????

He is staying on, to look for an angle, any crack that he can prise open and use to let him stay on as PM. This fire is not out yet.

Stay on as PM… or come back as PM. That speech didn’t sound like he thinks it’s really over. I agree that he’s looking for a way…

I’m not celebrating as I can’t see any improvements on the horizon. Snouts playing musical chairs.

Immediate improvement is just for unicorn dreamers.

Nothing will improve while the fuel cost is rising, food shortages and sanctions on Russia.

I predict many short term governments in future due to the above … I see that coming. Told you sanctions are for silly billy.

The tories are as stupid as they look if they allow him to continue even for an hour more, he will burn them all in his quest for personal power.

Isn’t that a good thing for the opposition party(s)? Let them burn themselves?

Putin bots properly engaged today. Only right that we have our own approximation of one.

Should there be an STW Boris Johnson divorce sweepstake?

12 months i think, gives him time to get his earnings up then she can screw him for lots of money before running off to lord zac

Putin bots properly engaged today. Only right that we have our own approximation of one.

I suspect the next PM will not last for more than 3 years or a term regardless of the party they come from. LOL!

I liked the bit where he thanked his children. Good job he didn’t have to list them all by name.

Made me draw a wry smile too..

Who’s the PLP?

Nope, I was thinking of the Peoples Front of Judea?

chewkw – out of interest, why are you such a Putin fan?

PS – the food shortages started, as I recall, when BoJo implemented his hard Brexit without checking we could import stuff from Europe, weak idiot that he is.

It’s his sex appeal… and success at political destabilisation. A thorn in the side of the zombie maggots.

Boris Johnson finally admits meeting ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev while Foreign Secretary, at height of Skripal poisoning crisis without officials or security. He went directly from NATO summit on Russia & Salisbury. Serious national security Qs. How was this allowed to happen? pic.twitter.com/Xe9n72YlL8

— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) July 6, 2022

Yvette Cooper – So why were home office ministers, cabinet office ministers & foreign office ministers all been covering up… covering up over national security is a national disgrace… the whole government is letting the country down. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/Muoru8rGei

— Haggis_UK ?? ?? (@Haggis_UK) July 7, 2022

All the ministers that lied for Johnson as regards this meeting (and others) should be kept out of the new cabinet. Yes, that includes Raab.

Johnson should be excluded from the privy council. Time to revisit those security checks on him. He shouldn’t be PM for a moment longer.

Slight distraction … I am only answering question.

chewkw – out of interest, why are you such a Putin fan?

Because the west has overstepped the boundary. West has no business in that part of the world especially with Ukraine.

Now we all suffer …

PS – the food shortages started, as I recall, when BoJo implemented his hard Brexit without checking we could import stuff from Europe, weak idiot that he is.

That is just a minor problem. Fuel or world grain were not affected then but when the sanctions start that’s where a minor problem snowball into a global problem.

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

The nation saying goodbye to #BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/VQS0XH3q0G

— BARNEY ? (@BarneyLUFC21) July 7, 2022

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 have checked the FCDO published transparency records for ministers’ meetings. Johnson did NOT register the meeting with Alexander Lebedev. He cannot have notified his officials.

— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) July 7, 2022

I see the swivel-eyed ERGers are taking it well

Conservative ultra Johnson-loyalist Andrea Jenkyns MP shouts "he who laughs last, laughs the loudest. Wait and see," at crowds outside Downing Street, following the Prime Minister's resignation statement. pic.twitter.com/nKGMQSfPYd

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 7, 2022

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