Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

BobKowalski said:
Johnson is a malignant toad and a moral vacuum. He is a creature of the privilege system that dominates the political and media class. That he became PM is the failure of that system writ large.

It was always going to end in ruins and his successor will fare no better, given they will be pulled from the same shallow pool of barely sentient pond life. Cameron, May, Johnson, each worse than the last and that trend will continue.

I have no idea why we keep electing people manifestly unfit for office, but I have every confidence we will keep doing so.
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Because the system is utterly broken, that’s why.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
These resignations won’t budge him by looks of it, can the rest of the commons put a vote of no confidence in on the government? And how long till the summer recess? Is there a chance he rides it out till then nothing can be done till September?
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They’ll oust him by Tuesday if he hasn’t already resigned, but he has to remain in place until a new leader is agreed. In that scenario, one would presume that people would agree to fill the ministerial vacancies just to keep the country ticking over.
 
Interesting take on the BBC:
Zahawi has written to tell Johnson time to go, and been published.
No. 10 aren't calling/answering, which means they don't have an answer to "is Johnson going to resign?".
 
Two days and the Education Secretary has gone.

The department is down to one in the Lords and that is it- the department is dead in the water.

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I just thank the lord we didn't elect a jam making gardener hell bent on funding public services, imagine the state we'd be in! All you Tory voters on here, well done, this is all on you.
 

Zahawi says he is speaking out publicly because he is 'heartbroken' because PM did not take advice to quit​

Here is the text of Nadhim Zahawi’s letter. In his tweet Zahawi makes it clear that this message is addressed to Boris Johnson, but his letter - on Treasury notepaper - reads like a press release. It is not addressed to anyone.

This may be one of the first documents Zahawi has signed on Treasury notepaper.

My number one priority has and always will be this great country. When asked to become chancellor, I did it out of loyalty. Not to a man, but loyalty to this country and all it has given me.
The challenges Britain faces, be it inflation or Putin’s war in Ukraine, will not pause for anything, and it is vital that the major offices of state continue to functi through a national crisis. If people have thought poorly of me for that decision, it is criticism I am willing to shoulder.
Yesterday, I made clear to the prime minister alongside my colleagues in No 10 that there was only one direction where this was going, and that he should leave with dignity. Out of respect, and the hopes that he would listen to an old friend of 30 years, I kept this counsel private.
I am heartbroken that he hasn’t listened and that he is now undermining the incredible achievements of this government at this late hour. No one will forget getting Brexit done, keeping a dangerous antisemite out of No 10, our handling of covid and our support for Ukraine in its hour of need.
But the country deserves a government that is not only stable, but which acts with integrity.
Prime Minister, you know in your heart what the right thing to do is, and go now
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I wonder if this will provoke another Trumpain style sacking for the Chancellor.
 
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