Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

[Bluemanc100]

You're right in one respect. The buffoonery is all show which gets geriatric duffers to like him. There is no doubt that he is very intelligent and calculating, however the strong impression I get from him, is that it's all about him and everything else is irrelevant. He'd throw anyone or any position straight under a bus if it were to benefit him personally. If ditching Brexit meant that he would stay as PM for a few years, he'd do it in a heartbeat.

I doubt that part but he may have no option if he is stopped from taking the hard Brexit option...

 

[MillionMilesAway]

They probably are . I don’t know him personally do you ?

That's a very strange comment.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Boris about to appoint Dominic Cummings as a special adviser, former Gove man and brexit realist. He's not a fan of the ERG, this is from him:-

Promising all things to all people is a consistent theme with brexit. Someone isn't going to get what they want and this move suggests Boris will start upsetting the brexit nutters in the ERG.

This and the interview with Matt Hancock on R4 Today where he categorically ruled out a pact with the brexit party leads me to suspect that Boris will go a lot softer on brexit than he has led people to believe. Hancock will get a ministerial job today and was very much speaking as a representative of the new government.

If Boris doesn't do a deal with the BXP then he will know that a GE is not an option as he would lose. Odds on a WA passing or a second ref going up - maybe even a WA subject to a 2nd Ref. Hold on to your hats if that goes through.

 

[Metal Biker]

Hammond gone yet?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Hammond gone yet?

Did he not resign already?

 

[Metal Biker]

Did he not resign already?

"intends to".

Hasn't yet. Recent tweet from him:

"Congratulations @BorisJohnson! You have said very clearly that you are determined to do a deal with Brussels - and you will have my wholehearted support in doing so. Good luck!"

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Mogg wont take any job as to take a ministerial role means you have to resign all other paid positions. Borris will have to take the hit of not working for the daily hail. Mogg however is up to his eyeballs in hedge funds and he wont give it up. It also doesn't suit his style of spouting rubbish from the sidelines that doesn't ever need to materialise into anything of substance.

Mogg doesn't have, or manage, any hedge funds.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Did he not resign already?

Johnson isn't Prime Minister yet.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Mogg doesn't have, or manage, any hedge funds.

As an Asset Manager he will be investing in hedge funds on behalf of his clients.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Mogg doesn't have, or manage, any hedge funds.

"co-founded a hedge fund management business Somerset Capital Management LLP."

He my not manage hedge-funds but he has an interest outside of politics. I can't believe he's only 50!