Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

Fred_Quimby said:
Note he didn't promise not to call a GE if he was forced out.
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The threat of a GE could be the only thing that might save him. The rest of the party know they’d be trounced. I don’t know whether he could actually follow through on that threat though. I suspect not.
 
lust overlord said:
Yeah,when he bumbles and blusters when he's asked sticky questions,or says he doesn't recall,I'm inclined to believe him on occasion,simply because planning and detail,aren't for political giants like him they are for lesser mortals.
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1/4 of the lesser mortals have resigned in the last 24 hours.
 
west didsblue said:
The threat of a GE could be the only thing that might save him. The rest of the party know they’d be trounced. I don’t know whether he could actually follow through on that threat though. I suspect not.
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As I said earlier, he could go to the HOC and call for a vote on a ‘matter of confidence‘. If he lost, which he surely would, he would then call a general election, likely for September, as they do like summer off!
 
Johnson probably thinks the chief whip arrival means ones more orgy on the taxpayers expense.

I imagine Patel is being spitroasted by Gove and Schapps as we speak.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
In 2017, effectively 72% of all votes didn’t count for anything.
In the 2017 election it took 26,000 votes for the SNP to win a seat compared with over 800,000 for the Green Party.
Labour had to gain over 50,000 votes to elect each MP, while the Conservatives needed only 38,000.

In 2015, it was even worse! Over 3.8M votes for the UKIP Party won 1 seat and the greens got 1.1M (300,000 less than the total SNP vote) for one seat.

Whilst the following obviously changed in 2019, given what’s going on, it’s likely most if not all will revert back and some of the stats are quite damning.

  • 98 Labour seats haven’t changed hands since WWII (37% of their 2017 total).
  • 94 Conservative seats haven’t changed hands since WWII (30% of their 2017 total)
  • 65 seats haven’t changed hands since 1918 or earlier (10% of seats) – affecting 4.8m potential voters
  • 192 seats haven’t changed hands since 1945 or earlier (30% of seats): affecting 13.7m potential voters
Simple fact is that the government got 44% of the vote, 56% of the seats and 100% of the power. In 2017, if 533 had voted differently, there would have been a majority government and not a hung parliament.
Almost half of all voters are represented by an MP/ party they didn’t vote for. Apparently that’s democracy!!
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Great Post it's not democracy
 
mat said:
Johnson probably thinks the chief whip arrival means ones more orgy on the taxpayers expense.

I imagine Patel is being spitroasted by Gove and Schapps as we speak.
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why did you post that?

How am i ever getting that image out of my head?

to quote coach in "The Gentlemen", thats nightmare fuel, that'll be with me forever
 
So just to get this straight.

Less than 24 hours after trading loyalty for the Chancellor's job, Zahawi is "privately" (but letting everyone know) calling for him to resign?


Seems like he's both picked the losing side, ruled himself out of the leadership contest by backing Boris yesterday, and made himself the shortest serving Chancellor ever by showing his loyalty doesn't even hold for 24h.
 
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