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Snap poll finds more than half saying BJ should resign – politicalbetting.com
Snap poll finds more than half saying BJ should resign – politicalbetting.com
The big news this afternoon is that Allegra Stratton has quit. This follows the video of her issued last night.
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like LibDems in N Shropshire.
https://twitter.com/senewspics/status/1468595893238734855?s=20
The Eco-Fascists never get treated this way...They get asked if they would like hemp or oat milk with their tea, while blocking the road for hours.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to opinions on Brexit. Is Boris so bound up with the idea and execution of Brexit that he drags opinion on the whole thing down with him, or is opinion on Brexit completely independent of views on Boris and he was simply a convenient mouthpiece for it?
Recent polling might tend to support the former - that he is tarring the image of Brexit in the public eye - but that may just be to do with general perceptions of how it's going (border admin, fishing tussles with France, all the article 16 noise). We'd be able to tell one way or the other if the Yougov tracker poll suddenly ticks up if Boris is replaced as leader.
Fans attending sports events including Premier League matches this weekend are expected to be required to have vaccine passports or proof of a negative test as part of new government rules to tackle the Covid pandemic.
The Premier League was in talks with Whitehall officials on Wednesday seeking clarification on the requirements of complying with the government’s plan B, due to be announced to deal with the spread of the Omicron variant.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/premier-league-grounds-set-for-vaccine-passports-under-covid-plan-b-mrwcf6kkw
Despite being the poster girl for this story, Allegra Stratton was not in charge of the Downing Street press operation at the time of these events, according to the leaked video did not stay for the party in question and certainly is not responsible for briefing the PM or the Lobby about the nature or existence of the party this week. Ultimately the PM must take responsibility for his advisors and their actions. Boris’s errors at PMQs today, not least denying Lee Cain’s leaving do was a party on November 13 and being bounced by Starmer into agreeing to hand over any evidence to the Metropolitan Police and the CPS, has compounded his difficulties. The Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is to head an internal inquiry, though currently Downing Street can’t confirm or deny if he attended the party. Allegra resigning over a party for which she wasn’t responsible might not be the end of this…
https://order-order.com/2021/12/08/whose-head-will-roll-over-downing-street-parties/
Even Boris official PR team at Guido Fawkes sticking the boot in, he is in big trouble.
If she should go for having said something embarrassing, where does that leave those who actually did the thing that it was embarrassing to admit to? Or their boss, who must have known about it.
As ever: DYOR, this is not advice!
Sad to see Stratton's tearful resignation, but it is kind of inevitable. She humiliated herself on that video and a resignation now was realistically the only way out.
The weirdest thing in the video is the way that she looked at the camera in an embarrassed way saying "this is filmed" . . . why not ensure that recording was deleted? To allow it to leak is just odd. Don't put things on tape you don't want to see the light of day, its like the political equivalent of a sex tape.
https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1468611210606268426
Hopefully Allegra Stratton's resignation should begin to draw a line under the story
In other times the video in a headline like this would surely have been a bit more x-rated
This gives the lie to any idea this is some kind of internal Spectator/ITV plot. She is married to James Forsyth, the Spec's political ed, he won't be happy seeing his wife in bits, nor will their kids be overjoyed at the sight of Mum weeping on telly
However as long as Boris was not personally at this party he will stay
Which of the BJ alternatives will be able to put a competent staff in place?
Boris needs to realise time is up and do the honest thing and resign and not hide behind resignations of his staff
Whistleblowers and journos trying to get verification on a few things.
Not only could he show clear blue water between him and the Boris cluster-fk but He would be the darling of a lot of Tory MPs who might then find the strength and motivation to get those letters in to Brady PDQ - striking whilst the iron is hot…..
For the first time in my life I'm hoping that Dominic Cummings has something that helps him further in his closet.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/08/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-seen-relaxing-queens-log-cabin/
- A far better initial Brexit deal with the Backstop replaced with the infinitely better NI Protocol including Article 16
- 80 seat majority defeating Jeremy Corbyn
- Got Brexit Done
- Promoted Liz Truss who did a great job shoring up trade agreements and starting new ones.
- Got a trade deal with the EU that allows regulatory divergence.
- Vaccines
- Promoted my 250/1 next PM tip Rishi Sunak to Chancellor.
- Got us through a pandemic with full employment at the other end.
- Vaccines. Vaccines. Vaccines.
- One of the only nations to drop Covid restrictions in the summer.
Those are all on the credit list.I really hope the cabinet and his mps call time is up
The Allegra Stratton mess also makes me question my prior assumption this is a Cummings hit job. Cummings is married to Mary Wakefield, another Spectator editor (and, no doubt, a friend of Stratton)
Is Dominic that envenomed he would take down his friends as well as his enemies?
"5G in Coverdale: Ancient valley set for telecoms upgrade"
I mean, most valleys are ancient, aren't they?
It's a more complicated, slower burn story. That doesn't mean it will get forgotten.
If 3 vaxx doses or 2 plus an infection still pretty much stop you getting omicron, then there aren't gonna be many hospitalisation even in a large omicron wave cos we've already triple-vaxxed the main groups from which hospitalisations come.
Most Tory voters still want Boris to stay on this afternoon's polls, he will therefore stay despite the usual anti Boris hysteria on here (most of it from those who did not vote Tory in 2019 anyway(
Three in ten say they are less likely to follow Covid rules as a result (29%).
This rises to a third of Labour voters (33%) and those aged 18-34 (33%) who say the same.
Over half say they are just as likely to follow the rules (54%)
Whatever Boris Johnson announces tonight will be ignored by large parts of the country making us less secure.
He needs to go and be replaced by someone with the credibility and authority to launch you new Covid-19 measures.
I still object to them asking, but so long as they aren't insisting on me downloading something on to my phone, then I'm not too worried. But there is bound to be trouble if they actually stop people from entering without proof of being vaccinated.
Don't spoil it.
When it comes to restrictions then we need to take a drugs stance to them: Just Say No.
If that's protecting the sovereignty of the UK I'd hate to see what not ptotecting it looks like.
Infinitely worse.
And then you go on about the polls. You are defending a party that doesn't want people like you as a member.
And I have voted conservative every election since 1964, apart from 1997 and 2001, and again in 2019
Can you not see the damage he has caused to the party with Paterson and now this
A lot of people I think will be happy to see her resign and will view a tear-filled resignation as the matter resolved, unlike what happened with Cummings. Had Cummings done a teary-eyed resignation then that would have played out very differently.
And not to be sexist, but the fact its a woman crying on TV is a powerful image.
Cabinet has yet to meet and who knows maybe they are saying time to go
https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/1468611596176052225
Johnson still has significant support in the country and he still has the BBC watching his back, and can easily tough this out.
Decent arb or not ?
She had to resign, and it is good that she did. But she's still a human being. She made a foolish, throwaway remark about a party which - it seems - she never even attended. Who hasn't made a daft remark that would look terrible if filmed and put in a different context?
One can condemn the actions but still forgive the person. And she has done the right thing. Resigned almost immediately
Better that we get through the winter with him refusing new restrictions than he's replaced with someone "with the moral authority" to put us back into lockdown again.
And, FPT, a question I asked then: what is 'the succession of Antrim'?
While we were all making sacrificing she was taking the piss.
Who Boris resembles more than either of them would like to admit.
Maybe BoJo will find some medical excuse to step down.
Whereas Boris has been denying a party took place which he knew was a lie or if he didn't he should have jolly well known. I mean how many clues has he been given over the last week.
https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1468617974399619072
There's a left wing one: the Guardian, the BBC, the Shadow Cabinet, north London types
There's a posho Remainer west London Tory elite: Cameron, Osborne, etc
This crosses over with a third cabal: the Spectator Telegraph Brexiteer faction, who are in charge at the moment (but maybe not for much longer)
And so on
Let say he wasn't even in Downing Street the day of the party (which it is suggested he was), the chances not a single person ever mentioned well such and such got twatted or talk of stupid secret santa presents etc....not a single person ever let it slip there was a piss up, not a chance.