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Increasingly clear Boris Johnson will not go tonight. Or even tomorrow. Looks like the new 1922 committee will change the rules and there will be another confidence vote next week. Which Mr Johnson will lose. Lose badly. Then it will be over. Cue summer leadership contest.
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Then I will run everything myself.
At least if it is just BloJo BoJo and NAD, no one has to summon a nurse.
Gove has kept his head well down.
You don't really recover from something as godawful as this.
The 1922 need to meet tomorrow, change the rules and vote BEFORE the weekend.
I think Gove was going to quit but Boris Johnson fired him because of 2016.
I suppose Boris could try Rachel Johnson.
But what about insanity?
If a PM goes insane, what happens?
"You can't vote no confidence in me, I have sacked you as a Tory MP"
Does Johnson more closely resemble Nero or Caligula? Discuss.
I genuinely feel really sorry for decent, hard-working, party members and followers who must be gutted by what is going on.
I had a post liked by both @Heathener and @HYUFD on the last thread
We must be near the end of times
https://twitter.com/theatreofchips/status/1544777411971239943
The man is a chutzpah master, isn't he?
Gove's attitude towards the whole cladding / leasehold debacle warmed me to him substantially. One of the few front line politicians of the Johnson era I actually respect.
Gove-y is okay, but ultimately he's a lightweight in policy terms, and doesn't have the intellect of Dorries or the common touch of JRM.
Wise strategic move IMHO.
"He's basically pissed, on the corner of a street, at 3am, screaming: fuck the lot of you. I'll fight any cnut I want."
It's clear that we have a lunatic in No. 10. A man who whose grasp on reality is similar to that of Adolf Hitler in April 1945. The public hate him; his ministers hate him; his backbenchers hate him; the opposition MP's hate him.
He's a shitstain, who needs to be scrubbed down the S Bend.
He's a sociopath. He checks the boxes.
He was in charge of housing in a Government that had no intention of building enough houses
He was in charge of communities in a Government that hates all of society except reactionary old white people
Did Gove have anything to do in the first place?
It was always going to end like this.
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1544779364092485634
...but he's still the PM
Ooh, you make my Gove come down
It seems appropriate.
I suppose theoretically that the Tory civil war could precipitate a split and the two sides could destroy one another in something like the Canadian situation in 1993, but it seems unlikely.
Ever day Bozo stays is a day closer to the destruction of the Tory Party
Leadsom for leader...
Get back and Boris is still standing while Gove had been FIRED
What the hell are the Tories playing at?
He's not a lunatic. You may disagree with his actions but they have a logic to it. There also might be a fairly sized chunk of the population who admires him for fighting back. Reading through the Twitter comments (always a bad move), there's a bit more support than you might think.
Re being hated etc etc, the Tories are six percentage points behind Labour, Yes, Davey is winning by-elections. Think he''ll do well when he's asked in a GE "what's a woman" and stumbles like SKS does?
I think he will eventually go but I don't think he should resign - if they want to get rid of him that much, do a VONC and show some balls.
*panicked face*
SAVE BIG DOG!!!!!
https://twitter.com/nicholaswatt/status/1544780494130364416
Making yourself a minority government by sacking fucktons of your own MPs was always the sane option.
"PM in 'buoyant mood' and will announce economic plan with new chancellor next week
Boris Johnson's parliamentary private secretary James Duddridge has told Sky News the PM is in a "buoyant mood and will fight on".
"He has a 14 million mandate and so much to do for the country," Mr Duddridge said.
"I expect him to make senior cabinet appointments this evening and am looking forward to hearing what the PM and his fantastic Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi have to say tomorrow."
He initially said there would be a joint plan for the economy laid out by Mr Johnson and Mr Zahawi tomorrow, but moments later said it would be next week."
https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-live-updates-pm-fighting-for-political-life-after-sunak-and-javid-quit-12593360
They still fear a GE more than Boris methinks
BTW removing him as Tory leader DOES NOT remove him as PM constitutionally. Only a VONC or a GE can do that. If you think Boris does not know this you may be in for a shock.
The other issue is his utter inflexibility, which isn't just ideology. He genuinely believes he and his mates are brilliant and experts are thick.
I fear it may have been missed that after Gove has been sacked, there is now not a single Minister left in the Department for Levelling Up - the flagship policy of the government
https://twitter.com/richardmorrisuk/status/1544780501390692357
I did vote Tory in the 2019GE, like millions of others, because the alternative was Corbyn and my local MP was Damian Hinds - who's sane.