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It is better than England simultaneously winning the Footy World Cup, the Rugby World Cup and every other sport through to tiddlywinks World Cup. Oh joyous days!
Nuclear war with Russia it is.
Our unwritten constitution has bloodlessly, peacefully and rapidly led to the fall of the PM - despite the written rules claiming he was safe for 12 months.
Long may our unwritten constitution continue. Nimble agility of Parliament doing what it has to do is better than sclerotic, inevitably archaic "rules" being put in place that can be abused by whoever is in charge of the rules.
Let's hope we don't find there's another one floating to the top...
Edit: Also, glad I'm (mostly) traded out of Starmer for next PM a while ago. All green there.
Wallace has basically laid out the boiler plate templte they'll all come out with on twitter after Boris announces his resignation pending a new leader.
He's untrustworthy and will seek to remain, buggering up the country to try and buy himself a favourable legacy in the meantime.
Get rid of him, PCP, or be shown to be utter fools once again.
Who is going to serve in the cabinet?
Half the positions are vacant.
Just piping up to say how absolutely brilliant PB is as a site for following unfolding political drama. It's a one-stop shop for everything you need to know, much better than any other source of news. It's not just the quality and variety of the commentary, it's also the links that people post, including to Twitter (which I never look at other than on here). Almost every resignation letter has been linked to here - I wouldn't have read any of them otherwise. So thanks to OGH and all involved.
I now expect to be banned for sycophancy, but that's a price worth paying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXICXpquf8
You're history
My enemy
You're history
So get on your bike and take a hike right out of here
Sri Lanka is in a crisis. Ukraine is in a crisis. Even America is in more of a political crisis
The UK’s quaint yet effective “constitution” has got rid of a prime minister within about 36 hours of it becoming obvious he had lost his party
That’s how it is meant to work. The man from the 1922 goes into Number 10 and comes out with a scalp. And so it is
36 hours! Other countries must envy our athletic turn of speed
We face many problems, but the constitution is not one of them
Edit* There's a Brexit loony on TV whose name I've forgotten who has put his hat into the ring. (Steve Baker) and the even bigger loony Braverman)
This triggers the Conservative leadership election.
He isn’t resigning as PM - he will do that when the new Conservative leader is chosen.
Who are the players who are jockeying for position now?
Cersei - Truss
Littlefinger - Gove
Varys - Zahawi
Targaryen - May/Hunt
Ned Stark - Sunak
Sandor Clegane - Patel
https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1544961865146662913
Decide in haste.
The Tory Party needs to decide what it is for.
They are desperate not to have that debate.
https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1544959113024634880?s=21&t=U6sRATXCaUg-fHI3ckdssA
I agree. It's unlikely, but not inconceivable, that Johnson will seek to remain on a pretext (e.g. escalation in Ukraine).
He is being removed due to his personal misconduct and unsuitability (contrast May, who was unable to progress the key policy issue of the day but who was perfectly capable of acting as PM for an interim period). He also doesn't have a Government as such.
The right thing to do is for someone senior who doesn't intend to stand for the leadership to step in on an interim basis. Much though I dislike Raab, as DPM and ex-Foreign Secretary he is a qualified person (assuming he's not throwing his own hat in the ring).
Anyone who thinks Johnson remaining as PM wont mean him spending every waking minute trying to find a way to extended that time in No 10 by hook or crook or engineering early election somehow has not been awake these last few months.
Boris simply cannot be trusted to be PM for another 3 hours let alone 3 months.
1. Hard right wing nut job will find enough MP support to make run off
2. Bidding war over hardest Brexit and lowest taxes possible
3. Demented elderly membership picks hard right wing nut job
4. Socioeconomic collapse. Scenes
The disconnect between what Johnson says and reality is, I'm afraid, always going to be the issue.
This is not our system working. MPs should still hold a Commons vote of no confidence to pry him out of Number Ten and put someone immediately in his place - interim or permanent.
The grubby chaos of the last few days is Boris Johnson's shame. But it is Britain's shame too.
Time to stamp on his fingers and be shot of him.
You have no idea how satisfied that has made me!
You might think that Johnson’s -60s favourability ratings in Scotland are exceptional. They’re not. May and Cameron were similarly unpopular.
In fact, there’s a few names on the Tory list that might even plumb new depths.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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It’s perfectly sensible for Boris to remain in post until the new leader is appointed. No need to add further disruption with an interim PM.
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It's f*cking nuts imho.
It will end in another disaster of some description.
Urgent question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make a statement on the functioning of Government - Angela Rayner
Urgent question
To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the national security implications, following the Salisbury attack, of the then Foreign Secretary’s private meeting with Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB officer - Yvette Cooper
https://www.parliament.uk/business/
I think we will see a weight lifted off as politicians are able to return to doing what they normally do
This one is not his fault. Everyone elses fault for appointing the narcissist in the first place.
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The second Theresa May said she was going to go and the leadership contest began, that was it, her time was over even if she kept the seat warm until her replacement was found.
Once he says he's going he loses all authority. The people who left office can return to it "out of a sense of duty" (though dealing with the Chancellor issue is going to be interesting) and the leadership contest can begin.
We are a Parliamentary democracy. It is the MPs who choose and who give confidence to a leader - and they need to choose the best person to lead the country. They need have a regard for all their voters not the limited few who are party members.
A tiny group of unrepresentative voters inflicted this twit on us before. They inflicted Corbyn on us. They should never again be allowed to do so.
Sadly, he had.
That’s certainly going to keep them in the teens in Scotland.
What the Tories really need is to stop acting like Tories.
Let’s all hope that, whatever happens in Westminster, the focus on that country isn’t lost in the coming days, weeks and months.
One of the last I'd have picked. Only a few days since I remembered him. Didn't know he'd even made MP. He'll be remembered as a curious footnote.
Hartlepool peak Boris, I said
Toast, I said
If all my toast bets had been toast by end 22 bets I would be the richest man on PB. Lesson about greed and impatience there.
Resigned ministers can't just pick up where they left off - and the process of appointing replacements should surely not be left to the deluded zombie PM ?
I remember going to school to be told that a Year 12 pupil, who was a prefect and RSM of the Cadets in the school, had died. I thought it was a very bad joke, only to then be told no, seriously, he had. He'd taken his parents car keys and crashed it into a tree. 😢
My decision to rejoin the Tory party in January to vote in a Tory leadership election in 2022 makes me a seer.