Sigh…. And now the idiots who think Boris is similar to Trump and/or has links to Putin come out and make me want to defend him.
Are there some similarities? Sure. But people overplay it. Boris is establishment through and through. He's no outsider moulding the party to his whims, he's a aprt of the factional ebb and flow. He's sound on Ukraine, covid, he's actually fairly liberal in several areas, etc. He's awful in many other ways, but the Trump line, for me, just downplays where he is awful in a different way, and, pains me to say it, forces ignoring where he is sound.
Boris is also demonstrably a winner compared to Trump.
In what way is he a winner by comparison? Both won one election.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Wow. Some sort of record in the making. 4 Conservative MPs declare in one day that they are standing down. 3 in marginal seats where Labour is challenging. 2 with immediate effect and the other 2 at the general election.
Listening to that news clip, these charges sound flimsy and unconvincing. It sounds exactly how he describes it, a witch hunt. In practical terms this situation will simply assist his re-election bid and it will be likely to do terminal damage to US politics and society.
Have you read the endictments . The charges are very serious .
Yes - he allegedly kept classified information, and then obstructed an investigation in to it. It just sounds like the authorities were desperate to arrest him and this was the best they could come up with.
Now, let's get back to a proper Conservative party and prepare to beat Labour next year.
Nothing has stopped Sunak leading a "proper Conservative Party" since he took over last November. I don't know why the departure of Johnson and Dorries will suddenly change anything.
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Wow. Some sort of record in the making. 4 Conservative MPs declare in one day that they are standing down. 3 in marginal seats where Labour is challenging. 2 with immediate effect and the other 2 at the general election.
The funny thing about Boris talking about being 'bewildered' he can be forced out is whilst he is particularly incensed by the Chair and the specifics, in essence he is really just complaining about the ability for their to be recalls at all.
Which privately might find sympathy with a lot of MPs, for all very few have been recalled to date.
Boris is pretty astute about avoiding fights he can’t win. Look at the withdrawal from the leadership election after Cameron resigned. He must have calculated that without the active support of Sunak he had no chance of overturning the committee’s recommendations. He was probably right.
Will he be back? Not while Sunak is there but that is only 15 months or so.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Yes I wish someone would do this analysis.
I can help start the process. For years I have been saying that Boris was a waste of space.
I said the same about Truss and Raaaaab. And Brexit.
And just for the record, Sunak is cr*p as well.
TMay was my blind spot. At one point I thought she would do the job well.
Boris is pretty astute about avoiding fights he can’t win. Look at the withdrawal from the leadership election after Cameron resigned. He must have calculated that without the active support of Sunak he had no chance of overturning the committee’s recommendations. He was probably right.
Will he be back? Not while Sunak is there but that is only 15 months or so.
Dude, just kick back and relax - you've got 3 young kids, speaking engagements and book tours, and a lifetime of sub-Corbyn sof adulation from those who know you would have won if you had a chance.
Listening to that news clip, these charges sound flimsy and unconvincing. It sounds exactly how he describes it, a witch hunt. In practical terms this situation will simply assist his re-election bid and it will be likely to do terminal damage to US politics and society.
Have you read the endictments . The charges are very serious .
Yes - he allegedly kept classified information, and then obstructed an investigation in to it. It just sounds like the authorities were desperate to arrest him and this was the best they could come up with.
The authorities bent over backwards to give Trump every opportunity to quietly return the documents they knew he had & escape any censure whatsoever. They were incredibly reluctant to charge an ex-president for obvious reasons. Trump then insisted on doubling down, denying the documents existed & obstructing attempts by the authorities to recover them. What did you expect them to do? At some point you have to bring in the big guns, because national security is at stake: Trump was leaving boxes of documents around Mar-a-lago where anyone with access to the building could peruse them at leisure & the place was probably salted with non-US spies from top to bottom already. Once you’ve sent in the FBI, everyone knows a crime has been committed & the system almost has to kick into gear because it cannot do otherwise.
All of this was always in Trumps power to prevent. All he had to do was return the documents. He refused & now he gets to find out what the consequences of that choice are.
Pursued by the metropolitan-liberal-elite on trumped-up charges, when all they wanted to do was be corrupt and anti-democratic populists..
Say what you like about Boris and Trump but they won the most seats for the Conservatives in 2019 and the highest Electoral College vote for the Republicans in 2016 since the 1980s.
Upper middle class and city dwelling voters may despise them but they had a big connection to the white working class and rural areas and small towns
Now, let's get back to a proper Conservative party and prepare to beat Labour next year.
Nothing has stopped Sunak leading a "proper Conservative Party" since he took over last November. I don't know why the departure of Johnson and Dorries will suddenly change anything.
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
This is a common trope. But I don't think it ever does a party good to lose an election.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Yes I wish someone would do this analysis.
I can help start the process. For years I have been saying that Boris was a waste of space.
I said the same about Truss and Raaaaab. And Brexit.
And just for the record, Sunak is cr*p as well.
TMay was my blind spot. At one point I thought she would do the job well.
Me too, pretty much. And I called all four of Rishi’s “shitpicks” the day he announced Cabinet and now three are gone and the one left is Suella Braverman…
Pursued by the metropolitan-liberal-elite on trumped-up charges, when all they wanted to do was be corrupt and anti-democratic populists..
Say what you like about Boris and Trump but they won the most seats for the Conservatives in 2019 and the highest Electoral College vote for the Republicans in 2016 since the 1980s.
Upper middle class and city dwelling voters may despise them but they had a big connection to the white working class and rural areas and small towns
Re your last paragraph he has lost the lot of them
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Far easier on the conscience tonight to note that I have never voted Conservative, and I wouldn't vote for a party led by Johnson if it was the only party on the list.
Now, let's get back to a proper Conservative party and prepare to beat Labour next year.
Nothing has stopped Sunak leading a "proper Conservative Party" since he took over last November. I don't know why the departure of Johnson and Dorries will suddenly change anything.
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
This is a common trope. But I don't think it ever does a party good to lose an election.
I actually agree. There is always a chance to renew, to rediscover, and that is easier when you have the levers of power to work with. That they are too tired or riven to manage that a third time means the next option to renew is out of officee, but it wasn't actually a necessity.
If Johnson does stand in Mid Beds it will be vitally important that he loses. Otherwise he would have received explicit backing from the electorate of Mid Beds for setting aside any system of holding politicians to any level of standards. They would have approved of his lying to the House.
Arguably the principle is the other way round. The electorate have the right to vote for whomever they like.
Pursued by the metropolitan-liberal-elite on trumped-up charges, when all they wanted to do was be corrupt and anti-democratic populists..
Say what you like about Boris and Trump but they won the most seats for the Conservatives in 2019 and the highest Electoral College vote for the Republicans in 2016 since the 1980s.
Upper middle class and city dwelling voters may despise them but they had a big connection to the white working class and rural areas and small towns
.. Although they actually despised them.
This kind of underlying issue of entitled plutocrats that would make itself more obvious eventually..
Why do people insist on saying “with immediate effect” instead of just “immediately”.
Because he could immediately announce he is resigning with effect from some future date. Whenever I have resigned, I have given notice, so it was not with immediate effect.
Now, let's get back to a proper Conservative party and prepare to beat Labour next year.
Nothing has stopped Sunak leading a "proper Conservative Party" since he took over last November. I don't know why the departure of Johnson and Dorries will suddenly change anything.
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
This is a common trope. But I don't think it ever does a party good to lose an election.
I actually agree. There is always a chance to renew, to rediscover, and that is easier when you have the levers of power to work with. That they are too tired or riven to manage that a third time means the next option to renew is out of officee, but it wasn't actually a necessity.
I disagree. If your thesis had any basis in fact then Parties would get better the longer they governed and, historically, they actually get worse every year they are in power.
As the old saying has it "Nappies and politicians both need regular changing and for much the same reason..."
Wow. Some sort of record in the making. 4 Conservative MPs declare in one day that they are standing down. 3 in marginal seats where Labour is challenging. 2 with immediate effect and the other 2 at the general election.
Interesting to note that the reported cunning wheeze of this afternoon was to block peerages for Dorries and Sharma, "to avoid two unnecessary by-elections." Great plan. Flawlessly executed.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Far easier on the conscience tonight to note that I have never voted Conservative, and I wouldn't vote for a party led by Johnson if it was the only party on the list.
I have voted Conservative in the past, but the last time I did so was 2010. After that, when they started becoming populists and nationalists, I stopped voting for them.
There is no Conservative Party at present - just a bunch of centre-right nutters and opportunists.
The first point is, sans Johnson, Uxbridge & South Ruislip is going to be a tougher seat to hold - not impossible but given current polling, difficult. The Old Bexley & Sidcup by-election in late 2021 saw a 10% swing to Labour - that would be enough to turn Uxbridge & South Ruislip red.
Let's assume with fanfares, Johnson arrives in Flitwick (not quite Caesar entering Rome).
There are two questions - what happens if he wins and what happens if he loses?
Those claiming to be masters of 4-D chess might want to consider each scenario.
This does rather solve the tactical voting problem that I referred to earlier. Labour will concentrate on Uxbridge, LibDems on Mid-Beds - just like before when we had two by-elections.
Now, let's get back to a proper Conservative party and prepare to beat Labour next year.
Nothing has stopped Sunak leading a "proper Conservative Party" since he took over last November. I don't know why the departure of Johnson and Dorries will suddenly change anything.
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
This is a common trope. But I don't think it ever does a party good to lose an election.
I actually agree. There is always a chance to renew, to rediscover, and that is easier when you have the levers of power to work with. That they are too tired or riven to manage that a third time means the next option to renew is out of officee, but it wasn't actually a necessity.
I disagree. If your thesis had any basis in fact then Parties would get better the longer they governed and, historically, they actually get worse every year they are in power.
As the old saying has it "Nappies and politicians both need regular changing and for much the same reason..."
You've misunderstood my premise - it's that it is not a requirement to lose to change. It is one approach, and the most common one at that. But if they were better at managing themselves they would not need to do it.
It's time for change because they clearly have become unable to use the rungs of power to refresh themselves. But it would have been better for the party had they been more successful at doing so.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Far easier on the conscience tonight to note that I have never voted Conservative, and I wouldn't vote for a party led by Johnson if it was the only party on the list.
I have voted Conservative in the past, but the last time I did so was 2010. After that, when they started becoming populists and nationalists, I stopped voting for them.
There is no Conservative Party at present - just a bunch of centre-right nutters and opportunists.
I once gave my 3rd preference vote to a Tory candidate because he had a tragically amusing surname and I thought he must have been bullied at school. And had zero chance of winning.
Wow. Some sort of record in the making. 4 Conservative MPs declare in one day that they are standing down. 3 in marginal seats where Labour is challenging. 2 with immediate effect and the other 2 at the general election.
If Johnson does stand in Mid Beds it will be vitally important that he loses. Otherwise he would have received explicit backing from the electorate of Mid Beds for setting aside any system of holding politicians to any level of standards. They would have approved of his lying to the House.
Arguably the principle is the other way round. The electorate have the right to vote for whomever they like.
Of course they do, but who they vote for matters, and if they vote for an MP who lied to the Commons that will have disastrous consequences.
Imagine if Neil Hamilton and won election in 1997? The effect on politics would have been incredibly corrosive.
All people with an interest in the health of our democracy must hope that if Johnson stands for election he is defeated.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
Yes I wish someone would do this analysis.
I can help start the process. For years I have been saying that Boris was a waste of space.
I said the same about Truss and Raaaaab. And Brexit.
And just for the record, Sunak is cr*p as well.
TMay was my blind spot. At one point I thought she would do the job well.
This may be damning with the faintest of praise but, compared to what followed, she did.
This special counsel Jack Smith seems like an authoritative, intelligent chap. He should run for President.
Wait...
He did say in his brief statement he looks forward to a speedy trial - I presume that's unlikely as lawyers are very very creative at delaying things, and it's part of indicating he's ready to go and make a case, why are they not confident of defeating it.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Far easier on the conscience tonight to note that I have never voted Conservative, and I wouldn't vote for a party led by Johnson if it was the only party on the list.
I have voted Conservative in the past, but the last time I did so was 2010. After that, when they started becoming populists and nationalists, I stopped voting for them.
There is no Conservative Party at present - just a bunch of centre-right nutters and opportunists.
Me too. I could vote for a socially liberal pro-european Conservative party. That seems to be extinct now.
Johnson will be releasing his sob story soon, alongside the usual Boris lovers rallying around him
There are precious few Boris-lovers on here tonight. It'd be interesting to go back to 2019 and see how many posters refusing BJ now were firmly BJ-lovers then ...
I voted remain and was a member at the time of the leadership election between Johnson and Hunt and I abstained as I was not happy about either
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
Far easier on the conscience tonight to note that I have never voted Conservative, and I wouldn't vote for a party led by Johnson if it was the only party on the list.
I have voted Conservative in the past, but the last time I did so was 2010. After that, when they started becoming populists and nationalists, I stopped voting for them.
There is no Conservative Party at present - just a bunch of centre-right nutters and opportunists.
Me too. I could vote for a socially Liberal pro-european Conservative party. That seems to be extinct now.
Interesting moves if coordinated like that - the multiple losses that would probably follow would presumably really damage Rishi's power in the party, but without the most key opponents, and so just have the effect of hobbling him yet further whilst guaranteeing a late GE.
Would be very interesting indeed if this was a nascent "Brexit Purity Party" coalescing. Was it OGH who said "Get Brexit Done!" was such a good slogan it was bound to be used again...?
Edit. I see @LostPassword has had the same thought. Fascinating that tax cuts and growth were in his statement. An attempt to woo in the Trussites?
Would be very interesting indeed if this was a nascent "Brexit Purity Party" coalescing. Was it OGH who said "Get Brexit Done!" was such a good slogan it was bound to be used again...?
That would be the best thing that could happen.
They would split the remaining Tory vote and guarantee Labour a bigger majority.
if any of them got elected they would be the opposition, so Starmer could rightly oppose everything they said.
He couldn’t handle the truth, or face the music. So has done a runner.
Pitiful.
Yes, Johnson is a coward, running away from the electorate.
It is a fatal flaw in his blasting rhetoric - he can whine about being forced out, and a casual observer and a fan will eat that up, but he had a recourse, to trust in his electorate, and he's chosen not to use it.
We can presume why.
The funny thing is some comments saying he is not going down without a fight, when in fact that's precisely what he has done - he's going out with a whimper, not a bang.
Pursued by the metropolitan-liberal-elite on trumped-up charges, when all they wanted to do was be corrupt and anti-democratic populists..
Say what you like about Boris and Trump but they won the most seats for the Conservatives in 2019 and the highest Electoral College vote for the Republicans in 2016 since the 1980s.
Upper middle class and city dwelling voters may despise them but they had a big connection to the white working class and rural areas and small towns
Say what you like about Boris and Trump but I say they are both utter arses who should never be let near the reins of power again.
This special counsel Jack Smith seems like an authoritative, intelligent chap. He should run for President.
Wait...
He did say in his brief statement he looks forward to a speedy trial - I presume that's unlikely as lawyers are very very creative at delaying things, and it's part of indicating he's ready to go and make a case, why are they not confident of defeating it.
Given the way the US system “works”, I can’t see anything happening before the election, other than an arrest followed by a release on bail with a trial date to be set before the end of the decade.
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I am going to be unbearably smug for the next few days.
Alastair and myself were right.
***Legendary modesty klaxon***
"Chiltern hundreds, a year-odd of lecture tours and schmoozing selection committees in proper safe seats."
The corruption, stupidity and moral squalor runs much deeper than Boris.
You need about 25 years in the wilderness.
You may even get that!
Colchester, Southampton Itchen, Mid-Beds, Uxbridge.
"Always got my vote does Boris"
"People just make stuff up to keep it in the press, to make sure you can't stand in the next election"
The whole thing has the stench of death about it - all your brave words doesn't change that. You might not want a Labour Government - I get that - but it might be the best thing for the Conservatives to take some time to re-discover what they're about. It happens when a party has been in power for too long.
Pursued by the metropolitan-liberal-elite on trumped-up charges, when all they wanted to do was be corrupt and anti-democratic grifters....
However as a conservative I voted for the party and to be fair felt Johnson did OK with covid and Ukraine but his actions from patersongate to partygate turned me against him and I turned to Sunak before Truss won and support him since
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
Larkin (of course)
@Cadders68
Replying to @Steven_Swinford
CCHQ understood to prefer Prince Andrew, Lord Lucan or Phillip Scofield to Johnson standing in Mid Beds.
If I never hear of him again it will be too soon
Which privately might find sympathy with a lot of MPs, for all very few have been recalled to date.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/4427942/#Comment_4427942
Will he be back? Not while Sunak is there but that is only 15 months or so.
I said the same about Truss and Raaaaab. And Brexit.
And just for the record, Sunak is cr*p as well.
TMay was my blind spot. At one point I thought she would do the job well.
The whole thing doesn't seem likely to me. Johnson looks like a busted flush but maybe he hasn't worked that out yet?
All of this was always in Trumps power to prevent. All he had to do was return the documents. He refused & now he gets to find out what the consequences of that choice are.
Upper middle class and city dwelling voters may despise them but they had a big connection to the white working class and rural areas and small towns
And I called all four of Rishi’s “shitpicks” the day he announced Cabinet and now three are gone and the one left is Suella Braverman…
So has done a runner.
Pitiful.
This kind of underlying issue of entitled plutocrats that would make itself more obvious eventually..
As the old saying has it "Nappies and politicians both need regular changing and for much the same reason..."
Exhibit A below.
Possibly Rishi calls a snap election early Sept for voting early Oct? Jul/Aug election will not be popular.
Sir Boris bravely turned and fled
"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility."
The child is the father to the man...
Great plan. Flawlessly executed.
There is no Conservative Party at present - just a bunch of centre-right nutters and opportunists.
It's time for change because they clearly have become unable to use the rungs of power to refresh themselves. But it would have been better for the party had they been more successful at doing so.
Imagine if Neil Hamilton and won election in 1997? The effect on politics would have been incredibly corrosive.
All people with an interest in the health of our democracy must hope that if Johnson stands for election he is defeated.
Can we now rescind the list?
Lest we forget, here are three of them;
BREAKING I am hearing rumours of a THIRD Tory MP loyal to Boris Johnson who might resign tonight.
BREAKING Now a fourth Tory MP allied to Boris Johnson is said by Conservative MPs to be considering quitting Parliament tonight.
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1667259420030521354
Wait...
He did say in his brief statement he looks forward to a speedy trial - I presume that's unlikely as lawyers are very very creative at delaying things, and it's part of indicating he's ready to go and make a case, why are they not confident of defeating it.
A new Boris Johnson Party?
Anyone for a 2023 General Election?
Now 10/1 (from 14/1)
Was it OGH who said "Get Brexit Done!" was such a good slogan it was bound to be used again...?
Edit. I see @LostPassword has had the same thought.
Fascinating that tax cuts and growth were in his statement.
An attempt to woo in the Trussites?
They would split the remaining Tory vote and guarantee Labour a bigger majority.
if any of them got elected they would be the opposition, so Starmer could rightly oppose everything they said.
Awesome !!!
We can presume why.
The funny thing is some comments saying he is not going down without a fight, when in fact that's precisely what he has done - he's going out with a whimper, not a bang.
As Boris Johnson exits in disgrace, the British public are sick to the back teeth of this never ending Tory soap opera played out at their expense.
After thirteen years of Conservative chaos, enough is enough. It’s time for a fresh start for Britain with a Labour Government.
https://twitter.com/harriet1marsden/status/1667258619740540939/photo/1
Personally, I think he deserved better but that's the way it is.