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In an interesting Facebook post under the heading ““Is Boris preparing to flounce out of the cabinet?” Robert Peston ponders the question of whether we are seeing the Foreign Secretary prepare the ground for a bid at the leadership.
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I don't think anyone really wants this to go to court....
http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788
I can definitely describe his junk perfectly, if I ever have to.
She should be making the weather, not having her leaky craft swamped by Boris splashing about. She has no vision, no ideas, no concept of how to use or deal with the media. She is conscientious, honest, diligent and reasonably bright. But she is absolutely useless as a politician in the modern age.
(From memory it was Lord Lambton but I could be muddling up my sex scandals)
I cam imagine the Con members would be furious if they didn't get a say for the second time in a row.
Of course, almost anything he says will be seen through the prism of his leadership ambitions, but on the narrow point of NHS funding he's right, and Hammond needs to find some other spending cuts to cover it. It's an argument which should however be made in private.
Boris won.
People would rather smear and denigrate him rather than ponder the reasons for his success.
This is all about positioning for when Theresa goes after March 2019.
He backed Leave thinking they would lose narrowly and he could claim the prize he really wanted, Leadership of the party. He is still trying to achieve that.
His "win" has blighted his ambition.
Sad...
Say's who?
The last 25-30 years suggest not.
During this period, the most successful Prime Minister electorally - Tony Blair - was (is) a deeply unprincipled man, but extremely successful. David Cameron seemed to believe in whatever would win him votes rather than be guided by deeply-held principles.
On the other hand, we could admire the principles of John Major and Gordon Brown, less so their leadership of the country, and less so still their election-winning ability.
And then there's the history of Boris himself - I'm sure that he was regarded as an unprincipled bounder when he campaigned for Mayor of London and Leave, but that didn't stop him winning or being a key factor behind Leave winning.
If he'd backed Leave and then done sod all which is what I'd expected then it would have been a stunt. He led the campaign and grafted and won the vote. The skills you might think would be needed in a serious PM candidate.
https://twitter.com/breakingweather/status/955767833555857408
He published the one calculated to maximise his leadership chances (he thought)
He gambled on a loss, and lost.
Boris would just need to inspire a new brigade of shiny faced youngsters to intimidate the Tory crusties. Perhaps the new Tory youth czar could help with that.
Winning the vote scuppered that plan.
this is not the face of a man delighted by the win. This is a man who knows he has blown his chance...
I was a bit like that during the Brown Premiership. I detested him so much I lost the ability to think rationally.
-Boris made the brave move to back Leave when Remain looked absolutely nailed on to win
- Boris 95% suspected his career was over for at least four years by backing Leave
- He threw himself into the Leave fray wholeheartedly
- His 'cut through' is unparalleled in UK politics, as was demonstrated throughout the campaign
- He has a knack of articulating things which - annoyingly for his opponents - lots of people agree with
- The Leave campaign stunned the world by winning
- They would never have won without Boris
He did all that believing it was right for his country despite knowing his political career within the Tory party would be destroyed if he lost.
One man's selfish ambition is another man's extraordinarily brave.
There are two sides to every argument....
I still can’t see Boris getting to leader - but I suspect we are not so far from May losing a vote of no confidence. The likes of Soubry, Greeninng et al don’t want Boris - but they can see May is not doing a good job.
Though I'm sure Hammond will try to present it otherwise.
This is not about expectation , this is about joy (or lack of it) in the result.
Is that correct - didn't he say something like 'trouble is I'm not a Leaver'
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/boris-johnson/news/75196/david-cameron-boris-johnson
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/md2108_appendix_garden_bridge_review.pdf
Therefore his recent intervention on a Channel bridge was quite hilarious ...
Continuity IDS has been tweeting approvingly...
https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/955775574806540288
If you haven’t read his Churchill book, it is hugely recommended as a psychiatric document – for all the horrifying and hilarious things it unwittingly reveals about its author. I can never believe his therapist let him publish it. By the end, it’s quite clear that you have not read Churchill’s story so much as Boris’s attempt to get you to see anything he might have done, or might ever do, as Churchillian. All politicians are self-interested gamblers with events, Johnson explains, and Churchill “put his shirt on a horse called anti-Nazism … his bet came off in spectacular fashion”. Mmmm. It probably helps to imagine Churchill spending a Sunday morning writing two columns – the first advocating resisting Hitler, the second making the case for supporting totalitarian conquest of Europe and the elimination of Jews.