Well, how big are the ultra-Boris loyalists as a group ?
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be to leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for all the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence + corruption, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories = incompetence, corruption and division, too.
I'm going to bed, if the Tory Party could stop setting itself on fire until 7am tomorrow morning I'd appreciate it.
Pop quiz: How many Tory MPs will have taken the Chiltern Hundreds / Manor of Northsted by 7am tomorrow?
A ) Two B ) Three C ) Four D ) More
D) (Hopefully)
At most two I think: Under a Resolution of the House of 2 March 1624, Members of Parliament cannot directly resign their seat.
Death, disqualification and expulsion are the only means by which a Member's seat may be vacated during the lifetime of a Parliament. There are two such offices that are used for disqualification: Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds and of the Manor of Northstead. https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/guides/factsheets/procedure/p11/
Incorrect. The Chancellor can appoint people to either office one after another.
Apols for the possibly dumb question but I am playing catch-up: Mad Nad's resigning with immediate effect but has not been given a peerage, is that right?
Correct. I do wonder if TSE is correct and there are some interesting power plays going on here.
Trump ‘had illegally kept hold of documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”..’ https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1667234274884431872
How any Republican who seriously aspires to the Presidency can defend this shit is utterly beyond me.
Well, how big are the ultra-Boris loyalists as a group ?
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be too leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories =incompetence and division, too ( added to corruption at the end of the recipe).
Less than ten. Probably less than three. I could imagine his leaving party consisting of Mad Nads getting him a 2 for 1 Wetherspoons pie and chips and a drunken handjob in the cab home.
Not surprised at all by the ungracious manner of Boris's resignation statement - he doesn't do dignity.
I think it's particularly poor, however, for him to have a personal dig at Harriet Harman, who I'm quite sure carried out her role dispassionately under the gaze of the Tory MPs on the Privileges Committee.
To use Boris's own language, he really is a cad and a bounder.
He also libelled the KC advising the Committee.
Boris is - and always has been - a shit. The Tory party is well rid of him.
If it had any sense - a big "if" I grant you these days - it would see this is the start of the very long road back to becoming a decent conservative party, one with a moral compass, some sense of integrity, duty, public service and care for the institutions and people of this country.
My guess is that it won't - not yet anyway - and so its death spiral will continue until the voters put it out of its misery
It needs to shed a lot of its UKIP members and recruit decent conservative members. Johnson's resignation might help that process. Sunak needs to be braver and face down the membership as well as the ERGs.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
Trump ‘had illegally kept hold of documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”..’ https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1667234274884431872
How any Republican who seriously aspires to the Presidency can defend this shit is utterly beyond me.
It's the very definition of being a traitor to his country, but his supporters no longer believe in their country as a whole. Their fear of the enemy within is greater than their fear of the enemy without.
I generally vote LD, but as I am in the deep blue Shires there is not much opportunity to vote Labour even when they have been the better option nationally - which since I was first able to vote in 2005 has not really been the case until recently. Being a teenager in the aftermath of Iraq, in the shires, made the LDs much bigger at Uni.
I would consider myself an centrist by way of overly cautious nature, socially liberal but more receptive to Conservative economic arguments and, to an extent, on cultural ones.
Keir Starmer makes the right noises for my sort, notwithstanding his backing of the execreble Corbyn (Ed M was fine, but I was a coalitionista).
Trump ‘had illegally kept hold of documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”..’ https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1667234274884431872
How any Republican who seriously aspires to the Presidency can defend this shit is utterly beyond me.
Because their members are even madder than the Massive Johnsonites. And unlike the MJs, the Republicans have guns.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Important to know whether the Privileges Committee was unanimous in its finding. Clearly, at least one Conservative member voted for the sanctions to give a majority, but did they all?
Important to know whether the Privileges Committee was unanimous in its finding. Clearly, at least one Conservative member voted for the sanctions to give a majority, but did they all?
Indeed.
If there are any who voted not to censure, we need to know who they are so we can point and laugh at them for being patsies now left high and dry.
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.
Yeah, right.
He smuggled out huge quantities of classified material, including some at the highest and most sensitive levels, information in which, if leaked, would seriously imperil the United States in general, specific sources in particular, and betray intelligence gathering systems and methods.
He then continually and repeatedly blocked every attempt to make him give the damn stuff back.
Nothing to see here. All just desperation. Doesn't matter that if anyone else did this, they'd be looking at a 20 year stretch, minimum.
Fucking hell, if they need to redact certain caveats, given what else was in the titles...
I voted Tory at the 2019 European elections, which makes me more of a Tory than most Tory party members and many of their MPs I'd bet.
Same, I voted Tory in the European elections.
So did I and thanks to our combined votes May's Tories won a magnificent 9% of the vote and 3 MEPs at the 2019 UK European Parliament elections, the first ever national election the Conservatives got less than 10% of the vote
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Perhaps the headline is meant in jest, but surely no mover or shaker in the Tory party would support Johnson standing in the Mid-Bedfordshire by-election any more than they'd back Dorries standing in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. And if Johnson were to run on another ticket, he might even lose his deposit.
Speculation: the king or the people around him may have vetoed Dorries's ennoblement, for fear of being embarrassed - and we can't have that. And the king and Johnson don't get on. See Rwanda.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
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.
What are you on about?
If that was the plan, all he had to do was not obstruct it. Most of us manage not to obstruct matters every day, why is him doing so no big deal if they, gasp, looked to see if he obstructed?
I'm sorry, but whilst the potential sentences are high yet many will not see what he is alleged to have done as a big deal, the idea this is a stitch up is just plain certifiable. It's incredibly easy to avoid this 'trap' - you say 'oops, didn't realise I was not permitted to keep those'.
Pence and Biden both probably did that in response to when their papers were looked at.
It's easy to call the NY case a bit of a stretch - it relies on a limited time only extension to statute of limitations rules, it requires a corresponding criminal offence and it is not certain apparently that what is alleged would meet the standard etc - but this is not a complex case, and the issue is whether they can prove he obstructed, beyond a reasonable doubt (they may well not), not that those nasty feds were just looking for any old thing to get him.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Tony Blair just called and is mortally offended.
I may be tipsy enough to not properly check things. Too much proof to check the proofs, one might say. But seems fair enough tonight.
"Conservative Leader" natch. Though some would say that doesn't exclude Tone.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Tony Blair just called and is mortally offended.
I think he means only Conservative leader since Thatcher to win a workable majority.
I suspect he is right, Sunak has a tiny chance of repeating a Major 1992 win against the odds but otherwise like post Thatcher, post Boris the Tories will likely be in opposition for a generation unless Starmer unlike Blair screws the economy up
Some of the classified material Trump took out is about Macron. Trump has bragged about having information about Macron's sex life that Macron would rather not be released.
My supervisor in the FAA yelled at me once for leaving a secret document on top of my desk…with the cover sheet on it…in the control room where only people with security clearances were allowed to enter.
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.
Why would he want to come back?
I've been saying for a long time he'd take the Chiltern Hundreds and coin it in from the lecture tour.
He'd have more dignity if he'd done so when he resigned as PM, like Blair and Cameron, instead of doing so now though.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
If Keir cannot carry it home now he deserves to be pilloried by BJO come 2024.
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.
Why would he want to come back?
I've been saying for a long time he'd take the Chiltern Hundreds and coin it in from the lecture tour.
He'd have more dignity if he'd done so when he resigned as PM, like Blair and Cameron, instead of doing so now though.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
If Keir cannot carry it home now he deserves to be pilloried by BJO come 2024.
He'd be pilloried by @bjo if he won every seat in parliament, including in Northern Ireland where Labour don't even stand.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
If Keir cannot carry it home now he deserves to be pilloried by BJO come 2024.
He'd be pilloried by @bjo if he won every seat in parliament, including in Northern Ireland where Labour don't even stand.
If that happened, then someone somewhere would deserve some pillorying.
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.
Why would he want to come back?
I've been saying for a long time he'd take the Chiltern Hundreds and coin it in from the lecture tour.
He'd have more dignity if he'd done so when he resigned as PM, like Blair and Cameron, instead of doing so now though.
His attitude today is just pathetic.
He wasn't in a hurry to do that until he was about to be kicked out.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
If Keir cannot carry it home now he deserves to be pilloried by BJO come 2024.
He'd be pilloried by @bjo if he won every seat in parliament, including in Northern Ireland where Labour don't even stand.
The key word was 'deserves'. He's starting from further back, but Corbynites are rightly mocked for pretending Corbyn won because he gained seats, when he still lost. Starmerites won't get a pass if they try the same.
Jack Smith can see your defences coming, Fox Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump’s putting classified documents in unsecured locations such as ballroom stage and a bathroom: "Mar-a-Lago is...protected by the United States Secret Service.”
There's a little problem with that. The Indictment says the exact opposite: "The Secret Service provided protection to TRUMP and his family after he left office, including at The Mar-a-Lago club, but it was not responsible for the protection of TRUMP’s boxes or their contents."
Well, how big are the ultra-Boris loyalists as a group ?
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be too leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories =incompetence and division, too ( added to corruption at the end of the recipe).
Less than ten. Probably less than three. I could imagine his leaving party consisting of Mad Nads getting him a 2 for 1 Wetherspoons pie and chips and a drunken handjob in the cab home.
Jack Smith can see your defences coming, Fox Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump’s putting classified documents in unsecured locations such as ballroom stage and a bathroom: "Mar-a-Lago is...protected by the United States Secret Service.”
There's a little problem with that. The Indictment says the exact opposite: "The Secret Service provided protection to TRUMP and his family after he left office, including at The Mar-a-Lago club, but it was not responsible for the protection of TRUMP’s boxes or their contents."
I once worked in the White House and saw how people, from the president on down, handled classified documents.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
If Keir cannot carry it home now he deserves to be pilloried by BJO come 2024.
He'd be pilloried by @bjo if he won every seat in parliament, including in Northern Ireland where Labour don't even stand.
Nearest thing are the "Cross-Community Labour Alternative".
There's also People Before Profit who are officially "Other", but they are secret Nationalists given that they hanker after a "32-County Socialist Ireland".
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Um... Cameron won a workable majority at a general election, in 2015
Well, how big are the ultra-Boris loyalists as a group ?
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be too leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories =incompetence and division, too ( added to corruption at the end of the recipe).
Less than ten. Probably less than three. I could imagine his leaving party consisting of Mad Nads getting him a 2 for 1 Wetherspoons pie and chips and a drunken handjob in the cab home.
I mean, I wouldn't say no to that...
Would... would you be Boris in this scenario... or Nads?
I've just read Johnson's full statement. He's become paranoid, and is encouraging conspiracy stuff. I was struck by this extract:
I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result. My removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.
Doesn't say much for his judgement that the woman he appointed duped him so easily. What a tosser. GB News awaits.
Well, how big are the ultra-Boris loyalists as a group ?
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be too leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories =incompetence and division, too ( added to corruption at the end of the recipe).
Less than ten. Probably less than three. I could imagine his leaving party consisting of Mad Nads getting him a 2 for 1 Wetherspoons pie and chips and a drunken handjob in the cab home.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Um... Cameron won a workable majority at a general election, in 2015
He won a majority, but 10 seat majority normally isn't classed as workable.
Major had a bigger majority in 1992 and nobody classes that as a workable majority.
Jack Smith can see your defences coming, Fox Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump’s putting classified documents in unsecured locations such as ballroom stage and a bathroom: "Mar-a-Lago is...protected by the United States Secret Service.”
There's a little problem with that. The Indictment says the exact opposite: "The Secret Service provided protection to TRUMP and his family after he left office, including at The Mar-a-Lago club, but it was not responsible for the protection of TRUMP’s boxes or their contents."
I once worked in the White House and saw how people, from the president on down, handled classified documents.
Whilst Trump is, characteristically, throwing out every defence under the sun (even the contradictory ones), including protesting his total innocence, it is curious the general GOP position (Chaffetz slightly away from this one) is not to talk about innocence or lack of it being big deal, but simply to claim it is unfair to charge an ex-president at all, or at least that it is unfair to do so if not also charging a Democrat at the same time presumably, equal justice and all that.
It's smarter, as they can mostly read, so will see this is potentially a serious case and better to object to it on principle with a clear villain for it happening at all, than stick up for what might be provable misconduct.
Boris resigned because he thought he would lose the by-election. And if he did lose the by-election, he would be finished.
So he's resigned to avoid humiliation and in the hope that something will come up later.
Simple as that.
+1 as I said yesterday the risk for Bozo was a significant ban that could not be reduced to less than the 10 days that triggers a recall petition. I wonder if we will see the actual report at some point.
Boris resigned because he thought he would lose the by-election. And if he did lose the by-election, he would be finished.
So he's resigned to avoid humiliation and in the hope that something will come up later.
Simple as that.
This little quote sums up Boris Johnson so well.
It reminds me of an opportunistic and more grownup Just William, now grown older, but still undeveloped and much more of a risk, hanging around, and kicking his heels, on a street corner, until something turns up.
I've just read Johnson's full statement. He's become paranoid, and is encouraging conspiracy stuff. I was struck by this extract:
I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result. My removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.
Doesn't say much for his judgement that the woman he appointed duped him so easily. What a tosser. GB News awaits.
ROFL he appointed Gray because she was known to be a soft touch
Jack Smith can see your defences coming, Fox Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump’s putting classified documents in unsecured locations such as ballroom stage and a bathroom: "Mar-a-Lago is...protected by the United States Secret Service.”
There's a little problem with that. The Indictment says the exact opposite: "The Secret Service provided protection to TRUMP and his family after he left office, including at The Mar-a-Lago club, but it was not responsible for the protection of TRUMP’s boxes or their contents."
I once worked in the White House and saw how people, from the president on down, handled classified documents.
Whilst Trump is, characteristically, throwing out every defence under the sun (even the contradictory ones), including protesting his total innocence, it is curious the general GOP position (Chaffetz slightly away from this one) is not to talk about innocence or lack of it being big deal, but simply to claim it is unfair to charge an ex-president at all, or at least that it is unfair to do so if not also charging a Democrat at the same time presumably, equal justice and all that.
It's smarter, as they can mostly read, so will see this is potentially a serious case and better to object to it on principle with a clear villain for it happening at all, than stick up for what might be provable misconduct.
In short, Trump is saying ex-presidents should be above the law. Well they're not above the law. One day that guy's big mouth will get him into trouble.
Is everyone agreed that manufactured outrage at the the description Britain Trump is a thing of the past? The one thing that can be said about the Donald is that he recognises a kindred spirit.
Forgive me for wild wishcasting. Rishi ditches Suella in the next six months saying he gave her a target and she failed. Suella failed, busted flush.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I think the best result for the Tories at the next election is to lose office, but narrowly, so they can see a realistic path to a comeback in a reasonable timeframe. Say, 290 seats and 34% of the vote.
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Trouble is that Boris is the only leader since Thatcher with enough X Factor to win a workable majority at a General Election. And as the last year has shown, some of that is pure hucksterism.
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Um... Cameron won a workable majority at a general election, in 2015
He won a majority, but 10 seat majority normally isn't classed as workable.
Major had a bigger majority in 1992 and nobody classes that as a workable majority.
I mean, it worked, for him. There wasn't really a problem with it until after the Brexit referendum result.
Is everyone agreed that manufactured outrage at the the description Britain Trump is a thing of the past? The one thing that can be said about the Donald is that he recognises a kindred spirit.
I've just read Johnson's full statement. He's become paranoid, and is encouraging conspiracy stuff. I was struck by this extract:
I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result. My removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.
Doesn't say much for his judgement that the woman he appointed duped him so easily. What a tosser. GB News awaits.
Yep. Move over McVey and Davies, Nad and Bozo are in the house.
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.
Why would he want to come back?
I've been saying for a long time he'd take the Chiltern Hundreds and coin it in from the lecture tour.
He'd have more dignity if he'd done so when he resigned as PM, like Blair and Cameron, instead of doing so now though.
His attitude today is just pathetic.
Don't you feel cheated? Someone you praised to the hilt just two years ago turns out to be the creep many suspected he was
"There is nothing in statute law or in Standing Orders obliging the House to move a writ for a by-election. It could choose to leave the seat without representation until the next General Election (General Elections must be held every five years). One of the by-elections listed, North-West Leicestershire, was left vacant until the 2010 General Election some five months later."
"A new Writ is usually issued within three months of the vacancy. There have been a few times when seats remained vacant longer than six months. Seats will be left vacant towards the end of a Parliament. They are then filled at the general election."
In Boris's 'why I quit' statement printed in the Spectator he makes at least two easily spotted lies in amongst the pile of slightly arguable BS.
1. He says he's been an MP since 2001. Well on that basis, since I lived in Australia for a few years in the 1990s, if I moved back there tomorrow I could say I've lived there since 1993. 2. He says he won 'the biggest majority for 40 years'. Erm, Thatcher 1987, Blair 1997 and 2001?
Rather typical of his shoddy attention to facts, even to the end.
It’s very, very scant consolation that the series of events began by Cameron’s foolish referendum, the most glaring, egregious example of putting party before country, is now tearing the Tories apart.
It might have been partygate that’s pulled the trigger, but Johnson wouldn’t have been PM without Brexit, and all the countless lies he’s told before and since, the relentless boosterish bullshit he’s spewed since 2016, backing a Brexit he never really believed in, never bothered to properly understand the consequences of. It’s all culminated in today.
It’s all a game to Johnson, we are merely the pawns. He and the Conservative Party deserve each other for the chaos, division and terrible, terrible government they have inflicted on us. The Covid dithering, the parties and piss ups whilst we were locked down, the corrupt PPE contracts, bunging millions to three-week-old companies owned by their mates, the Patels and Bravermans, Cummings, Raab sunning himself whilst Afghanistan fell apart. The ‘oven ready deal’. The whole sorry, rotten, stinking mess.
I hope they go soon. They have allowed their foolish, blinkered, frothing ideologues to take control. They have globally diminished and materially impoverished this amazing country. The damage will take decades to undo.
Getting an air con unit is an absolute game changer, it makes these warm days somehow bearable indoors
Assuming you are in the UK it's hardly warm and certainly not humid. Just open the window ffs!
You are doing your bit to add to global warming needlessly running an A/C in the UK in this weather.
I lived in southern Germany for a bit and it could get pretty warm there, mid 30s in summer, occasionally rising into the high 30s. No domestic Aircon but just about everyone had metal shutters. The trick was to keep them closed during the day and then, at night, open the shutters and the windows inwards. It worked surprisingly well.
UK equivalent is keep your curtains closed during the day and open the windows in the evening. I live more northerly these days, so windows open at night tend to do the trick. Maybe a fan, if you feel you need it.
Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage · 1h Whatever the failures of Boris Johnson’s time as PM, I will always be thankful for him joining the Brexit campaign.
Nigel saying something nice about Boris? Nah!
Boris is going to stand at Mid-Beds for REFORM... If he fizzles out that's the end. If he wins he will become REFORM leader and might just split the Conservatives for the next 30 years.
Things have just got very serious for Con. We could be at an 1846 moment.
How long can the two by-elections be postponed for?
Asking for a friend Sishi Runak
All the way until the next general election.
I thought it was only in the final six months of a Parliament they can be delayed until the next election?
So far as I remember, there's no actual requirement for when a writ is called. It's up to Parliament. It can theoretically be put off until a general election occurs.
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https://twitter.com/StephenCVGraham/status/1667271935053508608
I suppose if over ten or 15 resigned that start to make an impact, but even there the main one would be to leave a slightly weakened, but clearly still intact Sunak, on to lead an even worse result for all the Tories next year ; as the public would now see not only Tories=incompetence + corruption, but also , in the manner of the late 1990's, Tories = incompetence, corruption and division, too.
The MP tipped to resign tonight by other Tory MPs has now confirmed they are NOT going anywhere.
Everyone relax - a bit.
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1667257501581037575
Jim Hacker: He's a smooth-tongued, hardnosed, cold-eyed, two-faced creep.
Annie Hacker : Why is he so successful?
Jim Hacker : Because he's a smooth-tongued, hardnosed, cold-eyed, two-faced creep
... I'm not seeing the connection.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1667234274884431872
How any Republican who seriously aspires to the Presidency can defend this shit is utterly beyond me.
Johnson wasn't smooth tongued, well - not in that way.
Boris and Nadine gone. jRM happy with being Lord Hatstand. Again Nadine gone.
Rishi starts pivoting to an 18 month plan for election, improvement in economy. Tories were hamstrung by Covid and Ukraine messaging, we are fixing things under sunny Sunak for a glorious tech future.
Don’t let those lefty loons back.
Rishi - a tech bro for a tech age, I have the energy of tigger, I’m not Sir Keir boring boring and my shirt collars fit.
My deputy has a bit too high pitched voice but he doesn’t sound like an extra from last of the summer wine like Angela does.
We’ve got rid of the assholes.
Positive positive positive.
Wishcasting but possible.
I would consider myself an centrist by way of overly cautious nature, socially liberal but more receptive to Conservative economic arguments and, to an extent, on cultural ones.
Keir Starmer makes the right noises for my sort, notwithstanding his backing of the execreble Corbyn (Ed M was fine, but I was a coalitionista).
If they win, they'll be more screwed than a child trying to navigate our broken exam system in 2029/30.
If they lose bigly, they'll implode.
I can just about see Sunak pulling it off, particularly now the dead weight of Johnson is removed. But it won't be easy. It will be more difficult as politicians never play to lose.
Jim Hacker : Elbows: the most important weapon in a politician's armoury.
Annie Hacker : Other than integrity!
Jim Hacker : Integrity?
[bursts out laughing]
If there are any who voted not to censure, we need to know who they are so we can point and laugh at them for being patsies now left high and dry.
Boris Johnson
We wanna knooooooooooooooooooow
Why you’re such a …,
Labour open 1/8 favourites to win the Uxbridge & South Ruislip by-election
He smuggled out huge quantities of classified material, including some at the highest and most sensitive levels, information in which, if leaked, would seriously imperil the United States in general, specific sources in particular, and betray intelligence gathering systems and methods.
He then continually and repeatedly blocked every attempt to make him give the damn stuff back.
Nothing to see here. All just desperation. Doesn't matter that if anyone else did this, they'd be looking at a 20 year stretch, minimum.
Fucking hell, if they need to redact certain caveats, given what else was in the titles...
Sunak has talents, but he doesn't have that X Factor.
Who does?
Speculation: the king or the people around him may have vetoed Dorries's ennoblement, for fear of being embarrassed - and we can't have that. And the king and Johnson don't get on. See Rwanda.
Q: Did Trump file the details on the weaknesses of the UKs nuclear submarine fleet in the u-bend?
Whatever the failures of Boris Johnson’s time as PM, I will always be thankful for him joining the Brexit campaign'
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1667259792254029858?s=20
If that was the plan, all he had to do was not obstruct it. Most of us manage not to obstruct matters every day, why is him doing so no big deal if they, gasp, looked to see if he obstructed?
I'm sorry, but whilst the potential sentences are high yet many will not see what he is alleged to have done as a big deal, the idea this is a stitch up is just plain certifiable. It's incredibly easy to avoid this 'trap' - you say 'oops, didn't realise I was not permitted to keep those'.
Pence and Biden both probably did that in response to when their papers were looked at.
It's easy to call the NY case a bit of a stretch - it relies on a limited time only extension to statute of limitations rules, it requires a corresponding criminal offence and it is not certain apparently that what is alleged would meet the standard etc - but this is not a complex case, and the issue is whether they can prove he obstructed, beyond a reasonable doubt (they may well not), not that those nasty feds were just looking for any old thing to get him.
"Conservative Leader" natch. Though some would say that doesn't exclude Tone.
I suspect he is right, Sunak has a tiny chance of repeating a Major 1992 win against the odds but otherwise like post Thatcher, post Boris the Tories will likely be in opposition for a generation unless Starmer unlike Blair screws the economy up
Trump has bragged about having information about Macron's sex life that Macron would rather not be released.
Whatever the failures of Dr Shipman’s time as a GP, I will always be thankful for him saving Mrs Smith.
Trump hid boxes and boxes of documents in his shitter at his club
https://twitter.com/SiempreSeattle/status/1667268764063399936
I've been saying for a long time he'd take the Chiltern Hundreds and coin it in from the lecture tour.
He'd have more dignity if he'd done so when he resigned as PM, like Blair and Cameron, instead of doing so now though.
His attitude today is just pathetic.
Asking for a friend Sishi Runak
'Them's the breaks...'
Boris resigned because he thought he would lose the by-election. And if he did lose the by-election, he would be finished.
So he's resigned to avoid humiliation and in the hope that something will come up later.
Simple as that.
https://twitter.com/RhonddaBryant/status/1667265561900863492
Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump’s putting classified documents in unsecured locations such as ballroom stage and a bathroom:
"Mar-a-Lago is...protected by the United States Secret Service.”
There's a little problem with that. The Indictment says the exact opposite: "The Secret Service provided protection to TRUMP and his family after he left office, including at The Mar-a-Lago club, but it was not responsible for the protection of TRUMP’s boxes or their contents."
It was not like this.
https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/1667263069477535744
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Community_Labour_Alternative
There's also People Before Profit who are officially "Other", but they are secret Nationalists given that they hanker after a "32-County Socialist Ireland".
I am not alone in thinking that there is a witch hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result. My removal is the necessary first step, and I believe there has been a concerted attempt to bring it about. I am afraid I no longer believe that it is any coincidence that Sue Gray - who investigated gatherings in Number 10 - is now the chief of staff designate of the Labour leader.
Doesn't say much for his judgement that the woman he appointed duped him so easily.
What a tosser. GB News awaits.
Weatherspoons pie and chips, how awful.
The man's a loose cannon. What a time we're going to have.
BJO and the red wallers are going to going to have to find a new hero
Major had a bigger majority in 1992 and nobody classes that as a workable majority.
It's smarter, as they can mostly read, so will see this is potentially a serious case and better to object to it on principle with a clear villain for it happening at all, than stick up for what might be provable misconduct.
You are doing your bit to add to global warming needlessly running an A/C in the UK in this weather.
It reminds me of an opportunistic and more grownup Just William, now grown older, but still undeveloped and much more of a risk, hanging around, and kicking his heels, on a street corner, until something turns up.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06576/
"There is nothing in statute law or in Standing Orders obliging the House to move a writ for a by-election. It could choose to leave the seat without representation until the next General Election (General Elections must be held every five years). One of the by-elections listed, North-West Leicestershire, was left vacant until the 2010 General Election some five months later."
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/by-elections/
"A new Writ is usually issued within three months of the vacancy. There have been a few times when seats remained vacant longer than six months. Seats will be left vacant towards the end of a Parliament. They are then filled at the general election."
1. He says he's been an MP since 2001. Well on that basis, since I lived in Australia for a few years in the 1990s, if I moved back there tomorrow I could say I've lived there since 1993.
2. He says he won 'the biggest majority for 40 years'. Erm, Thatcher 1987, Blair 1997 and 2001?
Rather typical of his shoddy attention to facts, even to the end.
It might have been partygate that’s pulled the trigger, but Johnson wouldn’t have been PM without Brexit, and all the countless lies he’s told before and since, the relentless boosterish bullshit he’s spewed since 2016, backing a Brexit he never really believed in, never bothered to properly understand the consequences of. It’s all culminated in today.
It’s all a game to Johnson, we are merely the pawns. He and the Conservative Party deserve each other for the chaos, division and terrible, terrible government they have inflicted on us. The Covid dithering, the parties and piss ups whilst we were locked down, the corrupt PPE contracts, bunging millions to three-week-old companies owned by their mates, the Patels and Bravermans, Cummings, Raab sunning himself whilst Afghanistan fell apart. The ‘oven ready deal’. The whole sorry, rotten, stinking mess.
I hope they go soon. They have allowed their foolish, blinkered, frothing ideologues to take control. They have globally diminished and materially impoverished this amazing country. The damage will take decades to undo.
I take no pleasure from today. None at all.
https://twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/1667270166416162816?s=20
UK equivalent is keep your curtains closed during the day and open the windows in the evening. I live more northerly these days, so windows open at night tend to do the trick. Maybe a fan, if you feel you need it.
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
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1h
Whatever the failures of Boris Johnson’s time as PM, I will always be thankful for him joining the Brexit campaign.
Nigel saying something nice about Boris? Nah!
Boris is going to stand at Mid-Beds for REFORM... If he fizzles out that's the end of him and REFORM.
If he wins he will become REFORM leader and might just split the Conservatives for the next 30 years at the next election.
Things have just got very serious for Con. We could be at an 1846 moment.
End of democracy, witchhunt, Harriet Harman to blame, establishment stitch-up, punishment for Brexit, etc.