Well, then: Boris Johnson is to stand down as Conservative Party leader after losing the support of his ministers and MPs, the BBC understands. A Conservative leadership contest will take place this summer and a new prime minister will be in place in time for the party conference in October. In the meantime, Mr Johnson will continue as prime minister. (BBC↱) That was fast. ____________________ Notes: British Broadcasting Corporation. "Boris Johnson to resign as Conservative leader". BBC News. 7 July 2022. BBC.co.uk. 7 July 2022. https://bbc.in/3bVMvjI
Not fast enough. He should have been chucked out ages ago. But the Tory party has an instinct for self-preservation and the constant stream of lies, and trampling on law and procedure, eventually pissed them off enough. In the end, it was a smallish thing that brought him down: lying about his knowledge that one of his appointees was a serial sex pest. But he made that far worse by suggesting to his MPs that this misbehaviour was somehow not the fault of the sex pest, but of those with him (including the ones he drunkenly groped), for allowing him to drink too much. So now he will preside over a lame duck government over the summer, when not a lot happens, and they will choose a new leader in time for the Tory Party Conference in October. The fun game now will be nominating runners and riders....... But it's a great day for Britain. That guy was trashing the country.
It went by quickly, so I forget the actual chyron, but yesterday, before I learned of the forty resignations, there was a statement was about not resigning, and in American politics that moment in the news means to start the countdown to someone's departure. I thought it would take a couple days.
now its just a matter of waiting for all the horse trading and selling off their own grannys will finish, to see what floats to the top of the toilet bowl.
"A fellow of infinite jest" is dead right. Bozo is terminally facetious: he treats everything and everyone as a (slightly contemptible) joke.
All the runners and riders will now do their utmost to distance themselves from the shambles of the current government... of which most will have been part of. There are precious few, if any, fresh faces untainted by the nonsense of the Boris-era, and the rest are quite simply a joke. Truss is... just... no. Hunt lost to Boris at the last leadership election so him becoming leader/PM would be a massive "told you so" that the party almost certainly doesn't want. Raab is just too wet, and was a yes-man to Boris. The most likely would seem to be Sunak, but he is just a multi-millionaire twat out of touch with the reality of the cash-strapped masses, trying to act like a "normal guy", which comes across as condescending and patronising. Better than Boris? Almost certainly. And that in itself is something to be grateful for. I, for one, will be hoping for a general election, but that is unlikely as the next planned one isn't for almost another 3 years, and the Conservatives must think they'd currently be at risk of losing - possibly to a Labour / Lib-dem coalition.
No, he had already trashed it. The vote for Brexit pretty much hung on which way he voted and campaigned for, and that vote alone has done untold harm to our economy. And he wasn't even PM then! As PM his handling of the pandemic was... questionable... but I'm not sure how much of that is hindsight.
I would like Tom Tugendhat, but suspect he is too much of a centrist with Remainer sympathies (French wife etc) - and too brainy - for them to pick him, even though he has been in the army, which they like. Seems Wallace [who he, Ed?] tops the poll at present, with is amazingly shallow, since although as a military man he seems in command of his Defence brief, all he has had to do is make aggressively supportive noises over Ukraine, which is piss-easy for anyone to do when we are not even doing any of the actual fighting. Just as Sunak was a hero for spending loadsa money during the pandemic, only to fall from favour when trying to rein it in before we go bust. Agree Truss, the Queen of Cheese, would be a disaster: a Poundshop Thatcher, to follow Bozo's Poundshop Churchill.
