Chancellor and Health Secretary quit.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I think he'll try to keep going as long as possible through his usual methods (move on, nothing to see here, burble burble wubble) and hoping the 12 month respite supposedly in place from the recent confidence vote sees him through. He'll only resign if he really has to. There is a point where he will though and I don't think he'll burn everything to the ground in response.
There is no way anyone is going to interview him in 20 years time like they talk to hezza, Clarke or redwood.
He’s only going to be famous for being totally shit.
His ego wouldn’t let him do it, “over to mr Johnson Britain's shortest serving prime minister for his opinion”
away from the heat of this political moment, that's exactly what will happen.
bimble
floofy
They’ll interview him plenty, he doesn’t care if it’s with gravitas or just for the garbled witticisms.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
His future plans involve getting as much money as possible from the far right culture war grift machine.
He doesn’t give a fuck about being a Tory grandee, he just wants to enrich himself as easily as possible
nah, you've misread him. he isn't trump, or anything like him.
bimble
floofy
The important one is this guy, who you may recall from when he was famous for 5 minutes for howling too enthusiastically in support of the leader.
He’s resigned now which might actually mean something.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
He’s made a career writing coquettish columns for right leaning rags, staying just the right side of bigotry to say “who me? I’m a respectable white man it’s them who are snowflakes”
Trump can’t read or write, Boris is worse.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Trump has made himself a figurehead of a certain set of beliefs and a certain worldview. Johnson latched on to Trumpian language and tactics when it suited him, but he isn't a figurehead of anything at all. Brexit is the closest you get, but that's done (after a fashion, in the manner of a massive poo that won't flush).
Which isn't the far right culture war grift machine. Honestly, once this is over Johnson won't need to debase himself to the nazis for clicks, he'll be a former prime minister with a world of easy cash available to him. Theresa May - a dull and uninspiring speaker at best - made two million quid on after dinner speeches in one year. A bit of that, a column in the telegraph, a few directorships and he'll be turning over plenty.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Spinning in his grave
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
They are adjacent, the difference is Boris is interested only in using the far right for Boris, while Trump thinks he's in charge but he's literally the Weekend at Bernie's corpse held up by various far right groups.
Boris is using the same tools but a different game. His main interests are solely what's good for Boris not the party or the country and he's never wanted to be a grandee as that would involve principles and commitment. He wants to be respected just for being Boris Churchill and not as part of the party.
Boris is using the same tools but a different game. His main interests are solely what's good for Boris not the party or the country and he's never wanted to be a grandee as that would involve principles and commitment. He wants to be respected just for being Boris Churchill and not as part of the party.
Which is why his future does not lie with the far right grift machine. his peers and the people he wants to be loved and respected by are posh tories, not nazis.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
They're already getting better job offers!
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I keep reading that as dictatorships.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I think he'd settle for nazis over no one
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Part of me suspects they realised they just needed more time to manoeuvre. Better to be a rat escaping a sinking ship than being a rat sinking in one (no offence to rats, I love rats)
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I don't think he thinks he has any peers he's that fucking entitled he's not capable of working with other people from a mutual respect perspective. He wants to be top dog because why wouldn't you love him? Not as part of a system of mutual arse greasing.
It's worked so far for him and he's fallen ever upwards.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Doesn't he have a magic ring or something?
bimble
floofy
not different enough ! But yeah. Just interesting how much of our rules are actually just conventions.
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