PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[jusali]

Extracting ourselves out of the EU is gonna be a horrible job

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Maybe he recognises next leader is a poisoned chalice but the one after might be better

That's my first thought. Fuck me, Gove???? Surely this means it will be May.

 

[editor]

More: Boris Johnson says he will not run for Tory party leadership after former ally Michael Gove challenges him – live

 

[wheelie_bin]

I can't screenshot on my phone, but what's really glorious is scrolling down that page slightly, 18m ago - "Boris launches his leadership bid".

Sounds like Boris marched in shouting "woohoo, I'll be leader" and got a very loud "oh no you won't" back.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

My first thought was, what skeletons does he need to keep in the closet, who is strong arming him. He looked like a man whose world had collapsed around him last Friday, I do hope things are going very badly for him.*

Sadly Pickman's model might be right and the blustering fool will come to power in time. Though he doesn't look too healthy either.

*Schadenfreude is a horrible indulgence. I have never claimed to be a nice person though.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

May will walk it unless the plan now is to give it to Gove so it's his political career destroyed & not anybody less deserving.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Slippery. Gove is the sacrifice here. Johnson is going to keep his head down and pop up when this shit all is all over.

 

[JimW]

My first thought was, what skeletons does he need to keep in the closet, who is strong arming him. He looked like a man whose world had collapsed around him last Friday, I do hope things are going very badly for him.*

Sadly Pickman's model might be right and the blustering fool will come to power in time. Though he doesn't look too healthy either.

*Schadenfreude is a horrible indulgence. I have never claimed to be a nice person though.

He's plenty of skeletons (affair and abortion, Darius Guppy) swinging in the wind like a medieval gibbets so Christ knows what else there is.

 

[jakethesnake]

Maybe he recognises next leader is a poisoned chalice but the one after might be better

Absolutely this. Cameron fucked him over nicely.

 

[weltweit]

The next leader could still put Johnson in a key position wrt negotiations.
Unless he refuses that also.

 

[gosub]

The next leader could still put Johnson in a key position wrt negotiations.
Unless he refuses that also.

negotiation is in the detail. That would be mental.

 

[Wookey]

It's quite a changeable old situation I would say.

I've contracted RSI from constantly clicking and refreshing these (and selected other) pages continuously for over a week now. Whom do I sue?

 

[butchersapron]

The next leader could still put Johnson in a key position wrt negotiations.
Unless he refuses that also.

He wants nothing to do with it at all. That's why he's not standing.

 

[kebabking]

He wants nothing to do with it at all. That's why he's not standing.

i think the feeling was mutual - May in particular was deliciously dismissive of his abilities, Gove might have offered him a job if absolutely neccessary, but only through gritted teeth.

thats not neccessary now...

 

[wheelie_bin]

He's incompetent and the other Tories know it, no way are they letting him back in. He might pick up a useful idiot spot presenting something in future, that's about the limit.

 

[t0bytoo]

Yes!!!! Except, well, the other options are also shite.

And having bulldozed into this bollox he doesn't want the job??

 

[weltweit]

Surprised though.

I don't think anyone predicted this!

 

[JimW]

Clearly Jamie Oliver's threat to leave the country hit home.

 

[Kaka Tim]

ha ha ha - eat shit you narcissistic, shit stirring, nasty little gobshite. Cameron and then Gove have totally fucked him. My guess is that Gove has got some serious shit on him - some seriously Machiavellian stuff going on with the tories.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

The next leader could still put Johnson in a key position wrt negotiations.
Unless he refuses that also.

He will refuse. He realises he is well out of his depth. He realised that last Friday morning.

 

[Treacle Toes]

He will refuse. He realises he is well out of his depth. He realised that last Friday morning.

I'm with you here. He has never looked or sounded like he wanted it. I think he was in shock and it's also slowly dawned on him just how much work he'd have to do going forward. It is a poison chalice and he's passing it on.

 

[Duncan2]

Nobody wants to own Brexit.

 

[weltweit]

Perhaps .. too many dodgy promises

 

[hash tag]

Strange echos in here...

Are the voters the issue or is it really the so called politicians, particularly those with personal agenda's and ambitions.
If, I reiterate if, Boris did become PM, he could well have one hell of an issue to sort out and I reckon he has already realised it is a bit of a poisoned chalice. That said, nothing will stop him going for it

 

[Lord Camomile]

WELL WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT IN ALL THAT, YOU COLOSSAL FUCKING TWATSPANNER?!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Strange echos in here...

Are you congratulating yourself on being wrong?

That said, nothing will stop him going for it

 

[Crispy]

I can't screenshot on my phone, but what's really glorious is scrolling down that page slightly,

 

[Tankus]

He's lazy too ......next couple of years of politicos constantly talking their arses off to remarkably unpleasant people and being continually undermined, second guessed, and slagged off in the media.
...be like a full time job in a place of haters.... innit

Then there's TV panel shows

Portillio's made an easy career of it

 

[hash tag]

If you like...

 

[not-bono-ever]

The country is now just a plaything for a bunch of spoilt public schoolboys looking to shit on each other

how the fuck did it get to this?