PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Plumdaff]

Deep in the bunker

Deep in the bunker with Steve "Goebbels" Barclay

 

[Rob Ray]

Zahawi in now. Reckon he might still resign even if offered Chancellor, depending on what Johnson says to him.

I suspect he's strong-arming Johnson for the job. Doesn't seem much point him going in if he's resigning, might as well do the letter like everyone else.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I think it's to do with a political culture centred around personalities, taking it's lead from the wider culture rather than anyone's conscious decision tbh

I guess it works for some. Important events existing within hundreds of pages doesn't sit right with me. Especially if you haven't the time to keep up with these behemoths.

 

[belboid]

Gove & Coffey eerily silent, too. Zahawi- not sure how that will play out.

Coffey has announced her support according the guardian

 

[tommers]

I guess it works for some. Important events existing within hundreds of pages doesn't sit right with me. Especially if you haven't the time to keep up with these behemoths.

Sass started a separate thread. Got told off.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I suspect he's strong-arming Johnson for the job. Doesn't seem much point him going in if he's resigning, might as well do the letter like everyone else.

It’s good for your CV, you can say “I was chancellor of the exchequer in 2022”

Much like I was a Microsoft exchange admin as part of my duties from 2011-2015 when I just filled in for the guy for a week when he went on holiday and nothing happened.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Sass started a separate thread. Got told off.

I'm engaging there.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I'm engaging there.

Good for you.

Everyone else is engaging on here.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Good for you.

Everyone else is engaging on here.

You think this is a good thing? Writing a novel for a thread?
Fucking hell. Bye then.

 

[killer b]

I guess it works for some. Important events existing within hundreds of pages doesn't sit right with me. Especially if you haven't the time to keep up with these behemoths.

Nothing really happens on these threads when there's important stuff going on - it's just people posting stuff they read on the guardian live blog or on twitter and doing the smiley, with the occasional bad joke. Whatever though, we're all just killing time.

 

[agricola]

It’s good for your CV, you can say “I was chancellor of the exchequer in 2022”

Much like I was a Microsoft exchange admin as part of my duties from 2011-2015 when I just filled in for the guy for a week when he went on holiday and nothing happened.

Chris Leslie made a career* out of being "former Shadow Chancellor" in much the same circumstances.

* this is perhaps a stretch

 

[existentialist]

100% of liz truss is behind him, great.

IS there 100% of Liz Truss?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Whatever though, we're all just killing time.

Along with the boards. Or not, apparently.

 

[killer b]

I'm sure telling people off for not threading correctly will sort it out

 

[killer b]

tbf I'm always telling people off for not threading correctly, so carry on.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Let's get Zahawi in to patch up the holes after a scandal involving creepy sex pest MP.

Government minister given 'dressing down' over male-only dinner

A Government minister who attended the controversial men-only Presidents Club dinner has been hauled before the Tory chief whip and asked to explain himself.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[magneze]

why would you bother?

Probably looks ok on the CV after a few years?

 

[SpookyFrank]

IS there 100% of Liz Truss?

Just get yourself 40% of a gibbon and you've got the functional equivalent of 100% of Liz Truss.

 

[Plumdaff]

Another one gone

 

[Artaxerxes]

IS there 100% of Liz Truss?

Some of its in Beijing

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm always amused by PPS resignations because literally noone knows who any of them are but the letters all so po-faced serious.

 

[Bingoman]

At lot of pps quiting any left

 

[Calamity1971]

IS there 100% of Liz Truss?

98% according to this.

The adult brain only constitutes 2 percent of body mass,

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[existentialist]

I don't think he'll attend.

Another handy bout of Covid?

 

[PR1Berske]

These mega threads are shit btw. Totally killed the boards. Who thought this shit up?

Think the days of seperate threads are for the old days of the Internet. These "mega threads" are like Twitter, the influence of social media has fed into forums.

 

[Dystopiary]

Just get yourself 40% of a gibbon and you've got the functional equivalent of 100% of Liz Truss.

(((gibbon)))

 

[Lord Camomile]

I mean...

 

[Cerv]

I hope Johnson had plans for tonight. maybe Netflix & a bottle of wine with Carrie. that are now totally fucked beyond all repair.

 

[PR1Berske]