PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[spitfire]

Starmer had better deliver at PMQ’s.

Shame Rayner isn't doing it. She has more of a killer instinct. I mean, that's not a high bar to climb but she's better at it than Starmer.

Still should be utterly humiliating though and that can only be a good thing.

 

[Rob Ray]

Theresa May: 1,106 days as Prime Minister
Boris Johnson: 1076 days as Prime Minister

30 days to beat her - I don't think he's gonna make it. If so he'll be the shortest-serving elected Prime Minister since 1955 (Brown and Home both losing an inherited premiership).

 

[teqniq]

Pizza?

Could be pizza, but maybe sandwiches depending on the feedback from the latest focus group.

 

[Wilf]

What's interesting is the number of formerly loyal MPs that are coming against him now, surely Johnson must be doing the maths, knowing only 32 MPs need to change their vote, when they next get one, and he's a goner.

My gut feeling has always been he would cling on until forced out, but I am not so sure now, this is escalating so fast, he may well decide to save some face by resigning rather than losing an embarrassing vote.

I wondered a while back if he'd say he won't be leader at the next election, as a last line of defence. Trouble is he's fucked that by saying he explicitly won't do that, along with all the '3rd term' nonsense. What a master strategist.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Starmer had better deliver at PMQ’s.

In times of deep crisis, tribal politics can act as a break upon it.

And it's down to us to rise above this and think maturely, and so that is why we're endorsing fully and unreservedly a pay freeze for the coastguard, and an end to the ring-fencing of funds to provide primary school breakfast clubs.

We are in concurrence with the government because we are in unity with the British people.

 

[Plumdaff]

Starmer already useless

 

[Wilf]

At this rate he 's going to run out of suckers willing to be in the cabinet. I can imagine him buttonholing passers-by
"Psst fancy a being a Cabinet Minister?"

I read that as bumholing passers by.

Says more about me etc.

 

[Dystopiary]

Jo Churchill (who?) gone.

 

[xenon]

I do love the fact the men in grey suits have to my mind held off, because they been believing Johnson is still a vote winner. and there is no obvious replacement.

Just heard a little bit of PMQ. Actually Starmer didn’t seem to be doing too badly. Johnson sounds all over the place. Mention in Corbin. Desperate.

 

[Plumdaff]

"The Charge of the Light Weight Brigade" OK I give Starmer that

 

[Lord Camomile]

At this rate he 's going to run out of suckers willing to be in the cabinet. I can imagine him buttonholing passers-by
"Psst fancy a being a Cabinet Minister?"

He really is burning through that majority they won in 2019.

Turns out they weren't so much bricks in a new 'Blue wall', but sandbags for his bunker.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

You lefty-liberal communist Britain-haters need to read the Express - the only paper that tells the truth. They're bang on the money about Bouncebackable Boris:

"This political drama could be the catalyst for a new era in the Johnson premiership in which he seeks to transform the country with even greater ambition. Those who still respect his genius for campaigning but are dismayed by mistakes and gaffes will now watch the PM intently for evidence he can unite the party and rapidly change Britain for the better. Mr Johnson will deploy his legendary gifts of persuasion to renew MPs’ faith. Rather than choreograph a graceful retreat, this Prime Minister plans to put his foot to the floor and accelerate ahead. His will to win is his greatest weapon, and he will relish the challenge of defying those who think him finished."

Three cheers for Boris ! He got us through Covid and out of the EU and now he's going to put his foot down and accelerate Britain into the stratosphere.

Or a wall.

 

[Rob Ray]

I'm not sure that "he wanted to install Corbyn, imagine what things would look like now" is Bojo's best defence in the midst of this level of chaos.

 

[Wilf]

What's your preferred scenario?

• Ceausescu speech from the balcony
• Musso going full spectrum George Formby
• Gaddafi in a drain
• Saddam in a hole

I suspect Idi Amin to Saudi with suitcases full of cash is the more likely.

 

[cupid_stunt]

"The Charge of the Light Weight Brigade" OK I give Starmer that

That, and 'first instance of sinking ships fleeing the rat.'

 

[bimble]

Absolutely no hint of him considering resigning is there. Which doesn't mean he won't in a couple of hours obvs.

 

[Numbers]

Where’s Patel?

 

[Rob Ray]

Paid by the union barons! He's pulling out all the classics now isn't he, absolutely desperate even against Starmer's beigeness.

 

[spitfire]

Angela Rayner is giving him the Paddington hard stare.

Johnson has nothing, just going on about Corbyn.

 

[spitfire]

Could do with a couple of people crossing the floor to liven it up.

 

[Plumdaff]

"The mandate I was given"...telling reading from the narcissist about how Westminster elections work there....

 

[Rob Ray]

Blackford is so much better at this.

 

[spitfire]

Could do with a couple of people crossing the floor to liven it up.

Preferably with swords.

 

[The39thStep]

Absolutely no hint of him considering resigning is there. Which doesn't mean he won't in a couple of hours obvs.

What would make him resign?

 

[spitfire]

What would make him resign?

Amazing coincidence, he just answered that question. Short version below.

Tim Loughton (Con) asks if there are any circumstances in which he would resign.

Johnson suggests he would if he could not follow a policy he supports, like backing Ukraine. But it is the job of a PM with a mandate to carry on, he says.


Laughter there at arranging a meeting with Gove as the rumour mill has him going soon as well.

 

[bimble]

What would make him resign?

someone just asked him that, He basically said that nothing would short of the government being unable to continue 'getting the job done'.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Interesting that both of Worthing's MPs got questions in, Loughton as above, and Bottomley about a local development I am involved in campaigning against, a little added bonus for me.

 

[bimble]

kwazi kwarteng, maybe he's next to jump, he was definitely sat there to BJ's right looking deeply uncomfortable and now he's gone. Maybe just popped to get a bit of lunch idk.

 

[teqniq]

Peter Oborne pretty much one the money here, for me at least:

Boris Johnson is finished. But will the rotten system that created him fall too?

 

[ruffneck23]