PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[PR1Berske]

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[Lord Camomile]

Yep, this, emphatically this. However much I hate to admit it, we've got a 'natural' (can't think of a better word, perhaps 'underlying') tory lead in the polls at the moment. Johnson's years of outright lying, partying amid the funerals and all the rest has only managed to tip that into single digit Labour leads. Quite astonishingly. The fresh start bit is important, the new leader will be banging on about restoring trust with the British people and the rest. Starmer's Labour is appalling and regressive, but doesn't really exist as a set of policies or political project. It's just the place where a proportion of ex tory voters might go in circumstances like we have at the present. A lot can happen between now and then, but I'd put money on the tories having small leads in the polls circa September.

Well, that's brought the mood down.

In recent years my response to such events has certainly always been dampened by what comes next, and the same is true here.

However...

My sector (higher education) is gearing up for another round of strikes, having started the year with them, and plenty of others have too.

Could a lame duck PM and a fair summer wind be capitalised on by trade unions and other movements...?

Not saying it will, but let's allow ourselves a littlehope, eh?

 

[Kaka Tim]

still potential fun to be had with Johnson expecting to stay on till September but a sizeable chunk of the party very much opposed. Johnson as "caretaker" could be even more reckless and embarrassing as he really would have nothing to lose.

 

[salem]

Good response

Brilliant, that sounds like an old English idiom

 

[rubbershoes]

With Johnson going, is Project Zeus dead?

 

[Lord Camomile]

still potential fun to be had with Johnson expecting to stay on till September but a sizeable chunk of the party very much opposed. Johnson as "caretaker" could be even more reckless and embarrassing as he really would have nothing to lose.

I think others have already mentioned this, but really curious to see just who is in the cabinet and other vacated posts this time next week

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[redcogs]

The virtual invisibility of the labour movement needs to change quickly. Starmers lot have no capacity to generate any meaningful challenge to the oncoming economic and social catastrophe. A vibrant working class has.

 

[Callum91]

With Johnson going, is Project Zeus dead?

He never knew the meaning of Project Zeus.

 

[Yossarian]

still potential fun to be had with Johnson expecting to stay on till September but a sizeable chunk of the party very much opposed. Johnson as "caretaker" could be even more reckless and embarrassing as he really would have nothing to lose.

Could be even more hilarity if he decides to run in the leadership election

 

[The39thStep]

New application for caretaker PM. CV enclosed.

 

[redcogs]

You cant make it up with this cunt! He wants to stay as PM until October!

 

[maomao]

So he's agreed to resign as party leader but hasn't yet and hopes to stay on as PM for several months. They need to get in there with a knife or he's not going.

 

[Sue]

If they're thinking of Braverman etc that's really scraping the barrel tbh.

Braverman is thinking of Braverman.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Beth Rigby on Sky is saying there's serious talk about May taking over as caretaker, now that would be a serious kick in the nuts for Johnson.

 

[sojourner]

12pm for the resignation apparently

FFS, I've gotta go the dentist then!

 

[contadino]

Braverman is thinking of Braverman.

...and she's scraping the barrel.

 

[sojourner]

Larry the cat was funny as fuck last night. Stood at the door, door opens, Larry does the standard cat thing and changes his mind. Door shuts. Larry meows. Rinse and repeat. Four fucking times they opened that door, you could see someone trying to drag him in by the neck I was pissing meself laughing at that.

 

[Pickman's model]

he'll be fired for making such a cock-up of his resignation

 

[Pickman's model]

FFS, I've gotta go the dentist then!

thought we all went for the traditional 2.30 appt

 

[Spymaster]

Beth Rigby on Sky is saying there's serious talk about May taking over as caretaker, now that would be a serious kick in the nuts for Johnson.

Why isn’t it Raab?

Isn’t that what deputies are for?

 

[The39thStep]

FFS, I've gotta go the dentist then!

Just been. My nervous fuelled excited chit chat about Johnson was met with a smile and a shrug of the shoulders by the Portuguese dentist .

 

[cupid_stunt]

Why isn’t it Raab?

Isn’t that what deputies are for?

It seems some think he's too tarnished by his support of Johnson, and/or he's just a useless twat.

 

[redcogs]

The TUC needs to call an immediate official demonstration in central London. Flooding the 'square mile' with placards and banners and striking workers could force a GE and the possibility of breaking Tory dominance in Westminster. Come on - 'Here we go, here we go, here we go'!

 

[Wilf]

I'd like to see May sauntering in to Dancing Queen. I mean fucking hell, I still hate her, but allow me that moment.

 

[DaveCinzano]

BIG DOG IS DOWN! I REPEAT, BIG DOG IS DOWN!

 

[Dr. Furface]

You cant make it up with this cunt! He wants to stay as PM until October!

LEAVE MEANS LEAVE!

 

[bimble]

why though why does he even want to stay until Autumn what for?

 

[cupid_stunt]

The TUC needs to call an immediate official demonstration in central London. Flooding the 'square mile' with placards and banners and striking workers could force a GE and the possibility of breaking Tory dominance in Westminster. Come on - 'Here we go, here we go, here we go'!

Meanwhile, back on planet earth...