PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[existentialist]

What are the chances that there will be too much unease about Johnson staying on as caretaker for it to happen? I said last night that he could be the worlds worst caretaker, since he does not take care.

Cummings wants the role to fall to the man with no brain:

Well, TBF, Raab as caretaker PM does offer the best chance of completing the electoral evisceration of the Tories. Especially if there's a bitter leadership battle to follow, and Braverman or some other air-headed halfwit ends up in charge.

 

[philosophical]

Cleverly to be Education Secretary.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Wikipedia's servers taking a strain...

x 3

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fuck me vomit inducing

 

[spitfire]

If he's resigning why is he still appointing ministers? Is it just so * someone * is in charge of the dept. and is available to sign important things? As in why Defense and DWP ministers stayed on.

 

[Wilf]

Appointments still being made to cabinet (Greg Clarke, Levelling Up). That doesn't sound like resignation.

Roy Keane as Chief Whip.

 

[elbows]

I had made it a custom of mine to repeatedly refer to this shit Kuenssberg story from October 7th 2021, because of the following quote. I may as well take the opportunity one last time:

Mr Johnson's close ally Mark Spencer even told us he thought the PM could be in Downing Street for 20 years.

Johnson and Starmer: More in common than you might think

Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer both had good party conferences but face formidable challenges.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[existentialist]

If he's resigning why is he still appointing ministers? Is it just so * someone * is in charge of the dept. and is available to sign important things? As in why Defense and DWP ministers stayed on.

Because he's not (yet) resigning as Prime Minister. Just as "leader of the Party".

 

[cupid_stunt]

Resignation time is now 12.30 pm

 

[Magnus McGinty]

So what happens now? I can’t see him scuttling off to the back benches so is it his exit from politics to the speaking circuit?

 

[elbows]

Starmer on the caretaker question, threatening to bring down the goverment!

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is demanding Boris Johnson stand down as PM immediately, saying it's not fair on the country for him to stay on as caretaker prime minister.

"He needs to go, he can't cling on," Starmer says. "His own party has decided it's time - so they can't inflict him on the country for the next few months."

Insisting Labour will take matters into its own hands if necessary, Starmer warns the Tories that if they don't get rid of Johnson "Labour will, in the national interest, bring a no confidence vote - because this can't go on".

"The change we need is not just at the top, we need a change of government. We need a Labour government."

11:51 of https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62072419

 

[bimble]

Cleverly to be Education Secretary.

This is where it stops being funny i think, that man needs to not be allowed anywhere near making decisions about anything but especially not schools.

 

[spitfire]

Because he's not (yet) resigning as Prime Minister. Just as "leader of the Party".

Ta.

Fucksakes.

 

[frogwoman]

What's Chris Grayling up to these days?

 

[Pickman's model]

Starmer on the caretaker question, threatening to bring down the goverment!



11:51 of https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62072419

let me at them hold me back

 

[editor]

 

[andysays]

Someone boring that I've never heard of because they're untainted.

TBH, they're all tainted to some extent.

But whoever they eventually choose, there really is a possibility of the process doing even more damage to the Tories than Johnson himself has managed.

And it looks like the next chapter is about to begin...

 

[rubbershoes]

Roy Keane as Chief Whip.

He'd be good at it

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Pickman's model]

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think of how much better the subsequent years would have been

 

[Pickman's model]

they want him to say he resigns and he refuses to do it

 

[frogwoman]

I actually don't think he is going to.

 

[frogwoman]

He'll turn up 3 hours late say some bollocks about levelling up and then go back inside

 

[planetgeli]

Cleverly to be Education Secretary.

Only because Johnson learned nominative determinism at Eton.

 

[Ted Striker]

Expecting a "I'm not fucking leaving" scene like Wolf of Wall Street

 

[Ax^]

guess he already on his second 8ball of the morning

will be gripping than lecturn with a death grip when he appear to ramble on about his achievements

 

[Artaxerxes]

Dig in Boris lad, dig in

 

[cupid_stunt]

He'll turn up 3 hours late say some bollocks about levelling up and then go back inside.

Or, just this again...

 

[philosophical]

He’s attempting a world beating departure.

 

[Wilf]

Right, I get the distinction between being PM and being party leader. Also, this is boris johnson, so anything can happen. But wtf is this about him reappointing a Cabinet and all the other ministers? Presumably he'll need the agreement of his party for this tactic of staying on as PM - not technically, but certainly in practice. So what happens if they tell him to fuck off now or get spooked that Labour will do a vonc in him next week? The new interim leader will have to start all over again (or will be stuck with the nonentities and uber loyalists he's appointing today).

Actually, I had my answer with the bold bit.