PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Sasaferrato]

What would Starmer be calling for a vote of no confidence on? If he calls it in terms of no confidence in the government, he'll lose. Conservative MPs would not support that because it would mean a GE, which is the last thing they want.

Can he call for a vote of no confidence in the PM?

 

[Wilf]

What would Starmer be calling for a vote of no confidence on? If he calls it in terms of no confidence in the government, he'll lose. Conservative MPs would not support that because it would mean a GE, which is the last thing they want.

Can he call for a vote of no confidence in the PM?

Yes, afaik.

 

[billy_bob]

The PM salary is around £160k. If he resigns, his salary will go down to around £80k backbench MP salary.

If he had a better offer on the table, if someone was offering him jobs/consultancies he'd walk, but his brand is currently too toxic. In the circumstances, he can't afford/doesn't want a pay cut of around £80k pa pro-rata.

But I suspect it's not just about the salary, I suspect it's also about the other perks, the grace and favour accommodation and also not being able to play lord of the manor at Chequers any more.

He's apparently rented out his London home, so resigning and moving out of Number 10 will pose difficulties for him and his family.

As a London (well, Henley) MP he's not like other MPs who have a home in their constituency in the Home Counties or Yorkshire or wherever that he could move into.

I suspect he can't afford to move out. He's been so reliant for so long on Tory grandees/party donors funding his lifestyle, he lacks the means.

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds rent out £1.2million London home to raise cash

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have taken out a buy-to-let mortgage on their townhouse in London, amid a row over the reported £200,000 refurbishment of their Downing Street flat

www.mirror.co.uk

Sorry, but this is horseshit. You seriously don't think he's been schmoozing for post-PM non-executive directorships and speaking gigs since he took office that'll pay him £160k many times over for probably a few evenings' work a month?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Sky has just switched live to May, who ironically had been booked today for a lecture at the Institute of Government.

 

[billy_bob]

What would Starmer be calling for a vote of no confidence on? If he calls it in terms of no confidence in the government, he'll lose. Conservative MPs would not support that because it would mean a GE, which is the last thing they want.

Can he call for a vote of no confidence in the PM?

He can, but he wouldn't necessarily get it. The government - whatever form that takes - could dick him around and never get around to allowing it to be debated, and even if it was and he won, afaik it would not be binding.

 

[bimble]

who said it's going to happen before lunchtime anyway? i need to go and buy milk constitutional crisis hurry up.

 

[cupid_stunt]

who said it's going to happen before lunchtime anyway? i need to go and buy milk constitutional crisis hurry up.

Sky News inside sources has the entertainment booked for 12.30pm.

 

[billy_bob]

Time to make a sandwich and a cuppa

 

[philosophical]

I have to haul my arse, I will hang on until 12.30 so it’d better happens then.
My prediction is he will try to cling on, maybe a couple of weeks can be agreed, otherwise it is a House of Commons vonc.

 

[Wilf]

Sorry, but this is horseshit. You seriously don't think he's been schmoozing for post-PM non-executive directorships and speaking gigs since he took office that'll pay him £160k many times over for probably a few evenings' work a month?

I've always wondered about this idea of him being broke all the time. Admittedly he will have some hefty child maintenance payments, though a few of his kids are now adults if I remember correctly. But he's lived in a world for the last decade or more where pretty much all of his food, accommodation, dining out, cars and holidays have been paid for by us or scummy donors/oligarchs. Even the fucking wallpaper. Dunno, maybe profligate rich cunts have other ways of throwing their money away?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Sky has just switched live to May, who ironically had been booked today for a lecture at the Institute of Government.

She's going on about following rules and working within the law, it's a corker, timing couldn't be better.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

He really won’t be poorer after leaving office quite the opposite. People will pay mad money just for him to attend their 7 course dinner parties wait and see.

Eventually. But not right now. I suspect that right now he can't afford to give up his prime ministerial role and he doesn't have anywhere to move to because his house is rented out.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The lectern is out, I am sitting comfortably, I have a drink poured, let the entertainment commence.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Sorry, I've been working all morning. What the fuck is going on? If he's going, on what authority is he doing a reshuffle?

Bananas. Let it continue

 

[blairsh]

The lecterns out!

 

[blairsh]

Fast edit

 

[spitfire]

JONATHAN PIE IS DOING IT FOR HIM

 

[frogwoman]

Lol what's Theresa May saying

 

[gosub]

I've always wondered about this idea of him being broke all the time. Admittedly he will have some hefty child maintenance payments, though a few of his kids are now adults if I remember correctly. But he's lived in a world for the last decade or more where pretty much all of his food, accommodation, dining out, cars and holidays have been paid for by us or scummy donors/oligarchs. Even the fucking wallpaper. Dunno, maybe profligate rich cunts have other ways of throwing their money away?

As much as he's been living in Grace and Favour, don't think he's got any property left. So he's got a reduction in standard of living , and increase in the cost of living and nowhere to live.

 

[philosophical]

Bollocks to the lectern. I want to see Larry.
Preferably clawing the face off a Tory.

 

[Wilf]

 

[elbows]

BBC live updates page thing:

The powerful backbench 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs decides the Tory leadership timetable and will meet later.

Some MPs are pushing for the process to be shortened, with members being given perhaps a month, rather than all summer, to decide the new leader in order to get Boris Johnson out of No 10 quicker.

One source says: "It won't matter if he says he will stay on until Autumn."

12:06 entry https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62072419

 

[Storm Fox]

To me... To you

 

[Lord Camomile]

I feel like last time, the lectern was standing vacant for quite a while before anything happened.

#metaphor, probably

 

[gosub]

Bollocks to the lectern. I want to see Larry.
Preferably clawing the face off a Tory.

didn't lLarry resign yesterday?

 

[billy_bob]

I've always wondered about this idea of him being broke all the time. Admittedly he will have some hefty child maintenance payments, though a few of his kids are now adults if I remember correctly. But he's lived in a world for the last decade or more where pretty much all of his food, accommodation, dining out, cars and holidays have been paid for by us or scummy donors/oligarchs. Even the fucking wallpaper. Dunno, maybe profligate rich cunts have other ways of throwing their money away?

I don't doubt he's spunked more money down the drain than most of us will ever see, but there's always a magic money tree somewhere for cunts like him.

 

[elbows]

BBC makes use of a helicopter so they can show us how "Higgeldy Piggeldy the whole complex is". (Downing Street)

 

[cupid_stunt]

Apparently No. 10 put out a call for MPs to gather in Downing Street to show their support, only about 30 have turned-up.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Sorry, but this is horseshit. You seriously don't think he's been schmoozing for post-PM non-executive directorships and speaking gigs since he took office that'll pay him £160k many times over for probably a few evenings' work a month?

Of course he has. But right now his brand is toxic. He'll benefit in the long run, for sure. But I suspect that right now he's too skint to voluntarily take the £80k pay cut and move out.

He's been trying to get Tory grandees and party donors to pay for everything such as decorating, a nanny to look after his child and a tree house for said child.

He currently doesn't have the means to keep himself in the style to which he and 'Carrie Antoinette' have become accustomed.

At best, the most he can hope for at this precise moment in time, is to sign a book deal and get a big advance.

His phone isn't ringing off the hook right now with companies offering him consultancies and seats on the board.

He'll probably get lucrative gigs in future, but not right now. If he was being offered big bucks elsewhere, he would've walked by now, because his track record, personally and professionally has demonstrated that at his core he's always about self-interest.

The fact that he hasn't walked sooner, that he's being pushed by record numbers of ministers/PPSes resigning and lobbying for him to leave is highly suggestive that he doesn't have a better offer on the table.

 

[fucthest8]

BBC stream is like it's the trooping of the colour or something