Tory Leadership contest 2022
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I think this pretty much describes his whole career. Certainly describes his entire PMship. And I think you're right. Is he currently the PM? Well, sort of, yes. Ok then, let's see what tomorrow brings.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
HUUUUUUGE IF TRUE!!!!!!
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
You shouldn't judge others by your own failings - it will make the world a very dark place for you...
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
I think it's very likely that Johnson will continue disrupt and fuck about throughout the leadership election. He loves attention. He loves power. That will not change. He will sell his backing to the highest bidder and seek to extract revenge on his enemies. He will definitely not keep his gob shut.
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
Dorries will be his puppet then?
andysays
Love and solidarity
Except the new Tory leader is yet to be chosen, and even if they shortened the existing process, it will still take a few weeks or possibly months, so there is a theoretical window of opportunity.
Again, I'm not saying this would work, or even that Johnson would try it, but some of your supposed "common sense" assumptions recently don't actually hold water
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I think he is/was hoping to find so way to hang in, but he will release there is no way it can be done and no moves will be made, beyond trying to drag out the whole process as long as possible
bimble
floofy
cupid_stunt you’re carrying on exactly the same missing the point argument with various people for a few days now. But you do get it really, cos look at yr own last post, where you reckon that ‘family & friends’ will make him see sense, that acknowledges the possibility that Boris Johnson may think weird things, non-sensible things, inside his own head, do you see, and that’s all anyone has been saying this whole time.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The point is that it doesn't matter what crazy ideas pop up in this head briefly, he's not actually going to act on them, because reality is also floating around in his head.
maomao
普費斯
Well my only source for it is some fucking weirdo on the internet who says he saw it on telly.It was reported live on the day by Sky News, first the Chief Whip went in to tell him in a VoNC only 65 MPs were likely to support him,, then about an hour latter they reported a resignation letter was being drawn-up, and after that, that he had signed it. He did his speech over 2 hours later, so plenty of time for careful wording that Johnson with agree too,
Impossible to find a source online now, as any search including 'Johnson' and 'resignation letter' returns results including all those 62 MPs that resigned, on a google news search almost 1.5 million results!
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'm not 100% sure about the reality thing...
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Twat. It's going to be him isn't it?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I don't think so because the wheels will come off that bus very easily
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
The racism expresses itself differently in different parts of the country. And differently from how it appears in the UK. But you're not going to convince me that Montpellier, long time heartland of the FN with FN MPs and voting massively for Le Pen is a place of racial harmony any more than Calais is.
If I won I'd make him Northern Ireland secretary.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Not so sure. Sunak's standing is based to a large extent on the fact that for the first 18 months of the pandemic he was the only member of the government who did anything useful. But Hancock and Williamson and the rest, not to mention Johnson himself, were doing a great job of making sure he got disproportionate credit by all being so utterly useless. And no one's going to vote for him based on that, because that was pretty much the only situation in which Tories would regard the goverment successfully handing out wads of money (to the plebs, that is, rather than their mates with companies looking for govt contracts) as a positive achievement.
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
It's getting heavily retweeted and is all over FB according to my mate.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think Sunak does have a constituency among Tory MP's, and there are probably more who will be reasonably happy to see him win purely because he'd be less of a total gangfuck than Johnson - but I think there will be many who look at him/family/wealth and see two years of dripping stories about novel tax arrangements and the like.
I don't see Shapps as being serious, it's simply about getting someone to buy him off with a cabinet job.
I don't see Shapps as being serious, it's simply about getting someone to buy him off with a cabinet job.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
It's always worth keeping that in mind, isn't it. I'd see Braverman's and Badenoch's bids, at least, in a similar light - they'll possibly influence the tone of the campaign somewhat on their pet issues (which in both cases seem mainly to be how to pull up the ladder behind them...) and raise their own profiles for the future, but otherwise they're makeweights.
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