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will Boris Johnson resign next year , a baseless speculation thread

It's all rather fun and jolly at long last. I'm on 1926 General Strike from my university of Surrey job until we're a democracy and a Republic. I might have another ice cream and watch some footy. Goodbye Former Regime. You did your worst. We did our best.

 
but what do you think?

I find it to be inexplicable and extraordinary.

Starmer is certainly insipid and uncharismatic, but even so, he should be 'polling' better than that.

Government fuckups during this crisis have been myriad, and there is no doubt that inaction with regard to India has prolonged the lockdown.

The vaccination program has been a great success, but it is hard to see that alone as the driver of Johnson's popularity.

I'm 68, my late father made it to 84, I can see me reaching that age never seeing another Labour government.

They will assassinate Starmer, no doubt of that, but who do Labour currently have that could do better?
 
I think they probably have enough shit on him to force him to resign as soon as they decide its time to chuck him over the side. Dont think we are at that point yet, but a lot closer than we were a couple of weeks ago.
 
whoever's next will likely be even worse, so there is that
To get an idea of that this is the lead article in the Telegraph today
The Tories that are gunning for Johnson are doing so because of perceived signs of his hesitancy in the full scale post Bexit deregulation of the UK - he's seen by them as too much of a euro-socialist!
There's potentially so much worse to come

More in the FT today of "concerns", and the Daily Mail is on him too
 
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"Lord" Frost is fucking mad.
As opposed to the rest of the Tory benches?
The postBrexit-purge Tories are a different party to just a few years ago. ERGism is a much more dominant ideology... True for the membership too. Johnson is seen as too woke! The possibility of someone more eye swiveling is high
 
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I find that incredibly difficult to understand given his history of actions and racist/sexist/homophobic statements, none of which he's apologized for.
Too green, too much social spending via taxation (thats the key one tbh), not aggressive enough, not done brexit hard enough, under the thumb of Carrie etc etc
 
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I find that incredibly difficult to understand given his history of actions and racist/sexist/homophobic statements, none of which he's apologized for.

I can see why he is perceived as "woke" regardless of past statements for which there's been no apology. A metropolitan, urban Tory who's more than happy to overlook the fact that your Filipina housekeeper doesn't have a work visa, and your youngest is going through a "Grecian" phase having gone up to Cambridge. All that matters to Johnson is...Johnson. You can do and say whatever you like as long as you're not impinging on his interests.

When I stated that "Lord" Frost was a deranged imbecile whose competence is in inverse proportion to his own self-perception, I wasn't really getting into a comparison with the rest of a corrupt, unhinged, venal cabinet.

I agree that the next leader very likely to be a hardliner given that today's Daily Mail has a full page of self-aggrandising lies from Farage, stating that he has been approached by a few "wealthy investors" to make a return to frontline politics, with a specific remit to tackle the so-called "problem" of illegal migrants in the Channel head on. Whilst it's par for the course from the grifting spiv whose massive EU pension must be too little for his expensive tastes, it will further spook the loon mainstream in the Tory party.

It's a far right source so I am not linking, if you want to be thoroughly depressed by the comments find it for yourselves.

On Johnson, I think we will have a new PM within six months. He's finished.
 
Given the scale of the Shropshire defeat , I think the Tories won't actually get rid of Boris for a while , they will grind on for the full 5 years to 2024 as they now see another General Election win less likely . But they may well send him into retirement in 2023 , hoping that the 1st 3 years of this government will be forgotten by Dec 24.
 
Given the scale of the Shropshire defeat , I think the Tories won't actually get rid of Boris for a while , they will grind on for the full 5 years to 2024 as they now see another General Election win less likely . But they may well send him into retirement in 2023 , hoping that the 1st 3 years of this government will be forgotten by Dec 24.
Governor-general of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is being mooted, which like commissar of water transport is but a staging post on the journey to the nairac apparatus
 
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