It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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I think Gove is incredibly sinister. Johnson is just a big man child in comparison who seems to have decided it would be a jolly good wheeze to be PM.
From an Irish perspective Sunak is probably the best of a bad lot of Tories. Patel has form in threatening to block food to Ireland, Gove is a nasty piece of work with a dislike of the GFA.
I didn't realise Michael Gove was of Asian heritage as well or maybe Danzy just ignored him just to try and get a dig at Akrasia to try and make it look like a racist remark although that would be unbelievably stupid if that was the case.
Ah for **** sake. Pure nonsense.
Seriously. If he ends up resigning then it’s a straight fight between Sunak and Patel with Sunak the easy winner. Patel hasn’t had enough success stopping the dingies from leaving Dunkirk. She’s not likeable either. Boris is still there long after he should have been gone because, like it or not, he’s impossible to hate…unless you’re a deranged Corbynite.
If Mr and Mrs Johnson come walking down Downing St tomorrow with the new baby in a pram then he’s back in the game!
very dark time ahead. I presume...
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what the not so subtle reference is.
You assume.
Also there was no party but I'm sure MPs were not at the party that never happened. You are so whipped you will just repeat everything they say ad nauseam
if any ministers or MPs had attendedm the Mirror would have splashed their name all over the front page.by now
How do you know who attended ?
He is well holed below water and while it may not end him, it does mark the beginning of the end.
He'll be lucky to last 12 months.
Patel will appeal to working class communities with a lot of her views to date but needs to deliver in them, as ever the over leaning towards free market dogmatism is a threat.
Sunak is probably hard to beat and has it sown up.
The next mess by Johnson is quickly approaching, whatever it is.
ignoring your inaccuracies, my original point that members of all parties would be at the party still stands right?
nd err, no one from any government parties were really held to account, as usual.
You're comparing events that were attended by some politicians in a private capacity, which happened during Summer when infection rates were very low and restrictions were loose and there were enough grey areas for attendees to reasonably claim they didn't know guidelines were not followed, with a party organised and held right in the seat of power at the height of a full winter lockdown in a country that had been suffering death numbers far in excess of anything Ireland had experienced.
And in the case of the Irish events people were held to account and some lost their jobs, while we've seen nothing but lying and scapegoating in Westminster.
Probably not.
Boris Johnson has managed to get away with his terrible handling of the COVID pandemic so this won't make much of a difference.
Unless the UK gets a competent opposition party (frankly the SNP would be the best opposition if they ever ran for seats in England) nothing will change.
If we want to place bets on an outside successor to Johnson, Rees-Mogg might be just awful enough to reach the latter stages of a leadership contest. Rees-Mogg would be Johnson 2.0 I think, he is pretty influential within the party through his role in the ERG
He's never been given a ministerial role of any note, so if he has any ambition to do anything other than sneer from the sidelines, he might put himself forward in a leadership race or back someone of his ilk, like Michael Gove
If Priti Patel or Michael Gove get anywhere near Number 10, then it would be a very very dark time ahead for the UK, not sure which of those 2 I despise more, but Patel does seem less shy about exposing her nasty side.
the Prime minister's residence is a flat on the third floor of No11.
The Party that is claimed to have happened, was not attended by any ministers or MPs, just members of staff who worked within the offices of Downing street.
Merriongate was a complete mess where people involved at least claim to have believed there was nothing wrong. I can't remember the restrictions that were in place at the time to be honest but I know the government 'clarified' this later.
Golfgate I don't know what point you're making? The only government minister there resigned after it broke and the EU Commissioner resigned as well.
Both events are completely different to a party of 40 or 50 people being held at the Prime Minister's residence during a full lockdown, which wasn't in place when Merriongate or Golfgate happened.
The big difference with Irish politics, is that members from all parties would be at the party
Mr Lowry is a perfect example of that....
There was a time a few decades ago when a UK politicians were very quick to resign if there was any hint of scandal.
Whereas here they would get all sorts of backing from party members and the party leader and it was only when more and more came out that they would step aside.
Now it seems the other way round
If you have no morals you can survive anything, so he'll be fine, as he doesn't give a fck
The Tories like being in power, as soon as they think Johnson is putting that at risk he is gone.
He's not Robert Mugabe; if his party turns against him he has to go
It's his back bench that decide not him and they are seeing numbers turn badly. In fact Major is the only Tory PM of my lifetime to be taken out by the electorate the other 3 were pushed, resigned or both
Ah, I thought he retained his seat as an independent. My error.
Rory Stewart is not even an MP anymore, nor is he in the Lords (there was a Tory leader and PM from the Lords in the 60s, it can happen).
As for the Great Offices - Blair hadn't. Thatcher hadn't. May be a case that you need it to be a short term leader! Johnson's term in one was brief.
The way he flatly give zero fooks about Cummingsgate and his attitude to this current party problem leads me to believe he ain't going anywhere.
He is dangerous.
He has thrown plenty of people under the bus, that eventually comes back to haunt you.
Labour are trying to get its act together but alot of the party activists have absolutely no interest in power.
The main ace card for the Tories on the doorstep is pointing at Labour.
That's on Labour.
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