BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

The Tories have no intention of Boris leading them into the next election, I suspect they never had. They know Boris better than anyone else, they know how the more exposure the public get to Boris the less they will be impressed no mind to say the likelihood that something daft from his background could sink him at the wrong time.

I believe Boris was due to be shunted aside 12 to 18 months before the next election to allow a new leader, preferably one without the stink of any negatives from brexit off them to lead into the next election.

Liz Truss or whoever will be the first stalking horse, someone that won't categorically deny they are interested in the top job. This will get the narrative out there that a heave is coming. I suspect Boris will cling on into mid '22 and then will be knifed in the back.

Funnily I think the parties leaks etc is more a dig back at Boris' wife from the Cummins rump. This looks like revenge from Cummins on the woman who got him and the team leave press crew ejected from Downing street. Allegra Stratton was Carrie's pal and choice for PR Spokesperson. The fiasco that's been the response to the recent scandals show how dysfunctional the p.r. and press office in Number 10 is. Although if Boris' advisor is the one in the spotlight it might explain why deny deny deny is the mantra. It was also interesting that Cummins big pal Laura Kunnesberg that revealed his identity as handing out awards at the party.

I didn't think you meant it in the mass murderer sense either. Psychopaths are not always violent, but a common trait is that they are very good at manipulating others to get them to do what they want them to do to further their own personal interests

Psychopathic leaders will manipulate public interests to further their own private interests if those interests are not exactly aligned.

The problem with the UK, is that the interests of the public, and the interests of the ruling classes are very far from aligned. And to remain as prime minister, a psychopath doesn't need majority support, they need the support of a small number of very influential people, who can be brought onside by pandering to those interests.

We have seen in the Johnson administration, that he is fully prepared to lie to everyone constantly, to use public resources to bolster those lies, and to sacrifice millions of people's livelihoods as long as he can maintain just enough support to maintain his access to power.

One of the defining characteristics of Psychopath's is their ability to convince people that they need that their goals are aligned, that they are committed to achieving the same things, that they're in this together. Then when a different goal appears they drop their former partners without a backward glance.

They seek out and flatter those they can use for their own benefit. The problems accumulate as they continually leave the people that believed they were partner with behind, leaving broken promises and betrayed former colleagues behind.

I believe Johnson is part psychopath and part psychopathic liar all wrapped up in an extremely callous and calculating person.

I think you would have fit in well back in the Europe of the 30s...

Populism is a sham, plain and simple. We have extremely rich, narcissistic individuals claiming the know what's best for the 'working class'.

In a democracy the government is meant to represent the people not the leader ruling like a king.

Labour is dead. Destroyed by infighting weak stances. Kier Starmer is a bloody joke.

There is also a very real reluctance to be responsible to try and deliver a Tory Brexit too and I cannot really blame them for that. The Tories dragged the country into the disaster that is Brexit and they didn't have the first clue on how to plan it out, resulting in the absolute shambles that we see today. Frankly, I'd be loath myself to step into the shoes that's responsible to try and dig the country out of that situation.

The difference between the EU's RDF and "leveling up" is RDF actually went to the poorest areas of the UK and not to the areas that won local parties the most votes.