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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This is a really really dangerous moment for UK democracy
The only standard that the Ministers in the UK government are required to adhere to absolutely, are that they cannot knowingly and intentionally lie to the parliament
It's already an incredibly low bar that is hard enough to enforce given the requirement to prove knowledge or intent. Johnson has just decided to tear up the only standard, and worse, to make it acceptable for any minister in the government to knowingly and intentionally lie to the parliament.
It basically makes every debate in parliament completely futile. Any question the opposition asks, can just be answered by a deliberate and transparent lie. There might as well not be any opposition or any debate
Why bother having a parliament at all.
The Tories have already won more elections than usual for British politics so I wouldn't be surprised to see people sit it out thinking they are due a loss.
Bit like how the likes of Trump and Bush waited till Obama was gone rather than run against him. Playing the numbers.
Not if that deal resulted in Scottish independence.
It would be the death of the SNP in Scotland if they were seen to be propping up Johnson and the Tories.
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Even if Johnson manage to win the election (which given the FPTP system is a possibility) the likelihood is that he will look to bow out soon after.
Trouble is the huge gulf between the Conservatives not getting a majority and Labour (or L+LD+etc) getting a majority. Johnson is so unprincipled I think he would do a dodgy deal with the SNP to keep his party in office.
Good point I heard on a podcast was that nobody within the party is likely to want the job at the moment anyway. Things are looking pretty dicey for the next few years, inflation, costs of living crisis, Brexit mess, and the election are within 2 years so anyone looking to take the job is probably going to feel they are on a hiding to nothing.
Better to sit tight, let Johnson loose the next election and then step in with no pressure. Even if Johnson manage to win the election (which given the FPTP system is a possibility) the likelihood is that he will look to bow out soon after.
All this Boris Johnson changing the rules to suit himself stuff over a party reminds me of the same thing that happened here
No such thing as crime if crime is legal.
There is no signs that the war has given him any veneer. Tory MPs keep going on about him "getting on with the job" and all that waffle but nothing in the polls suggest the public are falling for it.
Like Thatcher in her time, war is giving him a veneer of gravitas he has absolutely no right to. Touches of Trump, Orban and Putin about that move. Sadly I agree with other posters that short of the Tories finally savaging him it's a very long haul for Britain with this Trump-lite oik at the helm. The next UK general election is scheduled to be held no later than Friday 24 January 2025.
It's like an article from the Onion now.
"Johnson has also rewritten the foreword to the code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability."
That's absolutely hilarious.
Because they don't need to. The british voting public are happy to be abused and lied to by this guy. Sad to see.
I doubt it. People seem to like kicking the government at by-elections and European elections when they were relevant.
I think he's going to have tank a lot more in the polls. The current party is so denuded of talent that there's simply nobody capable in it any more or they're silently biding their time.
More teflon than toast bit like our old Bertie !
There's a couple of by-elections next month (June 23rd) in which the Conservatives are defending, at opposite ends of the country.
Wakefield (Imran Khan jailed) is up in Red Wall West Yorkshire and is one that Labour should expect to win back. A defeat would be a bigger disaster for Starmer than it would for Johnson imo, although a defeat for Johnson may make the other Red Wall intake of 2019 a bit nervous.
Tiverton (Neil Parish resigned due to porn allegations) is in Devon, with the Conservatives defending a 24K majority. However the bookies have the Liberals as favourite currently. I think a defeat here should make the rest of the party sit up and take action, but hey, who knows.
Well they do seem to mind going by polls and the local elections it's just they can do nothing about it for now
According to The Spectator "Johnson’s closest allies have been most worried about the parliamentary inquiry into whether the Prime Minister misled parliament or not." "One Johnson ally frets that he ‘cannot see a friend on that committee’." I have no idea how it's going to go, but it's not over yet,
Yesterdays news is tomorrows fish and chips....
In the world of 24 hour, 7 day a week news...there is always some other story to be covered...the brits know they have a liar as a PM and dont seem to mind...
I said it months ago that he wouldnt go as a result of this.....
Yep. That was the test and he got a D-. Pathetic but ultimately, the UK voting system is set up to all but give southern England almost total control.
Ya getting past the local elections has him secure to the next election I think where the result will be that same or worse for the Tories if he is still in.
I think he's here until 2023 or 2024. It depends on when the next election is. I hope he stays, frankly. Every day he reminds people that the Conservative party, one of the world's oldest now stands for nothing more than venality and prejudice. They're not even hiding it any more.
How could we forget when he continued to double down on it.
As for Johnson it's hard to tell when the next big date of reckoning will be now that the May elections have passed. Maybe the photos will do the trick but I don't see enough Tories having the spine or morals
The fact Boris johnson is still Prime minister and the fact that he will remain as prime minister since the conservative party will not act against him shows how morally bankrupt the British government has become.
He knows hes lying, he knows everyone else knows he is lying but persists. It makes you thankful for our lot...
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If Sue Gray had a "right to reply" to Boris performances in Westminster and press conference following publication of her Report, BoJo would be toast.
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Where is the evidence in Sue Grey's report that cleaning staff were specifically "treated appallingly by Boris Johnson"?
Throwing around more false and misleading allegations, I see.
Apparently, cleaning and security staff were subjected to appalling treatment by Johnson and the others at No. 10.
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