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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Another way to manipulate this so that there is only 1 candidate remaining after the MP vote is for the 1922 committee to set a super high threshold for round 1. They then engineer it so that the preferred candidate, and only the preferred candidate, could meet that threshold. Something like, say 120 votes. Anyone not meeting that threshold is eliminated. The ERG head-bangers wouldn't be able to get someone like Braverman or Badenoch* over that on their own and so they'd be eliminated.
Edit: *Or Boris
The lettuce is good, the lettuce is great,
We surrender our will as of this date.
Yep the daily telegraph ( where bojo worked before politics) is reporting that it understands that he is to stand for leadership of the Tory party
And one meeting with the queen, who promptly died the next day.
Quite a record.
David Cameron caused some mess
In fairness to her she crammed in a lot into her 6 weeks as PM.
- met the Queen,
- buried the Queen,
- caused a run on UK pension funds,
- tanked sterling,
- needed the BoE to step in to save the economy from collapsing,
- made Brexit under Boris look like a runaway success,
- had 2 chancellor's,
- multiple backbench revolts,
- put Labour at 50%+ in the polls.
Stuff like that wouldn't happen in a decade normally. 🤣
Yep.
Boris' odds gone from 15/1 to 7/2 in the last hour, all while he is in the Caribbean no doubt on some Tory billionaires yacht. He will be into a private jet and back to London quick smart.
Amid all this mess a big story of a Russian fighter jet firing a missile towards the vicinity of a RAF fighter jet over the Black Sea has gotten completely buried. Apparently the incident between them lasted 90 minutes
Utterly shameless...
#BringBackBoris campaign in full flow.
He’s certainly arrogant enough to weather the storms. I can see one blonde bluffer being replaced by another
even for her, thats a bit early in the day to be at the gin
Sir Keir Stamer should seek an audience with King Charles and request that he not invite anyone to form a government in his Majesty's name unless they have a new mandate from the people.
Nicola Sturgeon must be sitting back with a brandy enjoying the Tories doing the heavy lifting on Scottish independence for her
What a glorious day
And what makes it even funnier that some Tories want BJ back
They are so idiotic
Not gonna happen.
Charlie isn't gonna cause a crisis like that so early in the reign.
Indeed. PMs no matter how poor usually end up on the after dinner speaking circuit or with corporate sinecures.
Truss just invented a new category of sh*tty ex-PM. There won't be too many people banging down her door looking to give her a sweetheart gig.
You would worry for her. Like a lot of people who are gripped by narcissism, an overestimation of their abilities, and where their hubris was previously rewarded for many years - when their delusion meets reality, the pyschological wall they hit is particularly hard.
The Conservatives don't really have anyone of real leadership calibre to fill the role. Having said that, the Labour party isn't experiencing abundance in this department either, so I don't know what the hell's going to happen.
I always thought that Jacob Rees Mogg was laying the tracks for a PM bid one day, especially when he was all over the Brexit coverage, but he seems content to run his investment firm and steeple his fingers on the back benches.
She isn't skilled or charismatic enough to be able to make jokes about it if she did tour.
Good bet that. Will be odds on in a couple of days.
Labour are getting a boost just by keeping quiet and doing nothing. Tories are like a granny on an out of control motorbike.
Next prime minister will be of Indian origin. Based on how the economy is going on in this world. So it will be rishi sunak. Like Leo is going to become Irish taoiseach.
Heard on the radio that Truss will be in receipt of £115,000 a year former Prime Minister pension, beginning immediately.
Great call.
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On holidays yet again. How many has he taken this year....four or five?
If I had the time and money, I'd be doing likewise. Can't begrudge him that...!
What crisis could the king create that's worse than this? If he allows the people to have their say it'd be a brave government that throws him out for doing so.
a bit like Big Sam a few years back when he got the English football manager gig. Wanted it all his life, ousted after 67 days and 1 match in charge.
He probably has lost count himself as that's something he's known for.
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