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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People are still sceptical about this :
Sunak has 148 declared backers, if he gets another handful then it’s only possible for there to be one other candidate. Johnson needs Mordaunt to stand aside and she’s not going to.
Kwarteng's CV also pointed to him being a terrible choice because it shows his obsession with the bonkers economic policy he enacted in his budget.
Cruella has backed Rishi making me seriously question where Boris 100 is coming from if even she isnt backing him.
Johnson is rapidly running out of time. If he doesn't get the 100 backers by tomorrow afternoon, Sunak wins the leadership race automatically and on the spot as the only candidate left standing.
His campaign team are pulling a fairly desperate stunt. While doing so they’re highlighting the problem Johnson faces - i.e. that the general public have long since figured out that he’s an absolute spoofer with little actual substance.
He’s going to come out tomorrow and tell us all that, after much consideration and reflection, he is not in fact putting his name forward (and that it has nothing to do with him not getting 100 nominators!) Another spoof from a spoofer.
I would suspect that these announcements are just shameless attempts to manipulate the currency markets, to drop the value of the GBP by spooking the market to think that Johnson is going to return as PM, and then when Johnson announces his withdrawal and 'Sensible Sunak' is confirmed as the new PM the currency will rise and they'll be able to make a fortune
They've done it lots of times before
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/26/fca-urged-investigate-tory-allies-short-pound-insider-info-budget
And the spoof will work on some. For instance right wing boards posters who will blame everything on the Tory traitors who ruined the perfect post EU UK by not backing him.
Its actually better for Johnson if he doesn't get back in because it creates this forever myth about what could have been.
Bojo down.
Sky news- Boris NOT running
So essentially he lied yet again- his claim of 100 backers was pure fantasy
The boosterism didn't work on his own MPs - funny that.
He was trying to make himself the inevitable candidate but that is now Sunak.
Lol! Back on the plane Boris
Wow, what a surprise! Such a spoofer.
That’s probably the last we’ll see of Boris in national politics. I doubt he’ll run for Parliament next time around.
Whatever happens, the big issue here is how they rely on the membership to pick pm, that needs to be changed forever.
Kind of disappointed that thats the end of the Tory clown show, was entertaining while it lasted
His comments about no candidate, including himself, being able to run an effective Government is a low blow. Basically admitting a General Election is required.
It wasn't a lie just a miscalculation by one of his staff 🙂.
There's a good chance he won't contest the inevitable recall election I'd imagine.
He must be livid at his advisers, bringing him back for his coronation. It’s embarrassing
He is still claiming he has over 100 signatures, but just does not want to put his name forward. Lol!
I think his whole strategy was to hope Sunak would bring him in on a joint ticket. Was a non-runner from day one.
Proberly knows the numbers are against him and didn't want to lose a two way fight .Good for everyone he won't be in charge .
Did you lose much??
There was zero chance of Bozo returning, it was never going to happen. Even the Tories aren’t that dumb.
This fool makes Laureate Kuensberg look intelligent.
We can now all breath a sigh of relief and look forward to the UK being run by the three quarters billionaire and his lovely bunch of supporters.
As I said above, he's setting himself up to wait in the long grass. He has engineered a scenario (whether true or fake) that he got all that support. He can now claim that he stepped aside for unity and the good of the party. He will still have backers if/when things implode on Sunak. There will be eejits calling for him to be reinstated at that point.
He can claim whatever he likes but it's pretty obvious he is odious to most of the rest of his party.
When does he make a comeback now? He doesn't strike me as someone who would be happy as a leader in opposition.
I love the responses to this tweet
https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1584280847141638144?s=46&t=OZRpDfUid4wdz9smiF37fg
his column in the telegraph has been removed from the website. It was only published at 9pm!
Nah only 7 quid, had it sitting in my account from whenever the last time there was something random to bet on
I'm not against the idea of Johnson getting in - the chaos and devisivness that would plunge the Tory party into would be worth it.
They'd have another leadership contest before CHristmas.
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