Updated: Boris resigns as party leader

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Take a look on youtube for "Cassette Boy - Rage Against the Party Machine" if you fancy a giggle this afternoon.

Very good

Link at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgq4fw6o8Gc

[daveeb]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-emerges.html

Boris appears to be perfecting his balancing skills for all those future tightropes he'll be navigating.
Also there looks to be a cherubic Rory Stewart in the background behind Bojo. Bet he wishes he'd kicked his fat backside while the opportunity was there.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

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I'm not surprised as I only said a few days ago


But we always had this early warning too.

Seems to be a theme…

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-party-britain

From his old boss

We can’t predict what a Johnson government will do, because its prospective leader has not got around to thinking about this. But his premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability.

A few admirers assert that, in office, Johnson will reveal an accession of wisdom and responsibility that have hitherto eluded him, not least as foreign secretary. This seems unlikely, as the weekend’s stories emphasised. Dignity still matters in public office, and Johnson will never have it. Yet his graver vice is cowardice, reflected in a willingness to tell any audience, whatever he thinks most likely to please, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later.

Like many showy personalities, he is of weak character. I recently suggested to a radio audience that he supposes himself to be Winston Churchill, while in reality being closer to Alan Partridge.

Johnson would not recognise truth, whether about his private or political life, if confronted by it in an identity parade.

As it is, the Johnson premiership could survive for three or four years, shambling from one embarrassment and debacle to another

Some MPs think they have the number to challenge the PM:

https://twitter.com/Mollie_Malone1/s...58752854515712

One Tory MP this afternoon tells me they think they are “nearly there” when it comes to letters, that numbers far exceed what whips think, that this weekend was a turning point, and that they give the PM “a week.” Says PM should go before SG report.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Seems to be a theme…

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-party-britain

From his old boss

I take issue with this bit:

As it is, the Johnson premiership could survive for three or four years, shambling from one embarrassment and debacle to another.

He'd be lucky to make two years!

I suspect that his objective now is to get over the two-year line but he won't hold the post longer than the "Strong and stable" Theresa May.

[nffc]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, there you have it. A born leader in the making.

To be fair, that doesn't sound too dissimilar from any academically intelligent secondary age kid who thinks he/she can just get through school and into university with minimal effort. I'm pretty sure you could have said similar about me at the same age. But you can't keep that kind of attitude in the level of public office which he has or any kind of professional environment.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I take issue with this bit:

He'd be lucky to make two years!

I suspect that his objective now is to get over the two-year line but he won't hold the post longer than the "Strong and stable" Theresa May.

As the article was written in June 2019 and he took office a month later, he’s already made it past 2 years and 5 months. But its prediction of 3-4 years could be right on the money. That would see him out on his ear any time between this coming summer and next.

[Sephiroth]

Don't you think it's more imminent? Like in the coming weeks?

His reputation is sinking faster and faster.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Don't you think it's more imminent? Like in the coming weeks?

His reputation is sinking faster and faster.

I have long held the view that the drip-feeding of stories against him would lead to a leadership challenge, but not until the summer because right now covid is still very much a thing. Blue-on-blue internecine warfare on the Tory back benches is risky at a time of lingering national crisis. It looks self indulgent. However, this latest revelation is looking more like a game changer with each passing day. If sufficient MPs decide the damage resulting from him remaining in office exceeds the damage of a messy and inconvenient leadership election, they will strike. The odds on that happening do seem to be shortening.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Chris

As the article was written in June 2019 and he took office a month later, he’s already made it past 2 years and 5 months. But its prediction of 3-4 years could be right on the money. That would see him out on his ear any time between this coming summer and next.

Doh, my bad, I meant he will be lucky to make it to three years.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Doh, my bad, I meant he will be lucky to make it to three years.

he be lucky to make it past the next few weeks way it is going

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Don't you think it's more imminent? Like in the coming weeks?

His reputation is sinking faster and faster.

Piers Morgan's reading of Johnson's body language suggests he knows the game is up. How will he drag himself to PMQs tomorrow?

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Dave42

he be lucky to make it past the next few weeks way it is going

He'll be lucky to make it out of PMQs tomorrow alive. If he attends!

You know things are going really, really badly for Johnson now as even Papa Smurf and Old Boy seem to have stopped defending him.

[Carth]

Crikey, seems many people have him gone anywhere from next week to the next 6 months.

I hope everyone is keeping their knives sharp for the next idiot that jumps into the hotseat . . if any do

[Mr K]

Dominic Cummings will be interviewed as part of an investigation into parties and gatherings at Downing Street during coronavirus restrictions.

Boris Johnson's former chief adviser confirmed to Sky News that he will be involved in the probe.

A Cabinet Office source told Sky News: "If we reach the end of the investigation and the inquiry hasn't spoken to Dominic Cummings, eyebrows would be raised."

The confirmation that Sue Gray will speak to Mr Cummings comes after he alleged that the prime minister knew in advance about a Downing Street drinks party in May 2020 and agreed that it could go ahead.

https://news.sky.com/story/downing-s...ation-12519275

I think 'Big Dog' will put himself down before the report comes out. Shame.