June 4, 20223 yr Says a lot about the Tory Party that they cant find anyone remotely talented to lead them so stick with Bozo The Clown and his pack of talentless arse-lickers.
June 4, 20223 yr The worrying thing about that is just how much more damage he can do in another two years. If Labour form a government after the next election (whether with a majority or not), they are going to face a horrendous mess to clear up. Even if Johnston goes, there isn’t anyone who stands out to replace him anyway. I can’t see Labour getting a majority unless things get a lot worse. I suspect they will need to work with other parties to form a government but that might be a good thing.
June 5, 20223 yr Wouldn't it be wonderful if Graham Brady had 53 letters tomorrow morning and decided to give Theresa May a call? :D
June 5, 20223 yr Lots of whispers that the vote threshold has been reached. If it does, f course the Daily Heil will scream about "There's a war going on" ignoring the fact that their headlines over past month have been about the minutiae of Beergate and their obsession with Harry and Meghan Markle.
June 5, 20223 yr Summer 2k22 shaping up to be pretty good if we can get rid of this useless tub of lard at the start. Bring on the vote of no confidence next week! If he goes, can we have a national public holiday like we did for the Jubilee please? 33 Theresa May 3 years, 11 days 1 Conservative 2016 34 Neville Chamberlain 2 years, 348 days 1 Conservative 1937 35 The Duke of Wellington 2 years, 320 days 2 Tory 1828 36 Gordon Brown 2 years, 318 days 1 Labour 2007 37 Boris Johnson 2 years, 316 days (Incumbent) Currently a shorter term than Theresa May ..
June 6, 20223 yr Even following winning a no confidence vote history tells us a PM rarely survives much longer: Margaret Thatcher - 8 days November 1990 Theresa May 6 months - Dec 2018 - May 2019 Anyone else know any of the rest?
June 6, 20223 yr Well this is good news and at last some kind of real consequence for Johnson who clearly thinks he is untouchable until now. Although he is likely to win, it is highly damaging and sends a clear message to him.
June 6, 20223 yr GET THAT SACK OF SHIT SQUATTING IN NO.10 OUT!!!!!!! AND I CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES. Are people on here calling privatising JEREMY HHHUNT left wing?! You're having a f***in laugh!!! He's RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT wing, just not HARD right like authoritarian Blojo the Clown, the Etonian spittle devil of failed moral character, like a tree rotten at its very roots!!!
June 6, 20223 yr Choose your fighter: @1533713550929276928 @1533476836860170250 a clear consideration of just how f**ked the Tories are if they don't get rid of Boris vs 'let's move on and focus on getting the job done, we got brexit done rah rah rah Vladimir Corbyn last Labour government'
June 6, 20223 yr He will survive the Leadership bid you would expect, but it will make things very hard for him going forward. Let's see what happens next, Johnson obviously feels confident.
June 6, 20223 yr It's win-win. If he's a Klingon we may end up getting rid of Tories at long last. If they dump him the nasty and nuttier policies pending might get less bad. And we will all still know that the only reason they got rid of him wasn't to do the right thing about a lying conniving elitist selfish useless lump of lard who failed to deliver on his promises, it was to save their own necks in forthcoming by-elections and elections cos the polls are disastrous. His achievements on his "save my skin" essay: election-winner, tick. By pulling the wool over the eyes of gullible people who didn;t realise he was a compulsive liar. Got Brexit done: only by ignoring all the promises made in the Brexit referendum, dumping the previous Tory party leader and most decent Tories with a conscience, bringing a hard Brexit and then deciding to ignore the agreement he signed despite being warned what would happen for 5 years by everybody. Oh, and those airlines arent cancelling flights cos Brexit went so well, and people arent dying at home because Brexit went so well, they are happening because we don't have enough European workers. Welcome to reality. Unlocked quicker. By locking slower and killing more people than should have died. And thanks to our scientists and volunteers. Not thanks to the shitloads of billions in money given to lying mates with no skillsets who failed to deliver anything. Covid investigation pending next year, so better get those claims in now before the proof turns up about what a total c**t Johnson was caring not a jot how many people died. This is on record, and he caught covid by being a superspreader in a hospital, most likely. PS people still died after unlocking. We just felt better about it. Standing up to Putin. So is the entire rest of the world bar 3 or 4 lackies. Humanitarian help by lowering help to other nations that were promised humanitarian help before Ukraine was invaded. Cost of living help: yes they are. After deciding they preferred to let the UK oil companies double their profits overnight rather than legislate their profits should stay the same to help the economy and people. And then changing their minds the just in time for elections where it wasn't looking good for Tories. So caring, so sharing..... Please feel free to use any of those reasons to counter claims that Johnson has been anything other than a lying useless git throughout....
June 6, 20223 yr @1533763405844185088 FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Dorries is saying quite a few interesting things in that Twitter thread, god I love that she's so dumb. Quite possibly the least qualified Cabinet minister ever among stiff competition. (meanwhile Hunt coming out for it with essentially a leadership bid means that whatever way this goes we've got a lot of Tory infighting to look forward to)
June 6, 20223 yr *.* Bubbly's in the fridge. I think it's likely that he will win the vote, but anything under 200 MPs giving him support will make him effectively a lame-duck PM (of course that won't stop him clinging to power). Theresa May squeaked over the line with 200 in December 2018, and that was with fewer MPs - so anything below that will be quite shocking tbh. @1533811252723605504 Would be absolutely AMAZING though if he does lose tonight.
June 6, 20223 yr Yes some of Johnson's minions are parroting the 'big calls right' BS about lockdown and vaccines, ignoring the fact that more people died of covid in this country compared to our competitors. And the vaccines wasn't them it was the NHS (plus other countries caught us up). He has fewer public declarations of support than May did at the same point in 2018. She had enough public declarations by just after noon. And lol that didn't protect her from much. Hoping it's a very narrow !win" for the tosser putting the Tories into complete civil war.
June 6, 20223 yr I'm sure he'll win, but this shows the writing's on the wall anyway, especially if the by-elections go badly as expected. Whatever happens, I'm just glad accountability still exists even in this party, telling us to 'move on' while you and your cronies shamelessly broke the rules multiple times while people sacrificed visiting and even mourning loved ones, Piss off! He was sorry he got caught, not that he did them. I know he's done much worse, but this one really irked me, especially as a teacher, how can you teach someone what's right and wrong when those in authority can just get away with wrongdoing with no repercussions.
June 6, 20223 yr Well Johnson has apparently addressed his own MPs prior to his confidence vote and told them he would do exactly the same thing again with regards to Partygate so clearly he has no remorse, empathy for all the families who lost loved ones during the pandemic and has learned nothing about the importance of integrity. The guardian are also reporting that when Theresa May had her vote of no confidence, by lunchtime she had enough backing by her MPs to win but Johnson is around 50 MPs short at the moment. I would be very surprised but delighted if he loses as he is the worst PM we have ever had and not good for this country and we deserve so much better.
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