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All dutifully marching in No 10 to receive their new posts. And back to business for Boris. This is an audacious Trump level grift.

I'm rather concerned that the fucker hasn't gone at all yet. Meanwhile; Tom Walker as Jonathan Pie completely nails it :

Johnson apparently wants to cling on so he can have a big summer party* (at taxpayer’s expense) at Chequers to celebrate his wedding. Entirely on form that even his leaving comes with entitlement.

*sorry, ‘work event’

“A Shakespearean tragedy written by monkeys on typewriters.” Not and always a fan of his stuff but Pie’s on fire.

Undoubtedly mistakes have been made. But leaders, all great leaders, do make mistakes periodically and have to be held to account for those mistakes.

Of course there’s a debate about what happened with Mr Pincher, what was subsequently agreed, and why ultimately he was allowed to remain in government.

Straight talking rightwinger Daniel K there.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:22 pm I'm rather concerned that the fucker hasn't gone at all yet.

Likewise, Abers. And a statement of intent from him isn't worth the hot air it's puffed out on.

I'll believe that he's going when he's actually gone.

To quote Ted Heath when Thatcher resigned Rejoice, Rejoice.

It would be utterly magnificent if he reshuffled the cabinet, got people into jobs, waited as long as he could and then just withdrew his resignation and announced a GE. The Tories would absolutely implode.

Time to move on.

Before he blags the number 10 silverware.

He's just chaired Cabinet. The Cabinet ought to have downed tools until he handed over to Raab.

Starmer doesn't need to be at the tennis today. Needs to be hammering home what a disgrace the situation is now.

Amongst many things he is the Micawber of British politics. I wouldn't be if the slightest bit surprised if he's planning to sit out the next three months in the hope that something will turn up to make him able to claim it would be wrong for him to step down "at this crucial moment in our history".

The pork haystack bloviating about how many votes he got in 2019 strikes me a bit of Joffrey Baratheon, upon being sent to bed by his grandfather, adamantly insisting that he is not tired (scene linked for reference)

Is it correct that a PM resignation only exists when you submit it to the Queen? Hasn’t been yet.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 2:01 pm First they came for Jeremy Corbyn

Well this cunt can fuck right off

Johnson's policy chief. Doubtless he and his mates said the same when Gordon Brown was in power after the Crash, right?

Read this, commit it to memory and recall it when they talk about their mandate.

In fact, there was no Heineken effect.
Polling data showed that Johnson was less popular at the last election than May had been in 2017.
He had an approval rating of minus 20 (May’s had been minus seven).
According to the election analyst Peter Kellner, “Johnson’s victory in 2019 owed less to his popularity than Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity.”