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I get that some people are still inexplicably loyal to the fornicating blobfish, but surely - SURELY - after losing a leadership vote, with polls showing how many voters want him to go, AND losing what was considered a fairly safe seat until his own shenanigans shafted the Tories, they’d tell him to jog on?

Even the GOP are finally distancing themselves from Trump (albeit in a cack-handed way that will hopefully backfire on them), and he had far more of a grip on them.

I think it depends on just how bad 'Surgical' is.

More on the entitled porcine oaf.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... leo-watson

“We made our way upstairs to be greeted by an appalling smell and what I took to be a small fig under the table. ‘Oh dear,’ the PM said, looking at me expectantly: ‘Dilyn’s done a turd.’ I adopted the exasperated teapot pose. ‘Well, you’d better pick it up then,’ I said. And he did,” she recalled.

Quelle fucking surprise!

Boris and Carrie Johnson to hold wedding party at Tory donor’s estate
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... SApp_Other

Anybody know why Johnson didn’t attend the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games ?

The invitation’s in the post!

Guessing his ego wouldn't stand him being booed.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:05 pm Guessing his ego wouldn't stand him being booed.

Yup.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:05 pm Guessing his ego wouldn't stand him being booed.

Shades of 2012 IIRC...

Apparently there's a trend on Twitter to stop Johnson having a resignation honours list.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Prevent ... cal=trends

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:37 pm Apparently there's a trend on Twitter to stop Johnson having a resignation honours list.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Prevent ... cal=trends

YeahbutwhataboutBlair?

Man child Boris Johnson used his speech at his wedding party to claim that his removal from office was ‘the greatest stitch-up since Bayeux Tapestry’. Still blaming everybody for his own short-comings. I wonder when he will get round to blaming Carrie and the kids for his downfall. Changing all those nappies and doing the night time feeds sapped his strength.

In 1945 Churchill was offered a dukedom (of London). He rejected it, saying that it wouldn't be right as he'd been given the "order of the boot" by the public. While up to Thatcher, outgoing PMs took on titles, from Major onward they've broken with that tradition (May is a Dame, Blair's a knight, but that's about it).

He's going to award himself that bloody dukedom, isn't he?

MacMillan refused baubles for two decades and Douglas Home used Benn’s act to renounce his hereditary title. Active service in two world wars or a spell as a Bevin Boy may have dampened the Tory born to rule arrogance in the post war period.

Proper war service probably contributed greatly to Butskellism.

Recent ex-Prime Ministers have either got a peerage after leaving the Commons or their knight/damehood a few years later. Johnson will very likely award himself an earldom in his own resignation list.

It did give me great pleasure each week at PMQs to know the fact that Starmer had been given a knighthood - and one earned through service, not cronyism - must have irked him no end whenever he heard him introduced.

With regard to his own self-inflation, I'm surprised he hasn't tried to give Stanley a hereditary position so he can guarantee himself a nice title shortly.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:20 pm It did give me great pleasure each week at PMQs to know the fact that Starmer had been given a knighthood - and one earned through service, not cronyism - must have irked him no end whenever he heard him introduced.

With regard to his own self-inflation, I'm surprised he hasn't tried to give Stanley a hereditary position so he can guarantee himself a nice title shortly.

Would it surprise you if he did?

Crisis, what crisis?
Not many attendees. Power is unforgiving when it fades.