[Crabcakes]

I think the red meat for the big dog won’t work. They can’t really touch the BBC until 2027. The levelling up won’t come to anything when Sunak refuses to bankroll it, so it’ll be another empty promise. That leaves hoping the military will stop some poor people in boats without accidentally killing some children before anyone notices that the govt. will soon be letting in more immigrants from India.

And that’s before considering the public have past the point of no return where you can’t do anything without it immediately being seen as a bribe even when it isn’t - and in this case, it *is* a bribe. Plus of course, is there anyone who thinks that there isn’t something else to come out in the next 2 years? What’s Johnson going to offer next to try and cover himself - National service? Corporal punishment?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Mirror saying Johnson attended and gave a speech at another leaving do.

[davidjay]

Part of me hopes that he does scrap all covid restrictions, and gets a subsequent boost in the polls. Because that will prove how downright stupid many people are and how they get the government they deserve. Then I remember the rest of us, and we most certainly don't.

[Bones McCoy]

Certainly the worst prime minister, hot in the running for worst mammal.

With apologies to Frankie Boyle.

[Youngian]

Has a PM ever been forced to resign in disgrace?

[Andy McDandy]

Usually there's a cover story to make it a bit more palatable. Anthony Eden quit due to "ill health" after Suez, but he was about to be accused of misleading the Commons, and he was off his tits most of the time.

IIRC a few were booted out in the 19th century for screwing up, but more recently it's been "take the honourable option and we'll go easy on you".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

It's a pity the glass of scotch, Webley and open French doors isn't an option.

[davidjay]

[MisterMuncher]

It's a pity the glass of scotch, Webley and open French doors isn't an option.

He'd miss.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Crabcakes]

It's a pity the glass of scotch, Webley and open French doors isn't an option.

He'd miss.

He’d miss the French doors, let alone anything else.

[Watchman]

He'd never miss the French doors.....they lead out to the garden, and the party!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[davidjay]

i'm now starting to wonder what Cumming's Hiroshima revelation will be - the one final act that brings the whole sorry mess to a conclusion.

[Youngian]

Mrs Cummings’s recollections of Boris jolly japes at the Spectator deserve a wider hearing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

i'm now starting to wonder what Cumming's Hiroshima revelation will be - the one final act that brings the whole sorry mess to a conclusion.

I don't think he's got receipts on Johnson knowing about the party, sadly. Or else it'll be Johnson's name on an email which he'll say he didn't see.

[Crabcakes]

Operation big golden dog egg seems to rapidly be collapsing, and if this is Lynton Crosby’s best effort a a dead cat they really are screwed…

[Tubby Isaacs]

This might be a false trail. Then again the last time they tried this one, it wasn't.

[Youngian]

People that worked with every PM from Thatcher to May in No 10 have Tweeted the same. I believe it was Oliver Dowden who set off this ludicrous accusation that the civil service has an ingrained office drinking culture. I doubt they even did when Don Draper was knocking back Martinis.

[Bones McCoy]

Mrs Cummings’s recollections of Boris jolly japes at the Spectator deserve a wider hearing.

Beef out Boris, I believe?