[Tubby Isaacs]

And Austin Mitchell.

[Andy McDandy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnson ... 48113.html

From the Observer, Andrew Rawnsley doesn't hold back. You can feel the anger here.

[satnav]

I like this cartoon by Chris Riddell

[Andy McDandy]

I saw another piece in either the I or the Guardian about the race to be the Republican candidate in the States. Same dilemma, really, Trump is electorally toxic but is still polling high (60% or so) within the party. Just as Momentum found out, insulting your internal opponents and sneering at anyone doubting the Great Leader might go down well in the room, but outside, all those people have votes too.

[Crabcakes]

If I were a senior influencer in the Conservative Party(which of course I'm not) I'd be pressing the case very powerfully that it is now time to throw Johnson to the wolves.

I would wager they’re hoping the standards committee and then a recall election do the job for them. Because of course on top of everything else they’re still grasping cowards.

[davidjay]

You do wonder what he's planning next. He's still too popular with the membership to allow a public kicking-out - the fallout from Thatcher remains in their memory - so I don't think he'll go unwillingly. He might step down and retire to write his memoirs and tour the speaking engagements of the States. He could gather the remnants of his troops (ie Mad Nad and Rees Mogg) around him as another ERG. Or, my preferred option, would be a Ted Heath tribute act, sitting on the back benches re-enacting the Longest Sulk in History.

[Andy McDandy]

As has been noted by many over the years, he only really has one speech, so the lecture circuit might get stale fast. Although to a degree it's more wingnut welfare and a gig can always be found for one of the chaps. Memoirs would mean finding another ghostwriter, and the potential of him seeing thousands of copies remaindered and sold for pennies on eBay.

[Bones McCoy]

As has been noted by many over the years, he only really has one speech, so the lecture circuit might get stale fast. Although to a degree it's more wingnut welfare and a gig can always be found for one of the chaps. Memoirs would mean finding another ghostwriter, and the potential of him seeing thousands of copies remaindered and sold for pennies on eBay.

OOh please pick Okeshott!!

[Nigredo]

https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnso ... t-12827101

The pork haystack has put his dad up for a gong.

[kreuzberger]

Services to string-vests and a slab of Stella?

[Youngian]

Sunak looks like continuity sleaze or weak if he doesn’t put the kibosh on Sir Stan. If he does it’s another kick at Bozo. All good.

[Nigredo]

[Youngian]

And we don’t know the half of it as Stanley Johnson would have risen through the Tory ranks decades ago.
Don’t know what he does these days apart from being a TV pundit and a ‘character.’

[Watchman]

The spin seems to be is that he’s spent years being a champion for the environment

[Abernathy]

The spin seems to be is that he’s spent years being a champion for the environment

Yeah. Heard Rachel Johnson (Christ how bloody incestuous does this whole shameful thing get?) coming out with that last night, plus the years of" public service" working for the European Commission, and, importantly for Rach, dear old Stanley is 81 years old now, and if his loving son wanted to do something nice that was in his power to grant for his dear old dad, what on earth was wrong with that?

Fuck's sake. You'd need a heart of stone not to piss yourself laughing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Amazing how Mrs Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Liz Truss all managed to overlook Stanley's contribution.

[Yug]

Cunts of a feather flock together

Boris Johnson has once again nominated Paul Dacre for a peerage as part of a pared-back resignation honours list despite the Daily Mail chief having previously been rejected by the appointments watchdog, the Guardian has learned.

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... or-peerage

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak will have to defer to Dacre, won’t he?

[Youngian]

Find it hard to believe he hasn’t tried. Or is his vanity so colossal he thinks his charisma will keep Uxbridge for the Tories?

[Crabcakes]

Find it hard to believe he hasn’t tried. Or is his vanity so colossal he thinks his charisma will keep Uxbridge for the Tories?

I think he’s probably taken advice that it will look exactly like what it would be - a vain coward bumping someone else out of a job. Too much of a gift for Labour, too much of a dent for his ego.