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Post by Worthingshrew on Jun 9, 2023 21:15:57 GMT 1
Boris has stood down as MP with immediate effect having been damned by the Partygate report. But just like Trump, he blames everyone else but himself. Typical lies and bluster from this charlatan. Good riddance.
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Jun 9, 2023 21:20:17 GMT 1
Interesting,first Nadine Dorries and now Boris. Something is brewing and will come out in the coming days
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Post by Worthingshrew on Jun 9, 2023 21:23:36 GMT 1
Interesting,first Nadine Dorries and now Boris. Something is brewing and will come out in the coming days I think she went as she knew he was also resigning.
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Post by suttonshrew on Jun 9, 2023 21:25:27 GMT 1
privileges committee were due to recommend more than 10 day suspension which could have triggered a recall vote in his constituency. Add that to the issues today with his honours list being picked off and i think hes just lost his rag. Knowing Boris he will have an end game
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 9, 2023 21:27:55 GMT 1
It's a bit like when the BBC chap was outside No 10 and Maggie came out behind him to resign...
Who's next?
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Post by Worthingshrew on Jun 9, 2023 22:09:02 GMT 1
Rather than lose a by election, he’ll probably get a safe seat and cause problems and try to get a desperate Tory party to choose him again.
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Post by neilsalop on Jun 10, 2023 7:10:51 GMT 1
Rather than lose a by election, he’ll probably get a safe seat and cause problems and try to get a desperate Tory party to choose him again. The real reason that mad Nad quit?
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Post by davycrockett on Jun 10, 2023 9:22:43 GMT 1
privileges committee were due to recommend more than 10 day suspension which could have triggered a recall vote in his constituency. Add that to the issues today with his honours list being picked off and i think hes just lost his rag. Knowing Boris he will have an end game The destruction of the Tory Party?
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Post by mattmw on Jun 10, 2023 10:22:42 GMT 1
privileges committee were due to recommend more than 10 day suspension which could have triggered a recall vote in his constituency. Add that to the issues today with his honours list being picked off and i think hes just lost his rag. Knowing Boris he will have an end game The destruction of the Tory Party? Will be very interested to see what route Johnson takes next. I'm not a natural Conservative voter, and he has made a number of mistakes as Leader, but Sunak does seem to be trying to return the Conservative Party to some sense of a sensible governing party, and made strides with the Northern Ireland policies and overseas trade. The gap in the polls between Conservatives and Labour is closing. I'm sure there are still some Johnson supporting MP's left in the party, but don't get a sense there are enough to support Johnson returning as leader at this stage - and certainly before the next election. Post election might be a different matter if/when the Conservatives are a minority government or even out of power all together. I'm sure Johnson feels he has another shot at leading the party but whether there is enough support for him in the party nationally - especially with the bagage he brings with him remains to be seen. Another option might be that he defects to the Reform Party and takes some sitting MP's with him.
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Post by armchairfan on Jun 10, 2023 10:40:38 GMT 1
privileges committee were due to recommend more than 10 day suspension which could have triggered a recall vote in his constituency. Add that to the issues today with his honours list being picked off and i think hes just lost his rag. Knowing Boris he will have an end game The destruction of the Tory Party? Possibly, I agree, but unlikely: the Party has been written off as an electoral force on numerous occasions for the last 200 years or so, and for what, at the time, were perfectly logical reasons, yet survival and ultimate returns to Government have been the outcome; the Party has an astonishing capacity to adapt and reinvent itself, making it constantly "relevant" in the changing political tides of British politics - it is why the Conservative Party has been in government for the overwhelming proportion of the last few hundred years. I do nonetheless accept your unspoken desire for its demise, and also, the possibility that this situation may be different from other crises, which, in the main, resulted from differences in specific policy areas - the Corn Laws, the "Irish question", Free Trade and suffrage being examples - whereas this iteration of Conservative government stands accused of poor (non-Conservative?) decision-making across the board - general ineptitude. It is difficult to assess at this time, so close to the events as we are, how,in what way, the Party will be able to recover, but I am confident that it will do so, if only in part due to the continuing existence of the Labour Party as the standard-bearer of the "socialist alternative", or, as I like to describe it, "the non-alternative". What I think we can all agree on is that what makes this situation totally different is the influence of the "Communication Age" whereby every single one of us can express an opinion, on any issue, instantly ...It don't half make the operation of Democracy difficult...🤣
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2023 12:35:33 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2023 12:40:53 GMT 1
www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/lewis-goodall/boris-johnson-resign-donald-trump-tory-peer-lord-gavin-barwell/“The statement that he issued is literally straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook. There’s zero contrition there at all, a load of conspiracy theories, and an aversion to the truth. “The privileges committee can’t kick Boris Johnson out of Parliament. The worst they can do is recommend a suspension which would trigger a recall petition. “AKA if voters in Uxbridge wanted there to be a by-election they could force a by-election – but he could stand in that by-election. “So if he believes he’s innocent, if he believes he’s in a kangaroo court and a witch-hunt, then he should take his case to the people of Uxbridge.” Gavin Barwell.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2023 12:56:21 GMT 1
It’s always been clear how petty & pathetic he is beneath the confected buffoonish exterior. He goes full Trump here: denial of reality, overweening self-pity, vindictiveness, selfishness & lies. The stains he leaves on our politics & country are permanent.
James O'Brien. LBC.
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 10, 2023 13:33:52 GMT 1
He’s just one big baby I’m afraid. Hateful individual.
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Post by kenwood on Jun 10, 2023 14:17:05 GMT 1
He’s just one big baby I’m afraid. Hateful individual. Careful , you know who will be coming on here calling you out for using such a discription. What you should be saying is something along the lines of “ Boris is not a very nice person in my opinion “ Yes, do that and I think you may have got away with it, just 😂😂👍
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2023 14:28:00 GMT 1
David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, said “most” MPs thought Boris Johnson had misled the House of Commons with his Partygate assurances.
The Tory MP told GB News: “The truth of the matter is, ask around parliament, ask most of the MPs, most people are fairly sure he misled the house.
“And he did so many times and he did so knowing that these parties had occurred and he had been at some of them.
“It is hard to be at a party and not notice it is a party.”
He said the former prime minister had been given “hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money” to pay for “the most expensive lawyers in the land” to advise him during the inquiry, adding: “So I hardly think that’s unfair treatment.”
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2023 14:40:19 GMT 1
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Post by bordersalopian74 on Jun 10, 2023 15:14:44 GMT 1
Are there any rats left on HMS Toryism? They’ll have all jumped ship before time Man City fans get the chance to sing ‘Blue Moon’ tonight!
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