BREAKING NEWS ! Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister

[CharlieH]

 

 

Boris Johnson will today resign as prime minister as he finally bows to the pressure of swathes of government resignations.

A No 10 source said Mr Johnson had spoken to the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, and agreed to stand down, with a new Tory leader set to be in place by the party's conference in October.

 

 

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[peterfranks]

Don't forget to switch off the lights on your way out Boris.

[JonnyF]

Thanks for the hard work Boris. Great job on Brexit and the vaccine rollout. 

 

Whose next? For me it has to Truss, Mogg or Raab. I'd like to see The Moggster get it. A true Conservative. 

[vinci]

with new PM, can the Brit reinstate the Brexit

[Bluespunk]

…TOCK

[Mac Mickmanus]

It was time for him to go .

Conservatives needed a new leader, if they want to win the next election 

[PFMills]

3 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It was time for him to go .

Conservatives needed a new leader, if they want to win the next election 

Unfortunately it was.

[Dmaxdan]

It was only a matter of time after Partygate...

[Denim]

Be careful what you wish for.

 

When I look at recent history , sometimes a long desired for change , rather than ushering in an improved new era , actually leads to something worse.

 

The predicament the UK is now in reminds me of humpty dumpties. A great fall coming that nobody will be able to fix.

[Kwasaki]

And there was me hoping that Bojo would call on the army for backing and be the next Oliver Cromwell. ????

[GroveHillWanderer]

45 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Thanks for the hard work Boris. Great job on Brexit and the vaccine rollout. 

 

Whose next? For me it has to Truss, Mogg or Raab. I'd like to see The Moggster get it. A true Conservative. 

Yes, please, please let it be JRM - aka "The Honourable Member for the 18th century."

 

That would be an absolute godsend for the opposition parties. I doubt if there's a more widely disliked politician in the Tory Party.

 

This is the man, that when appointed by Boris to find and publicise the benefits of Brexit, decided the best way to do that was to ask readers of The Sun (probably they most "down-market" tabloid newspaper in the UK) to write and let him know if they could identify any possible benefits.

 

 Jacob Rees-Mogg issues plea to readers of The Sun to flag possible Brexit benefits to him

[BangkokReady]

About f*cking time!  He was able to ride the bumbling toff popularity wave for far too long.

 

Brexit honestly should have done for him.

[RayC]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Thanks for the hard work Boris. Great job on Brexit and the vaccine rollout. 

Hat's off to the scientists who invented the vaccine.

 

Roll-out was quite well managed. But let's not forget Johnson's cavalier attitude towards Covid before his own brush with death.

 

Trouble on the island of Ireland after 20 years of peace. All time low relations with EU. Re-opening of the Scottish independence debate. England more divided than ever. UK economy in a complete mess. Most of this due to Brexit. Yep, great job.

 

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

Whose next? Truss☹️ Raab???? Rees-Mogg ????

 

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

 

[RayC]

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It was time for him to go .

Conservatives needed a new leader, if they want to win the next election 

Despite all that's happened during his tenure, he's been lauded as being the man for the job for the past 2.5 years right up until 24 hours ago by some posters here. The country - outside of Islington - were supposedly solidly behind him. Malcontents were simply  dismissed as Woke/ Lefty liberals/ anti-democratic/ Remainers, etc. What's changed? So he lied - yet again! - what's new? Johnson supporters were willing to overlook that character flaw for so long. Why all of a sudden has he gone from hero to zero in the eyes of the besotted?

[baboon]

Good riddance to the corrupt, lying scumbag.

[James105]

51 minutes ago, RayC said:

Hat's off to the scientists who invented the vaccine.

 

Roll-out was quite well managed. But let's not forget Johnson's cavalier attitude towards Covid before his own brush with death.

 

Trouble on the island of Ireland after 20 years of peace. All time low relations with EU. Re-opening of the Scottish independence debate. England more divided than ever. UK economy in a complete mess. Most of this due to Brexit. Yep, great job.

 

 

 

The UK is divided as the people who live there no longer seem to be able to accept the result of democratic votes that do not go their way.   The Scots do not accept the result of the independence referendum they had.   The anti-Brexit folks do not accept the democratic result of the EU referendum.    

 

Half the nation are anti-democratic babies, and that includes the media who seem to have been on a Boris Johnson witch-hunt ever since he helped moved the EU trough away from their snouts.   

[Seppius]

BJ certainly made UK politics interesting.

 

Ben Wallace for me

[Thunglom]

So Boris has signed - except he never used the word "resign" and is to be replaced by the new prime minister, Boris!?!?!

[Thunglom]

28 minutes ago, James105 said:

The UK is divided as the people who live there no longer seem to be able to accept the result of democratic votes that do not go their way.   The Scots do not accept the result of the independence referendum they had.   The anti-Brexit folks do not accept the democratic result of the EU referendum.    

 

Half the nation are anti-democratic babies, and that includes the media who seem to have been on a Boris Johnson witch-hunt ever since he helped moved the EU trough away from their snouts.   

Democracy in UK is broke=n -has been for years - simple majorities are not democracy, they are mob rule.

[Thunglom]

32 minutes ago, James105 said:

The UK is divided as the people who live there no longer seem to be able to accept the result of democratic votes that do not go their way.   The Scots do not accept the result of the independence referendum they had.   The anti-Brexit folks do not accept the democratic result of the EU referendum.    

 

Half the nation are anti-democratic babies, and that includes the media who seem to have been on a Boris Johnson witch-hunt ever since he helped moved the EU trough away from their snouts.   

Democracy in UK is broken -has been for years - simple majorities are not democracy, they are mob rule.

[Thunglom]

Brexit is a cockup

 

Covid - 10,000 necessary deaths caused by Boris's inaction at the start

[billd766]

2 hours ago, vinci said:

with new PM, can the Brit reinstate the Brexit

Why?

[billd766]

1 hour ago, RayC said:

Hat's off to the scientists who invented the vaccine.

 

Roll-out was quite well managed. But let's not forget Johnson's cavalier attitude towards Covid before his own brush with death.

 

Trouble on the island of Ireland after 20 years of peace. All time low relations with EU. Re-opening of the Scottish independence debate. England more divided than ever. UK economy in a complete mess. Most of this due to Brexit. Yep, great job.

 

 

 

I am sure that you could have done better.

 

There is a vacancy coming up very soon.

[vinci]

7 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Why?

i was just wondering if the Brexit can be reverse or its permanent 

[RayC]

44 minutes ago, James105 said:

The UK is divided as the people who live there no longer seem to be able to accept the result of democratic votes that do not go their way.   The Scots do not accept the result of the independence referendum they had.   The anti-Brexit folks do not accept the democratic result of the EU referendum.    

 

Half the nation are anti-democratic babies, and that includes the media who seem to have been on a Boris Johnson witch-hunt ever since he helped moved the EU trough away from their snouts.   

We've left the EU. It's a fact and the overwhelming majority of Remainers accept that - unfortunately - we won't be rejoining any time soon.

 

The problem isn't Remainers accepting the result of the referendum, it's the Brexiters not knowing what to do with their victory. This despite continual reassurances during the referendum debate that 'We know what we're voting for'. Ok, fine. Go ahead and implement whatever "it" is and please stop blaming Remainers, the EU, Uncle Tom Cobbley for your inability (so far) to do so.

[RayC]

9 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I am sure that you could have done better.

 

There is a vacancy coming up very soon.

I'm sure that there are no end of people who could have done better.

 

I'm not a Tory or a MP which probably rules me out.

 

[Thunglom]

12 minutes ago, vinci said:

i was just wondering if the Brexit can be reverse or its permanent 

It will inevitably be reversed...but how long and in how many stages is debatable

[RayC]

10 minutes ago, vinci said:

i was just wondering if the Brexit can be reverse or its permanent 

Generalising, the Tories are in favour of Brexit, the Labour party have ruled out rejoining in the next parliament. The Lib Dems are unlikely to be the majority party after the next election, so there is little chance of anything happening until 2028 at the earliest. In reality, that is much too soon. My guess would be the mid-30s would be earliest possible date for the UK to formally rejoin the EU.

 

Having said that, if any party other than the Tories wins the next election, I imagine that they will seek closer ties with the EU. Perhaps, rejoining the single market and Customs Union in everything but name?

[billd766]

5 minutes ago, Thunglom said:

It will inevitably be reversed...but how long and in how many stages is debatable

Says who?

[EricTh]

1 hour ago, baboon said:

Good riddance to the corrupt, lying scumbag.

 

Any reason why he always leave his hair uncombed and unkempt?