BREAKING NEWS ! Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister

[Soda Soda]

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

Why?

Probably because it has proved to be a disaster for the country.

No doubt about that.

[baboon]

21 minutes ago, billd766 said:

About the same as when I voted to leave years ago. This time I will just be an interested observer as my vote ran out last year. It might be back in July 2023 though.

 

As for the books I am currently updating my master list of authors as I do twice a year. I m down to the last 5 or 6 on my tablet before I need to add more. I have about 190 single books and around 150 authors with multiple books to choose from. 

 

I have just read several books by Rhys Bowen, Some I liked and a couple I have dumped after 50 or 100 pages.

PM sent..

[herfiehandbag]

4 hours ago, Seppius said:

BJ certainly made UK politics interesting.

 

Ben Wallace for me

 One of the cabinet who stayed loyal.

 

Interestingly being reported as the favourite amongst Tory party membership. - outside the Westminster bubble!

 

Me, I am waiting for Michael Gove to declare his candidacy, and then knife himself in the back!

 

Strange fellow - a very astute political commentator but seemingly incapable of applying that astuteness to himself!

 

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by herfiehandbag

[Mac Mickmanus]

20 minutes ago, Soda Soda said:

Probably because it has proved to be a disaster for the country.

No doubt about that.

Its worked out OK .

[baboon]

39 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

 One of the cabinet who stayed loyal.

 

Interestingly being reported as the favourite amongst Tory party membership. - outside the Westminster bubble!

 

Me, I am waiting for Michael Gove to declare his candidacy, and then knife himself in the back!

 

Strange fellow - a very astute political commentator but seemingly incapable of applying that astuteness to himself!

 

 

Rolled up banknotes and mirrors. That's why...

[PJ71]

The UK is basically a 3rd world country these days - shambles.

[bendejo]

While the US's former president is a standup comedian without a sense of humor, BoJo is about visual comedy.  Who can doubt the comedic genius of the zip-line stunt?  The hair, that stupid expression he gives while staring straight into a camera?  Perhaps his next move will be a tv show where he creates a hapless comedic character, like Mr Bean.

In episode 1 he visits a chicken hatchery in the US where his job is to wash the chickens in chlorine bleach, a favorite subject of his while PM.

Episode 2 he is an appliance repairman called to Mar-a-Lago to fix an exploding dishwashing machine, one of DT's favorite subjects.

 

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by bendejo

[bendejo]

4 hours ago, baboon said:

It's part of his image as a 'loveable buffoon'. He does it deliberately. That and walk around looking like he slept in a skip.

It's all completely fake and manufactured, just like everything else about him.

There is a political personality in the US named Steve Bannon.  A heavy boozer with a strawberry nose who always manages to look like he slept through the night wherever it was he passed out, but supposedly he is a rather wealthy man.  Perhaps it was he that helped BoJo create that image.   Oh yeah, I should mention that he is an evangelist of the world fascist initiative and one of the people who advised DT to attain the White House.  In Memo from Turner, in the movie "Performance" there is the phrase "the man who squats behind the man."  That's him.

 

 

[Thunglom]

6 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

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

 

Have you not noticed how megalomaniac dictators always have weird hair?

Kim Jong-un, Trump, Hitler, Gaddafi and Boris all have weird hair.....

[baboon]

24 minutes ago, bendejo said:

There is a political personality in the US named Steve Bannon.  A heavy boozer with a strawberry nose who always manages to look like he slept through the night wherever it was he passed out, but supposedly he is a rather wealthy man.  Perhaps it was he that helped BoJo create that image.   Oh yeah, I should mention that he is an evangelist of the world fascist initiative and one of the people who advised DT to attain the White House.  In Memo from Turner, in the movie "Performance" there is the phrase "the man who squats behind the man."  That's him.

 

 

I know of him, but I doubt their sartorial elegancé are connected. 

Johnson does it to appear the loveable buffoon.

Bannon does it to demonstrate he doesn't give a toss.

What they do have in common is that they are both scum. 

[Rhys]

He has done enough, time to tip a few and eat more.

[Bluespunk]

7 hours ago, JayClay said:

So am I. I honestly can't think of anybody who could have done worse. But knowing the Tories they'll manage to find somebody...

Liz Truss- I think she will win and be worse. 

[Gecko123]

A heartening affirmation that integrity and character in political leaders does matter; a lesson that Trump's die-hard supporters appear to have sadly not yet learned.

 

As an American who started watching British Parliamentary debates during Brexit, I was struck from the outset by Boris Johnson's disingenuous delivery, and his orangutan-like arm gesticulations. I felt an immediate instinctive distrust of the man, something which I was amazed so few failed to see.

 

His chummy relationship with Trump further marked him as either a man who was a poor judge of character, or who lacked a moral compass.

 

He was truly an affront to the moral fiber of the British people, just as Trump is an affront to the moral fiber of the American people.

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by Gecko123

[JayClay]

47 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

I felt an immediate instinctive distrust of the man, something which I was amazed so few failed to see

Actually 56% of the electorate saw it even back in 2019.

[BritManToo]

54 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

As an American who started watching British Parliamentary debates during Brexit, I was struck from the outset by Boris Johnson's disingenuous delivery, and his orangutan-like arm gesticulations. I felt an immediate instinctive distrust of the man, something which I was amazed so few failed to see.

 

His chummy relationship with Trump further marked him as either a man who was a poor judge of character, or who lacked a moral compass.

As an American you should understand Boris became PM essentially because he wasn't Teresa.

In the same way Trump became President because he essentially wasn't Hilary.

And Macron became President because he essentially wasn't Le Pen.

Edited July 7, 2022 by BritManToo

[arithai12]

Not a UK citizen, but I still feel a sense of "good riddance". I will remember him for hijacking T. May's deal by adding a blatant lie about the customs check then be heralded as some kind of Brexit hero.  And for the "we are different from the commoners" parties during Covid. Even yesterday I didn't see the attitude of someone resigning, he wouldn't leave until they literally showed him the door out.

To be fair, honor to the UK for being still sufficiently democratic to be able to take him down. Something I wish the EU was able to do with von der Leyen & co.

[sanuk711]

[GroveHillWanderer]

14 hours ago, proton said:

We decided to leave, cannot be undone

Legally and technically, it can be undone - all it requires is for the UK to re-apply for membership.

 

Whether that is likely to happen though, is a different question altogether.

 

Although it is perhaps interesting to note that one of the most recent opinion polls on this shows a majority in the UK are in favour of re-joining.

 

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Altogether, if a referendum on re-joining the European Union were to take place tomorrow, 53% say they would vote for the UK to join the EU and 47% say they would vote for the UK to stay out of the EU.

Joining or Staying Out of the EU

Edited July 8, 2022 by GroveHillWanderer

[candide]

56 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Legally and technically, it can be undone - all it requires is for the UK to re-apply for membership.

 

Whether that is likely to happen though, is a different question altogether.

 

Although it is perhaps interesting to note that one of the most recent opinion polls on this shows a majority in the UK are in favour of re-joining.

 

Joining or Staying Out of the EU

Joining the common market with a Norway type status would be easier and faster to implement, it would just be another type of Brexit.

[candide]

Boris Johnson leaves world's fifth biggest economy in crisis

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/07/economy/boris-johnson-resignation-economy/index.html

Edited July 8, 2022 by candide

[Chomper Higgot]

Johnson couldn’t even get resigning right.

 

He’s trying to fob the nation off with ‘resignation from the Leader of the Tory Party’ while staying on as Prime Minister.

 

Some body needs to tell him:

Leave means Leave.

 

 

Edited July 8, 2022 by Chomper Higgot

[Mavideol]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Johnson couldn’t even get resigning right.

 

He’s trying to fob the nation off with ‘resignation from the Leader of the Tory Party’ while staying on as Prime Minister.

 

Some body needs to tell him:

Leave means Leave.

 

 

I am going to say it again 555 .... he's worse then a bad cold, hard to get rid off but I do think today the 1922 Committee will set him straight to the door

[Mavideol]

5 hours ago, candide said:

Boris Johnson leaves world's fifth biggest economy in crisis

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/07/economy/boris-johnson-resignation-economy/index.html

 one word.....  BREXIT   555

[Mavideol]

6 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Legally and technically, it can be undone - all it requires is for the UK to re-apply for membership.

 

Whether that is likely to happen though, is a different question altogether.

 

Although it is perhaps interesting to note that one of the most recent opinion polls on this shows a majority in the UK are in favour of re-joining.

 

Joining or Staying Out of the EU

heard from some friends over there in the UK, have nothing to confirm their comments besides hearsay, the current feeling to re join/going back to the EU is around 70+ percent,

[candide]

5 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

 one word.....  BREXIT   555

Just one quote from the article I linked:

"While additional trade with other counties could offset some of the decline in trade with the EU, none of the agreements concluded to date are of a sufficient scale to have a material impact on our forecast," the OBR stated.

Loiner, where are you? ????

[Kwasaki]

This is a funny thread from the political experts. ????

 

Pathetic comes to mind. 

[Mavideol]

3 minutes ago, candide said:

Just one quote from the article I linked:

"While additional trade with other counties could offset some of the decline in trade with the EU, none of the agreements concluded to date are of a sufficient scale to have a material impact on our forecast," the OBR stated.

Loiner, where are you? ????

he had it all!!!  but I guess it was not enough that he had to screw everything up

[Chomper Higgot]

Duplicate post deleted, even if it was worth repeating.

Edited July 8, 2022 by Chomper Higgot

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

This is a funny thread from the political experts. ????

 

Pathetic comes to mind. 

I agree, not everyone saw the clear evidence of Johnson not being fit for office, not everyone predicted he’d be ousted.

[Slip]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I agree, not everyone saw the clear evidence of Johnson not being fit for office, not everyone predicted he’d be ousted.

The usual suspects have been noticeably quiet for the last 24 hours or so.

He's pulling a fast one if you ask me.  I hope he doesn't get away with it.

Edited July 8, 2022 by Slip