BREAKING NEWS ! Boris Jòhnson pulls out of leadership race.

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[webfact]

Boris Johnson pulls out of race to be leader of UK’s Conservative Party and next prime minister
By Jorge Engels, CNN

 

Photo credit: KGC-254/STAR MAX/IPx/AP

 

CNN  — UK former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pulled out of the contest to become the next Conservative Party leader and therefore the next prime minister.

 

Johnson claimed to have garnered the support of 100 MPs – the minimum number required to clear the threshold to appear on the ballot for the Conservative Party membership – but declined to run, saying “this would simply not be the right thing to do” as “you can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament,” according to the PA Media news agency.

 

His announcement comes after Britain’s former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak officially entered the race to lead the Conservative Party, his second attempt at the position this year.

 

Full story: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/23/world/boris-johnson-will-not-contest-conservative-party-int/index.html

 

-- © Copyright CNN 2022-10-24

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Back to the sun lounger you go Johnson.

 

Serve the nation best by doing nothing somewhere else.

[thaibeachlovers]

I had to laugh when I saw this is right before the next thread which says that Boris is "clearly going to stand".

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

His announcement comes after Britain’s former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak officially entered the race to lead the Conservative Party, his second attempt at the position this year.

Perhaps Boris decided that the agro he'd get just wasn't worth it, or perhaps he didn't want the third candidate having a chance. Without Boris running it's highly likely that Sunak will be next PM.

[Bluespunk]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Johnson claimed to have garnered the support of 100 MPs

Yeah, right…sure you did. 

 

“As he dropped out of the race, Johnson claimed to have won the support of 102 colleagues – two clear of the threshold needed – but only about 60 had publicly stated their support for him.“

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/23/boris-johnson-says-he-will-not-stand-in-tory-leadership-contest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Edited October 24, 2022 by Bluespunk
Link added

[bannork]

Saving face is not only an Asian trait.

' I would have won, you know. Lots of MPs backing me, even the Red Wall ones who voted no confidence in me 6 weeks ago. They know their constituents still love me, they can't warm to that fake northerner with his green card and tax dodging wife. 

But I'll stand aside for the country's sake (sounds good). The fact I know slod all about the economy and even said fluck business.......er, I didn't mean that.

Let the man with a different loaf of bread for each family member take over, and come election time I'll reappear, rebranded, a conversion on the truck jammed road to Dover.

Bin Brexit! We're coming home, back to our biggest trading partner and cultural cousins. 

Singapore on The Thames has been trashed, Paris, London, Frankfurt, together we stand against the Russian bear and the rising power of China.

I got Brexit done, I can get it undone.

Vote for Boris in 2024 to put the Great back into Britain!

 

 

 

[Bluespunk]

If the below is true, it shows how delusional johnson really is 

 

“The Times carries a similar headline: “Sunak set for No 10 as Johnson quits race”. The papers writes that the “Ex-PM blames lack of unity among candidates” for his exit from the race.

 

It reports that Johnson accused Sunak and Mordaunt of “failing to come together in the national interest after they rebuffed his attempts to strike a deal.” It was reported that Johnson met with Sunak and Mordaunt over the weekend, urging them to pull out.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/24/newspaper-front-pages-today-uk-what-the-papers-say-boris-johnson-bojo-no-rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-race?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[VocalNeal]

He'll be back in 2024. He is more valuable as an election spokesperson than currently as PM. 

[thaibeachlovers]

50 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

He'll be back in 2024. He is more valuable as an election spokesperson than currently as PM. 

I really liked him before he became PM. After not so much.

[Bluespunk]

johnson supporters threatening to continue disruption if/when sunak becomes party leader. 
 

This from Christopher Chope

“We have got a parliamentary party which is completely riven, and it’s ungovernable,” Chope told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “In a sense, that is the reason why Boris has pulled out, because obviously Rishi Sunak wasn’t prepared to guarantee him his support in the event that he was elected as leader by the party and the country.

 

“Unless we can have somebody as our leader in parliament who commands the support and respect of the parliamentary party, we are in effect actually ungovernable.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/24/rishi-sunak-will-face-ungovernable-tory-party-warns-johnson-supporter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by Bluespunk
Typo

[RayC]

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

johnson supporters threatening to continue disruption if/when sunak becomes party leader. 
 

This from Christopher Chope

“We have got a parliamentary party which is completely riven, and it’s ungovernable,” Chope told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “In a sense, that is the reason why Boris has pulled out, because obviously Rishi Sunak wasn’t prepared to guarantee him his support in the event that he was elected as leader by the party and the country.

 

“Unless we can have somebody as our leader in parliament who commands the support and respect of the parliamentary party, we are in effect actually ungovernable.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/24/rishi-sunak-will-face-ungovernable-tory-party-warns-johnson-supporter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

It's a bit rich for Chope to complain about chaos in government given his record in parliament

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chope

[bannork]

Both the UK public  and the financial markets won't forgive the Tories if chaos persists, and rightly so. The idiots caused enough trouble with Brexit, condemning the UK to third country status, a loss of 4% of GDP and a collapse in investment.

Not much talk about sovereignty these days, gone with the wind like Liz Truss 

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, bannork said:

Both the UK public  and the financial markets won't forgive the Tories if chaos persists, and rightly so. The idiots caused enough trouble with Brexit, condemning the UK to third country status, a loss of 4% of GDP and a collapse in investment.

Not much talk about sovereignty these days, gone with the wind like Liz Truss 

I lived in the UK from 2000 to 2009, and it seemed pretty third world back then. The NHS hospitals I worked in certainly seemed to be from 19th century ( actually some really were ).

Perhaps that was one reason I liked Thailand more than UK- more modern.

[JayClay]

16 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

This from Christopher Chope

“We have got a parliamentary party which is completely riven, and it’s ungovernable,”

Agreed, Mr Conservative. Will you please propose a general election, then?

 

Thought not...

[JayClay]

On 10/25/2022 at 7:30 AM, JayClay said:

Agreed, Mr Conservative. Will you please propose a general election, then?

 

Thought not...

Okay I need to be fair to Chope. He did call for a general election.

 

Credit where credit's due, although his motives for doing so are somewhat questionable.