UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

[AustralianSwingVoter]

I don't even get what the Boris plan is now. It's inevitable you're going to lose the VONC as soon as it's able to happen. So what is even the point of fighting? The only possible way to avert it is to go to the Palace ASAP.

Maybe he thinks he can actually get a dissolution *after* losing a VONC??

Utter and absolute madness obviously, but seriously who the f*** knows at this point

(Johnson loyalists have also been heard muttering about the "Corbyn precedent" - yes really)

A rather mad strategy that actually has precedent! Good old Joh Bjelke-Petersen tried a rather similar gambit in ‘89 as I recall. (And in fact the State Governor may have established a nice precedent if the Queen needs to employ her reserve powers)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

She is being given the hardest Government job at a time when there’s at least four issues that could bring her down (passport delays, Rwanda, Ukraine refugees, crime) and it would be a huge red flag. Surely just give it to someone like Brandon Lewis, IDS or someone similar?

You’d almost think she’s been deliberately set up to fail. Or perhaps that’s my Australian cynicism talking.