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

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

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[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

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[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

Michael Ellis making an almighty idiot of himself in the HoC has become one of the great traditions of this government.

[CumbrianLefty]

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I don't see anything happening before Johnson buys himself some more time with the summer recess.  Though that even he is running out of road now, is pretty indisputable.

[Estrella]

Michael Ellis making an almighty idiot of himself in the HoC has become one of the great traditions of this government.

Nominative determinism?

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

JAVID HAS RESIGNED

[Torrain]

JAVID HAS RESIGNED

Is it finally the Ides of March?

[Torrain]

Rishi Sunak has resigned - saying that he recognises this might be his final ministerial post, but that he cannot continue under Johnson’s leadership.

Huge moment.

[Silent Hunter]

Losing your Health Secretary and Chancellor in the same day? Wow.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Cabinet finally had enough? I mean ordinarily you'd say this is unsurvivable but no doubt Johnson will still try to stick it out.

[new_patomic]

Losing your Health Secretary and Chancellor in the same day? Wow.

Why stop there.

Why not your Defence Minister too.

[Cassius]

Tory MPs would be foolish not to take another look at Sunak as Johnson's successor.

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

Sunak replaced Javid as Chancellor, brought in as a Johnson loyalist. Quite symbolic.

[Torrain]

Sunak replaced Javid as Chancellor, brought in as a Johnson loyalist. Quite symbolic.

Aye - the old hand and the understudy who supplanted him. There’s a part of me that wonders if they won’t be running on a unity ticket by the end of the week.

[Cassius]

I wonder who'll be brought into replace Sunak and Javid in the Flensburg Government... if it even comes to that.

[afleitch]

Historically this is a very significant double loss. Should be the end of the PM immediately in any other period of British politics.

[Torrain]

Fleet Street is now doing the ring around to see who in the cabinet will vouch for Johnson and commit to staying in government.

Those who have voiced their loyalty so far are Patel, Raab and Kwartang.

I understand Raab and Patel, who are almost certainly gone once Johnson goes. But Kwartang might have a future. Odd to nail your colours to the mast of a sinking ship.

[YL]

Fleet Street is now doing the ring around to see who in the cabinet will vouch for Johnson and commit to staying in government.

Those who have voiced their loyalty so far are Patel, Raab and Kwartang.

I understand Raab and Patel, who are almost certainly gone once Johnson goes. But Kwartang might have a future. Odd to nail your colours to the mast of a sinking ship.

Truss is "100% loyal" as well.

[Skye]

We stan watching a government collapse in real time.

[Torrain]

Fleet Street is now doing the ring around to see who in the cabinet will vouch for Johnson and commit to staying in government.

Those who have voiced their loyalty so far are Patel, Raab and Kwartang.

I understand Raab and Patel, who are almost certainly gone once Johnson goes. But Kwartang might have a future. Odd to nail your colours to the mast of a sinking ship.

Truss is "100% loyal" as well.

That tracks - she’s always been discussed as a “continuity candidate” for Johnson, so seems likely that she’ll try and hold on. The situation is now fluid enough that she could be *sigh* chancellor by the end of the day.

[Oryxslayer]

Taking all bets: does Boris survive this latest Broadside? Does the government survive or need to be fully reconstituted in some fashion?

[Torrain]

Braverman, Trevelyn, Wallace, Dorries, Rees-Mogg, Jack still loyal. (All but Wallace will be exiled to the backbenches when the PM goes, so no great surprise).

Nadhim Zahawi, Therese Coffey, Michael Gove, George Eustace and the ministers for Wales and NI are the last holdouts.

[soundchaser]

Taking all bets: does Boris survive this latest Broadside? Does the government survive or need to be fully reconstituted in some fashion?

Boris surviving is always a safe bet, unfortunately. This would have doomed any other government.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/BenKentish/status/1544372392629338119?s=20&t=26iYw-UhGPa...

Popcorn sure is tasty today

[Cassius]

Taking all bets: does Boris survive this latest Broadside? Does the government survive or need to be fully reconstituted in some fashion?

Well, we've been here before umpteen times over the last eight months - the 'unsurvivable moment' for Johnson suddenly becomes very survivable indeed.

On the other hand, he was already teetering on the edge thanks to the confidence vote and the by-election losses - I can't see how a batch of ministerial resignations doesn't put the numbers of those Tory MPs who want him gone over 50%. My guess is that he ploughs on into the next week, but that an anti-Johnson majority is elected to the 1922 Committee, paving the way for another confidence vote that he will surely lose.