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

[Continential]

You only have to see how Theresa May earns 200k per speech to realise all you need is a short stint as PM in order to be bribed attract the services of big bankers or corporations. Wasn't there rumours Johnson was so jealous of May's income he was ready to resign even before COVID hit and just hit the money trail?

Kim Campbell makes money by the virtue of being Prime Minister of Canada, a position she held for around four months.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

If you've lost Ally Pally...

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1473067440623996932

[Torrain]

If you've lost Ally Pally...

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1473067440623996932

I definitely didn’t have “darts fans go full ‘let’s go Brandon’ on Boris” on my December bingo card.

At this point, I can only imagine he’s being kept around so the new PM doesn’t have to start in the middle of a COVID winter, and have their approvals immediately dragged down. Wouldn’t be surprised if the 1922 committee gets the required letters either as soon as winter passes, or the morning  after the local elections in May.

[CumbrianLefty]

May hung around for a while after she was obviously mortally wounded, remember.

But as things stand, the odds are certainly against Johnson still being PM a year from now.

[YL]

It's city status competition time!  We have 39 applicants, five of which aren't actually in the UK, and some are really really tiny.

England: Alcester, Warwickshire [1]; Blackburn; Bolsover [2]; Boston, Lincolnshire; Bournemouth; Colchester; Crawley; Crewe; Doncaster; Dorchester, Dorset; Dudley; Goole [3]; Guildford; Marazion, Cornwall [4]; Medway [5]; Middlesbrough; Milton Keynes; Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight; Northampton; Reading; Warrington; Warwick

Wales: Wrexham

Northern Ireland: Ballymena; Bangor, Co. Down; Coleraine

Scotland: Dumfries; Dunfermline; Elgin [6]; Greenock; Livingston; Oban; St. Andrews; South Ayrshire [7]

Isle of Man: Douglas; Peel

Falkland Islands: Stanley

Cayman Islands: George Town

Gibraltar: Gibraltar

[1] I wonder how many people know where this is and how to pronounce it.
[2] Do they want a reward for electing a Tory MP or something?
[3] LOL
[4] Even smaller than St Davids, presumably just trying for a bit of publicity
[5] They'd probably have a better chance if they just applied for Rochester to get it back.
[6] Used to be a city, and thinks it still is.
[7] WTF?  Did they mean to apply for Ayr?

[cp]

It's city status competition time!  We have 39 applicants, five of which aren't actually in the UK, and some are really really tiny.

England: Alcester, Warwickshire [1]; Blackburn; Bolsover [2]; Boston, Lincolnshire; Bournemouth; Colchester; Crawley; Crewe; Doncaster; Dorchester, Dorset; Dudley; Goole [3]; Guildford; Marazion, Cornwall [4]; Medway [5]; Middlesbrough; Milton Keynes; Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight; Northampton; Reading; Warrington; Warwick

Wales: Wrexham

Northern Ireland: Ballymena; Bangor, Co. Down; Coleraine

Scotland: Dumfries; Dunfermline; Elgin [6]; Greenock; Livingston; Oban; St. Andrews; South Ayrshire [7]

Isle of Man: Douglas; Peel

Falkland Islands: Stanley

Cayman Islands: George Town

Gibraltar: Gibraltar

[1] I wonder how many people know where this is and how to pronounce it.
[2] Do they want a reward for electing a Tory MP or something?
[3] LOL
[4] Even smaller than St Davids, presumably just trying for a bit of publicity
[5] They'd probably have a better chance if they just applied for Rochester to get it back.
[6] Used to be a city, and thinks it still is.
[7] WTF?  Did they mean to apply for Ayr?

You would too if you had that easy access to the Glen Moray distillery.

[beesley]

Ideally none of these (bar Gibraltar, Stanley, Georgetown and Douglas) would even be considered.

[CumbrianLefty]

Northampton is long overdue city status on any objective metric tbf.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Northampton's proposal was thrown together at the last minute, so it'd be a bit of a shock if they get it. My money would be on Middlesbrough, though I'd say the most deserving case there is Milton Keynes.

[Conservatopia]

I'm all in for Bournemouth.

Would be happy with Reading too.

[Suburbia]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

[Silent Hunter]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

Considering they've had a Jewish Prime Minister under Victoria, a woman who had a Muslim companion in later life, many of them are probably not overly bothered about it. The colour of your tie trumps the colour of your skin.

[Conservatopia]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

We Tories are far too busy oppressing the poor and cooking up evil plans to sell the NHS to worry about American imports like race.

[Suburbia]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

We Tories are far too busy oppressing the poor and cooking up evil plans to sell the NHS to worry about American imports like race.

Sorry, race is global, mate. Race affects EVERY HUMAN on the planet. Didn't you pay attention to the England soccer team's kneeling this year?

You Tories are the same party that had Edgar and Nick Griffin and Enoch Powell in it......race matters....race matters globally dude.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-12175980

[Cassius]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

We Tories are far too busy oppressing the poor and cooking up evil plans to sell the NHS to worry about American imports like race.

Sorry, race is global, mate. Race affects EVERY HUMAN on the planet. Didn't you pay attention to the England soccer team's kneeling this year?

[Suburbia]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

We Tories are far too busy oppressing the poor and cooking up evil plans to sell the NHS to worry about American imports like race.

Sorry, race is global, mate. Race affects EVERY HUMAN on the planet. Didn't you pay attention to the England soccer team's kneeling this year?

Keep telling yourself that, dude.

[Zinneke]

All this talk or Sunak and Patel being Tory leaders, do you think the white Tories and the Queen would want a nonwhite British premier?

We Tories are far too busy oppressing the poor and cooking up evil plans to sell the NHS to worry about American imports like race.

Says the guy who has Cromwell next to Thatcher in his sig.

Guess that's not race though, just casual anti-Irish/anti-Catholic bigotry?

[parochial boy]

I mean, in terms of « race » or at least the US understanding of it - there is probably a case to make that the UK is the least racist country in the world

Which reflects quite badly in the world, but that is hardly news.

[Continential]

I wonder what parties do Tyrone and his friend support in the UK.

[Torrain]

I mean, in the last decade alone, we’ve had a woman PM, two largely irreligious PMs (Cameron, Johnson), a PM with Muslim & Jewish ancestry (Johnson), a twice-divorced PM (Johnson again). We’ve even had a PM who was born in America of all places (still Johnson).

The idea that picking a non-white man to replace Johnson (and the only cabinet member with a net-positive approval rating no less) would prompt more of a stir than that is frankly bizarre.

I’m not denying that a non-white PM would face new challenges, but if the Tory party can accept a woman leading it in the 1970s, I doubt it would resist a POC leader in 2022.

[Conservatopia]

I would draw the line at a PM with French ancestry though.  Rotten frogs.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I would draw the line at a PM with French ancestry though.  Rotten frogs.

I'm not sure what proportion of English people have a bit (and how do you even work this out?), but it's very high because of the Huguenots.

[CumbrianLefty]

I mean, in the last decade alone, we’ve had a woman PM, two largely irreligious PMs (Cameron, Johnson), a PM with Muslim & Jewish ancestry (Johnson), a twice-divorced PM (Johnson again). We’ve even had a PM who was born in America of all places (still Johnson).

The idea that picking a non-white man to replace Johnson (and the only cabinet member with a net-positive approval rating no less) would prompt more of a stir than that is frankly bizarre.

I’m not denying that a non-white PM would face new challenges, but if the Tory party can accept a woman leading it in the 1970s, I doubt it would resist a POC leader in 2022.

Though of course Johnson recently claimed to be Catholic when it suited him to do so.

[Suburbia]

Merry Christmas to my British friends!!!

Queen Elizabeth II today had a solemn Christmas message; some fear it may be her last and Britain is dreading a King Charles or William speech......yawn...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/25/the-queen-strikes-a-hopeful-tone-in-personal-christmas-message

[Crumpets]

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1474808797138931715