Boris: What next?

[El Pollo Diablo]

ignore

okay

[tenchboy]

Stab, Javid, stab.

Reminded me of "Sing, Mikey, Sing"

You say you stand
By your man
Tell me something
I don't understand
You said you loved me
And that's a fact
And then you left me
Said you felt trapped
Well some things you can't explain away
But the heart aches in me 'til this day
You didn't stand by me
No, not at all
You didn't stand by me
No way

Seems appropriate.

[Stranger Mouse]

27 resignations of ministers and aides

Woah

ETA linky

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/poli ... e-27403869

[Stranger Mouse]

New Heath Secretary is being knocked a bit https://twitter.com/shaunlintern/status ... D5bL7Of4IA

[FlammableFlower]

Apparently Gove told Johnson this morning that Johnson should quit.

And now another has gone - are we at 28 now?

[lpm]

Gove's delay is that he needs to go shopping for a new backstabbing knife, his usual one has gone blunt.

[tom p]

Gove's delay is that he needs to go shopping for a new backstabbing knife, his usual one has gone blunt.

Either that or he wants to look loyal so that he can present himself as a good party man (not the work function kind) prepared to put service before self when he unsuccessfully runs to be party leader again

[FlammableFlower]

The Guardian:

Why it is now looking terminal for Boris Johnson
By my count 15 government ministers have resigned since 6pm last night. Total resignations are much higher than that - around 30 - but the departure of PPSs (of whom there are arguably far too many anyway), trade envoys and Tory party vice chairs does not matter.

But government ministers have to be replaced. Even Jacob Rees-Mogg would not advocated slimming down the size of government to the extent that a 15-person loss would represent, and this is why increasingly it looks as if Boris Johsnon’s government is in its death throes. It is not at all obvious that Johnson would be able to replace all these ministers. Put bluntly, there are not enough Peter Bones to go round.

Jeremy Corbyn managed for several weeks with dozens of frontbench posts unfilled. But an opposition can function like that (with difficulty). A government can’t.

[TopBadger]

Even my useless local MP has resigned... he's toast.

Its all over bar the shouting.

He should bunker down and enjoy his last moments with his silly expensive wallpaper.

[Stranger Mouse]

David Frum in America has basically just said on Twitter that at least Boris Johnson won’t arrange an insurrection and I replied and said only because he’s too busy shagging a housekeeper and Kellyannne Conway’s husband liked it. Bow before me.

[Stranger Mouse]

Another resignation- this one adds a picture of a cockend

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[Stranger Mouse]

In the Liaison Committee they finally drag an admission out of him about the Lebedev meeting https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/ ... D5bL7Of4IA

[FlammableFlower]

And Rachel Maclean makes 32...

[IvanV]

Most of the cabinet seems to have confirmed it's not resigning, and there are no big names in the few who haven't confirmed.

So maybe Johnson can can treat this as another clear-out of the unfaithful, and carry on, Trump-like.

[TimW]

The 1922 have a normal meeting at 4pm. Or not-so-normal.

[El Pollo Diablo]

BBC claiming that a group of cabinet ministers and the chief whip will deliver the whisky and revolver to Johnson very soon. Hope they have bullet proof vests on.

[lpm]

THEY SHOULD SHOW IT ON TV.

[dyqik]

BBC claiming that a group of cabinet ministers and the chief whip will deliver the whisky and revolver to Johnson very soon. Hope they have bullet proof vests on.

Including ministers like Zahawi that he just appointed yesterday.

[Stranger Mouse]

Zahawi is going to tell Johnson to resign

8 resignations while he was in the committee

The committee was amazing television. It’s like they were watching the Trump hearings and thought “we have to up our game”

[WFJ]

The humiliation is stunning. Has there ever been a more car-crash end to a government? Desperately trying to cling on is not a good look.

[monkey]

The humiliation is stunning. Has there ever been a more car-crash end to a government? Desperately trying to cling on is not a good look.

Franz Ferdinand was in a car when he was killed. Ended up bringing down empires. Does that count?

[Stranger Mouse]

The humiliation is stunning. Has there ever been a more car-crash end to a government? Desperately trying to cling on is not a good look.

Franz Ferdinand was in a car when he was killed. Ended up bringing down empires. Does that count?

It is quite a car crash

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[jimbob]

The humiliation is stunning. Has there ever been a more car-crash end to a government? Desperately trying to cling on is not a good look.

Franz Ferdinand was in a car when he was killed. Ended up bringing down empires. Does that count?

It is quite a car crash05E3694E-F026-4137-AC8E-C9CB86C53BD3.jpeg

Another one for the lols
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1544706216789786628

PM is not denying he said “all the sex pests are supporting me”. This is painful

[IvanV]

The humiliation is stunning. Has there ever been a more car-crash end to a government? Desperately trying to cling on is not a good look.

Telling the PM to quit on the same day you took the job of Chancellor from that same PM, in place of the Chancellor who resigned to tell the PM to quit, isn't a very good look either, if that's what's happening.

I don't think this lot cares very much what anything looks like any more.

[FlammableFlower]

Zahawi is going to tell Johnson to resign

8 resignations while he was in the committee

The committee was amazing television. It’s like they were watching the Trump hearings and thought “we have to up our game”

WTAF - the person he just appointed is there to tell him to resign. You seriously couldn't make this up.