Boris Johnson Calls It A Day
The worst Prime Minister in British history (yes, even worse than Thatcher) has finally been pushed out of office following a rebellion by his own ‘friends’. He will tender his resignation today, then try to stay on in the role until a new leader is elected by his party.
Too many lies, too much bluff and bluster, too much corruption, too much embarrassment for the Conservative Party. It has all finally taken it’s toll.
So why am I not dancing for joy?
The other equally corrupt Conservatives are so terrified of what might happen if there is now a General Election have persuaded him to resign to avoid that. So that means a leadership election, followed by another repulsive Tory becoming Prime Minister. Then they wil try to hang on until 2024, hoping to erase Johnson’s tainted legacy in the meantime.
Nothing is going to change. The rich and corrupt will get richer, and continue to be corrupt. Life will be no better for ‘ordinary’ people, and the old Establishment wil continue to tear apart the NHS, Social Services, The Unions, and the living conditions of the working class.
No dancing for joy from me. The face in number ten will change, but everything else will remain the same.
To be honest, I would have preferred to see Boris continue as he was. No one person has ever done so much damage to the Conservative Party in my lifetime. If he had stayed on, it might never have won another election.
Like I said, there should be only one winner. The common man, letting the privileged anywhere near our rights is like letting a rottweiler play with noisy children. They all have to go, by any means necessary, for the common man to survive and to live with dignity. They (politicians) are stripping that away from us. — 121084
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Agreed. I wanted him to stay too, another two years of his dire mismanagement and lies and even Starmer might have had a chance.
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I worry they get someone new with more oomph than Starmer, and we get 10 more years of Tory arseholes!
Best wishes, Pete.
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More than likely sadly. Can’t be hard to have more oomph than Starmer.
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Sunak or Mordaunt having more ‘oomph’ than Starmer? That’s a tough one, all three are liars, all three of them are self serving fucks. Politics is broken, helped along by Baboon Johnson. Get rid of the two big parties, dissolve liberal democrats however you see fit and make a system that is right for the 21st century. Otherwise expect more turmoil like the last six years, more of the same bullshit that is making people more insular and not wanting to be involved in change. We, the people, can instigate those changes. Step up. — 121084
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Thanks for your thoughts. We need another Wat Tyler to take them to task. But this time he has to win.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I had to laugh at the rumour that the he persuaded the ’22 committee to let him stay on whilst they choose a new leader, is because Boris and Carrie are having a wedding party at Chequers in July!
And yes, Starmer needs to go as well if Labour are to stand any chance of getting in, he’s too much of a cardboard cut-out.
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Labour dropped the ball by choosing Starmer. He’s another Blair with even less personality.
Cheers, Pete.
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L. Like or loath Boris, two things I will always remember about him. !. He got us out of the EU. “. He was the first to side with Ukraine. In some ways I think of him as Churchillian…
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I was never a fan of Churchill either, Jack. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Maybe he will comb his hair for the next job interview….another Trump-esque d\bag goes down in flames…..who is in the wings? chuq
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So far, there is a big list of ‘wannabees’, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Any good ones? chuq
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Not for me, chuq. No Conservative could ever be a ‘good one’.
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Change the names of programs and your paragraph “Nothing is going to change. The rich and corrupt will get richer, and continue to be corrupt. Life will be no better for ‘ordinary’ people, and the old Establishment wil continue to tear apart the NHS, Social Services, The Unions, and the living conditions of the working class.” sums up the state of affairs in the US with the Supreme court and th Republican blockade in our Senate. Warmest regards, Theo
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We are living in similar circumstances indeed, Theo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do not know enough about your government to comment intelligently. It just seems there is no government anywhere without corruption.
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He took lying and corruption to a new level, Maggie. When confronted with the truth, he laughed about it, and refused to apologise. He has a sense of entitlement that is comparable to Trump.
Best wishes, Pete.
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And this morning, an assassination in Japan.
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Very unusual in that country, a real shock.
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I keep hearing and reading generalizations – as I asked on a different post – what specifically are the complaints on him?
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He paid £350 million to the wife of one of his best friends to run a Covid-19 Track and Trace scheme that failed after a few weeks.
The money was never returned.
He paid James Dyson an unspecified amount of millions to produce ventilators that were never made.
The money was never returned.
He tolerated similar corruption by his government ministers during the pandemic, including over £200,000 paid by Priti Patel to her own hairdresser, who claimed to be suplying masks for hospitals that were never delivered. Matt Hancock, who was Health Minister, paid out tens of millions to personal friends and extended-family members to supply protective equipment during the pandemic. Over 60% of it was unfit for purpose.
No money was ever returned.
When he was Mayor of London, he paid tens of thousands of public money (£125,000) to an American businesswoman, Jennifer Acuri, during a four-year sexual affair with her.
He allowed elderly people to be discharged to care homes with Covid, famously using the phrase ‘Let the bodies pile high’. He added that ‘only old people’ would die of Covid anyway, and that would save money in State Pensions.
He asked for £160,000 of government money to be used to build a treee house in the garden at Chequers, so his little son could play in it. That was refused.
He allowed a wealthy businessman to pay for the refurbishment of the accommodation in Downing Street, at a cost estimated to be well over £1 million.
He took huge financial donations from rich Russian oligarchs and even made one of them a Lord.
He accepted paid foreign holidays from wealthy businessmen for himself and his family.
He attended numerous parties during the time when the public was in lockdown.
He lied to parliament about all of the above.
There is more.
I could go on, GP. And on…
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do suppose that was specific enough. Thank you for taking the time to put all this down.
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No problem, GP. I have followed his career very closely, and could have listed 3-4 pages of his ‘errors’. It seems his colleagues have finally had enough of his lying and ‘entitlement’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’d be dancing for joy too.
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If there had been a snap election I might have been a lot happier, Peggy. But they have almost 2 years to recover from Boris now.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We are hoping it will Jacob Rees Mogg as he is so detestable no-one will vote Conservative!
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I very much doubt they will choose that odious slug, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Well if they did I would never watch any political program again. Slug is a good word.
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I also totally agree, but as history shows, it never gets better. xx Michael
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Very true, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree 100%, Pete: perhaps it would have been too much to expect this latest crisis to have initiated a general election, but another awful Tory as PM might be able to persuade enough tabloid readers that this government is worth supporting. A hiatus before the next GE might allow opposition parties to get their acts together and encourage tactical voting [and Starmer will most likely assume he can win on his own], but I’m not holding my asthmatic breath………. 😛 Cheers, Jon.
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I believe Starmer to be very unpopular with working-class voters, Jon. I fear the Tories will win again in 2024.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree. Labour need a new leader too, they need someone with charisma. Starmer is just too uptight like the Barrister he was. Even his attempts at humour are so forced. Which is such a shame as he does actually come from a working class background.
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Starmer is not an election-winner. The working class doesn’t trust him.
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