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Starmers jokes are clearly planned and scripted. I don’t dislike him but…..
The question is will Boris face the cameras now and do a Budd Dwyer? That would get some ratings
Look it up. I’ve seen the video too
Rather boringly, I’ve just heard a good set of reasons on Channel 4 News why he wouldn’t be granted a dissolution of Parliament to hold a snap wildcat election.
Given this, what other option does he have other than to go tonight?
That said, Nadine Dorries just emerged from No 10 and reaffirmed her support for Johnson, suggesting he isn’t going anywhere this evening.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"With Grant Shapps and Pritti Patel telling him to go, he won’t have many ministers left by midnight.
Value Is EverythingSounds as if just three of his cabinet are publicly for him to stay.
Value Is EverythingDorries and Mogg know they won’t get a job in anyone else’s cabinet.
Value Is EverythingAll PM’s have scriptwriters I believe (I was surprised when I met someone who wrote for Blair; I’d always assumed that PM’s wrote their own speeches!). I don’t think we should judge someone’s ability to lead the country by how good they are at delivering the punch lines.
Must say that i’m still struggling to work out why the Tory anti-BJ MPs didnt wait until after the 2 by-elections to call the Vote of No Confidence in BJ.
If they’d have waited until now he would’ve been a dead cert to have lost. Maybe, the most bizarre moment of the last 6 months shenanigans.I usually vote Tory, but BJ was never a PM; however, the Tory membership do love a campaigner.
Failings of him piled up over last 6 months or so, but cant help thinking that something stinks about the ongoing hounding out of office by a very active pro-EU tv media. I’ve been following ITV’s news coverage since end 2021 and it’s pretty clear McCall and her footsoldiers (Brand, Peston, Anushka et all) have been gunning for Johnson. Cant help thinking that the real driver of exposing him is all around the fact he was the one who pushed the button on Brexit. And the London ‘elite’ havent forgiven him and have been out to get him.
Yes, the public have now made up their minds about him, but the tv media have been unrelenting on finding anything on him and ensuring its lead story on the evening news bulletins for months now. Something stinks and no matter what your political leanings are it aint healthy in a democracy.
Boris Johnson is remaining “absolutely defiant” and “does not intend to resign”, a senior Number 10 source has told Sky News.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Chuchill didn’t moe
Cameron was good off the cuff too as it happens. Blair too I recall
Kier is like the mate down the pub who says “I have a joke for you” and you think “here we go….”
So he’s going to ignore a vote of confidence too (as corbyn did of course)
This is going to get really messy if so
I cant believe he’s doing this.
If anyone else leaves, they’ll be no one left to have a drink with. Oops.
Something’s gotta give, but how can gov depts function properly with vacant posts.
Wilts
How could stories such as partygate (hate that description) not be headline news?
It was treating the whole electorate with total contempt. That’s it
Perhaps if he and others think the media are out to get him he shouldn’t have made it so bloody easy? This weeks events and the way he treated that junior minister were incredible by anyones standards.
Have those ministers who’ve told Boris to go actually resigned though?
Value Is Everything1.22 to be gone by 31st July from 1.16 earlier.
There’s juice left in this entertainment orange yet.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“How could stories such as partygate (hate that description) not be headline news?”
Of course they are Clive, but i watch ITV every evening; my wife watches some of those morning progs on ITV for a while before we venture out. ITV have been ‘at it’ for months.
I’m not defending him but the main political journos, esp on ITV, have been after him.
The biggest issue for the Tories now is there are more different strands within the parliamentary party than ever.The Right Wing pro-Brexit wanted him out; the pro-EU MPs wanted him out. The tax cutters wanted Sunak out. Who gets elected now as leader? It will be bloody and they will continue the in-fighting after a new leader’s been elected.
Meanwhile, an election alliance with SNP being brokers will surely frighten English voters.
All very interesting.Biggest issue at next GE? As it always is – the economy. £s in peeps’ pockets. Labour need to come up with ‘a plan’, because their support amongst Middle England, which they need for a majority, is soft; it’s very soft.
If the SNP looks like being a possible coalition partner then Labour will struggle to win the votes it needs in England.Lots of permatations in view already for next GE.
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