When Will It All Go Wrong For The Tories/ Johnson?

[Snow1964]

Prime Minister's questions tomorrow should be "...interesting...." to say the least.

If that is Boris Johnson hasn't resigned by then.

If I remember correctly it is normal for senior ministers to make a speech to the house following their resignation. They could be slotted in around the time of Prime Ministers Question (on Wednesday lunchtime)

 

[Strathclyder]

Grant Shapps is like a bucket with a hole in the bottom, absolutely useless

That's a insult. To holed buckets.

 

[Typhoon]

Over in the Lords, Lord True read the Paymaster General's (Michael Ellis) statement in the style of 'who writes this rubbish' (currently at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics). If ministers can't take the script seriously ...

Loads of useless candidates already being talked about for Cabinet and PM roles. My vote for PM would be Sir Roger Gale. He speaks far more sense than most Tories, and speaks up for their core principles - which the present shower simply don't. It's just a shame he's too old to cultivate a better political career for himself, and sad that the Tories have invested so heavily in Boris and his sycophants, rather than people like Sir Roger.

Gale is a straight-down-the-line Conservative. You are right - he sticks to Conservative principles and, above all, he is loyal. Johnson would be everything he dislikes. He is a decent constituency MP - I'm concerned that he will stand down at the next election and we'll get a parachuted candidate; if Johnson is still party leader he won't, he'll want to be first to put in a 'no confidence' letter after the election.

 

[Whistler40145]

That's a insult. To holed buckets.

Apologies for my insult of holed buckets

Shapps is an idiot

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think you may find the Boris Johnson resigns before PMQ's tomorrow.

What odds are the bookmaking fraternity offering on that?

 

[jfollows]

Penny Mordaunt favourite with Coral bookmakers to replace Boris. The “least worst” candidate for many?

 

[Busaholic]

.Nicola Richards PPS goes

Barclay new Health Sec?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Steve Barclay is the new health secretary. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

 

[Busaholic]

Steve Barclay is the new health secretary. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

Ahem

 

[Bluejays]

Maybe he could apply under one of his other three aliases to get round that.

I wouldn't be surprised if a Michael green is already employed as one of grant dhapps advisors

 

[DarloRich]

oh dear. Tories eat themselves.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If, as commonly viewed, the economy is as bad as stated, other political parties from the safety of being non-Governmenal and free with statements of "how we would do it" may find that an early General Election that they win with an overall majority brings all their political chickens home to roost.

 

[Gloster]

It looks like Lord Frost is now distancing himself from Johnson. He is saying that Sunak and Javid did the right thing, although for whom he does not say. (And he gets in a plug for his Telegraph column.)

 

[brad465]

"This is Davina, you are live in No.10...please don't swear!"

 

[DelayRepay]

Some people are suggesting this is the end for Johnson but I'll only believe that when I see it. We've been here before - Oliver Patterson, Fines for lockdown parties, Sue Gary's report, the confidence vote, two lost by-elections and probably a hundred other things I've forgotten (like the illegal prorogation, and the wallpaper!).

He has a terrible habit of clinging on, regardless of the harm he's doing to his party and his country. I guess that happens when you do not have a shred of personal integrity.

 

[Berliner]

Some people are suggesting this is the end for Johnson but I'll only believe that when I see it. We've been here before - Oliver Patterson, Fines for lockdown parties, Sue Gary's report, the confidence vote, two lost by-elections and probably a hundred other things I've forgotten (like the illegal prorogation, and the wallpaper!).

He has a terrible habit of clinging on, regardless of the harm he's doing to his party and his country. I guess that happens when you do not have a shred of personal integrity.

I don't think it's the end at all. He's simply going to surround himself with more lackeys and double down and by this time next week we will be on to another scandal and today's events will be forgotten. I don't know why everyone is getting excited. It reminds me of the countless times May was said to be on her way out and yet she kept going, stumbling from one mishap to another on a seemingly weekly basis.

 

[Falcon1200]

Hopefully the first few of many, but at least Nadine Dorries has said she's backing Boris Becker 100%.......

 

[SuspectUsual]

Hopefully the first few of many, but at least Nadine Dorries has said she's backing Boris Becker 100%.......

She loved it when he threw a bullseye to defeat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the 800m final

 

[fgwrich]

Hopefully the first few of many, but at least Nadine Dorries has said she's backing Boris Becker 100%.......

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was preparing to fax her letter of resignation to Boris but has managed to set fire to the Toaster instead...

 

[HST274]

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was preparing to fax her letter of resignation to Boris but has managed to set fire to the Toaster instead...

I see I am not the only one scrolling twitter this evening!

 

[fgwrich]

I see I am not the only one scrolling twitter this evening!

To be fair, I wont repeat some of the things I've seen on twitter tonight. But it's like a carnival, with anyone and everyone piling onto comments by the remaining Boris Backing members of the cabinet. Dorries comment really seems to have gone down line a led balloon.

 

[TwoYellas]

In Boris we trust!

 

[Acfb]

Zahawi has been appointed Chancellor.

 

[Busaholic]

Theresa May is at the Royal Opera House watching Pagliacci, the final line of which translates as 'the comedy is finished.'

 

[brad465]

Over in the Lords, Lord True read the Paymaster General's (Michael Ellis) statement in the style of 'who writes this rubbish' (currently at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics). If ministers can't take the script seriously ...


Gale is a straight-down-the-line Conservative. You are right - he sticks to Conservative principles and, above all, he is loyal. Johnson would be everything he dislikes. He is a decent constituency MP - I'm concerned that he will stand down at the next election and we'll get a parachuted candidate; if Johnson is still party leader he won't, he'll want to be first to put in a 'no confidence' letter after the election.

Michael Ellis deserves an Oscar for being able to say Johnson "acted with probity at all times" while keeping a straight face.

Zahawi has been appointed Chancellor.

If I was him I wouldn't move anything into the flat.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Surely, surely, this is it for Boris?

 

[TwoYellas]

If Johnson goes is Patel likely to go as well?

 

[43096]

If Johnson goes is Patel likely to go as well?

You'd like to think so. Along with Dorries, Rees-Mogg, Gove, Raab, Shapps.......

 

[Nicholas Lewis]

BoJo has got what he wants a totally sycophantic cabinet now. Sunak was a thorn in his side and Javid just playing the long game for his own future. The rest are nobody PPS's who won't even be noticed they've gone and don't need replacing. The harsh reality is not one junior minister has resigned where there are some with credibility and imv unless Wallace or Eustace went he would get it over the line keep his head down for a couple more weeks then he can go into hiding for two months over the summer.

 

[Busaholic]

Theodora Clarke, Trade Envoy to Kenya, goes, citing Johnson's acceptance of sexual misconduct.