All things Boris: has it really come to this?

[Brian Peacock]

It doesn't matter who finishes up as the next Tory Prime Minister. It'll be a Tory Prime Minister, and all Tory Prime Ministers take their orders from the same mobsters.

These ones:

Indeed. The Capital interests which promoted, endorsed and incubated Truss (and the rest} will simply move on to the next batch of useful idiots...

[Brian Peacock]

The Boris camp are saying they've got over the 100 MP endorsements. If that carries through to the Parliamentary Party vote tomorrow it means that Sunak and Johnson with both be on the members online ballot paper.

However, as Monbiot points out, there may be a bit of a credibility problem there...

[Hermit]

...as Monbiot points out, there may be a bit of a credibility problem there...

Yes. When anybody in the world can become a Tory Party member and thus enfranchised to elect the British Tory Prime Minister, the notion of democracy in Great Britain looks iffy.

[Brian Peacock]

So the question is, if Sunak gets significantly more MPs to back him than Boris, will Boris step aside 'in the national interest' (or some such bollocks) even if he makes the 100 threshold?

I guess it depends on whether Boris thinks that being the second-choice PM, as Truss was, is something his apparatchiks can handle. Downside for Boris, and Tory MPs, is that next month the public inquiry into the pandemic begins - and Boris will have to give evidence and face questions about late lockdowns, missing important emergency meetings, flushing away £36bn (yep, billion!) on a 'world beating track and trace system' that was literally worse than useless, eye-watering PPE contracts to chums and donors, Dominic Cummings, and all the Partygate piss ups etc.

I for one am backing Boris 110%!

[JimC]

Apparently Boris just pulled out of the race...

[Svartalf]

Yeah, Sunak is of inferior stock, he should not access the top job.

[Svartalf]

Apparently Boris just pulled out of the race...

can one say he borked out?

[L'Emmerdeur]

It sounds like he wanted the two other contenders to defer to him, if you can believe anything that comes out of his piehole. They refused.

... though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny - because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest - we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

[source]

[JimC]

"Get fucked, Boris" was probably the gist of it...

[Svartalf]

It sounds like he wanted the two other contenders to defer to him, if you can believe anything that comes out of his piehole. They refused.

... though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny - because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest - we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

[source]

They Have come together in the national interest, they both realize the letting boris anywhere near downing street is a bad idea...

[Brian Peacock]

It sounds like he wanted the two other contenders to defer to him, if you can believe anything that comes out of his piehole. They refused.

... though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny - because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest - we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

[source]

'In the national interest' - I fucking knew he's pull that shit.

A coronation for Sunak tomorrow then. Third PM in a row that nobody voted for. I wonder what the former Goldman Sach analyst and serial hedge fund manager has in store for the economy?

[JimC]

He probably would like to sell his vision for the future as "what's good for hedge funds is good for the nation"...

[Svartalf]

Please, don't put an indian in downing street, nigel farage might use that to make a comeback...

[Svartalf]

He probably would like to sell his vision for the future as "what's good for hedge funds is good for the nation"...

hasn't he already sold his grandmother's virtue for tuppence and a farthing?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Shocked and outraged by the injustice of it all, Mr Johnson has quit rather than deal with something even less decorous.

'Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report'

Boris Johnson is standing down immediately as a Conservative MP after an investigation into the Partygate scandal found he misled parliament and recommended a lengthy suspension from the House of Commons.

The former prime minister angrily accused the investigation of trying to drive him out, and claimed there was a “witch-hunt under way, to take revenge for Brexit and ultimately to reverse the 2016 referendum result”.

In a bitter 1,000-word statement, he attacked Rishi Sunak’s government, blaming the current prime minister for rising taxes, not being Conservative enough and failing to make the most of Brexit.

Johnson hinted that he may try to make a return to politics, saying he was “very sad to be leaving parliament – at least for now”.