boris johnson

The date of 'ousting' includes plain resignation or the announcement of the start of Tory voting for his successor. Maybe keep your predictions to a half of a single month, though it's more a bit of fun (if anything in his administration can be described as 'fun') than an actual competition*...

Can't see how Boris will recover from the mishandling of Covid. When he steps down, or if there's a leadership challenge forcing him to, who do you reckon will take over from him ? Sunak ? Too close perhaps ? Raab ? Mogg ? Too slimy, but he's kept his head down this last 12 months.

One of the oddest conspiracy theories I have seen, this week people have been speculating that the British Prime Minister either lied about when his (probably) most recent baby was born, lied about when his baby was conceived, or even went as far as to borrow a baby to use in this photo op...

This really couldn't have happened to anyone else.... He failed to become the chair! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/chris-grayling-fails-to-become-intelligence-and-security-chair "....Conservative colleague Julian Lewis secures votes of opposition MPs in humiliation for PM’s...

Despite having a huge majority, despite it being something that has been attacked from all parties, despite there being no political advantage Johnson went ahead with a vote about how harrassment and so on in the commons is to be handled. And lost...

Andrew Sabisky, appointed, it seems, by Dominic Cummings. Some of Sabisky's stated views: “...“One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies, creating a permanent underclass, would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty,” "...

Thought we should have a thread about this. Seems that the Conservative Manifesto is being written by: According to the Grauniad. If there was any doubt about what is likely to happen in the (IMO almost certain) event of a Conservative majority.

Was thinking about what else Johnson could come up with as his bribes for when the next GE is called. Given the news today I reckon it's going to be cancellation of HS2 and the third runway at Heathrow. Anyone else want to bet on what else ?

No.

He's literally called Boris; you couldn't make it up.

Boris Johnson has come out all guns blazing over Met Officer Basu warning that newspapers publishing politically sensitive 'leaks' such as the Darroch one could be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Cabinet minsters Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt have joined in in condemning Basu's words...

Looks as though the UK is going to have a Trump clone as the next PM..since Johnson embraces authoritarian politics and will probably be backed by enough in his party to survive for the future. ANybody who frequents this website knows that I think in general about Conspiracy theories,but I am...

Boris Johnson to face charges for Misconduct in a Public Office Awesome news. There was so much lying and cheating in that EU referendum. It's about time someone was called to account for it. Interestingly, the maximum sentence for Misconduct in a Public Office is life imprisonment. Obviously...

IMO Tony Blair was an effective politician who managed to reverse some of the worst effects of 18 years of Tory government. The biggest failure of his government was his blind following of George W Bush into Iraq. It now seems that Boris Johnson is sending clear messages that we're willing to...

The UK government has taken the "interesting" step of saying that the Foreign Secretary's comments regarding a foreign power do not represent "the government's position". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38248316 Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of his comments regarding Saudi...

I almost choked on my afternoon coffee when I read that ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/37086680 I hope that Bettridge's law of headlines applies. Can't fault the PM on her choice of destination. :jaw-dropp I really hope nothing "interesting" happens on his watch.

The topic of this thread is not the referendum (plenty of threads to talk about that) but what folk think will be the outcome of the likes of Cameron's resignation. On the Tory side I can't see there being any leadership candidate that isn't much to the right of Cameron and Osborne so I can see...

London Mayor endorses Obama: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7537054.stm This may be of little signifigance to those in the US electorate, but it interesting nonetheless. Interesting as Johnson is a raging right-winger who previously supported Bush in 2000, 2004 and wished him to run...

I though readers here might be interested in this piece from the online Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/02/do0201.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/02/ixportal.html including: Background for non-British readers: Boris Johnson is a Conservative MP who...