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Boris at it again and the contest to replace the lying c***

He’s going before they have to March him out of Westminster.
 
His statement is something special. Clearly expects to be parachuted into Dories’ constituency at the next election.
 
So Richie Rish approves Cuntfaces dishounours list, then Fat Al slags him off for not promising a trade deal with the US, which was literally impossible.
 
That statement actually means he will never be back as Rish! simply has to never approve him on a candidates list.
 
Fuck me, his witterings are so anger inducing.

Committee wanted me guilty before hearing any evidence. Leftie stitch up as revenge for brexit. Civil service are all Labour supporters. I've done nothing wrong ever. Fuck me, what a cunt
 
Where does that leave him in terms of his punishment for misleading parliament if hes not an MP anymore?
 
Del Woppio said:
Fuck me, his witterings are so anger inducing.

Committee wanted me guilty before hearing any evidence. Leftie stitch up as revenge for brexit. Civil service are all Labour supporters. I've done nothing wrong ever. Fuck me, what a cunt
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The committee that’s made up of a majority of Tories? He’s utterly deluded as well as being a cunt.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
His fucking HAIRDRESSER is on there. This list should be binned publicly by Rish! But he is the weakest streak of piss PM in history so no chance. No way even the bloody Maybot would have accepted this.
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I didn’t criticise that one as I think the hairdresser is available for other parliamentarians and as such is more deserving than the others. The rest of the list is full of sycophants and arseholes.
 
Apparently, Alex the not so has even shat on Mad Nadz in all this. He couldn’t send the sitting MPs to the Lords as the Lords appointment committee arent allowed to look into the conduct of sitting MPs. He then promised to send her there at the next election, but when the list was published she wasn’t on it and she was informed that her peerage was off the cards.
Mislead by Johnson according to a Whitehall source and he didn’t have the guts to tell her in advance.
 
Fair to say the Times is not a fan

A narcissist to the end: our writers’ verdict on Boris Johnson’s resignation


June 10 2023, The Times


On hearing of the death of the Turkish ambassador, the arch-cynic Talleyrand remarked “I wonder what he meant by that?” Johnson is less complicated. There will undoubtedly be a plan. It will undoubtedly concern some advantage to himself. And the simultaneous resignation of the woman with one of the safest Conservative seats in Britain, Nadine Dorries, will be linked in the minds of all but the least cynical or suspicious of us.


Johnson is looking for a safer seat than Uxbridge (where he is in danger of having to fight a by-election quite soon). Dorries is looking forward to a seat in the House of Lords, for which he will nominate her. It is hard not to speculate on the obvious conclusion.


So obvious, that one suspects that something more Machiavellian must be in this devious and dishonest man’s mind. There are some unknowns here. The Conservative Party — for which, read Rishi Sunak — would have to decide whether to sanction a “chicken run“ by Boris from one constituency to another. I am by no means clear that this is would be a foregone conclusion. Would he risk it? If not, the alternative explanation may be that he simply wants to be out of politics and cannot bear the thought of fighting an Uxbridge by-election. This way, he would at least leave with his head held high.


We shall see. The one fixed point in any commentary is that Johnson only ever acts in his own self interest.


There are two things you need to understand to make head or tail of Boris Johnson’s extraordinary resignation and statement. (And it was extraordinary, because there has never been an analogous event in 300 years of having prime ministers.)


The first thing to understand is that there are many Tories who still believe Johnson is popular, was badly wronged, and can one day return. These people believe that Johnson himself is part of the future of the right and not just its past.


They believe that restoration of the true King and reassertion of the true faith will require a political revolution and they are willing to attempt to bring one about.


And one of the people who thinks all this is Boris Johnson.


The other thing to understand is that most Tory MPs realise that Johnson is no longer popular, think that it is all over for him, and appreciate that, however potent he may have been once, those days are behind him.


And one of the people who thinks all this is also Boris Johnson.


If Johnson didn’t think he still had a political future he wouldn’t have bothered with his statement. The rage bit might just be a loss of control but the political agenda stuff was very deliberate.


Yet if he didn’t accept he was no longer popular he wouldn’t have stood down. He would have let himself be recalled and fought the by-election.


Surely he can’t think two completely contradictory, incompatible things? He most certainly can. Have you not been following over this past decade?


As both of these sentiments — the optimism and the pessimism — are temporarily useful to him, he will think both of them even though they are inconsistent. That’s how he rose, and it is fitting that this is how he is falling.


Farewell, Boris Johnson. It’s been . . . interesting. The decision of the former prime minister to step down as a member of parliament ends one of the most consequential British political careers in the postwar period. He turned the country upside down, leading a revolt against the established system, taking control of the Conservative Party, and removing the UK from the European Union. And now it is over.


Naturally, the egocentric Johnson doesn’t see it that way. His resignation, after being told that the authorities were going to impose a punishment for him misleading the Commons over lockdown parties, is merely a temporary setback, he insisted. It has ended his Westminster career only for now, he said in a furious statement. He will return in triumph in some way, he implied.


All day speculation had swirled over the controversial honours list Johnson demanded. Who would be on it? Who among his cronies would resign as an MP causing a by-election if the Whitehall machine refused to accede to his suggestions? At no point was it imagined that Johnson himself would resign so suddenly, having been told on Friday that the judgment of the Commons authorities met the criterion for a petition to force a re-election. In the evening, he announced that he was going.


The implication in his resignation statement is that he will stand as a candidate in a subsequent by-election. That presupposes the party will allow him to stand as an official Conservative there or in any other constituency after this week’s farce. That looks unlikely, especially now after Johnson’s resignation and his attack on Rishi Sunak for betraying, he claims, his own legacy.


There will now follow a most spectacular round of Tory infighting, with the party facing multiple by-elections presenting voters angry about the cost-of-living crisis an opportunity to give the Conservative Party an almighty kicking in a series of MPs, in a warm up for the general election that is likely less than 18 months away.


For Boris it is, as ever, always about Boris. There is no humility. Once again, now that he has been caught, it is everyone else’s fault. The commons has conspired against him, the former Tory leader claims.


After everything that has happened, the spectacle of Johnson complaining about an absence of fairness and propriety is the final irony and takes the proverbial biscuit. He is an absolute shower. The guy has run his entire career on the basis that the rules and codes of behaviour don’t apply to him


Now history had caught up with him at last.


A bitter, raging Boris Johnson is blaming everybody else for his failure and disgrace. He’s lying to the end. The privileges committee is not a kangaroo court, but a Tory-majority committee, with only two Labour members. The Tories were not, as he claims “just a handful of points behind” Labour when he left office; they were 15 points behind in August 2022, compared with 19 now.


And let’s remember that it’s not other people but Johnson’s own greed, insecurity and misjudgment that have systematically sabotaged his career. Forget partygate for the moment. Think back to 2016. Johnson backed Brexit not because he believed in it but because he calculated that by doing so he’d get the backing of the Tory right and outflank George Osborne as next Tory leader. He didn’t need to do it. He was already the Tory favourite.


If Johnson had stuck to his europhile views Brexit would have lost, he’d have succeeded Cameron in 2018 or so, and could be heading for his second term as Tory PM in a far more prosperous Britain than today — not the divided, anxious, disillusioned, poorer country that’s the Johnson legacy.


Millions of people’s lives have been made meaner, narrower and more miserable by the selfish incoherent ambitions of one man. He never expected to win the Brexit vote, had no plans for it, and even when he reached No 10 he never cared to work out what to do with it. It was just a vehicle for the promotion of Johnson.


He took the hopes that voters entrusted in him and trashed them, carelessly. The golden future he promised of greater riches, a wealthier NHS and more opportunities was only ever a mirage because Johnson had no conceivable mechanism to deliver it. His great theme, levelling up, could have created radical transformation, but Johnson’s laziness and lack of interest in delivering it made it an empty slogan. His betrayal of his supporters has entrenched a deep weary cynicism in voters who had believed his claim to care about them, to be a different kind of politician.


He will admit no responsibility for it, or for anything he has done. In Johnson’s narcissistic, scheming universe, he sees himself as always the innocent party. I hope he’s never taken seriously in British politics again.





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In a recent poll only 5% thought Johnson had not lied to Parliament. Obviously some of those that think he lied won’t care less, after all he’s lied in every job he’s ever had, C but he’s got some heavy lifting to do to turn the current public perception of him around. He needs to be reminded at every opportunity that when he left the Tories were 15 points behind and sunk further when they appointed Truss who espoused all the views he’s blathering on about like low tax and traditional Tory values. Gunning for Sunak when he’s largely responsible for the mess he inherited is ridiculous and even dyed in the wool Tories must be beginning to see through the veneer Johnson has applied to himself. He’s bottled a potential by-election because he knows there’s a very good chance he’d lose and then he can’t even fall back on “but I win elections” rhetoric.
 
Very good chance he would lose? The only reason for the existence of this farce is the fact it was a certainty and even Wurzel Gummidge knew that this time yesterday.
 
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