[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[Leekbrookgull]

What I don't understand is WHY the Labour Party wants Johnson out.

The whole country knows he lied - he personally may be safe but the Tories lost the election yesterday when he failed to resign.

Look at the recent local elections - 500+ Tory Councillors voted out - not due to local politics but due to Johnson's antics.

Replace him with a grown up and the Tories might win again (Labour have a big majority to overturn) - keep him as PM as Labour will walk it.

Tory shoe in,check the odds.

 

[BLOCK F]

There were other options on the ballot paper. I guess I've followed his career a bit more closely than most, read a couple of books and watched him pour 1 Billion Pounds of London down the drain on vanity projects.

He had to be forced to come back from holiday to deal with London riots and turned up in Clapham Junction with a broom.

He's still under investigation for his time as London Mayor, they've re-opened it.

He's no different, hasn't changed and is exactly the same man.

It's just another thing to blame Cameron for. He pushed him into London Mayor to keep him at arms length. Luckily for Johnson, Livingstone was up to his ears in scandal.

Now Johnson is PM, he clearly doesn't want history repeating himself so puts forward the worst Conservative candidate (of any election) for London Mayor.

A Conservative PM keeping a Labour Mayor in power, because he doesn't want to threatened by an alternative Conservative Leader. That's Johnson in a nutshell.

I have zero allegiance to any political party.

Yes, there were other options, but my main aim was to keep Corbyn et al away from power.
A vote for my local loony ‘Let’s count the pebbles on the beach party’ wouldn’t have been much help.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Four tory MPs have publicly declared they have submitted a request for Johnson to stand down.

Not enough, and their heads will roll. Brave and principled MPs, therefore.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What I don't understand is WHY the Labour Party wants Johnson out.

The whole country knows he lied - he personally may be safe but the Tories lost the election yesterday when he failed to resign.

Look at the recent local elections - 500+ Tory Councillors voted out - not due to local politics but due to Johnson's antics.

Replace him with a grown up and the Tories might win again (Labour have a big majority to overturn) - keep him as PM as Labour will walk it.

The labour party want Johnson out because under Starmer they will put country before narrow party political interest.

Unlike Johnson.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

What I don't understand is WHY the Labour Party wants Johnson out.

The whole country knows he lied - he personally may be safe but the Tories lost the election yesterday when he failed to resign.

Look at the recent local elections - 500+ Tory Councillors voted out - not due to local politics but due to Johnson's antics.

Replace him with a grown up and the Tories might win again (Labour have a big majority to overturn) - keep him as PM as Labour will walk it.

I think they know he isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so want to keep the turmoil going on as long as possible. A divided Tory party certainly won't win the next election.

They also did a great job at damaging Sunak, which just goes on today with him turning into a chancellor whacking taxes onto big business.

It's very hard to see a John Major type in the current Tory party seamlessly taking over from a PM going quietly

 

[WATFORD zero]

There were other options on the ballot paper. I guess I've followed his career a bit more closely than most, read a couple of books and watched him pour 1 Billion Pounds of London down the drain on vanity projects.

He had to be forced to come back from holiday to deal with London riots and turned up in Clapham Junction with a broom.

He's still under investigation for his time as London Mayor, they've re-opened it.

He's no different, hasn't changed and is exactly the same man.

It's just another thing to blame Cameron for. He pushed him into London Mayor to keep him at arms length. Luckily for Johnson, Livingstone was up to his ears in scandal.

Now Johnson is PM, he clearly doesn't want history repeating himself so puts forward the worst Conservative candidate (of any election) for London Mayor.

A Conservative PM keeping a Labour Mayor in power, because he doesn't want to threatened by an alternative Conservative Leader. That's Johnson in a nutshell.

I have zero allegiance to any political party.

To my mind, it's the only way

Because it seems from what I see, that any other way may well lead you to do things that in hindsight, may appear to be less than completely sensible

And I am proud of the way I worded that

 

[nicko31]

What I don't understand is WHY the Labour Party wants Johnson out.

The whole country knows he lied - he personally may be safe but the Tories lost the election yesterday when he failed to resign.

Look at the recent local elections - 500+ Tory Councillors voted out - not due to local politics but due to Johnson's antics.

Replace him with a grown up and the Tories might win again (Labour have a big majority to overturn) - keep him as PM as Labour will walk it.

Maybe it’s country first, he is destroying it as we know it

 

[dazzer6666]

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[Dick Swiveller]

Tory shoe in,check the odds.

A. It is shoo in
B. Odds to win most seats at next General Election. Conservatives 11/12 Labour 11/10

Other than that, cracking post

 

[TomandJerry]

There was "no clear evidence" that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had breached Covid-19 rules many times in Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police's acting chief has said.

Sir Stephen House said the decisions made by officers investigating lockdown parties at No 10 were correct.

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[A1X]

There was "no clear evidence" that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had breached Covid-19 rules many times in Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police's acting chief has said.

Sir Stephen Wonder said the decisions made by officers investigating lockdown parties at No 10 were correct.

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Fixed that for him

 

[clapham_gull]

Not that it means much but the Police are still looking into the "London Mayoral Election" party in 14 December 2020 where central office apparently disciplined four attendees.

This was before the Police were involved.

It led to Shaun Bailey resigning from a Policing Committee.

Just reported on the local news up here, the Police saying the case is "complex".

Courtesy of the Mirror.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-shaun-bailey-wont-investigated-26009461

( hic )

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I am going to spare you the cringe-fest of Nadine Dorries video of how she is going to make the internet safer. I'll put it this way, CBeebies do it better.

If you want to seek it out, then don't say you haven't been warned

 

[Is it PotG?]

I am going to spare you the cringe-fest of Nadine Dorries video of how she is going to make the internet safer.

If you want to seek it out, then don't say you haven't been warned

So long as it's free, for everyone, I'm not too bothered.

 

[Klaas]

I am going to spare you the cringe-fest of Nadine Dorries video of how she is going to make the internet safer. I'll put it this way, CBeebies do it better.

If you want to seek it out, then don't say you haven't been warned

Oh lord. I saw that and for a good chunk of it, assumed someone had put it together to make her look foolish. SLowly it dawned on me that they had made it themselves.

 

[beorhthelm]

So long as it's free, for everyone, I'm not too bothered.

anything to impose control on internet will mean costs and we'll all pick up some of that. and it'll still fail.

i've seen a headline with the word "rap", sufficently cringeworthy without needing to watch.

 

[Klaas]

anything to impose control on internet will mean costs and we'll all pick up some of that. and it'll still fail.

i've seen a headline with the word "rap", sufficently cringeworthy without needing to watch.

You have no idea....

 

[clapham_gull]

I too stumbled across it and presumed someone had done a "Cassette Boy" to make the MP look stupid.

Nope, they did it themselves. It is beyond horror.

I've off to watch that Reading video to get over it.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's worse than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVVwzo5E7s

 

[birthofanorange]

I am going to spare you the cringe-fest of Nadine Dorries video of how she is going to make the internet safer. I'll put it this way, CBeebies do it better.

If you want to seek it out, then don't say you haven't been warned

I'm afraid that curiosity got the better of me. Dear God, that was so awful, but how could it be anything else?