Should Boris do the decent thing and resign?

With the latest Omnicom scare, I don't think now is the right time for such an upheaval since a new PM would want to re-shuffle their cabinet when everyone should be concentrating on the job in hand. I doubt he would ever resign anyway , but he will be chucked out before too long anyway. I agree with Lupin that Jeremy Hunt would do a good job. He seems to be the most sensible one.

How does anybody think we vote for a PM ?? We never have ! It is the leader of the party which has the majority of seats who becomes PM !
MPs vote for their leader as do party members ! I can only vote for a local candidate unless I become a member of a political party !!
I have never voted for a PM !!!

Sadgrandma, if Hunt is the most sensible - we're in trouble!

Sorry I disagree with those who think Boris should resign. I think he's doing o.k. under the circumstances. He got Brexit done. It must be hard for any prime minister especially as he had covid to contend with as well. He needs to reel in his cabinet though and let them know who's boss. I dread to think what would happen if we had a labour government.

DAMSON92

Sorry I disagree with those who think Boris should resign. I think he's doing o.k. under the circumstances. He got Brexit done. It must be hard for any prime minister especially as he had covid to contend with as well. He needs to reel in his cabinet though and let them know who's boss. I dread to think what would happen if we had a labour government.

Well we know what it's like to have a Conservative Government, and in my opinion, it's been a total disaster. There's more to governing the country than getting Brexit done (and that's been disastrously handled too!).

Boris doing the decent thing? That's an oxymoron - he wouldn't recognise decent if it bit him!

All those saying you we would rather have Boris Johnson as PM than Keir Starmer, what you are really saying is you prefer to have a lazy, lying, cheating, uncaring, individual as PM rather than a decent, honest, trustworthy individual who went into politics to try and improve things for the many not just his wealthy cronies.

We are lumbered with him until he's ready to go.

He and his corrupt cronies should go immediately and be replaced by the WI, so they can teach the imbeciles how to behave with honor, integrity and decency.

Kier Starmer was head of CPS when it was decided to ignore complaints against Jimmy Saville by several women. I prefer Boris

Boris will never resign, he wouldn’t know how to behave decently or how to tell the truth. He has spent his life surrounded by old Etonians who only know success and huge wealth and supporting each other old chap.
He is a lying toe rag and has the matter of authorising to bring back an animal charity worker and a lot of dogs from Afghanistan in preference to bringing back British passport holders, 3 Downing Street parties, having Carries friend to stay over Christmas which of course the rest of us were not allowed to do and now a new baby to go on Paternity leave with. No wonder he doesn’t have time to hang up his suits or comb his hair. He is a horrible despicable man and I hope that other Conservatives turn on him. I feel really let down and angry about how he behaves.

Don't believe everything you read. The media have been out to get him from the onset. Whoever replaces him will simply be their next target. Too many trials by media for my liking, wish they could just move on.....

sazz1

Kier Starmer was head of CPS when it was decided to ignore complaints against Jimmy Saville by several women. I prefer Boris

Not this again. I can't even be bothered to tell you just how wrong you are. When I read posts like yours I realise why we have the government we have.

Having written my piece above I have noticed your comment dolphindaisy and cannot agree at all with what you say. Keir Starmer has done arguably far worse than anything Bumbling Boris has. As head of CPS he had the opportunity to stop some of the awful damage that Jimmy Savile inflicted but chose not to. That should be a big blot on his character.

Nagmad2016

Don't believe everything you read. The media have been out to get him from the onset. Whoever replaces him will simply be their next target. Too many trials by media for my liking, wish they could just move on.....

Bloody hell. Another one

Despite our many problems sometimes I'm so glad that I live in Wales. Should Boris resign -yes most definitely. I really don't understand how anyone would want to keep him at the helm. He's a disgrace. How many more debacles do we have to listen to?

I totally agree with you, how relieved I am to live in Wales Helenlouise3. Not everybody agrees with Mark Drakeford’s politics but there is no whiff of personal scandal about him. Fundamentally he has principles and he cares, he is trying to do his best and the population appreciate that I think.

I thought at first that Keir Starmer may be a good future PM but after watching him this year am not sure at all.Yes, far far better than the awful Corbyn but am thinking he isn’t strong enough to be either LOTO or PM.
Maybe both Johnson and Starmer will both be gone before the next GE.

Sarnia

We are lumbered with him until he's ready to go.

He’ll go when the Tory Party decide enough is enough.
I think the time has come when enough is enough.
A jokes a joke, but f*&k a pantomime.

Pippa22

Having written my piece above I have noticed your comment dolphindaisy and cannot agree at all with what you say. Keir Starmer has done arguably far worse than anything Bumbling Boris has. As head of CPS he had the opportunity to stop some of the awful damage that Jimmy Savile inflicted but chose not to. That should be a big blot on his character.

GillT57 is probably away somewhere banging her head against the wall so I'll take this one.

The allegations about Starmer not stopping Saville's crimes are completely untrue. The continuing circulation of this kind of completely made up nonsense goes a long way to explaining why we've got this useless government in charge.

Forsythia

I voted for Boris and I’m not ashamed to admit it. However, I feel he is not up to the job. He lurches from disaster to disaster and I really don’t think this is sustainable going forward. He has too many distractions going on and he doesn’t seem to see the seriousness of this situation and others. Sure, he has had COVID, the pandemic has crippled his programme BUT it’s not a good look all of this. The thought of the vile Rayner woman makes me very concerned.

So you were happy to vote for a liar, a man who has who knows how many children by who knows how many women, who was involved in setting someone up for a beating, who was carrying on with his current wife while his then wife was being treated for cancer, who has been sacked more than once for lying etc etc. You are concerned about a woman who spent her childhood caring for her sick mother and who on finding herself pregnant when still a child worked and brought her child up.

Which one was vile again?

I'm worried what would happen if he resigned at the moment in the middle of this pandemic and who would take his place. I have no faith in any of them at present, but then why on earth should he and his partying cronies get away with it.

I agree with Damson92. I think Boris is doing what he can under these circumstances. He’s only human, I certainly wouldn’t want his job

Susieq62

How does anybody think we vote for a PM ?? We never have ! It is the leader of the party which has the majority of seats who becomes PM !
MPs vote for their leader as do party members ! I can only vote for a local candidate unless I become a member of a political party !!
I have never voted for a PM !!!

If you voted in a Conservative MP in 2019 you were voting Johnson in. In normal times I vote for the candidate but in 2019 I voted tactically to do my bit to keep him out.

With him and his cronies "running" the country, or maybe that should say ruining the country, is it any wonder Scotland want independence?