Shock exit from Boris!

Hooray for that!
I want Theresa May who seems to have common sense and experience.

I'm surprised that you can't see what's plain as day.

This is Cameron, Osbourne, et al conspiring to 1) punish Boris and get him out of the running 2) convincing gullible Gove he'd have a better chance (which of course he hasn't now he's been conned into knifing Boris) so he will get his cum-uppancec and 3) getting their preferred candidate Theresa May as frontrunner.

So obvious. It's their revenge and they are now pulling all the strings

Bet you anything if she gets in George won't have to move out of No. 11

Oh! And who do you think released Mrs Gove's emails to the media just to make sure he's seen as his wife's puppet?

Not Govine in number 10, puhlease!
Give the women a turn, how about Thersa May and Angela Eagle squaring up to each other at PMQ?

Breeze and Tegan yes. I just thought thank you there is a god. Heseltine is right. I shared a table on a cruise a long while ago with a Teresa May aide and my opinion of TM is high.

Gove and Boris will be in the shadow cabinet [unless Boris leaves politics].
The Cabinet rosesarered ?

Unless Corbyn or Angela want him over on their side

I don't think Boris backed out willingly - here is the 'leaked' email from Sarah Vine to Michael Gove saying that the rightwing press would not support Boris as mentioned above:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sarah-vine-michael-gove-leaked-email-in-full-boris-johnson-tory-leadership-contest-latest-a7109861.html

I think the whole country has been thoroughly stitched up by a handful of people looking to further their own careers. I feel sorry for those who voted to leave, because they must have thought that Boris and Gove had some sort of deal and a plan ready to put in place. As it is neither party has a good candidate and they are all scrabbling round to find a least worst.

Theresa May seems like a sensible woman with a certain gravitas. She's experienced at the sharp end. I wish Ruth Davidson could be drafted in somehow but we do need her up in Scotland right now.

I was feeling the same about Theresa May until I read today that she actually thinks Sharia Law alongside UK law is OK. More than OK. Good grief!

I suppose I could hope it's just politick speak, buttering up to imams or something.

HQ, when someone reports this post as being outwith GN forum guidelines, before you delete it could you just insert vicars or bishops where imams currently is and see if you still think it needs deleted. Cheers.

BTW, I wasn't shocked by Boris's stepping out of the leadership race. Just saying. It was just another shrug moment.

I also notice that his right hand lady, Priti Patel has also been very quiet.

What a relief. Such a clever fibber Boris I even voted for him once.

On R4 just before the 6 o'clock new, a clip was played of Boris on Desert Island Discs. Sue Lawley was asking him if he'd always used his 'charm' to get on in life. Boris explained that as a child he had glue ear and had grommets. He couldn't hear very well and worked out that being vague was a good strategy if he wasn't sure exactly what was being said. And that's how it all started.

While he plays a good bumbling buffoon, Boris Johnson is, nevertheless, a very clever man. Mind you, I don't think he would have to have been very clever to realise that becoming the next PM in the light of the leave vote and David Cameron's response to it would be lifting a poisoned chalice. It is clearly in his own interests to let someone else, possibly the egregious Gove, struggle through the aftershocks and outcomes of the referendum because whoever has to handle it all will inevitably make decisions that will be massively unpopular among both large sections of the electorate and fellow MPs. Perhaps so unpopular that he (or she) may have to be replaced as Tory leader…

I'm reading Boris Johnson's biography of Winston Churchill at the moment. There's no way he will be more than momentarily surprised at current political shenanigans. It has like this in Churchill's time too. Churchill turned out to be a good leader in spite of other Tories' dislike and distrust misgivings about him.

I think that Boris is a,decent Man and that Gove has stabbed him in the back .I now shudder if he becomes our Pm .

I don't know how anyone could think that Boris is a decent man. A lying scumbag who has crippled the political and economic landscape. He had no plans for Brexit, he spent the weekend playing cricket and writing a weak column for the Telegraph back -pedalling on some of the Leave promises.

Churchill was responsible or partly responsible for many debacles in his career. This includes Gallipoli - his idea when Lord of the Admiralty, and an utter disaster with huge loss of life.
Hopefully Johnson is not inspired to keep on bouncing back and will go away and write more history books. In another country preferably.
Why on earth italiangirl would you think him a decent man when he had twice been sacked for lying and has now played a major part in bringing about what will probably prove to be the worst self-inflicted wound the UK has managed to achieve since WW1?
Johnson does not have a good reputation regarding his private life either does he - so no evidence there of being decent.

It might not be so bad. New Zealand PM has offered a trade negotiating team to the UK since our own civil service doesn't contain many. Thank you NZ.

I thought "taking back control" meant doing things independently, not importing "foreigners " to sort out our mess, they might even be "experts" which Gove says we couldn't trust . You couldn't make it up.

I think that's a slight misinterpretation of independence. As I understand it, the only independence Britain wants is independence from EU bureaucracy. I see that as opening up to the world, not closing down to it. The EU is the isolationist part.

However, I really came on here to quote this by Philip Collins: "Yesterday was one of the great days in politics. Brutal, tragic, farcical and dizzying. If you didn't find it fascinating and invigorating, then you don't like politics".

Have always hoped for Theresa May, now that looks possible.

Although she seems to be the best of a bad bunch she is (from what I've heard)to the police force what Gove is to education.

Think Botis is looking at the bigger picture
Mrs May will be next PM and a nice ministerial post for Him
Then we'll sit and watch .....
( Botis ..... ?)