Boris has lost the vote!

so so tempting

Now then Maw - that is incitement.....

He'd rather be "dead in a ditch" would he?
Well I suppose something could be arranged.........

The £ has rallied a bit since Boris lost the vote on no deal. That in itself is telling. The rumour is, if he doesn’t get an election before the 31st October he will have to resign ( or he’ll be dead in a ditch to use his terms).

From The Spectator

Boris's worst day

It's been a torrid week for Boris Johnson, but today has easily been the worst so far. His own brother Jo quit as an MP and minister at lunchtime. As we discuss on our Coffee House Shots podcast, while it isn't a huge surprise that the Prime Minister's brother isn't hugely happy with the direction his party is heading in, his resignation was high drama. Not only did Jo Johnson choose to announce he was going now, rather than waiting for the forthcoming general election to stand down, he also did so just as things were appearing to calm a little after the rows.
And today was supposed to be the first of Boris's election campaign. For a launch day, it would have been pretty rubbish without his brother quitting: his party is in emotional turmoil still after losing 21 MPs, and his speech this afternoon at a police training academy in Wakefield was chaotic and rambling. Time was when a chaotic and rambling Boris Johnson speech was just what everyone wanted: he would sell out party conference halls and even entertain grouchy journalists. But this was a different sort of chaos.

It wasn't helped by the fact that the Prime Minister was late to speak, and so the bizarre line-up of police cadets behind him had been standing in the glaring sunlight for over an hour by the time he finished, with one of them apparently being taken ill right behind him. It also wasn't just that Johnson, presumably in an attempt to continue his amusing chaotic act of old, decided in the middle of his highly political speech to start trying to recite the script used by officers when they are interviewing someone under caution. Or indeed that he couldn't actually remember what job his brother was doing at the moment (he praised him for his work as science minister when he has until today been universities minister). It was also that Johnson didn't appear to know what he was there to talk about. His speech rambled from spending priorities to Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn, without any clear theme or confidence. It was almost as if all his claims that he doesn't want an election are actually true. This was not a good day one.

The majority in our elected parliament are trying to ensure that there will be an election, but only after the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal has been made illegal - ie taken off the table for good.

A possibility (resigning) but certainly not soon.
Every chance there will be an election.

Boris Johnson says he would rather 'be dead in a ditch' than delay Brexit, in rambling speech

www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/05/brexit-lords--blow--boris-johnson-pass-bill-stopping-no-deal-politics-live

BJ is faced with a stark choice/

Assuming he doesn't chose to be dead in a ditch, the choice is either to obey the law and do as instructed by parliament, go to Brussels and request an extension to Article 50 or to resign.

I never attempt to predict events, but my best guess is that he will resign before 19th October, going down in the record books as the shortest serving PM.

jocork

jocork; that was at the Birmingham protest.

I think the sooner Mr Johnson sacks Dominic Cummings the better!

Someone wrote on facebook this week that they'd seen a picture of BJ and JRM with the slogan " We do not want a coup de Twat"
Sums it all up really!

Again !

Cummings/Johnson meeting

I’d give anything to be a fly on the wall at the first Cummings/Johnson post that public humiliation. Blackford was right - if BJ has any sense he’ll sack him immediately.

Aaw, he's not doing very well is he!

It’s going to be quite a novelty when Johnson wins a vote.

MamaCaz
Was voting for Article 50 a parliament or Government decision...and...was entry into the gulf war a parliament or government decision? Apparently parliament or government were looking out for the welfare of the whole country in these instances because we gave them the right to make these rules.
Maybe I am confused?

Joelsnan
So, if BJ &co had got their plans through then that would be okay because they were democratically elected and looking out for the welfare of the whole country? That must be the case mustn’t it, because you agree that they are charged with making rules on our behalf. Or is that only when it suits your agenda?

I think you might be confusing the words 'parliament' and 'Government'?

Whitewave Faux outrage me thinks ?

Unfortunately for this country, Johnson is just a journalist; worse still a journalist who based his career on making things up. And he now thinks he can get away with that as PM.

joelsnan of course you can:
Honesty and trustworthiness are strangers to BJ, however lies and deception define his nature ........see it's easy when you try

Joelsnan, yes honesty and trustworthiness.......can I say those words in the same sentence as Boris Johnson? No.

The character of our Prime Minister

Nick Boles MP

I will never forgive Boris Johnson for inflicting on my dear friend
@NSoames
such a brutal end to his parliamentary career. If anyone had any doubt about our Prime Minister’s character or morals, look no further.

Nandalot
Yes,
Terminology is not a problem. Policy, honesty, trustworthiness, abiding by manifesto statements which got them elected are more important. Personality and eccentricity less so.