Is Boris going to resign ?

Just appointing the cabinet on the grounds that they agree with you and not competence is clearly showing.

growstuff

Blinko

I think we've all been waiting to see Boris step up to the challenge of this job, believers and non believers alike. I don't think he's capable nor do I think he's well. The two may or may not be connected. If he does resign though, no doubt it will be on health grounds...

Maybe he does have hidden talents, but on the evidence, I think you're right. I don't think he's capable. He has some particularly nasty and vitriolic backbenchers who even think he's too soft!

Not only has his government not shown basic competence, but I don't think he has the political skill to keep the party together. He has all the "borrowed" votes who will want to see some reward before too long.

By appointing only yes men and women to his cabinet, there's a real dearth of talent to cover up for his own failings.

My hunch is that you're right about the reason for resignation, if there is one.

He might try to appeal to the "people" to save him, but he's lost his once overwhelming popularity.

PS. I think some people in the Conservative Party are already lining up their sights.

One issue could be, who on earth would want the job right now? With uncertain times re Covid-19 at least in the medium term, and a likely no-deal Brexit, it's looking more like a poisoned chalice than ever.

And Gove did so well as Education Secretary, after all...

All these holidays?! One last January and three days in midgy Scotland! Where and what were the others?! Paddyann as usual you are particularly well informed! Do you have an inroad to the PM's domestic arrangements!?otherwise as usual your comments were all supposition!!

We are lucky to have Boris Johnson as PM when the alternative would have been Jeremy Corbyn. This is why he won the election.

aonk I totally agree. Why can't these Labour voters see what a lucky escape we have had and give credit to Boris Johnson who inspite of having been so ill is doing his best for the country.

Rosalyn Those posting on the news and politics threads tend to take politics fairly seriously, whether left, centre or right. If we think that you have written something wrong then you will be corrected. However, those same people, on other threads are nice and polite.

aonk and *janpt It's very tempting to ignore your latest comments but I just can't. Please read the list of errors, lies, misinformation etc under the heading "Week in Tory w/e 17 August" and then come back and tell us/me whether you still think that we've had a lucky escape.

I'm not holding my breath.

Jabberwok

All these holidays?! One last January and three days in midgy Scotland! Where and what were the others?! Paddyann as usual you are particularly well informed! Do you have an inroad to the PM's domestic arrangements!?otherwise as usual your comments were all supposition!!

Oh, you missed the ten days at Chequers (or was it Chevening?) in February when he sorted out his divorce settlement and his pregnant girlfriend? (and missed a load of COBRA meetings) Though, of course, I suppose you might call that 'work'.
And the Whit recess?

Dinahmo

Rosalyn Those posting on the news and politics threads tend to take politics fairly seriously, whether left, centre or right. If we think that you have written something wrong then you will be corrected. However, those same people, on other threads are nice and polite.

I absolutely didn't think anyone had been rude. Just corrected her error. It's all a question of perception really, isn't it?

DinahmoYes I still think we have had a very lucky escape although perhaps that wasn't the right way to describe it. Marxist Corbyn didn't stand a chance. Many Labour voters saw the light, knew what he stood for and wisely changed sides. Perhaps some posters on here will do the same.

What do you think a Labour government would have done, Janpt?

What do you think we have had a 'lucky escape' from?

This is the thing that the 'lucky escapists' are never able to explain in any detail at all.

The Whit recess that Parliament breaks up for? You don't know if he went on holiday! As for COBRA meetings, PM's often don't attend them and leave it to the appropriate minister,as did T Blair and Mrs May, Chequers, the PM's country house, how do you know what he was doing on a daily basis were you there?!

I didn’t vote for Corbyn and thought him a liability, but he wouldn’t have been much worse than this shower. Anyway, just saying he’s better than x , is really saying he’s absolutely useless isn’t it? You shouldn’t have to measure yourself against the lowest bar. Actually I think Theresa May, would be doing a better job , and I never thought I’d say that!

Oh, do give up, Jabberwok. He's an idle so and so. Everyone knew that before the ancient tory party members voted him in as leader.

That is complete bullshit about Cobra meetings. We'd been warned for weeks about a global pandemic. A PM with any sense of responsibility would have been right there, leading future planning. Not sorting out their bloody divorce...

Anyway. I've had enough of debating with someone who thinks that left wingers love Putin.

Yes thats the right description of our leader, an idle so and so, you could also add in a part-time leader and clueless. I reckon he will see through Brexit and then resign, he just wants to be known as the leader who took us out of the EU. Also he wouldn't have to take any of the flack from the complete balls he will have made of us leaving. Ill health is just an excuse.

You're right this thread is full of people making ridiculous pathetic comments, I can't be bothered with you either MaizieD. I both like and support Boris, so no more to be said!

Tweedle24

Political leanings aside, I can’t help wondering if anyone else would have coped any better — Brexit, floods, COVID, riots.... I doubt any other PM has had so much landed on them so quickly and then to catch the wretched virus himself. No wonder he does not look well.

Nicola Sturgeon, Jacinda Ardern, Angela Merkel, Tsai Ing wen and Sanna Marin.

jabberwok information straight from the owner and the cleaner of the house they rented ...that good enough for you?

Flag wavers will support Johnson whatever he does, I wonder if there I is any scenario they wouldn’t find an excuse for him.

vegansrock Sounds like your support for Corbyn. Difference is Boris Johnson is far more capable than him or anyone else in the Labour party.

Janpt

vegansrock Sounds like your support for Corbyn. Difference is Boris Johnson is far more capable than him or anyone else in the Labour party.

Capable at what?

I'm really struggling because Johnson and capable are an oxymoron, as far as I'm concerned.

I must learn to read more carefully, I thought I read as usual your comments were all supposition!!.....as 'your comments were all suppositories'......Freudian assumption perhaps . Anyway, I cannot claim the original statement that Johnson wanted to 'be Prime Minister' and 'to have been Prime Minister', it is the bit inbetween that he has problems with.

janpt i didn’t support Corbyn or vote for him - where did I say that? I said measuring Johnson against a low bar isn’t saying much. Theresa May was far more diligent.

It seems to be this government’s new mantra “deputy heads must roll”. 6 top civil servants sacked in 6 months for some of this government’s incompetencies. No ministers have resigned or been sacked. Didn’t it used to be that the buck stopped with the person at the top? On this evidence, I doubt if Johnson will resign.

I’m interested in who they are going to blame once they got through the civil service.

We will have lost expertise built up over years and years and shipped in idiots like Abbott.

Talk about a race to the bottom. He can join Truss bumping along the floor. I bet the Australians can’t believe their luck!