Boris Johnson aiming to stay in Downing Street until 2030s

It's all a bit like the having a mentally unfit monarch who no-one can tell the truth to or remove from office
Except that our monarchs don't wield that much power!

StarDreamer

The thing is though that at the next General Election, it will not be all about keeping him, it will also be about what is the alternative.

If one of the other choices is reversing Brexit?

If one of the other choices is unilateral nuclear disarmament?

Each party puts forward a package deal, it is not pick and mix.

Have a look at the current LibDem policies:

www.libdems.org.uk/what-liberal-democrats-believe-2022

Sure, the LibDems would love the UK to be back in the EU, but pragmatically they would probably settle for negotiating something to replace the single market.

LibDems need to advertise their core values: liberty, equality, democracy, human rights, community, internationalism and environmentalism. They then need to give examples of how the values would work in practice.

I disagree with you about a vote not being about "pick and mix". Maybe I'm weird, but every election I make a list of parties' policies. None of them have ever matched exactly what I'd like, so I choose the best fit.

Not weird at all * Growstuff* I’ve been doing that since 1974 when I got to vote twice in the same year!

OMG what a horrible thought , I wonder if Carrie will stay/ last that long to appreciate the wallpaper?

Pantglas2

Not weird at all * Growstuff* I’ve been doing that since 1974 when I got to vote twice in the same year!

You were lucky to get two votes in 1974 Pantglas. We were living here in the UK, British citizens paying taxes yet we were not able to vote in either of the 1974 elections because we had been living abroad when the electoral roll was made up in October 1973.

When, before the first of these elections, our Tory MP knocked on the door I told him we didn't have a vote, he lost interest in us and walked away.

When the Liberal candidate came round, he said he was sorry we couldn't vote but asked if we would like to help.

It took till 1997 to get our LibDem MP but he held the seat for 18 years and did a great job, before standing down in 2015. Since then we have had an appalling ERG Tory, now suspended from the parliamentary Conservative party and under investigation for sexual harrassment, taking class A drugs, borrowing a huge sum of money from a very dodgy Russian and nepotism (getting a very well paid "consultancy" job for a family member from the dodgy Russian).

His behaviour almost seems par for the course for Johnson's followers. No moral compass whatsoever.

growstuff wrote I disagree with you about a vote not being about "pick and mix". Maybe I'm weird, but every election I make a list of parties' policies. None of them have ever matched exactly what I'd like, so I choose the best fit.

With all due respect, your reply indicates that you do agree with what I meant.

If someone wants to get him out from being Prime Minister and also believes that keeping the nuclear deterrent is important, yet getting him out from being Prime Minister can only be achieved by voting for unilateral nuclear disarmament, then the voter needs to decide which is more important to him or her.

So not pick and mix. I probably did not explain what i meant very well.

It is like in the 2019 General Election.

It seems that people who were lifelong voters for Labour chose to have him as Prime Minister as it was more important to them to Get Brexit Done than to get a Labour government.

They perhaps felt that if they voted Labour and there would be a Labour government that Brexit would never get done.

So they had to choose for which not-ideal-for-them package to vote.

varian Hopefully, the good people of Somerset will look at what their neighbours in Devon have just done!

I think Boris means 20.30, not 2030 - he’s just made it through one more day, but his days are numbered.

growstuff

varian Hopefully, the good people of Somerset will look at what their neighbours in Devon have just done!

Yes growstuff -the good people of Somerset made up their own minds just last month when the results of voting for the new Unitary Authority of Somerset were - LibDem 61, Cons 36, Lab 5, Green 5, Ind 3

Whitewavemark2

“There have always been flashes of instability – the frothing temper, the bizarre shrieking when under pressure – but as a narcissist these traits only get worse when he is cornered as he is now…Reality is closing in on Boris Johnson.”

You have it in a nutshell there!