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Javid and Sunak have both resigned their cabinet posts….

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MayBee70 Tue 05-Jul-22 18:15:06

Who’s next?

FarNorth Wed 06-Jul-22 16:15:56

Johnson's look is supposed to be a lovable rascal, I think .
He's actually a self-centred jerk.

happycatholicwife1 Wed 06-Jul-22 16:12:54

At first I didn't pay much attention to Boris Johnson because he's not in my realm. As time went on, I wondered what the heck? What is with his hair? He always looks so rumpled and breathless. I'm sorry he didn't work out and do a good job. We are suffering quite a bit over here for lack of a good leader. It's possible Biden will turn out to be worse than Jimmy Carter. That's hard to wrap my head around. At least Jimmy Carter was a nice guy.

Grandmabatty Wed 06-Jul-22 16:09:08

My apologies. I misread something about Gove on twitter.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 06-Jul-22 16:05:47

MayBee70

Anyone watching Johnson in front of the select committee?

Yes, toe curling I am trying to resist hurling something at the TV ?

GrannyGravy13 Wed 06-Jul-22 16:04:41

Gove hasn’t resigned he has urged the PM to resign

rosie1959 Wed 06-Jul-22 16:03:10

Don’t think Gove has resigned

MayBee70 Wed 06-Jul-22 16:00:59

Anyone watching Johnson in front of the select committee?

spabbygirl Wed 06-Jul-22 16:00:30

boris and his pals tricked and manoevered us to vote for him, remember the bus? Someone said to be he wouldn't be allowed to write that if it wasn't true, well, he didn't anyway & taxes have been increased to pay for the NHS but cos they have privatised various dept's they spend more cos as they're run by private companies who have shareholders who expect a profit it has cost more. They can use the NHS logo, so its not immediately obvious. I can't see any good that he's done, but we don't have to get rid of him, but all tories. They have accepted large donations and those companies will want value for money, more big contracts for private companies paid for by our taxes

Ro60 Wed 06-Jul-22 15:58:22

Gove! Must catch up on the news. Not surprised but sooner than expected.

Grandmabatty Wed 06-Jul-22 15:52:08

Now up to 30 resignations. Even slithering Gove has gone

RichmondPark Wed 06-Jul-22 15:39:51

At least it's not boring with old Boris in charge.

Yes it is. Uturn after Uturn. Lie after lie. Broken promise after broken promise. One sex scandal after another. Jobs, honours and contracts for one friend, donor or MP after another.

Very, very boring.

Lucca Wed 06-Jul-22 15:34:57

Some good one liners from Starmer at pmqs. Eg isn’t this the first recorded case of the sinking ships fleeing the rat…

And about those mps who still,support Boris “ the charge of the lightweight brigade “

DaisyAnne Wed 06-Jul-22 15:22:20

cc

Heaven knows what will happen to our economy now. Rishi Sunak is an extremely well qualified, clever and experienced man, and a very capable Chancellor. His replacement Nadhim Zahawi is none of these things.

Really? I think Sunak would take us straight back to austerity and destroy the economy to an even greater degree than the Conservatives have done over the last 12 years. What did you think he would do?

I will wait to see what Nadhim Zahawi does. I don't hold out great hope for the length of term he has in office.

MissAdventure Wed 06-Jul-22 14:34:43

21 resignations in 24 hours.

M0nica Wed 06-Jul-22 14:33:54

The parallels with Trump grow by the hour.

bobbydog24 Wed 06-Jul-22 14:26:10

‘Rip it up and start again’ comes to mind. The whole Conservative party stinks of corruption, sleaze and lying. They are all in it for themselves, we don’t matter a jot.
Boris won’t go, he’ll have to be dragged screaming out of number 10 with all his so called supporters turning their backs on him. There is not one of them a suitable PM, so where does that leave us. To hell on a handcart.

Pippa22 Wed 06-Jul-22 14:23:10

Sandelf, are you seriously saying that the behaviour you have described is OK and easily dealt with by never being alone with the predator. The fact that the men you worked with were aware and protective does not make it ok in fact it almost makes it worse that they did nothing to tackle the beast.
Your attitude is that this will happen and just has to be accepted.
It definitely doesn’t.

M0nica Wed 06-Jul-22 14:14:42

sandelf, So we are to understand that you are quite happy for people to be sexually harrassed at work, out of work, where ever they are that another person can attack them. Have them scared and frightenedto come to work

Chris Pincher is in the news, because he is a sex pest who knows no boundaries, he cornered young interns in his officce, a fellow MP couldn't even have a chat with him without attempts to finger him.

But of course, you find this all perfectly acceptable. Just avoid the person and all will be well.

I had just such a fellow employee in one of my first jobs. I was warned about him on my first day at work. Thats all right then. Well, you may think so but I and the other women working for the company did not. We were paid to come in and do a good jobof work. You cannot do this if you have constantly to be keeping an eye out for one member of staff, take long detours around the building to avoid him.

And why the hell should we?

What's your attitude to rape, if the victim happens to know their assailant. presumably they should just accept it for being anywhere near him when they knew what he was like

Well that's alright then!

Iam64 Wed 06-Jul-22 14:03:30

Chris Pincher is a sexual predator with a drink problem. He abused the power his position gave him. It’s recognised by Courts, Police, anyone involved in the investigation of sexual offences thst many victims find it difficult to make a complaint. A number of men were courageous enough to complain though not to support formal investigation
That’s what happens in many cases. It doesn’t mean the allegations are untrue.

This is predatory sexual offending. Call it that. Don’t insult the victims by calling it groping. And because in one workplace the men hrloed the women avoid a man who behaved inappropriately, do not blame the victims here

Allsorts Wed 06-Jul-22 14:01:19

Boris is shameless. I positively dislike the selfish liar.

Nicolenet Wed 06-Jul-22 13:55:46

What does that mean?

growstuff Wed 06-Jul-22 13:49:55

fordk4 Why do you think that the Labour Party doesn't care about the British public?

westendgirl Wed 06-Jul-22 13:49:07

I presume your post is meant as a joke, fordk4.

Purplepixie Wed 06-Jul-22 13:47:48

We need to keep an eye on the MPs and PM as they are running OUR country, not playing a game of tiddlywinks!

fordk4 Wed 06-Jul-22 13:42:10

what a country we now live inpeople are more coincerned about what the mps are doing instead ofc worrying about what is a globrl problem france, germany,and italy still buying oil and gas from russia who are intent on keeping the war going in the ukrain thats the so called EU for you thats why the energy prices are going through the roof and as for labour they dont care about the british public and all the people in this country is good for is to comlasin and ask for more money and why are we still weainting for the report from durham police over the starmer party what a one sided country we have become stop moaning and lets stand together to over come the countries problems like petrol and energy and stop holing this cpuntry to ransom with strikes