Johnson's Resignation Honours List.

Oh, seriously, how ridiculous can it get ?

Really,really should not be allowed but of of course it will be…??‍♀️

First things first - let's get him out of 10 Downing Street for a start.

Though re ND, why is the H of L not considered front line politics? If it's as dumbed down as that there's no point in it.

Allegra Stratton deserves another decent job and I hope she finds one.

The above posts read like the final nail in a horror story. However, if he does not behave in the way expected it could achieve a spot of redemption. I did read somewhere a headline stating he shouldn’t be able to provide an honours list. Does the Queen have to agree the list? She may be having immobile issues but she seems as intellectually sharp as she always was.

I don't think she can formally object, although I suppose she could privately.

PMs award honours when they go, and they are then given out in the Queen's name.

He's still formally PM until he's replaced, so I suppose he can do all sorts of stuff. ?

If he can do it, he will. Self-aggrandisement to the end!

I thought a resignation honours list was to enablea retiring PM to reward those in his privte office and those who worked closely with a PM to reward their loyalty and their putting up with the worst of their boss through thick and thin.

I do not see its purpose as being for the PM to enoble his family or grease the fists tof those hat could be useful afterwards..

Those are not good reasons to put someone in the house of lords.

Could he give himself a peerage?

vegansrock

Could he give himself a peerage?

If he can, he will...?

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Hearing very interesting discussions going on inside Buck House about how to stop Johnson debasing the Queen once more with resignations honours. He should not be allowed to have them. Full. Stop.

But he will anyway.

Boris won't bother about rules, he'll do it anyway

I think there is an honours committee that has to approve them. if it happens Boris will not be the first PM to have some of his nominees turned down. Nor the first to award the rich and helpful.

Anyone remember Harold Wilson's resignation honours? The so called 'Lavender List'. that list drew much criticism. Wilson gave peerages and knighthoods to various wealthy businessmen who, according to many, shared contrary political principles to Wilson and his Labour Party. (But knew when it paid them to be helpful to the government)

Tony Blair also had problems. The 'Cash for Honours' scandal (which surfaced after several men nominated for life peerages by Tony Blair in 2006 were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission) meant that Tony Blair did not submit a Resignation Honours list in 2007.

So whatever Boris does, some other PM will have done something equally didgy.

The Liberal Democrats have written to the House of Lords appointments commission and the Cabinet Office honours committee urging them both to block any resignation honours Johnson proposes, arguing the prime minister is too tarnished to do so.

He hasn’t really resigned. He’s been sacked for misconduct. Just as no one can be accused of being a liar in parliament there shouldn’t be this farce of pretending he’s resigned.

At least there was a means of getting rid of Boris. If only there were a way of getting rid of Putin.

M0nica

At least there was a means of getting rid of Boris. If only there were a way of getting rid of Putin.

Johnson was trying to make himself unremoveable (is that a word?) with gathering more and more powers to the Executive and bypassing Parliament, but it seems that he's now been stopped in his tracks. There is nothing to stop his successor having a go, though. While ever they have a majority of nodding dogs in the Commons they can more or less do what they please.

This is one of Johnson's serious, but entirely disregarded, legacies.

If a PM has been removed in disgrace surely he shouldn't be allowed to produce an honours list. He should be replaced immediately and an interim head of the Conservative party appointed to take over.

MaizieD I quite agree. The parallels between Johnson and Trump are very uncomfortable, especially, following he Congressional hearings.

Esspee

If a PM has been removed in disgrace surely he shouldn't be allowed to produce an honours list. He should be replaced immediately and an interim head of the Conservative party appointed to take over.

He hasn't been removed from the PM job in disgrace; only from the party leadership.

I'm rather interested in whether he is investigated by the security services for his Italian escapade while Foreign Secretary. That should remove him in disgrace...

There is a petition to try to prevent Johnson from making an honours list.

www.change.org/p/prevent-boris-johnson-from-having-a-resignation-honours-list?signed=true