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Was Boris Johnson bullied into resigning?

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nanna8 Mon 11-Jul-22 13:47:14

I doubt that anyone with as much self confidence as he has could ever be bullied. He thinks he’s a star, God’s gift to the female race and God’s gift to your country. He should leave immediately and let that lovely lady Theresa May return as a caretaker until they can find a decent alternative.

CoolCoco Mon 11-Jul-22 13:43:54

He wouldn't know loyalty if it hit him in the face.

eazybee Mon 11-Jul-22 13:42:00

Yes I do think he was bullied, and no I do not think he is a bully. Flawed yes, but a fighter and courageous.
One of his faults was being too loyal, witness Dominic Cummings, Owen Paterson and others; bad judgements that led to his downfall.
Margaret Thatcher was pressured, and resigned with grace; we got John Major, who paved the way for T.Blair, who isn't dead yet.

Purplepixie Mon 11-Jul-22 13:34:06

Boris has been the bully for years.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 11-Jul-22 13:27:20

Well if he was bullied, which I very much doubt, at least he has had a taste of his own medicine.

Chewbacca Mon 11-Jul-22 13:24:21

But BJ is himself a bully and has supported members of his cabinet to be bullies too; his whole reason d'etre is lying and bullying. Sometimes, it does bullies good to get a taste of their medicine.

Katie59 Mon 11-Jul-22 13:20:00

Politians bully each other all the time, in fact they have special bullies - The Whips to put pressure on back benchers to follow the government line, a free vote is uncommon where MPs can vote according to their conscience.
All parties do it

MaizieD Mon 11-Jul-22 13:17:25

The idea of Johnson being bullied into anything is just hilarious! He went because he knew very well that a new 1922 Committee would instantly change the rules on the interval between no confidence votes and he would inevitably lose the leadership of the tory party.

Anyone with the slightest shred of integrity would have gone after partygate, if not sooner.

It is sweet of people to be concerned about his 'feelings', but incredibly naive of them. He doesn't give a monkey's about anyone but himself, and, as his 'resignation' speech demonstrated, he doesn't have even a sliver of humility or any consciousness of wrong doing.

Bridgeit Mon 11-Jul-22 13:00:06

Perhaps ‘Encouraged’ or ‘Strongly encouraged ‘ would be kinder terms to use.

M0nica Mon 11-Jul-22 12:53:46

Whenever a Prime Minister goes people usually have to be horrible to them first. look what they did to Mrs Thatcher, Brown, Blair, Callaghan.

Ilovecheese Mon 11-Jul-22 11:59:31

Maybe it was bullying but how else could they have done it, he was not one to be reasoned with.
Some of the newspapers are stirring up sympathy for him, by the look of their front pages.

Fennel Mon 11-Jul-22 11:56:38

I was chatting with a friend at the weekend and she suddenly said - "They were horrible to him".
Suddenly, we hadn't been discussing the subject.
I was so puzzled, said I didn't want to talk about it. We could have fallen out.
Explains why he still has so much support in the country.