Why is Boris still PM if he's going to do no work?

Are you direclty affected though?

MaizieD what an ignorant remark. I am British living in the US, but still care deeply about my home country.

Whitewavemark2

What I find bizarre is that commentators seem to agree that what we are hearing from the two candidates is for the members and winning their votes, suggesting that they will act differently once in power.

So that suggests to me that we have absolutely no idea what will happen once on of them is PM.

Democracy has gone out of the window.

I do think that there should be an immediate GE if a PM resigns or is hoisted out by their own MPs.

Then again we do not vote for a PM, we vote for our constituency MP and whoever is the leader of the winning party becomes PM.

As for what will happen after September, my prediction is not a lot,

It went out the window the day Johnson was voted in. With excuses such as 'Anything but Corbyn.' I still fail to see how he could have been anything other than an improvement on the incompetent, lazy, greedy, self-serving examples we have in power now/next month.

What I find bizarre is that commentators seem to agree that what we are hearing from the two candidates is for the members and winning their votes, suggesting that they will act differently once in power.

So that suggests to me that we have absolutely no idea what will happen once on of them is PM.

Democracy has gone out of the window.

Artols ?

MaizieD

Callistemon21

heaven help you when your new one is in power

I take it that you don't live in the UK, Artols as it sounds as if events here won't affect you?

I think that Artols is a self identified below bridge dweller

I not in the slightest bit wound up as there is zilch I can do about it at the moment.

A waste of my limited energy

Indeed maddyone. Remind me, what proportion of the population are they?

Democracy they say!

Just cannot bear to think of what next for our country.

Mind you, she’s right, heaven help us whichever of the two candidates grabs the prize. Neither of them seem good enough for the job to me, but nobody is asking me, or any of us, unless one happens to be a member of the Conservative party.

Callistemon21

^heaven help you when your new one is in power^

I take it that you don't live in the UK, Artols as it sounds as if events here won't affect you?

I think that Artols is a self identified below bridge dweller

heaven help you when your new one is in power

I take it that you don't live in the UK, Artols as it sounds as if events here won't affect you?

Just to wind you all up on here, I think Boris Johnson has been a good Prime Minister, and heaven help you when your new one is in power.

GrannyGravy13

MaizieD The heat is obviously getting to some posters, if posts have to be explained and they still are not understood.

There have always be crossed posts and duplicate posts on GN, we are not writing a thesis, it’s a chat forum.

Let me hold that spade for you, you need a rest

Pardon?

MaizieD The heat is obviously getting to some posters, if posts have to be explained and they still are not understood.

There have always be crossed posts and duplicate posts on GN, we are not writing a thesis, it’s a chat forum.

Fleurpepper

GrannyGravy13

Petera there are posters on GN who still think that MPs go off on their holidays for the whole of every recess , as I am not a clairvoyant I have absolutely no idea if you or Fleurpepper are part of that cohort.

This thread is not about MPs- it is about the Prime Minister, at a time of multiple crises.

What is mildly annoying, GG13 is that your explanation of Parliamentary recess was in response to my post in which I'd pointed out that there were some 16 weeks of parliamentary recess over a year and that surely posters didn't think that was all paid holiday? (or words to that effect.) The point of my post was to emphasise that, as had already been explained on the thread, that it wasn't so.

You then proceeded to tell me in reply something that it was obvious (I thought) that I already knew.

Is the weather making us all a bit insensitive to nuance?

GrannyGravy13

Petera there are posters on GN who still think that MPs go off on their holidays for the whole of every recess , as I am not a clairvoyant I have absolutely no idea if you or Fleurpepper are part of that cohort.

This thread is not about MPs- it is about the Prime Minister, at a time of multiple crises.

rosie1959

Nothing wrong with your post Joseanne this is Gransnet it’s all just chat

Except on certain threads…?

Lizzie44

It was reported that Boris and Carrie's first dance at their recent 1st wedding anniversary bash was to the song "Sweet Caroline". More appropriate would have been "Sweet Fanny Adams".

I am sure that I have read somewhere that Caroline is Carries given first name

Or Bing Crosby's:

We're busy doin' nothin'
Workin' the whole day through
Tryin' to find lots of things not to do
We're busy goin' nowhere
Isn't it just a crime
We'd like to be unhappy, but
We never do have the time.

It was reported that Boris and Carrie's first dance at their recent 1st wedding anniversary bash was to the song "Sweet Caroline". More appropriate would have been "Sweet Fanny Adams".

Boris is probably using up his leave and a caretaker government will have to be paid as well. I don’t mind him taking his leave.

But neither am I a clairvoyant.

It was clear to me, and I understood it like that GG13. There isn't much one can say in defence of Boris or the current government, but in this case your explanation fitted. Unfortunately it was bound to attract derision and criticism by the nature of the thread.
As I see it GG13 was responding to Fleurpepper ........ and no doubt got sidetracked trying to defend my "missed the point" post?

No sorry, still not clear.