Boris Johnson has resigned with immediate effect !

So was Lord Frederick Windsor.

ronib the Kings Scholarship is means tested, Johnson likely applied for the prestige rather than the financial award. He was at a prep school beforehand.
www.etoncollege.com/admissions/scholarships-and-awards/kings-scholarships/
Kwasi Kwarteng was an also a Kings scholar.

You might not understand that BJ won a scholarship to go to Eton …. so not having been there, I can’t guess what difference that makes to an individual’s experience there. Probably had to work very hard to retain the reduced fees?

Oreo, I did not say or imply that an Eton education made you a bad person.

I think Johnson’s done. The results of the Scrutiny Committes report are going to expose him publicly, and I can’t see the way back politically for him after that. He will become a very rich speaker and political commentator, s..t stirring being his specialty.

Wouldn’t it be nice, though, to have a grown up as PM and a grown up leading the opposition. It’s ok when parliament is like a pantomime when things are going well but we really need to get back to more sensible stuff. It won’t be any good for the country having an opposition that resembles Fred Karno’s circus.

He would enjoy being shadow leader I bet

You know what, Oreo? I think I absolutely agree with you.

Of course, he wouldn't get the reverence and the lovely accommodation and security etc. that goes with being top dog, but think of the jolly fun he could have at PMQs and no need to back it up with any action.

I don’t automatically see an Eton education as a bar to being a good person and a good politician, but Boris doesn’t seem to be either.

MaizieD

Oreo

I think Boris is waiting for the CP to be wiped out at the next election by which time he will be in place for a comeback.

Do you think that 'the country' will want him back? Why would they when he's been so appalling?

Do you think he'd even get re-elected in a different constituency?

If the CP got wiped put, what would there be left for him to lead? A minority party with no power in parliament?

Well, that’s another matter innit?😄He thinks the country wants him back but it’s doubtful.
He could get re-elected in a safe seat I guess.
He would enjoy being shadow leader I bet, much easier than being in the top job and having to deliver.

Boris Johnson is an Eaton-educated Trump. Neither of them fit to be leaders of great nations.

They said the reason he has gone straight into spending was because he looked back at the last two times his party had been in power, and discovered that they got the country back on its feet economically and had then been voted out, having done the bit people don't like. The "good" economy was then spent by the opposition.

What was the bit that the country didn't like? Was there a bit of preliminary austerity to make matters worse before they started spending? The one thing that austerity doesn't do is improve the economy...

The next government should go straight into spending because that's the only way the economy is going to get back on its feet. Not spending will just prolong the pain. More austerity is completely pointless. It should stop the BoE raising interest rates, too. That's just been making matters worse over the past year.

Oh well Nicola Sturgeon has just been arrested…..

I’m waiting for Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey to all be arrested together for drunk and disorderly behaviour outside HoP, singing the abridged version of ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’ (oblique Boris reference). Until then, nothing will surprise me.

Whitewavemark2

MaizieD

P.S I am hoping beyond hope that, once in power, Labour will stop all this 'difficult choices' and 'hard decisions' nonsense and just go ahead and spend.

I am hoping that their current stance is just to avert the accusations of economic irresponsibility which dog them in the run up to general elections.

Me too. Time will tell I suppose. Can’t say I feel very comfortable about it all at the moment.

The next government will have first find out where they stand financially so there may be a delay.

It was interesting listening to somebody talking about Biden the other day. They said the reason he has gone straight into spending was because he looked back at the last two times his party had been in power, and discovered that they got the country back on its feet economically and had then been voted out, having done the bit people dont like. The "good" economy was then spent by the opposition.

I wondered if this is what's happened to labour in the past?

MaizieD

I love the 'senior glories', Wwmk2

Now I really must go and do some gardening...

😄😄 it’s too hot at the moment to garden.

I love the 'senior glories', Wwmk2

Now I really must go and do some gardening...

Sorry correction - "trying to sort themselves out in opposition"

Interesting point Oreo - if they carry on without an election, would more damage be done to the Conservatives if they hang on, as opposed to trying sort themslevesout in opposition?

OTOH if that meant the rise of Boris I'd rather Sunak have more time.....not a good outlook either way, as if current conflict goes on they cannot govern with strength, there will be crisis after crisis.

Senior glories are apparently very alarmed and critical at the suggestion that Johnson hopes to stage a comeback.

Quite honestly I don’t think that he has the support, and he knows it, which is why signed rather than face his Tory peers and constituency members.

Johnson is done for.

Eventually he will lie down and go on to make squillions of money to spaff up the wall on dreadful wallpaper etc.

Oreo

Why would they agree to a GE now, nothing in it for them.

If the threatened 'civil war' split the CP in parliament to the extent that the factions voted against each other the government might go down to a vote of no confidence. Then there'd have to be a GE.

'wiped OUT, not 'put'

Oreo

I think Boris is waiting for the CP to be wiped out at the next election by which time he will be in place for a comeback.

Do you think that 'the country' will want him back? Why would they when he's been so appalling?

Do you think he'd even get re-elected in a different constituency?

If the CP got wiped put, what would there be left for him to lead? A minority party with no power in parliament?

MaizieD

P.S I am hoping beyond hope that, once in power, Labour will stop all this 'difficult choices' and 'hard decisions' nonsense and just go ahead and spend.

I am hoping that their current stance is just to avert the accusations of economic irresponsibility which dog them in the run up to general elections.

Me too. Time will tell I suppose. Can’t say I feel very comfortable about it all at the moment.

The Tories got their a.. kicked in Scotland so did labour now it’s got tge Snp in full force FREEDOM

Good riddance to bad rubbish