Should Boris resign

Oh, and don't confuse 'free markets' with 'free trade'. They are completely different animals.

Back to the ERG. And no, those who are concerned about how theyhave been manipulating Brexit, politics in general and Johnson, are NOT conspiracy theorists.

Doesn't matter if you are left, right or anything in between, pro or anti Brexit or EU, or whatever. Take time to find out about this 'secret society', who they are (well they refuse to say, but we know about quite a few of them) and what they stand for.

Now they have (mis)used Johnson to get a big majority, they will get rid of him and do everything they can, to appoint one of them and try and get as many as possible in positions of power.

Here is just one article

A group of pro-Brexit Tory MPs led by Jacob Rees-Mogg were spoon-fed questions intended to undermine their own government. The European Research Group encouraged its members to wrong-foot the prime minister and senior ministers on everything from control of migration to trade deals and EU laws, according to a cache of private documents obtained by openDemocracy.

The questions, usually accompanied by “superficial” research, were expected to be deployed against the Tory government. Details of the ERG’s inner workings were revealed after openDemocracy fought a successful legal battle with the spending watchdog, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

The European Research Group received hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ money over the last four years. The ERG’s work, claimed as part of MPs’ pooled resources, is supposed to be research that is politically neutral, essentially not for party political purposes.

IPSA carried out a limited examination of the ERG’s output and found it “factual and informative”. But trade experts who reviewed the material dismissed the ERG’s output as “superficial and selective" and “highly partisan”.

Some will retort that the article does not come from impartial source. Few do- most of the Press certainly does not, especially when Murdoch, etc, pull the strings.

Article from
www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/revealed-the-files-that-expose-erg-as-a-militant-party-within-a-party/

I think he is highly intelligent and completely ruthless. He may or may not use that in the national interest but aside from throwing money at the pandemic he has made a lot of mistakes and clearly the culture he presides over at No. 10 is grossly unsatisfactory. Tinkering with the structure of No. 10 won't solve that problem. And obviously a lot of dead cats aka government initiatives are being quickly thrown on the table to divert us - the Met investigation, levelling up, using the Navy in the channel, the BBC licence fee, playing Ukrainian games, etc., etc. The Tories are tainted by defending him but they have only 2nd rate options to replace him. I think if it comes to a Tory vote on his future I suspect he will win and thus be fairly safe for a year so we shall be stuck with him.