Next PM?

[K23]

Surely not that scruffy tw@ who was in Number 10 before Truss? Hasn't he still got investigations of wrongdoing open against him?

Yes, the investigation by the Privileges Committee. If he's found guilty, it's possible he could lose his place as an MP. If it's not ridiculous enough already, it could get even worse because he could be re-elected as leader of the Tory party next week and hence PM, then if he is found guilty by the Privileges Committee and they recommend a suspension, he may have to be recalled as an MP under the Recall of MPs Act 2015 so may have to resign as leader of the Tory party and as PM as he cannot be leader of the party unless he is an MP and he can't be PM unless he's leader of the Tory Party. It's quite possible that the possibility of him being found guilty by the Privileges Committee may cause plenty of Tory MPs to refrain from backing his return due to the further chaos and embarrassment it would create. The party members who would vote for him probably haven't even considered this, to them he's just a demi-God and can do no wrong.

I feel dirty saying I hope it's Sunak because, of all the options, he's the only one who doesn't seem completely insane and deranged to me even if there are plenty of other reasons why he shouldn't be PM.

 

[Glyn1]

It's either going to be Rishi Sunak, or it's going to be the very buxom Penny Mordaunt provided that Boris gives her his backing and his supporters.

Johnson has got no chance of getting it, because too many Conservative MPs detest him.

As a Labour party member, I'm certain that Rishi will be the hardest opponent for Labour and under him they still might win the next election in 2024. Anything can happen in two years, as we've learnt through hard experience. But he's competent and probably the best chance of a bad lot to save the British economy. At least he knows what he's talking about on finances, which would be a change from the last 3 Tory PMs. And the fact that most Tory party members hate him for allegedly knifing Boris is beautiful.

 

[Glyn1]

I'm genuinely puzzled. If MPs have 22 weeks off during the year, why was Boris Johnson on holiday in the Caribbean this week? Who's looking after his Uxbridge constituents? Does he have a team there that do that?

 

[J_B]

I'm genuinely puzzled. If MPs have 22 weeks off during the year, why was Boris Johnson on holiday in the Caribbean this week? Who's looking after his Uxbridge constituents? Does he have a team there that do that?

Boris doesn't do work. Underlings do it for him.

He's old Etonian and Bullingdon club mun.

 

[Pegojack]

I'm genuinely puzzled. If MPs have 22 weeks off during the year, why was Boris Johnson on holiday in the Caribbean this week? Who's looking after his Uxbridge constituents? Does he have a team there that do that?

Boris doesn't do work. Underlings do it for him.

He's old Etonian and Bullingdon club mun.

This. The lazy, freeloading c**t wouldn't know a day's work if it bit him on the arse.
I'm backing him for the next Tory leader and PM. That would be the final, irrevocable end of the Tory party in my lifetime.

 

[J_B]

https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1583458254109057027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1583458254109057027%7Ctwgr%5Ee77dd6bfeadcf908d9a1ccd66d78137f8f0f1ebf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fukpollingreport2.proboards.com%2Fthread%2F51%2Foct-2022-lab-con-ldem%3Fpage%3D137

 

[J_B]

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1583482907691474944?s=20&t=6WIMJI_j1i3bjyOJv21MQw

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I’d like to say that not even the Conservative Party is stupid enough to believe that Boris Johnson, the original architect of all the current problems, is the person to solve all the current problems.

But, well, y’know, this is the Conservative Party. Britain is just their plaything. Their birthright as they see it. Stupidity is almost literally in their DNA.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Paul Goodman, the editor of Conservative Home – the website for news and opinion on the Conservative party – has written an interesting op ed this evening where he says that Boris Johnson becoming party leader again would cause the public to “run screaming” after Truss turned the party into a laughing stock.

The three paragraphs towards the end captures the essence of his article. It features the German Totentanz – similar to Lord Hague’s “death spiral” from his interview on Times Radio earlier (see: 6.19pm).

“The thought occurs that maybe the Conservative party no longer cares. Perhaps the sum of its ambition is to become the provisional wing of the rightwing entertainment industry: happy to preach to a diminishing band of true believers, and good for a newspaper column or fringe TV turn, while Keir Starmer gets on with the tiresome business of actually running the country.

If so, it can look forward to a prime minister staffing his government with fifth raters, since the bulk of the 66 ministers who resigned in the summer will refuse to serve. If a by-election forced by a Commons suspension doesn’t get him first. If the Tory benches don’t first vote down the report into his conduct that would trigger it, thus speeding the spiral of decline.

The Germans have a word for it: Totentanz – a dance of death. Conservative MPs, peers, donors, hacks and activists caper onwards an open grave, with Death himself – sorry, Johnson – leading the procession. The dance possesses them; it has a momentum of its own; they are powerless to stop.”

 

[monmouth]

As you said, the day after they install him, the same circus continues. It would be genuinely insane. Sunak, who would be appalling, is the only real option for them.

Therefore they'll choose the fat liar.

 

[MajorR]

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1583482907691474944?s=20&t=6WIMJI_j1i3bjyOJv21MQw

Its astonishing that 1 on 5 people are still prepared to vote Conservative, they’ve just about messed everything up and still 19% of the voters will support them. It’s crackers.

 

[monmouth]

How can anyone deal with stupidity on this scale?

McLeish said he felt Johnson was the tonic to the current Tory problems. “I want him back because we know him,” McLeish said. “Alright, he’s made mistakes, like everybody. But he’s admitted to them. And the general public know him, and know what he’s like and what he stands for.”

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

Heard a couple of MPs call Johnson the 'unity candidate'...

 

[Pegojack]

Heard a couple of MPs call Johnson the 'unity candidate'...

Have they forgotten about the 'Johnson' effect in the most recent by-elections? Seems they have.

 

[Squarebear]

In fairness to the 19%, it's bstard exhausting keeping track of all the Tory sins. They can't be expected to remember everything.

Seeing Bojo on the telly every night during the pandemic, and listening to his steady words of guidance, will have made a positive impression on a lot of older folks who simply won't remember the shyte he's responsible for.