PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

Rees-Mogg offered numerous Cabinet roles but didn't fancy the demotion.

xps yeah the assumption I guess is that this neuters the Brexit Party so that they sweep up all single-issue leavers, along with keeping standard Tory scum plus a tiny Boris = ledge contingent; they can rely on media to help most single-issue remainer dopes go lib dem and weaken Labour; non-single-issue votes break messily but don't give enough to ultimately ahem 'let Corbyn in'.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will not work.

Lol:

"High office has spared us Johnson’s long-threatened book on Shakespeare" xp

I don't see how this government can govern, so I think it's a pantomime for a while: blame Europe, blame parliament, blame blame blame, then provoke a vote of no confidence and get to the election with disingenuous reluctance.

xxp a lot of the headbangers out there are ENRAGED by Rudd/Morgan etc in the cabinet.

clearly going to keep on saying "we won't have an election" because he reckons people still fatigued by that prospect - it's nearly inevitable though, and he'll position it as having been foisted on GBP by a recalcitrant EU/WM

I think a lot of those Tory-Lib dem marginals are really done for the Tories. Labour can also demonise the Unchained vision, which is incredibly negative and dark at its core.

And I still think Boris' past -- his role in the Leave campaign as well as his personal life -- will have a role to play.

yup. someone is saving that recording for election week.

I don't see how this government can govern, so I think it's a pantomime for a while: blame Europe, blame parliament, blame blame blame, then provoke a vote of no confidence and get to the election with disingenuous reluctance.

Sounds about right.

Time to check in on what Matthew Goodwin, author of the forthcoming National Populism: The Assault Against Liberal Democracy, is tweeting:

https://i.postimg.cc/fbbhsGF6/ECE2-AC6-C-DE0-C-4-BCC-9-F89-2-A93545-C2-C53.jpg

There is absolutely no way that centre-right liberals are not going to line up behind Johnson, however Atlas Shrugged he goes.

How can there be Islamophobia in the Tory party with a cabinet like this?!

You mean that guy they forgot to invite to meet Trump?

lol! Priti is such a poisonous piece of garbage, can't Macron have her please

On one hand, another big step in the rise of fascism. On the other, this reshuffle means that Bravo Two Zero will be on the GSCE curriculum.

Once you've met some deranged pub bore whose eyes travel in multiple directions and they have a well thumbed copy of Bravo Two Zero with the pages stuck together - that's when you call Prevent. Not make them a fucking minister.

Feel like we should run a sweepstakes on the first one to be sacked.

If I was Corbyn I'd be calling him out on his dare-or-die bullshit and ask him to call an election. The line should be 'what are you afraid of?' from now on.

thanks boris, very cool!

Well, the new Housing Minister is a guy named Robert Jenrick. The multi-millionaire owns 3 houses, and just to show his common touch, he once said he doesn’t “need to have a disabled daughter” to know what it’s like to be hard up.

Absolute tosser.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2019

https://ipnotglobal.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/robert-jenrick-e1383324980122.jpg?w=871
he seems like a fair lad!

the cold, dead eyes of a killer right there

He's got three houses, so he must be a perfect match on housing amirite?

captain three houses has treble the knowledge!

Had to add a children’s table

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c757fc32d4f55eb1ca852fdaad1fccaeadc9742/0_38_2615_1569/master/2615.jpg

Wonder how brave keyboard warriors would be if they were face to face with my 6’ son and his mates 🍆 https://t.co/kJLw47VBiu

— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) July 25, 2019

uhhhhh

the eggplant emoji is... troubling

Yeah that looks different on Twitter but I lolled either way

lmao

Six inch son?

no no Aubergine is the name of her son's attack dog

Poor kid

#sadnessinhiseyes

This explains a lot. #hottestdayoftheyear pic.twitter.com/dN9YBpvw0k

— 2000 AD Comics (@2000AD) July 25, 2019

Jesus, Prime Minister Johnson in the Commons, with his shitty jokey blustering and playing to the revolting scum on his backbenches, kill me now.

you'll want judge death for that

Labour’s Anneliese Dodds asks why Johnson said so little about the climate emergency if he really cares about it.

Johnson says the Conservatives are the only party that believes private sector-driven new technology can provide a solution to the problem.

lol we're all gonna die

Good thread on how things might play out in the next few months:

So what just happened with @BorisJohnson #Brexit statement?

My take as follows....

tldr; we are heading for a general election. Here's why...

1/Thread

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) July 25, 2019

Yes I think that is quite intuitive and is probably what will happen.

what's the answer to private sector-driven new technology which has condemned the entire planet to, at best, a quick death by drowning? yes, it's definitely more private sector-driven new technology

ffs judge death just take us all now

Cool that climate change and the backstop both have exactly the same solution.

Look, this solution the private sector has whipped up will drown everyone 2.5 times quicker than they might otherwise have.

luv2make science fiction the cornerstone of my politics

old lunch this seems as good a time as any to remind you to please read judge dredd before the methane which will be released from under the ice sheets in the coming months kills us all

Thank u, yes, nothing like the impending extinction of the species to spur a reassessment of one's priorities.

Lol wait until they shit a load of money up the wall getting Elon Musk in as the private sector brane genius

musk and tom watson should team up to hunt paedos

high tech paedo hunters and luxury communist asteroid mining ..I want to die ..lol

tbf a nice tube-shaped coffin jammed far down a water-filled mine will be a nice way to escape from the heat as the world burns

A question: May never got VONCed despite having both remainers and hard brexit headbangers lined up against her. Boris will have the former but not the latter - so why is a VONC against him in the least likely to get through? Or are these scenarios regarding elections all projecting into when those will naturally be held?

Several Tories have said they will VONC Boris, that never happened with May. They'll bottle it, of course.

A VONC won't get through yet because Johnson hasn't really set out what he plans to do, so would-be Tory rebels won't vote against him just yet. They need to be absolutely certain he's serious in going for the No Deal option before they do anything. And even then they might bottle it.

It's also not certain that there won't be abstentions in other parts of the Commons, like the Independents, or that eg Kate Hoey won't vote with the government. The margins are very narrow.

bj's already peeled off ian austin