like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

there is something sublime about how much he loves parties, dionysian maybe

Yes, as long as he's not paying for them. Pretty sure there's a lot of stuff going to come out about his tenure as PM that's going to scupper his ambition of being world king Winston Churchill in the job longer than Theresa May

i mean winston churchill was perennially wildly broke* right through until the moment he became PM (and really only safely cleared his debt after the war by persuading a vast and flattered US readership to purchase "a history of the english-speaking peoples" in four volumes)

*he was four million in the hole in the early 30s, when he was much the same age bojo is now

Churchill invented some useless piece of shit weapon called the panjandrum which was never used. Boris makes buses out of cereal boxes.

"The prototype was secretly constructed at Leytonstone and transported by night to the testing grounds at Westward Ho!"

it was so haphazard and dangerous it probably would have killed dozens of Allied soldiers if it had somehow got past the testing stage. Although the wiki mentions it may have been a hoax leaked to German military-intelligence. But he did invent lots of other crap military stuff as well.

oh goddddd

Rory Stewart meditates in the lotus position in a Nepalese monastery, eyes closed. His hair ruffles in the breeze. Goat bells clank in the distance.

Four members of the 1922 committee approach nervously.

Stewart (eyes still closed): I’ve been expecting you.

— Tom Easton (@TomEaston) July 7, 2022

tanned rested and ready lads

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4RwAAOxyF0pThwEy/s-l300.jpg

Oh no

Flashback to when a current early front-runner to be the next prime minister suggested he was going to torture & castrate Michael Gove pic.twitter.com/U6NLUTFLin

— Neil Warner (@NeilWarner_) July 7, 2022

Call me a cynic but those sound like more empty promises alas

castrating gove v castrating buzz lightyear

https://c.tenor.com/BUtUo71HCgUAAAAM/red89z.gif

First bit of really good news.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/07/threat-of-ba-strike-at-heathrow-suspended-after-airline-agrees-pay-deal

Lol

Weird mix of new ministerial appointments:

Will Quince only resigned yesterday. Graham Stuart and Matt Warman sacked by Johnson last September. pic.twitter.com/ovYY19saxS

— Joe Pike (@joepike) July 7, 2022

Starting to think cocaine might be a hell of a drug lads

Wait till you watch this video and then say that

"I think that this country deserves a very honest, ethical person because this is a great nation and I think it deserves a great leader."

Watch as members of the public react to Boris Johnson's resignation pic.twitter.com/XxcIzpQyUT

— PA Media (@PA) July 7, 2022

"I think that this country deserves a very honest, ethical person because this is a great nation and I think it deserves a great leader."

Don’t know where exactly in that London this clip is filmed but it’s clearly one of the shit bits

exit to Westminster tube station, isn't it? (so yes)

are the people in that vid AI-generated or something?

This is more like it.

Thinking about this queen pic.twitter.com/q1rRkuN6iP

— Matt 🧨 (@matteottismith) July 7, 2022

Rachel Reeves didn’t like that answer

I really enjoy the quotation marks

Number 10 has released images of @BorisJohnson being "comforted" by his wife Carrie and their two children after his resignation speech outside Downing Street earlier today https://t.co/mn6JfG1ogV pic.twitter.com/tCIyIojRTl

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 7, 2022

Fucking state of this

Following Boris Johnson's resignation as PM, @GregMilamSky spoke to three people in Bolton who voted for the Conservatives at the last election.

Politics live: https://t.co/ZTbv6x8cal pic.twitter.com/xpyTbEWGGs

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 7, 2022

love to see tory cunts being disillusioned, just would be nice to see a few vox pops with people who are not tory cunts, just for a bit of variety. anyway hopefully this is a sizable demographic who will stay at home for elections in the future.

the gold wallpaper was paid for by well wishers whomst quietly expected a return for their well wishing, which return they may now not get

Wallpapergate: Leaked invoice reveals PM’s flat had £7,000 rug and £3,675 trolley https://t.co/m8fqvZogC3

— Alan White (@aljwhite) July 7, 2022

no stupid book abt shakespeare is going to clear this debt

They actually might have had problems finding Tory cunts in Bolton as I saw two of those people interviewed on Sky earlier. I noticed that neither of them claimed to have voted Labour all their lives though, which is the usual line we get.

Ash Sakar was on newsnight just now, Kirsty Wark asked her opinion about today's news, she started saying that it was undemocratic that the future of our country was being currently decided at a spectator garden party, Kirsty almost shouted over her to get her to shut up.

Don't care for Sam at all but it appears he will be deselected.

Whether these concerns get acted on is entirely political - will be interesting to see if a shadow minister, well connected with parts of the leadership but who came from the left gets protected. https://t.co/J2Sd6BBwiD

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 8, 2022

Lab 11 points ahead in the Times poll, or probably more accurate to say the Tories 11 points behind as Labour are hardly determining their own destiny as usual.

Look at this king

Fantastic. pic.twitter.com/CCIMYtGLgF

— Andy (@alreadytaken74) July 8, 2022

Look at this king

Fantastic. pic.twitter.com/CCIMYtGLgF

— Andy (@alreadytaken74) July 8, 2022

yeah ppl keep saying Kieth's gonna resign next and I dunno if it's just wishful thinking or what but I don't see any reason to believe that, he might still blunder his way into becoming PM at this point xposts

the super-injunction got to daniel

it's only 21°C and folk are melting already!

It's 35 next week! Get your buckets of ice cream ready!

lol guys I'm not happy or hopeful about it! if anything him winning is worse than another tory govt.

the wishful thinking is what I'm accusing the "Keith's gonna resign" crowd of, it's not on my part

hm

Ash Sakar was on newsnight just now, Kirsty Wark asked her opinion about today's news, she started saying that it was undemocratic that the future of our country was being currently decided at a spectator garden party, Kirsty almost shouted over her to get her to shut up.

― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Gordon Brown wasn't elected either. 3 of the last five PMs have not gone to the nation first to get elected to the top job. The next one isn't doing so either and I expect the coming crises with inflation or climate to ensure this pattern continues.

I want Kieth to be PM because if you don't vote for him then you are a TORY ENABLER and he's a human rights lawyer + a top bloke.

Ash Sarkar made everyone else on the news look bad (and old, and irrelevant).

The UK media is happy to spend hours interviewing Con MPs, about Con MPs, then finally, for a break, cut to some vox pops with Con voters.

It's true that those vox-pop exceptions who say nasty things about the PM are welcome relief and admirable (I only see them in online clips).

The media is not able or willing to comprehend the idea of asking socialists or people with sensible ideas about what is going on or what should happen. Sarkar's politics are unfathomable to Newsnight and everyone on it, though much about them appears common sense to many of us.

I've got a lingering feeling Boris will try to stay on beyond October under the pretext of some kind of national emergency - I mean, there's bound to be one the way things are going.

100%

this mf’er is gonna cling to power by any means necessary

If he had Cummings around I would've have said that for sure. Not sure who he's got around him rn to work anything out.

place yr bets now: covid surge / national strike / britain unleashes nuclear arsenal on moscow

too shit to even organise a tesco value Jan 6, his followers would all be grumbling that they couldn't find anywhere to park in London.

They will just keep laughing at us.

The @BBCPolitics Time Lords had plenty to talk about at @TheSpectator Summer Party last night. All agree the new Dr - @ChrisMasonBBC - is doing a brilliant job pic.twitter.com/J1UCVqvNZi

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) July 8, 2022