"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Whomst among us is not feet up looking at Ghanaian pallbearer gifs today

@RMTunion pic.twitter.com/VTPgxeZKZM

— James Wells (@jameswells83) July 6, 2022

Brandon Lewis has gone, I'd heard of him at least.

Extraordinary

Nadhim Zahawi today told Boris Johnson he should resign

Tomorrow he's agreed to launch a new economic plan alongside Boris Johnson in a bid to shore up his leadership according to @SkyNews

Today is bewildering by any metric

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) July 6, 2022

LOL Gove sacked.

What a waste

it would be funny if it wasn't so bad

so funny

he's still going to PM at xmas isn't he

He'd have been better off keeping Gove where he could see him, instead of sending him off to squat in his lair and plan, plan, plan

I mean Gove should have resigned and heaped more pressure on, idk why he would say to Johnson to go and then expect to keep his job.

Guessing he’s going to sack Priti next.

(xxp) Xmas 2030.

Michael Gove has been sacked by Boris Johnson.

A No 10 source told the BBC: "You cannot have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully briefs the press that he has called for the leader to go." https://t.co/Iv4swpH9T5

— i newspaper (@theipaper) July 6, 2022

a bad day for fans of being "levelled up"

Rumour has it Gove left Sarah Vine for a man and has been laying low ever since.

"I res-"
"Youfired" *hangs up*

is how it sounds like that went down

xp Gove’s sexuality is perhaps not in the million things wrong with him

BBC4 totally coincidentally showing a documentary about the downfall of Thatcher right now

lol

This is the action of a Prime Minister who is no longer acting rationally. This isn’t funny any more. https://t.co/DhXMcezI5R

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) July 6, 2022

giving Gove the boot is at least one of his top three moments as PM, of course it's funny. Well at least for a few minutes.

Dan Hodges "This isn't funny any more but at least it's better than Corbyn eh?"

we can only hope that mobs of rampaging Boris ultras turn on the media class and tear them limb from limb

I am trying to get good American poster felicity, who knows a lot about uk politics, to post on here.

I was saying how good this thread is especially when shit is happening, or as she put it “come for the lemons, stay for the snakes”.

Oh also my classic ukpol thread meme dn is from her

He should try and do a version of the 6th Jan riots.

MP very close to PM says: "It’s over.. [but] he thinks in classical terms, for him there is no greater honour in resigning than being killed... if you are going to die, go down fighting"

— Chris Smyth (@Smyth_Chris) July 6, 2022

i'm sure he's just thinking about the sunk cost of that wallpaper

absolutely brutal panel on newsnight

- peter bone
- thangam debbonaire
- somebody from the no. 10 policy unit

peter bone pulls off the "how dare you even ask me a question?" attitude as well as mogg, sure we'll be seeing a lot more of him over the next few decades of tory rule

somebody from the no. 10 policy unit
She is Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice.

Lol @ this nonsense.

Outside of the political fun, this is so depressing. Most if not all the ministers in the levelling up department have gone. There’s great big gaping policy black holes everywhere. God alone knows what’s going on with the chancellor. We’re effectively without a government

— Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) July 6, 2022

RESIGNED: Wales Secretary Simon Hart pic.twitter.com/of4pYr9b5N

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 6, 2022

jfc

@Peston
: A number of your colleagues have wondered if you have thought about standing?

@SuellaBraverman
: I’ll be honest with you, Robert. Yes, I will.

How’s she going to stand if she’s supporting him?

she's said he should go apparently

"A number of colleagues have wondered if you'd like to....cut open the PM's head and feast on the goo inside."

Braverman: "Yes I would Bobbo"

So when I saw the footage of the last cabinet meeting and thought I saw the late Brian Clough sitting there it was actually Simon Hart. That's cleared that up at least.

Come on Boris, sack Braverman before midnight!

He should have Nadine Dorries cloned to fill every position, it's not like it will make a difference!

hope he stays on at least another week or two however he manages it

Yes, this is the most enteraining thing to happen in UK politics since John Prescott punched a farmer.

the longer he stays, the more damage to the party, which is great stuff. a shame there's nobody much better out there to take advantage of this, but you can't have it all I suppose.

I do not watch programmes like NEWSNIGHT and PESTON, but tonight I did, and on PESTON the Braverman one, still in post, said live on air that the PM should go and then stated that she would stand to be PM.

The staginess, obvious perhaps, is worth noting - she must have planned to do this once she agreed to go on the programme; more than that, that's probably why she went on the programme; more than that, the programme makers knew that.

There's a lot of Boorstin's 'pseudo-event' around. THE DAY TODAY'S artificial war was a fictional example I suppose, nearly 30 years ago.

I add that the moment ms Braverman was asked about standing for PM she changed her mode and started saying 'I love this country ... my parents came here as refugees' -- ie: into a crass, fake, smarmy campaigning mode that she did not seem comfortable with herself. I'd say 'It felt very American' but I suppose we are now proving bad enough at this garbage ourselves.

The programme then announced that ms Braverman's interview on the programme had had a big impact on Twitter.

Braverman’s “I’ll be honest with you Robert - yes I would. I love this country” was absolute bliss. God I hope he was watching that. Xp

Real dearth of WhatsApp group leaks today, though

Looking forward to tomorrow's episode of The Death of Britain already

"I saw the late Brian Clough sitting there it was actually Simon Hart"

he looks like someone with a very Cloughie attitude to moderating how many units of alcohol you drink before breakfast!

Low-hanging fruit here and I know U.S. politics is just baffling from outside, but I still rofl'd.

Every tweet out of the UK right now is like "Daniel Waddingham has turned in his Mustn't Slip. That brings the number of resignations to 2,742 this afternoon. Boris Johnson has sacked the Minister of Beans on Toast, but refuses to personally step down."

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 6, 2022

i didn't realise the bloke out of The Killers was in the Cabinet tbh

also if the libs are all "Boris is the new Trump" i can't wait to see who's the new useless cunt that comes after him and does nothing

Bravermann (than I) chucked hat in on Peston, etc as said above, went on about fighting against Wokeness and people getting fired for expressing opinions etc.

I guess that's where her priorities lie.

She might win, if nobody else runs for office.

Kieth’s ready xp