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

ITV finished the Lorraine TV show, and have gone to ITN News.

Well, there was a "Nesquik" still for two minutes, and now they're all reporting away, but no sound.

That's gonna be popular!

Ah, sound's back. nm..

He wants to be able to say he outlasted May

Aiming high there.

Ridiculous person.

The beautiful thing is that you don't JUST loose Johnson - if he goes, Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees Mogg go too. Total BOGOF.

— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 6, 2022

Before Johnson there was this expectation of cloaking your evil in a thin veneer of politeness and good manners, now he seems to have blithely smashed that convention, and it's going to be hard to put it together again. I guess this is... good, on balance? idk.

Tory demands for him to go immediately starting to pick up, be good if the “he’s done the decent thing” lot could wake up and give us another day of infighting.

And a Q just gone in about Lebedev which got a bit lost in the noise yesterday.

Hahahaha

I can reveal what happened last night with @michaelgove. Gove gave @BorisJohnson till 9pm to resign. At 8.59pm the prime minister fired him.

— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) July 7, 2022

No surprises here, but am told it's no longer a certainty that ministers will publish the Channel 4 sale bill before recess. Having said that, the legislation is all but drafted and releasing it into the wild would not stop a new PM from ripping it up.

— Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) July 7, 2022

I guess he must have realised that if he resigns he can finally leave the wife and kids

That absolute c*nt Steve Baker talking some shit on BBC this morning, apparently even though we might vote for other parties, we're all Tories at heart, get fucked forever sonny. I bet he gets in.

I guess he must have realised that if he resigns he can finally leave the wife and kids

Cummings claims in latest Substack Boris Johnson told him in January 2020 that on account of his "fucking divorce, very expensive", and the pressure of being PM, he wanted to concentrate instead on writing his Shakespeare book. pic.twitter.com/4EG4kITZB1

— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) November 12, 2021

Good advice.

I think it’s time for a new thread for the post Boris era.

Hold on though, maybe he won't resign

like the queen this thread will never die

We're relying on you to come up with a snappy title for the new thread

all I care about is the FPN

new thread, titled with all the care and attention you've come to expect
like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

"A state led by Sunak, Gove or Truss with reforming zeal would be an unpleasant place to live. But it’s also damaging to be governed by intellectually deficient, personally ambitious, corrupt or simply uninterested ministers. Fewer ministers than ever care about their departments, as the internecine vortex of Westminster and dreams of a slot on Question Time suck in most of their attention. This has been especially true since 2016, though the problem is of longer gestation. It doesn’t entirely explain why Britain, after twelve years of Conservative government, is run-down, stagnant, expensive, underpaid, unequal, corrupt, socially fractured, backward-looking, hungry and fearful. But it doesn’t help. It will take far more than dislodging Johnson to change that."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/july/johnson-his-fall

Can we lock the thread now:

Bet y'all are wishing Jo Swinson had been the UK's next Prime Minister right about now, huh?

— Young Liberals (@YoungLiberalsUK) July 7, 2022