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

Koreans like to be dramatic.

From what I understand, the vengeance tends to be personal but not necessarily institutionally destabilizing if that is possible.

Zahawi is Kurdish but from an extremely well to do family.

Dorries was trying to portray him as someone who fought tooth and claw to get where he is today, lol he's a featherweight. Another amusing thing I read on him was some teacher saying he walked out of a Q+A at his school after he was getting owned by the kids.

Possibly also worth mentioning Sunak is married to a billionaire's daughter. Plus both his parents and Patel's came to the UK via East Africa. I don't really know of course, but I imagine these aren't the average stories of South Asian immigrants & their descendants in the UK.

Most East African Asians I know are very solid middle-class people, whether as small business owners or as professionals, or whether Sikh, Muslim or Hindu.

possibly Patel's parents were amongst those Asians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in the 70's. I'm sure I read her dad once ran as UKIP candidate or was going to and perhaps Priti persuaded him not to

No, they came just before the mass expulsions.

And I have to say they’re not all weird Tories - my best friend from that background is totally socialist with a widowed mother who became a magistrate, and one of his siblings runs Tell Mama; the other runs an anti-terror charity set up after she was injured on 7/7.

Off to put a rose on Liz D’s bench in Queen Square. 17 unbelievable years ago!

oh no I didn't mean to imply they're all weird Tories! I apologize for that

Zahawi's previous life as a Teletubbies-tat salesman is the only, even slightly amusing thing art him

Lol

EXCL: Boris Johnson and wife Carrie are planning big wedding bash at Chequers within weeks - with sources saying it's part of reason he wants to stay as caretaker. https://t.co/oUSLeGs4Ed

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 7, 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!