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Boris will ride this out
No he won’t. The reason he’s in this shit is because the press have it in for him, and the press have it in for him because they want him gone and replaced with whatever head of whatever Tory faction it is they’ve currently got the horn for.
As per usual, the Tory party is inflicting its internal machinations on the entire country and pretending like it’s some kind of organic politics that’s happening.
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Very much this; it's all very carefully planned. There's an element of night of the long knives where they're settling some scores either to weaken bids for the leadership or just to damage people but the main target is Boris.
When Trump was elected I was pessimistic but thought he might surprise me and that self-interest and national-interest might coincide (obvs not). The Tory party doesn't even give me the feeling that there's a chance that they might surprise me, except in a bad way. The UK feels like it's going to have a rough ride before things get better (assuming the opposition doesn't totally fuck it all up).
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He's certainly trying to (and will continue to try to) ride this out but I'm not sure it's achievable this time....Actually, weirdly, going combative 'no one likes or trusts me, I don't care' 'yep, I'm a liar....ooo is that a lie?' might be his only chance of surviving!
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Pasty_Spumante
Boris will ride this out. 80% of the population will go (in their heads) “we had a few beers with mates when we shouldn’t have done - and Boris wasn’t even at the parties being investigated”
He’ll crack out another baby or marriage to distract and it will all blow over once he deflects the relevant decision onto Whitty and cancels family get togethers for Christmas (Phouar!)