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The reshuffle will be interesting. He's got a lot of licklespits to promote now.

Nadine Dorries for Deputy PM.

Chancellor surely

My money's on head of the intelligence services

He's got a lot of licklespits to promote now.

He doesn't. Almost everybody who voted for him is already on the payroll.

Could he call a GE if Wakefield goes badly/as expected?

tynan rejoins LFGSS.

I just skim read this thread because I much prefer to bury my head in the sand than think about the billion issues I can't fix. But I'd vote for this one.

Surely he'd only do this if it went very well?

That's what they want you to think...

winky nose touch.

52.1 degrees in Kuwait yesterday:

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1533939288810803201

Helpful info graphic https://showyourstripes.info/c/globe

winky nose touch.

That'll be the cocaine again. Michael does manage to get hold of the good stuff, doesn't he?

"My MP's voted for me overwhelmingly in the recent Confidence Vote, now it's time to once again receive a mandate from the great British Public to level up, get Brexit Done, and Make Britain Great Again".

"We propose to do this by burning Trans people at the stake"

I wouldn't be surprised if they're not about to throw a dead or semi-dead cat on the table to try and distract from this mess - something along the lines of the Rwanda deportation thing.

BBC privatisation and abolish the licence fee? Mad Nad is very keen to help...

I reckon they won't want to distract from the "victory". He got more votes than the leadership campaign, he's even more popular than he was. He got way more votes than Starmer did, that's a mandate to lead the country if ever I saw one.

Yeah I get that, but if the by elections go badly that doesn't really fit.

If he wins them (even as narrowly as the confidence bid) I wouldn't be surprised.

Only if you think that it's useful to compare % between results in a two horse race and results in a one horse race.

(I know you're being sarcastic)

39.4C (103F) in Austin TX yesterday, and July is usually the hottest month.

Yeah I get that, but if the by elections go badly that doesn't really fit.

If he wins them (even as narrowly as the confidence bid) I wouldn't be surprised.

Would the Tory party push to remove the sitting PM during an election campaign?

For Johnson it's all about survival - whatever it takes to keep Big Dog in number 10.

But why? This is what I genuinely don't get.

He looks knackered and fed up all the time. It can't really be fun being him at the moment, can it?

Genuinely can't work out his motivation.

It's like all these fuckers, they JUST WANT TO WIN, to the exclusion of everything else. Not just politicians, applies to billionaires, media stars, etc etc.

Genuinely can't work out his motivation.

I've often wondered about this. I imagine he'd have loved to have been able to swan around Davos, being in the room with the billionaires and presidents, hosting G7 events and being in all the photos.

A nice quiet time as PM for a few years would have been infinitely preferable yet he's gone out of his way to make all that impossible. If he wanted to tick the box marked 'PM', I'm pretty sure he would eventually have been able to even without Brexit for example.

Genuinely can't work out his motivation.

He's spent most of his life winging it, not putting in the effort and conning people with charm and bluster. Don't think he has another strategy and he may still think it will work in the end because it always has up till now.

True, you would have to be a bit of a duplicitous dick to do that
https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesCleverly/status/1533904680262197250

Even Gavin Barwell says that was a shit tactic, and he was instrumental in doing almost the same after Theresa May's vote.