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Gove-bot activated

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/06/michael-gove-boris-johnson-more-ministers-resign

Maybe he will go for that old trick of paying his wife for office admin and claim it on expenses to increase the bread in the family pot?

I'm sure he will, just as a matter of principal.

Conservative MPs say that they have heard from party whips that there are now no MPs prepared to fill the vacant positions from those who have resigned en masse.

If he can't form a cabinet then he'll have to resign, surely?

Members of the House of Lords used to be able to be in the cabinet. Don't know whether that's still possible.

On this fast-moving news day, let's not lose sight of the fact that Johnson is a massive cunt.

Chickenfeed for his wife. Probably not worth the paperwork

You don't have to be in parliament to be a minister. You can just be a civilian. I think we last had a civilian in the cabinet in WW2? Not sure.

You don't have to be in parliament to be a minister. You can just be a civilian.

Taking back control from those unelected bureaucrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Adonis,_Baron_Adonis
a recent example so I'm pretty sure still possible.

Had a quick google, and quite a few civilians have been given cabinet jobs. The convention is to give them a peerage first. No doubt Johnson has a long list of rich people who could be shoved in the House of Lords and be rock solid allies for ever.

Got to pay for the swimming pool somehow.

Crittal windows, lfgss approval stamp

Very well said

You know how wealthy he is right?

A group of cabinet ministers are about to tell the PM to resign, including the chief whip, the BBC understands.

I kind of hope this goes on for a few days and doesn't end tonight. I'm really enjoying it.

Including Zahawi apparently, lolololololol.

Notice how Gove has now got the same kudos as the ministers who've resigned, but he's still in the cabinet. Going for the Elder Statesman look. Creepy, ruthless fucker.

I kind of hope this goes on for a few days and doesn't end tonight.

I was just typing that it would be great sport if one of the ministerial replacements he appointed, then resigned. Glanced at the Guardian and saw they'd just retweeted this, which is almost as good:

Told a delegation of three cab ministers - Zahawi, Hart and Lewis (who is currently in Belfast) have made it clear to chief whip it’s time for PM to go. This trio say his position now untenable.

Zahawi, who he appointed yesterday, is now telling him to go. Mental.

https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1544705556262313984

Brilliant.

He could call it "draining the swamp"

Yes

Yep - a couple more days of wriggling would be good. After last night I fear he'll go while I'm on the ride home which would be disappointing.
Kind of hope he goes mad and calls an election.

There are 358 Conservative MPs for him to choose from, as bad as things are, he only needs 15-odd supporters out of that to make a Cabinet.

“In all my hours as Chancellor, I’ve never seen…”

Kind of hope he goes mad and calls an election.

If he can somehow get Durham to prosecute Starmer (who must then resign) and then call an election there'd be scenes.

Is he (Johnson) still in the committee? Presumably (and intentionally I imagine) he's an hour or so behind the news of what's going on