In the news

yay

He’s still campaigning.

Needed to walk off to Frank singing "My way"

just imagine if he threw his name into the hat for the leadershit campaign

the gall of it

He probably will.

so if we go to war over the summer boris is still in charge currently

searches for odds on a war

I'm having cans

Poured myself a small whiskey

When Chris Chope is the best known colleague to come to your goodbye speech...

We will fight them on the beaches. Preferably someone else's.

I bloody missed the resignation speech, as I was in a snooker club chatting about reffing.

Having read the transcript, I'm actually glad I did.

He's going to have to be sacked AGAIN because he's not wanted as caretaker

I like how at no point did he say 'I resign', 'I made a mistake', 'I apologise'....

Nope. He's wanting to hang on as long as possible and after all, in his mind he didn't do anything wrong, did he?

'Let them all calm down, they'll have me back - it's worked on so many wives before'

Good enough for Cicero/Churchill, after all.

In fairness he did have a massive mandate, and I doubt anyone has actually told him that he is shit and he keeps fucking up.

It's probably all couched in soft language. A bit like when you try and break up with someone, but do it too softly and end up with them thinking you're still together.

Haven't checked myself but apparently Sterling had a mini rally this morning at the news Johnson was going to quit, and then temporarily lost value during his resignation speech...possibly because he didn't actually resign.

Been on the rally since shit broke yesterday morning. Markets too.

Dont, how are you/we sure that the next PM wont be worse? Or that if there was a GE they wont win again? possibly with a bigger majority. If you go by the trends it has only gotten worse in terms of leadership. Zero reason to celebrate IMO. BAU.

With Tories, it is always Party before Country.
Third time since 2016, Cameron to May, May to Johnson, Johnson to ?,
a frankly not fit for purpose Prime Minister has walked away from office,
and,
the electorate has had to wait for months for a resolution.
Johnson indicating he wants to remain as PM until the party conference season.

We need a Law; Prime Minster resigns, that Party has to find a new leader within 14 days.
Failure to comply results in a General Election.

Rishi has overtaken Penny Mordaunt as the bookies' favourite, at 4/1. Steve Baker into the top ten at 12/1 https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-conservative-leader

With Tories, it is always Party before Country.

Kind of amazing considering Edmund Burke:

'Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his
judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it
to your opinion … Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from
different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain,
as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but
parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one
interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local
prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the
general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you
have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of
parliament.'

And the fact Churchill and the Tory party were previously incredibly comitted to the above.

'The first duty of a member of Parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgement is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain. His second duty is to his constituents, of whom he is the representative but not the delegate. Burke's famous declaration on this subject is well known. It is only in the third place that his duty to party organization or programme takes rank. All these three loyalties should be observed, but there in no doubt of the order in which they stand under any healthy manifestation of democracy.'

^ Winston Churchill on the Duties of a Member of Parliament.

I was watching Mr Tumble. I suspect that probably captured the mood pretty well

Yes the Tory Grandees, aristocrats and land owners are now reaping the result of the entryism of spivs, charlatans and chancers that started with the local association selection processes under Thatcher.

Overt corruption and a tidal wave of Russian money funding the 'natural party of government'.

The current situation is her legacy, for sure, but the thing she brought into the party's mainstream was ideological fanaticism; the corruption is nothing new. The ERG are her legacy. Successi very Tory leaders tried and failed to keep them in check, then Johnson did a faustian deal with them.