The fall of the Tory party

Third time exitting the Cabinet.
Why are such poor quality people allowed to litter the backbenches,
for, potentially a couple of generations?
3 strikes and you're out?
Williamson needs to be told to resign from Westminster.

Good, the tosser.

Maybe he’ll heed his own advice and shut up and go away (with his nice little pay off for having been a minister for a week or so)

Back to Suella now please.

Resigned but he's still an MP. These folk are teflon

Still has full support of the Prime Minister lol

Wages earned £2589, severance £16,876.
Paid by us to the grifting cunts.

Sweet grift

Listened to Londongrad, right?

Why are such poor quality people allowed to litter the backbenches,

Because people keep voting for them.

I haven’t but I probably should

I don’t recall being asked for, hmm, quite some time

Shambles.

There has been a resignation or sacking of government minister or whip every 3.9 days of 2022 so far. 80 in total.

Not my pun but….

….Gavisgone.

Resigned but he's still an MP.

The argument here is that his constituents put him there and that while the government can sack him from government, they could kick him out of the party, but they can't just stop him being his constituency's MP. There may be a gap in the system and processes that lets him get away with so much, but it would definitely not be a good thing if governments had even more power over MPs..

BoJo's strategy of packing the Lords lives on, including some of the youngest nominations.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/08/who-has-boris-johnson-nominated-for-peerages

But, hang on:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/08/tory-mps-nominated-for-peerages-to-delay-accepting-them

Including 'Go Nads' !!!!

In the short term, I could see Williamson getting a place in the Lords to shut things down.

In the short term, I could see Williamson getting a place in the Lords to shut things down.

You can still be a minister from the Lords - it's how Mandelson came back the third time round.

Asset can also mean under influence of Russian people with Kremlin connections.

The autobiography of former KGB chief Oleg Gordievsky is interesting in this regard. A lot of his early career was just taking his assets out to dinner, get them drunk and elicit tiny nuggets of info each time. There seems to have been few major scoops, mostly small pieces of the puzzles here and there that ultimately proved useful.

In that light Johnson’s unsupervised cajoling with the Lebvedebs is extremely unfortunate. Enough to call him an asset IMO.

Also, to be classified as an asset you don't have to be a full on spy. It's enough if the KGB/FSB officer is able to reclaim the dinner/champagne/escort on their expenses. I doubt the Lebvedevs will claim for each bottle of champagne Johnson drank during the visit to the villa in Italy. But I don't think it's far fetched at all to assume they were rewarded in some way or another for having had the UK foreign minister come visit.

Boris Johnson's dad wrote an actual book called Kompromat about a Tory leader bounced into a referendum of EU membership by threats to reveal Russian funding of the Tory party.

"Write about what you know"

That’s just taking the piss!

There’s a particularly good episode of Londongrad on kompromat. Can’t recommend the series highly enough.

Lebvedeb into the Lords is enough to secure Johnson’s asset status, but of course there’s much more beyond.

With “but Corbyn”, Rishi Sunk came up with a real zinger at PMQs. And that was the highlight of his performance.

Truss lasted 45 days. Is Sunak entering “hold my beer” territory? We can but hope

https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1590339003479658497?s=46&t=oBZtsnK_5CDzlHiroSn2xg

He did it in previous PMQs and the leadership election too I think. Truss turned out to be all those supposed 'fears' realised (out of control leader, fairytale policies, damaging the reputation of UK etc.) and she was heralded by many in his own current cabinet. Laughable.