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Yup

I want Johnson to stay to see him lose his seat

I can't imagine how much lower he can stoop but I'm morbidly curious to see him stay and try

Call the GE Boris!!!!

Mind you, he might just be bonkers enough to stay. The rules allow him to. They don't have a mechanism for removing him.

That would be a night to remember.

Yup. I'm enjoying seeing this disintegration but not enjoying anticipating the
'new improved' Conservative party, moving forward, getting things done etc

'strong and stable'? Aka 'weak and wonky'.

lol, blue on blue

Perhaps he could just spare us all the pretence of democracy and appoint himself to all the cabinet roles
Then he can blame the electorate that it’s their fault and they should stop trusting themselves and leave all the big calls to him

Here we go, car crash incoming

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fyp4tzfgjnf5j5w/Video%2005-07-2022%2C%2022%2016%2032.mov?dl=0

At least she’s scandal free
Yes?
I don’t know
To my shame i have no idea who she is

I think we should all go to the gates of No. 10 and cheer for Boris. Persuade him to stay on. Sing "We'll meet again" and the Dambusters theme.

Fuck no. Get rid ASAP. Would prefer some adults in charge of the country (even tory ones) to these cunts. Tories still have all their 12 years of shit to own - brexit, cost of living.
Still plenty of opportunity to get them out at the next election

This is magnificent

https://twitter.com/russincheshire/status/1544362686728790017?s=24&t=l_vodKumFVHuZfrJ-ewHIQ

Wasn't this from The Thick Of It? She's so far down the list of candidates for any role, nobody has gotten round to vetting her yet.

The state of you lot worrying about his successor. This party isn't going to be fixed by one turd being flushed. They will continue to be a shambles.

An election winning shambles though, that's the worry

I bet the new Chancellor gives us all a cost of living bung by the end of the day.

More likely they’ll cut CGT for themselves and their cronies. I wonder whether they know they have a limited shelf life and will just hack bits off the carcass of government where they can.

Take what they can get while they can…

It might be an obvious point, but I still want to savour it:

Johnson's government has an absolutely thumping majority. They've ruled through a tumultuous period of global disruption. Yet they are being felled by events 100% of their own making.

You almost wonder whether Big Dog "got all the big calls right" Johnson is the strategic 4D-thinking political genius we think he is.

So why was this Pincher dude considered a talent in the first place? Even if you take away the sexual harassment, he sounds like an all round useless person.

Amazing listening to Paul Drechsler on R4. When asked about tax cuts he said that feeding the poorest and axing the PM should be the priorities.

Paraphrasing; "You don't change the CFO you change the CE"

Beautiful.

Some attention being drawn to the fact that Zahawi bought his constituency home using a loan company in Gibraltar and is heavily rumoured to be a non dom until relatively recently.

Edit: the Gibraltar loan schemes are something that HMRC have been trying to crack down on for ten years or so.

Ah fuck. Minister who recently warned universities off the Race Equality Charter because pipe down, there's no such thing as institutional racism, stop going on about it. Someone to maintain the culture wars. Wonderful.

More shots fired

well done @willquince - we are now entering the stage where it will be almost impossible for Boris Johnson to replace and fill his ministry positions - Nadine Dorries will have to start doubling up -

https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1544585945646866432