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Tbf, this is grim by the BBC if true, daft to put it in writing.

https://twitter.com/mariacaulfield/status/1544437241350586374

You say that like the problem is just Boris Johnson. The majority of the party supported him, they (his supporters) are all to blame equally, they knew exactly who he was. Any effort by them to represent this as an new unveiling of his incompetence is gross.

Johnson is entirely unchanged from the guy who smeared his way into City Hall as the anti-crony candidate, only to do nothing besides shag his staff and hold giveaways to his friends. And he's being doing nothing else in the public eye for at least 14 years.

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.

Cone on, you know it has nothing to do with talent, have you seen the cabinet, its about loyalty to Johnson, that's all that matters

You say that like the problem is just Boris Johnson. The majority of the party supported him, they (his supporters) are all to blame equally, they knew exactly who he was. Any effort by them to represent this as an new unveiling of his incompetence is gross.

I reckon they might have got away with that if they ousted him months ago. Not now though.

(double post)

Smells more like overly ambitious reporter rather than grim by the BBC, but pretty rubbish either way.

it has nothing to do with talent

Being a nasty, vindictive bastard who holds grudges and has a long memory is a talent. In fact this is a prerequisite to being in the Tory whips office.

If true it looks like somebody at the BBC still has a back bone.

Agree - they saw the reaction to Bim Afolami and thought they'd try to catch some of the same. It's not some concerted Corporation effort. But it will be spun as such by Johnson supporters.

(another double post - no idea what's going on here)

Fair play in the end games.

I quite like it - being happy to let them know to their faces that you have sufficiently little respect for them at this point that they're little more than a form of entertainment

Nadine has just adopted a snow leopard!

She was trying to write a resignation letter.

Next week's front pages dominated by Snow Leopard extinction...

Last month, 34% of Tory voters wanted Johnson to resign.

It is now over 50%

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/07/05/snap-poll-most-conservative-voters-now-want-boris-

46% of Tory voters still thinking he is the best man for the job is the headfuck there.

Shows the size of the head wobblers/pin-a-blue-rosette-on-a-wheelie-bin-and-I'll-vote-for-it brigade?

They'll present themselves as an entirely new party with the previous fuckups nothing to do with them though.

Johnson has done it plenty of times, anything that happened before he was PM was nothing to do with him or the Tories.

Sunak and Javid will emerge as honourable people who tried to stop him and relatedly point to their resignations as evidence of that.

That and making it clear that the only logical thing to do in these circumstances is to resign, how could you do anything else.

But shouldn't have put in writing, Nadine will be adding there name to her kill list.

They'll present themselves as an entirely new party with the previous fuckups nothing to do with them though.

I think there's a chance that Johnson will go into his bunker and call a GE next week and not give them time to do that.

Lee Anderson submits letter of no confidence stating 'integrity should always come first'.

actual lol

That would be something. He's so self-centred he might just do it. Imagine all the Tory MPs having to campaign when they've already said he should quit.

I am loving the thought of how Johnson is feeling as the resignations pile in. And knowing the 1922 is going to fuck him tonight.

I think the 1922 committee elections are next week - I got the wrong Wednesday myself above/a few pages ago.