Boris leadership 2019

Anne Widdecombe futanari. You're welcome.

I'm probably very glad I have no idea what futanari might be.

It’s amazing that Boris Johnson can’t even have a night at home without fucking up incredibly hard, and yet thousands of Tory voters think he’s the guy to succeed with Brexit.

It's been like an awakening.

It's like Eddie Mair said - he's just a nasty piece of work.

I wouldn't even be surprised if it turned out that, in the wake of the Mark Field incident, a focus group has found that a significant number of Tory members want a "return to the days when men were men and women knew their place" and this coverage was a way to play to that.

Boris, his team, the Tory members, the right-wing press - it wouldn't be the least ethical thing they'd done.

Except the two incidents happened within four hours of each other.

I don't mean that the incident is staged, but that the front page coverage of it in sympathetic newspapers - Mail, Express, Telegraph - might be calculated.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/23/joke-on-boris-johnson-fantasy-violence-league

tldr: high profile MPs do not guarantee constituencies receive special consideration.

'All politics is local', someone once said. The Tory leadership election is clearly about who will become Prime Minister, who will 'sort out' brexit by the 31st October, and who will lead the Tories into the next General Election, no later than June 2022. And what post is given to the loser.
But, inevitably and strangely for some residents of outer west London, these two preening ministerial failures have already ensured that that some 300,000 people are already the losers.
I'm told that the the Tory governments since 2010 have only signed off on one major hospital development per year. Read that again and note that no-one mentioned funding. Before the collapse of Carillion, each hospital scheme would be, could only be based upon PFI, with a major contractor chosen to deliver the project eventually.
The London Borough of Hillingdon has its main hospital on the outskirts of Uxbridge.
And a supplementary (ex-WW1 TB) hospital in Northwood,which the (ir)responsible NHS Trust has been trying to shut for a decade, and some services are handled by Harefield Hospital, (but this in in another different NHS Trust). And for some residents it is much easier and quicker to get to Northwick Park in LB Harrow.
Hillingdon Hospital has some modern buildings, dating from the late'60s and early '70s, but still some wards are essentially renovated Nissen Huts. The main hospital is expensive to run, and has beaten the current Chairman of the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Trust, Richard Sumray, who resigned on 30th April because he said he had not achieved his primary objectives when accepting the post three years ago to overcome the Trust’s problems with finance, its ancient buildings, staffing problems and failure to meet its A&E target times, and that therefore he stood aside to allow someone else to tackle these major problems. The Board has changed dramatically in recent months including a new Chief Executive Officer, a new Medical Director, a new Finance Director and the Chief Nurse is leaving too.
The election of Alexander dePfeffel as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip offered local politicians and the NHS Trust a way out. Brunel University, set up as Engineering-focussed, has with £9k tuition fees added Humanities courses, but retains the land originally set aside when it was planned on the '60s for a new teaching hospital. A plan was hatched. Some seed money fro central government to start the new hospital with the transfer of some services would allow some the existing rambling Hillingdon Hospital site to be sold for housing development.
Harefield Hospital, (yes, where Prof. Magdi Yacoub transformed heart surgery), might join in bringing its world class reputation, (as the proposed Harefield Mediparc has never really developped). With a high profile MP surely doors within Government would be opened.
Diligent people complied information, statistics and costs, whatever the Dept. of Health asked for, was supplied. The dossier grew thicker and received encouragement, and passed through preliminary stages. It rose to the notice of the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. It was poised to be signed off, not fully funded, but signed off. Then TMay had the Chequers meeting.
Then David Davis resigned, along with some minor brexiteur flotsam. Sensing he was losing the right to carry the TruCross of Brexit, so did Alexander dePfeffel, from his post as Foreign Secretary. In the ensuing reshuffle Jeremy Hunt gave up persecuting junior doctors and went off to taunt foreigners. The N0.2 in the Health Department was a member of the House of Lords, (showing how little talent the Tories have in Parliament) attempted to ensure there was continuity ot the handover. Matt Hancock was appointed on the 9th July 2018. Parliament soon went into Summer Recess. Somewhere during the summer of 2018 someone cleared out all the in-trays Jeremy Hunt had been working on.
Hillingdon's chance was lost.
So no new hospital for LB Hillingdon, thanks to the two contenders for the Tory leadership.

This could be chaos

Hardly any more chaotic than it has already been.

Just is it Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil?

I thought he had to be elected PM by the Commons first and wouldn't just become PM by becoming Tory leader?

In that case, if there are enough votes to express no confidence in him, why would the Commons elect him as PM in the first place?

^That's why May has mentioned staying on as PM until her replacement can "command the confidence of the house", so Johnson may win, but be unable to replace May.

Ha, what fun. Imagine a no-confidence vote against May every week. Every week without fail it fails. Sorry, Charles, I mean Mr Johnson.

Doesn't say anything about the PM having to be elected by the house of commons here:

https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/government-opposition/

Thanks, I had never looked it up, just assumed that must be the case (as it probably is in the vast majority of parliaments around the world).

Also:

The Times reported that Johnson’s 1995 Toyota Previa people carrier, which had three parking tickets and a mocking flyer on its windscreen, had been parked outside the flat before being driven away. Another neighbour told the newspaper: “It’s got loads of parking tickets on it. He just leaves it here. He doesn’t care.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/23/boris-johnson-more-neighbours-confirm-tear-up-with-partner-carrie-symonds

Yeah, officially ours gets "appointed by the Queen".

How democratic.

Come to think of it, I'm sure I used to know that, but I'd completely forgotten.

We done this tweet from David Lammy?

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1142694311647203328

When I called out @BorisJohnson's links with hard right, white supremacist Steve Bannon in April, Johnson branded it a "Lefty delusion".

Here is proof on tape. Steve Bannon helped write your resignation speech. You are a pathological liar, unfit to serve.

2010:

"I think it's outrageous - this mentality of clobbering the motorist.
Ken Livingstone is like that dragon in the Hobbit, Smaug, and he's
surrounded by a huge mountain of fines".

Interesting piece on the Oxford connection

https://amp.ft.com/content/85fc694c-9222-11e9-b7ea-60e35ef678d2

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The main problem with all of these scandals mounting up, as Trump has shown, is that if you only cause more and more scandals, none of them will loom that large, and people will quickly accept them as the new normal.