Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Politics
Original poster

Rishi and Savid both resigned

216 replies

Jenasaurus · 05/07/2022 18:20

On LBC now

OP posts:
DazzlePaintedBattlePants · 05/07/2022 20:54

I don’t reckon a Tory majority is a dead cert, certainly come winter when the full magnitude of the shitness of Brexit, price rises and fuel prices kick in.

Provenceinthesummer · 05/07/2022 20:53

Let’s hope Labour is ready as I can see Boris winning again

Vegansausageroll · 05/07/2022 20:52

Steven Barclay as new health secretary Shock

Provenceinthesummer · 05/07/2022 20:51

Starmer announced LP ready for a snap election

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 05/07/2022 20:47

Firstly I'm by a billion miles no Tory lover voter or defender. However it's all well and good cheering and doing a merry dance and hoping Boris will be next but who replaces them. Do you think they'll do a superior job and miraculously solve everyone's problems and worries.
We have another Election for what ? The Tories to just get back in.
Even if Labour does get in I doubt anything will change. All parties are pretty much of muchness.

FourTeaFallOut · 05/07/2022 20:46

I wonder how many jobs ND and DR will have in the morning?

Rabbitholedigger · 05/07/2022 20:45

"Leaving Johnson with a diminishing pool of possible replacements. Sunak has done one so that he does not have to face the pile of steaming shit of an economy for which he is responsible for and Jabbit is an opportunist who wants a go at being PM."

And this annoys me. There is a war in Europe, we are heading towards recession, we are just scraping through a pandemic, strikes, cost of living crisis and now this.

Fuck them and them doing this for self serving reasons.

theworldhas · 05/07/2022 20:43

I want Liz Truss

As a Labour voter so do I. She comes across as at once thick as shit and slightly unhinged. Quite the combination. Can’t think of anyone better to usher in a period of sensible majority Labour government.

GG1986 · 05/07/2022 20:41

Good, he is a total arsehole!

theworldhas · 05/07/2022 20:40

The public gave Johnson and his government of dumb sycophants a huge majority just a couple of years ago. It should be respected and he should be given the time to deliver on the country’s wishes.

SarahShorty · 05/07/2022 20:39

Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 18:49

I.e. threw a 'scary' word into the conversation and can't defend (or define) what I said.

Thanks for the clarification, and have a good evening!

Show quote history

There were no scary words at all. You're just just bloody rude. There is a lot to unpack and anything I say will just get torn to pieces anyway. Why should I bother? I'm going to avoid this part of Mumsnet from now on.

EmmaH2022 · 05/07/2022 20:28

People have funny ideas

mum just said to me "haven't they wrecked their careers doing that?"

maybe BJ has even more dictatorial power than I thought!

ElbowGreaseLightning · 05/07/2022 20:26

Boris is toast. If Raab, Truss and Dorres want careers post Boris they will resign tonight too.

panachronic · 05/07/2022 20:18

Leaving Johnson with a diminishing pool of possible replacements. Sunak has done one so that he does not have to face the pile of steaming shit of an economy for which he is responsible for and Jabbit is an opportunist who wants a go at being PM. Sadly, IMO, nothing will change. Johnson ain't going nowhere but will simply limp on to the next GE.

user1471538283 · 05/07/2022 20:18

@LillyDeValley - I do apologise fellow Mumsnetters I dont know which way is up!

pigsDOfly · 05/07/2022 20:16

PlanetNormal · 05/07/2022 19:53

Nope.

He can refuse to resign, stay put in Number 10 and defy his party’s MPs to force him from office. And that is exactly what I expect him to do.

Show quote history

^^ This.

I can't see him going anywhere either.

He feels he was born to be PM and he'll cling on as long as he possibly can regardless of what's happening around him.

pastabest · 05/07/2022 20:15

Bollindger · 05/07/2022 19:13

I like Boris, but I really do think he should resign, and say it is on the grounds of ill health, as he was down with something last month as well.
This would allow who ever takes over 2 years of settling in, I want Liz Truss.
If he was offered a place in the Lords I think he might go. and then he would still be around but out of harms way.

Cowardice isn't an illness.

ApplesandBunions · 05/07/2022 20:10

Jonathan Gullis too.

usernamenotaccepted · 05/07/2022 20:01

Others are going as well? Junior members apparently.

takeitandleaveit · 05/07/2022 19:59

Well well well.

Bet that spoiled Boris' afternoon tea and biscuits.

notanotheroneagain · 05/07/2022 19:58

PeekAtYou · 05/07/2022 18:55

Correction.
Just watched her on video running into number 10. He's going to make her Chancellor isn't he?

Well, Bojo has the brass neck.
So it's either her, the next Mrs BJ or Carrie.

3amAndImStillAwake · 05/07/2022 19:56

I cant remember a chancellor ever resigning so this is bad news for Boris.

Javid did. He loves resigning.

SnowyLamb · 05/07/2022 19:55

user1471538283 · 05/07/2022 19:38

I cant remember a chancellor ever resigning so this is bad news for Boris. It is rats leaving a sinking ship.

Like that tory backbencher said months ago "for God's sake just go".

Nigel Lawson resigned. Margaret Thatcher survived another year...

PlanetNormal · 05/07/2022 19:53

atomicnotsoblonde · 05/07/2022 18:25

Finally, this has to be the final countdown. He HAS to go - and go now.

Nope.

He can refuse to resign, stay put in Number 10 and defy his party’s MPs to force him from office. And that is exactly what I expect him to do.

lovescats3 · 05/07/2022 19:51

The whole cabal need to go

Swipe left for the next trending thread