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Rishi and Savid both resigned

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Jenasaurus · 05/07/2022 18:20

On LBC now

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Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 19:51

ApplesandBunions · 05/07/2022 19:47

They won't believe him, he'd lose his own seat if he tried that now.

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I hope so!

lovescats3 · 05/07/2022 19:50

Music to my ears

LillyDeValley · 05/07/2022 19:49

@user1471538283 Sajid Javid resigned as Chancellor in February 2020.

I do agree that to lose both him and Sunak now means he is likely to go.

If he goes I wonder who Javid and Sunak have agreed will go for PM and have the other as chancellor?

notanotheroneagain · 05/07/2022 19:48

Matty is looking, waiting for the phone to ring as we speak. He'll jump at the opportunity of a mother of a comeback.

mobile.twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1013786371096547328

Rishi and Savid both resigned
ApplesandBunions · 05/07/2022 19:47

Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 19:42

I think he threatens a snap election to keep control of Tory MPs.

They won't believe him, he'd lose his own seat if he tried that now.

Ori1 · 05/07/2022 19:47

Am I missing something here…… it’s a game to perpetuate the Tory party. Both these Snr officials are Bojo loyalists, so it’s clearly not the cause for celebration that people seem to think it is.

Booklover3 · 05/07/2022 19:45

As far as I'm concerned they are both complicit in this shit show and should be nowhere near Parliament. The lot of them should be sacked.

flapjackfairy · 05/07/2022 19:45

I fear the rest of them will back him and he will carry on business as usual. The man has made a pact with the devil and seems untouchable.
Really hope I am wrong !

Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 19:42

I think he threatens a snap election to keep control of Tory MPs.

MrsMigginsCat · 05/07/2022 19:40

I want him to carry on. The longer he stays, the more unelectable the Tories are. However, my personal prediction is that he will call a snap election - the Fixed Term Parliaments Act has been repealed I believe - and those fuckers will win again.

LimonataRocks · 05/07/2022 19:40

Tory vice chair Bim Afolami also resigned now...

Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 19:39

3amAndImStillAwake · 05/07/2022 19:33

He's probably right.

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The thing is, he has no ideological supporters because he has no fixed beliefs beyond that he deserves to be PM.

So his only appeal as Party leader is that he will win the election.

Anything that questions that breaks up his coalition of support

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".

3amAndImStillAwake · 05/07/2022 19:33

limitededitionbarbie · 05/07/2022 19:32

Boris probably thinks this will all blow over in a week or two and he will be back to normal as per usual by the end of the month.

He's probably right.

limitededitionbarbie · 05/07/2022 19:32

Boris probably thinks this will all blow over in a week or two and he will be back to normal as per usual by the end of the month.

Thereluctantgrownup · 05/07/2022 19:32

Off you fuck Boris... we're all sick of you 🙄

NotMyselfWithoutCoffee · 05/07/2022 19:31

We're fucked.

SnowyLamb · 05/07/2022 19:31

AdamRyan · 05/07/2022 19:20

He can't call a snap election can he? We have the fixed term parliament act....

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I thought the FTP Act was repealed ...by Boris himself?

hatchyu · 05/07/2022 19:25

OMG

Provenceinthesummer · 05/07/2022 19:22

ErrolTheDragon · 05/07/2022 19:19

Given all the shit which is happening in the country/world, actually now might be a canny (if reprehensible) time to dump it on Labour.

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The only problem with your idea is that Labour almost certainly will not and cannot win! They aren’t going to inherit anything.

Johnson will win, and he will have a fresh mandate from the people and the BS in the party will be stilled once again.

SisyphusDad · 05/07/2022 19:21

I suspect that the only ones resigning will be those with some hope of a new job in a future government. That cuts out most of the current lot, from Patel, Truss and Raab down. Their only attribute for government is no-brain loyalty to Johnson.

AdamRyan · 05/07/2022 19:20

Zone2NorthLondon · 05/07/2022 19:13

Boris will absolutely NOT resign. He will call and win a snap election
hes too bullish and vain to resign, he has the BBC cowed they never challenge him no right wing press will go after Labour Party. Unfortunately BJ bluster and confidence seem to appeal to a large amount of electorate. He will campaign by casting aspersions of the unions, stoking an anti public sector feeling and whip up hysteria about public sector strikes

He can't call a snap election can he? We have the fixed term parliament act....

Provenceinthesummer · 05/07/2022 19:19

runner Johnson doesn’t need anyone else to call a GE - he may already have done so for all we know. He simply needs to inform the Queen.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/07/2022 19:19

SnowyLamb · 05/07/2022 19:05

No Conservative is going to call a GE now. Surely they wouldn't be that stupid.

Given all the shit which is happening in the country/world, actually now might be a canny (if reprehensible) time to dump it on Labour.

Runnerbeansflower · 05/07/2022 19:18

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.

Why do you like him?

This is not a dig, I genuinely can't understand, but he obviously has mass appeal so I want to understand

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