Boris Johnson and the cabinet of curiosities Thread 8

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Hope you feel better soon, just be careful not to laugh too much. Think of your stitches.

Zahawi /Truss is like two baldies fighting over a bad wig. Zahawi had a successful career outside of politics he's better off jumping ship.

It's alright ancientgran I have glue that doesn't seem to want to become unstuck 🤣🤣

Absolutely agree.

He's so much better than this lot. I'll be so disappointed if he fights to stay.

Zahawi 'wins' Chancellor says Sky News

Poor decision by Zahawi - no chance of wiping off his fingerprints now.

Michelle Donelan Education Secretary

Who?

I shouldn't worry about it too much, it will be all change soon enough when we have a new Prime Minister.

All aboard the Titanic - Peter Bone and Fabricunt will be looking for scraps off Big Dog's table and Big Dog will be spattering wine over the 850 quid wallpaper and Moroccan throws whilst Carrie is on an hour-long call with Zac hardly hiding her contempt for the gross slab of lard that passes for a human being. No blowies any more small dog (Arcuri confirmed that) or anything else for that matter. Carrie get a good lawyer and keep notes.

I'm starting to think he'll wriggle out of this for now.

Donelan is chief Culture Warrior.

Maybe he thought he was completely tainted already so might as well get one of the great offices of state for a few weeks.

You think it is going to last a few weeks? Optimistic.

"Snap @YouGov poll - 54% of 2019 Tory voters think Boris Johnson should resign

And 69% of voters think he should, up 11 points from early June (but just 21% think he will)"

twitter.com/elenicourea/status/1544424280099880964?s=21&t=59rIFyEp5SDA7OWB-j8_WQ

Yeah, I think it'll be until the 1922 committee change the rules and then have another VONC. He'll do one day less than Theresa May did, because life's funny like that.

Brutal letter. Particularly the last two lines.

"Conservative MP for Telford Lucy Allan doesn’t seem especially enamoured with the new Education Secretary"

https://twitter.com/lewisgoodall/status/1544426859160641537?s=21&t=59rIFyEp5SDA7OWB-j88_WQ

"Allan and Donelan served together on the education select committee"

twitter.com/fcdwhittaker/status/1544427835200339969?s=21&t=59rIFyEp5SDA7OWB-j8_WQ

The Times turns on Boris Johnson, saying there is now "no chance" of him winning the next general election.

twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1544428100536209409?s=21&t=59rIFyEp5SDA7OWB-j8_WQ

Beth Rigby

Latest tally 9 resignations tonight. 2 cabinet, 4PPS, 1 vice chair, 2 trade envoys.

¡And it’s getting very ugly. One former cabinet minister (and not an obvious agitator) tells me tonight: “PM’s finished” When I asked how long he’s got, the MP said “a matter of days”¡

Theo Clark is the other trade envoy

I am very sad to be resigning as the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Kenya with immediate effect

Alex Chalk (Solicitor General) resignation.

twitter.com/alexchalkchelt/status/1544437737771655169?s=21&t=59rIFyEp5SDA7OWB-j8_WQ

What's Gove saying? He might be the one to tip him over the edge, and then we really have come full circle.

So I see the Daily Mail is calling Boris Johnson a greased piglet:-

She sounds delightful

Michelle Donelan to become Education Secretary. She's the MP who accused "Soviet" universities of fictionalising history by addressing colonialism
twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1544433196884004864?t=gQ4p02617IosQjj75ZjGKw&s=19

A reminder: The New Education Secretary Michelle Donelan said she wanted Holocaust Deniers to be able to effectively force universities to let them speak to students in order to ‘protect free speech’
twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1544424108888391681?t=gQ4p02617IosQjj75ZjGKw&s=19

This is good from Tom Peck:-

apple.news/ApxIoR6z0S4SzykL9D2b8wQ