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Johnson has fired Gove

317 replies

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/07/2022 21:18

Couldn't have happened to a nicer chap.

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Onacuctustree · 06/07/2022 23:15

Martin Lewis getting cross.. All of us are screwed if he doesn't go.

RobynNora · 06/07/2022 23:16

Very much not a Tory but this is a loss. Gove was a highly effective Housing Secretary. The housing developers hate him as he held them to account on flammable cladding. Even the lefty New Statesman recently wrote about how good he was as housing sec.

PolkaDotMankini · 06/07/2022 23:17

I bet Carrie's furious that the press and the protestors are making so much noise that they're keeping the kids awake.

babybythesea · 06/07/2022 23:20

DPotter · 06/07/2022 21:21

Just how are they going to get that man out of No 10?

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Johnson has fired Gove
Penguintears · 06/07/2022 23:21

Do we know what set this off at this point? Why are they all resigning now inside of when Partygate happened? What has changed?

takeitandleaveit · 06/07/2022 23:21

ParsleySageRosemary · 06/07/2022 23:10

I really don’t know what all the talk is about the Queen this that and the other is nowadays. She is old and not well, with preparations going ahead for succession. Plus the queen taking any action would force a crisis of its own. Maybe if someone much younger were on the throne they would take more risks, but the monarchy has been obsolete for a couple of centuries. It would be a risk to change that now.

Any new PM goes to see the Queen asks her permission to form a government. I suspect that constitutionally speaking, if a PM is resigning, then they would tell Her Maj first.

She has the power to dissolve Parliament. If she had a quiet word in his shell-like and told him to go, then he'd go.

Penguintears · 06/07/2022 23:21

instead

ChicCroissant · 06/07/2022 23:22

LovelyRaita · 06/07/2022 22:44

BBC news team hanging on in there desperately hoping Carrie will come steaming out of the front door with a wheelie suitcase like the third-to-last Apprentice candidate.

Thank you for the opportunity, Lord Sugar ...

Bonus points if she sails down the street on one of the kid's Trunki's!

HollowTalk · 06/07/2022 23:23

Ncwinc · 06/07/2022 23:12

never knew there were so many ministers. Skills minister….Equalities minister….Safeguarding minister

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Biscuits minister or something.

It’s like clowns getting out of a tiny car. Just when you think they must be done, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up pops out of the mini.

I wish there was a like button.

RedToothBrush · 06/07/2022 23:24

Peter Bone and Michael Fabricant are going to be called to No10 to take Cabinet Rolls soon, just to make the farce get even better.

DirectionToPerfection · 06/07/2022 23:24

Penguintears · 06/07/2022 23:21

Do we know what set this off at this point? Why are they all resigning now inside of when Partygate happened? What has changed?

Google Chris Pincher.

minou123 · 06/07/2022 23:26

RedToothBrush · 06/07/2022 23:24

Peter Bone and Michael Fabricant are going to be called to No10 to take Cabinet Rolls soon, just to make the farce get even better.

That's not true, is it?

Please tell me you've made that up. Please. Please. Please. I beg you

Justthisonceharold · 06/07/2022 23:26

It's all a bit like Trump isn't it...

www.facebook.com/SteeltechSheds/videos/1798740466969072/

ChicCroissant · 06/07/2022 23:26

takeitandleaveit · 06/07/2022 22:50

The Beeb has lately been having to deal with the shitshow of Nadine being culture secretary. I don't think the Tories are flavour of the month with Auntie just now!

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She'll be the only minister who'll go on the TV tomorrow to support him at this rate, that should be an interesting interview on the BBC.

echt · 06/07/2022 23:28

I wonder if "Dead Ringers" have time to re-jig their Friday night slot on Radio 4 to take this in?

It would be a blinder Grin

CheshireCat1 · 06/07/2022 23:28

Nothing has changed, everyone is pretending that they’ve just realised that Boris is a habitual liar. They’ve all been covering his back for years. Shame on the lot of them.

Jadebanditchillipepper · 06/07/2022 23:29

This just shows the level of self interest that there is in the Tory party. If the likes of Sajid Javid had ANY integrity, they would have resigned long ago

EmmaH2022 · 06/07/2022 23:29

DirectionToPerfection · 06/07/2022 23:24

Google Chris Pincher.

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There must be more to it than that.

PolkaDotMankini · 06/07/2022 23:29

SnottyLottie · 06/07/2022 23:12

I wonder if Carrie is trying to salvage her designer wallpaper?

HIGNFY think she is 😂

Johnson has fired Gove
eurochick · 06/07/2022 23:30

echt · 06/07/2022 23:28

I wonder if "Dead Ringers" have time to re-jig their Friday night slot on Radio 4 to take this in?

It would be a blinder Grin

I was just thinking that the Radio 4 comedy is writing itself here! There is almost too much material.

ParsleySageRosemary · 06/07/2022 23:30

takeitandleaveit · 06/07/2022 23:21

Any new PM goes to see the Queen asks her permission to form a government. I suspect that constitutionally speaking, if a PM is resigning, then they would tell Her Maj first.

She has the power to dissolve Parliament. If she had a quiet word in his shell-like and told him to go, then he'd go.

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She uses it when she’s told to. The royal family has no real power and if they suddenly assumed it again there will be many who would be very very unhappy. We are supposed to be a democracy, as Johnson himself claims. The idea of the royal family assuming power would have been unthinkable from the 1970s through to 2010 and I don’t know where the change is coming from.

Nor do I think Johnson would come or go at her beck and call, if he hasn’t after all these resignations and pressure.

PolkaDotMankini · 06/07/2022 23:33

I enjoyed this tweet from Iceland.

Johnson has fired Gove
Talisin · 06/07/2022 23:33

GuyFawkesDay · 06/07/2022 21:37

I keep picturing Boris as Kenneth Williams's Caesar shrieking "infamy, infamy, they've all got in in for me!"

I’m imagining Nadine doing the unrolled-from-a-rug Amanda Barrie/Cleo entrance now…

Penguintears · 06/07/2022 23:34

EmmaH2022 · 06/07/2022 23:29

There must be more to it than that.

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Sounds like it could be the last straw of a mountain of lies. Do we know what the inappropriate behaviour of Chris Pincher allegedly was?

blacksax · 06/07/2022 23:41

ParsleySageRosemary · 06/07/2022 23:30

She uses it when she’s told to. The royal family has no real power and if they suddenly assumed it again there will be many who would be very very unhappy. We are supposed to be a democracy, as Johnson himself claims. The idea of the royal family assuming power would have been unthinkable from the 1970s through to 2010 and I don’t know where the change is coming from.

Nor do I think Johnson would come or go at her beck and call, if he hasn’t after all these resignations and pressure.

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We are a monarchy, not a republic. The reigning monarch has far more power than people realise. It doesn't need to be used - the potential for it to be used is enough. Bit like the nuclear deterrent, really.

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