The one where Big Dog gets poop scooped Thread 10

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http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4584475-boris-johnson-and-the-long-road-to-nowhere-38-resignations-and-counting-thread-9

Will they do the leadership election tv gigs too ?
They were funny.

Is this real, or just fantasy

@ Suella4PM

twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1545051492679184385?t=tdnNp4Fy0F_NSCyiqJqEAA&s=19

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

OMFG.... you know I was joking earlier about Carrie screaming at Johnson that he HAD to stay as PM...

Pippa Crerar AT pippacrerar
EXCL: Boris Johnson and wife Carrie are planning big wedding bash at Chequers within weeks - with sources saying it's part of reason he wants to stay as caretaker.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-wife-carrie-host-27422792

PLEASE PLEASE let this be utterly ruined. It would be divine justice for cancelled weddings, parties and funerals...

I'd expect it to be picketed and those noisy demonstrators arrested.

They'll let him go ahead with it.

I just hope we find out who paying for it - 25/25/50 Lebedev/Brownlow/tax payer?
It won't be Johnson.

I imagine he had to promise her a big party to make up for being "distracted".

Will there be a violinist?

(Almost) unbelievable isn't it? What an absolute arse. I hope they have the day they deserve.

I don't think the party will allow him to remain in situ until the Autumn.

They know he's an utter liability and if they are going to turn public perception round they need to move quickly.

There will be a hell of a lot of horse trading going on behind the scenes right now with the key players working out what support they may have in a leadership contest.

I'm guessing there will also be pressure being put on some people not to run to reduce the field and thus the number of voting rounds.

We will see in due course, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are less candidate putting their hats in the ring than we might expect and essentially seeing only 3/4 emerging from different wings of the party.

Personally my money is on Wallace, followed by Tugendhat and Javid.

For all Mordant being popular with the grass roots, I'm not sure she's got the pull with the MP's and her stance on self id is something I think will be a liability for her (and something I think Javid in particular would use against her).

Sunak's sunk I think with it being easy to blame the cost of living crisis happening on his watch and the revelations about his wife's tax affairs.

But who knows? A party that thought Boris would be a good leader has proven it doesn't always make rationale choices....

You missed out Braverman there Bread 😉 - she's got Swayne supporting her.

Agree on the horse trading happening right now - I'd love to be listening in.

what's the smallest violin size? 1/8?

Duncintoffee that really made me laugh. Very naughty!

Ohhh so that makes sense- he’ll drag the country into financial and political chaos for however long just so he can have a massive wedding party with his wife and all their mates on 30 July at Chequers. Which is not his private property.

While so many in the country are worrying about paying for essential food and electricity and petrol. He’s an absolutely shameful disgrace.

Jo Maugham
@JolyonMaugham
Amazing that some ex-Ministers, whose term in office was measured in hours, plan to collect three months Ministerial salary from the public purse for their self-serving publicity stunts. The staggering greed.

So the Education Secretary Donelan who was appointed yesterday and resigned this morning will collect five figures. And yes, I've checked that out, and yes she is entitled to it.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/20263298.boris-johnson-spotted-job-centre-quitting-tory-leader/
'Boris Johnson' spotted at job centre after quitting as Tory leader

A wax figure of Boris Johnson has appeared outside a Lancashire job centre after he resigned as Tory leader.

Members of the public posed with the waxwork of the ex-Prime Minister, created by Madame Tussauds Blackpool, that had been positioned outside a Jobcentre Plus in the town.

The waxwork version of Mr Johnson stood grinning with his hands on his hips, dressed in a suit with a powder-blue tie and his signature messy hair.

Donelan said she will donate it to charity, as for the others, nice loyalty bonus.

The wine cellar …. At Chequers is rumoured to be mighty fine !

BJ has made me disbelieve all of them. I'd need to see proof

Brewdog launches new beer

Named the ‘ Boris Lie-PA ’, Brewdog call it a “beer fit for a work party”. The Boris Lie-PA is a resignation hazy IPA brewed to celebrate the next chapter. Weighing in at 5.5%, the beer’s crafted with oats and wheat for a full-bodied finish, pouring bright and opaque with aromas of citrus and exotic fruits. Soft, fruity, fresh and beautifully balanced, Boris Lie-PA is here for a limited time, so don’t expect this beer to out-stay its welcome…

Do you think they've classed the party as a "work gathering" (he'll have cake and give a speech) - and therefore we'll have to pay for it?

Silly me 😂

I am far from being a supporter of the Tory party, but from what I understand the delay is because all Party members vote.

The MPs vote to get to the final two candidates by successive rounds of voting with the person coming last knocked out each time.

The final two are chosen by all Party members through a postal ballot, and it just takes time to send them all out, and allow a reasonable amount of time for people to fill them in and send them back. Then they need to be counted.

And yet the entire country can vote in an election and have their votes counted by teatime.

No we have postal votes too

Exactly! And the last vote was 91,000 ..a drop in the ocean

The greased piglet has tweeted. I had to reply to him didn't I.