Johnson has dropped out, thank the Lord 🙏

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Just that, pulled back from the edge hopefully for now

And please please please let's get shot of Rees-Mogg.

"Think you’ve taken it too much in the political sense 😉"

I really haven't. I just think it's worth reflecting on how utterly shafted he is when he decides to pull out. I wonder if Govey has had a 'word'.

The increased spending cuts are down to Truss and the Tories, no one was talking about large cuts pre mini budget.

Tories caused this all on their own & it would be no different if Bojo was in or Pepper Pig.

Oh yes. I do hope Sunak doesn't offer him anything in the name of party unity.

Yeah that's good

Hahahahaha

Was he expecting Sunak and Mordant to just step aside for him?

Has that strange counterfeit Thatcher woman stepped away yet?

He was just a red herring in a blond wig

Bummer. I think he’s slightly more in touch with the world all of us peasants have to live in than Sunak will ever be.

Exactly - everyone so relieved it's not Boris they think Rishi is any better. They're all cut from the same cloth.

still need general election

He's right; now is not the time. Once we've had Sunak and Mordaunt and kicked both of them out, it will be clear that there never was nobody but Boris Johnson 🤠

Either that or he never meant to go for it and it's all designed to make one of the other numpties look less objectionable by measuring them against a backdrop of utter catastrophe.

Back to the Caribbean then.

That's a relief. If Boris had come back, it would have made this country look ridiculous.

I'm wary of Sunak, but at least he's a highly educated, intelligent man (he got a first at Oxford). It baffles me when people complain about our PMs being Oxford graduates. Why? Oxford is one of the oldest, greatest universities in the world. Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Ruskin, Walter Pater, W H Auden, T S Eliot, Richard Dawkins, etc all studied there. We're lucky to live in a country whose leaders have been educated at such a place. What would people prefer? An ignorant narcissist like Trump, who has never read a serious book in his life?

At the end of the day, we’ve still got a dysfunctional government that wants to eat itself, so we’re not out of the woods yet.

It's a start though aye

Thanks god, I certainly won’t be voting Tory in the next GE but Sunak is the best of that bunch for the minute. He might be able to calm the markets somewhat. Good news .

Glad he's pulled out. He probably realised the shit he was going to have to deal with was just too much for him.

Boris Johnson??? You're having a larf

Gutted, the squeezed middle are going to be absolutely shafted now.

@JoonT - people anti so many oxbridge grads being pm coz it smacks of croneyism elitism and shows we have no social mobility at all

Good. I’m a Tory, and just didn’t feel it was good for the party if Boris returned. Keir might not be happy, as I think Labour would have preferred Boris to get back in, as there might have been a slight chance of them getting a general election. Onwards and upwards now.

It's a start though aye

Its actually a massive step.

Throw out bullshit; as a strategy because it leads nowhere. Glad about that if nothing else.