Johnson has dropped out, thank the Lord 🙏

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Just that, pulled back from the edge hopefully for now

Thank fuck for that!!

Well the £ is already up on the news Johnson pulled out and at least we will not be hearing any more fairytale economics for a while.

With any luck we might also get an environment secretary that is not pro fracking and that does believe in climate change.

Agreed. At least Boris was a good statesman when it mattered. Sunak is not leadership material - he's like Bojo's Gordon Brown.

I wouldn’t have minded Boris back…..fully prepared to get shot down. Think I must be the only one….

I wasn't sure if @Bluekerfuffle was joking.

Thank god for that. I’m not a fan of Sunak but be does appear to be an adult who is educated and unlike Johnson and Truss, can speak without making everyone around him cringe with embarrassment/despair/confusion. He isn’t likely to be whanging on about bloody pie, cheese, peppa pig or making model buses and rendering us a world wide laughing stock. So that at least is a a plus.

Whoever takes over is not going to win any popularity contents with what they’re going to have to do to try find a way through the debacle that has been created by 12 years of misrule and stupidity, plus handling the fallout from Putin’s ongoing nightmare but I agree he’s the best of a sorry bunch.

Tories would've split if he'd come back. Would have been painful havoc socially and on the markets till an election.

Was this after Theresa and Boris ran through the field of barley?

It sounds like it if you read his statement.

With any luck we might also get an environment secretary that is not pro fracking and that does believe in climate change

He’s my mp and remained anonymous through this race, didn’t want to declare. Why was that?

An environment sec that stands behind fracking, doesn’t speak out about either water pollution or deregulation of pesticides. Nice one, really doing your job there, Ranil.

To be fair Trump is an Ivy league graduate

Certainly wont be voting for multi billionaire and his non dom wife. And dont much like Penny M either. Shame its not Boris.

So the bragging about 102 was probably bullshit, and he realised he couldn't win.

I predict he'll lay low for the next 5 years and try and come back as leader of the opposition to fight the next GE. Unless the good people of Uxbridge kick him out of his seat...

In the late 60s/early70s there were a lot of anti-Vietnam posters 'Withdrawal is what Nixon's father should have done 50 years ago'

A good statesman??? Honestly I despair

On what planet was Johnson EVER statesmanlike? The rest of the world sniggered when he got the Foreign Office job and was aghast when he got the PM's post.

Statesmen do not hide in fridges, duck out of PMQT, piss off abroad to patronise Zelinskiy when there is work to do at home. Lie and lie and lie and lie.

I could go on.

The difference is that in the Uk, you can pay a lot of money to provide a brilliant education that leads to Oxbridge. In the US you just give the money to the university via the alumni scheme. Ie if your parents went there and give money you’re in.

Sunak is the one whoi fucked the economy! What short memories people have!

Sunak is clearly phenomenally bright. Brown was too but Sunak is probably brighter than most other politicians.

He doesn't have the charisma of a Blair or Johnson, and being a multi-billionaire is obviously quite an electoral barrier. But we probably need someone very intelligent in charge right now.

I'm not a Tory by the way. But if he is anointed I'm glad that we have our first Asian Prime Minister. Its an important watershed.

His statement read like a petulant child - “I totally could have won this, I had LOADS of supporters. I had it in the bag, but I’ve decided not to do it. But y’know I’d have won so ner ner!”

Anyway the getting exchanges are pretty certain Rishi has it all sewn up (someone on another thread said only 5 of Boris’ confirmed votes had previously supported Penny, so a mass move in her direction seems highly unlikely).

And let’s take the positives - JRM and Nadine matching straight back to the back benches!

You think Prince Charles got in on his grades?

Oh honestly f**k off with the 'oh you must all love billionaire Sunak then' jibes.

I despise the lot of them. But we have to establish some parameters here about moral, ethical and parliamentary codes. And in the list of three, it's Johnson last, then Mordaunt, then Sunak.

I'm with you on that! Not to mention the fact that he's a backstabbing bastard who got us in this mess. If he'd worked with Boris, not been a slimy little traitor, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Not necessarily. Penny Mordaunt is still in the race although increasingly unlikely. Of the MPs that have gone public the vast majority have supported Rishi with only about 24 going on record for penny I think.

it's unlikely but then it seemed incredible that brexit would go the way it did so don't count your chickens before they've voted. Plus who will those who were in Camp Boris vote for ?

Ie Trinity college , Cambridge with 5 gcses ,and 2 A levels a B and a C