Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect

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Just breaking now on BBC.

Same day as Nadine.

What I read from this thread is that posters are relieved to find that all the cage rattling wasn't in vain and that Boris has finally been called to account.

Threads like this are hoovered up by Google and Twitter and start to drive the word cloud the rest of the worlds media (lazily) use in place of "journalism". So the more posts in short time pointing out all Boris deficiencies - and by association the Tory party that enabled him - are no bad thing.

Anyway, I'm sure Boris will be thrilled to have more time to devote to his hobby of building model buses. If I remember he is a real enthusiast for the 1:350million scale models.

Doesn't seem like enjoyment to me it still seems like frenzied hysteria tbh. He didn't do this! He didn't do that!

He got us through covid when Sir keir Starmer would still have us in masks social distancing in gardens of no more than 2.

Don't be disingenuous, it doesn't suit you. You could only make such a definite statement if you were one or the other or effectively sitting next to the one on this thread whenever they post.

Most people are over the fucking moon.

Every time you post, you keep the thread up in the eyes of the world.

But what you quoted was a statement that Reicc003 was Reic.

Doesn't seem like enjoyment to me it still seems like frenzied hysteria tbh

Haven't you twigged yet ? We're only here to waste your time, and stop you finding the real discussions to derail.

Words people use in an attempt to undermine reasonable resistance and debate -
Frenzied hysteria
Bleating
Mob
Rabid
Zeolot

He hasn't gone anywhere in the sense of ceasing to court publicity.

And the repercussions of his self aggrandisement will take years to get over.

Holly Willoughby will be posting soon to ask if Janiie and other Boris fans are ok.

I'm always ok, thanks for your concern though.

An enjoyable discussion on a weekend is not by any stretch of the imagination "frenzied hysteria".

Johnson's version of "getting us through" Covid involved hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths and billions in wasted money. The comparator is what other leaders did (other than the likes of Trump and Bolsonaro), not your fanciful hypotheses about what Starmer might have done.

There was a pandemic, deaths sadly were inevitable as was a crashing economy. He did the same as other comparable companies with what information we had at the time.

An interesting definition of 'frenzied hysteria' there. Anyone would think it means 'the happiness of other people at the departure of a politician I adore, which happiness I deeply resent'.

Just putting this here in the spirit of celebration:

Let's wait for the Covid Inquiry findings before making that claim

Then riddle me this ? On a forum such as this, which is pretty fucking spread across socio economic classes, families, single parent families, most world religions and sexual preferences.... why on earth would the 'majority' disagree with your view that this corrupt, lazy, entitled ,adulterer is the best thing since sliced bread. ? What single thing did he achieve except to be PM when the vaccine was rolled out (and that was entirely down to a committed NHS )... please please tell me how he got 'Brexit done' in real terms. What single enhancement has it made to your real life ? It's a genuine question. I am happy to declare that I am a remainer. I can list about 20 reasons why it was an act of phenomenal self harm that we wrested upon this country. So would be genuinely interested in why you think a) 'it was a good thing' and b) in what specific way ?

PS - you do know that Johnson is no more a Brexiteer than I am don't you ? He nailed his flag to that mast as it was his only way into to No.10. His family are extremely prominent Europhiles. They have homes all over Europe . Brother Jo was a remainer as was Rachel and father even gained French citizenship last year in order to circumvent all the restrictions on free travel and living that us poor plebs have to endure thanks to his son's egotistical belief in his own greatness.

His school report from Eton sums it up perfectly. This was at 17 and he has changed not one iota since then..

He wrote: "Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. [He] sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the school for the next half).
"I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation that binds everyone else."

Well it looks like the Covid Inquiry will flush out how well our politicians performed in a crisis. Provided of course that the Government shares information.

Well no, he didn't. He locked down later than others, he allowed events like Cheltenham races to go ahead, he allowed infectious people into care homes, he wasted billions on PPE and other covid-related supplies on companies with no track record and further billions buying PPE that only had to be thrown away, he allowed idiocies like Eat Out to Help Out and wasted further billions on the nonsense of the supposed Track and Trace system run by one of his cronies.

Deaths were inevitable but not at the level of deaths we suffered was avoidable. Ditto the crashing of the economy need not have been as severe with more competent management.

Bloody hilarious - and very, very good.

Oh have Janiie and Clav clocked back on?

I am judging you, Janiie, for your failure to post when this all dropped on Friday.

Kiwano
Could it be that having Prime Ministerial involvement would be desirable in order to keep a handle on those plans, policies and capability at an early stage in a different type of pandemic?

That might be the recommendation going forward - but since Boris Johnson chaired a Cobra meeting on 2 March 2020 and the WHO didn't declare Covid-19 to be a pandemic until 11 March 2020, your use of the word 'pandemic' to describe the period before 11 March 2020 would appear to be somewhat premature. I remind you of the tweet up thread;

Devi Sridhar - 3:45 PM · Feb 17, 2020
WHO clearly saying it is NOT calling #COVID19 a pandemic b/c majority of cases are in China & majority of cases outside of China have direct link to China. @ DrMikeRyan #factsnotfear

(Devi Sridhar became Nicola Sturgeon's Covid adviser)

BunnyBettChetwynnd
Who attends a COBRA meeting?
Prime Minister (who chairs the meetings)

"The committee, and the structures that support it (frequently referred to as COBRA in the media), are the UK government’s dedicated crisis management mechanism. While the Home Secretary is the default chair, and the Prime Minister may chair in the most serious of crises, the committee is usually chaired by the lead minister for the type of emergency in question. In the event of an influenza pandemic, the committee would therefore normally be chaired by the Secretary of State for Health."

(I never bother judging Clav. They never bother pretending to be an ordinary poster.)

Looking forward to reading the report of the Privileges Committee. With a Tory majority on it. And with Brexiteers on it.

It is ironic that Boris does not seem to want to recognise the role of Parliament in this - given how much he wanted Parliament to be sovereign.