Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect

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Just breaking now on BBC.

Same day as Nadine.

Most normal people don’t support it. Where did you get that nonsense from? Brexit enjoys less than 40% support these days. Leavers promised us sunlit uplands, so come on Florenz, where are they? You must know where they are because that’s what you voted for.

Actually, a shame, as his initial instincts about Covid were right (ie to just let it run, with no restrictions). But he allowed himself to be influenced by a hysterical media and bonkers scientists, which if course was his big mistake.

Very amusing.

But I think probably more convincing if you just stick with he knows what a woman is.

But he’s so popular surely any seat he faces a by election in will be bound to re-elect him. That’s both his own party and the opposition are undertaking this witch hunt to get rid of him.

I think he knows what quite a few women are 🤮

And what to use them for.

I.e. let loads more people die or get dreadfully ill?

Maybe he 'allowed himself to be influenced' by getting dreadfully ill himself! He's the type who only learns by bad consequences to himself!

But the worst thing by far was releasing sick, untested people from hospitals into care homes.

If an abstention counted as a vote for the status quo, opposition parties would never win General Elections and it would be very hard for an incumbent MP to ever lose their seat. It would make it very hard for anything to ever change.

Sadly I think my constituency is - has never been anything other than Tory since it was created 😢

Can you name some of the tangible benefits of Brexit? As you rightly point out it has been a long time since the referendum so this should mean we are getting the cheaper food, clothing and footwear that the recently ennobled Jacob Rees Mogg promised. I appreciate that there has been a pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine but surely if Brexit was such a great thing then this country would have been in a better position to deal with these challenges. All I see are empty shelves in the supermarkets, businesses going under due to increased red tape, labour shortages due to many people returning to their country of origin (my dentist went back to Poland for example), In effect we imposed economic sanctions on ourselves by voting for something that people didn't fully understand, does the average person in the street have an in-depth understanding of the single market and the customs union, I would put money on plenty not even knowing that these existed when they went out to vote. But, I am sure you will be able to correct me and illuminate the many positive things that Brexit has brought to us. Shame the blue passports were made in Poland but hey, that's a mere detail . Looking forward to you putting me right and telling me about the good things that I have missed.

I think my constituency is a safe conservative seat too.
I really can't see it going yellow or red this time around

Not once it's ben officially published

Which stands to reason because the wealthy are more highly educated and benefitted more from Britain being in the EU than poorer, less highly educated people.

Most people who actually work for a living supported Brexit. Most people who make their money off of the backs of others supported Remain. Which is why we have all the current bleating about shortage of workers (meaning, a shortage of workers who will work for pittance wages and be happy about it). The rich wanted their servant class and normal hard-working people voted to take it away from them. They've never shut up about it since.

Most people who actually work for a living supported Brexit.

1. Define 'work for a living'. I mean, do nurses, teachers, doctors etc. not work for a living?

2. Provide evidence for this statement.

Most people who actually work for a living supported Brexit

Interesting statement.

I think I work for a living. I work. I get paid.

Yes, ok, he has lied

And this is exactly why I feel so strongly about the damage Johnson has done.

Not only was he found, the Parliamentary standards committee found , to have lied to Parliament, obviously caught misleading the Sovereign, when he sent his deputy to apologise.

Now people genuinely write 'yes, ok, he was lied' and don't seem to have any problem with that. The sentence continues with excuses for his behaviour

The rich wanted their servant class and normal hard-working people voted to take it away from them.

Oh because that's exactly the outcome we've seen, isn't it? With the latest official figures demonstrating that the richest 50 individuals in the UK have more wealth between them than the 33 million lowest income citizens. Your brexit - a real update to the Robin Hood legend, isn't it?!

Two other candidates should be selected by the Tory party to take ghe place of Boris and Nadine. The last thing this country needs is two by-elections being called.

I lost a close family member during the pandemic. I couldn't be at their bedside or at the funeral.
I don't care that much about the parties. I care very deeply about the lying about the parties. I'll never forgive. I'll never forget.

Most people who actually work for a living supported Brexit.

Eh? How does that work with pensioners then. They don't work and they voted Leave in the greatest numbers. This group is made up of an even spread of the rich and the poor, people who did manual work and high court judges.

But that person would need to be elected as an MP.
Technically, we elect a person, not a party.

Why? Scared you'll lose one (or both) of them?

It's just going to cause more instability. We should be concentrating on fixing things rather than wasting time having another by election.

Why is that the last thing this country needs?

When an MP resigns, they trigger a by election.