Boris stands down as MP with immediate effect part 3

[DuncinToffee]

Tomorrow is the Commons vote on the Privileges Committee's findings that Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Downing Street parties during lockdown

The vote is a free vote rather than being whipped either way. Tories have been told that the vote will be a one-line whip, meaning they will not be obliged to participate.

Boris Johnson is believed to have advised his backers to not vote against it.

Michael Gove confirmed on live tv that he will abstain

Tobias Elwood has u-turned on abstaining after hearing stories from voters

Rishi Sunak, who knows

I mean it most gently, but I don't think he completely grasps #me2

Once again, I have a memory - this time for ... Babycham.

The club is dark, it's sweaty, it's high energy. Nigel Farage strides up to the bar and asks for a Babycham. The music stops. The dancing stops. A hushed silence falls over the scene as people turn to look. Farage is magnificent, (wearing someone elses clothes. admittedly). There is a sense of an outsider - someone who doesn't get the cultural values of clubbing in 1990. The barman, unfazed, puts a Babycham down. Farage sips and is the epitome of cool.

Then a lone voice from the other end of the bar breaks the tension:

"Hey ! I'll have a Babycham !" and the frozen moment thaws as people sip the sweet taste of right wing bollocks.

I suspect I've worked with TikTokkers too long.

I am justing putting this here in case our dear departed return and what to console themselves that no one really cares about law breaking and lying.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

That’s suggesting a 70% chance of a Labour win here - it was the safest Tory seat in the country in Major’s day. The current MP’s announced he’s standing down.

I just cannot wait to see the wibbly Starmer and his equally wibbly front bench leading this great country. It's the stuff of dreams. We can only hope he allows Angie her very own bellow speech as they move their team into number 10. Not forgetting impartial Sue and impartial Harriet, bet they'll be allowed a toast of non alcoholic booze as Labour do not drink at work.

A message full of substantive arguments from our dear not quite departed then.

Are you feeling a bit wibbly yourself Janiie?

Here, have a and

Good to see the quality of that side of the debate has remained the same.

I'm never wibbly Dunc but thanks for the cake. Does that mean we're having a party?

A bit unpleasant to use 'dear departed', no? Is that not one usually uses to refer to sadly died loved ones. I don't get the joke tbh.
Or is it funny like 'bint' and 'massacring' women at elections?

Happy to celebrate Johnson's resignation and being found a liar with you and others.

Ah so we are having a party! I alway said you lot struggled with the definition of party and here you are confirming it.

Well, parties are allowed now, and we're not lying about having them.

Still banging on about constitutes a party? 🥱

I can't remember denying that Johnson was having an illegal party.

Careful up on that high horse

Careful of what?

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To be fair it has stayed the same. Those who can debate - do. Those who can't - post dramatic soliloquy's and disappear.

Who knows what the next leaders will be like. But I'd be willing to bet my life they won't be worse than the current lot!

Janiie, I really don’t have the patience to explain common phrases to you as well as basic decency.

it’s excruciating.

You said careful up on that high horse, I merely asked why? Clearly you can't answer. That's 'excruciating'.

Let's not pretend using phrases such as 'dearly departed' when referring to other posters is ok. It isn't.

Report it then. Why spoil the habits of a lifetime?

I know, it'll be a refreshing change having a competent Prime Minister who understands basic constitutional principles and that habitual lying is not a good way to run the country. But when you've spent the last few years supporting a lying, corrupt incompetent and his sycophantic and stupid hangers-on, I can see that it'll be difficult for you to handle.

I've been having an instructive listen to Rory Stewart talking about what it was like being Junior Foreign Minister when Johnson was Foreign Secretary. Unsurprisingly, it was excruciating. He was capable of destroying months of careful diplomacy with one stupid phone call, or alternatively could waste ages working up a policy that was predicated on our embassy in a particular country taking specified action, only to have to be reminded for the hundredth time that we had no embassy in that country. They gave him easily digestible briefings before meetings but he still didn't understand them and would just bluster on, then blame the civil servants for his own inability to master a brief.

When the invitation to Lebedev's shindig came, it also came to Stewart who unhesitatingly refused because it seemed to him an absolute no-brainer that a minister in the Foreign Office couldn't be seen to be accepting Lebedev's hospitality - but of course, as we now know, not only did Johnson accept the invitation, but he went without any FO minders and subsequently insisted, against repeated advice, on making Lebedev a lord.

None of that is surprising, of course, but given that it was all pretty well-known within the Conservative party it makes it all the more despicable that they ignored it all and voted the idiot into power.,

You'd think at least one of them would've read Dr Faustus.