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...to be absolutely delighted that Boris has resigned as Foreign Secretary?

592 replies

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/07/2018 15:06

That's all, folks! Goodness only knows what happens now. But at least that Grade A twat is no longer representing us abroad.

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BishopBrennansArse · 09/07/2018 20:03

Just as Corbyn was elected by Labour, highest membership ever at the moment.

Good ok' weak and wobbly May didn't poll that much more than Labour so if that itself is a measure of her competence then surely Corbyn's is almost equal?

Cutietips · 09/07/2018 20:03

Going back to the OP, I’m just not sure yet that it’s a good thing. He’s not got anyone’s interests at heart but his own and it would be terrifying to have him, Gove or Rees-Mogg as PM. It’s as if no one learnt anything from the Thatcher years. Having said that I don’t think Corbyn is in any way a credible opposition. He’s a throwback too to the 70s smoke filled rooms and the one-out all-out mentality.

Is this really the best that we can do as a nation? Where are the leaders you’d actually want to follow? Who can bring us together rather than rip divisions apart even further. It’s very sad.

Nat6999 · 09/07/2018 20:04

We were led in to the referendum blind, the only question was did we want to leave the EU? There was no statement of how we would leave if the result was leave.

The working party for Benefit should have involved all parties to get us the best & fairest deal for the country, not the poor deal we are getting now.

If it takes the collapse of the Government now to get us a better deal, then let it happen.

TattyTshirt · 09/07/2018 20:04

Maybe Nicola Sturgeon should be invited to form a coalition government

What a great idea 😏

Maybe we could throw Leanne Wood into the mix too...You know just for shits and giggles! 🙄

You know this is about the best politicians to lead our country right??!

PestymcPestFace · 09/07/2018 20:05

Not quiet, just under reported

NanaNoodleman · 09/07/2018 20:09

Ah, the lovely miners. Like the ones who lobbed the slabs over the motorway bridges on the scabs coaches and ended up doing time. Angels, all of them. Froth, babble, gibber

KateGrey · 09/07/2018 20:10

You wonder what has happened in politics that we have very little in the way of leadership. Seems a lot of privileged white males who want things run to satisfy their own needs over that of the country. I think people now must surely realise the huge implications of us leaving Europe and Cameron calling a vote on it was beyond idiotic.

TattyTshirt · 09/07/2018 20:10

*Given the likely alternative PMs

  • Jacob Rees Mogg
  • Boris Johnson
  • Michael Gove
  • Andrea Leadsom
  • Jeremy Corbyn

I’m prepared to go down on my knees and beg Theresa May to stay on ...*

Hear, hear

Thesearepearls · 09/07/2018 20:10

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards No10 to be born?

QuiteUnfitBit · 09/07/2018 20:12

^Good ok' weak and wobbly May didn't poll that much more than Labour*
Labour should have thrashed the Tories at the last election. Why don't Corbyn supporters see that?

And looking at likely alternative PMs, I can only echo Tatty re TM. Sad

Unfinishedkitchen · 09/07/2018 20:12

Alexander ‘Boris’ de Phifel Johnson had no choice but to leave. He’d been found out as being lazy and thick and no longer had David Davis around to draw fire.

Unfortunately for the old Etonians, the European’s class system doesn’t work like ours. We will bow and scrape before any old dumbass toff with a double barrelled name. They don’t have to be smart or nice, just a toff and in the UK that means they are instantly entitled to power.

They don’t have to know their subject or do much work at all. They get made directors of boards, PMs etc. The EU came prepared with proper negotiators and worked to understand the issues and outcomes. Our lot had no respect, just thought they’d roll up from the golf club bar, not even holding a pen and pad and the Euro’s would immediately start bowing and scraping and letting their superiors have what they want. Didn’t work like that, they been found out so now they’re all running away. Expect scapegoats to be found soon.

This whole shambles is a damning indictment of how unequal and fucked up this country is by allowing these charlatans to lead us.

Bluntness100 · 09/07/2018 20:15

Good ok' weak and wobbly May didn't poll that much more than Labour so if that itself is a measure of her competence then surely Corbyn's is almost equal?

Why do you keep asking these questions? Surely you're aware that labour is in opposition? They are not in power? May is the prime minister. The runner up does not get power. They form an opposition. They are not equal or even almost equal.

ThePlanetGoesOnBeingRound3 · 09/07/2018 20:17

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KateGrey · 09/07/2018 20:17

@Unfinishedkitchen agree! Entitled gits who think being part of the old boys club and coming from a well known school is enough. Complete lack of substance. And May has been shafted by them all. Christ, Gove fucked education and now we want to let him get his stinky little hands on Brexit, Jesus is weeping.

NanaNoodleman · 09/07/2018 20:19

It’s a measure of how shite Corbyn is that he can’t even capitalise on this mess effectively. Imagine how Blair and Campbell would be beating the shit out of the government right now. Where is he?

keepmoving · 09/07/2018 20:20

Someone up thread said they would like Vince Cable to lead. The Lib Dem's are focused on stopping Brexit.

www.libdems.org.uk/brexit

I share this as a life long Tory voter who is disgusted by our current government, in particular of the behaviour of egotistical "personalities". Never again...

NanaNoodleman · 09/07/2018 20:20

Guess the House of Lords didn’t know what they were talking about either when they went whining there asking to be let off the consequences of their actions eh planet?
Unsuccessfully, I’m pleased to say

NanaNoodleman · 09/07/2018 20:22

Ps this board isn’t yours, and you don’t have the power to tell me to shut up or fuck off. If you don’t like my posts report them.

ThePlanetGoesOnBeingRound3 · 09/07/2018 20:25

@NanaNoodleman

I think you're letting your hatred for lawful strikes and assembly poison your mind.
I voted remain, I HATE that leave won, I an fucking furious with the twatting (should that be double 'T'?) Tories for putting the question but it's done.
Out we go.
Demorocracy.

We really need to spend more money so that people are more informed. Too late now.

BishopBrennansArse · 09/07/2018 20:25

@Bluntness100 that was to someone who reckons May is competent just because she got elected.

May is demonstrating that's very far from the truth, as did her predecessor.

ThePlanetGoesOnBeingRound3 · 09/07/2018 20:27

Well I have the power of speech, so I did.

BishopBrennansArse · 09/07/2018 20:28

Miranda and Campbell could spin bloody well but blue Labour wasn't the answer.

What is needed is real chance, the current labour policies give that. They were decided at party level not by Corbyn.

If he gets in and doesn't implement them the party is able to have him replaced, this is why I don't understand why the excellent policies are being ignored because of the party leader.

NanaNoodleman · 09/07/2018 20:28

No problem with assemblies, joined quite a few myself.
My problem is with people who want to whitewash the past. Which is what you’re doing. I know you’re untruthful, but others may not.

BishopBrennansArse · 09/07/2018 20:29

chance change

QuiteUnfitBit · 09/07/2018 20:30

What is needed is real chance, the current labour policies give that.
It does give real choice, but as the last election showed, the majority of people don't vote for that choice - even when the Tories are in disarray.

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