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

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

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

@BishopBrennansArse how do spot an astroturfer or shill?

he needed to stay in.so he could be close enough and have access for when the dickhead that is trump comes!i was waiting him to pie him.god I hate that trump makes me wish people are pied!

Northern they're generally one trick ponies. Only EVER post about politics, nothing else, ever. Usually pretty extreme in their views either left or right, don't concede an inch even if they look ridiculous.

Just seen Donald trump on telly saying Boris is a friend of his.
There’s another million votes down the pan right there, Boris

I'm another one that is in the camp of wondering whether Boris is plotting a leadership coup of some kind - he's not quite the buffoon he often portrays himself as, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is behind the other resignations too - watch out for an alternative agenda as I doubt he plans on taking up a new hobby or buggering off on a nice long holiday.

How hard is it to understand that the net contribution sent to the Eu can be spent elsewhere when we stop sending it to them

Good grief, I addressed this upthread earlier today. The return of our net contribution to the EU is wiped out fivefold by the loss to our economy of not being in the single market. We pay into the EU largely because of the massive economic benefits we receive through our membership. There will be less money after we leave, not more. I can't believe there are still people who cannot grasp this.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-boris-johnson-resignation-iran-jail-prison-foreign-secretary-jeremy-hunt-a8440721.html

If he’d rescued Nazanin I may have forgiven his other errors of judgement. But he didn’t. In fact he made a mistake which gave Iran a helping hand with her continued imprisonment. Poor poor woman.

I would have been glad to see the back of such a self-serving lying turncoat, but sadly I don't think it is the back. With other resignations being announced about a discussed treaty, this is beginning to have the look of a stab-in-the-back party betrayal about it: the same kind that hit Corbyn early on.

I can't imagine that lying toe-rag as prime minister to Britain. It would be our own version of Trump, possibly worse. I quite like Theresa May, and not just because there's no one else suitable (there really isn't).

Tattyshirt, as no-one answered your earlier question - the K in UK might be a clue.

I wonder what the royals make of it all.

Squishee The U is no longer relevant. United we are definitely not!

Maybe it's time the UK/GREAT Britain was renamed...

Unfortunately, there are plenty more where he came from.

Old Etonians:-
Sir Robert Walpole
William Pitt
John Bute
George Grenville
Frederick North
William Grenville
George Canning
Arthur Wellesley
Charles Grey
William Melbourne
Edward Derby
William Gladstone
Robert Salisbury
Archibald Rosebery
Arthur Balfour
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
David Cameron
Terence O'Neill, PM of Northern Ireland
James Chichester-Clark, PM of Northern Ireland
Abhisit Vejjajiva, PM of Thailand

Just 7% of the UK public attended private school, which compares to 71% of senior judges, 62% of senior armed forces officers, 55% of Whitehall permanent secretaries and 50% of members of the House of Lords.The rate is also disproportionately high in other influential roles: 44% of people on the Sunday Times Rich List, 43% of newspaper columnists and 26% of BBC executives were all educated privately.

Just one in 100 members of the UK public was educated at Oxbridge, however graduates from those two universities make up 75% of senior judges, 59% of cabinet posts, 57% of permanent secretaries, 50% of diplomatics, 47% of newspaper columnists, 44% of public body chairs and 33% of BBC executives.

From the Grauniad an a.n.other

www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/aug/28/elitism-in-britain-breakdown-by-profession

Hopefully there will be a fresh approach to Nazanin now. I think the Iranians hated him so much they wouldn’t let her go and see him take the kudos.

Hopefully him going might help her.

Yes Tattyshirt, I fear you're right about the now somewhat Disunited Kingdom.

However I was not talking about the U part, was I?

Squishee. I'm not sure what your point is - unless it's because I called UK a country?

What else would you prefer the collective countries that make up the UK to be called?

Well, we certainly are living in interesting times...!