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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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Mummyoflittledragon · 09/07/2018 18:04

Can we beg David Milliband to come back?
Vince Cable?
Or is you are Tory minded I rather like Ken Clarke
Yes, yes and yes

And yes and yes and yes!

Seasawride · 09/07/2018 18:04

Mummy

Yes any of them!!! All of them

Bluntness100 · 09/07/2018 18:05

Respect for Ruth Davidson who has said this isn't the time to have in party fighting and they should all put their shoulder to the wheel to get this done.

Even David Davis has said Boris didn't need to do this. He's under fire because he's clearly done it to further and protect his own career. I think Boris has badly misjudged this and it's a career ender for him.

Who'd want him for pm now?

Heyduggeesflipflop · 09/07/2018 18:06

Boreof

I have to disagree - if she never agreed with the Brexit result she should not have sought being prime minister in the first place

TammyWincyette · 09/07/2018 18:08

I thought Theresa May's joke and laugh about robust discussions around 'breakfast tables up and down the country' shows how fucking out of touch she is.

What a shit show. It's making Nicola Murray look good.

AMAWriter · 09/07/2018 18:09

@Seasawride Interesting that your kitchen cabinet party are all dead!

annandale · 09/07/2018 18:14

UKIP has nobody now, because of the referendum result. Dacre probably threatened that the DM would endorse UKIP unless there was a referendum. UKIP were winning some council seats and coming very close in others with a populist anti-austerity message. And maybe only two MPs actually jumped but it takes a hell of a lot for even one to do that. The migrant crisis was boiling all over the Mediterranean and it was hardly the EU's finest hour. I will give Cameron his due for putting across at least an attempt at looking positive about the EU in the campaign, but it was him who moved the Tories in the EU out of the centrists towards the populists. He treated the EU as a sideshow until he couldn't do that any more. Major, Thatcher and Blair gave it more respect.

UneMoonit · 09/07/2018 18:17

I think a Putin-style "wrong answer, try again" referendum probably would be a win for remain, if only because I can't see a reason for anyone on the side that won a vote seeing it as worth bothering any more. I know if this happened to me after a vote I'd save the petrol driving to the polling station.

I don't think it would all be plain sailing in the country after that "win", either. A very substantial number of people would have just been told that democracy did not apply to them, so then where is the incentive to uphold the status quo for them?

If we could go back in time I'd probably vote Leave now. I've never seen such a lot of anti democracy sentiment as there has been since that vote and it tells me I was on the wrong side.

ForalltheSaints · 09/07/2018 18:19

I would have been happier if he had been sacked ages ago.

TammySwansonTwo · 09/07/2018 18:21

I can’t see that there’ll be a positive outcome to all this, the cunning fuckers.

Still, I’m enjoying watching the Tory party collapse in on itself like a dying star. Not before time.

UneMoonit · 09/07/2018 18:21

@Forallthesaints - they could probably all do with sacking.

Very poor crop we seem to have at the moment. Just when we need a good one :(

Heyduggeesflipflop · 09/07/2018 18:22

Tammy

If the tories implode corbyn is next in line. You can’t seriously welcome that possibility???

TammySwansonTwo · 09/07/2018 18:23

If we could go back in time I'd probably vote Leave now.

How can you possibly look at catastrophic situation around Brexit and think this? I simply do not understand. It was never going to have a good outcome, it’s impossible. There should never have been a referendum because clearly the public can’t know what they’re voting for when the politicians simply do not understand the implications themselves (as has been proven repeatedly over the last year).

TammySwansonTwo · 09/07/2018 18:24

Damn straight I do.

time4chocolate · 09/07/2018 18:24

I think a Putin-style "wrong answer, try again" referendum

Or an EU-style “wrong answer try again” referendum Wink, which is what Brussels are still holding out for.

TammySwansonTwo · 09/07/2018 18:24

(And not just me - 40% of voters at the last GE. It’s only a matter of time)

Heyduggeesflipflop · 09/07/2018 18:26

Tammy - has it ever occurred to you that Brexit has become a self fulfilling prophecy and that, had our ruling elites been behind it from the start, we might not be where we are now?

You are blaming the ball, not the game

TattyTshirt · 09/07/2018 18:27

If the tories implode corbyn is next in line. You can’t seriously welcome that possibility???

This ^^

A shake up of the Labour Party is well overdue. I seriously can't think of anyone within the Labour Party who is up for the job. Or any Party really... Where do we go from here? 🤔

Mousefunky · 09/07/2018 18:31

Made my day.

ThePlanetGoesOnBeingRound3 · 09/07/2018 18:32

Labour too but no way on gods earth can I vote for Corbyn as he isn’t actually labour

Have to disagree, I've been a Labour Party Member since 1978
I endured, campaigned and posted leaflets during the fucking Blair years.
Corbyn IS Labour.

I have to disagree - if she never agreed with the Brexit result she should not have sought being prime minister in the first place

Totally agree. She put herself forward, they let her proceed. Wonder why?
All of this, ALL of this, is about TORY infighting, self-agrandisement, and ideaology.

ThePlanetGoesOnBeingRound3 · 09/07/2018 18:33

David Milliband ?
No.
Never.
NO.

TheMonkeyMummy · 09/07/2018 18:36

@Poudrenez 'unflushable'. That made me lol! Might borrow that

UneMoonit · 09/07/2018 18:36

Primarily because of all the anti democracy sentiment that has been unashamedly thrown about since.

While the financial implications seemed overwhelming at the time, these are as nothing compared to the importance of democracy in preventing conflict, making governments respond to people's needs etc. - we have only had the vote a short while in the grand scheme of things and people went through a hell of effort and bad things to achieve that.

While our political class seems to be filled with idiocy and deviousness, and probably none of them are worth a vote, I have to say I find these people who want the country to fight against democracy VERY off-putting (and actually stupid considering that deoicracy is literally the thing we do instead of all having a war every time we disagree). Every fibre of my being tells me that if someone wants to override other people's votes because they know better, like the suffragettes didn't happen, ww2 didn't happen and so on, I am on the other side to that person.

I mean you asked Grin

Heyduggeesflipflop · 09/07/2018 18:37

The planet

I’m going to call you on that intellectual dishonesty. Corbyn is not labour - corbyn is a wafer thin entryist proxy for the swp/ communist party.