To ask what to do about Boris

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I get how it works. We elect parties to reporesnt ya. Their members elect their leaders.

But I feel so strongly that I do not want Boris Johnson to represent Britain as our leader.

Yet I feel so powerless and like an observer watching the Tory party elect someone because of internal politics that has nothing to do with good leadership, integrity and actually leading the country.

What are the options for action open to us?

Us not ya

Some folk say BJ is very clever. Maybe he realises next PM will be the last Tory PM in his lifetime so his last chance?

when I heard a supporter say BJ will unite his party or the country. Almost everything BJ has said in last 3 yrs just makes me feel more & more alienated.

I share your concerns. As non party members we are powerless. My MP is supporting Johnson due to his successes as London Mayor. He can't specify what they are though...

But more people on here are concerned about a non existent tax Labour are going to impose on them.

My MP is supporting Johnson due to his successes as London Mayor.

Yes, all that money spent on the Garden Bridge and the Estuary Airport. He was a fucking useless mayor of London, and an even worse foreign secretary.

I agree with you op. And everyone is saying the Premiership is his to lose now.

It's so hypocritical of Boris given his past criticism of Gordon Brown taking on the leadership when unelected.

The best we can hope for I think is that he becomes leader and then fails spectacularly. It's being reported that the Brexiteer faction are only promising to back him on the grounds that he will deliver Brexit by October 31st and if he doesn't, their vote will go to Farage. So he has his work cut out given that a large proportion of MPs will not accept a "no deal" exit. For someone who is "not across the detail" that's a very tall order I think.

I know you are all right. There is nothing we can do but watch this unfold...it’s all a phase...it will pass.

As this is an anonymous forum I would very much like to sabotage him in the most unpleasant way possible. Just had a v difficult conversation with a family member when I just wanted to call the whole thing as a fucking hypocrisy and joke.

I love to democracy alive and kicking.

My thoughts exactly OP. How can they vote for him?? I really really can’t understand his power over all of them!

What to do about him?

Let him win, then see what he's made of.

I think they're voting for him to try and win back voters who are defecting to the Brexit Party. That does make short-term sense for the Conservatives.

But I suspect his No Deal talk is bluster and it won't be long before the Brexiteers turn on him too.

We start a riot when he gets in

There's nothing we can do, but it will all be over by Christmas!

I can't formulate this question right...

which candidate can achieve unity, and how?

Do we have to wait for extra-terrestrial invasion b4 we unite again?

I watched them all on BBC earlier and it was a shit show.

Boris suddenly has a Muslim great-grandfather which obviously means he isn’t racist (despite it not being that long since he referred to Muslim women as letterboxes).

I despair.

Did you complain when Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as PM in 2007 without an election, a normal procedure within the governing party that has been repeated many times in British political history? How strange...

You know who did complain? The tories and especially Boris Johnson, publically, in his column.

So you know? what's good for the goose..

We weren’t facing a national crisis in 2007. And Brown wasn’t a lunatic.

He's the best thing for the party, from their perspective.
He'll be a crap pm and a worse human being. But hey he has energy and enthusiasm so do i

Well boris complained. Hypocrite and crap London mayor. Rubbish foreign secretary. Conspiracy to have someone beat up. Serial shagger. Just what we need.

So two wrongs make a right, and principle doesn't matter? Thanks for making your position so clear.

We weren’t facing a national crisis in 2007. And Brown wasn’t a lunatic.

Wrong on both counts.

This will be the second Tory PM in a row nobody voted for.

He might be ok. Who knows?

I’m not complaining about the lack of a general election. I’m complaining about HIM as potential pm. Given his track history, lying and gutter morals.