So Boris Johnson is the new PM.

[AngeloMysterioso]

Aaaaaaaaand we’re fucked.

Well, we're already a laughing stock on the world stage after 10 years of incompetent tory rule, women's and children's rights have been eroded, thousands of disabled people have died or been left destitute, then there's the mess that is brexit I mean does this really shock anyone. You get what you bloody vote for. I'd rather have corbyn than this out of touch buffoon.

@TanMateix, Trump is fucking delighted and wants Nige involved. Shoot me now.

I feel like I'm naked, on fire and all the spiders are laughing at me. I don't love it.

shortstuff

The GLOBAL financial crisis caused the Tories to push austerity. The Tories ably abetted by the lib dems.

We are all in it together, remember?

Does anyone even remember the MP expenses scandal??

No magic money tree but billions can be found to bung to the DUP (the political wing of the UDF) to prop up TMs govt!!

And we all know how much JRM, JR and likes have made out of betting against sterling since 2016 dont we??

We are so fucked.

I think its probably a good thing...

After hubris (leave vote) comes nemesis (no deal) then...hopefully...catharsis.

Don't think I'll see it my lifetime though...

Today I feel even more ashamed of my country than I was already. A tiny, non-representative proportion of the electorate, the members of the party which governs with no majority, get to choose the PM....and this is supposed to be democracy? Propped up by the DUP who btw have demanded more taxpayers cash to ensure their continued support:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dup-boris-tories-money-confidence-supply-agreement-billion-a9017681.html

It seems that the privileged elite have us well and truly stitched up, and that any old riff raff can achieve high office in this country provided they come from the right background/public school.

Come off it, Shortstuff99.

Tony Blair resigning in favour of Gordon Brown was so well signalled before the 2005 election it was almost a slogan – for the Tories as well as Labour. Check out "Vote Blair, get Brown."

Voters went to the 2005 polls on this basis.

Oh, and the global financial crash was caused by, er, the global financial crash. Absurd risk-taking by banks, particularly in the US. Not by government spending...

The tories voted to bail the banks out aswell God help anyone so ignorant they still think labour caused the worldwide global crash. My dad's business was massively effected at the time and he's in the US in real estate, people need to take their blinkers off and put the sun and daily mail down.

Anyone would think it used to be impossible to travel and work in European countries before we joined the EU going off some of the hysteria on here

Except we're not going back in time. Things have changed. It is far harder for non-EU members to work and live in the EU - just look at how hard it is for non-EU workers to come to the UK and how many thousands of pounds they have to spend on visas. This is what will happen to Brits who want to go and work in the EU. It will become the preserve of the rich rather than an opportunity for everyone.

If it comes to a General Election, and there has to be one in the next couple of years, what a choice; “Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbin”.🤭

Gordon Brown was PM 9years ago anyway and the Tories have been in power since 2010 so don't blame Gordon for continuing tory austerity, having just read Graphistas post I find it very hard to even contemplate voting for bastards that inflict that situation on people it's disgusting!

Graphista. i think you're in Scotland and I'm about as far from you as I can be as on the Lizard but if I can do anything to help please let me know and I hope you are coping fairly well.

Today the votes of just 0.3 percent of the population chose our new Prime Minister. The 71 percent male, 97 percent white, 86 percent middle class Conservative membership selected Boris Johnson - a man with a long record of racism, sexism and bullying.

You know silvery we might just do that...

...And take the 40% tax we pay, and 2 young people with a lifetime earning and paying tax ahead of them with us.

Fuck you.

A general election could see us with farage as PM.

I am also ashamed of the way we are treating our European friends and allies especially Ireland. It seems we (or at least many of us including our governing class) have learned nothing from history and that is shameful.

I am also ashamed of the way the most vulnerable in our society have been treated over the past few years. My DS is mentally and physically disabled; I have always worried about his future and how he will be cared for when we are no longer able to do it. After watching so many of his benefits being cut back year on year, I am absolutely petrified now.

Would you trust the Tories with YOUR child's future if s/he was as vulnerable as mine?

Woofbloodywoof, are you unaware of the things Johnson has said about gay people?

In 2010 he was supportive of gay marriage, but prior to that... not so much.

I hope his 2010 position does represent his current principles – except I don't believe he actually has any. Keep a close eye on his actual behaviour, because I suspect he'll go wherever the votes are.

Many LGBT+ people fear Boris Johnson as PM – here's what he can do to change that
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-lgbt-rights-voting-record-equality-prime-minister-tory-a9016916.html

Johnson’s record is not, however, without its blemishes. In January 2018, shortly after he became Foreign Secretary, a series of 20 year-old media columns resurfaced in which he wrote insultingly about “tank-topped bumboys” and attacked “Labour’s appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools”.

Before his conversion to equal marriage, in a 2001 book, he wrote: “If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.”

Might The Queen say No?

We're not half as fucked as Boris and the Tories are going to be if he, and they, fail to deliver on their many extravagant promises.

The land is going to be flowing with milk and honey by the next election as I seem to recall.

Yeah.

9 years of tory govt - despite austerity we have a defecit of billions more than when labour were in govt.

Tory MPs are on record saying they want to privatise the nhs.

Time to stop reading the daily heil and the torygraph and pay attention.

YANBU

It'll be like the 70s brain drain all over again...

A general election could see us with farage as PM

Oh yes! And many MNetters shunned Theresa May.... 🤦‍♀️

We reap what we sow

It's a sad day for sure.
However I honestly think the alternative of sleazeball Hunt would be even worse.
Cant believe I'm even saying this (as a lifelong Labour supporter) but I wanted Gove as PM.
I also would like JC to resign as Labour leader and make way for someone more "electable" like Andy Burnham.

He’s a classical Liberal, I take some comfort in this.

I don't think he is a classical anything. He believes in finding a subject to fill tomorrow's column, and not much else.

He doesn't have theories about education or the economy or the health service or foreign policy. He just has a writing style that relies rather too heavily on Latin and an old fashioned turn of phrase.

It should've been Rory.

Boris cares about boris.

End of.

'Might the Queen say no?'

The Queen will do no such thing, she will fall into line and do what she is told to do rather than put her own position at risk. All the institutions are morally bankrupt and serve to prop up the elite, that goes for our hereditary Head of State too.