Has Boris just had enough of being PM?

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Seems to me that Boris has has enough of being PM and that is why he is now saying that he's not doing it without Dom.

Thoughts?

Yes Pilates lots of people here seem to.think Boris is a mate- and relatable.

autocorrect. pukkatea

@Pukkatea I'm sat here idly wondering if you auntie is still as amused as she was in December

Re Stamer - It's not really about people getting on board with Brexit - Brexit has actually happened, we're out of the EU albeit we're still playing by their rules there's nothing to be done about it other than damage limitation now.

I agree that BJ wanted the title but not the work that came with it. I don't agree that a baby changed his life view; he's had several babies in the past and remained selfish and arrogant. Why would this one make any difference?

Don't know about Johnson's thinking, but I've certainly had enough of him and his useless, corrupt set of cronies who think they don't have to follow the rules that they make the electorate follow and live in a complete fantasy land about how easy leaving Europe will be.

It's such a shame people like the pp's auntie thinks Boris is funny and would be a mate. Boris wouldn't pee on her if she was on fire.

Boris is only PM in name. Cummings is the one in post, Boris is his puppet and can’t do it without him.

@Hingeandbracket

I don't get this.

Boris can't fire Cummings because Cummings has "dirt" on him. Bollocks - even if true, in the current climate there is NOTHING that Boris or his pals could do or have done in the past that Tories and their apologists wouldn't just write off with obfuscation and lies - so why would Boris care? Doesn't make any sense. Worrying about past crimes and their reputation isn't something these people do.

No statue of limitations on sexual assault investigations...as a number of celebrities have found.

People on MN seem to be in some parallel universe.
He was voted in to get Brexit done as we had spent approaching 4 years arguing about it.

He has been extremely ill, wasn't fit to start with, and is having to deal with a global pandemic.

It's as if the pandemic and brexit happened 10 years ago.
And now there is a looming economic disaster - a really serious one - which no country seems to have any ideas how to fix.
I would definitely buggar off if I was him.

maybe DC knows how many kids BJ has

@chipsandpeas - Classic! Please accept the award for this week's funniest comment.

Ewww flasher☹️

It was in the media at the end of last year

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummings-mary-wakefield-charlotte-edwards-boris-johnson-groping-allegation-a9126331.html

I think it probably has turned out to be more difficult and require more actual work then he expected.

I think he thought he could be the figurehead and make some amusing remarks from time to time but employ others to do the work, which is what he's done but the people still require him to turn more often than he expected to have to.

Did he want the job or did he want the position Primrose?

I liked the way he dismissed Robert Peston last night, even if it was over Cummings
Really, @AlternativePerspective ? You liked him deciding who could and couldn’t ask follow up questions based on how much he felt like answering the question? I thought it was disgraceful and makes him completely unsuited for a role in a democratic government. Peston’s question was excellent - Cummings’ whole defence rests on his circumstances being somehow exceptional. We all know they weren’t. Hancock knows they weren’t. He got cross about the nasty electorate having the chance to hear that the defence is nonsense.

I think, given that they actually don’t give a stuff what we think about them that whatever Cummings has must illegitamise the election - remember he and Kuensberg apparently knew the result of the postal ballot before polls closed...

He thought he could come in and ‘get Brexit done’ and then piss off. He didn’t actually want to do any real work.

I dont think he ever thought "getting Brexit done" was his job, he had people like DC to do that, which is something of a problem for them all now.

Genuinely shocked anyone could look at anything Hancock has done in the past year and think he’d make a decent PM

He’s deplorable!

A brilliant line from Martina Hyde in the Guardian:

"The thing about Johnson is that he desperately wanted to become prime minister, and he desperately wanted to have been prime minister. It’s just the bit in between he struggles with."

The problem for Johnson is he loves all the trappings of being PM, the country retreats, the state dinners, being the top dog, excercising in Buckingham Palace, being chauffeur driven etc. But he doesn't want to do the actual work involved.

Jeremy Hunt would have done well, in so far as I don't know him and glean what I do know from recent panel appearances.

He's just like trump then, it's all about glorifying himself ☹️

I'm just here for the deletion message.

As you were....

Hancock is a useless idiot. The cheek of only allowing 'special" journalists like Laura a follow up as they know they won't ask anything taxing.

I've no doubt there are numerous dodgy skeletons but I don't think Cummings needs them. Marina Hyde had it nailed in the Grauniad:

The thing about Johnson is that he desperately wanted to become prime minister, and he desperately wanted to have been prime minister. It’s just the bit in between he struggles with

A brilliant line from Martina Hyde in the Guardian:
"The thing about Johnson is that he desperately wanted to become prime minister, and he desperately wanted to have been prime minister. It’s just the bit in between he struggles with."

Spot on. He could do with a really good advisor to guide him through this and keep the public on board!