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?

@mbosnz

it's clear that he's working way above his ability.

I'm assuming we're using the verb 'work' in a very elastic sense? It must be so hard having to do any of it, when you've been so adept at avoiding so much of it, of course. . .

Quite. The committee proceedings was embarrassing to watch. MPs from various parties tore into him and he really didn't bear up well.

I don't get DC helping him so much, if someone had sexually harassed my wife I wouldn't be going out my way to get them promoted.

Weirdos.

Fed up of this lie being repeated as fact now. Labour voters didnt go over to the tories in huge amounts. They just didnt vote.

And I cant help but notice conservatives labelling anything that backs up their delusions as 'a refreshing post'

I wish it was the case he'd had enough of the job - as I've said on other threads, Boris thinks he was born for the job. Even considering his pretty disastrous history of lies and fridge hiding, why he's backing DC at the expense of his own (and his party's) reputation is unclear!

"Amused at the sight of many Guardian readers repeating, copying and pasting the same thing."

Shocked at the sight of Tory MPs doing exactly that over the last couple of days. Aren't they allowed to respond to constituents on their own?

Even my elderly and mild-mannered MIL (lives 200 miles away, dutifully self-isolating for 12 weeks, we haven't seen her since Xmas as a result) starts every phone conversation with the DC thing. Never knowingly mentioned politics before in the twenty odd years I've known her.

Given the amount of 'cut through' and that the number of Tory MPs who've called for DC's resignation is now apparently in the forties, I am frankly amazed at how badly BJ's handling this. Whatever his reasons, they must be pretty compelling.

Appalling liaison committee performance just now too - astonishing that he appeared not to know about 'no recourse to public funds'.

Be carefully what you wish for!!

Poor Boris all he every wanted was be be top dog and be the new Churchill!!

Then he finally gets the job and this shit all happens !! He really is a bit of a rabbit fought in the headlights!!

Only another four years before the nightmare ends, and he can become the host of have I got news for you, and do the after dinner speech rounds!!

Im finding the whole thing fascinating and horrifying in turns. I only wish I was actually watching from well outside britain but unfortunately I have to keep living here.
Surely a blind man on a galloping horse could see that Boris was no good for the job no matter what Jolly japes he played and how much he ruffled his hair for the cameras.And having secured the position its not a surprise that Bojo the clown really isnt up to the job of being a statesman given that grown up thinking ,speaking and acting is required at all times.
Unfortunately I cant see anyone in parliament at all who could step into the position.
Keir Starmer looks the part except I just cant get out of my mind the idea that he is a boozy 3rd rate 60s comic. Ive no idea why - he seems okay but every time I see him I cant concentrate on his words as I expect him to sounds every so slightly drunk.

I did expect Boris to step down after being hospitalised though. think he might have if it was his choice. Probably wasnt though.

I do wonder if Theresa May is watching all this chortling manically into a mojito. I do hope so.

He thought it would be a piece of piss. He acted like he did Brexit but just edited a bit of May’s. He would then implement it, take all the credit and be on easy street.

He is massively out of his depth.

I don't think he's remotely fed up of being PM, he's just fed up of lesser people chirping at him when clearly he, and his cronies, know better than we do what's right and wrong and we should just accept their word.

I still think of him as the bumbling posh idiot on 'Have I got news for you' that they kept inviting back for a laugh....

Yes Mrs May did all the work on "his" Brexit deal. I do hope she's enjoying this too, although I suspect she's devastated at just how badly he's managing things.

Yes Mrs May did all the work on "his" Brexit deal. I do hope she's enjoying this too, although I suspect she's devastated at just how badly he's managing things.

Whatever else you might say about her, I do honestly believe she worked according to the dictates of her (stubborn) conscience, a concept with which Bozo is clearly unacquainted with, and according to the will of her constituency - again something he seems to find alien.

It was more of a vote against Jeremy Corbyn than for the conservatives in many cases

Keir Starmer looks the part except I just cant get out of my mind the idea that he is a boozy 3rd rate 60s comic. Ive no idea why - he seems okay but every time I see him I cant concentrate on his words as I expect him to sounds every so slightly drunk.
That's so weird.

Boris Johnson is the dog that caught his own tail. He chased and chased that job and now he’s got it he has no idea what to to with it, and now he’s screwed up the country and relies on Cummings feeding him scoobie snacks and telling him he’s a good boy in order to appear even vaguely competent.

I agree with lyra, he likes being PM but he is irritated because the peasants don't just shut up and do as we're told

People are naive imv - we are heading into the worst economic crash possibly ever. Whoever is running the country will get the blame - I would def happily retire from a prominent position , be careful what you wish for, he might go and who is there with good knowledge and experience to take over - no one I can see, maybe Gove.

@NeedToKnow101

Those rumours posted above; if they're in general circulation, they can't really hurt Johnson can they. And if they're not, and he's essentially being held to ransom about it, that's blackmail and pretty shitty behaviour. Why not just make the allegations public at the time? Blackmail is not a good look.

We know Cummings doesn't care how things look,

I don't think history will be kind to Boris.
He wanted to be the new Churchill, instead since the DC scandal I expect that he will now personally be blamed for the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people, like a mass murderer.

I think since he cannot boring himself to fire DC he needs to resign himself as I don't believe anyone has confidence in him to manage this pandemic any more.

Johnson wants to be Winston Churchill.
He doesn’t want to put up with the boring bits.
Everyone has forgotten that the rules don’t apply to him: he’s special.

Bring on the revolution. See what happens to him, and others like him.

No @PrimeroseHillAnnie , it wasn't his accent, it was his racist bullshit and making them think that Europe and 'free movement' was the basis of all their problems.

The fact that working class communities voted Tory still astounds me.

As for the PP who wants Matt Hancock in charge - I hope you were joking. He is AWFUL and a liar. The way he laughed in that Sky interview, who would want that for the PM? If it had to be any of them, then make it Rishi - although he's also clearly a sheep with his 'support' Tweeting of Cummings.

Theresa May must be having a good old laugh at all this. She had her faults but I can't help think she would have handled this a million times better - certainly wouldn't be missing from the public eye for a week at s time.