He’s not going anywhere is he, old Barnacle Boris?

[Zoom101]

No matter what is thrown at him, Boris is not going to do the decent thing and step down is he? He’ll cling on until he’s pushed and even then I imagine he’ll stage a sit-in at Number 10.

Surely even he can see his behaviour is appalling and he’s not fit to run the country? So depressing.

The Met are investigating him (should be reason enough to resign…) & if they find evidence (the photos etc) and fine him, he’ll have to resign.

If Trump has taught people anything, it's that you can basically now ride out any scandal. Attention spans are short, and new scandals will come along quickly enough as a distraction.

@LeQuern

The Met are investigating him (should be reason enough to resign…) & if they find evidence (the photos etc) and fine him, he’ll have to resign.

Exactly this. I’m public sector, if I was under investigation I’d be suspended or on special duties.

@jessy100

Where the fuck is Starmer and his pathetic excuse for an opposition. He's spent more of his time trying to stab Cornyn in the back than challenge Johnson!

Here we go. And it only took about a dozen posts. 🤷‍♀️

Apparently Johnson has said it would take a Panzer tank to remove him from Downing Street. Anyone know where we could get one?

I would say the Jimmy Savile sneer to Starmer demonstrates that he is making progress and has got under BJ's skin.
That was a seriously unacceptable comment.

@Spookytooth

I would say the Jimmy Savile sneer to Starmer demonstrates that he is making progress and has got under BJ's skin. That was a seriously unacceptable comment.

I thought he had a valid point, that if Starmer claims Johnson is responsible for everything that happens in Downing Street, Starmer is equally to blame for the decision not to prosecute Savile while he was head of the CPS.

Either the buck stops with the man at the top, or it doesn't.

The Conservative party are notoriously ruthless at axing leaders past their sell by date. I think they are hesitating here because there is no obvious replacement and Johnson is the face of Brexit. If they get rid of him what does that say about Brexit.

The May election are key, if that’s a disaster then he’s gone.

@OverByYer

he's bloody Teflon. I don't know what it will take.

They used to call Tony Blair Teflon Tony didn't they ? but this bloke takes the biscuit on all counts. I wonder if Carrie will steam the wall paper off No 10s wall to take with them when they do go ?

I would say the Jimmy Savile sneer to Starmer demonstrates that he is making progress and has got under BJ's skin.

Unfortunately it has also weaponised the far right, which has resulted in threats against Labour MPs. There's something seriously wrong when a Prime Minister takes actions that he knows will legitimise such behaviour.

Even if you give Johnson a free pass on what happened in the garden, he's most certainly responsible for events which happened in his flat. He is also responsible for non work people namely Carrie and Lulu Lytle being in the Cabinet office, where neither belong.

Re being teflon coated - so was Blair, until he wasn't. Then the teflon peeled off in a sheet, rather than being worn away with a thousand scratches.

He won't go of his own accord but he'll be forced out soon. The Tories aren't going to sleepwalk to an election defeat like Labour have with Corbyn or Milliband.

Behind the scenes the leadership machinations will be going on.

@Haffiana

The country deserves better than this.

The racist fucks of this country voted him in to Take Back Control. They have got exactly what they deserve.

What party are you a supporter of? I need to know because that kind of rhetoric turns me right off and does you zero favours.

I think the May elections will pivotal. If they’re the bloodbath I anticipate his feet won’t touch the ground.

The Sun are shying away from the Downing Street parties story not because of political loyalty to Johnson, but because they're up to their necks in it themselves - both because their deputy editor was employed at DS at the time and attended at least one illegal event and also because the Sun held a full-on Christmas bash of its own in Christmas 2020.

@Blossomtoes

I think the May elections will pivotal. If they’re the bloodbath I anticipate his feet won’t touch the ground.

I think you're right, Blossomtoes and the depressing thing is the Tories will probably do alright and win or keep seats in the elections.

The whole laughable Levelling Up business (who brought about much of the inequalities in the first place?) is a smoke screen, trotted out and designed purely to keep red wall voters on side and so it goes on.

Bullingdon boy Boris isn't going anywhere.

@Zoom101

I’ve got the Beatles tune Bungalow Bill stuck in my head now:-

Hey, Barnacle Bo
When will you go
Barnacle Bo

😂

Johnson is apparently singing "I will survive" to his new Director of Communications. Good way to conduct an interview.

Said Director of Communications went on to describe Johnson as "not a complete clown" - ringing endorsement there.

Just to demonstrate I'm not making this stuff up - it's so unfunny, I feel I need to.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60289339

the depressing thing is the Tories will probably do alright and win or keep seats in the elections

I don’t think they will. I reckon they’ll lose the seven London boroughs they still have and seats will be turning red and yellow all over the country. There’s also time for a lot more bodies to be exhumed between now and May.

@Blossomtoes

the depressing thing is the Tories will probably do alright and win or keep seats in the elections

I don’t think they will. I reckon they’ll lose the seven London boroughs they still have and seats will be turning red and yellow all over the country. There’s also time for a lot more bodies to be exhumed between now and May.

Hopefully.

What party are you a supporter of? I need to know because that kind of rhetoric turns me right off and does you zero favours.

@knittingaddict Why would anyone give a stuff what turns you on or off?

@Blossomtoes

I think the May elections will pivotal. If they’re the bloodbath I anticipate his feet won’t touch the ground.

Plus if they expect the local elections to be bad they can keep him till then to take the blame and then bin him.

@Blossomtoes

the depressing thing is the Tories will probably do alright and win or keep seats in the elections

I don’t think they will. I reckon they’ll lose the seven London boroughs they still have and seats will be turning red and yellow all over the country. There’s also time for a lot more bodies to be exhumed between now and May.

Mid term governments usually hemorrhage seats in the local elections, particularly unpopular ones (current polling is terrible).

If it wasn't for the circumstances of the recent by-election in Southend, i.e. other main parties not contesting, I think they could well have lost that seat, like they lost safe Tory seats last year in Surrey and Shropshire.

They're in trouble.

Even the infamous mumsnet toilet brush couldn't get rid of Boris.

@jessy100

Where the fuck is Starmer and his pathetic excuse for an opposition. He's spent more of his time trying to stab Cornyn in the back than challenge Johnson!

That's ridiculous and irrelevant.

@sausagerole is right. Johnson has no moral compass or integrity so he isn't going anywhere.

When this all kicked off I was convinced he wouldn’t ever have the decency to resign.

There’s 3 years til the next election, he and his cronies will be banking on the public forgetting about all this by then.

If the Tories really wanted him gone they would be submitting their letters for a vote of no confidence. But they’re not (well done are but not enough). So they clearly want him as leader for now at least.

Judging from their reluctance to investigate in the first place, there’s a good chance the MET investigation will fizzle out and find no firm conclusions.

If the Tories really wanted him gone they would be submitting their letters for a vote of no confidence. But they’re not (well done are but not enough). So they clearly want him as leader for now at least.

Key words being 'for now'.

He needs to somehow to turn things around but he's incompetent so he won't and he's been crippled by events: Covid, the Brexit reality (which he caused) and the cost-of-living crisis.

Jokes and blustering aren't getting him out of the mess this time.