Why the fuck is Boris Johnson still Prime Minister?

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Fucksake. I mean seeing minister after minister wheeled out to defend the indefensible in the media rounds. Do they have no shame? Prattling on about how it was an 'essential part of leadership' to be a Toastmaster to an illegal piss-up. No, leadership was the Queen sat alone at a funeral, like so many of her subjects had to do. Not carrying on with your unprofessional boozy work culture and then have your team crow about how they 'got away with it' when they successfully didn't vomit in front of the cameras there for another press conference telling everyone how important it was to stick to the rules.

Johnson knew it wasn't right to have birthday parties when he personally wrote to a kid saying they were right to not have theirs, but then thought it was just fine to have one of his own and then announce that all rules had been followed to Parliament? (The police disagree, as does anyone who was forced to cancel their own celebrations).

Telling people that it was his duty to have a party for leaving colleagues while at the same time people couldn't be with dying family?

And now they are having the gall to say that he has accepted full responsibility? How? That sort of statement is followed by a resignation, not a 'now let's forget about it and move on'. How has he demonstrated that he has done anything apart from his utmost to weasel out of taking any sort of responsibility, to the point of asking Sue Gray to give up on her report? The report that that he told the rest of us that we had to wait months for the outcome of to find out what he already knew.

He says he wants to deliver what the British people want. Polls said yesterday that a majority want him to resign. Get the fuck on with it then.

But polls also showed that only a tiny minority of people actually believe he has the integrity to do the right thing (learned from bitter experience).

So what, the British people are stuck with this craven, corrupt liar as leader?

Well no. He could be no-confidenced by his MPs. What the fuck are they waiting for? Do they think it is to their benefit to have him shitting over public office every day? 'Oh but they can't think of anyone better'. What exactly does that say about the state of the Tory party if that's true?

Cannot stand seeing his face, hearing his pathetic lies, seeing his shitty schtick any more. JUST FUCK OFF BORIS.

Fuck knows mate

Wow exactly 50/50 on the voting!

I agree but many think he can do no wrong 🙄

In a democracy those that best represent who and what a nation is are elected and kept in power.

Oh, but he has to do important war things. We couldn't possibly change PMs while that's going on.

Well said!

yanbu it sickens me after what my family went through in covid restrictions whilst they were all acting like that

It's like HP is Xfactor now and people would rather have entertainment than a PM.

The UK has the Prime Minister that it so richly deserves. Both are equally vain, deluded and declining.

This type of post appears everyday , maybe just read some of those

Hear, hear!
or is it here, here?
anyway like you OP I cannot believe the date of our government

He's a raging sociopath. He would rather die than resign.

I genuinely have no idea. Think what you like about the Tories, but they've been pretty quick in the past in jettisoning PMs whom they thought would lose them the next election. Quite why they all seem intent on defending this one is a mystery.

Don’t know what depths he has to sink to before he goes. Speaks volumes about the ones keeping him there.

We know why. The tory backbenchers are afraid of losing their majorities.

And sufficient numbers of people will say

He got Brexit done
We should move on
They're all as bad as each other
But Corbyn
But Starmer

Take your pick. It doesn't matter what he does. People with no moral compass, be it voters or backbenchers, will justify his remaining in power.

Of course by saying this I'm apparently preventing people from having a different opinion

He is a disgusting excuse for a human being. He makes me sick. He's the first person I've actually thought 'I hate him'.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain?CMP=share_btn_link

This article really sums him up

Well said OP. I'm so angry and depressed by it .Ashamed to be British.

I think he’s being kept on as the fall guy when they (Tories) have to make a huge sacrificial display to stay in power.

Lots of stupid people in the country

Hopefully it'll be a Wicker Man-type thing.

Of course. Voting for him once is one thing. Planning to vote for him again makes you either stupid, self serving, unprincipled or all three.

Because the whole Tory Government is morally bankrupt - interested only in keeping their jobs.

Unbelievable that people think Johnson is making decisions on his own re the Ukraine situation - he'd be doing nothing without the MOD - and that's who is steering, not Johnson.
Seriously worrying that a government partying, with suitcases of alcohol, through a national emergency is in control of anything.

But Starmer

Yeah but we're 2 years away from a general election, so it's not like it's Starmer or Johnson. They can take their pick from their massive majority of MPs. There must be some Tory MP that is more acceptable to the party (and the electorate) than Boris Fucking Johnson.

They can't believe he's going to win an election for them now.

My mh is still struggling from the effects of lockdowns and every day I have to live with the impact on my life that the building safety crisis has had too. I can't understand how he still has the job. It seems all MPs must be corrupt and feel he represents them well as they still tolerate support him.