Boris Johnson- IS there anyone better?

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I’m not interested in politics or BJ, but really…is there anyone that could do any better?

The late, great Douglas Adams got it exactly right with this quote from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy:

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Almost anyone?

Problem with that is that by definition anybody who has held a cabinet position in the last 6 years is unfit for office.

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Exactly this.

Why are people assuming that Larry is a Tory?

I believe he is an independent.

The question is more, could anyone be worse? At this point, all I want is a competent and honest Prime Minister. Boris is neither.

All cats are tory, as much as I adore them. They look after themselves.

Dogs are definitely Labour, if you are happy so are they, no I don't have dogs.

Rory Stewart, Ruth Davidson and Ken Clarke are the only conservatives I have ever admired.

What a shit show but they will still win again.

Ben Wallace

God, not Mordaunt. Right wing and pretty divisive.

Despite the ridiculous belief they e tried to get us to believe - it's Johnson or Starmer.

Yes of course there is.

And if there really isn't anyone of the 350 MPs who could do a better job then I really don't think they have a keg to stand on re dissing the opposition either.

A book of nylon carpet samples

Half a pint of bin juice

A haggis in a suit

Several people have suggested Rory Stewart. Seems a nice sort of cove for a Tory.

... But, well, where did he go to school? And so what?

I have lived a life, which, for good or ill, brought me into contact with lots of the products of the, erh, expensive end of the English private school system, professionally and to some extent personally, socially, emotionally ...

There are certain attributes, I have found, shared by the alumni of the different schools. This is not a novel thought, by any means. Here's an old joke:
A Wykehamist, a Harrovian and an Etonian are at a party when a woman enters the room. The Wykehamist offers her a chair; the Harrovian fetches one; the Etonian sits in it.

-Be that as it may. In my experience - fairly broad, as I have said - you might have a good time with an Etonian; he will often be charming; but you certainly could never trust him as far as you can spit.

All Etonians? Maybe not. But a good rule of thumb all the same.

Sorry, Rory.

A garlic bread on a plate would be better than that nob.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

I have no idea why this notion - that they've been pushing for some time - gained any traction at all. LOADS of currently serving Tory MPs could do a better job than that lazy, amoral, dishonourable, lying twat.

Literally anyone.
Except maybe Priti Patel, Grant Shapps or Suella Braverman.

Ben Wallace being heavily backed on the exchanges

Ben Wallace has a bad voting record.
Even Tory voting dh said ' hope it's not him' !
(Mind you , he is upset that that BJ has gone )

I can't stand Rory Stewart. He's cornered the market in the worthy, virtuous, principled guy act.
I'd be on with Tobias Elwood, Tom T, Ben Wallace but he's best left where he is doing a decent job at the moment to avoid a complete muppet getting that role.

Anything is better then a lying racist, islamphobic, sexist, classist knob tbh

Scottish here.

Thank god for Nicola.

Boris' departure will just leave room for the Tories to do as they want and blame Boris for any mess.

You're not far wrong, as somebody from a lower middle class West of Scotland upbringing.

I've also never met a Harrovian I didn't like... Etonians are a different story.

She's no better than Boris, don't start thinking we are better off up here. We aren't. Realistically all the parties are shit. We need a restart on politics, no allowing 'mates' to get deals, no abusers, no one with a criminal record, no one power hungry, people with intelligence etc. Basically eliminates everyone currently in politics..

I met a Harrovian at Oxford interviews who moaned constantly about how it was a shit school and his parents had let him down by sending him there.

A rant directed at someone who went to one of the worst comprehensive schools in the country.

He didn't get in.