What will you do if you wake up next week to the news that Johnson is the new PM?

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Celebrate YABU
Not celebrate YANBU

😑<—make that kind of face, exhale wearily, shake my head and start thinking about the serious prospect of civil unrest. I don’t think the public will stand for it.

I'd be celebrating that Snake Sunak not leader.

Objectively if the tories want not to get wiped out he’s their best shot. He’ll lose a lot of Southern seats to the Lib Dems, but he’d keep the Brexit voting Northern, Midlands and Welsh seats that flipped last time and Labour will struggle to make significant gains anywhere. No major change either way in Scotland or NI. Likely a hung Parliament, which is the best the tories can hope for.

Anyone else, particularly Sunak, likely sees a lot of those seats fall to Labour. I have no idea what draws largely working class people to one silver spooned millionaire that hates them over another, but something does.

Oh and probably despair that people don’t understand tactical voting, and that without it the Tories always win. But that’s a permanent bugbear.

People don't forget being unable to be with dying loved ones whilst Johnson partied quite so easily - let alone his casual condoning of sexual molesters and constant, constant lying.

Why so defensive @MarshaBradyo ? I’m not in the UK either and we’re watching the news wondering wtf is going on..Boris coming back from his holiday in the Caribbean, ready to be voted in again is actually so funny you could not make it up.

Keep calm and carry on.

@Tukmgru BJ, as PM, lost several by elections, inc some in the north.

Many "red wall" seats have tiny tory majorities.

The report into BJ may well be very damaging, forcing him out of office (again)

UK cannot afford another Tory farcical PM election.

Oh I know everyone is watching the U.K. blah blah.

Meanwhile people here are mostly getting on happily. If you find it engaging enough to watch crack on I don’t care.

Sunak is too rich to win the next election. Anyway MN is largely populated by Labour supporters so I wasn't expecting anyone on here to be pro Boris! This thread was presumably only set up for some Boris bashing.

Still sad that the only chance Labour have of winning is for the only other viable political party to be utterly crap. Kier Starmer is hopeless, not as hopeless as Jeremy sad bloke corbyn, but still hopeless. Angela Rayner is a rough as they come. The Conservatives will still win the next election if Boris is in power.

Yeah but it’s not a competition who has the shittiest country or anything. The whole world is a bit of a shit show right now, isn’t it..

I will get on with it, the same way the majority of posters on this thread will do, despite all the talk of protests and marches.

Exactly this , I will get on with it and so will a lot of posters on this thread.

I would be disgusted at the Tory Party. They know he is a lying, cheating, grotbag who holds his colleagues and the electorate in deep contempt, and if they still choose to vote for him it tell me everything I need to know about their moral compass and their values. Imagine giving your stamp of approval to that. No way in a million years would I vote Tory with Johnson at the helm. No way.

Join the rest of the world in thinking we have all gone down a rabbit hole of insanity.
Wait for his next big lie. He can't help himself.

Sunak is too rich to win the next election. Anyway MN is largely populated by Labour supporters so I wasn't expecting anyone on here to be pro Boris! This thread was presumably only set up for some Boris bashing. Smile

Judging by some of the threads on Mumsnet, I think many espouse Labour ideals, but then brag about their earnings house much house is worth etc. But then they secretly vote Tory.

Riot

I think many espouse Labour ideals, but then brag about their earnings house much house is worth etc. But then they secretly vote

You need to be more than Mumsnet middle class rich to benefit from the Tory party.

I’d join the riots.

Well, he royally fucked up everything the last time. Why do you think it would be different this time? (And don’t give us all that shite about getting the big calls right. He fucked up Brexit and got us the worst possible deal it was possible to get, he fucked up COVID and loads of his mates got backhanders in dodgy contracts - that cost us billions, and he literally broke the law and was at the centre of a damning report into standards on public life). If he’s the best the Tory party have got then they’re not fit for purpose and we need a general election.

You need to be more than Mumsnet middle class rich to benefit from the Tory party.

Yet loads have voted in past for the Tory's.

@Againstmachine yup "aspirational" voters, think that voting Tory somehow makes them richer/higher class etc, but chances are for most Tory voters they're not the ones the Tories are interested in.

Sit back and wait for him to self destruct again. He won't change.

It's a bit of a risk...but I'm hoping that if he gets back, it will be the best way of us having a general election as soon as possible.