Westminstenders: Operation Yellowhammer 1q

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Boris Johnson is clearing the decks for a leadership challenge.

I guess that means that the Brexit we get all depends on what George, Michael and Boris decide over lunch and how good Operation Yellowhammer is.

Beat me to it, red .Captions?

Boris Johnson says he would rather stay in the EU than accept May's 'humiliating' Brexit plan

right on cue

Please, please, please can someone be near enough to Nadine Dorries to catch her reaction ...

I promise, I'll go to church every Sunday from now on.

The whole thing just sends my anxiety levels rocketing. I just can’t see how it is not a massive dereliction of government duty to even consider wreaking this level of havoc on its citizens. For an advisory, non-binding referendum FFS!
If there is no access to vital medicines, they will be responsible for the death of innocent citizens caught up in a nightmare. How do you even justify that to yourself as a possible outcome?

But chequers is humiliating. He is right

Boris is doing a 'Statler and Waldorf' sketch as a single stand up.
Shame that a fraction of what he says is true.

Boldygoing

Seriously? Your overreaction beggars belief

Shall we organise a sweepstake on how long it will be before he says he wants to stay in the EU.
He's a twat.

He’s a politician

I expect our politicians to be pragmatic. The eu need to be negotiated with by someone who won’t roll over. In that respect Boris is miles ahead of may, or that scruffy chap with the red rosette

I loathe Boris Johnson so much.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I just wonder how far you can push people before they react.

At the moment we in the UK are still acting as a cohesive group , looking around , waiting for someone to react.

Someone will react - and then all he'll will break out.

And Boris Johnson is a thug.

No more. No less. I'm sick of being gaslighted that he is anything other than a thug and that Brexit isn't an avoidable disaster.

I am very, very angry.

My children will suffer because of this. Not just me - my children. And I am rapidly concluding I will want someone to pay for that.

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this.

We suffer them gladly, Bellini as a stunning Irish writer once said.

Shall we organise a sweepstake on how long it will be before he says he wants to stay in the EU.

It's quite possible to see a future where Boris spins things as "this lot have handled it so badly, we'd be idiots to leave like this. Now if I were PM ....."

After all we know few people actual bother to think about what he says - or any of the Brexiteers.

A Boris backdown (you'd never guess that I have never once written for a newspaper, would you ?) might also be the key to keeping the more bonkers Brexiteers onside, if he can trick persuade them that this is all part of his masterplan to really stick it to the EU. So they're not humiliated but vindicated. Especially if he put it on the side of a bus.

Given how the past 24 months have panned out, you'd be a braver man than I to call "nonsense" just yet.

@DGR, still hankering after Simon Murray (I think it was, juke box jury)?
The trouble with Boris is that he is both miles ahead AND miles behind Mrs May, AND everybody else. He is Mr everywhere and nowhere at the same time, personified.
Like it or not, serious, successful world leaders are at least consistent.

I did ask a few days ago what peoples thoughts about backing Boris if it means we end up cancelling Brexit ?

Like it or not, serious, successful world leaders are at least consistent.

Or, at least, consistently inconsistent

cat another great post from you. Absolutely agree.
The whole thing just sends my anxiety levels rocketing quite agree too. Hostile environment has been rolled out for the 65million. .

DGR I wouldn't trust him. In answer to your question. I wouldn't trust him.

@DGRossetti - I've asked myself the same question about that other twat, Corbyn. All I can tell myself is that politicians are temporary, Brexit is forever.
I really feel sick thinking about it.

DGR I wouldn't trust him. In answer to your question. I wouldn't trust him.

It's not about trust (or rather I wasn't asking if you trusted him).

If the price of definitely not leaving the EU/remaining/cancelling Brexit was BoJo for PM, would you accept it ?

I wonder what his latest outburst has done for the shy remainers ? And most critically, what are the numbers for the 1922 committee ?

@DGRossetti - I've asked myself the same question about that other twat, Corbyn.

I don't trust Corbyn in exactly the same way I don't trust Boris.

But, if a Corbyn PM meant abandoning this Brexit madness, I'd be carrying him into no.10 on my shoulders.

I wouldn't trust him to definitely do it, DGR.

The awful thing is, none of those in power actually want to halt Brexit.

None of them.

All of them are cynically eyeing it as an opportunity.

Chaos = opportunity.

For us, disaster.

Which should, of course, have the UK out on the streets right now.

If there were anyone who were capable of stopping this, and actually intended to, I too would be carrying them to no. 10.

But there really isn't anyone.

Musical version.

It is quite something that we cannot trust either party nowadays, isn't it?

Could we ever ?

Maybe before my time. But as long as I can remember ... (admittedly growing up 2 doors down from a Tory councillor who was a real piece of work may have coloured my views. Although we got one up on him).