Sajid Javid just resigned

[achillestoes]

That’s all.

So Red he is planning on telling people he is resigning but has no intention to do so.

Well he has not resigned yet................

he is stalling!! There is no getting him out of there 😆

Agree, and the minister for the Cabinet Office says he doesn't know and wouldn't preempt the statement

I just read that as ‘Cabaret Office’ and it really made me laugh. Welcome to the show!!

Perfect. Funnily enough I was just thinking how theatrical this all is. Greatest Show on Earth ...

It would not surprise me!!!

Money makes their world go round...

I expect there will be celebratory Friday drinks for lots of relieved Tories tomorrow now he's finally caved.

I'm not a Tory, pleased a man with so little integrity has gone but now wondering who on earth we'll get next!

Nah, it was inexcusable stupidity. He was told well in advance that people would leave, that it wasn't going to be a choice between unvaccinated and vaccinated care workers but unvaccinated care workers and unfilled vacancies, and he was too arrogant to accept it. That one terrible decision has significantly exacerbated the bed blocking problem in the NHS.

@ApplesandBunions

It’s not the decision I would have made, but it was an extraordinary situation.

It was an extraordinary situation that presented him with one clearly wrong decision and one clearly right decision. He made the clearly wrong one, and the NHS suffered for it.

@ApplesandBunions

I understand your perspective. I’m more forgiving of mistakes made during that period.

I do not forgive that one, especially because there's no reason to think he wouldn't be that arrogant again. He got perilously close to making the same mistake with the NHS too. That arrogance is troubling.

He did change his mind re NHS

I remember being very against it (and many disagreeing with me) and I was glad he reassessed and changed the outcome

Eventually, after having caused lots of completely avoidable trouble and work for an already struggling organisation. I do remember your posts.

Is he actually resigning now - I am not sure that he actually mentioned it?

Nor me Melrose he just said from next week they would start looking to replace him.

I think he will do everything he can to stay on. I think we are in dangerous times.

I agree. The Tory party’s job now is to evict him immediately.

Mentioning Ukraine in the leaving speech is worrying imo. When would be a bad time to install a new PM...when we are at war.

He was always going to mention Ukraine, it's his default.

Also, there have been loads of wars where the UK replaced the PM in the middle of it. WW2, for example. It's not a concern in itself.

It didn’t seem to be a problem for us when Churchill took over. Of course we were actually at war then - unlike now.

Who would benefit from him staying til Autumn? No one. He must go immediately. Every day he remains there is detrimental to the country let alone the party. What a disaster. If he won't go then they must use whatever means; 1922 ? to oust him.

Get ready folks for savage austerity, tax cuts and a bonfire of social care policy/ levelling up/NHS/benefits funds and everything else Boris has pledged to do.
The rolling money train Boris was so intent on delivering to level up that so incensed the party has had the brakes screeched on.
I hope you are all prepared for what is coming next.
The next leader will have to ‘prove’ that they have listened and are ready to back strict conservatism, enough to make Maggie Thatcher look like a hippie socialist.

Yikes

Provence you may well be right as much as the left hated Johnson he loved to spend, and he had strong detractors in his own party who didn’t like it