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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%
  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
Johnson is reportedly refusing to resign, and so more Cabinet resignations are now inevitable.

We all know that Johnson is an absolute disgrace, but now he seems hellbent on destroying what's left of his credibility. Shameful.
Conservatives and a power hungry narcissistic leader. An iconic duo.
 
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Hurray.

Can't wait for the next self-serving useless ****-wit to take over.

Be interesting to see what the pollsters say at the moment. I'm not sure who benefits (in parliament) if an early GE is called.
 
He's staying on until the Autumn because for some reason a leadership contest needs to take three months.
 
At ****ing last, hopefully some of the idiots in cabinet will be gone along with him in due course.
No-one who backed him should ever sit in the cabinet again.
He's staying on until the Autumn because for some reason a leadership contest needs to take three months.
I've literally got no idea how that could possibly work.

Alas I reckon it will be Raab C. Brexit in charge for a few months.
 
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No-one who backed him should ever sit in the cabinet again.
100% agree
I've literally got no idea how that could possibly work.

Alas I reckon it will be Raab C. Brexit in charge for a few months.
I suspect it's down to the summer recess (which shouldn't be a thing anyway), so it will be more of a 'technically still leader until they find the least/most odious (depending on which way the tory breeze is going) replacement over the summer'. At least the in-fighting and watching Gove find someone new to back-stab will be a mild distraction while the country heads further into the mire this lot have caused.
 
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No-one who backed him should ever sit in the cabinet again.

I've literally got no idea how that could possibly work.

Alas I reckon it will be Raab C. Brexit in charge for a few months.
It's stupid really. When Nixon resigned he left immediately, not in three months' time.
 
Johnson doesn't have a Government - he literally cannot govern, and yet he seems to be expecting a slew of his own MPs to basically change their minds and pretend like nothing has happened for three months? That is more deluded than his decision not to quit already. Johnson should take a long holiday, starting today.

It's a bit like a man standing in front of a firing squad being asked 'Any last requests?' and him replying, 'Yes, please don't shoot me until September'...
 
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He's hoping three months is long enough for forgiveness then he can carry on ruling like nothing happened.

Right-Wingers: Aww, he's learnt his lesson. Let's give him another ten years!
 
I'm guessing that most of those who've stayed loyal to Boris are only doing so because they know that under anyone else they don't have a job. Looking at you Nadine.
 
It's stupid really. When Nixon resigned he left immediately, not in three months' time.
Nixon resigned because if he didn't he would have been impeached for actual crimes. He lost his political support and could not survive a vote of the Senate. There is no suggestion Boris has committed any crime. I have it on the best authority, this forum.
 
He's staying on until the Autumn because for some reason a leadership contest needs to take three months.
In fairness, party leadership is an internal issue for the Tories. If they need time to sort themselves out, then that's fair enough. Whilst the MP's we elect are still present in Parliament, and the one party still has the majority and can form a government (even of clowns and criminals), there's not any necessity in the process for him to go sooner, a bunch of knee-jerk policies and pledges from an already divided house really isn't going to help the country much more than chucking Boris out immediately.
 
Does she believe in checks notes French space lasers? If not, she's a huge improvement over MTG.
Nope, but she did claim to be a conduit to God, and her 'why are you asking me that question' interview puts her on a roughly equal intelkecutal level.



 
Couldn't even bring himself to actually resign in public. His speech makes no mention of it.


I guess this is what happens when someone rugby tackles a child during a charity football match and gets cheered on for it.
 
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All he did was go on about Brexit, vaccines and the Ukraine, and made little to no acknowledgement of why he's stepping down. Also seems to have found a loophole whereby he's not as actually resigning as Prime Minister, but as Conservative leader...
 
All he did was go on about Brexit, vaccines and the Ukraine, and made little to no acknowledgement of why he's stepping down.
Yep, a shocking non-apology even by political standards.
Also seems to have found a loophole whereby he's not as actually resigning as Prime Minister, but as Conservative leader...
Once they have a new leader they will automatically become PM, but he certainly seems to be trying to hang on as long as he can.
 
Once they have a new leader they will automatically become PM, but he certainly seems to be trying to hang on as long as he can.
In Slovakia prior to the last general election the former Crime Minister was Robert Fico and he stepped down because of the zillionth corruption scandal he was involved in and Peter Pellegrini became Prime Minister but Fico was still the head of their political party.

Don't rule anything out from the unflushable nugget.
 
In Slovakia prior to the last general election the former Crime Minister was Robert Fico and he stepped down because of the zillionth corruption scandal he was involved in and Peter Pellegrini became Prime Minister but Fico was still the head of their political party.

Don't rule anything out from the unflushable nugget.
He'd need to change UK electoral law to do so, however I'm not ruling out him attempting that either. After all when his party was found guilty of ethics breaches he fired the head of the ethics investigation and changed the Parliamentary rules around ethics!
 


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It's the sheer childishness of people like Johnson and Trump that really pisses me off. Everything I grew up believing in - honesty, integrity, decency, fair play, maturity, treating people with respect, kindness, humility, honour... these ****s have NONE of that. Win at all costs, that's all they care about.
 
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He failed at Brexit by making promises to northern Ireland that he knew he couldn't keep

He failed in the pandemic over and over again creating as much of the problem as he one step too late corrected while contracts for PPE and check and trace magically when to party donors.

He broke the law. And was fined. An actual criminal in office. Am I being fair? Perhaps I'm letting my liberal democrat nature be to harsh on the old boy.
 
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