The Tories? I'm shocked at the very idea, shocked, I tell you!

Almost certainly. He's in no danger from a general election for the next four years. Look at what happened to Maggie (spit) when she lost popular support, despite having won a landslide election victory three years earlier.

And it's nosecret that lot of Tories have a huge dislike for Johnson.

But were still stupid/cynical/misguided/spineless/clueless/sheeplike/grovelling to vote for someone who has long been a serial liar, has never actually achieved anything of substance (getting elected to office and then not doing anything with that office is not of substance), has long shifted opinion with the wind as long as it benefitted his own ego...

Who and what did they think they were electing?

A sucker who would take the blame when Brexit negotiations end in failure?

^That's a better explanation than any I can think of, but doesn't explain why my MP, a serious hard Brexiteer, supported him, 'cos she really, really, really wants Brexit.

He got rid of bendy buses!

And replaced them with Borisbuses that have pretty much all the same faults and then some.

Bendy busses are great, they use them in York for the Park and Ride.

Raab on Sky News spends two minutes not saying all votes should be counted in a democratic election.

Video in link.

https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/statu...75795142025222

And of course they have backtracked, again, over providing meals for children:

Marcus Rashford welcomes school holiday support climbdown

Welcome to government by headline :mad:

It's the right decision but the wrong process.

Still 50% better than Brexit...

Hang on you mean they agree that their previous policy to let children go hungry was wrong....

No, just unpopular.

Imagine the kind of people you must have to associate with for that to come as a surprise?

But Boris will deliver the no deal brexit she wants, and take the blame for it. Win win really to any sufficiently cynical brexiteer.

^Good point, I just don't think she's actually bright enough though, unless it's a cunning disguise....

Sadly part of his "appeal" is the still significant remnants of our class system.

I've met some of them.

My condolences.

Too true.

Mind, my MP has tried to hide her privileged background (married to minor local aristocracy and living in a manor house) by describing herself on election material as a "farmer's wife". Strictly speaking this might be seen as true, but the "farm" is not anything like the ones most hill farmers of northern Northumberland survive on...

And, as I've mentioned before, that other "public" school product, Cummings, D, went to the school in Durham City that wealthier folk sent their bairns who weren't clever enough to get into either of the 2 very good state grammar schools (one of which I attended).

Beats me why anyone is convinced by these characters...

Anne Marie Trevelyan? I wondered if she would get education secretary when FCO and DFID were merged, as there was speculation that would trigger a reshuffle. In the end it didn’t, and she now doesn’t have a Ministerial post.

I didn’t know partners of PMs had a say on government. But then again as both Dido Harding and Kate Bingham are given lucrative contracts due to being married to members of the government, it should come as no surprise.
And they laugh as they get away with it all - and it's our money, money every working person on these islands has paid in taxes. What a gravy train it is.
This has always been a corrupt country - from the days of the rotten boroughs and the purchasing of positions to the Profumo Affair and the Expenses Scandal - but today the corruption is about as blatant as it has ever been. The same elite screwing us as ever - but with a smirk.

Jake Berry prompted a backlash from the Northern Ballet after he suggested Accrington Stanley was the northern equivalent of the Royal Opera House

Jake Berry said opera and ballet was “at the heart of their culture for people living in southern England,” but in the north “it is our local football club”.
The Rossendale and Darwen MP even suggested Accrington Stanley was the northern equivalent of the Royal Opera House.
The former Northern Powerhouse minister made the point in a Commons debate demanding action to protect football clubs.

But his comments led to a furious backlash from the Northern Ballet, which tweeted: “We are disappointed that an MP and former government minister continues to perpetuate tropes that culture in the north is of less value than that in London.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...rners-22994543

I see Croydon Council has issued a section 114 notice, effectively going bankrupt.
Central government funding to Croydon has reduced by 50% since 2010.
But it's a mystery what has caused this, of course.

No mystery, it's Labour's fault for the USA economic crash of 2008.

You should probably make it clear that this is a quote from someone on twitter, and that they're responding to news that Carrie Symonds was responsible for Lee Cain leaving No. 10.

Here's the source of this quote

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/...44506075279366

Woohoo..."the old Boris"...after all, he was a massive improvement on this current one.
No similarity between them at all.
No....nope...none at all.

It's all the same ****.
Everything coming out of no 10 is blurring in to one huge pile of grey sludge.

they aren't even pretending anymore.

What difference will Cain leaving and another gangster replacing him make?

I have no idea. But without the context of what the person you were quoting without attribution was talking about, your quote was just a non-sequitur.

The old one who was sacked for lying several times?

The old one who can't count how many children he has?

The old one who was going to arrange for a fellow journalist to be beaten up?

The old one who thinks a quarter of a million pounds a year for scribbling some manure of the bovine for the Telegraph is chicken feed? (Man, swap jobs - when I had one - with me and do some OD assessments or my sister and look after terminally ill folk, and then live on a nurse's salary, even our respective Band 7 ones, you idle, useless excuse for a human!)

Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street by Christmas

Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings is expected to leave his position by the end of the year.

Mr Cummings told the BBC "rumours of me threatening to resign are invented", after speculation this week.

But he added that his "position hasn't changed since my January blog" when he said that he wanted to make himself "largely redundant" by the end of 2020.

And a senior Downing Street source said that Mr Cummings would be "out of government" by Christmas.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54925322

That would be Laura's "senior Downing Street source", which means Dom...so he was talking about himself.

I was just coming to post that article. The most gobsmacking part of it for me:

Johnson has just realised that Tories act like Tories. Congratulations, I suppose?

What is the betting now that Cummings cosies up to Gove and tries to bring Johnson down? It's been rumoured that Gove is Cummings' preferred PM and that Johnson was just a placeholder along the way.

Hang on you mean he won’t be around to advise how we can deal with the aftermath of Brexit... as those nasty EUers would say in their lingua franca - quelle surprise!

Another Brexiteer ******* off before the difficult bit.

Cummings has left the building according to his spokesperson Laura Kuenssberg - Cummings to leave No 10 with immediate effect https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54938050

Carrying out the boxes.

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I AGREE

A bit slower than last time..

It is normal to have a film crew there camera's running or did Carrie tip them off?

And why did he go out the front way, and not the back?

Slightly odd, he's apparently not stepping down, just not actually going into Downing Street, though he might be on gardening leave in practice.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/euro...6ejr.html?btis

An outsider's view. Boris's partner was part of the push.

Cummings was sacked, and his mate.

In the end he did that non-comfortable class thing, thought Johnson would show loyalty and consideration; forget that they only understand loyalty as a one way tool to use others for their own gain.

I wonder if Johnson now regrets not sacking him after the eye test?

If Trump didn't hog the news all the time this would be big. Boris is completely adrift. He wanted someone like Dom to tell him everything to do and tie his shoe laces for him in the morning.

What did Dom actually do wrong, though? Boris agreed with all his advice.