Boris Johnson to stand down as Tory leader after wave of resignations

[Cheepek]

Bye Boris, you were a great friend of India!

 

[waz]

Will it be Rishi, Sajid, Priti & co. now?

So, hail our new desi overlords

One remarkable thing Raab is likely out. It will be a grand political failure, the guy spent half his life looking at PM's chair

Not a snowball chance in hell.....Rishi is hated universally for being a stooge and indifferent to the population with his lavish life and tax avoiding Mrs. Sajid is better but again a chancer who ducks and dives and doesn't have much substance.
Priti is widely considered as one of the most inept politicians in years, and her handling of anything related to home affairs has been awful.

 

[MH.Yang]

Donetsk has announced the execution of British mercenaries on July 11.
Boris Johnson should wait for Britain to punish Putin before resigning.

 

[Paul2]

Not a snowball chance in hell.....Rishi is hated universally for being a stooge and indifferent to the population with his lavish life and tax avoiding Mrs. Sajid is better but again a chancer who ducks and dives and doesn't have much substance.
Priti is widely considered as one of the most inept politicians in years, and her handling of anything related to home affairs has been awful.

Indeed, I am surprised with this completely improbably outcome — I cannot see these guys themselves being able to hold onto that job for more than a few months, yet they did it.

 

[blain2]

Just another day in the western democracies....lose confidence or majority, move on!

But never the case in Pakistan.

 

[Paul2]

Just another day in the western democracies....lose confidence or majority, move on!

But never the case in Pakistan.

I have to disagree. The chair was shaking under Khan. Were his performance even half as bad, he wouldn't have seen so much desertions. Here UK's, and Pakistan's parliaments look rather similar: leaders are many times more vulnerable to internal revolts than direct opposition.

 

[blain2]

I have to disagree. The chair was shaking under Khan. Were his performance even half as bad, he wouldn't have seen so much desertions. Here UK's, and Pakistan's parliaments look rather similar: leaders are many times more vulnerable to internal revolts than direct opposition.

My comment was mostly for the Pakistani gallery. Not one leader in Pakistan ever admits that things were bad in their time which led to the loss of confidence.

Everyone has a sob story that the government (their god-given right) was stolen from them.

 

[PakAlp]

 

[waz]

Just another day in the western democracies....lose confidence or majority, move on!

But never the case in Pakistan.

Agreed, they keep coming back like that rancid sewer smell that doesn't go away no matter how many bottles of bleach you use.
I can't recall a single leader in our history which came back after a disaster.

Indeed, I am surprised with this completely improbably outcome — I cannot see these guys themselves being able to hold onto that job for more than a few months, yet they did it.

Too many knives flying around for these lot.
Names that are knife free and quite liked include Ben Wallace and Penny Mordaunt.

 

[Ali_Baba]

I am sad to see him go - i rather liked him. He mostly got Brexit done and i would have preferred he had got the job done by fixing the NI issue and the EU attempted landgrab ...

The British "Establishment" (establishments exists everywhere!), BBC/Media and everything else was out to get rid of him for having taken the UK out of their "beloved EU" and wanted revenge for it and now will look for opportunities to reverse it aswell - that is the risk right now.

I think the only "adult in the room is Wallace". You have a limited selection of people who are ever viable at any point. Lets see who put themselves forward now...

Hopefully Javid and Rishi are not rewarded for their coup with new positions of high office - let alone become prime minister. Plus 1 to Boris for shutting the door on any of those who resigned - coming back to their "old" jobs anytime soon until a new leader is elected...

It is the conservative party members who will decide and not Conservative MPs or anyone else. There are about 100,000 convervative party members...

 

[StraightEdge]

A reminder of Boris Johnson, the person. As per known records, he has made 5 women pregnant while being married. Somehow I think that's enough to tell me he is a walking catastrophe.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1544933256251842561

 

[kuge]

victim of russo-ukraine conflict. Putin is smiling...

 

[Beast]

victim of russo-ukraine conflict. Putin is smiling...

No , anti China trash who suffer the same dismay fate like Shinzon Abe or Scott Morrison.

 

[Jungibaaz]

No foreign conspiracy, no attempt to dissolve parliament, no speaker out to save his PM, no blaming xyz for being ousted? The difference is even more stark when you consider that Bojo had a massive majority and bowed out, our guy was propped up by establishment types and lost his thin majority, but still refused to budge.

Btw, this is a long standing tradition in the Tory party, their most powerful leaders they remove internally. Margaret Thatcher had a majority for the third time in a row -- kicked out of PM-ship by her own party.

Another noteworthy point, Chancellor of the Exchequer is arguably the most powerful after the PM, former Chancellor was Pakistani (Sajid Javid), last one was Indian (Rishi Sunak), current one of Iraqi origin (Nadhim Zahawi). Home Secretary is probably up there as the second most powerful ministry , previous incumbent was again Pakistani (Sajid Javid), current one is Indian (Priti Patel). And let's also not forget, this is the Conservative party, not lefties but a mix of modern liberals, capitalists and old boys of Bullingdon. Then there's the Pakistani London Mayor too.... the point being that it seems that British Asians might actually be overrepresented in British politicial leadership for the first time in history? @waz

 

[Paul2]

A reminder of Boris Johnson, the person. As per known records, he has made 5 women pregnant while being married. Somehow I think that's enough to tell me he is a walking catastrophe.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1544933256251842561

5? Not bad for a 58 years old, I would be envious

No foreign conspiracy, no attempt to dissolve parliament, no speaker out to save his PM, no blaming xyz for being ousted? The difference is even more stark when you consider that Bojo had a massive majority and bowed out, our guy was propped up by establishment types and lost his thin majority, but still refused to budge.

Btw, this is a long standing tradition in the Tory party, their most powerful leaders they remove internally. Margaret Thatcher had a majority for the third time in a row -- kicked out of PM-ship by her own party.

Another noteworthy point, Chancellor of the Exchequer is arguably the most powerful after the PM, former Chancellor was Pakistani (Sajid Javid), last one was Indian (Rishi Sunak), current one of Iraqi origin (Nadhim Zahawi). Home Secretary is probably up there as the second most powerful ministry , previous incumbent was again Pakistani (Sajid Javid), current one is Indian (Priti Patel). And let's also not forget, this is the Conservative party, not lefties but a mix of modern liberals, capitalists and old boys of Bullingdon. Then there's the Pakistani London Mayor too.... the point being that it seems that British Asians might actually be overrepresented in British politicial leadership for the first time in history? @waz

Priti is not Indian, she is Ugandian

With pretty much the whole of South Asia in the cabinet, you only miss a Bangladeshi for a full house. But as far as I know Bangladeshis in UK are nearly all rooting for Labour for historical reasons, despite majority being strong rightists.