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The thing is these four were only in Downing Street for Johnson’s term, one didn’t even get to go to half the parties.

Can’t really suggest it’s a culture if it only started when “big dog” Johnson entered.

As for two years he did 8 months.

Oh it’s culture. It’s just the sort of culture that usually grows in a petri dish, and Johnson introduced it.

Seems a fifth advisor has resigned, yet somehow this is being spun as "Boris taking charge and making changes."

How?

Peter Cardwell
@petercardwell
I'm told that within last hour PM addressed 70-80 Downing Street staff packed into Cabinet Room, with dozens more online. PM's principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, who resigned yesterday, was also in attendance. PM quoted Lion King character Rafiki: "Change is good."
11:20 AM · Feb 4, 2022·Twitter Web App

"I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. The bad news is some of you will lose your jobs, but the good news is I could be staying on as Prime Minister".

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:57 pm

Peter Cardwell
PM quoted Lion King character Rafiki...

No mention of Peppa fucking Pig?

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:12 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:57 pm

Peter Cardwell
PM quoted Lion King character Rafiki...

No mention of Peppa fucking Pig?

Or Zebedee off the Magic Roundabout

If more people had actually paid attention to politics they wouldn't now be regretting their choice. It has been quite obvious for years to those who do follow politics just what a useless cunt Johnson is.

More than a quarter of Conservative voters who backed Boris Johnson at the 2019 general election would change their vote if they could go back in time, new polling has shown.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/artic ... hange-vote

Cyclist wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:20 pm If more people had actually paid attention to politics they wouldn't now be regretting their choice. It has been quite obvious for years to those who do follow politics just what a useless cunt Johnson is.

More than a quarter of Conservative voters who backed Boris Johnson at the 2019 general election would change their vote if they could go back in time, new polling has shown.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/artic ... hange-vote

Captain Hindsight's army of followers.

Yep.

Cyclist wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:20 pm If more people had actually paid attention to politics they wouldn't now be regretting their choice. It has been quite obvious for years to those who do follow politics just what a useless cunt Johnson is.

More than a quarter of Conservative voters who backed Boris Johnson at the 2019 general election would change their vote if they could go back in time, new polling has shown.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/artic ... hange-vote

While this is true, let’s not forget changing your mind when you realise you made a mistake >>> sticking with a shit choice out of sheer bloody mindedness

Also, with Aaron Bell’s letter, that’s 37 to go. I suspect Sunak will be calling a few chums any day now…

A comprehensive 17 minute demolition here by Russell Howard.

Sprinkled with alpaca pubes and sat on a Van der Graf generator.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:04 pm Also, with Aaron Bell’s letter, that’s 37 to go. I suspect Sunak will be calling a few chums any day now…

I’d been wondering why the Tories, as a party renowned for dispatching leaders perceived to have become a liability (see Thatcher, IDS) without compunction or hesitation, seem to dragging their feet in getting shot of Bodger.
I think it’s probably because they largely need some indication of what will follow when Johnson finally walks the plank. So Sunak, for example, has begun to make very tentative moves to distance himself from the worst of Johnson. If he does more, and I think he can be expected to, expect many more letters to Graham Brady. Similarly, we may start to hear more public pronouncements from Liz Truss and possibly, Jeremy Hunt.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:49 pm

Cyclist wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:20 pm If more people had actually paid attention to politics they wouldn't now be regretting their choice. It has been quite obvious for years to those who do follow politics just what a useless cunt Johnson is.

More than a quarter of Conservative voters who backed Boris Johnson at the 2019 general election would change their vote if they could go back in time, new polling has shown.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/artic ... hange-vote

Captain Hindsight's army of followers.

"You won, get over it."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... quotations

The pork haystack actually has a mad ramble about The Lion King recorded into the Hansard volumes

I think they are starting to believe that Levelling up can only be delivered by Johnson.

Ignoring the fact he is just hot air.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:17 pm

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:04 pm Also, with Aaron Bell’s letter, that’s 37 to go. I suspect Sunak will be calling a few chums any day now…

I’d been wondering why the Tories, as a party renowned for dispatching leaders perceived to have become a liability (see Thatcher, IDS) without compunction or hesitation, seem to dragging their feet in getting shot of Bodger.
I think it’s probably because they largely need some indication of what will follow when Johnson finally walks the plank. So Sunak, for example, has begun to make very tentative moves to distance himself from the worst of Johnson. If he does more, and I think he can be expected to, expect many more letters to Graham Brady. Similarly, we may start to hear more public pronouncements from Liz Truss and possibly, Jeremy Hunt.

They're not the Conservative party anymore. They're a coalition of Kippers, spivs, racists and libertarians, who have no respect for the traditional values and institutions the Conservatives saw themselves defending. Alexander the Lesser is their leader and they owe no loyalty to any but him.

I understand this a poncey foreign beer favoured by the metropolitan elite

Abernathy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:17 pm
I’d been wondering why the Tories, as a party renowned for dispatching leaders perceived to have become a liability (see Thatcher, IDS) without compunction or hesitation, seem to dragging their feet in getting shot of Bodger.

I think it's a lack of a clear cut successor for the party to rally behind. For Thatcher they had Heseltine, for IDS there was Michael Howard. As you say, it's far from certain who would be Johnson's replacement.

Some people are still going with Starmer's beer (a year later, during the local elections). Like Johnson didn't eat in a room with other people when he was campaigning.