Literally refutes every argument Boilrig has used
Kinda too funny
https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1016410594189152257
Everyone's favourite health minister is now the foreign secretary. Splendid.
What on earth is happening
Who's going to be health secretary now?
https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1016413319249514497
It's a reshuffle, so there will be a fair number of MPs moving from one department to another.
Huh. Isn't he relatively sane & competent by Conservative MP standards? Why are they letting him near the NHS?
Matt Hancock is the only MP to have his own app for some reason
I wish we could make that tweet into his avatar background
forever
please collapse already.
So what are the odds of this ending in a no confidence vote?
The immediate threat seems to have passed, the hard Brexit Tories aren't brave enough to pull the trigger. I think quickly getting in replacements for Davis and Johnson has been a sign of stability that has defused the crisis somewhat.
What is pretty big is that with that Labour briefing earlier, it looks like May has now accepted that she will need Labour votes to get her Brexit deal through Parliament - because the Brexiteer Tories aren't going to support it. She's going to try to essentially build a Brexit coalition, jettisoning some in her own party to get the opposition on side.
Not sure how pleased I should be about any of these wankers resigning. On the one hand, "haha- get fucked" but on the other-
Off they go, carrying their wealth off to cushy corporate speaker jobs or lives of leisure, leaving the mess they created to fall squarely on the shoulders of the British people.
Whoever replaces them will be just as awful, the Tory party is like a fucking hydra, every time one head gets lopped off another equally ugly one is ready to spring up in it's place.
Always remember that David Hameron faced literally zero repercussions for causing this shit show in the first place- and he got replaced by a robot possessed by the ailing ghost of Maggy Thatcher.
Jesus
https://twitter.com/JohnMQC/status/1016339437184266240
Out of his depth has been a fitting descriptor of Boris since the referendum results
I guess he's gonna escape to the US or Russia now
He'll be back, sadly.
In the meantime fuck off Boris
save us jeremy corbyn
you're our only hope
May's rep just took a giant hit. She basically got called a worthless pile of shit who's ruining it all by two of her top underlings. They are trying to pin the future issues on her berfore it all happens.
It's not that they lack the balls to pull the trigger, they know the current Brexit is going to cause a crash out exit and completely destroy whoever is in power. Why boot her out now, when you can do it next year and save the next PM trouble?
May is dead. These walk outs are showing they are trying to save their own skins before the shit truly comes, she holds very little political capital and is simply warming the seat for the next Tory.
Almost feel sorry for her tbh.
Wow, that letter from Johnson. That fuckwit has been peddling brexit from the beginning and now that it's failing he is jumping ship, leaving Theresa May holding the bag.
I wonder if the conservatives will backpeddle and get skinned by their constituents, or drive that shit into the ground and just hope that their career demise will be quick and painless.
We're fucked then I fear.
The guy is nice enough, he's consistent and friendly, the policies are solid but he doesn't have support of his party, his cabinate are inexperienced (imo anyway), he only does well in PMQs when he follows the script and he has this arbitrary drive to support underdog stuff like homeopathy. I fear with him at the helm we won't have stability and we need stability.
I also think his stance on brexit is naive (thinking if we leave it will be better for nationalising stuff) which has lead to dithering and apathy regarding his stance on brexit. I think the use of whips against MPs wrt various brexit votes, suppressing remain MPs is indicative of the direction Labour is going - they say they're soft brexit to curry favour with remainer voters but when it comes down to it, it's just a facade to stop remainers leaving to lib dem.
To top that off there is an eternal witch hunt within the labour party against itself. Members accusing members of being blairite plants/astroturfers and shills just for disagreeing (particularly if you're opposed to brexit you're a blairite apparently). I think generally Corbyn/gang are a little too ambitious in what they want to do, too much change too fast leads to failure, especially when it'll be scrutinised by Labour rivals, other parties and media; eagerly awaiting a failure to pounce upon.
A government unable to control it's MPs, unpopular in the press and in a poor negotiating position (post brexit we're fucked) isn't gonna do well and the failure will be used to discredit left wing policy and government for decades (like michael foot was)
Still beats tories I think
Either way whichever party inherits the Brexit fiasco will probably suffer for it, with the opposing party dumping the ramifications on them, it won't be the tories fault that it happened, it'll be May for getting it wrong then whoever follows for not being able to make the most of """the golden opportunity"""
It concerned me a bit today where the labour peeps were celebrating all the BS with people resigning - I'm legit fearful. If Tories have a leadership vote it's not a general election and it's not hard to envisage someone worse than May getting power (Eg Reece Fucking Mogg) then we're in real trouble. It's funny to have a laugh at the tory parties expense till you realise they're supposed to be running the country and their failure will likely be felt mostly by the peeps, Boris Johnson and David Davis will popup again like turds which refuse to be flushed, their careers are still ok, they're not gonna suffer from this; we will.
I wouldn't feel sorry for her, it's typical Tory tactics.
They allow all of the bad press (such as it is in Britain's heavily right wing media sphere) generated by Tory policy to stick to a particular person rather than the party as a whole, then when discontent starts to show, they throw that person under the buss and declare the matter sorted, moving in someone almost identical to continue the same work when the controversy dies down.
Look at Ian Duncan Smith- he "resigned" due to rising controversy around Tory treatment of the disabled- and that seemed to placate some people- but that treatment never went away, in fact it's only gotten worse.
Exile would be too nice a treatment for these fuckheads. Britain is a fucking joke now.
I cant believe thats fucking real
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