UPDATE (7/7/22): BORIS TO RESIGN TODAY - Boris is in the Bunker - Just Like Gordon Brown Was in 2010 - Labour or Tory Same Old Story

 

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UPDATE (7/7/22)

The BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason is reporting that Boris Johnson will resign TODAY.

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Somerset Suspended Tory MP David Warburton is in hospital again. Boris Johnson is clinging onto his Premiership, despite:

1. being visited by the Chair of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, who controls the process for removal of the Leader of the Conservative Party.
   
2. being told by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, that he should go (see letter below). Johnson only appointed Zahawi the day before.
3. having had almost FIFTY - yes 50 - Cabinet resignations
4. having had Cabinet ministers telling him to go
5. sacking Michael Gove, itself an act that is likely to end in repercussions due to the way that Gove operates
   
6. the majority of the public wanting Johnson to go, as shown by opinion polls

 

Zahawi Letter

 

How much longer will Johnson cling on?

How much longer will Tory MPs and the 1922 Committee allow him to cling on?

Have we been here before?

Yes, with the last Prime Minister Theresa May. The 1922 Committee had threatened to change the rules to allow another vote of no confidence, but she realised that her time was up and went very tearfully to the lecturn at Downing Street.

David Cameron quit when he lost the Brexit Referendum.

And before that... it was Gordon Brown.

Boris Johnson wrote on his blog in May 2010 the below about Gordon Brown not resigning, after he had failed to get a majority in the 2010 General Election.

The great political comedy writer Armando Iannucci has remarked that leaders lose the plot after a certain number of years in power. Johnson has only beaten the short time that Brown had as Prime Minister by about one month (see graph below, courtesy of BBC News).

 

"The whole thing is unbelievable. As I write these words, Gordon Brown is still holed up in Downing Street. He is like some illegal settler in the Sinai desert, lashing himself to the radiator, or like David Brent haunting The Office in that excruciating episode when he refuses to acknowledge that he has been sacked. Isn’t there someone – the Queen’s Private Secretary, the nice policeman on the door of No 10 – whose job it is to tell him that the game is up?

Off in Brussels this zombie Labour government is in the process of obliging future generations of Britons to pay “whatever it takes” to bail out the euro, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. The Lib-Con negotiations are still going on, in a foretaste of the Belgian orgies of tedium and paralysis that proportional representation will inflict on the country. Everyone is trying politely to work out exactly how many Cabinet seats to give a party that came a resounding third and did worse than in 2005. Will Vince Cable be needing Dorneywood in addition to his Red Box and his seat at the Cabinet Table? And if Chris Huhne needs a ministerial car and a driver, will Mrs Huhne require someone to help with the shopping?

Will Gordon ever leave the bathroom?"

Our political system has to change. First Past The Post has to go in favour of a system where every vote counts. The two party system has to end. Whether it's Johnson, Cameron, May or Brown, it's Labour or Tory and the same old story.

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