Boris Johnson

[Jon Tait]

In any case Corbyn is yesterday's man.

Maybe so, but he still lives in the heads of people like you for free.

[MJMcCready]

What will Boris do once he steps down?

[Matt Bridgeman]

But back on topic of Boris.... Who do we think might come out on top of the replacement elections? If I was a conservative MP I'd be worried that Boris mode of operating runs deep in the cabinet and anyone who worked too close to him is likely to be seen as tainted by the same brush.

Mordaunt unable to get across the finish line, and Rishi comfortably beats Truss in the runoff ...then loses the General Election in 2024. Probably an embarrassingly short tenure as leader, and then Tom, Kemi and Penny will get another shot at it.

Johnson probably has to stay put as a back bencher to 2024 as Labour would hoover up his Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat in a by-election for fun and make him look even worse, (if that’s possible!)

[Simon Rogers]

What will Boris do once he steps down?

I'm sure Boris will make another appearance as guest host on the BBC series Have I Got News For You.

[Andrew Zigmond]

Mordaunt unable to get across the finish line, and Rishi comfortably beats Truss in the runoff ...then loses the General Election in 2024. Probably an embarrassingly short tenure as leader, and then Tom, Kemi and Penny will get another shot at it.

Assuming the new Prime Minister takes office on 5th September and then leaves on Friday 3rd May 2024 (general elections normally being held on the first Thursday in May on a year they are due) they would do so as the second shortest serving Prime Minister since the war; ahead of Alec Douglas-Home and about a month shy of Anthony Eden. However as the previous election was in December they could linger on until then - although they overtake no post war Prime Minister bar Eden.

As for Boris I'm sure he will resume his journalistic and media "career" with all sorts of confidential conversation and sensitive national information being blurted out.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Well the FTPA has now been scrapped so the then PM won't be obliged to have an election by May 2024 anymore.

(as was previously the case)

If things look bad electorally or indeed more generally, they are likely to put it off until later that year now.

Theoretically it can now be pushed back to the start of 202*5*, but that remains pretty unlikely.

[NickFaulks]

with all sorts of confidential conversation and sensitive national information being blurted out.

But it won't matter because half of it will be untrue and we won't know which half.

[MJMcCready]

What will Boris do once he steps down?

I'm sure Boris will make another appearance as guest host on the BBC series Have I Got News For You.

Have you ever seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoifaIEvC0Q&t=330s

[AlanLlewellyn]

Simple explanation - he is a narcissistic sociopath.

And lots in his party (and their media supporters) have known what he was and is for a long time, but still did their Faustian deal with him.

I hope it causes them much pain for a long time to come.

he is basically a liberal with a sense of trying to retain the west in the liberal fold

[Gerard Killoran]

Simple explanation - he is a narcissistic sociopath.

And lots in his party (and their media supporters) have known what he was and is for a long time, but still did their Faustian deal with him.

I hope it causes them much pain for a long time to come.

he is basically a liberal with a sense of trying to retain the west in the liberal fold

Being a 'liberal' and being a 'narcissistic sociopath' are not mutally exclusive. As for 'the west' and 'the liberal fold' I suppose you mean the same people who invaded Iraq and carried out a bloody campaign of torture and mass murder.

[Matt Mackenzie]

And no, with due apologies to my club mate "liberal" isn't the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of him.

[AlanLlewellyn]

Simple explanation - he is a narcissistic sociopath.

And lots in his party (and their media supporters) have known what he was and is for a long time, but still did their Faustian deal with him.

I hope it causes them much pain for a long time to come.

he is basically a liberal with a sense of trying to retain the west in the liberal fold

Being a 'liberal' and being a 'narcissistic sociopath' are not mutally exclusive. As for 'the west' and 'the liberal fold' I suppose you mean the same people who invaded Iraq and carried out a bloody campaign of torture and mass murder.

all wars are bloody uncivilised appart from soviet ones eh

[AlanLlewellyn]

And no, with due apologies to my club mate "liberal" isn't the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of him.

i know matt he couuld be to the left of liberal hehehehhe

[Matt Mackenzie]

A reminder to all that "libertine" is not coterminous with "liberal".

[AlanLlewellyn]

A reminder to all that "libertine" is not coterminous with "liberal".

so you think high taxes, investment in the north, furlough(Socialist), employment rights,talk of increasing workers wages, protectionalism, matt the list goes on and on of liberal policies, what i mean by liberal isnt what you mean by illberal.