Boris resigns, Tories begin leadership fight
(CNS): After a series of scandals, lies and tumbling personal approval ratings, Boris Johnson finally, but unwillingly, gave in to the inevitable and resigned as Conservative Party leader. He blamed his departure on the “herd mentality” in Westminster after more than 50 government ministers and aides resigned over the last 48 hours, including the overseas territories minister, Amanda Milling. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss left a critical G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Indonesia early to return to London to launch her bid for the top job.
Around a dozen people are expected to declare that they will be running and it will be at least October before Johnson’s successor is formally announced at the party conference. Johnson appears determined to stay on to head a caretaker government until a new leader is in place but there is obvious resistance to this.
The opposition Labour Party is threatening to force a confidence vote on the prime minister unless he steps down immediately. And among leading figures in the Conservative Party, former prime minister Sir John Major has also come out strongly against this, writing: “The proposal for the prime minister to remain in office — for up to three months — having lost the support of his cabinet, his government and his parliamentary party is unwise, and may be unsustainable.”
Among the names raised as interim PM are Deputy Leader Dominic Raab and Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May. However, Johnson remains reluctant to step down and still believes he has a mandate to lead, given his election victory by a significant margin in December 2019.
A number of MPs and political pundits in the UK are warning of chaos over the coming months if Johnson remains in No10 running government with a new Cabinet, which was appointed less than an hour before he announced his resignation from the dwindling number of MPs who still supported him.
Boris was forced into resignation after a poor showing for the Conservatives in the recent by-elections and the latest in a series of scandals that have brought his honesty and judgement into question.
See Johnson’s Boris’s full resignation speech here.
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If only our DG would resign now.
Someone had said: Was he a clown, or pretended to be a 🤡.
Good riddance to the bumbling, lying, cheating buffoon.
Too many across the globe as “leaders” that are wholly unfit for such office.
English are honest about being dishonest. Sounds like Boris fits the bill. Adios amigo.
so long bozo
Good riddance to Boris! UK opted out of the EU by a very small margin 52/48 and by the time it actually came to pass, most regretted their Brexit vote.
If there had been a referendum at exit time – the vote would have reversed.
So, other than emulating Trump, what did Boris truly achieve?
A few epic parties apparently…
Normalized bedheads, alcoholism, and domestic disturbance call-outs.
In regard to the vote on leaving the E.U., the democratic will of the people. It was inconvenient for those who wanted to stay, I know, but when you live in a democracy, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. You don’t always get your own way.
Announced today: British Airways has now taken 4.5M seats out of the market
Not long haul though so the airport staffing issues in the uk don’t impact GCM flights. All airlines in the uk as cancelling thousands of short haul.
Mainly because the UK was governed by a lying buffoon who appointed incompetent buffoons (Patel, Dorries, Rees-Mogg etc) to his cabinet to save him and told everyone Brexit would be great when it obviously was going to be a disaster. 30% of pre-COVID airport jobs were done by EU nationals, and they aren’t coming back.
Rees Mogg is a boss. The guy couldn’t be further from incompetent.
Cheerio ya racist, homophobic, xenophobic, philandering, lying, entitled buffoon. Saor Alba!
You forgot to add globalist puppet.
Your both stupid!
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@5.34pm. Your the one that’s sounding xenophobic
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As a world leader he lacked understanding of the greater geopolitical dynamics.
He is known for his mendacity, his greatest “asset” is the cynicism of their people who have long since ceased to listen or at least take them seriously …
Cayman take note.
PPM and PACT.
5.34pm He indeed had many failings, but please explain how he was racist when many of his most senior Govt appointments involved people with ethnic origins.
As a uk expat here it’s very sad to see a centrist liberal leader like Boris go due to the whole brigade but as he said, them’s the breaks.
A UK expat with no concept of he meaning of the word ‘centrist’. He was a crude populist English nationalist by the end.
A lot of lessons for the Cayman Islands from the UK in recent times.
Certainly agree.
UK prime ministers resigns because Minister gropes men Yet our Governor and premier still in place after speaker assaults women and is charged and convicted The joke is on us Cayman !
Did you see the video? Lol
No…… but I would like to see it.
Who didn’t? It was horrendous what happened to that women.
they are all tainted as they supported and voted in this muppett
And the prior Prime Minister resignations?
As long as European “leaders” compete with one another to show their loyalty and submission to their masters in Washington, nothing will change irrespective of whoever will replace BJ.
What??? Their “masters” in Washington? Are you serious? There are no leaders in Washington now. There’s only Biden, who has problems and doesn’t know what is happening anywhere, unless it’s in the Ukraine.
The British political class is jumping off the Titanic, they see the iceberg ahead, they timed it perfect, collecting the dirt and shenanigans at no. 10 to blame Johnson.
Today’s Governments are not realistic because they don’t understand objectively the reality, because they don’t employ strategic empathy, they are historically illiterate, and they are bad at functional economics and politics.
And they have no balls.
May be it is our blessing? Being ballsy in the wrong time, place and circumstances could get us all disappear in a puff of smoke.