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Sephiroth

Sephiroth

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"Will Boris now become the PM he was always meant to be and save the country from Coronavirus and Brexit."


No - he won't. He can't


Because brexit never was and never will be a circle that can be squared


He signs a (thin) deal with EU? Country is worse off than now AND ERG headbangers will do for him

He leaves without a deal? - Country is banjaxed and sane people with do for him


Whichever way he jumps... he is done for. Because that Brexit chicken is about to land for real

malumbu

malumbu

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Damn, beaten to it, was planning to post a thread "Cummings leaving card" to allow people to post nice things like "good riddance" (or things much stronger)


The plagiarise something that I have been shown - Trump going, a Covid vaccine and now comings gone - a good week


Otherwise still think we are fcked but one less thing to pee me off. wonder what middle England, and the Midlands, NE and NW Blue wall think.

diable rouge

diable rouge

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Unsurprisingly we're getting conflicting accounts of what led up to Cummings' walk-out, difficult to decide who's telling the truth when both are pathological liars. Cummings leaving by the front door is interesting though, there are more private ways to leave No. 10, so he obviously wanted to be seen and seems to be gearing up for a public spat with Johnson, get stocking-up on the popcorn!

This 'leaving' video has some scarily apt music...

siousxiesue

siousxiesue

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His style is totally back door exit, so I'm presuming it was a deliberate ploy to throw us off the scent of something else, what are they trying to hide this time?




diable rouge Wrote:

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> Unsurprisingly we're getting conflicting accounts

> of what led up to Cummings' walk-out, difficult to

> decide who's telling the truth when both are

> pathological liars. Cummings leaving by the front

> door is interesting though, there are more private

> ways to leave No. 10, so he obviously wanted to be

> seen and seems to be gearing up for a public spat

> with Johnson, get stocking-up on the popcorn!

> This 'leaving' video has some scarily apt music...

>

Effra

Effra

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Cummings will not disappear into the sunset. Odds are he will link up with Gove again and Boris will be toast.


Covid messed up Boris's grey matter and to make matters worse he is getting in the neck from Carrie and Graham Brady. He's on borrowed time.


Meanwhile Cummings is sharpening the knife for Gove to use at an opportune moment. That will be around Feb/March 2021 when the Brexit/covid/economic pain peaks.

Blah Blah

Blah Blah

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I wouldn't be so sure about Boris. He won an election with an 80 seat majority and that makes him very difficult to oust. And while I agree that Cummings has not gone for long, I doubt Gove would win any leadership election against Sunak. I think Farage will be more of a problem to be honest, but there are no elections in sight, so who cares?
nxjen

nxjen

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Isn?t it possible though that Johnson could be ousted with a vote of no confidence from MP?s within his own party initiating a leadership contest? By all accounts, Cummings is loathed by MPs so it?s unlikely that a known associate of Cummings i.e. Gove would be chosen. The prospect of a Farage/Cummings partnership is horrifying but I wonder if that?s behind the renamed Reform Party?
Sephiroth

Sephiroth

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As for new tory leader, who MPs like or don?t like is beside the point. The leader will be chosen by the wingnuts of the membership


Johnson will be gone in weeks. His majority has nothing to do with it. He is manifestly ill suited to the job. Clearly doesn?t enjoy it. And within days will have to make the decision the country has avoided for 4 years. And when he makes that decision, events will take over and he will be gone.


Then, with the effects of that decision unfolding next year, the mood of the nation will darken considerably. I would not bet on there being no election for 3 or 4 years


Even without the effects of brexit, we will have a party which will have had 4 leaders in 4 years, with no discernible taken near the cabinet. I don?t think that?s sustainable until 2024

nxjen

nxjen

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?As for new tory leader, who MPs like or don?t like is beside the point. The leader will be chosen by the wingnuts of the membership?


It is though through last men standing series of votes by MPs that defines the final shortlist of two that is then presented to the general membership: would Gove and his associate Cummings make this shortlist?

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