Should Boris resign?

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Should Boris Resign?

• Yes - 102 votes
• 47%
• No - 81 votes
• 37%
• Who cares? - 20 votes
• 9%
• This doesn't apply to me - 8 votes
• 4%
• Who's Boris? - 6 votes
• 3%

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[naomi24]

Go away. I'm sulking.

[douglas9401]

It's a thin line between persistance and petty nagging.

[andy-hughes]

Not as thin as the line between simply being wrong, and we all are sometimes, and lacking the strength of character to admit it.

[Gromit]

Boris won’t resign.
There was no option in the Poll that Boris should be sacked like Thatcher was. Removed as Tory leader by the men in grey suits. And a new Tory leader and Prime Minister appointed.

[naomi24]

//Boris won’t resign. //

I hope you're right, Gromit.

[andy-hughes]

I agree Gromit, Boris won't resign over this, he'll go later on his own terms.

[Gromit]

// The most obvious precedent is the run-up to the 1997 Election. //

I think you mean the 1993 election. Thatcher was removed in 1990, John Major replaced her and the Tories went on to win in 1993. But he led the party to lose the 1997 election.

[Gromit]

// he'll go later on his own terms. //

I hope not.

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - Do you think he shouldn't resign?

[Gromit]

Hopefully the men in grey suits are plugging in their trouser presses as we write.
Surely they have seen enough. Their only dilemma is Sunak or Gove as successor.

[aelmpvw]

Gove? there'd soon be a campaign for the return of Boris :-)

[naomi24]

aelmpvw, indeed. A case of be careful what you wish for ... :o)

[ichkeria]

He would resign if there’s a vote. Which he would not survive.
Tho I suppose technically that counts as a sacking.
It appeared all would hinge on this enquiry, tho it looks as though that’s being overtaken by events. There is the air of an unstoppable momentum building.
The only question may be have Tory MPs the stomach for the bloodletting that a leadership election might unleash? It’s bad enough as it is already.
Many MPs owe nothing to Boris Johnson and are certainly not attached to him ideologically as the man has no ideology to attach to. Just “he was the man to deliver” and if they no longer think he can save their seats …
He’ll never change, Johnson: after these incidents there’ll be others, as sure as night follows day.

[Stickybottle]

pat2604
Ellipsis. You obviously don't understand what I posted and don't be so rude. I respect the Queen, but she is not a leader, she is a figurehead. And she could have been saved from all this nonsense.
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She certainly could
If only the government had complied with legislation that they implemented eh ?
She could have been spared from wondering why she was not allowed a comforting arm from her children at the socially distanced funeral of her husband whilst servants of another kind partied away the night before not a million miles away from her
I wonder what she really feels about BJ and how he has conducted himself and his government in his time in office ?

[Gromit]

There is a by election next month. Labour have a small majority of 3,500 and the Conservatives might expect to win it. If they don’t, the should he stay or should he go question will be easier to answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Birmingham_Erdington_by-election

[Teapots1]

If Boris goes that will be the closure of yet another pub. The Drowning street Tavern. :0)

[anneasquith]

“” talking of Boris” , have we seen him since his statement to parliament ?

[royfromaus]

I thought I was beginning to understand this 'so' rule and then andy throws in a curveball.

;0/

[Teapots1]

NO, he 's pretending someone in his family has tested for covid, so he is now showing us all the right thing to do, isolate. :0) great excuse to lay low I would say.

[anneasquith]

Teapot, normal behaviour for a guilty person ?