Boris Johnson Resigns

[ichkeria]

That’s another by election …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65860705

[Peter Pedant]

God i dont believe it !
From hero to zero faster than you can say - - Liz Truss !

[anneasquith]

What a great day……… Nadine , now Boris .

[ichkeria]

“After winning the biggest majority in 50 years …”

I thought he was a historian ;-)

[ichkeria]

Will he be doing another resignations honours list?

Anyway, I just wanted to get in before you know who .

[ClareTG0ld]

It's a disgusting and dishonest resignation letter. Attacking all and sundry, taking no responsibility, but above all lying about the process that follows:

// I am now being forced out of parliament by a tiny handful of people ...//

The Committee cannot "force him out": the Commons gets a vote on the report.

// ... without the approval even of Conservative party members ... //

See above. The Commons gets a vote.

// ... let alone the wider electorate. //

A suspension triggers a recall petition, but that only passes if enough constituency members sign it. And there is nothing to then bar Johnson from standing in that election. So the "wider electorate" would absolutely be a part of the process.

So that's three lies, or at least blatant errors, in a single sentence. As for "no evidence", well, that will be laid out in the report for everybody to evaluate, but this is a transparent attempt to undermine that while only he (and his team) can read it.

[Peter Pedant]

I thought he was a historian ;-)
no
classicist - I have gone right off them.

Perhaps we will see him on tee-vee - Boris in Egypt - digs a great big hole for himself again

yeah foo - if he does a Roman latrine,
then we could call it a Boris-hole - bigger better and full of crip

[Peter Pedant]

clare gould:

stop press ! Boris lies !

[Ellipsis]

What a scumbag and maggot he is. I pray God it's our last sign of him, but I suspect not ...

[ParsleyDumpling]

I'm not surprised, it was obvious certain 'areas' of parliament and the government would not be happy until he was publicly flogged.
Well done him for calling out them out. He had his flaws, but he got Brexit done (not perfectly, but I doubt anyone would have been able to do that). I truly think that honouring the wishes of the majority that bothered to vote for Brexit, was the reason, ultimately, that he was houded out.

[ClareTG0ld]

// Well done him for calling out them out.//

By lying about the process?

[ParsleyDumpling]

21:02, I don't believe for one minute, that these investigations have been driven by the need to find the truth.

[choux]

Well done, ich ;) Do you fancy another one about cancelling Brexit and/or a new referendum lol

It is Boris' prerogative to put what he wishes in his letter of resignation. I did share his concern about Sue Gray. He must have known his days were numbered then.

[choux]

Well said ParsleyDumpling, 21:01 &21:11.

[Hymie]

Boris Johnson has been notified in advance (by the Privileges Committee), of their report findings – no doubt they have found him guilty of deliberately lying to parliament, so Boris decided to go, before he was forced out.

[choux]

Hymie, quite probable.

[gulliver1]

This isn't the end of the Con's yet .
But it is the beginning of the end of the Cons yippee.

[ToraToraTora]

well you should all be happy now.

[Buenchico]

Going by the number of constituency surgeries he's held over the past few months, the number of House of Commons debates that he's taken part in during that time and the number of times he's voted on Parliamentary motions, it's hard to see how his constituents will actually notice any difference now that he's no longer their MP.

[ClareTG0ld]

I'd have been happy if Johnson accepted the Committee's findings and allowed the process to play out. As it is, he's left showing contempt for accountability. And suckers buy it. And that's dangerous.

[jno]

I hope he and Nadine filled out their flounce forms properly.