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Has Boris gone yet?

jimbob said:
Not quite.

That's what he's saying. According to Andrew Marr, that is not what the 1922 Committee will accept

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What power do they have to enforce their decisions?

I suspect he will probably not be literally dragged out kicking and screaming but I do suspect that needs to be on the table to get him out, so how does it get to that?
 
Why the actual are our media still reporting that he has resigned, when he just plain hasn't?

He's just running the same old BS and bluster he always does and all the useful idiots in our wunnerful meejah fall for it yet again.
 
The Beeb are seemingly reporting that Buckland has said that the cabinet has decided that BlowJob will stay on as care taker PM.

The cabinet just appointed by BlowJob...

I'm not a constitutional lawyer and don't play one on TV, but do they actually have that sort of authority? Looks hooky in the extreme?

Where's Vernon Bogdanor when you need him?
 
For those not up to speed, or unwillling to watch him speak (Which I completely understand) this is the relvant bit of his speech. This is just the first paragraph of a 14 paragraph speech, the rest of which was a vain attempt to show how brilliant he has been. Note that he does not use the words: resign, leave, step down, exit, sorry, apologise

It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week. And I've today appointed a cabinet to serve, as I will, until the new leader is in place.
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Full text: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-boris-johnson-resigns-prime-minister-2022-07-07/
 
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ponderingturtle said:
What power do they have to enforce their decisions?

I suspect he will probably not be literally dragged out kicking and screaming but I do suspect that needs to be on the table to get him out, so how does it get to that?
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They control the rules about who leads the Tory party, and thus who leads the governing party and PM.

So I guess the rules could alter to deputy PM becomes leader until the leadership election results are in.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
The Beeb are seemingly reporting that Buckland has said that the cabinet has decided that BlowJob will stay on as care taker PM.

The cabinet just appointed by BlowJob...

I'm not a constitutional lawyer and don't play one on TV, but do they actually have that sort of authority? Looks hooky in the extreme?

Where's Vernon Bogdanor when you need him?
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The Westminster parliament has operated for centuries on the basis of noblesse oblige. Members are expected to abide by an unwritten code of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. We are now seeing that someone who is prepared simply to ignore all that can pretty much do anything he likes.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Fizz back in cupboard, as the ****** clearly has NOT resigned and is about to chair a cabinet meeting.

That's more "I might be resigning at some point in the future and you can go ahead with your bollocky leadership election, but I don't care! Yada, yada, whatevs, suckers!"
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Well, I got the fizz out as soon as the braying hyena Jonathan Gullis resigned.
 
Rolfe said:
The Westminster parliament has operated for centuries on the basis of noblesse oblige. Members are expected to abide by an unwritten code of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. We are now seeing that someone who is prepared simply to ignore all that can pretty much do anything he likes.
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That exact same situation is occurring with our provincial premier.

A dissimilar, but related, situation happened with Trump.

If these guys don't care for norms of behaviour, that's fine. The problem is that some of the restrictions on their behaviour are covered by norms and not explicitly codified. In essence we should be thankful that these characters are showing us where the weaknesses are in our democracies. The challenge is whether these same democracies can be shored-up before someone truly ill-intentioned comes along!
 
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Rolfe said:
The Westminster parliament has operated for centuries on the basis of noblesse oblige. Members are expected to abide by an unwritten code of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. We are now seeing that someone who is prepared simply to ignore all that can pretty much do anything he likes.
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But our uncodified constitution is one of our political marvels and functions so perfectly well...

Or so we are forever being told.

So how the **** does it deal with this *********** of an omnishambles?
 
Worm said:
For those not up to speed, or unwillling to watch him speak (Which I completely understand) this is the relvant bit of his speech. This is just the first paragraph of a 14 paragraph speech, the rest of which was a vain attempt to show how brilliant he has been. Note that he does not use the words: resign, leave, step down, exit, sorry, apologise



Full text: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-boris-johnson-resigns-prime-minister-2022-07-07/
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This is Donald Trump all over. Wants people to believe he is President Prime Minister because of the 'will of the people', (which, needless to say is rubbish, as the UK is a monarchy with a democratic parliament).

The most hilarious thing so far - as if it could not get more so - is that the Four Seasons Landscaping in the USA, where Giuliani set up a press conferenence, mistaking it for the Four Seasons Hotel, has tweeted that they are willing to offer their services for BoJo's press conference. 44,000 likes.


Watch out! Therese Coffey is already on the way to defend her hero.
 

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Can’t the Queen dismiss him? If the parliament as a whole votes against everything Boris puts forward and the nation is ungovernable, it would be her duty, surely.
 
lionking said:
Can’t the Queen dismiss him? If the parliament as a whole votes against everything Boris puts forward and the nation is ungovernable, it would be her duty, surely.
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Not without a confidence vote.

Although, that's being bandied about...

ETA: look up Reserve power. It may not be strictly prohibited, but it would be unseemly for the monarch to unilaterally remove a prime minister without a confidence vote (according to Wiki - last done in 1834?). My knowledge of 19th century British history has gaps...
 
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