Does Anyone Really Believe That Boris's Forced Departure Will Heal Divisions In The Conservative Government?

[naomi24]

Excellent article from Carole Malone writing in the Daily Express.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1637232/boris-johnson-conservative-party-leadership-contest

[pimplyteen]

^:0)

[naomi24]

Fatticus, // are there any circumstances in which you would not support Boris Johnson? //

Indeed there are.

[FatticusInch]

If you say so.

[tomus42]

Re the op. It would be worse if he stayed.

He is clearly a divisive character, and while his opponents might have been happy to keep quiet when he was an election winner, they never would after he started to look like a liability.

[ichkeria]

“Why are you asking me about Corbyn?”

A reminder that it’s not so long ago he was scaring the hell out of Middle England. Different reason of course but you don’t win elections unless you are appealing to them.
Plenty of Conservative areas have seen support for the govt nosedive. Not just the high profile by elections but in the council elections

[Khandro]

I wonder how long it will take for the Tory party to realise just what an enormous blunder removing Boris has been?

Looking at this shower of hopeful leaders, (Wallace having now removed himself) not one is going to win the next election for them.

'Be careful what you wish for' has never been more apt.

[FatticusInch]

Khandro
//I wonder how long it will take for the Tory party to realise just what an enormous blunder removing Boris has been? //

Presently around a nano-second.
Do you actually notice what’s happening in the real world and have a think before you type such drivel that flys in the face of public and parliamentary party opinion alike?

[gulliver1]

It's going to take long time for the Torys to heal the gigantic wound that Boris has inflicted on their Party.
A a lot of people say they will never vote Tory again and these are life time Tory voters.

[Peter Pedant]

He wasnt forced - he said he did it himself ! ter daah!
Boris lovvuz start snivelling, and clarifying
If Boris' departure had been forced in anyway, we would have seen the lying buster being given the bum's rush down the steps of Downing St, as he richly deserved, in front of the cameras
( and we didnt, ergo)

A much improved q is:
Does anyone believe Boris forced departure will hinder him using the Downing St apparatus to brief against his supposed enemies?

nope - because he is doing it as we speak - ter daah !

[Peter Pedant]

yeah if Naomi says that Boris was elected by a huge majority all over the country in a popular mandate,
I will vote Mr Nice-Guy ( Kier Starmer)

[naomi24]

Ich, I wouldn’t have thought anyone needs reminding of Corbyn but perhaps they need to be reminded that Starmer supported him.

[Ellipsis]

The Tory party is, as it's very fond of saying, a broad church. So there are bound to be divisions, and it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing in a large party.

[JDavis]

Carole Malone, Daily Express. Enough said!

[Khandro]

jdavis: //Carole Malone, Daily Express. Enough said!//
A trite remark in the usual attempt by the third rate to sound profound by saying nothing.
Do say please, in your own analysis, exactly why what she has written is wrong.

[Khandro]

Plans to write in, 'Boris Johnson', afoot;

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1638157/Boris-Johnson-resignation-Conservative-Party-leadership-race-write-in-campaign-latest-vn

[tomus42]

Good. If all BJs supporters spoil their ballot papers, we're more likely to end up with a PM that's the least like BJ out of the two options.

[naomi24]

tomus, you'll get what you deserve. Don't be sure you'll like it though.

[JDavis]

OK, Khandro. 'He was on out side and he wanted what WE wanted.'
Johnson support for Brexit was opportunistic - it offered him the easiest route to power. As many have said, he cares for no-one but himself as he's demonstrating now.

And though Malone seems to admit he's a liar who lacks integrity, she thinks it doesn't matter because he's a 'rock-star'. Politics shouldn't be show-business.

[Khandro]

JD,//Johnson support for Brexit was opportunistic - it offered him the easiest route to power.//

That's nonsense, how could supporting Brexit knowingly lead to power, when no one knew how the country would vote?

[JDavis]

He took a gamble, which politicians often do, that it was his most likely route to power. That's why he opposed Theresa May's deal. His whole history is of looking after number one.

And what about his lack of integrity?