Judas Iscariot ?

[Bazile]

Is Michael Gove counting his thirty pieces of silver ?

[Ninefingers]

Maggie would never have let it get to this!!

[jambutty]

I didn't see that naomi.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't know, Naomi, but as she clearly wants to be Maggie MarkII we could be in for a surprise.

[naomi24]

We can hope!

[CrapAtCryptics]

Et Tu Michael

[youngmafbog]

Gove is going nowhere/

Unfortunately I suspect the leave camp is heading for a sellout.

May cannot be trusted anymore.

[Jackdaw33]

...but she's going to get the job and there will be plenty to kick her ass if she doesn't deliver.

[ToraToraTora]

nope but there are about 15million who are.

[ChillDoubt]

May is insipid, uninspiring and has the demeanour and poise of a striking slug.

As for the activities of Gove, I've not seen anyone get taken as roughly from behind as BoJo has in the political sphere since Norman Scott.

A week is a long time in politics and Boris has learned, as they used to say when I was in the Army: A pat on the back is just a recce for the knife!

[Jackdaw33]

Megalol @ ChillDoubt on all three counts. Love the Norman Scott reference.

[naomi24]

ChillDoubt //I've not seen anyone get taken as roughly from behind as BoJo has in the political sphere since Norman Scott.//

I’ve been thinking about this and I’m not so sure. I’m pasting my musings from another thread.

//There are a couple of ways of looking at this. Either Mr Gove realises that, despite the allegiance to the ‘Leave’ camp that Boris has portrayed over recent weeks, Boris’s heart wouldn’t be in the task that lies ahead, so in that respect Gove has been courageous in doing what is morally right for the country - or alternatively that Gove and Boris have reached agreement and Boris has been let off the hook with no loss of face. If that’s the case I imagine they sealed their bargain by clinking glasses in the Commons Bar together knowing full well that with Boris out of the running Teresa May will triumph anyway and at the end of it all they'll both get a decent job.//

[ToraToraTora]

"May is insipid, uninspiring and has the demeanour and poise of a striking slug. " - perhaps chill but she's always got a nice pair of rhythms.

[-Talbot-]

Who will have given Gove this silver?

[Svejk]

Boris was giving every indication that he was going to sell the Leavers down the river. If that was the case, every, right-minded, person should be happy that he's out.
Thanks, in part to the cowardly, treacherous Cameron, we live in interesting times.

[Peter Pedant]

// Boris was giving every indication that he was going to sell the Leavers down the river. If that was the case, every, right-minded, person should be happy that he's out. Thanks, in part to the cowardly, treacherous Cameron, we live in interesting times.//

blimey look at that ! It is true that a revolution eats its own children.

and congrats to Chilldo for raising the spectre of Norman Scott !
and not followed by a thousand posts of " Normin ? who he den ? "
I immediately thought of the associated dear dead Rinka and Andrew Gino Newton ( if you want a hit-man then I am your man ) .

[jambutty]

I heard on the news yesterday that May will not evoke Article 50 'this year'! I am beginning to believe Gromit more and more!

[zebo]

If it's May, Cinton, the Labour woman whose name escapes me and Merkel, would be interesting. Who's left to make the tea??

[jno]

not I think Judas but Brutus, as one of the papers said this morning ("Et tu, Gove?")

[Marshwarble]

Maggie wouldn't get out of EU as the country had only just put itself into it. Also Maggie knew she was unpopular, so she wouldn't have given herself a popularity contest just for the sake of it-nor would Blair or Brown (also unpopular) come to that. Major, Heath or Wilson, possibly might.