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    Will Johnson Finally Fall? Archived Message

    Posted by Keith-264 on July 6, 2022, 9:26 pm

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/will-johnson-finally-fall.html#more

    Let me admit that I do not understand the details of the political process within British parties. So I do not know if the Tories can force Boris Johnson out of Downíng Street No. 10 or not.

    Over the last 24 hours some 26 government officials from his party resigned over the latest of his many lies:

    The current row is the scandal over Dickensianly-named Charles Pincher. But Johnson had already taken another hit when and both seats they had held, one previously considered safe, the other snatched from Labour in 2019. It didn’t help that Johnson seemed more interested in bolstering Zelensky than fellow MPs, or that he was in Rwanda the day of the special elections.

    Pincher resigned from the post of deputy chief whip on June 30 due to allegations of sexual misconduct. No. 10 claimed that Johnson had not known Pincher had faced charges of similar impropriety in 2019, at the Foreign Office. That story blew up over the weekend.

    But Johnson seems unimpressed:

    Mr Johnson defied calls to resign despite the scathing attack and a fresh wave of ministerial resignations and signs that support from Tory backbenchers is ebbing away.

    The prime minister told MPs the “colossal mandate” he had been handed in 2019 meant he should keep going despite the “difficult circumstances”.

    Later today the 1922 Committee, the parliament group of the conservatives, will vote on some rule changes that should allow to vote Boris out by next week.

    Kitty Donaldson @kitty_donaldson - 10:20 UTC · Jul 6, 2022

    EXC: The 1922 Committee will meet at 5 pm and if it's quorate in favour of changing the leadership rules it will do so and there could be a ballot on Johnson's leadership next week.

    But what happens when he does not move even after that happens?

    During the 2019 Brexit fight in the conservative party several Tories voted against Johnson's course. He threw them out of the party and arranged for new election which he then won by a good margin.

    Mikey Smith @mikeysmith - 12:22 UTC · Jul 6, 2022

    Well-placed source convinced Boris Johnson won’t quit, even if the 22 change the rules, and he loses a VONC.

    Instead, he’ll claim he has a mandate from 14m voters, and will threaten to force an election - but not before deselecting everyone who voted against him.

    Could he now try something similar?

    He probably could but by now the Tories would likely lose a general election. Energy prices are through the roof and few can still afford to pay for them.

    Johnson is the billionaires useful idiot. Their donations have put and kept him in office. But even they will at some point cut their support and select some other corrupt but populous idiot to do what they says.

    That may even be Ken Starmer, the current Labour leader who has castrated the party of any radical thought by throwing out its Corbyn supporters.

    The policy differences between 'moderate Tories' and the defanged Labour are smaller than many perceive. A Prime Minister Starmer might well turn out to be just another liar like Tony Blair.

    Two world wars and the Suez crisis have destroyed Britain's imperial state. Brexit has finished it off:

    Brexit was just a convulsion, as the United Kingdom went through the psychological trauma of accepting its change in status from great power to reasonably senior European state. There is a great treatise to be written on this and the consequent wave of populist English nationalism.

    You may like to note the constant Tory use of the phrase “world-leading” in risible circumstances, the fact that even yesterday Starmer felt the need to comment on government collapse while planted between three Union Jacks, the constant militarism and fetishisation of the armed forces on TV, and the desire for reflected glory by fighting a great war to the blood of the very last Ukrainian.
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    Johnson is just a part of a process. As the power of an Empire disintegrates, so do its mores. Since the second world war, over sixty states have become independent of British rule.
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    As the UK’s military, economic and political power have collapsed, so have its political mores – both for good and for bad. Johnson is but a turd spewed to the top of the gushing sewer of British decline.

    It was Boris Johnson who at the end of March pressed the Ukrainian president Zelensky into ending negotiations with Russia and into prolonging the war in his country.

    That was a crime for which both should receive severe punishment. A shameful forced removal from office is not sufficient as such.

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