Interesting Links for 07-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. What if Boris Johnson refuses to resign?

(tags:BorisJohnson Conservatives politics constitution uk )

2. The Firth of Forth looking majestic.

(tags:Scotland photo Edinburgh )

3. Finally a Downfall meme for Johnson!

(tags:BorisJohnson meme video Hitler viaPatrickHadfield )

4. Reminder that if you "buy" a movie online then it might suddenly just vanish with no refund

(tags:copyright media streaming Sony )

Comments

[cmcmck]

He hasn't!

He's gone!

[andrewducker]

Looks to me like he's still PM and will be for some weeks/months.

[cmcmck]

That's standard practise, but I'm not sure all Tories will be happy with it.

They can get a leadership contest done and dusted by the end of August, but I'll admit that I don't trust him as far as I could throw him (he's a Tory after all) and would love to see him gone now!

[andrewducker]

I don't trust whoever replaces him either!

[cmcmck]

You'n'me both.

My grandads were colliers after all..........

[calimac]

There is that problem. Neither major party has anyone I'd like to see in the office. The last Tory possible I could imagine without palpitations was Ken Clarke.

[andrewducker]

There were a few pre-2019, but Johnson purged all of the ones who stood up to him before that election.

[mtbc]

Yes, I would have liked Ken Clarke as caretaker PM for this period, I saw him recently in front of some select committee. Similarly, seems unfortunate that Rory Stewart is now so firmly gone. Just so long as Priti Patel doesn't do well out of all this.

I think similar is much of how Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership contest, I mean, look at who was also standing.

[autopope]

My money is on the Emperor Dalek in a meatsuit. That's the way Tory politics is trending this decade.

[calimac]

3) Hitler/BoJo asks why now, after all he's done why is Pincher the scandal that sinks him? This article has an answer. All was forgiven BJ because he was seen as an election winner (see 2019). But now that he's lost these by-elections so absurdly, he's not an election winner any more, he's vulnerable.

It's like Thatcher, actually. Her defense against being deposed was that she'd won three elections. But if that's your reason for being kept on, then belief that you'll lose a fourth will inevitably sink you.

[ckd]

Sadly, the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 includes s.8(1) which would allow Johnson to refuse to accept "the office of steward or bailiff of Her Majesty’s three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, or of the Manor of Northstead" (s.4). (Though, technically, both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness rejected those titles while still using them for their "you can't quit, you're fired" resignation-from-Parliament workaround.)