It’s a war of attrition now, as futile and pointless as it is grinding and desperate. All hope of gaining ground is gone, but we are still compelled to defend our territory or else lose it. And so, with our hearts longing for impending death, we must return to our positions once more. There’s been another round of Tory leadership hustings. Boris Johnson’s position on Brexit is still meaningless garbage. He still wants to “disaggregate bits of the withdrawal agreement.” He still wants to deal with the Irish border question “during the implementation period”, all the while continuing to have “frictionless trade” with the European Union. It’s still the case the European Union say they will not countenance this. It is still the case that there is no implementation period unless an agreement is signed. It is still the case that his own deputy Prime Minister, David Lidington, has had to put out a statement saying exactly this - that … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson is still lying, and still no one cares
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Jeremy Hunt tweets solo Q&A after Boris Johnson skips debate
London (CNN)UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has used a Twitter Q&A session to lay out his policies if he is voted the country's Prime Minister, after rival Boris Johnson declined to debate him publicly on Tuesday. While answering Twitter users' questions on Brexit, Hunt promised to give full rights to Europeans living in the UK and to "deliver a Brexit that works for the 48% not just the 52% -- a positive, open and internationalist Brexit, Great Britain not Little England." UK Conservative Party members will vote soon for either Hunt or Johnson to replace outgoing Theresa May. The winner will be announced July 23. Thats it for tonight folks. Now for some cold pizza. @HastoBeHunt for campaign updates. pic.twitter.com/Smc3XCdRDs— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) June 25, 2019 In his Twitter session, Hunt refused to comment on Johnson's 'personal life,' despite rising public interest. Police responded to a reported altercation between Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, on … [Read more...] about Jeremy Hunt tweets solo Q&A after Boris Johnson skips debate
A touch of chaos will not stop Boris Johnson from becoming PM
It happens. It shouldn’t happen, but it does happen. It happens on a Friday evening. It’s the end of the week, a chance to unwind, get out a couple of bottles of wine.One member of the couple spills red wine on a pale couch. The other member of the couple is furious and says so. The wine-spiller is insufficiently regretful and, in no time at all, a screaming match with physical embellishments ensues, with the neighbours calling the police for fear the bigger of the couple will knock hell out of the lighter, smaller — usually female — one. This Saturday, we woke to the news that this had happened in London and that the couple involved were Carrie Symonds and her boyfriend of recent months, one Boris Johnson, contender for the office of British prime minister. The couple have concerned neighbours. The neighbours, in addition to being concerned and public-spirited, are communicative. The neighbours tried to intervene, failed because of the volume of the fracas, … [Read more...] about A touch of chaos will not stop Boris Johnson from becoming PM
‘Why neither Boris Johnson nor Dominic Raab should be PM’
Wannabe PMs Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab claim they can deliver No Deal Brexit by October. Rival Matt Hancock insists Parliament won’t wear it. That pitches the nation towards the biggest constitutional crisis since Oliver Cromwell took a swing at the king’s head. And I don’t mean a punch up in a pub. The British constitution is like eating in a restaurant with no menus. You’d have to trust the waiter was a good chap to bring the right food. That’s how our constitution works. What historian Peter Hennessy calls the “Good Chap Principle.” As it’s not written down no one knows quite what it serves up. Even the Queen says it’s a puzzle. So we blithely trust our leaders to be sound chaps and chapesses in interpreting it. Now bozos like Boris and Raab are threatening to throw the constitutional baby out with the Brexit bathwater. MPs voted against No Deal and will do so again. Raab proposes to ignore that, close Parliament, and go … [Read more...] about ‘Why neither Boris Johnson nor Dominic Raab should be PM’
Boris Johnson: Tories must deliver Brexit or face extinction
Boris Johnson has warned the Conservative party it is facing extinction if it does not deliver Brexit and put Nigel Farage “back in his box” as he spoke at a hustings of candidates to be the next prime minister from which the press and public were banned. Johnson told MPs from the centrist One Nation wing of the party that it was crucial to take the UK out of the EU at the end of October, arguing that he was the candidate to see off both Farage and Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn. Ruling out calling an early general election or discontinuing parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit, Johnson said: “We are looking at a very difficult situation and we must get ready, eventually, but not immediately, to beat Jeremy Corbyn and put Farage back in his box. We are facing an existential crisis and will not be forgiven if we do not deliver Brexit on 31 October. “I believe I am best placed to lift this party, beat Jeremy Corbyn and excite people about conservatism and … [Read more...] about Boris Johnson: Tories must deliver Brexit or face extinction