People will celebrate this as if he won't be replaced by a functionality equivalent ghoul 🙄
They are all functionality equivalent. This is similar (though not exactly like) people saying Trump was worse than Biden. Leftists know that he meaningfully isn't.
Whoever replaces him is going to kill just as many poor/marginalised people here and brown people overseas, and will continue to help the rich get richer. This is basically just bourgeois infighting and we shouldn't be distracted by it (even if the drama is admittedly entertaining to watch).
I actually disagree, I think there are far worse people than Boris who might take over
There is absolutely zero possibility that the core tory membership vote for a leader that isn't white. They are racist af.
So many of the main contenders aren't white. Who else would it be? Liz Truss I guess? Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt?? Otherwise it'd have to be someone relatively unknown
It’s her turn
Lmao :agony-shivering:
I don't know much about her. How bad is she, from a scale of Starmer to Patel?
Literally the worst possible candidate for trans issues. For everything else? She's utterly incompetent and the direction of the country will mostly be created by the people around her instead.
Also pretty sure she's a massive raging actual fascist.
:yea:
The UK under her will tighten up a new fascist power block in Europe that she's been working on, Poland/UK/Ukraine.
I suspect she'll go hard on WOKE shit as well. Bring in a lot of american right discourse.
Bring in a lot of american right discourse.
:NOOOOO: Ffs we better not become all culture war-y. I'm still not over how much the right wanted to fuck the green M&M
You best believin in culture wars, Miss Layla. You’re livin in one
Oh the M&M is just the tip of the iceberg, they want to fuck so much more than just her
It seems like war hawk fever might propel Wallace into the limelight though. I can't guarantee what Ukraine shit is going to do to the party...
who cares? I'd rather they stick with a white tory leader, just the optics alone of a brown Tory leader gives their side a win. I thought we already went through with this with Obama?
I'm not suggesting it would be a good thing, just pointing out that it is absolutely not going to happen.
Ouy bruvs, it's me, Wahn Godreoh here to step up and take charge.
I've been ghouling since I shagged marmalade-slathered crumpets.
When I heard the news my good friend Boris Johnson is retiring, I nearly halted my Union Jacking off into my mid-morning tea, but God save the queen if I don't manage to make the tea go down with a little bit of cream.
Can't wait to lead all you gents.
Place your bets for the next leader now!
Intersectional Fascism, Austerity+, Thatcher as Farce, or any of the rogue's gallery of Home Counties Dads?
It's all to play for as we find out who the press will use to rehabilitate Johnson in 3 years when they fail to do anything about the Moloch Machine that is modern Britain!
I'm going with Michael Gove. Mostly because that's the most awfully ghoulish option.
Agreed, but he tied himself too closely to Johnson. That said, an election for PM is likely months away despite Boris capitulating.
The Murdoch Choice ®️
At last, sensible, long term governance will return to Britain.
I don't know if he's worse than Suelle Braverman, but that's mostly because i do not know much about that particular clown.
I'm not completely aware of Gove's background (mostly heard about him during Brexit).
He's anti-expert, as in he can't stand the idea of experts in any field advising policy and stated as much during Brexit.
He's come out in favour of execution via hanging in past but I'm unclear what his current views are on it.
He wrote a whole book in favour of complete privatisation of the NHS.
His wife is a pretty powerful ghoul in the Murdoch press.
Was deeply in favour of the Iraq war and has supported every conflict that has occurred while he's been an MP.
He supports gay marriage though so there's a sort of Blairite liberal who likes him.
Gove is a weasel fuck. Most of his senior political career was engineered by his (ex?) wife who has lots of hoighty-toighty connections through her job as a journalist - she was behind his gormless attempt at the recent leadership when he and Boris ran - when Boris won Gove's wife went mental and started smashing shit because she thought she would be married to the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
So their history is probably why he was fired instead of resigning - Boris taking revenge for all the poison his wife was dripping into everyone's ear. I wouldn't be surprised if Gove's office was the source for all the party / Covid strife. Gove is a busted flush now, he may well run again but he'll never get the Top Job.
Priti Patel is basically a cenobite and probably the worst possible choice, so therefore my bet's on her.
rishi sunak seems the most likely choice - he basically led this coup after all
Sure, I'll resign. When they elect someone else
:garf-troll:
As per, he will fail upwards and land a supremely high-paying gig at a multinational selling
bombsdefense technology to Israel or the Saudi's.After a decade of austerity and class warfare, the thing that may kick the tories out of power is a dumb scandal about a party during covid. Can't wait to watch the rest of the spectacle guys :despair:
Can any UK folks clue in a clueless yank about why Johnson's resigning? I haven't been paying attention to this until today but what did he do that's so grody even other tories want him to fuck off?
https://www.change.org/p/donald-tusk-petition-to-sink-the-united-kingdom-just-sink-it
