>>95574
The same paper that published this as their headline today?

>>95575
Yep. The url for the article, which is still their top story online, has the text "As-rivals-tell-Boris-rule-maker-rule-breaker-Tory-backbenchers-hit-back.html" so evidently they've rewritten it once they've realised it's completely against the public mood.

>>95573
One fun thing about the fixed penalty notice is Bodge won't get a criminal record because he paid the fine. So it's okay for the media to say he broke the law, because he did, but it would be slander or libel to call him a criminal. He broke the law, but he isn't a criminal. If a loophole that ridiculous exists, perhaps there are other loopholes too which could incriminate him further.

He does speak freely, though; he just refers to the page for a reminder much too often. And he answers a question from the journalist, so he can't be that scared of being caught out.

>>95577
You're conflating the definitions of "criminal" and "convicted criminal".

This woman is going to be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom and it's going to be fucking dreadful.

Not heard much from Dishy Rishi of late. As his wife's non-dom status totally torpedoed his political career?

>>95628
That, some ridiculous photo ops (my favourite was him trying to use contactless against a barcode scanner), an underwhelming Autumn Statement and he was also fined for breaking lockdown.

He's less popular than Boris now.

>>95628
Do you write a column in Last Month Weekly by any chance?

>>95627
God, I miss Theresa May. We all thought she was crying outside Number 10 because she felt sorry for herself, but in reality she'd just seen ever so slightly into the future. I'm suprised she didn't have a full blown Event Horizon-esque freakout know what she must have witnessed.

>Boris Johnson is to face a vote of no confidence on Monday evening after the threshold of 54 letters from Conservative MPs seeking his departure was reached.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/06/boris-johnson-face-confidence-vote-scores-tory-mps-call-on-him-to-go

>>95936
so either we get a leadership election which will drag on and then deliver some ghastly cunt, or we don't, and the current ghastly cunt in invincible for a year.
I can contain my delight.

>>95937
If I was Starmer I'd be making the point that if Johnson survives this it shows the entire Conservative party endorses his lies and incompetence, rotten to the core rather than it being just Johnson and his band of cronies, but he's probably too much of a wet lettuce for that.

>>95937
1922 Executive threatened to change those rules after May survived, and she walked. They could easily do the same to Boris, and since it only requires a vote amongst themselves to make the change they can follow through on that threat.

>>95938

He'll make exactly that point, but no-one will care because he'll deliver it in the form of carefully crafted oratory rather than playground insults and alliterative slogans.

Interesting that the Tories who want him out are circulating the message that if Johnson narrowly stays on he'll possibly call a general election to reassert his authority even if it means taking the government down with him.

I've got BBC news on at the moment and it's largely vacuous vox pop from people who want him to stay on. Then again, I think they were caught out muting him being booed during the Jubilee celebrations; it turns out we just needed a few royalists to boo him to trigger a no confidence vote.

>>95941

If you're a Labour supporter you really do want him to stay on, as satisfying as it would be to see him go. I reckon he might just bite it, though. This seems to have taken everyones by surprise (somehow) because it isn't being centrally planned by a group of plotters, it's fully organic discontent among his MPs. He appears to have far less public support than May had in the same situation.

The trouble is there's nobody worth replacing him with, and the damage may well be done for this government, so far Boris has taken the brunt of it for Partygate, but people won't forget that it wasn't just him. They're mistaken if they think getting rid of Boris will rescue the party.

>>95942
>The trouble is there's nobody worth replacing him with

It sounds like Jeremy Hunt fancies his chances. It should be Mordaunt.

>>95943
It should be one of the ones that got purged before 2019. Unfortunately, none of them got re-elected, so we are where we are.

>>95944
Christ, imagine a world where we have Rory Stewart in charge of the country.

>>95945
If we put a wig on Tim Farron and got a bee to sting him on the face I don't think anyone would notice the difference.

>>95946
So why didn't you lot vote LibDem?

>>95947

You never piss on the same electric fence twice unless you're especially thick. 2010 remains sour in my memory as a naive and barely politically aware young lad, but it certainly opened my eyes.

LibDems make the Tories look principled.

>>95948
Given how the Tories behaved after the coalition I'm always surprised by how much stick the LibDems get over a lack of principle. As if tuition fees was really the most pressing issue facing the country in 2010 or that the major plank of entering the coalition wasn't AV that was then undone by a public referendum.

When do we find out what's going on?

>>95950
Around 9pm.

>>95950
Around 10pm. I reckon they'll be late.

>>95949
I think they're seen as enabling all of this. The bad stink is wearing off a little bit these days, but that rejuvenation was delayed somewhat thanks to a 2019 GE that made Labour look like politcal maestros at peak perfoamance.

There are reports on twitter that pro Bozza MP's are looking very downhearted after talking to colleague's. It's going to be pretty close I reckon.

>>95953
Yeah, poor bastards might have to keep carrying the can for the freak.

>>95953
Not falling for that again, Owen.

The BBC are suggesting he's narrowly clung on.

It's a tie

>>95947
I have done, many times. But they are currently targeting rich Home Counties voters who are annoyed that the Conservatives are investing in the North and first-time house-buyers and shitholes in general. They have decided they can win more votes from my enemies than from me. So fuck them, fuck them to death with an AIDS cactus.

It is now 21:01. If Boris has just lost his job and I'm here banging on about Ed Davey's electoral strategy, this post will be humiliating.

>>95949

It's quite simple- It's because the Tories are the nasty party who everyone epects to be nasty, so you aren't upset when they do something nasty. You expect it. Whereas literally the single and only reason anyone has ever voted LibDem, or ever will vote LibDem, in the history of anything is because they want someone who isn't a nasty Tory, but Labour don't look appealing.

If you jump right in the muck with the Tories just for a sniff of the potential opportunity to think you're important, you've blown that out of the water for years to come, and that's exactly what Clegg did. Fucked it.

Plus a little bit of what >>95952 says. People may not have long memories but I don't think anyone remembers the days of smug prick Cameron and Mr Bean's evil twin fondly, without them we wouldn't be in the mess we are today, and without the LibDems acting as enablers, we wouldn't have had that. Which is part of the broader problem here I think- It's taken far longer than it should have, but people are finally starting to change their mind about the Conservative party.

Of course they'll be back in within a decade, but a few years under Labour giving the paupers a few extra quid a month as a pressure release valve is just what the doctor ordered for our incredibly bland dystopia.

>>95957

>But they are currently targeting rich Home Counties voters who are annoyed that the Conservatives are investing in the North and first-time house-buyers and shitholes in general.

The irony of that is that the Conservatives haven't even done that, merely said they were going to and then didn't. Surely the double barrelled surname brigade are in on that joke by now.

Boris has won again, 211 to 148 votes.

Boris has won, by the way. 211-148. That's not a very good performance compared to other Prime Ministers who have also won and then been booted out anyway.

>>95958
>If you jump right in the muck with the Tories just for a sniff of the potential opportunity to think you're important, you've blown that out of the water for years to come, and that's exactly what Clegg did. Fucked it.

I think this would all be a very different tune had AV won. That, I think, was the gamble Clegg made and would've secured the Lib Dems long term given they're highly likely to win more preference votes.

>>95959
It's funny you've pointed this out in the same thread >>95955 highlighted Owen Jones' lack of insight, as he currently has a piece in the Guardian about how "if Johnson loses it's back to Thatcherism". It never ended, you soft sod.

>>95960
>>95961

As a Labour supporter this is a cracking outcome. The public will now only be angrier that his party are fully complicit in their leader's lawbreaking, and there's only so long you can keep jabbering "B-b-but I got Brexit done!" while the Northern Ireland protocol falls apart under our noses.

Marvellous stuff.

Those are really not good numbers for Bozza.
He's won yes, but it's not exactly emphatic.
He will paint it as drawing a line under things etc, but I reckon it wont be long before he's on the chopping block again.

>>95961 so is hunt going to get a kicking, or magnanimously forgiven?
Still, another week without pm Truss is a week with a different ghastly cunt in charge. Nobody wins.

>>95962
AV is one of the best examples of why people turned on the LibDems after the Coalition deal. They demanded it, they got it and when it came to the actual campaign they put up less of a fight than tinned achovies. It became clear, to me at least, that even when they got their way they either didn't have the means or the will to actually force their issues, either into the public sphere or through parliament. If they means then why would you be so naive as to cut a deal in the first place? If you don't have the will then why should I believe a word you say? Both questions result in a total loss of trust. I'm just speaking for myself here, but I don't think I've had an especially aberrant relationship with the LibDems over the years, these seem like quite common themes amongst politics weirdos anyway.

EVERYONE HATES MAGICAL BORIS
EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR NADINE DORRIES
SHE DOESN'T GIVE A TOSS
SHE'S SHAGGING HER BOSS
LIKE THE RACHEL AND ROSS
OF ELECTORAL LOSS

>>95968
She writes fan fiction, it's quite lurid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBTiJOxcxs

>>95969

Sooz Kempner has a terrific pair of baps.

>>95970
It took me a while to realise it wasn't Zoe Lyon, or one of those other unfunny panel show comedians that all look the same.

BBC News again full of pro-Boris vox pop.

>>95971

Sooz Kempner is the one with cracking norks who does standup shows about retro gaming.

>>95970
>>95976
She looks like a lass I used to know who was a serial online slag, which is quite satisfyingly as it takes me back to being 19 and watching her flash her tits on webcam. Kids these days are spoiled when it comes to sexting, back in my day you had to find a gem.

>>95977
I do miss the days of AoL Chat, MSN Messenger and the like.

>Senior Labour MP Harriet Harman will lead an inquiry into whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over parties in No 10 during lockdowns. The cross-party Privileges Committee, made up of seven MPs, issued a call for evidence after meeting on Wednesday. It said it would be seeking "witness information and evidence" and that hearings would begin in the autumn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61984704

I think the important question on all our minds is will ARE SOOZ do a follow-up top? Followed by which is her favourite clan on VtMB.