UK: The Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson years - problematic + infected + broke the law + electoral poison + sneks + not very good + OVER (funny)

Sunak's energy tax going down like a bucket of cold sick has probably bought Johnson some time. If he's the leading candidate for taking the job, stepping in when he's in the middle of receiving major blowback for a policy decision probably isn't particularly desirable. Plus Johnson's antics obviously create a convenient distraction.
 
A no-confidence vote isn't a good way of dealing with him - if he wins it (which is very possible), he'll feel even more invincible than he already does.

Constitutional question - if he lost such a vote, could he take the spiteful route and call a GE?
 
I can't believe no. 10's strategy is to make Johnson sound either too childish or too senile to be a bad guy. How do any of these statements about him make him sound mentally competent enough to run a country?
 
A no-confidence vote isn't a good way of dealing with him - if he wins it (which is very possible), he'll feel even more invincible than he already does.

Constitutional question - if he lost such a vote, could he take the spiteful route and call a GE?
Wouldn't that be at the discretion of his successor? I'd assume timescales would mean the change of leadership would happen during the campaigning period for the election so he'd be calling an election for someone else to contest.
 
A no-confidence vote isn't a good way of dealing with him - if he wins it (which is very possible), he'll feel even more invincible than he already does.

Constitutional question - if he lost such a vote, could he take the spiteful route and call a GE?
They haven't repealed the fixed-term parliaments act yet so he can't just call one unilaterally. They would need to vote it through, and not a chance the Tory's will vote for one atm.
 
They haven't repealed the fixed-term parliaments act yet so he can't just call one unilaterally. They would need to vote it through, and not a chance the Tory's will vote for one atm.

I see - I was under the impression the fixed parliaments act had gone, I'd missed that they hadn't actually done so.
 
Wouldn't that be at the discretion of his successor? I'd assume timescales would mean the change of leadership would happen during the campaigning period for the election so he'd be calling an election for someone else to contest.

Plus...as ZG points out, it wouldn't get Parliament's approval.

I just can't see him going quietly. He won't just step down.
 
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Is this to say thank you to the sycophants who made fools of themselves by supporting him on social media, and punish those who kept quiet because they would look like idiots if they didn't?

I can't see that not backfiring...
 
I'm guessing a reshuffle will just be a minor one to create a headline to reinforce the illusion of "change"?

As much as I loathe to say it, it would be mad to remove somebody like Gove from his current position when he's knee-deep in various projects that have QUITE ENORMOUS IMPLICATIONS to the electorate.
 

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