Dorries goes

[mugnapper]

https://news.sky.com/story/infighting-and-stupidity-johnson-loyalist-and-ex-culture-sec-nadine-dorries-to-quit-as-mp-at-next-election-12807052
We shall not see her like again. Hopefully.

[BillyStubbsTears]

The Tory party has lost so much intellectual talent over the past third of a century. They used to have a philosophy of what they believed they wanted to do for the country.  It's now a rabble of chancers and mouthy empty heads.

But among all these, she stood out as a spectacular example of utter uselessness, wrapped up in arrogant self-belief.

It's scarcely credible that someone as f**king useless as her actually sat round the Cabinet table.

[Hounslowrover]

Isn't she quitting because Boris is giving her a peerage for the Lords in his resignation honour.  If she quits now it will be a by-election, perhaps , as its a safe seat, Boris will fight it at the next election.

[Metalmicky]

She is a useless cling-on who absolutely nobody will miss and the door will hopefully hit her on her way out. 

[Glyn_Wigley]

Isn't she quitting because Boris is giving her a peerage for the Lords in his resignation honour.  If she quits now it will be a by-election, perhaps , as its a safe seat, Boris will fight it at the next election.

Boris already has a safe seat, why does he need another?

[ravenrover]

Which safe seat is that then?

[Filo]

Another one of the crew abandoning the sinking ship

[Donnywolf]

The pieces fall into place

Johnson a proven liar has said he will fight and win his current Seat (Uxbridge and SR) at the next Election

Opinion polls have suggested he won't win

He has released his departing PMs Honours List which is being delayed for some reason and Dorries is reputedly on it

Call me a cynic but would it be a shock if now she has stood down that the local Tory "clan" offer her Seat (Maj. 2019 24,000) to another "character" in Johnson ( Maj. 7000 ish 2019 and 5000 ish in previous GE)

I suggest it wouldn't .... Dots joined

[BillyStubbsTears]

Johnson won Uxbridge and South Ruislip by 15% over Labour in 2019. According to the New Statesman/Britain Elects model (which has predicted recent by election results very well) he'd lose by 15% if there was an election today.

I'm not sure it's ever happened before that a leader has won a General Election, then lost his own seat at the next vote. It'd restore my faith in the British people though if that lying, cheating, burning narcissistic waste of skin got hoyed out. Maybe then we could start aputting the country back together that he tore apart for his own career advantage.

[danumdon]

Johnson won Uxbridge and South Ruislip by 15% over Labour in 2019. According to the New Statesman/Britain Elects model (which has predicted recent by election results very well) he'd lose by 15% if there was an election today.

I'm not sure it's ever happened before that a leader has won a General Election, then lost his own seat at the next vote. It'd restore my faith in the British people though if that lying, cheating, burning narcissistic waste of skin got hoyed out. Maybe then we could start aputting the country back together that he tore apart for his own career advantage.

This is what happens when the British electorate allow the media to woo them into believing they need a "character"to be in charge of the country.

Its been proven time and time again that this approach does not work , here or abroad they tend to be all froth, wind and pi**.

Just give me some miserable Fuc*er who is switched on and competent, knows what needs to be done and more importantly has the gumption to get it done.

Been a long time since this was the case, we still wait and i fear we will be still waiting after the next incumbent has been, fuc*ed up and  gone.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Gordon Brown.

[danumdon]

Gordon Brown.

Ruined my pension and gave our gold away and yes he was a miserable Fuc*er

Stands like a beacon compared with the dross that followed him.

[BillyStubbsTears]

What Brown may or may not have done with the gold and the pensions is a pinprick compared to the shitstorm that would have engulfed the world if he's not taken a lead after the GFC.

There is a BBC documentary where someone from the Treasury recalls the crisis G20 meeting as the world economy was tipping into a new Great Depression.

Sarkozy was flinging his hands around crying "What do we do? No-one has a plan!"

Obama cut in and said "I believe Gordon has a plan."

And he did. He got every one of them to sign up to the classic solution - Keynesian Reflation. And every one if them to sign up to not doing the beggar-thy-neighbour devaluation and trade barriers that we saw in the 1930s.

His reward was that pair of chancers Osborne and Cameron making the whole debate about Govt debt which was never a real problem. And they choked off the recovery in Britain. Fortunately, we'd got over the worst, because if they'd been in power in 2007-8 God knows where we'd be.

[BobG]

And damning anybody with hindsight is a fools trick.

BobG