(30-01-2022 23:19 )crankshaft Wrote:  Taken from today's Guardian online:

Dominic Cummings has said it is his “duty to get rid” of Boris Johnson as prime minister, describing it as “sort of like fixing the drains”.

The prime minister’s former chief adviser called his former boss a “complete fuckwit” whose only preoccupations were “Big Ben’s bongs” and “looking at maps” to “order the building of things” in his honour

Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/30/dominic-cummings-says-it-is-his-duty-to-get-rid-of-boris-johnson.

(31-01-2022 07:56 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  how many names would be needed to trigger leadership contest remind me is it 50% of mps or 50 names?

(31-01-2022 07:26 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  Bad though Boris is, this is a democracy. Only Parliament gets to decide when to remove him.

(31-01-2022 10:09 )HannahsPet Wrote:  

(31-01-2022 07:56 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  how many names would be needed to trigger leadership contest remind me is it 50% of mps or 50 names?

no its 54 Mp's or 15% of the the tory mp's its then goes into a no contest vote where he has to win at least 50% which is about 180 tory mp's

think the delay is because they dont want to trigger it until they are sure he will not get the 180 votes because then he cant be ousted for a year but they were going to change it to 6 months but didnt when May was ousted

I reckon will have till the disasterous may elections

(31-01-2022 10:14 )Goodfella3041 Wrote:  

(31-01-2022 07:26 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  Bad though Boris is, this is a democracy. Only Parliament gets to decide when to remove him.

Enemy of my enemy … as much as I detest Cummings, if he has any dirt that could unseat Johnson, then I hope it comes out.

The whole ‘staring at maps’ to find opportunities to ‘build things in his honour’ rings very true.

The Garden Bridge and Estuary Airport were the most obvious examples. But so is the scandalous waste of money and corrupt procurement over the Olympic Stadium — it was design to be downscaled until Boris got his grubby paws was on it.

There were rotten deals with Chinese ‘investors’ who never invested in Crystal Palace Park and the Royal Docks. There is a ‘Boris Bus’ that is more aptly called the ‘Boiling Bus’ — designed by the same twat who came up with Garden Bridge.

And then there were the ‘Boris Bikes’. Barclays Bank shells out £30 million to install what I’m sure they thought would be referred to as the Barclays Bikes. Boris flails around on one for 5 minutes and is then only too happy for the Evening Standard to run a headline that calls them ‘Boris Bikes’. Any other Mayor’s press office would be hammering home the name of the sponsor — but not Johnson’s. Is it any wonder that Barclays refused to renew their deal?