Brit here living in NY. Take YouGov polls with a pinch of salt. YouGov is owned by Nadhim Zahawi - prominent conservative MP who has been Chancellor of Exchquer and other high profile ministries. Their polls are designed to give the answer that those in power want and to gaslight Brits that ‘everyone wants this’. For about a week in March 2020 it looked like BOJO was on the right track then he caved to lockdowns and authoritarianism like the rest. He’s out because he’s ceased to be useful to globalist masters. Next puppet incoming. You nailed it with the Cuomo/Hochul point. I am living that nightmare and fearful of November.
Since Johnson was ousted for mostly the wrong reasons (i.e. his harmful Covid policies had nothing to do with it), it stands to reason that his successor will not get the job for the right reasons.
The twin spirals of incompetence and corruption are tightening like a noose around the collective necks of the managerial class. They can only replace bad leaders with worse leaders, and every replacement results in worse government and accentuated public discontent.
Ben Wallace MP is getting tory party members hot and sweaty because he's the defence minister, and in the UK, the Ukraine war in still seen as a good thing.
Most likely he won't make the final cut, which will be of two potential PM's.
One will not have voted for Brexit and one will have.
Of the MP's who voted for Brexit, the truly scary proposition is Michael Gove MP, a twisted sociopath with deep seated control issues.
Most worryingly, tory party members, most of whom are painfully slow witted, still do not a) think lockdown was bad, and b) do not blame Gove for lockdown - even though he was its principal political architect.
Other brexit-voting MP's e.g. Dominic Raab, while being shamefully silent about lockdowns, would likely not impose any more.
Of the remain-voting MP's, the worrying prospects are ex health secretary Sajid Javid (imposed vaccine mandates on nurses) and psycho nut job Jeremy Hunt. Both are unlikely to get party member votes as the NHS is currently seen as a big stinking turd of incompetence, and they both led it.
Rishi Sunak (ex chancellor) was against lockdown (but not in public), he printed £450bn from thin air but he's skirting blame as Johnson is currently (and had been kept in position to be) the lightening rod for anger against how screwed the country now is. So Sunak is a reasonable bet.
Long shots include Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt who party members love and who would be OK on the lockdown front.
The best potential PM would be someone like David Davis, a past leadership contender who was hobbled in the leadership race previously by Remainers. If he makes it into the final two, then happy days
From the beginning of the pandemic I’ve thought there was a great deal in common between Boris and the other leaders around the planet who have followed the dictates of the BBB, WEF, BILDERBERG contingent. Middle manager types willing to go along with the popular, rich kids to get along. Their maturity level got stalled at middle school level.
Despite being Defence Secretary, I bet most people don’t know very much about him. I’m one of them. That probably makes him ideal as a placeholder for the New World Order, WEF types who will actually be running things. As useless and weak as Boris has been, I suspect he hasn’t quite gone along with their plans. Certainly, if you compare the U.K. response to the not-particularly-deadly virus with the approach taken by most of the rest of the Western world, it comes out pretty well - relatively speaking - compared with Australia, NZ, Canada & most of Europe. There is also the question of Brexit; Boris is hated by a large section of the media and parliamentary party for ‘getting it done’ and he was never their choice as PM. That is an error they have now corrected by a sustained and unrelenting campaign against him, consisting of largely minor ‘scandals’ like Partygate etc. I fear we may rue the day we got rid of Boris.
It really matters not who succeeds Boris in terms of future UK government policy. The whole rotten, craven Westminster bunch will continue to take a wrecking ball to the economy and every aspect of our lives in order to soften us up for future state-subsidised serfdom via the World Economic Forum's proposed Great Reset.
Who else do you imagine coined the "Build back better" slogan mouthed by globalist political puppets on both sides of the Pond?
Boris was a product of the WEF young global leader's brainwashing academy. Opposition (sic) leader Sir Keith Starmer, is coy about admitting it, but he is a member of the all-powerful globalist think tank, The Trilateral Commission. In other words, they are two cheeks of the same smelly backside we can do without.
Always be suspicious when someone is got rid of for spurious reasons. The person who he was supposed to be protecting was only subject to unproven allegations (from other adult men) at the time, the entire government are responsible for the current mess plus being some kind of sexual deviant is almost expected in politics…
I live in the UK and follow politics reasonably. Ben Wallace is not that well know here, he appears (according to the Spectator and centrist websites) to be sane, and balanced. Has a military background (hence his current popularity). Uncontroversial. Probably Establishment.
I’m British and never heard of Ben Wallace before reading this article. The poll was among Conservative Party Members so not representative of the Country as a whole. The political Parties do not have big memberships. The Conservative Party 180 000, for example. It’s not like the US with registered Republicans or Democrats, so most people - millions - who vote Conservative aren’t members of the Party. Wallace is Defence Minister, military background, tipped to be next head of NATO, so if he is elected Party leader and becomes PM, to be sure UK involvement in the futile proxy war with Russia will continue.
Chesterton’s Fence. A feature of UK, indeed European, politics is Government is like chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe… impossible to get rid of. By Government I mean policies, behaviour, values, competence, direction.
European Politics is truly environmentally friendly - we recycle everything constantly - nothing gets thrown away no matter how worn or threadbare.
Elections just change the seating arrangements and the same faces keep coming round in a game of Buggin’s turn. But as far any actual change - nah! Opposition Parties are just waiting rooms for those waiting their turn.
The French figured this out the other week when only 46% bothered to turn out. They know that Left, Right, Macron in the Middle - it’s same old, same old.
And so it has been since 1945 - with a brief Thatcher interlude - in the UK.
So Chesterton may sleep sound, nothing will change.
I will confess here to still retaining a small bit of liking for Boris Johnson, despite all that has happened since 2020, mostly because of my gratitude to him for getting Brexit over the line against globalist opposition (even though I knew he didn't really believe in it), and for being a reasonably good non-far left mayor of London.
I, like Gato, recall a few weeks early on in the 'crisis' - though perhaps it was just one week? Or a weekend? - when it seemed the Johnson government was planning to allow Covid to sail through the UK population so we could quickly achieve herd immunity and be done with it. Ah, what might have been.
I do accept that I may be exhibiting symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome. Of the captors that have been torturing my fellow citizens and me for the past 2 1/2 years, Johnson occasionally seemed to be reluctant. Perhaps that was his role.
But when the British Conservative party decides to be rid of you, it gets rid of you. It gets done over a few days. That's how a parliamentary system is meant to work. (Canadian Liberals, please take note.)
Brit here living in NY. Take YouGov polls with a pinch of salt. YouGov is owned by Nadhim Zahawi - prominent conservative MP who has been Chancellor of Exchquer and other high profile ministries. Their polls are designed to give the answer that those in power want and to gaslight Brits that ‘everyone wants this’. For about a week in March 2020 it looked like BOJO was on the right track then he caved to lockdowns and authoritarianism like the rest. He’s out because he’s ceased to be useful to globalist masters. Next puppet incoming. You nailed it with the Cuomo/Hochul point. I am living that nightmare and fearful of November.
Turdeau is next…
Since Johnson was ousted for mostly the wrong reasons (i.e. his harmful Covid policies had nothing to do with it), it stands to reason that his successor will not get the job for the right reasons.
The twin spirals of incompetence and corruption are tightening like a noose around the collective necks of the managerial class. They can only replace bad leaders with worse leaders, and every replacement results in worse government and accentuated public discontent.
Ben Wallace MP is getting tory party members hot and sweaty because he's the defence minister, and in the UK, the Ukraine war in still seen as a good thing.
Most likely he won't make the final cut, which will be of two potential PM's.
One will not have voted for Brexit and one will have.
Of the MP's who voted for Brexit, the truly scary proposition is Michael Gove MP, a twisted sociopath with deep seated control issues.
Most worryingly, tory party members, most of whom are painfully slow witted, still do not a) think lockdown was bad, and b) do not blame Gove for lockdown - even though he was its principal political architect.
Other brexit-voting MP's e.g. Dominic Raab, while being shamefully silent about lockdowns, would likely not impose any more.
Of the remain-voting MP's, the worrying prospects are ex health secretary Sajid Javid (imposed vaccine mandates on nurses) and psycho nut job Jeremy Hunt. Both are unlikely to get party member votes as the NHS is currently seen as a big stinking turd of incompetence, and they both led it.
Rishi Sunak (ex chancellor) was against lockdown (but not in public), he printed £450bn from thin air but he's skirting blame as Johnson is currently (and had been kept in position to be) the lightening rod for anger against how screwed the country now is. So Sunak is a reasonable bet.
Long shots include Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt who party members love and who would be OK on the lockdown front.
The best potential PM would be someone like David Davis, a past leadership contender who was hobbled in the leadership race previously by Remainers. If he makes it into the final two, then happy days
From the beginning of the pandemic I’ve thought there was a great deal in common between Boris and the other leaders around the planet who have followed the dictates of the BBB, WEF, BILDERBERG contingent. Middle manager types willing to go along with the popular, rich kids to get along. Their maturity level got stalled at middle school level.
Despite being Defence Secretary, I bet most people don’t know very much about him. I’m one of them. That probably makes him ideal as a placeholder for the New World Order, WEF types who will actually be running things. As useless and weak as Boris has been, I suspect he hasn’t quite gone along with their plans. Certainly, if you compare the U.K. response to the not-particularly-deadly virus with the approach taken by most of the rest of the Western world, it comes out pretty well - relatively speaking - compared with Australia, NZ, Canada & most of Europe. There is also the question of Brexit; Boris is hated by a large section of the media and parliamentary party for ‘getting it done’ and he was never their choice as PM. That is an error they have now corrected by a sustained and unrelenting campaign against him, consisting of largely minor ‘scandals’ like Partygate etc. I fear we may rue the day we got rid of Boris.
I know nothing about him, but a null result for "ben wallace" here is a good sign (quotes necessary):
https://www.weforum.org/search?query=ben+wallace
It really matters not who succeeds Boris in terms of future UK government policy. The whole rotten, craven Westminster bunch will continue to take a wrecking ball to the economy and every aspect of our lives in order to soften us up for future state-subsidised serfdom via the World Economic Forum's proposed Great Reset.
Who else do you imagine coined the "Build back better" slogan mouthed by globalist political puppets on both sides of the Pond?
Boris was a product of the WEF young global leader's brainwashing academy. Opposition (sic) leader Sir Keith Starmer, is coy about admitting it, but he is a member of the all-powerful globalist think tank, The Trilateral Commission. In other words, they are two cheeks of the same smelly backside we can do without.
I'm sorry for not contributing anything on the actual politics, but had to point out that *no one* outlasts the cat. https://i.imgur.com/DEFOIBQ.jpg
Always be suspicious when someone is got rid of for spurious reasons. The person who he was supposed to be protecting was only subject to unproven allegations (from other adult men) at the time, the entire government are responsible for the current mess plus being some kind of sexual deviant is almost expected in politics…
I live in the UK and follow politics reasonably. Ben Wallace is not that well know here, he appears (according to the Spectator and centrist websites) to be sane, and balanced. Has a military background (hence his current popularity). Uncontroversial. Probably Establishment.
I’m British and never heard of Ben Wallace before reading this article. The poll was among Conservative Party Members so not representative of the Country as a whole. The political Parties do not have big memberships. The Conservative Party 180 000, for example. It’s not like the US with registered Republicans or Democrats, so most people - millions - who vote Conservative aren’t members of the Party. Wallace is Defence Minister, military background, tipped to be next head of NATO, so if he is elected Party leader and becomes PM, to be sure UK involvement in the futile proxy war with Russia will continue.
Chesterton’s Fence. A feature of UK, indeed European, politics is Government is like chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe… impossible to get rid of. By Government I mean policies, behaviour, values, competence, direction.
European Politics is truly environmentally friendly - we recycle everything constantly - nothing gets thrown away no matter how worn or threadbare.
Elections just change the seating arrangements and the same faces keep coming round in a game of Buggin’s turn. But as far any actual change - nah! Opposition Parties are just waiting rooms for those waiting their turn.
The French figured this out the other week when only 46% bothered to turn out. They know that Left, Right, Macron in the Middle - it’s same old, same old.
And so it has been since 1945 - with a brief Thatcher interlude - in the UK.
So Chesterton may sleep sound, nothing will change.
I will confess here to still retaining a small bit of liking for Boris Johnson, despite all that has happened since 2020, mostly because of my gratitude to him for getting Brexit over the line against globalist opposition (even though I knew he didn't really believe in it), and for being a reasonably good non-far left mayor of London.
I, like Gato, recall a few weeks early on in the 'crisis' - though perhaps it was just one week? Or a weekend? - when it seemed the Johnson government was planning to allow Covid to sail through the UK population so we could quickly achieve herd immunity and be done with it. Ah, what might have been.
I do accept that I may be exhibiting symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome. Of the captors that have been torturing my fellow citizens and me for the past 2 1/2 years, Johnson occasionally seemed to be reluctant. Perhaps that was his role.
But when the British Conservative party decides to be rid of you, it gets rid of you. It gets done over a few days. That's how a parliamentary system is meant to work. (Canadian Liberals, please take note.)
Can the first criterion, going forward, for choosing any political leader be "not fucked up by his father?" I mean, just as a minimum qualification?
If Schwabie doesn't want him there he won't be there..donchathink?