Boris Johnson is out as the UK prime minister…
Apparently among other things, the Queen has lost confidence in his ability to lead.
The U.K.’s next prime minister is likely polishing their campaign pitch after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced — belatedly, when all other options had evaporated — that he would be stepping down.
- Half of Johnson’s government, some 59 ministers, had resigned by the time he approached a podium outside Downing Street to announce his exit (something he insisted through Wednesday evening he would not be doing).
Full article, HERE from Axios.
There are a number of dominos in play with this statement. Among other things, the future of BREXIT, NATO status, relations with the USA, and support (both monetarily and weapons) for Ukraine.
The next couple of months could be really interesting on the world stage. And one wonders what ‘our’ administration (whomever is running it) will do in response. I don’t know and honestly, I’m afraid to guess.
What say you?
Like you, I am wondering which way will the U.K. new direction be as far as Ukraine war. I am half way convinced it will become much less a vital concern for Britain. A new government will be the excuse. Many people see an inevitable Russia victory and won’t want to commit resources into a losing side. No proof or evidence, just gut feeling.
Whoever is running the show in London and Washington D.C. are not telling us, the little people, who or what is going to occur next. I believe the International Banksters, Corporations, and the WEF along with some in the U.N. are calling the shots. Whatever their planning time line, the plan is still the same, that is a single world dictatorship, where we the little people become nothing more than slaves for the pleasure of the elite.
I feel very very sorry for the Queen. She doesn’t need this…
Boris started out well, but he messed up -bad- with the lockdowns. Having parties while everyone else was under quarantine didn’t sit well with people, and he lacked the heavy media shielding that American political hypocrites enjoyed.
British sense of humor triumphs:
https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1545077380527673344
Offscreen from this reporter, activists are playing a bit of music called ‘Yakety Sax’ which many may remember as theme music used in The Benny Hill show. What a perfect way to illustrate the ‘clown world’ situation there now…
Boris started out well, but he messed up -bad- with any sort of conservative policy or agenda.
There, fixed it for you.
and how does the assassination play into thing?
Biden’s statement combined with Biden’s dishonesty raises the question of whether Biden had Abe murdered.
Every other bit of evidence suggests that this is an absurd theory of Abe’s murder.
All- Interesting points, and I don’t have a clue either… Nor do I have any idea who is ‘really’ in control in either country!
One wonders who is in control of any country, at times.
They’ll do whatever hurts us the most.
Puts money in Biden’s pocket.
And helps China.
I’ll say this for Biden: At least he stays bought.
TOS- Ain’t THAT the truth…
John- That he does. Dammit…
Iused to know BoJo, we’d drink together at the Literary Review Club in London, such fun and a smart guy.
Then he became a NWO Deep State Globohomo shill.
Putin laughs.
As you said, it’s not easy to guess what the next two months will bring, which means the rest of the year is in a november Maine fog cloud.
chuckling
The best thing any rational adult can do, which does not include anyone that doesn’t read or comment here, is to keep planning for the worst while not expecting it – yeah, I do not like the word “hope” and haven’t liked it for several years, and I’m guessing many others here have the same view – is to not get information overload while still staying up to date on current events, and planning for a winter with very little stuff in the grocery store.
There’s hearsay that Johnson always had issues. Basically, an intelligent liar who judges the lies based on whoever he happens to be around. The conclusion of the hearsay was that the scandals which took him down were the result of a series of unnecessary lies.
If so, such a weak reed would have been a long term liability for anything good he was doing in short term foreign affairs.
US regime?
Someone put Biden into nominal power. They wanted some of the predictable results of doing that.
Biden’s lack of attention for the details of leadership, combined with his backing makes for one of those ‘eunuchs and concubines’ LOL confusing situations of political intrigue.
Current US policy on the Ukraine is pretty clearly a renegade defense establishment trying to recover institutional credibility. Austin was brought in to be a woke enforcer, but his industry ties means that he has an emotional investment in pretending that the defense bureaucracy is functional, and that procurement serves a purpose, even when it does not. Afghanistan was a serious discrediting of ‘conventional thought’ within the Army, or maybe within all the service bureaucracies. Austin is collaborating with conventionally minded senior officers in a bid to have something to show on behalf of the Army and of the Biden regime’s foreign policy establishment. They would have zero to show in this time frame if not for Zelensky and the Ukrainians being excellent, and if not for Putin being an incompetent lunatic who has actually managed to make Russian capabilities /worse/.
Recall, Biden regime’s initial messaging was not decisively in favor of the Ukrainians, and may have been tentative support for the Russians.
Johnson saw quickly that there was no cost, and much to gain from supporting the Ukrainian cause. It is not clear how much he actually got done decisively, versus how much he took credit for because of the obvious self interest. UK bureaucracy is obviously going to be a bit disrupted, but the continued self interest by various folks makes it a question of how much that disruption will really matter.
I think only the Germans have a real faction whose self interest is not served by supporting the Ukrainians against the Russians. Okay, some of the factions do want to drag out the war, and are cheerfully willing to bleed both the Ukrainians and Russians. We already had those factions, and they already would have had a lot of influence in NATO councils.
There are only three English language NATO countries, US, UK, and Canada. Trudeau and Biden may obviously be effectively more intelligent than, and more able to apply their educations than Obama. They are still clearly of below normal intelligence, and only superficially educated. Johnson was smart enough to understand that presenting himself to the English speaking world as being engaged with Ukraine would be advantageous. That does not mean that he was as well presented in other language media, or that he actually was that degree of important.
The Brits should keep in mind as they are electing his replacement that the British Prime Minister is the “Leader of the free world”. Chose wisely. No, biden is not the leader of anything.
Gregg: We Brits are not given the opportunity to vote for a successor to Boris. The Conservative Party chooses a new leader (the MPs select two candidates from all the MPs, then the Party members chose between the two). Then, as the Conservative Party is in office, the winner is foisted on the UK as the Prime Minister. The Labour Party has a different system, as do the Liberals, &ct.
The next time we have a “choice” is at the next General Election, which is up to two years away. We have the choice of “local” representatives chosen by the political parties, and which ever party wins the most seats takes the reigns, gifting their leader the post of Prime Minister. It’s not a presidential system like the US.
If the public had a free choice of all 650 current Members of Parliament, most of us in the real world would vote for “None of the above”. A pox on all their houses….