For three years we've had a remainer government that didn't want to deliver Brexit working hand in glove with a remainer parliament that doesn't want to deliver Brexit. Now, for the first time since 23rd June 2016, we will have a Cabinet and key mandarins and sherpas committed to leaving. This has of course triggered all the fifth-column remainers - and their petulant, juvenile tantrums are a joy to behold.
Florence of Belgravia has flounced out and will continue to be a prat from the back benches. #RoryWanksOn. Hammond, Gaulk and other nobodies have gone before they're sacked. Boulton is so puce with anger I thought his head would explode, the Guardian is in meltdown, social media is as stunned as it was three years ago and despite their #NotMyPM tags they will find that in fact he is. So for a day, chill, laugh and enjoy their discomfort.
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I find myself this morning with a reduced sense of foreboding.
Since the ascent of the Holy Margaret, all prime ministerial appointments have been bordering on the crass.
None of our presented choices have had anything about them that was related to leadership, one just felt on the morning after the appointment that the 'orrible 'oo and their tune about being fooled (again) was pretty accurate.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
I get the feeling we have a leader here.
Whether he merely leads us up the garden path is moot though. This might just be the precursor for a genuine return to democracy.
Having Boris as PM is better than May, which to be fair isn't difficult. Boris has a remainer parliament and an EU that says it won't renegotiate, but will have to if push comes to shove.
Conversely the Brexit Party will hold his feet to the fire should he try and do a Maybot MkII
However, the most enjoyable thing this morning is knowing that his elevation to Prime Minister is irritating the F**k out of all the right people. Listening to all the Lefty heads exploding, watching the Grauniad going into apoplectic meltdown is a joy to behold/
"Cheerful Edward" is going to be a right grumpy, disconsolate little bunny this morning.
Better go and order more popcorn!
I nearly watched Channel 4 "News" yesterday - just to enjoy their fury - but managed to stop myself in time.
I expect Weird Rory will take himself off to the LibDems, where he really belongs, before long.
I think that Johnson will likely make a poor Prime Minister, owing to his various apparent shortcomings, not least his widely-reported laziness.
However, the hysteria among his critics in sections of the media is pointless and silly.
If you voted Leave or Tory out of ill will towards such people, then yes, enjoy that, if it's what's keeping you going on the other hand.
I think after the Iranian fiasco Boris has to get rid of Hunt and Mordaunt.
Hunt because as Foreign sec he should have known that Iran would react and he should have put a European plan together before acting, not afterwards. The Iranian reaction was entirely predictable and we were not ready. Plus Hunt is in charge of the department that leaked the US embassy docs.
Mordaunt should have told the cabinet that we did not have the force to protect shipping. If her navy chiefs did not brief her, too bad it shows how bad things are, but I believe her military advisers must have warned her. If not she still has to carry the can.
I could be paranoid but this has Mrs May written all over it, doing a favour for the European camp, not thinking it through, overriding professional advice and ending up with another mess. I give it two weeks before both ships are exchanged, probably in the middle of August.
I think after the Iranian fiasco Boris has to get rid of Hunt and Mordaunt.
Hunt because as Foreign sec he should have known that Iran would react and he should have put a European plan together before acting, not afterwards. The Iranian reaction was entirely predictable and we were not ready. Plus Hunt is in charge of the department that leaked the US embassy docs.
Mordaunt should have told the cabinet that we did not have the force to protect shipping. If her navy chiefs did not brief her, too bad it shows how bad things are, but I believe her military advisers must have warned her. If not she still has to carry the can.
I could be paranoid but this has Mrs May written all over it, doing a favour for the European camp, not thinking it through, overriding professional advice and ending up with another mess. I give it two weeks before both ships are exchanged, probably in the middle of August.
Amused by the FB posts of astonishment at the Boris win - where have they been the past few weeks? Did they expect a different result?!
In my view, so long as Mr Johnson appoints the right people to the right jobs, they will do all the hard graft and he can enjoy being Prime Minister.
I just hope he doesn't do something stupid like giving amnesty to the millions of illegal immigrants.
James Delingpole at Breitbart had a good list of things Mr Johnson could/should do. But either can't or won't do.
It is hard to describe how appallingly bad and damaging May's term as PM has been.
She got NOTHING right, and everything she attempted to do was apparently informed by weakness or opportunism and always through a bliarite, remainer, globalist, resoltely anti-English anti-freedom kaleidoscope.
In the name of God, go loathsome woman and mind the door doesn't hit your stupid arse on the way out.
Boris has a hugely difficult task ahaead of him but outside the bubble he has the country with him and the character to make that work for him.
Comparisons with Churchill are premature, but there similarities in the circumstances of his accession.
There is no doubt he is far smarter than he is portrayed by the lazy and biased lefty media; I have some doubt about his commitment as a die hard leaver, but he's undoubtedly the best we could get; and he seems to be nailing his colours to the mast.
Furthermore most of the noise lately has been made by remainers looking for anti-constitutional subterfuges to sabotage the process - Boris sensibly has been keeping his powder dry but I suspect he will have a few tricks of his own up his sleeve, hope so anyway.
Anyway the game is afoot. Bring it on.
It would be interesting had we the mechanism to permit 'executive privilege' in the way the POTUS has.
Speculatively, had we a PM that could issue three or four such pronouncements, what would you like to see 'ordered'?
Me?
1. Immediate exit from EU
2. Immediate adoption of a Gold (or Silver) Standard
3. Abolition of tax rules in favour of a single-rate for all/everything
4. Adoption of 'Farage-like' rules on immigration to include medical insurance requirements.
Yes, there are problems with each and every suggestion I made but - it's a start!
JiC. Interesting - how would you feel doing all the hard graft, whilst a lazy boss swans about taking all the credit for your work? Unless you expect cabinet ministers also to make what should be exclusively Prime Ministerial decisions for him, having taken the trouble to read his briefs? He is famous for not doing so, amongst his ex-colleagues, we read.
Knowledge - the truth, fact, that is - is power. If he doesn't keep up, then he will be weak.
Agree with the theme of the article, chill till the smoke clears. The arseholes have flounced off but there's bound to be some stay behinds who'll need to be spotted soon as they show their hand, likewise those who would try to piss on the fireworks.
I expect you know best JPM. Why don't you write to him?
I thought managers delegated and if their subordinates didn't come up to scratch they replaced them 2-6
So you want him to delegate Being The Prime Minister to subordinates, RAC?
It does involve knowing stuff, and making decisions according to that.
I see that he's appointed Dominic Cummings as SA, which might make working with "thick as mince, lazy as a toad, vain as Narcissus" David Davis a bit awkward.
We'll have to see though. I suspect that the socially-liberal, non-conviction Johnson will throw up surprises, to those who have put him where he now is. "Oh, that was just obiter dictum" as he was once heard to say.
where's moonbat this mornin'?
retreated to his safe space - comment is free
Dave, I think that a lot of Johnson's supporters wrongly thought that the UK PM does indeed enjoy such powers. I'll have to remind myself of what they actually are, but choosing a cabinet seems to be the main one amonst a rather limited range.
I think after the Iranian fiasco Boris has to get rid of Hunt and Mordaunt.
Both gone.
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