Woke up this morning ... morphing to discussion on Heads of State.

He won't go till we have (most likely) paid for his wedding reception party.

I do wish someone would just buy him off tbh!

I had champagne last night because he may still be there but hes gone and in a way that has destroyed any 'legacy'. The Tory party will do its thing and we will have a new PM. I was always rather bizarrely quite confident that the Tory party would destroy him.

In a perverse way he may do him and his party more harm by staying ….its the old saying give a dog enough rope and he ll hang himself (metaphorically of course)

I always find it interesting to hear Rory Stewarts view.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiaf-UuRr5M

NotSpaghetti I don't think you will be suprised when you listen to RS explain why they couldn't get him to leave the Treasury.

As it seems more like dealing with a gangster, buying him off could well work!

I can't agree Galaxy, I'm afraid. I think if more harm can be done, he will do it.

BlueBelle, I do hope so. The Conservatives deserve no less for putting us through the last few years.

Whose wedding is it? Angela Raynor mentioned it on Radio 4 this morning. Am I invited?

I think it's the wedding party they feel they didn't have.

He's been hoist by his own petard, but is too arrogant to grasp the fact. He positioned the little bomb and now it's exploded in his face.

He ignored the warnings, dismissed the by election results, condemned his critics, ignored the electorate's dissatisfaction with his performance, all the while chuntering on about "getting on with the job" of "delivering" to his ever dwindling "majority".

The man has shown utter contempt for the average citizen and the welfare of the nation as a whole in his relentless drive to become the second Churchill. Brexit was a means to this end. Which is why the very word has almost become toxic if mentioned now that it's "done". Others did the negotiating, he signed the Deal - the easy bit. He wasn't prepared, nor did he care, about the consequences of the biggest change to our constitutional and economic life; nor did, or do, his supporters. The EU is the bogey-man and Brexit is almost a prohibited word.

His resignation speech was little more than "look what they've done to me" - a deliberate rallying cry to his Red Wall and other supporters who are now insisting that ousting him was a witch-hunt.

He spoke about "uniting" the nation after we left, but has done nothing since but stoke the flames of division.

Has he ever in his privileged life reflected on his own behaviour? Does he have an ounce of self-awareness?

He is the embodiment of narcissism. He is the true "Charlie" with whom everyone else is out of step with.

... and he's still there, clinging on to power, like Trump - unable to accept that he's no longer the top dog of the political life of this country.

Grammaretto

Whose wedding is it? Angela Raynor mentioned it on Radio 4 this morning. Am I invited?

Nope, just helping to pay for it! Late wedding party for Boris and Carrie because they could only invite 30 to the actual wedding. I still want to know what he was doing in Italy meeting with an ex KGB spy, without his minders, whilst he was Foreign Secretary.

Johnson is a security risk to the U.K.

He must not be anywhere near any form of intelligence or security information. I trust the security services are preventing him from seeing stuff, although Patel another security risk (remember Israel?) is overseeing the security services.

The sooner this shower are gone the better for us all.

sorry, they are having a wedding party today? at Downing Street??!

Mind you Dickens be careful comparing with Churchill who himself made a comeback for the war after the "wilderness years"and was not universally liked.

Trump hasn't entirely gone away.
sorry to scare you so early in the morning
Ah I understand about the "wedding now". It's an excuse for a gig at Chequers.

Whitewavemark2

Johnson is a security risk to the U.K.

He must not be anywhere near any form of intelligence or security information. I trust the security services are preventing him from seeing stuff, although Patel another security risk (remember Israel?) is overseeing the security services.

The sooner this shower are gone the better for us all.

He is WWM. Hence my hope for where he ends up. He may, but I bet it's for financial reasons if they do get him in the end.

JaneJudge

sorry, they are having a wedding party today? at Downing Street??!

It's to be at Checkers apparently this summer. They had a "small wedding" and this is the celebratory bash that they had apparently postponed.
"Save the date" cards have gone out it seems. No idea if they were followed up with actual invitations.

JaneJudge

sorry, they are having a wedding party today? at Downing Street??!

Save the Date cards have apparently gone out for 30 July, at Chequers.

That was in the Scotsman.

x post. Sorry

Your usual excellent summary Dickens.

When does Parliament go on holiday? I wonder if they will all understand just how badly this has gone when the MPs are back in their constituencies?

Oh I see. They really don't have any shame do they?

Johnson will earn millions once he is out of office, far more than being the Prime minister.

Dickens you have said it all. What a terrible, terrible speech. Everyone else’s fault but his, quite sickening. We have had our share here of bad PMs but he is just beyond the pale.

The Daily Mail is sickening in its portrayal of Boris as an innocent 'world-beating', high-achieving victim brought down by the scheming of others. Photos of Boris by a box of Heroes chocolates, being applauded by teary No.10 staff and greeted by his children with the by-line 'We still love you daddy'.

So many people read this utter bilge.

The only ray of light from an unexpected source, Sarah Vine, who writes, "It's not enough to be a serious politician; you also have to be a serious human being. And the problem with Johnson is that he just isn't. That, ultimately, has been his downfall." Too true.

JaneJudge

Oh I see. They really don't have any shame do they?

Polititians don’t have shame, you need a hide as thick as a rhinoceros because whatever you say a minority are going to disagree.

Shame isn’t Johnson’s problem, he’s a pathological liar, always will be.

Staying on for another party at our expense? That’s some sense of entitlement.
Andy Burnham

Not everyone's weekly read RichmondPark but some are seeing this in the Economist.

Mr Johnson was brought down by his own dishonesty, so some may conclude that a simple change of leadership will be enough to get Britain back on course. If only. Although Mr Johnson’s fingerprints are all over today’s mess, the problems run deeper than one man. Unless the ruling Conservative Party musters the fortitude to face that fact, Britain’s many social and economic difficulties will only worsen.
...
The party will hope that its agony is now drawing to a close. But that depends on it taking the right lessons from Mr Johnson’s failure. One is about character in politics. Mr Johnson rejected the notion that to govern is to choose. He lacked the moral fibre to take hard decisions for the national good if that threatened his own popularity. He also lacked the constancy and the grasp of detail to see policies through. And he revelled in trampling rules and conventions. At the root of his style was an unshakable faith in his ability to get out of scrapes by spinning words. In a corner, Mr Johnson would charm, temporise, prevaricate and lie outright. Occasionally, he even apologised.

The complete article is here. I hope it's not (£) paywalled.