"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Zawhawi is the new chancellor

pic.twitter.com/m4KIhsLTuw

— wint MP (@parliawint) July 5, 2022

We’ve all been there at work, surely

Conservative MP for Telford Lucy Allan doesn’t seem especially enamoured with the new Education Secretary pic.twitter.com/v7o1yiKFdx

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 5, 2022

Supposedly the times is calling for Boris to go now

Boris Johnson was asked by an ally tonight if he was considering quitting

He responded: “Fuck that”

Allies claim Zahawi will be a better chancellor for Johnson: ‘We’ve ended up with a more suitable chancellor for growing the economy rather than balancing the books’

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) July 5, 2022

This could get tasty.

Donelan's career outside politics was in marketing, including a time working on Marie Claire magazine and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Just remembering this all time great tweet from a previous round of resignations

Your a pps Chris. It is not relevant and nobody gives a fuck. Apart from me obviously.

— Simon Hart (@Simonhartmp) July 9, 2018

jfc BBC Radio 4 bloke asks Rachel Reeves how a general election would impact on the Ukraine

defund the BBC

Rachel Reeves: don't worry we're well up for a war, more bombs

defund the Labour Party

defund the UK i hope Johnson sets it on fire before he goes

Vaccines. If there was anyone who didn't know Nadhim "Vaccines" Zahawi was Minister for Vaccines then they will vaccines certainly know all about it in the vaccines next days. Vaccines.

Have heard anecdotal evidence of dumbshit Tory voters saying things like "he had a good pandemic, Boris". And who was his trusty lieutenant in Britain's Greatest Hour? Why, Vaccines Zahawi himself! They're just trying to do the right thing, you know.

Hold on, children's minister Will Quince is gone now. Maybe there's a Quince Minister that can resign too, at this point who knows.

I'd take my chances with any Tory chancellor over the void of humanity that is Reeves. I swear to god she would round up all non-working people and put them in charity relief camps if it would improve GDP by a fraction of 1%.

so it turns out the PIP reforms which the bbc reported "were designed to save the government money" (realpolitik translation: be effective at corporate manslaughter) is costing 70% more than anticipated. There is a tasty attack-from-the-right op for Reeves.

ahaha sure sure

@tnewtondunn
2h
Nadhim Zahawi reveals to
@TimesRadio that he has been pushing for a 9% pay rise for teachers this year, and 7% next year.
Now he’s Chancellor, he can grant that.

‘There’s been another resignation at Downing Street Chris Kamara... but for who?’ pic.twitter.com/dTJuWWvWB9

— Jonathan Davies (@JonnyPotter87) July 5, 2022

“What’s happening Kammy” 😳🤷🏽‍♂️ i dunno Jeff 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/J3Wc96Mcx7

— Chris Kamara (@chris_kammy) July 5, 2022

Two more gone

Should do one of those old May-era VoNC in the commons just to make them all trot out and vote in support of him now

What’s the odds on someone crossing the floor during pmqs

The nerd strain in the Johnson's government's rhetoric - from "levelling up" to Zahawi on today repeatedly talking about "warp speed" is such a puzzle? Not very Johnsonian, surely can't appeal to your average Tory.

— Josh Lowe (@JeyyLowe) July 6, 2022

this twitter thread has led to me discovering that some people interpret the phrase 'levelling up' as a video game reference, this had literally never occurred to me. did anyone else read it that way?

Yes, I thought that was what it was

Better be juicy this Javid jabber

Just before #PMQs. Opposition benches packed to the rafters. Tory benches half empty. Whips, reportedly, stalking corridors trying to herd MPs in. ~AA

— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) July 6, 2022

I'm glad Johnson has some fight in him

send him there keep him there

Conservative MP Tim Loughton asks Boris Johnson: "Does the Prime Minister think there are any circumstances in which he should resign?"

Johnson replies that he would resign if he couldn't defend the Ukrainian people. #PMQs

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 6, 2022

Wow, what a crap answer!

He's clearly under instructions to mention Ukraine in any answer he gives.

Gove out is blood, let’s go

Michael Gove is out, according to a number of MHCLG sources

— Aletha Adu (@alethaadu) July 6, 2022

They can't even be arsed to individualise letters.

FIVE ministers resign in one fell swoop: Kemi Badenoch, Neil O'Brien, Alex Burghart, Lee Rowley and Julia Lopez pic.twitter.com/WAYannhrvR

— Dominic Penna (@DominicPenna) July 6, 2022

cartoons abt uk politics whomst r bad cartoons (but for once kinda funny despite being by peter fkn brookes)

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ffc6e221c-cea9-11e6-90d4-32d09e9feb7c.jpg

they should have added "Bobson Dugnutt" on that letter, just for the lols

more respect for the five-on-one-letter tactic than the one-an-hour tactic

it's all garbage tho

Peter Bone and Michael Fabricant are ready to take on as many portfolios as Johnson wishes to give them

"it's all garbage"

was just talking to an NHS worker on the subject of diminishing mental health services and she said pretty much the same about this nonsense. People that see vital services getting shredded and their job becoming harder and more futile know it won't make any difference. Especially as there is no alternative.

but gazza... chicken... fishing rod... number 10 etc XD XD XD

Hard to laugh at the "banter" from crap centrist voices when it is partly their fucking fault for not getting behind the one chance we had at someone decent getting into power.

someone has made a screenshot thread of countless posh liberals making the same Gazza joke! They are the fucking worst.

Like yeah it's nice to see some folk drop out but they're all going to land in cushy consulting jobs, meanwhile over a decade of austerity means my local authority is relying on charity organisations to provide essential mental health services. It's all theatre and feels so removed from any real consequences now.

Otm, but ofc it’s ok for us to do it 🤗

Be funny if he scorched the whole thing but there is nothing that parliament can offer to people beyond the abyss.

Well-placed source convinced Boris Johnson won’t quit, even if the 22 change the rules, and he loses a VONC.

Instead, he’ll claim he has a mandate from 14m voters, and will threaten to force an election - but not before deselecting everyone who voted against him.

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 6, 2022

Hearing that Paul Gascoigne has turned up at Downing St saying that having a dark moment from his days of addiction & mental illness constantly referenced as a hilarious joke is a source of constant pain for him

— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) July 6, 2022

lol at losing this weasel

SUBMITTED LETTER OF NO CONFIDENCE: Former housing secretary, Robert Jenrick pic.twitter.com/IDOqIBswc5

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 6, 2022

Sky tweeting this like it’s a guardian liveblog

Boris to rally his supporters to march on the Houses of Parliament, shouting "Hang Gove", or get tae fuck

Seriously though, I hope the worthless scumbag does try everything in his power to stay in office, it'll be hilarious.

mike freer joins will quince in the great rebellion

This letter is a real piece of work

BREAKING. Mike freer resigns. Takes us to 32 - 15 of them ministers, 2 of them cabinet ministers. Freer: “I can no longer defend policies I fundamentally disagree with” pic.twitter.com/oFC426ba6s

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 6, 2022

is he quite sure they were a One Nation Conservative party when he joined them, he may need to think about that.

meanwhile matt nails it

My letter of resignation as PPS to the Chancellor ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/smB1wQqsEO

— Craig Williams (@craig4monty) July 6, 2022