Yesterday I asked Will Johnson Finally Fall?. Today he did fall.
In total 51 officials had resigned up to that point.
Boris Johnson then tried to make a deal. He offered to resign as head of the Conservative Party but wanted to stay as prime minister until the conservative party meeting in October.
He was told that this was not possible.
The Economist made that statement by putting him on its front page:
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The deal is now the regular one. The clown has resigned as party leader. The party immediately starts the process to elect a new leader who is then asked by the queen to form a cabinet and to become PM. The BBC has the details:
Under the current rules, candidates need the support of eight Conservative MPs to stand. Once all the candidates have declared – if there are more than two candidates – Tory MPs will hold a series of votes until only two remain.
- in the first round, candidates must get 5% of the votes to stay in the running (currently 18 MPs)
- in the second round, they must get 10% (currently 36 MPs)
- in the following rounds, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated
When two MPs are left, all Conservative Party members around the country – so not just MPs – will vote for the winner.
The timescale for each contest is decided by the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs, and the committee could vote to change the rules before the contest takes place.
A current poll says that party members would favor the current defense secretary Ben Wallace. But that does not mean they will get him as one of the two candidates to vote on as the MPs have the say over that choice.
Johnson may try to get someone elected who would look worse in office than he did. Liz Truss is a good candidate for that.
The process will be, as usual, a very dirty business – knives will be out to backstab certain candidates, deals will be made, favors will be promised and not be held, people will be lied to.
It may be that a new leader will change Britain’s political direction towards a more sane one, at least with regard to sanctions:
George Szamuely @GeorgeSzamuely – 10:43 UTC · Jul 7, 2022
The “Putin brought down Johnson” theme isn’t gaining traction, even though there is some truth to it. Johnson’s disastrous and unnecessary intervention in Ukraine has helped trigger the economic crisis that has brought him down.
Then again we might see more of the same:
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson – 17:00 UTC · Mar 6, 2022
United Kingdom government officialPutin must fail.
But I doubt though that we will see any change in the British backing of Ukraine’s Zelensky as the pressure to do that comes from Washington DC.
On February 28, five days after the start of the war in Ukraine, I made a prediction:
The final intent of this economic war is regime change in Russia.
The likely consequence will be regime change in many other countries.
Boris is only the first of many to fall over the steep price increases the ‘western’ sanctions on Russia have caused.
And lets not forget the Assad curse which can now count another entry on its already long casualty list:
Boris Johnson calls Assad a ‘monster’ who needs ‘decapitating’ – Sky News, Apr 18, 2017
So its bye bye Boris. I hope I will never hear again of you.
