Jeff Danziger for September 06, 2019

The blonde bombed.

The really great thing about the Parliamentary system is that you can chuck the barstids out a lot sooner than our system allows.

Everyone knew this would not go well.

Ha! Maggie was the first to bring in all that conservative idiotology to begin with.

So, until now, what WAS the record for the shortest serving Prime Minister??

Two things have particularly amused me this week:

-Boris’s brother quitting the party “to spend less time with my family”

-Boris said this AM that he’d “rather be dead in a ditch” than ask to delay Brexit. (Well, that could be arranged.)

Mess with the bull…you’ll get the horns…..good riddance

Boris isn’t good enough.

Andy Cap comes to life…

The bill intended to block “no deal Brexit” should become a law once it is passed through the House of Lords.

This week began with a cross-party group of backbench rebels threatening to seize control of the Commons timetable to push through a bill seeking to block a no-deal Brexit. Downing Street warned that any Tory MPs backing the plan would be ejected from the party, and if it succeeded Johnson would call for a general election. The Tories helped the timetabling motion pass, and were duly kicked out. The next day the bill passed the Commons and Johnson tried to call for an election but failed to reach the required two-thirds majority vote. with the bill going through the Lords, Johnson used a rambling speech in Yorkshire to pledge he would try again to push for an election. This was just after his own brother had quit the government. The week ended with opposition parties agreeing to again thwart any snap election attempt, and Johnson wrangling bulls in Scotland.

There will probably be an election, but not yet. It does not seem Brexit will happen on October 31st. Johnson is insisting he will not extend Brexit. Downing Street’s plan seems to be plowing through day by day in hope something turns up. The timetable for what happens next seems opaque.

With the important caveat that many voters pay little attention to cries of “Chaos!” from SW1, it’s not been great. The culling of 21 generally loyal and some very senior MPs has gone down badly with a fair section of the parliamentary Conservative party, who view it as another sign of the malign influence of Johnson’s chief aide, Dominic Cummings. Johnson has also now lost every Commons vote as prime minister, had his own brother, Jo, leave government, and delivered one of the more rambling and chaotic speeches in recent UK politics, which infuriated police for being a nakedly partisan address against a backdrop of uniformed officers.

Note how Danziger covers the Steve Bell “Bum” on Boris. Mo’ discrete we are here.

First the US, now the UK….good help is SO hard to find!

I guess British conservatives don’t play well with their Johnson.

Boris “would be tRump” is a Petulant, Nasty Toad. Pretty good impersonation.