43 thoughts on “Bye Bye Boris”

  1. presciently produced this past january

    Bye Bye Boris – He just isn’t Prime Minister material, a tune to ease his passage

  2. Boris Johnson resigns live updates: U.K. Prime Minister stands down – The Washington Post

    LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce his resignation Thursday amid a party revolt and is due to give a statement to the nation, his office told The Washington Post.
    More than 50 members of his own government have resigned in 48 hours, saying they no longer have faith in his leadership after a series of scandals, the latest involving an ally accused of improper sexual conduct.
    The BBC, the public broadcaster, said Johnson had agreed to resign but hoped to stay in office until the autumn while a leadership contest takes place to replace him. After days of digging in and refusing to step down, Johnson’s departure will come as a relief to many Conservative Party lawmakers who accused him of plunging Britain into a near constitutional crisis.
    […]
    “It is good news for the country that Boris Johnson has resigned as prime minister. But it should have happened long ago,” Starmer said in a statement.
    The center-left opposition leader accused Johnson and his Conservative Party of inflicting “chaos upon the country.”
    “We don’t need to change the Tory at the top,” Starmer said. “We need a proper change of government.”
    […]
    [as to boris’ hopes to stay in office until fall]
    During that time, his Conservative Party would pick a new prime minister to replace Johnson. There would be no general election.
    There was immediate and fierce pushback to that idea from some lawmakers and party grandees who warned that Johnson was soiling the Conservative Party brand and that he was too damaged to stay in office through the summer.

  3. Like digging out a splinter in the foot that broke off under the skin, it took a long time.  It appears to be a peaceful transfer, not a coup.

  4. back in 2019, starting at 2:25 in, here’s how john describes to stephen the new PM boris

    John Oliver gives Stephen an update on English politics and describes Boris Johnson, England’s very own Trump.

  5. BB, yeah it takes a while taking out a foot splinter, but it’s much easier and less painful than trying to get rid of bone spurs

  6. I was walking down the stairs riffing Bye Bye Boris to the tune of Bye Bye Birdie this morning. Et, voila, I come here and am met with Bye Bye Boris. It was inevitable, an easy choice for today’s thread topper. I’ll miss his hair. His policies? Not so much, but then again his replacement at the head of the Conservative party will be PM so England won’t shake off the stink of its own RW crazies.

  9. as willie once opined:

    Out, out, brief candle!
    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more.
    It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

  10. As the British Trump, Boris’ fall at the hands of his own party could foretell Donald’s ultimate fate with Republicans. Arrogance, lying, lunacy and bad hair catches up with both of them.

  11. Tim Ryan ran against Nancy. Hope he gets elected.
    Is he angling to be the next sinemanchin?

  13. Old Man, if you’re lurking, last night we had the craziest dusk – it was fully and heavily overcast and for about 10 minutes it was this crazy shade of orange. Then it got dark.  I’m not talking an orange tinge, I’m talking a vivid orange – not your run of the mill red skies at night thing.  Mrs. P said she had just seen a similar phenomenon somewhere in the great Midwest – only in green.  Bizarre stuff.  

  14. Pogo
    In our world a green sky is associated with really nasty weather. Large hail for certain and possible tornado.
     
    Jack

  16. Brit Labour leader Keir Starmer delivered my fave line yesterday on Boris:

    “Isn’t this the first recorded case of the sinking ships fleeing the rats”.

  17. The worst op-ed is in the Sydney Morning Herald by George Brandis, he states that Johnson is one of the two greatest PM in modern British history.  The other, and equally good, is M. Thatcher.  Bloody rubbish.

  21. A large volume of water in the sky, typically only possible late-day in summer, plus sunlight refracted at a low angle creates green skies

  24. keep calm and larry on

    While UK prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned, some people are having their share of laughter. A spoof account of UK’s favorite cat Larry is emerging as Twitter’s favorite.

     

    Who is Larry the Cat and how does he keep outlasting UK leaders? | The Hill

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is out, resigning Thursday after less than three years on the job. Larry the Cat, a mainstay at 10 Downing Street, is not going anywhere.
    The brown and white tabby, whose official title is chief mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom, has been living in the country’s executive office since 2011.
    With Johnson’s resignation, Larry has now outlasted three British prime ministers, having previously seen the ends of David Cameron’s and Theresa May’s terms at 10 Downing.
    Larry was initially brought to Downing Street by Cameron to handle a rat issue near the prime minister’s official residence. He was a former stray adopted from London’s Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and was the first cat to take over the unofficial rat-catching post since the retirement of Humphrey in 1997.
    The chief mouser is well-versed in interacting with world leaders. He appeared to have warmed up to former President Obama but took a nap under former President Trump’s armored vehicle during his visit in 2019.
    Now it seems that Larry has garnered enough respect from British politicians in his lengthy tenure as chief mouser that some are facetiously floating him for a potential prime minister bid himself.
    [continues]

  25. This is most likely the biggest vacation week in this country.  So who do you think is paying attention to who’s going to who’s political rallies?
     
    hell… even I don’t care…

  29. i suppose if Truss can inspire confidence with the xenophobes in her party she’s a possibility 
     
    Johnson’s out because he went too “liberal” (imposed covid restrictions his staff didn’t follow), not because the UK has grown tired of British conservatism
     
    They’re as racist today as they were yesterday

  32. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is peering into the depths of the universe with its one-of-a-kind instruments, and on Wednesday, NASA unveiled a new image captured by the telescope. The image was captured during testing to see how long the telescope can maintain a steady lock on a distant target such as a galaxy or star.
    “This false-color mosaic is made of 72 exposures over a 32-hour test,” NASA said.
    The six-pointed sources of light in the image are bright stars, while the smudges of light speckled across the image are distant galaxies, each home to countless stars.

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/james-webb-space-telescope-new-image/1213566

  33. Bob, a lot of smudges in that picture, The universe just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
     
    Jack

  34. Someone has declared it open season on Great White Hunters in Africa.  2 murdered so far.  

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