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Bastard (lying) Boris (yet again).

So bastard Boris has withdrawn from the race - the REAL reason is that, despite what he is saying, he didn't have enough votes to get on the ballot !!!


Boris Johnson pulls out of race for 10 Downing Street

Gavin Cordon, PA Whitehall Editor
23 October 2022, 10:31 pm
Boris Johnson has dramatically pulled out the race for 10 Downing Street after admitting he cannot unite the warring Conservative Party.

The former prime minister said he had “reached out” to leadership rivals Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt to see if they could work together in the national interest, but it had not proved possible.

In a statement, he insisted he had secured the 100 nominations needed to get onto the ballot paper – and that if he stood there was a “very good chance” he would be back in Downing Street by the end of the week.

He went on: “But in the course of the last days I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do. You can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament.

“And though I have reached out to both Rishi and Penny – because I hoped that we could come together in the national interest – we have sadly not been able to work out a way of doing this.

“Therefore I am afraid the best thing is that I do not allow my nomination to go forward and commit my support to whoever succeeds.”
Earlier, allies of Ms Mordaunt disclosed that Mr Johnson had urged her to stand aside and back his campaign – something she refused to do.

Mr Johnson’s withdrawal leaves the election to replace Liz Truss as potentially a straight fight between Mr Sunak, the former chancellor, and Ms Mordaunt, the Leader of the House.

It could all be over a little after 2pm on Monday if Ms Mordaunt – who so far has fewer than 30 public declarations of support from MPs fails – to enough nominations to go forward.
Her supporters will be hoping that the departure of Mr Johnson will open up the contest, enabling her to make it onto the ballot paper.

If she does, MPs will hold an “indicative vote” to show who they support and there will then be an online poll of activists to decide the contest – unless one or other of the candidates stand down.

A source from the Mordaunt campaign confirmed that she remained in the race.

“Penny is the unifying candidate who is most likely to keep the wings of the Conservative Party together and polling shows that she is the most likely candidate to hold onto the seats the Conservative Party gained in 2019,” the source said.

Many critics of Mr Johnson will be relieved to see him out of the race, fearing that it could plunge the party back into renewed turmoil.

While Mr Sunak – with more that 140 declarations of support according to some reports – is favourite to top the ballot of MPs, Mr Johnson’s supporters believed he would have come out top in the poll of party members.

It raised the prospect of another scenario – as with Ms Truss – where the choice of the activists does not have the backing of MPs potentially leading to more turmoil and division at Westminster.


The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis.

That’s why I am standing to be Leader of the Conservative Party and your next Prime Minister.

I want to fix our economy, unite our Party and deliver for our country. pic.twitter.com/BppG9CytAK

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) October 23, 2022

Before the announcement, Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker warned Mr Johnson – who still faces a Commons inquiry into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties in Downing Street – would be a “guaranteed disaster”.

“There’s going to be a vote before the House of Commons on this issue of privileges, whether he deliberately misled the House,” he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

“In that vote it’s guaranteed there’ll be a large number of Conservatives who will refuse, as they see it, to lay down their integrity to save him, and at that moment his premiership will collapse.”

However, the withdrawal of Mr Johnson does not mean the end of the divisions within the party.

A significant section – including many activists – loathe Mr Sunak for his role in bringing down Mr Johnson last summer, meaning Ms Mordaunt could still come out on top if the contest does go to a final ballot.

There is also likely to be anger among members if they are denied a say if, for whatever reason, there is no poll of activists.

However one prominent Cabinet supporter of Mr Johnson – the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Nadhim Zahawi – announced he was now backing Mr Sunak.

“A day is a long time in politics… Given today’s news, it’s clear that we should turn to Rishi Sunak to become our next prime minister,” he tweeted.

“Rishi is immensely talented, will command a strong majority in the parliamentary Conservative Party, and will have my full support and loyalty.”


A day is a long time in politics…

Given today's news, it's clear that we should turn to @RishiSunak to become our next Prime Minister. Rishi is immensely talented, will command a strong majority in the parliamentary Conservative Party, and will have my full support & loyalty.

— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) October 23, 2022

Despite Mr Johnson’s claim to have the necessary nominations, some MPs in rival camps have questioned whether he really did.

Earlier, a Whatsapp message from Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to Johnson supporters claiming to have “completed all the paperwork (verified all nominations, with proposer and seconder) to be on the ballot” was briefed to journalists.

In response, Richard Holden, a Sunak supporter tweeted: “Very odd to brief this out again… (two days in a row). It’s what they briefed yesterday.

“It’s almost as if they still need people and are desperate to show momentum, which they can’t because no-one will publicly come out.”

Earlier, Mr Sunak became the second contender to formally to declare he is standing, promising to “fix our economy, unite our party and deliver for our country” at a time of “profound economic crisis”.

 

And when there were two ...

The possibility of Sexist battle??



Mordaunt ally says leadership race is 'stitched up' to stop 'another woman' getting on ballot (msn.com)

= Perhaps a tad too much ?!?!?

 

Though even as Morddaunt withdraws - and open up the door for Sunak



Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries said it will be “impossible” to avoid a general election in the weeks ahead.
Rishi Sunak was named as prime minister-in-waiting, as announced as new Tory leader, the former culture secretary warned that “all hell would break” lose if the ex-chancellor is installed at No 10.

(He just won't go away!!)

 

Meanwhile the Party rallies around Rishi .... for now



Truss and predecessors congratulate Sunak and convey their support for him as British Prime Minister (msn.com)

 

With Labour relisihing a Rishi 'reckoning'



Labour call for immediate general election as senior Tories congratulate Sunak (msn.com)

 

Meet, the man ..... of the people ... ???

 

Rishi Sunak - Wikipedia

 

Looks like just a regular guy to me. Well, except for the billionaire part.

 

The Billionare Boy from the Government Bench



Rishi Sunak wins Tory leadership: What UK’s next PM doesn't want you to know | openDemocracy

 

A new leader - but the problems remain:



Rishi Sunak’s cuts will be more brutal than austerity. Remember: they are a choice, not a necessity (msn.com)

 

Yeah, let's put in the people farthest from the common people reality.

 

New Delhi:

Rishi Sunak will become the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of Britain. While many Indians are delighted at Rishi Sunak creating history, some on social media decided to use the opportunity to showcase their creativity. Memes on Rishi Sunak started doing the rounds on Twitter as soon as his rival Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race to be the next UK PM.

Some users on Twitter thought that 42-year-old Sunak resembles former Team India cricketer Ashish Nehra. While posting congratulatory messages for Rishi Sunak, they used Ashish Nehra's photos.

 

Following Sunak's appointment, it appears that numbers of former scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' members have cancellled their membership, proving beyond doubt just how racist the scumbag 'nasty sleaze party' actually is.


Tory party members react to Sunak as PM as some cancel memberships

Lily Ford, Edd Dracott and Rebecca Speare-Cole, PA
24 October 2022, 11:16 pm
Some Conservative Party supporters have cancelled their memberships following the announcement that Rishi Sunak is set to be prime minister, with one voter of more than 40 years saying they felt as though the party “has been destroyed from within”.

While some felt “delighted” by the news, others said the move has left them “fuming” that party members were not able to vote for Mr Sunak to take over from Liz Truss.

Lyn Bond, a 60-year-old retired nurse who has voted Conservative since she was 18, sent an email to cancel her membership after it was confirmed the MP for Richmond will lead the party.

“The whole thing is rather sad because, for a party that had such a wonderful win in 2019, it has been destroyed from within,” Ms Bond, from Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, told the PA news agency.
“I can’t bring myself after 40 years to support them anymore, I don’t trust them.

“I feel awash on a boat in the ocean not knowing where to go, what to do.

“I’ve never doubted what I voted for, ever, until today.”

Ms Bond described Mr Sunak’s rise to prime minister as “insidious”, explaining that party members feel like they “don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes”.

“What’s going on?” she said.
“(It is) very unsettling… It’s insidious the way they’ve got Rishi Sunak in – they wanted him in, and he’s in.

“There’s something else going on and that meant I couldn’t personally trust him as a candidate… Why has it come to this? The truth of the matter is this country is going to suffer.

“What I would say at the moment is I wouldn’t vote for anybody – and that I don’t believe in because women died to give us the vote, and I don’t want to say that.”

Samuel Jukes, a retail worker from Birmingham who joined the Tories in 2019 and was supporting Boris Johnson in the contest, said a general election should now be called as Mr Sunak “has no mandate”.
“I’m fuming right now, we never voted for Rishi Sunak,” the 33-year-old told PA.

“I’m considering leaving, not decided yet but I see a lot of members are cancelling their memberships and I might be the same… Rishi has no mandate.

“Right now I’m ashamed to be a Conservative member.”

But members of Conservative associations as well as local councillors said they were “delighted” by how the contest played out.

Tom Herman, from Hoveton, who is deputy chairman of North Norfolk Conservatives, said that North Norfolk Conservative MP Duncan Baker, who backed Mr Sunak, “consults very widely in the constituency – not just among Conservative Party members – and listens to those views and makes an informed decision on who to back for leader”.

“That to me is equally democratic,” Mr Herman said. “He really has his finger on the pulse of the constituency.”
Roy Aldcroft, a Conservative councillor at Shropshire Council, said: “I’m very pleased it has been sorted out, that we will now have a clear path to sort out the many problems that we will be facing this winter.

“The fact that we did not get an opportunity to vote, I’m sure some members were quite upset about that but to be quite honest we need to put the country first.”

Carole Jones, a Conservative councillor for Dorset Council, also said: “I’m quite pleased we didn’t have a vote,” adding she is “more than happy” with the outcome.

“If our MPs do not get behind Rishi (Sunak) now, when we come up for election, people like us will be mullered,” she said before telling them to “get their bloody act together”.

Ramji Kanji Chauhan, deputy mayor of Harrow, said he agrees that the quick leadership process has been better than going to a vote among members.

“With a vote, it goes on for a long time, we make the country unsettled,” he told PA.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, said: “I’m absolutely delighted that Rishi is going to be prime minister.

“I think we need stability now,” she said, adding that the turbulence has been difficult for councils who need “clarity” so they can plan.

On Mr Sunak, Mrs Campbell said he is “sensible”, “clever” and “decent”, adding: “It is quite nice to have a grown-up back in control.”

 

Ah, I see racism and rich party treachery is alive and well on your side of the Atlantic also.....

 

Yeah and the bastards have been doing so for far longer than the GOP - like THREE HUNDRED years more !!!

 

Well at least Rishi SDunak has managed to get one thing right !!!


Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘sacked’ as business secretary by Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson loyalist had called Sunak ‘socialist’ and claimed he would refuse to serve

Adam Forrest
28 minutes ago
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Boris Johnson loyalist Jacob Rees-Mogg has left his government role as business secretary after Rishi Sunak became prime minister.

The senior figure said earlier on Tuesday that he had changed his mind on Mr Sunak being a “socialist” in an apparent bid to keep a ministerial job.


But a source close to Mr Rees-Mogg said he knew he was not wanted.