The wind turns against Boris Johnson as Tories call for him to go
Boris Johnson: we all think it’s time for him to go so perhaps he should stop sulking about it and clear off under his cloud of disgrace.
Boris Johnson’s call for support from Conservative MPs seems to have had a very short-lived effect.
Perhaps after seeing the results of an opinion poll in which their prime minister was described by one person as an “utter anus”, backbenchers are turning against their dishonest, criminal leader.
Former Tory chief whip Mark Harper publicly called for his resignation and submitted a letter of ‘no confidence’ in his leadership after Johnson was fined for breaking Covid-19 lockdown laws that he had announced to the nation personally:
“I regret to say that we have a prime minister who broke the laws that he told the country they had to follow, hasn’t been straightforward about it and is now going to ask the decent men and women on these benches to defend what I think is indefensible,” Mr Harper said.
“I’m very sorry to have to say this, but I no longer think he is worthy of the great office that he holds.”
Harper followed a number of other Tories who have also spoken up against Johnson.
Former Cabinet Minister Karen Bradley branded Johnson’s behaviour “unforgivable” and said:
“If I had been a minister found to have broken the laws that I passed, I would be tendering my resignation now.”
Penrith and the Border MP Neil Hudson said he “categorically will not defend the indefensible” and that “the situation is untenable”, urging Johnson to lay out a timetable for an “orderly transition to a leadership election as soon as the international situation permits”.
Other MPs to have openly called for the PM to quit since the fixed penalty notice landed are Nigel Mills and Craig Whittaker.
In response to Harper, Johnson said: “I bitterly regret the event in Downing Street as I have said, but I do believe that it is the job of this Government to get on with the priorities of the British people and that is what we’re going to do.”
How would Johnson even recognise “the priorities of the British people” when he’s always so busy pandering to his own most basic lusts?
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Little fascist dictator convicted criminal duck johnson will cling on to power regardless of whatever new crimes he will be found to have committed! Convicted felon johnson doesn’t care because he is laughing at us stupid peasants and his stupid fascist tory MPs who continue to support their ‘leader!’
Convict duck johnson knows he won’t be sacked but what does it say about little england? We are living in a fascist dictatorship wherein the only criminals are impoverished/disabled/long term sick women and men who must all be punished because they dare to demand state financial help!
All the fascist tory MPs who continue to support their convicted felon duck johnson are criminals – guilty of collaborating with and maintaining this dictatorship!
Nothing will change whilst the criminal gang of fascist tory MPs hold political power and I don’t see any rebellion happening soon!