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Why did Boris Johnson quit the Tory leadership contest? Was it GREED?

Boris Johnson and money: did you think you would ever see this image again?

It seems Boris Johnson may not have pulled out of the Tory leadership race for the reasons he stated at the time, but because of selfishness.

“I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do,” he said at the time.

“You can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in parliament.”

He was saying that he hoped the successful candidate would be able to unite the Conservative Party in a way that he – as a polarising figure – couldn’t.

But now members of the entertainment industry, of all places, have suggested that Johnson withdrew because he realised he could make much more money away from government than in it.

Since he resigned in July, Johnson is known to have been in talks with entertainment and talent agencies including Endeavour, run by US businessman Ari Emanuel, and the Harry Walker Agency (HWA), one of its subsidiaries.

His earning potential is suggested to be about £20 million per year – but only if he didn’t lose in a leadership election against Rishi Sunak. If that happened, his appeal to global audiences would disappear – cutting his earning potential by at least half, according to the talent industry.

A spokesman for Johnson has said that financial reasons were “totally irrelevant” to his decision. He would, wouldn’t he?

We may never know the full story. But with Johnson being such a flagrant self-publicist (why is he at COP 27, anyway?) it’s not beyond possibility that money might have played some part in his decision.

Source: Boris Johnson ‘quit PM race over risk to £10m earnings’, sources say

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Boris Johnson DID have enough backing to go for Tory leadership. So why didn’t he?

Tireless self-promoter: Boris Johnson spent a huge amount of time performing stunts like this zipwire nonsense. He would have been well up for another Tory leadership contest… except suddenly he wasn’t. Have we been told the whole story about that?

Sir Graham Brady, chair of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, has made it clear that Boris Johnson did have more than the 100 nominations he needed to take part in the Tory leadership contest that ended when Rishi Sunak went unopposed.

According to the BBC,

Sir Graham said “two candidates” had reached the threshold, and “one of them decided not to then submit his nomination”.

This raises – again – the question This Writer posed when Johnson withdrew from the leadership contest: why?

I suggested a few reasons at the time:

It has … been suggested that, while Johnson would be an extremely popular choice among Conservative members, he would be electorally catastrophic for the party with most voters unwilling to forgive and forget the transgressions of his original period as prime minister – irrespective of whether MPs would unite behind him.

Could one possibly argue that Johnson was brought in simply to take votes away from any other serious candidate, to ensure they could not progress through the process and, thereby, to deprive Conservative Party members of their democratic choice?

That would be a blow for the party faithful – especially as Johnson was their preferred choice.

Brady has poured cold water on the second of these ideas:

Sir Graham insisted the committee had wanted to involve party members in the leadership race, despite setting a “very high” nomination threshold to speed up the contest.

“We thought it was in the national interest to get a result as quickly as possible – but wanted to make sure we weren’t closing that possibility that the members would also have a vote,” he said.

But do we believe that?

Johnson is not the kind of man who will give up on his ambitions lightly – especially knowing that a majority of Conservative Party members would have supported him.

So what really happened?

Was he discouraged from putting his nomination in? If so, then by whom? And what reasons were given?

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Is the Conservative Party imploding because of Sunak’s leadership victory?

[Image: The Agitator/Twitter].

The law of unforeseen consequences seems to be striking the Conservative Party hard.

Rishi Sunak has been elected unopposed as party leader, and is soon to be invited to be prime minister by King Charles III. We know that.

Some of us suspect that this was a result of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Boris Johnson withdrew, despite having enough nominations (more on that elsewhere, possibly). And Penny Mordaunt may feel justifiably robbed of the nominations from Tory MPs who supported Johnson instead of her (while they may feel cheated out of having him on the ballot paper).

But it seems that nobody feels quite as scorned by the process as the Conservative Party membership – the rank-and-file members without whom the organisation cannot function.

It seems many of them are so incensed by the way they have been treated – cheated, maybe, out of electing a new leader – that they are pulling up their stumps and leaving, with former Brexit party Reform UK as their likely new home.

(Interesting, that. Has the dog-wagging tail of the Tory Party been a single-issue group all along?)

On Twitter, the outrage has been palpable:

It seems veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart is right – Tory Party members can think for themselves – although that thinking seems to extend only as far as the nearest Brexiteering right-wing party.

That should sink both the Tories and Reform UK.

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Judicial review demanded on Tory way of electing leaders

After concerns were raised about the apparent ‘open door’ policy of the Conservative Party that seems to mean foreign powers could influence who becomes our prime minister if the choice goes to party members, an application for a judicial review has been launched.

As it happens, the current leadership contest may not go to an election by members, so for now the question may be academic.

But that doesn’t mean Tory rules don’t need to be tightened – and the best time is always now.

Here are the details:

“We registered Archie, our pet tortoise, as a member; a couple of foreign nationals; then Margaret Roberts, the maiden name of the late Lady Thatcher. The Conservative Party took the £25 membership fee. We got membership numbers and were invited to hustings.”

Damning.

Let’s hope the courts allow the judicial review.

We should look forward to learning the result.

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Boris Johnson drops out of Tory leadership contest – have there been shenanigans?

Boris Johnson: he’s out of the Tory leadership contest.

Does this count as the first time multiple philanderer Boris Johnson has ever withdrawn from anything?

And he doesn’t even have a good reason!

He has pulled out of the Conservative Party leadership election, despite claiming to have 102 nominations, which puts him beyond the number needed (although the BBC had been keeping its own count – and believed he had only 55).

According to the BBC, he has said:

“In the last few days I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who suggested that I should once again contest the Conservative Party leadership, both among the public and among friends and colleagues in Parliament.

“I have been attracted because I led our party into a massive election victory less than three years ago – and I believe I am therefore uniquely placed to avert a general election now.

“A general election would be a further disastrous distraction just when the Government must focus on the economic pressures faced by families across the country.

“I believe I am well placed to deliver a Conservative victory in 2024 – and tonight I can confirm that I have cleared the very high hurdle of 102 nominations, including a proposer and a seconder, and I could put my nomination in tomorrow.”

“There is a very good chance that I would be successful in the election with Conservative Party members – and that I could indeed be back in Downing Street on Friday.

“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 (Sunak) and Penny (Mordaunt) – 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.

“I believe I have much to offer but I am afraid that this is simply not the right time.”

Do you believe any of that?

“I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do“?

When was Boris Johnson ever interested in the right thing to do?

Perhaps the next line provides more light:

“You can’t govern effectively unless you have a united party in parliament.”

I don’t know what you think, but doesn’t it seem as though someone has had a word?

It ties in with what Russ Jones was telling us a few days ago – that the Conservative Party is a coalition of several warring factions, and leaders have only managed to succeed by uniting several of them behind their banner.

And it could also be an excuse.

It has also been suggested that, while Johnson would be an extremely popular choice among Conservative members, he would be electorally catastrophic for the party with most voters unwilling to forgive and forget the transgressions of his original period as prime minister – irrespective of whether MPs would unite behind him.

Also, with his withdrawal, does this leave the way clear for a Rishi Sunak coronation – as Penny Mordaunt has too few nominations to pass the threshold for participation?

Could one possibly argue that Johnson was brought in simply to take votes away from any other serious candidate, to ensure they could not progress through the process and, thereby, to deprive Conservative Party members of their democratic choice?

That would be a blow for the party faithful – especially as Johnson was their preferred choice. If he really does think he might “deliver” a Tory victory in 2024, he might have scuppered his own chances by betraying his home constituency.

So, what’s next?

Should we look out for an announcement that Sunak will be the next Tory leader and prime minister at some time on Monday (October 24)?

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Did you know: anyone from anywhere in the world can become a Tory and choose our PM?

It seems anybody, living anywhere in the world, can become a Conservative Party member and choose our new prime minister – if they pay a low membership fee.

This means, as George Monbiot suggests, that a foreign state could set up thousands of memberships in order to meddle with the result.

Is this open invitation for foreign governments to mess with our politics a form of treason?

Consider:

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Chaos in the Conservative Party as candidates jostle to take part in leader race

What’s going on with the Tory leadership? Your guess is as good as mine.

Two candidates have formally declared themselves: Rishi Sunak, apparently with 139 MPs supporting him, and Penny Mordaunt with just 23 (it seems her comment about now-former PM Liz Truss not hiding under a table has done her no favours).

Boris Johnson has yet to declare himself but apparently has 56 MPs already supporting him.

And the pundits are having a field day…

Be warned – this one has STRONG LANGUAGE:

It goes on and on – and will continue to do so, at least until the leadership contest is over.

We’re supposed to form a balanced view of who should be Tory leader (and prime minister) from all this.

But we’re more likely to write off the lot of them as the maniacs they’re showing themselves to be.

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Liz Truss’s Tory leadership campaign is a comedy goldmine (VIDEO)


I wasn’t going to publish any more articles today (Monday, August 22) – but then I stumbled on this clip accidentally.

You’re welcome:

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How will Rishi Sunak be ‘much tougher’ on benefits’? Doesn’t he know they’re MURDEROUS already?

Rishi Sunak: attacking benefit claimants is a classic Tory ploy – and another ‘divide-and-rule’ tactic.

I sense desperation – an attempt to play to the Tory benefit-bashing gallery.

Rishi Sunak has said he will be “much tougher” on how the UK’s benefits system operates if he becomes prime minister as he suggested he would force claimants to take jobs when they become available.

How does he plan to do that? By forcing people with long-term illnesses and disabilities into jobs that will kill them faster than the current fashion to simply knock them off the books for no good reason?

Remember, in 2015 I forced the then-Coalition government to admit that, between 2011 and 2014, 2,400 people had lost their lives within two weeks after being told they were too fit to be on sickness benefits. It seems clear that such claims were false.

The government of the day said it was impossible to say how many (thousands?) of people had died after that two-week period because it does not keep such statistics. We know that many have died, though, because we have seen many news stories of such cases.

Alternatively, is he planning to force able-bodied claimants into work – people who, evidence shows, generally try to get out of the system as soon as possible in any case?

Most people, who are able to work, in fact do their level best to get it.

In any case, the matter may be taken out of his hands: firstly, the UK has just recorded its highest intake of foreign workers since Brexit – mostly from beyond the European Union.

The rise has been welcomed by the Bank of England, whose economists had feared that a shortage of people available to work would push up wages and aggravate the recent jump in inflation.

This suggests that everybody from the UK, who is available to work, is already doing so.

However:

Secondly, the dire economic situation the Tories have created means economists are also predicting a recession lasting at least a year, that will trigger many job losses.

The employment opportunities Sunak envisages simply won’t be available.

Still, one can hardly accuse Sunak of making sense on the subject.

At a leadership hustings in Belfast, he said: “Right now, there are more people claiming unemployment benefit than there are job vacancies in the economy. Just think about that for a second. And that is happening under a Conservative government. That is clearly not right, something has gone wrong.

“If there are hours to do, if there is a job going, people should have to take the job as opposed to just being able to stay on benefits.”

But if there are more people unemployed than there are job vacancies, then there aren’t hours to do; there isn’t a job going!

I wonder how many of the Conservative Party’s paltry 130,000-160,000 membership have the critical faculties to realise that he’s talking absolute pish?

Too few, I fear.

Source: Tory leadership hustings: Rishi Sunak vows to be ‘much tougher’ with welfare system to ‘get people off benefits’

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Public reaction to Johnson suggests widespread belief that Conservatives are a racist party

Racist and sexist: Let’s not forget that Boris Johnson has also been criticised for his attitude to women.

It is perfectly understandable that Tory MPs are supporting Boris Johnson’s bid to be prime minister because the Conservative Party is inherently racist – according to members of the public.

This Site’s articles after the SNP’s Commons leader, Ian Blackford, condemned Mr Johnson over racist remarks made in the past, stirred up a storm of responses on the social media – that speak for themselves:

“Tells us all we need to know that despite their pretence to care about racism they will happily elect a racist to try and keep them in power. Shameful-but totally in keeping with Tory values,” tweeted Peter Shearer.

“I believe the Tory Party’s base is as racist as those they vote into public office,” added ‘Cochis’.

‘Maryland’ suggested the reminder of the remarks would “potentially increase his vote. They are all in this together.”

Sue Lees: “Of course, they already knew he was a bigot and they condone it. No excuses, no justification, anyone who supports his sort of ideology are themselves complete arses.”

Louise Preston: “Of course they will still vote for him. Only interested in clinging into power and cabinet posts for themselves, couldn’t care less about anything else.”

‘Dot’ stated that Tories would vote for Mr Johnsons: “Everyday and twice on Sunday. Tory MPs are that craven.”

They may be voting for him twice today (Thursday, June 20), in fact.

“Yes they will,” agreed ‘AfterAtosAssessment. “It’s not an issue for those who vote the likes of Boris in over and over again.”

Michael Taylor: “Well after all the Tory party are and have always been racist.”

And according to Derrick Gaskin, “Most Conservative MPs are racist.

That assertion may well be demonstrated by the results of the last two votes by Tory MPs today.

But Conservative Party members in the constituencies are watching – and may fear being tarred with the same “racism” brush that has touched so many of their MPs.

A vote for Mr Johnson is now being seen as a vote for racism. Will the Tory grassroots vote for racism?

UPDATE: Boris Johnson had 157 votes in the fourth round of the Tory leadership election which means more than half of the Conservative MPs in Parliament are now openly supporting his racism.

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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
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