BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

You think that strong countries should have psychopathic leaders?

ooookaay

You then say that these types of leaders will do what the 'Majority wants'

Why do you believe this? Narcissists and psychopaths do exactly what they think benefits them personally, and they manipulate others to act in their interests.

I find your faith in the leadership skills of psychopaths to be quite unsettling

Even here, this would be resigning material. The days when we looked at the UK as somewhre where politicians resigned compared to brazening it out here are long since over.

People like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson don't care. They don't have to care. They don't reside in the same world as anybody on this thread. They don't even reside in the same world as the vast majority of their "subjects".

We're talking about someone that's been groomed for power in some form or another since he was at Eton. While perhaps not automatically destined for the highest office in the land, he's nevertheless an Oxbridge educated article that was always assumed a political position of some description, completely irrespective of his ability. So his outlook on life is vastly different to the greater percentage of people both in Britain and outside of it.

He found himself as PM due to circumstances, more than likely, but it's doubtful that he really gives that much of a crap about the role. But he doesn't have to and if he was deposed in the morning, he'd just retreat into whatever shade of political role he can and continue on as normal regardless of the shambles that his dog and pony show premiership resulted in.

It's all just an amusing game to people like Johnson, because there's nothing riding on it for him to be truly worried about.

Levelling up is an old Thatcher saying from the 1970s and we all saw how well Thatcher helped the more disadvantaged areas of the UK during her time as PM..

Johnson and the Tories like to issue 'buzzwords' but you always judge politicians based on their actions and the Tories have slashed 15 billion for the budgets of local councils over past decade https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/fragmented-short-term-government-grants-poor-value-money-councils-warn

Johnson has to get through PMQs this week which will be an absolute sh1tshow for him, or else he may try to avoid it, and be called out for the coward that he is.

He has a byelection the day after where an extremely safe Tory seat is in play. Will tory voters stay at home out of anger at Johnson? Maybe they will. Lib Dems are polling ahead of the Tories according to some polls, Losing that seat could result in a full scale revolt from MPs worried about their own seats with Johnson at the helm

He is also struggling really badly getting his 'plan b' through parliament with dozens of his own party voting against it, and other MPs refusing to say that they have confidence in him

He has the booster program as political cover, but the problem is, anything that focuses on Covid restrictions will remind the public that he is an utter hypocrite and has lied repeatedly about those christmas parties

I wouldn't even bother with this lad in fairness. He will say anything to back up "his side" including defending Anne Widdecombes homophobia, comparing Rashford to paedophiles and defending Farage's belief that refugees are not people

The hard left may or may not rely on a downtrodden underclass as their political base, but that's irrelevant because there basically is no hard left in UK politics at the moment, regardless of how often you keep using those words

The Socialist party have zero MPs and only fielded 2 candidates in the last general election

There are a number of centre left parties in the UK, and a few extremely right wing parties but no hard left parties have any electoral success or political support

His downfall will be slow, much like Brexit, a death by a thousand cuts.

He's Mr Brexit - he got Brexit done - yet himself and Frost have been loudly calling to renegotiate entire sections of the deal. Why do you have to renegotiate something you got done so soon? Maybe he hasn't gotten Brexit done after all? Maybe he did an absolutely diabolical job at it?

Then there's the world beating vaccine rollout - what's it all for at the end of the day? Many of their European neighbours have caught up or overtaken the UK in vaccination uptake. Yet, where has it gotten them? Into yet another lockdown just like most of it's neighbours.

OK, so they opened first and stayed open longest during the Summer - yet their economy showed growth that is in fractions of percent, so did it actually really benefit them at all?

Then start to look at his personal adherence and the adherence of some of his party colleague to the very rules they brought in to try and curb Covid - holding parties and mass gatherings, wandering around hospitals shaking hands, sitting in crowded places without a mask nor being socially distant.

He claimed he had no idea where his flat refurb was funded from, yet was found to have been in very clear communication with a supposed fund organiser...

Then there's the wider Tory sleaze accusations...

Eventually it will all start to pile up and people will begin questioning whether he is that lovable rogue who tells a few fibs here and there or maybe he's actually an out and out lying charlatan.

Leadership comes from the top, it’s about setting standards and examples, that you will live up to, not demanding others do something that you are not prepared to do yourself .. it’s about possessing good judgement to do the right thing...setting EXAMPLES.

Boris... setting low standards and failing to meet them...

He’s a complete throwback to the Tories of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s...

not in a good way.