He has also had a short stint with a Devine Brown which ended his partnership with Miss Hurley so not a good choice IMO
Salt of the earth 
I dont subscribe to the Guardian even though I am asked to every time I read an article posted here on SF. After reading this one I am almost tempted. Surely this mess will be the final undoing of him but then I think the UK will be in deeper trouble, why?
I am sure it isnt just me who has noticed that Michael Gove gets virtually no press, good or bad, which tells me that when Boris goes Gove will be taken out of the cupboard, dusted down and be the next PM. Of course he would have to validate his existence by calling an election by which time would the voting public have forgotten what the current shower of s__t have done to a country I used to be proud to say was the place of my birth.
I no longer have the right to vote in the UK, or the EU thanks to Brexit, but when I lived in UK my vote was blue as it best suited my way of life. What the conservatives have done for Britain with Brexit has made sure that if I was ever in a position to vote it wouldn’t be for them ever again.
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How does ‘Shitty Patel’ suggest a racial undertone? It rhymes and sounds a lot like Pritti. The nickname comes from her disgusting behaviour. Why are you so full of venom for Mrs Blair? The woman can’t choose her physical characteristics.
Frost came out in top place in a tory faithful popularity poll. I think he could be even worse than Gove.
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While David Allen Green thinks the government is too disorganised for dead cat strategies, under cover of this week’s shenanigans the Policing bill (massive clampdown on the right to protest and essentially carte blanche for the police to stop and search anyone they please with no need for justification) and the Nationality and Borders bill (arbitrary withdrawal of UK citizenship, criminalising anyone who helps asylum seekers get to the UK) quietly continued their course through parliament his week 
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But Frost would need to be an MP first.
I wonder if Boris is following Poland’s PiS lead? I see the Judiciary is on his hit list.
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John Grace knocks it out of the park again. What a line 
I promise you that there are no racial undertones in my sobriquet for Shitty. Honestly 
My dislike for her is founded on the fact that when her family were fleeing the Idi Amin regime and, though probably more economic migrants than genuine refugees, they were saved by the generosity of the British people. Yet she now chooses to slam the door on others, and seems to take jackboot pleasure in it. She is also proven liar as May found out and her bullied staff later found out. Johnson, of course likes liars.
No matter what race Shitty was I would still think that she is acting like a total shit. Hence the sobriquet. You could well be right though and that it is not used more widely because people are afraid of misinterpretation.
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Then I apologise unreservedly for suggesting that you were using the nickname in that manner.
I’ve personally heard ****skin used as a racial slur against people from the Indian subcontinent.
I thin kJohnson’s unlikely to resign because to date he’s always gotten away with it (whatever ‘it’ happened to be). also of course resignation usually indicate at least some sense of responsibility, which he obviously lacks.
Meanwhile, although the Tories always move swiftly to dispatch their leaders, they’re not going to do it in the week of a by-election (anyone remember the late, much mis-maligned ex MP, Owen Patterson?). I think they’ll cling on to the seat and although Sunak / Gove are the only serious contenders for Johnson’s job, both are sufficiently savvy not to wish to become PM in the midst of a bunch of s–t storms that won’t be dispelled by a simple change of leader. Consequently, I think they’ll let him stay on while keeping their heads down.
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The pressure is certainly ramping up but I don’t think we’re close to seeing the end of Johnson, of the candidates to replace him Sunak is the favourite and he’s a bit of a dark horse in that we know very little about him.
That disaster was only a couple of weeks ago - it is simply back to back to back cock ups, lies and corruption.
I doubt very much he’ll resign and the thought of gove in his place makes me want to vomit…
I’m as politically homeless as ever as I don’t trust starmer either…,
At this point it’s such a shitshow of a clusterfuck but if I were to vote at the minute it would be for anyone against vaccine mandates…
I’ve seen several tories speak out against them and as I’m not a natural Tory voter then it might be self evident why I’m perceiving myself as politically homeless 
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Think it would be helpful for others to understand that statement if you were to explain why you’re against mandates
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Oh Mark, why do you say that. 
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I could try but I would be covering a lot of ground that has already been covered…
I have my line in the sand and as has been pointed out on many occasions it’s pointless debating with me 
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There was no offence taken whatsoever, I’m glad I had the opportunity to explain
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Very simple and I’m surprised you even bother to ask. There are varying reasons why people are against mandates,. some are relatively sound on an individual level, like my younger brother, who contracted polio at the age of two following a vaccination, and has understandably been vaccine wary thoughoout his adullthood.
Others less so in my view, particulalrly those libertarians who place their personal ‘rights’ above those of their fellow citizens, and even more so when such people choose to believe some person on the internet, rather than trying to do proper research from reliable sources. When I taught first year Open University students, one of the first things they learned was how to identify and distinguish reliable and less reliable sources of information. Unfortunately, most antivaxers lack this skill.
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