Bye-bye Boris

Reports are suggesting the British Prime Minister is about to face a no-confidence vote from his own party.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/26/tory-mps-poised-to-send-letters-of-no-confidence-in-pm-after-partygate-report

Even if these reports are premature, I really can't see him surviving this. There is a police investigation into "Partygate" and council elections coming up in May. The Conservatives will do badly in those. In addition, his former friends in the media are all gunning for him. It's a question of either weeks or months.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

I'm a bit surprised he managed to stay in charge after the initial communication fiasco at the beginning of the pandemic (when he ended up in ICU after handshaking covid+ people to show how he didn't fear the virus or something similar, at the sound of "prepare to lose loved ones", to then lock-down the country), but is now getting kicked out for the party-gate.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Elessar They handled the pandemic appalling badly but escaped consequence. thought that bigger scandals were the track and trace fiasco and Johnson skipping emergency meetings but the public gave him the benefit of the doubt. It also helps to have an extremely pro-Conservative media. Then, they got bailed out because luckily a British company was the first to develop a good vaccine.

The benefit of the doubt thing is important to say because it was based on trust and was not an outright endorsement. That trust has now evaporated due to brazen hypocricy.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Burnley123 Yeah, media polarization is a scourge also here unfortunately. Half the measures enacted by our current govt. would've caused serious unrest had they been implemented by the previous govt., and the media would've certainly blown on the fire. Your vaccine strategy was sound as well, we've started roughly at the same time but you were proceeding way faster than us (intended as E.U. as a whole) at first, I can imagine it got appreciated internally as much as it was universally considered better-planned than ours, down here.

Yeah, true, plus probably no one wanted a change of leadership *during* the peak of the crisis.