Partygate': Johnson's removal is now inevitable, warns loyalist

[brooklynite]

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Source: The Guardian

Boris Johnson’s desperate efforts to save his premiership were undermined on Saturday as one of his most loyal backbench supporters said it was now “inevitable” that Tory MPs would remove him from office over the “partygate” scandal.

In an interview with the Observer, Sir Charles Walker, a former vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, implored the prime minister to go of his own accord in the national interest, and likened events in the Tory party to a Greek tragedy.

“It is an inevitable tragedy,” Walker said. “He is a student of Greek and Roman tragedy. It is going to end in him going, so I just want him to have some agency in that.”

Walker, who announced at the start of the month that he was stepping down as an MP, said that in his view Johnson had got many things right, including the handling of the vaccine rollout, and deserved to be remembered for them, rather than suffer the indignity of losing a leadership challenge.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/partygate-johnsons-removal-is-now-inevitable-warns-loyalist

[Doodley]

1. Trump had superspreader rallies and the Rose Garden event, but no effective opposition as in the UK.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. Before the 2020 election Republicans made clear Democracy was not the goal.

Their childish insistence on calling The Democratic Party "DemocRat Party" was given a pass for years and years. Steve Schmidt was the first Democrat (newbie) to say publicly that needs to change. We have the opportunity to proudly challenge every utterance of DemocRat and ask why they fear democracy.

[orleans]

2. ... who will tell boris

[McKim]

4. Great News!

Great news, the sooner the world rids itself of the Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnsons the better. We have serious problems to solve that won't make it to the front page of The Inquirer and the Globe!
We cannot afford crazy!

[LiberalFighter]

5. FB will jail you if anything negative is said about Johnson.

[brooklynite]

9. Who.what is FB?

[LiberalFighter]

11. Facebook

[brooklynite]

13. Still no idea what you're talking about.

[rpannier]

6. Good for the country, bad for the political opposition

He needs to go
He's a windfall for Labour and other parties
Everyone, including a crazy drunk who yells at people from an alleyway would look better as P.M. So, the Tories will benefit from that
I think there are local elections in the Spring

[paleotn]

7. A party...umm...I mean a bridge too far.

It was inevitable that the spoiled little boy would destroy himself. Greek tragedy indeed.

[usaf-vet]

8. There is a Johnson in Wisconsin that need to go as well.

[SharonClark]

10. Johnson must have skipped the story of Icarus.

[Miguelito Loveless]

12. They have been saying this

For weeks now, and yet BoJo remains in power.

[Omaha Steve]

14. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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