How has Boris's first week in parliament as PM gone so far?

Oh dear ,




Oh dear oh dear oh dear

He's actually doing (or attempting to do) what all 646 incumbents were told to do . Unfortunately a majority of the 646 are not used to taking orders , even from those who put them in place

Certainly put a smile on Theresa's face.

All a charade

His brother is quitting the party its all a massive stitch up

I don't think we'll know the answer for another month or so yet.

On the face of it, this is all very serious, but in the grand scheme of things when it does come to the (inevitable) General Election the strategy is going to be Boris  on the side of the people vs Parlaiment who are thwarting their will.

Seen through that prism, all this is just foreplay and the apparent setbacks won't harm that narrative one little bit.

In purely Machiavellian, power-broking terms, who's to say he's wrong?

Oh for heavens sake ebul if you can’t even get the basics right there’s no point commentating

The EU are never going to agree to a no deal
The only way for that to happen is if we decide , no one else , to leave in Oct or later , whenever

It’s got nothing to do with the EU

* boris :)

virus is better, might have more luck too

At the moment there it is law we leave the EU by 31 Oct 2019

If no deal is agreed with the EU by then, then Boris Johnson may still get what he wants  uble regy

I have to contradict my own post, a bill to stop a no deal Brexit will complete its passage

through the Lords on Friday, that law was also passed on Wednesday by MPs inflicting a defeat on Boris Johnson

more and more complicated

But do you know , it’s not complicated , it’s not complicated at all

That's all right lfc1971

I am glad you do not think it is complaicated

Definately the worst PM since the last one and looking to be the shortest serving PM since Canning! Although I think Corbyn may eventually break that record!

Even in their wildest dreams, Labour could not have possibly imagined that Boris would be so spectacularly catastrophic.
Do not interrupt him, he is doing a fantastic job of destroying the Conservative party from within.

Johnson could care less about destroying the tories, they aren't genuine tories anyway (May, Johnson and that worm before them Cameron)

I thought Cameron was poor but next to these last 2 he was a genius

But all of them have destroyed the tories and they could care less in my opinion

That was the most extraordinary prime ministerial press conference we’ve seen for years - perhaps not quite as dramatic as Theresa May’s “nothing has changed” meltdown, but certainly more peculiar. Even by Johnson’s standards, it was rambling and shambolic. The only rational explanation I can think for what happened is that it is all part of some ultra-cunning plan to convince Jeremy Corbyn that he can vote for an election because Johnson will be such a hopeless campaigner, but life normally doesn’t work like that. If it looks like a ****-up, it probably is a ****-up.

First, the backdrop was pure Donald Trump. Although ostensibly an event to promote the government’s police recruitment plans, this was obviously a party political event - No 10 described it this morning as day one of the election campaign - and so there was something clearly improper about getting the police to act as extras on set. And if you do want to present yourself as a politician committed to supporting the police, it is best not to force them to stand in the sun for so long (Johnson started about an hour late) that they start dropping like flies.

If you do invite people to listen to a speech and then force them to wait, you should at least prepare something of merit to say. But Johnson wasn’t speaking from a script, and he appeared to have given very little thought to what he wanted to say about policing (beyond a threadbare argument about policing being at the heart of a successful economy). At one point he launched into a very bizarre routine about the police caution; quite what that was all about remains a mystery. Of course, sounding improvised is part of the Johnson schtick - in his Churchill biography he quotes approvingly the FE Smith line that Churchill “spent the best years of his life preparing his impromptu remarks”; Johnson has mastered the same trick himself - but today this did not sound like artful spontaneity. To be honest, it sounded like he had had a glass too many at lunchtime.

On Monday Johnson stood outside Number 10 and said he did not want an election. Today’s message was all about taunting/shaming Corbyn into agreeing one. Even someone as practiced at inconsistency as Johnson would find this hard to pull off, and in the office where I was watching his insincerity seemed obvious - although perhaps outside the “bubble” people may be willing to credit his claim that he doesn’t really want an election at all.

To his credit, Johnson did take a large number of questions. His most interesting line was his assertion that he would rather “die in a ditch” than request an article 50 extension in October, as he might be obliged to by a bill becoming law on Monday. That did not sound literally true either, but at least that was a hyperbole untruth, not a statement of bad faith. Perhaps leave voters, and the wider group of voters who just want the Brexit crisis saga to end, will cheer this message. But whether that compensates for the overall impression of omnishambles is another matter.

He will resign within the next two weeks.

We will be in a huge constitutional crisis.

He has clearly stated, on several occasions, that he will not go the EU and request an extension to Article 50.
If the law states that he has to, and no other mechanisms exist for him to avoid doing so, he'll resign.

Day by day, this situation takes us in to unchartered waters.
Even Boris doesn't know what he's going to do next, appears to be making it up on the hoof.

Has there ever been a case of a Prime Minister in office being sectioned under the mental health act?
His behaviour has always been erratic, but it is spiralling out of control, the men in white coats may be required.