#Boris Johnson Refuses To Resign

[ebuddynews]

Boris Johnson Refuses To Resign As Prime Minister And Vows To Fight

Boris Johnson Refuses To Resign As Prime Minister And Vows To Fight Boris Johnson, who faces rebellion pressure against him, refuses to resign as UK's Prime Minister and vows to fight back despite resignation. #BorisJohnson #boris #johnson #ukprimeminister #uk #primeminister #resignation #refuses #government #lawmakers #scandals #downingstreet #unitedkingdom #politics #covid19 #elections

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure from his ministers and a growing rebellion from his party to resign. However, Boris Johnson refuses to resign as Prime Minister and vows to stay in office and fight any impeachment attempt. Following the resignations of more than 30 senior officials and lower-ranking ministers who said he is unfit to govern. With many MPs from his Conservative…

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#Boris Johnson #Boris Johnson News #Boris Johnson Refuses To Resign #boris johnson vows to fight despite resignation #UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

[thatlittleegyptologist]

UK Politics Rundown: BoJo's Bizarre Exit Edition

Ok, so, people keep asking me to explain what's going on in the UK right now, mostly because they're seeing Brits just revelling in the levels of fuckery going on. So, a brief bullet pointed run down:

Most of you have probably heard of the Sentient Mop that is Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the UK

Most of you probably know about his penchant for lying to the public and basically not giving a fuck about it

This culminated in a huge police investigation into literal parties this man held while we were in Covid lockdown. Including one the night before Prince Phillip's funeral at which the Queen sat alone. And if you know how the press reacted to that one, you know he was in the shit for it.

Anyway, he lied about many of those parties, got fined for attending those parties, and is still technically under Parliamentary investigation for lying to Parliament while stood on the floor of the House of Commons (the room where they yell about laws every day).

There was also a Vote of No Confidence, which is a way in which the Conservatives can remove the leader of their party if they think he's terrible. Boris won this, but by a smaller margin than he would have wanted. No new vote can be held for another year based on the current rules (more on this later)

Fast forward 2 weeks from the end of that to last week and we get some news about an MP (Chris Pincher) who initially seemed to have got drunk and done *something* (as yet it was undefined) and he was suspended from the Conservative party pending investigation.

The following day (Thursday) it emerged that it was because he had allegedly sexually assaulted two men while drunk at a Conservatives club, and that there had been reports of this behaviour before. So he had the whip (basically the ability to vote as a Conservative MP) removed.

On Friday tons of Conservatives did the rounds on the news with 'oh we didn't know he was Bad. Boris definitely didn't know or he wouldn't have appointed him to his position'

On Saturday Boris does an interview where the reporter challenges him and says 'you were told about this in December 2019), Boris then admits to knowing about it but says he 'forgot'.

People are piiiiiiiiiiiised

Fast forward to Tuesday this week (5th July 2022). Late Tuesday, two Cabinet Ministers (think of like the Secretary of State/Housing etc in the US, it's roughly equivalent) Rishi Sunak (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Sajid Javid (Health Secretary) resign, citing Boris lying to them about many things but this being the final straw.

I mean sure lads, everything else was terrible but this is what did it huh?

Don't worry about it. Their resignations were designed to do exactly what's happened so it was a calculated move.

This kicks off what you've seen in the last 48hrs, with Cabinet Ministers, Senior Ministers, and Junior Ministers all resigning. At one point it was 6 resignations an hour.

The previous record for most ministers in a 24hr period resigning was 11 in 1932. Boris did 53.

Current total of resignations is 59. He fired Michael Gove (who's been hired and fired by the last 3 Prime Ministers, so congrats on that achievement Michael!) So it's basically at 60.

There are not enough ministers in jobs currently to run most departments

Press didn't know what to do with themselves and everyone in the UK was on Facebook marking themselves as 'attending' Boris' leaving party, and generally just having a great time with governmental collapse

Yesterday Boris refused to go. You may have seen footage of the entire House of Commons telling him goodbye very sarcastically. This is the normal levels of shithousery in the House of Commons, but it's also very funny.

Boris was still refusing to go late last night, saying he had a mandate from the people. You got this in 2019, love, it doesn't count anymore.

Literally everyone was writing letters and going on TV telling him to go, including people who'd got new jobs from him 24hrs before

Anyway, between 6:45am and 8am another 10 people resigned, which is how we got to 60 after yesterday's bonanza, and by 9:15am Boris said he would resign as PM and Tory Party leader

He is literally blaming everyone but himself at this point but no one is listening to him anymore

This has triggered a Leadership election, where untold horrors await us because that person will be the new Prime Minister....until they're forced to call a General Election

However, Boris still remains as Prime Minister for now. He said he'd stay until there was a new leader elected. So he's down, but he's not yet out.

But the fun doesn't stop yet! The 1922 Committee (the backbenches of the Tory Party in Parliament) has elections for positions on Monday and they might (and probably will) elect people who want to change the rules so that another Vote of No Confidence can be held. If that happens, the rules can be changed in less than 24hrs and they'll hold another vote to oust him before a new leader is elected. Personally, I hope Theresa May wears another ballgown to this vote after she did to the last one. Boris was the one who ousted her to become leader, so she's revelling in shithousery and it's fun to see Tory on Tory violence.

Highlights of all of this include: Reporters interrupting each other to say someone else just resigned, the people heckling Boris from the gates of Downing Street, the one guy who resigned while in a Parliamentary Committee meeting with Boris that was to discuss all the lies Boris has been telling (and informed him during this meeting. He's a Tory but the balls on that man jeez), Hugh Grant (yes, film star Hugh Grant) paying a bloke to go play the Benny Hill theme tune on Live speakers around Parliament, reporters interviewing Larry the Cat who is literally a cat and responsible for keeping the mice at bay, and every single person in the UK making memes/jokes/videos and just generally having a fantastic time as the government implodes.

Will a new leader change anything? No

Are the British public scared or worried about this? No

Is it just really really fucking funny? Yes. So funny

And that, guys, gals, and non binary pals, is the current account of what's going down in the UK as of 7th July (late afternoon).

#uk politics

[royalswille]

To put it in perspective for people who might not know or understand what’s currently happening in the UK (and this is probably going to be most helpful to Americans) remember when Trump lost the vote but was refusing to leave the White House? It’s like that but arguably worse because the most powerful members of Boris Johnson’s own Party are actively asking him to resign from his position as Prime Minister and he is saying no.

#uk politics

[luimnigh]

What happened to Brexit and the impact on the Irish border? It seemed like a really big deal and then Covid hit and I lost all news about it. I imagine putting a hard border there made life much worse for many commuters. Did the border become a target for terrorists the way some people worried it would? Also if you know anything about the situation in Hong Kong that seemed to fall off the radar too.

So the problem in regards to Northern Ireland and Brexit was that there were three option on where to place a border. And there needed to be a border, legally, in order to do customs checks.

Those options were:

Between the two islands and Europe, which couldn't be done because Ireland has no intention of leaving thr European Union.

Between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which would be a breach in the legal obligations set forth in the Good Friday Agreement, an internationally recognized treaty.

Between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, also known as the Irish Sea Border. But this would hurt the feelings of the DUP, the major unionist (pro-UK) party in Northern Ireland.

Now, the reason why the Irish Sea Border was unworkable was because Theresa May held an early election, and lost the Conservative Party's majority. So they turned to the DUP to supply them votes in Parliament. An Irish Sea Border became impossible, because the DUP would pull out of the supply agreement and end the government.

Then after May resigned, Boris Johnson held a new early election, and won a majority without the DUP. So guess what suddenly became an option again?

The UK finally did a deal with the EU that agreed to a Irish Sea Border, called the Northern Ireland Protocol, in December 2019. It means that officially Northern Ireland is outside of the EU, but agrees to follow all EU customs and free movement of good rules. There are no customs checks on goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK, but there are customs checks on goods moving from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland.

This upset the DUP, and in February 2022 they brought down the Government of Northern Ireland. Elections happened in May 2022, and they lost their position as Northern Ireland's largest party to their nationalist (pro-Ireland) rivals, Sinn Féin. This upset the DUP even more, so they've refused to start a new Northern Irish government (it's legally required that the biggest nationalist and unionist parties form a coalition to make the Northern Irish government).

So yeah. We avoided the hard border, but now Northern Ireland is without it's devolved government, and the UK Government doesn't care enough to force a new election. Ireland and Northern Ireland are becoming closer economically, while the UK and Northern Ireland are shifting away (with recent announcement of product packaging that labels items as being "not for EU"). The Unionists are angry, but not enough to do much more than their usual posturing and mild rioting.

Overall, probably the best we could have hoped for.

#uk politics #irish politics #northern irish politics #brexit #asks #deepdive002

[mylifetherant]

10 days in and this month is already off the shits, so lets have a recap shall we?

1) Boris Johnson finally buries himself under one too many lies and controversies, resigns in the most embarrassing and unprofessional manner possible. The Tory party then proceeds to eat itself alive as over 50 of its members resign as well. Despite this Boris refuses to fucking get out of the office, so england flat out discusses forcing him out.

2) ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe dies to the most batshit assassination since jfk, as some ex-navy nutter with an ax to grind builds a duct tape shotgun in his basement, wields it in broad daylight, MISSES HIS FIRST SHOT, and still manages to murk poor Abe while his security guards presumably take a nice well deserved nap. They later find a 5-barrel and a 9-barrel variant of these home depot hand cannons in the guys house, as his next target was presumably God.

3) Joe Biden, seeing assassinations are back in fashion, quickly drops an executive order to attempt to defends womans reproductive rights in a mediocre gesture thats probably too little too late. But its the thought that counts….right?

4) Elon Chunk loses 62 billion in Tesla stocks and tries to weasel out of his deal to buy Twitter, whining about the fact that they wont just hand him thousands of units of user data just because he asked them while waving around a few twenties. They respond by suspending his own account (the very thing he tried to buy them to protect), and reminding him that he signed a contract promising to close the deal, and theyre not letting him off that easy. Hilariously the ensuing lawsuit may actually end up bankrupting him.

5) Sri Lankan citizens storm their capitol and actually push out their corrupt government, and proceed to just throw a huge ass party and take selfies in a despots hot tub while eating all the food in his fridge. Leaders the world over are suddenly getting a strong reminder that they really should've payed more attention to A Bug's Life.

6) Despite how objectively hilarious it would be, Donald Trump refuses to complete this lovely shitstorm cascade by choking to death on his own spit. And frankly i think hes just being a poor sport about it

#politics #uk government #Boris johnson #Elon musk #Twitter #Sri lanka #Trump #shinzo abe

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

I just want to write something about the political situation in Northern Ireland- I don’t want to speak for Irish people, but I think it’s important people who live in Britain take an interest and understand what’s going on.

Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland is meant to have devolution, with it’s own parliament. There’s a strict agreement about powersharing between the parties.

In the last 6 years, Northern Ireland has had a functioning parliament for two of them. This is largely due to the DUP blocking the formation of a cabinet that doesn’t serve their interests. The liberal ideal of “just vote” isn’t working.

One of the more recent and significant events are that in 2022, the DUP first minister resigned due to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal- a Brexit deal which very clearly disregarded the Good Friday Agreement, and Northern Ireland in general. This essentially caused the dissolution of the parliament and led to elections in May 2022.

For the first time, Sinn Fein won the most seats, meaning the first minister would be someone from the party. But the DUP were unhappy, and refused to participate in the election of a speaker, meaning the government could not function. Due to the DUP’s behaviour, just like from 2017-2020, there’s currently no NI assembly. And it seems like the DUP know if they just hold out long enough, they’ll force another election.

And presumably they’ll keep doing this until they get the result they want.

People tell us to “just vote”. Well, the people of Northern Ireland did vote, and the party in power refused to relinquish their interests. Meanwhile, catholic republican communities continue to be discriminated against in all sorts of ways- including by the police. The police, furthermore, are a symbol (and a practical force) of Britain’s colonial occupation of Northern Ireland.

Against this backdrop, what other recourse do young Irish people have but violence?

#Uk politics #irish politics #sinn fein #dup #stormont #ni assembly #ni politics #irish republicanism #direct action

[komododraggggqueen]

“Would you rather have President Boris Johnson?”

We already had Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The monarchy did not, and by definition could not, stop an incompetent leader from taking the reigns of power.

In fact, an elected head of state might have been able to sack Boris Johnson when he refused to resign. The monarch is honour bound not to do things like that precisely because they’re unelected and unaccountable.

Yes, sometimes bad leaders take charge. That is not a pretext to withhold democracy. The United States didn’t tell the electorate they weren’t allowed to pick the head of state any more because they picked Trump in the past. We will pick a bad president at some point. That’s democracy. The monarchy is not an adequate response to that.

It is perfectly possible to have an elected head of state with even less power than the monarch. The President of Ireland has less power than King Charles, but he’s still elected directly, democratically and with majority approval, he is still bound by term limits, and his wealth and prestige extend only to him, not his entire extended family of inbred, born-to-rule, privileged brats.

#anti monarchy #republicanism #uk politics #monarchy #coronation #king charles #charles iii #prince andrew #michael d higgins #boris johnson

[probablyasocialecologist]

In Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth II died at 96, ending a seven-decade reign. Parliament was suspended, soccer matches, fashion shows, and labor strikes were canceled, church bells were muffled, 96-round gun salutes rang out, and drug dealers offered discounts on cocaine and ketamine. In her final public acts, the queen accepted the resignation of former prime minister Boris Johnson, who, in a farewell speech, compared himself to a booster rocket and Cincinnatus, a Roman politician who returned from retirement as a dictator, and appointed as the new prime minister Liz Truss, who was supported by 0.3 percent of the electorate and who in 1994 described hereditary rule as “disgraceful.” Millions across the world mourned the queen, who refused to apologize for the monarchy’s role in slavery and colonialism, shaped legislation to exempt herself from racial and sexual discrimination laws, renewable-energy laws, and police searches, and didn’t pay income or capital gains taxes for over 40 years despite having an estimated net worth of over $500 million. “Our values have remained and must remain constant,” said the new king, Charles III, who does not have to pay inheritance tax. News of Charles’s accession was taken across Britain by heralds on horseback and to the Buckingham Palace bees by the royal beekeeper. “You knock on each hive and say, ‘The mistress is dead, but don’t you go. Your master will be a good master to you,’” he said. A Canadian citizenship ceremony was delayed after officials were confused about whom to swear allegiance to, a woman was arrested for holding up a sign that said FUCK IMPERIALISM, ABOLISH THE MONARCHY, and an 89-year-old woman who worked as an Elizabeth lookalike announced that she would retire. Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen’s corgis.

Harper's Magazine: Weekly Review

#queen elizabeth #royal family #monarchy #UK politics

[didthekingdieyet]

boris johnson resigned but the queen refuses to die…

#die monarch #boris johnson #what is going on #pandemonium #not a countdown #just shitposting #anti monarchy #uk pm boris johnson #former prime minister #kinda flop #uk politics

[myfallencomet]

Okay, bear with me, I’m not British.

So, to my understanding, to sum things up, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of England, refused to resign after there were calls for him to.

So 50+ people that work for him resigned??? Am I getting that right??? All in 24 hours??

Then he resigned and people appear to be very happy about it

Oh also Larry the cat has the peoples vote for the new PM

#uk news #uk politics #england #bye bye boris #boris johnson #larry the cat #prime minister #larry for pm #what the hell is going on #what the hell is happening #i am so confused #someone help #british government #uk government #britain #british news #government #boris resigns

[celestialcatra]

Larry the Cat refuses to enter 10 Downing Street as Boris Johnson Cabinet resignation pile up

#UK politics #the cat knows #Larry the cat #fuck boris #fuck the tories

[tezla7]

The Queen

It's all pretty strange.

I genuinely don't care about the British royal family.  The UK needs to be a republic.  Because I don't care, I can't connect with people getting angry about them either because, they just do not matter to me.  I've ignored them as much as possible my whole life.

I'm also learning from people around the world about crimes of the British Empire- that I suspected in various ways but never had enough knowledge of because- no Empire teaches that to its own subjects.

https://twitter.com/Aldanimarki/status/1567861763219116032?s=20&t=XO8mujD2X7MnXTG-0KoROw

The UK is experiencing pervasive non-stop propaganda, it's unavoidable.  I tried to find out some information about Manchester airport to pick up my relatives yesterday and I had to get through a splash screen about the Queen just to get to the website.  It's insane.

At the same time as I'm learning from other people, hearing their anger and what it all means for them, there's also this weird thing going on with the nation that I'm not a part of.  This death has a big influence on the UK.  My parents have lived their entire lives with the Queen being head of state.  70 years.  She's been head of state so long that it had this kind of feeling of permanence, that it would always be that way.  Like she wasn't going to die.

It's hard to explain what the monarchy is to British people, it will mean very different things to different British people but, it's all very weird and this is another part of it.  When I was a little child in infants school, about 6 years old, I remember being taken by the school, all of us to the main road to wait for an hour to wave little flags while the Queen was driven past at 40mph.  I can still remember the black Rolls Royce, but I barely saw anything else.  I explained the story to my Dad recently and he sat there and said- he remembers doing exactly the same thing 60 years ago when he was a child.  That's the depth we're talking about- millions of very young children brainwashed their entire lives with the same thing, for decade after decade.  What do you call a nation scale cult?  A religion?

https://pediaa.com/difference-between-cult-and-religion/

A friend and I talked months ago about how when the Queen dies, it will be a referendum on the royal family and this country becoming a republic.  Charles isn't popular and nor should he be.  We expected a huge onslaught of propaganda, the last big huge attempt to save the monarchy vomited up from the British establishment- then, when it fades- people seriously asking the question that surely it’s time to look at getting rid of it.  Except, the Queen died one day after electing a dangerously stupid new Prime Minister with the whole country on the edge of widespread disaster.

The UK government is being suspended for another 2 weeks, but it’s already been in suspension for months while the country slides into an abyss.  All around Europe countries had their emergency sessions and already made emergency budgets in preparation for a winter crisis (of their own making).  Not in the UK.  Boris Johnson resigned but refused to leave office shutting everything down while he went on several holidays.  Everyone else has been holding their breath wondering how they’re going to survive into the next financial year.

The new leader Truss did her first speech saying she would cut taxes.  THE NEXT DAY she announced a plan to spend £150 billion on energy bills and told everyone she would explain the details tomorrow.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/08/gccl-s08.html

The day after they've said they're going to implement the plans but not explain them, while they disappear for two weeks, meaning there may never be any scrutiny.  They're going to tax every citizen in the country the £150 billion like another mortgage- and hand all the money to the private energy companies.  At the same time as Truss did her first speech it was quietly announced the largest donation to the Truss campaign was from BP.  Truss used to work for Shell.

The people in Truss's cabinet are hardcore right-wing neoliberal ideologues who literally wrote a book on how to completely sellout the country.  The reason I was on the Manchester Airport website in the first place is that it’s a private airport, the government sold it.  You have to pay £5 for 5 minutes to drop anyone off, it’s £6 for 30 minutes to pick anyone up.  The airport is understaffed to increase profits, uses robots at passport control that often don’t work, which increases delays which makes them more money in both the car parks and offering things like fast track lanes in passport control- pay £5 to get through quicker.  My uncle was delayed an hour in passport control, because I’d planned ahead, I was waiting several miles away with all the other taxi drivers and people on a surrounding housing estate otherwise it would have cost me £20- for the delay, caused by the airport in the first place.

Why was I picking them up from the airport by car?  UK rail strikes- the trains, tracks and services were sold by Margaret Thatcher- idolised by Liz Truss.

Copy and paste this across public life- road tolls, fully privatised healthcare, no employment rights or protections, no housing rights or protections.  All the things we have to look forward to under new leadership.

EU flags at half mast- unelected anti-democratic ideologues recognise their own.

So The Queen, something that has been there my whole life, my parents whole life and is a huge part of British identity- isn't there anymore.  The money needs to change, flags, signage, plus international flags, signage, currency...

Meanwhile it's all being used as a massive distraction to screw everyone over.  Also at the same time the event does mean something to a lot of people in this country.  Most of them are brainwashed of course but lots of them are just normal people who see a person who they thought was a nice woman and they are sad about the death of a complete stranger they felt connected to.  I remember the same kind of hysteria over the death of Princess Diana.  Diana never really did much, at all.  But she was built into a Mother Teresa figure who was portrayed as a saint.  Ironic perhaps, because Mother Teresa wasn’t exactly who she was portrayed as either.

The Queen of England was the figurehead of an extremely evil Empire, but, she did that job very well.  And that's the powerful contradiction that is hard to articulate.  To her victims she's evil incarnate.  To lots of British people she's this weird supreme civil servant who never did any wrong, was always dependable, always discreet, noble, consistent- a paradigm of virtue.  She was there but not there, like a benevolent demigod that’s been alive so long it seemed like she wouldn't die.

And it's just impossible to reckon with all these contradictions simultaneously right now.  Especially for me because I don’t connect to any of it emotionally.

I want the monarchy to end.  But hating people as part of that really means nothing to me.  At the same time this is only my perspective, and it has nothing to do with all the voices I hear from all over the world who have righteous anger.

It's a global event, a truly global deep historical event because the Queen echos back into history directly to the British Empire, nobody else does.  Nothing else like this does.

Lots of people might ask- why should they care?  Well I agree to that sentiment.  What I do worry about is that Liz Truss is genuinely reckless in a very real way- she is arrogant and no has no idea how stupid she is.  Aggressive, with no comprehension of danger- like a true idiot, blundering in making threats at people as if the UK has any real power in the world whatsoever.  It all adds to a hostile global environment already on the brink of war in many places.  

Well, so what?  Why should people care?  Because the UK often obfuscates and enables US NATO aggression.  Boris Johnson was the one who went to Ukraine and stopped peace negotiations.  If he hadn't, we might have avoided the whole crisis that's coming this winter.

The first foreign leader to speak to the newly elected Liz Truss was Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  That doesn’t bode well.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/09/craig-murray-thats-enough-monarchy-for-now-thank-you/

https://jacobin.com/2022/09/queen-elizabeth-ii-glamorize-britain-obituary-royal-monarchy

https://www.mintpressnews.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-her-legacy-21st-century-britain-never-looked-so-medieval/281898/

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/monarchs-belong-in-the-dustbin-of

Norman Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qunmjOpYps

https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/and-what-do-you-do

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/21253709.richard-murphy-one-sentence-told-us-everything-liz-trusss-priorities/

#Queen #the queen #empire #british empire #liz truss #uk #boris johnson #NATO

[llamagoddessofficial]

So how you feeling about the shit going down in ur country rn? Bc as an American it's both hilarious to watch but also your government currently *doesn't have enough people to function* and that's kinda worrying to think about

Overjoyed, honestly. I don't care what happens now, I'm just glad that idiot is out. I do appreciate all the people who reached out to congratulate me on his resignation!

For those of you who don't know about the (ex!!!) prime minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, here's a list of his best moments;

Went to parties with his buds during lockdown (while going to see your dying relatives in hospital was banned) and was fined for it, making him the first PM in UK history to break the law while in office

Lied about the parties, said they never happened

Silently changed the ministerial code that said he had to resign after breaking the law, so he wouldn't have to go

Quoted a far-right conspiracy theory about the opposition leader having connections to a famous UK paedophile when he was questioned about his partying

Overturned rules on what can get a parliament member sacked so he could save his buddy who was in trouble for illegally lobbying for a big food company

Originally wouldn't let Ukrainian refugees into the country if they didn't have a UK relative

Tried to (and is still trying to) send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Promoted a sex offender to a high office position despite knowing the guy had ongoing cases against him, guy proceeded to offend again several times, told everyone he didn't know about the inital offences... turned out he did

Made numerous racist comments I won't repeat here

That's just the worst of it, I didn't even get into him using taxpayer money to refurbish his apartment or refusing to tax oil companies. Hopefully you all can understand why I'm so chuffed he's finally gone.

[bitterlybisexualbard]

Tory MPs of the last 7 years

Name: David Cameron

Won the general election because: His opponant ate a sandwich kinda funny

Best known for: Fucking a dead pig

Left office because: He only called for a Brexit referendum because he was weirdly confident Remain would win, and had absolutely no plan on what to do if Leave won. Saw the shitstorm on the horizon and did not want to preside over it. Resigned in disgrace.

Name: Teresa May

Won the (snap) general election because: Labour wasn’t racist enough about Brexit/she simply refused to leave when she lost her majority and instead ghosted the Queen until she’d found a few non-Tory MPs willing to back her in return for bribes. Was PM BEFORE the snap election based on Tory party leadership votes.

Best known for: Almost restarting the Troubles in Ireland and doing the world’s most awkward dance to ABBA.

Left office because: The EU wouldn’t accept any of her Brexit deals, and parliament wouldn’t sign off on her agreeing to the terms the EU set. Resigned in disgrace.

Name: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson 

Won the (snap) general election because: Labour wasn’t racist enough about Brexit/WTF knows, the British public are apparently easy for Eaton boys who can’t get a sentence out without two racist remarks and ten weird sounds that aren’t actually words. Was PM BEFORE the snap election based on Tory party leadership votes.

Best known for: Hoh boy. Where to start? Breaking laws he literally introduced to the public during lockdown and then saying he broke them because he “didn’t understand them” is probably the standout. Also looking like a teddy bear possessed by horny racist on purpose.

Left office because: See above. Also nepotism. Resigned in disgrace after clinging on as long as he possibly could.

Name: Liz Truss

Won the general election because: Not applicable. There was no election. She won the Tory party leadership vote because her main opponent was a brown Hindu.

Best known for: The Queen dying. Somehow being even more incompetent than Boris Johnson.

Left office because: Her own party of corrupt, hard-right capitalists thought her plans to lift caps on banker bonuses and refusal to tax energy companies or place long-term price caps in the middle of a cost of living crisis were extremely bad. Also no one actually liked her in the first place. Resigned in disgrace.

#UK politics #boris johnson #liz truss #next up: #either de Pfeffel Johnson again somehow (genuine possibility) #or Jeremy Hunt: the man best known for fucking over the NHS turning up to parliament off his face on drugs and then disappearing for months #supposedly the brown Hindu Rishi Sunak is also a possibility but again he is brown and Hindu and Tory party members are extremely racist

[evita-shelby]

Five times we see Eva and Tommy during the pandemic

For @cillmequick/ @alex-in-the-wildeness 's celebration.

I hope i got the theme right

Btw: Tommy and Eva are in their 30s, Tommy is already an Mp, Mosley is his right wing nemesis and the names of their constituencies are the current names they have now.

Also #2 is smut(oral fem receiving) and the last one includes some description of Eva in labor

Not friendly towards right wing people or fans of the royal family

Gif by @valyriansorrows

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“Who keeps texting you this late?” He asks after the sound of stifled laughter and Eva’s texting woke him up again.

“Izzy, he’s stuck in quarantine with his really weird hook-up. Apparently, Flavio the gigolo had covid and didn’t tell him.” She answered. “Its noon over there, I’ll just send him one last text and I’ll let you sleep, babe.”

And just as Eva put her phone back on the nightstand, Tommy’s phone buzzed with a text message.

“Finn again?” Eva asked as he scowled at his iPhone.

“No, Arthur. Linda made him take one of those at home covid tests and he can’t tell if it’s positive or negative.” Tommy shows her the picture with a positive covid test.

“Fuck. Do you want to do your test right now or tomorrow morning?” Eva groans as she gets up to find their stash of at home tests in the medicine cabinet.

2

“If I have to wear a mask while giving birth, he can wear one during work.” Esme vents to her as Eva tries her best to keep herself quiet.

Working from home was amazing. Usually, she and Tommy were done way earlier or he clocked out early to bother her while she was going over things with Esme who’s going on maternity leave for the next three months.

Too bad this meeting couldn’t be rescheduled.

Too bad that Tommy is bored and horny enough to get under her desk and eat her out like a man starved.

Her husband and business partner was insatiable, but there are moments when she did want to complain about it.

Like now that she’s biting her lip while one hand keeps Tommy’s head between her legs and the other hovers over the mute icon on her Zoom call.

If only he wasn’t so good with his tongue. So good she’s forgotten half the shit Esme’s told her, so good she can’t think of anything else.

“Can I call you back?” Eva interrupts her sister-in-law just as her grip on the fountain pen tightens and he gets her to the good part.

“Really, Tommy, I thought you said sex during work hours was against company policy.” Esme teased her as Eva frantically searched for the end meeting button.

3

Fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes while people gawk at the representative of Birmingham Hall Green and his newly wedded wife after getting the second dose of the vaccine.

This had boosted vaccine rates and gave them an excuse to stoke the fires of Tommy’s little rivalry with the Tory MP from Warley.

Oswald Mosley wasn’t even from there; he was only representing Warley because he couldn’t even get Harrow West with his wife’s connections. But that hadn’t stopped the conservatives from voting him in, nor did it stop him from declaring Tommy his nemesis.

Wasn’t Tommy’s fault he was just better at everything, or that the media dubbed her husband sexiest mp since he was elected two years ago.

“I bet Mosley is bitching about getting the vaccine.” She says quietly as they wait for the giant cartoon clock projected on a gymnasium wall to ring.

“Oh, he is. Says it’s against his will and that he wants his people to pray for him as he is forced to go against his beliefs.” Tommy rolled his eyes and showed her the tweet he was reading on his phone.

“Do you still want me to tag you on the selfie I just posted?” She asked him.

4

“How much longer?” Tommy asked as they watched BBC One go over the mass resignations happening because Boris Johnson refused to step down.

Thomas Shelby MP OBE had made the popcorn and taken out a few beers to watch the shitshow unfold on national television.

“Maybe six hours, cards said July 7th. Is that Mosley’s name on the list?” Eva asked as they read the names listed as the Tory politician’s resignations came flying in.

“Yep, keeps asking me to do the same. Had to block him just to make him shut up.” He is giddy, like Katie and Finn are whenever they get Tommy to go against John on Mario Kart.

Eva wonders if she should tell him she’s seen the Queen’s death on the cards.

5

“That’s fucking impossible, I have an IUD.” Eva reminds Polly who swears Eva is pregnant.

“Congratulations, kid, you’re the one percent who has their implant fail. Baby boy, September 11, 2022.” Polly Gray-Gold said with a smile.

“Oh great, my baby is going to share his birthday with the Queen’s death date.” Eva pouted.

The Shelbys were antimonarchists, Tommy’s grandparents were Irish Travellers who settled in Birmingham, his father married an Irish Traveller with a Romani mother and both instilled good values and a normal amount of hatred for the monarchy.

Tommy couldn’t wait to open the aged whiskey his grandparents wanted them to open when Elizabeth II finally kicked the bucket.

“Gives us a good excuse to celebrate it then.” Polly reminded her.

“There’s no way I’m letting our son share a name with the king.” He says as he drives her to the hospital.

“Gabriel Henry it is.” Eva breathed through the contractions. “Can you drive faster?”

“I’m doing all I can, love, we’re almost there.” He tries to use his free hand to hold hers and she smacks it away.

“Fuucckk.” She groans as she feels her water break. Its not like the movies, feels like she just pissed herself on the spanking new red Cayenne. “I think he’s coming.”

On September 8, at 3:10 pm, Gabriel Henry is born just as the Queen of England breathes her last.

“We’re almost there, Evie, see the light’s even green.” He is grinning, she is in agony and he’s grinning like the cat that ate the canary.

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To all the people who say they want Queen Elizabeth II to die right now, that wouldn't be an improvement:

Boris would definitely use the whole State Funeral process to put his ego front and centre in a stomach churning display.

The fuss would be far too helpful as distractions from skeletons in anyone's closet and would distract the Civil Service from the actual business of government.

Boris has only resigned as Party Leader. The Party Leader of the ruling party is Prime Minister but the whole thing operates on an honour system. However British Law says that, if Boris refuses to go and Parliament has a vote of No Confidence, the Queen can actually chuck him out...an appealing thought if not for the negative consequences of that level of chaos.

Anyway! Queen dying right now? Not a good thing.

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