A cryptic quote that alludes to a possible return, in the farewell speech; the confusion of the party; a petition from ten thousand conservative voters. So Boris Johnson seems not to despair in a return to Downing Street
Hasta la vista, baby !: So Boris Johnson took leave of Parliament last week, with a cryptic quote from Terminator, the film saga with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Johnson a fine speaker and he does not throw the words at random: and Terminator one who always comes back (his other highlight in fact I’ll be back!). So what will Boris have in mind? Perhaps the same thing that goes through the minds of the beyond ten thousand conservative voters who have already signed up a petition to ask Johnson to be reinstated in the leadership race, which has been taking place in recent weeks and will end in September with the vote of all party members. The collection of signatures was launched by Lord Cruddas, a major backer of the Tories, according to whom Johnson’s ouster as prime minister by a deeply anti-democratic minority of parliamentarians challenges the will of the country and Conservative party members who elected him, is tantamount to a coup d’état. This past weekend, Conservative MPs have been able to take the pulse of the electorate in person and have seen themselves flooded with protests from their supporters over the ouster of the premier: and among the grassroots militants there are also those who threaten to cancel the ballot papers for the new leader writing on it Boris. The members tell us: what have you done ?, said Lord Cruddas.
Yesterday the Mail on Sundaythe Tory Voter’s Bible, published a conservative poll that sees Johnson outbid both candidates for his succession, namely
Rishi Sunak is Liz Truss
: Boris is seen as a better option both as prime minister and as a leader capable of defeating Labor. I think we fucked upsummarized a deputy quoted by Sunday Times. In his final speech, Johnson proclaimed mission largely accomplished… for now: another sign that he considers his work not yet finished.
And with a further cinematic quote, he put himself at the controls of a Raf fighter, being photographed posing by Top Gun: a role that Tom Cruise reprized for the sequel Maverick. But perhaps the example that Boris has most in mind is that of Winston Churchill, his political idol of which he also wrote a biography: the great statesman was brutally discharged by the voters in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, only to take the revenge six years later, in 1951, and triumphantly return to Downing Street. Boris’s calculation, they say, that the next conservative prime minister, whether Sunak or Truss, will face a electoral defeat at the hands of Labor: and then the conservatives will be forced to go on their knees to him to ask him to lead them to the rescue.
Another hypothesis, more political fiction – but not too much – is that an upcoming Labor-Liberal Democrat coalition government would introduce the proportional electoral system, which would pave the way for Johnson to form his own party and lead him into Parliament, undermining the current political system (a scenario that is currently impossible due to the majority system). As it is, the last chapter of Johnsoneide is far from being written.
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