Discussion: British PM Recruits New Brexit Secretary After Shocking Late-Night Resignation

Boris Johnson just resigned.

Moscow seems to have found a cheap, effective and deniable way to destroy Western democracies through perverting their election systems. When Brexit blew up in Cameron’s face, he was gone in hours. It was funny enough the morning after, when people who had just voted were googling “What is the EU?” Today we see the government asking, “What is it we are supposed to be doing exactly?” Cyberfog, a transient dementia, can now apparently be targeted rather effectively at the information flows of any group.

Here was David Davis’ own comment on the chaos within the cabinet:
In his resignation letter, Mr Davis told Mrs May that

“the current trend of policy and tactics” was making it “look less and less likely” that the UK would leave the customs union and single market."

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Idiots.
Britain has no bargaining power here.
Maybe they can strike a good deal with Putin, but I doubt it. I expect they will have to grovel for crumbs just like Trump.
Edited to add: The only power they might have is to threaten to stay as I think the EU is now more that ready to be rid of this 100 years ago has-been country.

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As screwed as we are with the Mango Menace, Britain is in many ways even more worse off with this ongoing trainwreck happening to it. Putin managed to turn the ignorance of the at-large British populace into an absolutely disastrous policy that most Britons don’t realize will marginalize them, not enable them to negotiate any significant deals on their own. I have to hand it to Putin - he’s an evil bastard but he has played the western democracies like a well-tuned fiddle, destabilizing us all through the ignorance of the few rubes who managed to get worked up enough to steal what is not rightfully theirs from the rest of us. NATO will be next if he gets his way.

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Since Johnson is a big fan of Trump’s - prepare for tweetstorm in 3… 2… 1…

Or it could be worse! - ‘the Donald’ will be in England this week - any bets Johnson’s resignation will inspire a very public bout of foot-in-mouth disease?

Lord Neville Spankbottom and the Honorable Terrance Twistleton accused pro-Brexit legislator Jacob Rees-Mogg as having a ridiculous made-up name to which he screamed “Make England great again!” before suffering a paper cut that required hospitalization to stop the extended bleeding.

The only thing missing from this clown show is Trump.