Boris is in a buoyant mood! :)

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As the news of Gove's firing emerged, a spokesman for Johnson insisted to Sky News that the Prime Minister was in a buoyant mood.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/06/uk/bo...intl/index.html

This old saying comes to mind:

“You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and you can fool all of the people some of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”


Whoever said so, he was probably right.

Now Brandon Lewis has resigned:

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"A decent and responsible Government relies on honesty, integrity and mutual respect - it is a matter of profound personal regret that I must leave Government as I no longer believe those values are being upheld.

I have submitted my letter of resignation to the Prime Minister."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-62071165

Some info about it:

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Boris Johnson will resign as Tories insist ‘reckless’ prime minister must go now – live updates

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More:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...k-politics-live

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Boris Johnson: Resignations exceed 50 but PM stays in post

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62069494

50!
That must be some new record!

What happens now:

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Once a Conservative leader has stood down, an election for a new party leader is triggered. Under the current rules, candidates need the support of eight Conservative MPs to stand.

Once all the candidates have declared - if there are more than two candidates - Tory MPs will hold a series of votes until only two remain.

in the first round, candidates must get 5% of the votes to stay in the running (currently 18 MPs)
in the second round, they must get 10% (currently 36 MPs)
in the following rounds, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated


When two MPs are left, all Conservative Party members around the country - so not just MPs - will vote for the winner.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62068930

And now?
Boris Johnson has promised to resign - but he may now stay in power until October 2022.
And maybe he will take a leaf out of Trump's book and tries to sabotage the handing over of his office.

“the first recorded case of sinking ships fleeing the rat”

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Keir Starmer says government resignations are ‘first case of the sinking ship fleeing the rat’
Keir Starmer labelled Tory cabinet resignations “the first recorded case of sinking ships fleeing the rat” as he called for Boris Johnson to step down at PMQs.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/pm...n-b2116987.html

Well said, Keir Starmer!

As I said elsewhere:

Boris Johnson's full name is: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
de Pfeffel he is called because of his Swabian-German ancestry.

Now I am a German from the Grand Duchy of Baden.
And from childhood we learn here: Beware of the Swabians from the neighbouring Kingdom of Württemberg!
So true!

I have a special interest in Tom Tugendhat because of his Yiddish-German name.
For me it is somehow strange to see a very German word as part of a British family name.
The German pronunciation would be something like: "too-guend-hut".
I have never heard how he pronounces his own name when he speaks English, or how other British people pronounce his name.

Here is more about the man whose name says that he has "Tugend" - id est virtue.

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Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, announced his candidacy in The Daily Telegraph on 7 July, highlighting his previous experience in the British Army. He said he would reverse the recent increase in National Insurance rates and cut fuel duty.[116] Several Scottish Conservative MPs supported him, and he wrote in his leadership announcement that he would "stand up for the Union and Scotland's role within it".[117] Before entering politics, Tugendhat had served as an intelligence officer in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan conflict.[118] He became the MP for Tonbridge and Malling in 2015 and supported the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 membership referendum. He was critical of Johnson, particularly over the fall of Kabul, and did not serve as a minister in his government.[118] He said that lack of ministerial experience wasn't a problem as the role of prime minister was "not a management job, it's about having a vision".[119] The Independent described him as "something of a hawk".[120] He was seen as competing with a potential candidacy from the former foreign secretary Hunt for the support of the moderate One Nation Conservatives faction.[121] Tugendhat pledged to maintain the government's policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.[119] He said he admired Reagan as his "political hero".[119]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Conse...ip_election_(UK)

Now:

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Suella Braverman out of Tory leadership race as Rishi Sunak leads with 101 votes - as it happened

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...politics-latest

Mordaunt Name Meaning

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Mordaunt Family History
Mordaunt Name Meaning
English And Irish (Of Norman Origin): Nickname From Old French Mordant ‘Biting Sarcastic’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

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https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?sur...versity%20Press