Johnson to Challenge the Queen to Fire Him, Sunday Times Reports

[steve2470]

(yes I know this is two days old but didn't see it here in this forum)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/johnson-to-challenge-the-queen-to-fire-him-sunday-times-reports

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is prepared to challenge Queen Elizabeth II to dismiss him rather than resign as he attempts to push through Brexit by the Oct. 31 deadline, the Sunday Times reported, citing senior aides.

Johnson would not step aside if his Brexit proposals were rejected by the European Union, and even if members of the U.K. Parliament declare no confidence in his government and agree to a caretaker prime minister to replace him, according to the report.

Failure to reach a deal would set the U.K. on a course for constitutional showdown with few precedents: Johnson has promised to pull the country out of the EU on Oct. 31 whether the talks succeed, while Parliament has already legislated to prevent him from taking U.K. out of the European bloc without a withdrawal agreement.

“Unless the police turn up at the doors of 10 Downing Street with a warrant for the prime minister’s arrest, he won’t be leaving,” one senior Conservative said in the report.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. I say just do it, Your Majesty!

You know you want to.

Cheers,
🍸

[Denzil_DC]

2. Events may have overtaken this ploy, again, which is possibly why none of us posted it.

The latest scuttlebutt is that the government will send the extension letter early, having given a clear undertaking in the Scottish Court of Session that it will comply with the Benn Act, perhaps as early as mid-month, preparing the way to find some means of having an election called.

Any time you see a report based on "No. 10", "senior aides", or whatever, the report's based not just on what Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings has told a "reporter" (more like a stenographer), but what Cummings actively wants the media to report.

Cummings has a record of talking tough, with nothing to back it up.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. If the rank and file proceed with and win a vote of "no confidence"

Boris will have NO option, but to resign. Failure to do so will make him look like the stupidest man in UK history.