Good god, what a fucking mess we're in

[LeftishBrit]

[BigmanPigman]

1. Good riddance!

[dewsgirl]

2. The way I see it, at least your conservative party

may have many of the same awful beliefs, but know where to draw the line.
I don't see your Tory party attempting to take over the UK, because the labour side was chosen by the people and the Tories think they deserve the power.

[LeftishBrit]

3. True

The Trumpsters are worse.

i don't even think that most of our Tories have the same awful beliefs, though some do (Jacob Rees Mogg, Priti Patel). The trouble with Boris is really that he has no beliefs at all, except the overriding one that Boris J. should be in 10 Downing Street.

[stopdiggin]

7. "really has no beliefs at all"

and that in a nutshell ...
I'll commend the Conservs for (finally) having a belly full - on the other hand, without the repeated airing of dirty laundry - it seems like they were pretty okay with a feckless miscreant ....

[wnylib]

10. Oh, they've had that sort of thing often enough

in the past, just not carried out by factions having present day labels. Bloodier, too - beheadings, civil wars.

[T_i_B]

15. To be honest...

...they should have got rid of him a lot sooner.

There's also the matter of who will replace Johnson, and the serious lack of talent in British politics. Which is most evident when looking at the Conservative benches in the commons.

[Skittles]

4. I cannot understand

how countries as great as America and England ended up with clowns like Donald Fucking Trump and Boris

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. Until we show some strength against corruption

we can't be great.

[DFW]

9. How about this?

English-speaking countries like the UK and the USA where Rupert Murdoch’s media has a large presence and influence tend to have a disproportionate number of lousy politicians and substandard heads of government.

[wnylib]

11. Aye, it's the Aussies' fault.

Canada and New Zealand remain more sensible.

[DFW]

12. I'll bet plenty of Aussies were glad to be rid of that family n/t

[wnylib]

13. I don't blame them. Pity we got stuck with him.

[DFW]

14. We were low hanging fruit

They cam. They saw. They plucked.

[infullview]

6. That was one very short resignation speach.

Just watched Boris live stream on the Guardian. Short and sweet, no frills, to paraphrase "I did it my way, but the I have to leave now because of the heard mentality, I.E. the will of the people, feel I'm not good enough"

[Cosmocat]

8. It mirrors the US in a lot of ways

If people had the first bit of common sense the take away is the way in which we relentlessly indulge white priviledge, in more ways than you can count.

I saw where the US was headed as a very young man, still in college, over four decades ago. Have had heart burn since then just completely at a loss how a country at large will allow right wing idiots both drive the discussion and policy of our country AND play the GD victim every step of the way.