Michael Gove QUITS parliament: Cabinet minister heaps pressure on Rishi Sunak by becoming the most high-profile MP to join record-breaking Tory election exodus days after backing PM’s decision to call vote on July 4
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13457019/Michael-Gove-QUITS-parliament-election.html
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I would say don’t let the door hit you on the way out but his face looks like he got hit on the way in.
Ok I’m not a conspiracy guy by any stretch, but all this feels a bit weird, right? The haste to call this election, the terrible optics over the last few days, and now this exodus…Do they actually want to lose? What did Rishi hear that made him call the election this hastily? Did he just know he was royally fucked or could it be something else?
Good riddance! The more the cretins continue jumping from the sinking ship, the more my serotonin levels spike. Thanks for fking up the country but please now get out of the way and let someone else at least try to reverse some of the damage you caused for your own selfish gains.
And I was so looking forward to watching him lose his seat on election night
Something something rats, something something sinking ship
He wanted to be Prime Minister so bad but even he can see that he’ll be a very old man before the Tories are electable again
“You can’t fire me, I quit!”
As if this clown was getting reelected anyway.
He’s got more important shit to do these days and lots of it to be getting on with. It’s mostly cocaine but anyway….
No doubt to pursue a trade as a Tony Montana impersonator… Complete with real Columbian marching powder
Surrey Heath is still 4/9 Tory; 5/2 LDs. Sounds like a possible value bet territory here?
It’s one of the few Tory who still has some credibility, yes the bar is that low. I traditionally his seat is safe but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Lib Dem’s take it
The comments about “they know something!” aside, my “conspiracy” theory is that the likes of Gove and co, who’ve long been against Boris, are planning some kind of new opposition party after the Tories are decimated, or are simply going to take over the party again once Sunak quits, which he will ~~if~~ when they lose.
Boris, Gove, Patel, The Haunted Pencil, Farage (notice how he’s not standing too….) are all gagging to “save the Tories” after they get destroyed. And this has been in motion for a while – [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64263243](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64263243)
You could get *really* conspiratorial and suggest the election of Truss was an inside job to fuck them over on purpose to provide that nice vacuum to jump into.
Trump wins the US election, the above shower of shite align with him to provide a right wing opposition to Labour, use the utter mess 14 years of Tory rule left the country in to blame on Labour…..five years rolls around quicker than you might think…
EDIT – and before anyone says “but they won’t be MPs!” neither was Farage, ever, and look at what he did.
As an aside from this but on a similar point, what happens if Mogg loses his seat? Does he just move into the Lords? And if so, is that a ‘plus one’ in the Lords versus now or does he already have a position there? I assume he can’t do both at once. I’d rather he did neither, but fuck you Alexander de Pfeffel.
We wish all the best to the Right Honorable Member for Innsmouth
They are all trying to avoid their Michael Portillo moment so they have some credibility for a few years down the line when a new Tory leader tries to get them back in.
The Tory train wreck is running at full speed, the boiler is fully stoked , the drivers cab is empty.
Enjoy the crash.
The Merry Bugler of Westminster, going full time on the sniff?
Old expert hater is going? Yeh, good riddance to that treacherous slimeball.
I despise Gove’s politics & he’s a slimy character, I wouldn’t trust as far as I could throw him, but at least he understands politics. A rare commodity in the cabinet & party. The Tory cupboard is looking emptier by the day & this is increasingly feeling like the death throes of the party.
So has Matt Hancock now too! Hahahaha, get out of our government you treasonous fucks.
That won’t get him out of the investigations later..
The ship is sinking. Rats abandoning the ship fast.
You can’t give your mates huge bungs in opposition
Like rats leaving a sinking ship.
To paraphrase the man himself, I think we’ve all had enough of Michael Gove
Why would the resignation of such a slimy turn-coat “heap pressure” on the HMS Tory-tanic … 🤔
One of the most genuinely loathsome figures in British public life this millennium, and one whose grubby fingerprints are over all the greatest crimes, dodgiest deals and most catastrophic blunders of the past fourteen years.
I’d gloat, but he’ll undoubtedly be slithering off to some cushy think tank sinecure, with periodic excrescences in the *Telegraph’s* opinion pages.
Oh fuck yes I am off down to my local KFC to wank furiously screaming the national anthem.
how many of those leaving have done private polling that didn’t look good.
I’m not a big one for calling traitor but a lot of these have sailed this country down the river and now are running away. Bastard
Brexit didn’t save the Tory party. The chickens are coming to roost.
Someone got an offer from a company we’ve never heard of to make £500k a year doing fuck all.
I take it his boyfriend – Joshua Grimstone – will be out of a job, too.
Was reading 80 Conservative MPs aren’t standing for re election, seems quite high on paper? It feels so long since the last election and ones prior that I forgotten how common this happens in each election cycle. Would love to get more info the ages of the MP standing out to get a sense whether it’s just early retirement from politics or they just dipping out.
They wanted to oust Rishi before an election, he threatens them and says if you oust me I’ll call an election.
This is what’s happened imo.
I really wish the leasehold reforms had gone through. We have a watered down policy that probably won’t change for years now.
I mean… this is kind of a funny side effect of Rishi deciding to surprise everyone with the date. He could’ve have prepped his colleagues and headed into a campaign with a team but instead now we’ve got just a series of very high profile tories resigning in the first week of a 6 week campaign. It looks *terrible* for the campaign. It really is impressive how bad the optics have been so far.