Boris Johnson resigns as party leader following mass resignations of his own officials

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Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the conservative party in the United Kingdom, saying “no one is indispensable” following mass resignations by senior and junior officials in his party, according to a Guardian report.

Johnson has said that he was also told by his party that he had lost their support following a myriad of scandals that has been plaguing his administration.

He plans to stay on as Prime Minister until a suitable replacement can be found. Johnson’s resignation seems to have finally ended the unusual standoff within the Conservative Party with several members having called for his resignation for months.

Johnson last month (June 6th), barely won a no confidence vote in the UK parliament that saw 41.2% of the conservative members of parliament voting against its then leader.

 

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43 Comments

  1. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    July 11, 2022

    Steve, I wish you read the following!

    As for Man Dog and ds, I know they are practically blind, and that is why I am trying to get this at the very top. Now be reminded I said the Dominica born crook Scotland was convicted in England for employing an illegal immigrant as a domestic servant in her house.

    So, Roosevelt boy, and puppet ds, say I lie, Man Dog too!

    Well, the following as quoted was submitted by “Malatete” so, to the blind ones if I the Wesley kid lie, how do you two junior sons of the corrupted crook Roosevelt Skerrit account for what Malatete posted?

    Lairs, like father like son’s.

    “Malatete
    July 9, 2022
    – 22 Sept.2009, Reuters. Attorney General fined for hiring illegal worker.

    – 22Sept. 2009, Financial Times, fine for Baroness Scotland.

    – 23 Sept. 2009, Mirror, Baroness Scotland refuses to resign after £5k fine for hiring an illegal worker.”
    Be reminded suckers, “Mirror, and the Financial Times name ” Baroness Scotland. ”

    She is a…

  2. July 9, 2022

    Worry not about Boris Johnson and England. This is democracy at its best. I hope Dominicans will find the guts one of those good days to copy on what Britain and Sri Lanka did.

  3. Pat
    July 8, 2022

    He could have stayed in there and claim like Trump ‘if I lose I win, and if they win Rudy had my back’ and go on to overthrow the government, then depend on his white privilege to survive. Lol 😆

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  4. Lin clown
    July 8, 2022

    More stupidity,who have ever heard about a king and circus,and clown and palace?We have always known of king and palace and clown and circus.And how does a clown move into a palace?

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    • Robby
      July 9, 2022

      YOU vote for and support the corrupt clown. That’s how, Jacka!

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  5. Lin clown
    July 8, 2022

    Overeducated Beta,how does one become Prime Minister of Dominica?

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    • Beta
      July 9, 2022

      Surely you do not expect an answer from me. Illiterate people like yourself should not be commenting on this platform. However, try this on for size: RIGGED ELECTIONS!

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  6. Dominican Bwoi
    July 7, 2022

    Skerrit next please :lol:

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  7. FBI Agent
    July 7, 2022

    Interestingly Boris Johnson was not voted out by the citizens of Uk neither was he pressured by the opposition. It was his own ministers that decided to put country first and resigned one after the other. Why did his ministers quit on him? First they were not paid to run and they they showed they were men and women of integrity who put country first and ministers do not have to think of the possibility of spending time in jail.
    In Dominica we see the opposite. Skerrit cannot resign no matter the situation because he has to think of what will surely follow him the day he is not able to hide behind office secondly, he has a bunch of corrupt, greedy and bought out ministers and most of them know their future will not not be one where they can go smoke their pipe but rather they know they too will follow Skerrit in a dark room

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    • Eagle-Eyed
      July 8, 2022

      @FBI, if you had grasp of British politics you would have realised that the props of Boris Johnson who supported him during the vote of no confidence motion, did not turn on him this time around because of integrity, but because they feared losing their seats at the next election. Boris Johnson was popular with the voters because a majority of UK voters wanted to exit the EU but once this novelty had faded, so did Boris’s popularity because he proved to be a lying, deceitful, dishonest, untrustworthy, conniving, erratic and clueless leader and the longer they kept him in power the more their chances of winning the next election faded. So it was more about self preservation rather than backbone and integrity.

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  8. Lin clown
    July 7, 2022

    Beta,are you a JACKA? Skerrit has the full support of his ministers,Boris Johnson does not.How are you going to get rid of Skerrit?

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    • Beta
      July 8, 2022

      Where are Skerrits ministers, JACKA????? They only exist on paper but have no saying in anything. They receive a monthly salary courtesy of the state coffers and additional ‘bonuses’ from ‘somewhere’ for nodding and braying like those horse like creatures with long ears. YOU are the biggest JACKA for still trying to defend the indefensible.

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  9. L C Matthew
    July 7, 2022

    That is what happens when the institutions are bigger than the men and women who gain thier power because of these institutions. When there is no integrity and honor within the affairs of the institutions honest noble men must come to that decision and quit. It is important to self regulate. The British system has lasted this long as a result. The cabinet of Dominica should pay attention. Today 64k a month in rent is one of the on going scandals yet the whole cabinet like a bunch of misfits pulled on a string.

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  10. Lin clown
    July 7, 2022

    This guy is no different than Lennox Linton.Michael Timothy,Boris Johnson said UWP said Baroness Scotland should not be reappointed.Both UWP and Boris Johnson were kicked out of office

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      July 8, 2022

      Lin Clown, lies are a condemnation of men; each lie you told in the past, and in that quote to which I am responding is condemning you to damnation into the pit of hell!

      “Boris Johnson said Baroness Scotland should not be reappointed:” (Lin Clown). Tell that to the idiot Toto; I would also like to tell the idiot Toto that every idiot have the right to hang themselves.

      I think any name that fool wish to call me the person should hang it around their neck! So, let me get back to you clown; in Dominica, you and Roosevelt supporters like thievery, corruption and lies!
      We do not know Johnson stole anything, but I am here to inform you that the main reason Boris Johnson is rejected by the British is because of one lie too many.
      He is a notorious liar, only Roosevelt is worst than him.

      Note: “After the latest in a series of scandals prompted a rebellion by members of his Conservative Party, Mr. Johnson said he would step down. ( The New Times).

      The crap you wrote are all…

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        July 8, 2022

        If you would stop lying for a bit and do some research you would find where Boris himself admitted to lying, when he made the claim that an offence committed by someone he appointed, he did not know about; when in fact he knew.

        It is something as simple as that which cost Boris Johnson his leadership of the party, and ultimately his job!
        Lying is a very dangerous thing; stealing is a felony, punishable by serving jail term. There are thieves; especially one lying and stealing in Dominica, yet you the red devils make a god out of him!
        Where are your morals?

        Keep in mind serving just three years, of his five year tenure as prime minister, the disgraced said no one is indispensable, he recognized his services are not wanted by the people, and he must leave.

        In Dominica Roosevelt flaunts his corruption in your faces, while he gets richer, the country gets poorer, yet the idiots sings “we love our prime minister!

        Only in Dominica such rogues and corrupted people are…

  11. Eagle-Eyed
    July 7, 2022

    Well who’s having the last laugh now eh BoJo? Baronness Scotland got her job without your backing, now you’re out on your ear. You pompous, arrogant, dishonest, clueless buffoon. Ha! Ha! Ha! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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    • Bwa-Banday
      July 7, 2022

      Baroness Scotland aka Sousay-sel is also ALLEGED to be a darn teeth(?) just like is alleged for Boris and Skewoe. Men-bet-mem-pwell! Apparently she is just more cunning than the latter two good for nothings. The though of this lady as head of the Commonwealth makes me wanna puke…vomit!

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      • July 7, 2022

        The though of this lady as head of Commonwealth. What kind of Queen’s English is that? I guess they had no choice but to reelect Baroness Scotland to a second term. When we have people like you who cannot write a constructive sentence then the Monarchy in England just like the London bridge and now the PM of England, they all have to come falling down.

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      July 7, 2022

      Do, not forget that woman Scotland is a convict; she is convicted in England for employing an illegal migrant.

      The Job she has now does not relate to England; however has everything to do with corrupted nations of the world, most precise, Dominica and places like Antigua, where her parents are from; and nasty Dominica where she was born.

      And that is why the thieves vagabonds, and scamps of the Caribbean supported her!

      All of her support came from the bare-face-liars and corrupted crooks such as Roosevelt Chichi Royer Skerrit, and the crook Gaston Brown, another crook who went from rages to riches days after he became Antigua’s prime minister.

      The people of England refuse to indulged in the support of corruption, and crooked behavior.

      Boris Johnson has not done 1/8 of the things corrupted Roosevelt Skerrit has done, yet he is kicked out into oblivion where his name will be written on the tarnished pages in the political book of history!

      As he said he’s not…

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      • July 7, 2022

        “Do, not forget that woman Scotland is a convict; she is convicted in England for employing an illegal migrant.”

        You have it backwards. The one convicted was the housekeeper for defrauding Patricia Scotland into hiring her:

        https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/apr/09/baroness-scotland-housekeeper-convicted-fraud

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        • Toto
          July 8, 2022

          Steve, correction Patricia Scotland was fined in the British Court for not checking her worker’ credentials. Sounds like our stringent vetting of citizenship applicants, doesn’t it.

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        • Man bite dogs
          July 8, 2022

          Thanks Steve Forster, for putting the record straight Linton, spat out some nasty vomit on the pavement and his
          Followers would take it and run away with it without looking in to it properly.

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        • July 8, 2022

          Francisco always has it backwards. That is why he thinks he is still in Wesley when in fact he is in LA.

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          July 8, 2022

          Steve, that Dominica born woman, was a member of the Labor Party in England, when she employed this illegal immigrant in her home as a domestic servant.
          The matter went to court and the corrupted crook Roosevelt friend was found guilty in a court in England where she where she was sanctioned, and had to pay a fine.

          Now I am not suggesting that her illegal employee walked free, but I know for a fact, that crooked Dominic scoundrel was sanctioned!

          Birds of a feather flocked together; no wonder she and Roosevelt are such good friends.

          Murders, and thieves associate; politicians associate; no wonder boy.
          Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!

          That crook is the one who dressed up Skerrit in some ancient medieval, antediluvian time costume and had some boys tie a sash around Roosevelt neck and waste, and said they Knight him!

          Hahahahahahahah!
          Now that clown Roosevelt believe he is doctor Punjab Sir Knight the fart eh!
          But anyway Steve, have not seen you writing for a while.

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          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            July 8, 2022

            “Scotland denied she had been so busy with her work that she simply assumed Tapui had the right to remain and work in the UK because her husband, Alex Zivancevic, was a lawyer and spoke with an English accent.”

            Steve, do you believe that bull in the quote above?

            This woman is a damn liar, busy with her work; accent or no accent or no accent, everybody; every employer in England and America, and Europe, Germany where I lived also.

            When ever someone is about to employ someone, one of the final questrions will be do you have a social securiety number?

            That is to ensure social securiety and other deductions are extracted.
            Then on the application, their place of birth must be declared.

            Steve that woman is a damn joke and a liar, and that is the reason I do not like he, I dis like her even more after she told Dominican they can suck salt, that’s the only patios word her “Antigonian” parents knew to teach her; she’s a convicted criminal!

            Going to make me breakfast…

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        • Malatete
          July 9, 2022

          – 22 Sept.2009, Reuters. Attorney General fined for hiring illegal worker.

          – 22Sept. 2009, Financial Times, fine for Baroness Scotland.

          – 23 Sept. 2009, Mirror, Baroness Scotland refuses to resign after £5k fine for hiring an illegal worker.

      • July 7, 2022

        Why do you love calling people derogatory names? When the boot is on the other foot you get angry and miffed and disgruntled. I have already told the English people that if Boris can’t run the country then call in Skerrit. Skerrit is a champion. Everybody seems to be falling down except Skerrit. If you can’t run de country then call in Cooperlani – Chalkdust, the great.

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        • Beta
          July 8, 2022

          Skerrit is a narcissist just like BoJo. Let’s face it, when a clown moves into a palace the clown doesn’t become a king but the palace becomes a circus. Dominicans would be very well advised to consider this. Having said that there are heaps of people, like yourself, who are just ignorant, like dare I say NADINE DORRIES… What’s YOUR motivation being like her???

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      • Man bite dogs
        July 7, 2022

        @Francisco, please keep your wicked lies and ignorants accusations to yourself and if you want
        real facts about Baroness Patricia Scotland, just ask Google , you are one of ugly Lenny , blue monkey rubbish talking crap.

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          July 8, 2022

          I feel sorry for you my friend, so I will not give you the heat at this time; I don’t have to google, anything I have more reliable source of information, that when I write I based my comments on truth.

          Hence anything I say can be verified; even what I write about your boy that corrupted crook Roosevelt Chichi Royer Magic-man Skerrit.

          And just in case you don’t know; Roosevelt father claim he knew how to work magic, took our money in Wesley one knight claiming he was going to turn a beautiful girl into a vicious lion!

          Hahahahahahahahahahah!
          I paid three (3 pence) pence to see this Chichi turn girl into lion; that’s more than sixty years ago, me and all of Wesley still waiting to see Sir Knight farther turn woman into lion eh!

          Most of the village elders are dead; they died waiting to see Chichi lion girl! I don’t know if the girl he was going to turn into lion was a certain prime minister mother.

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      • Wesley Major
        July 8, 2022

        Oh boy Makak, you didn’t have your glasses on when you googled this one or didn’t they teach how to read in all those Universities you allegedly frequented. You suffer the same fate as BloJo now, eventually all those liars are found out. How is the AMG performing? Got sand in the gearbox?
        Hahahahahah, my poor belly…

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        • Francisco Etinne-Dods Telemaque
          July 8, 2022

          You that headless crab, it seems to me the more I Ignore you, is the you try to be seen and get my attention.
          The more I insult you; you just keep returning more my insults.
          Have you no shame, eh, eh!
          You called me Rex.
          Well when I was a kid I had dog 🐕 named Rex, my dog had more commonsense than you have.
          Because when I did not Rex around, and calmly ask him get lost for a while, and he refused to leave.
          All I had to tell my dog Rex is mash, and that dog would stay away from me until I invited him to play with me. Mash you old geriatric dog!
          Hahahahaha oui, our, our, your nappy head is on fire now!

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          • Francisco Etinne-Dods Telemaque
            July 8, 2022

            You see all those left words in my insulting comments to you, because you are dunce stinking geriatric dog will not recognized the missing.
            You you Ole headless yellow and pink crapo.
            You wish to be noticed, that’s what nasty people get from me when they are becoming a nuesens to themselves!

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          • Wesley Major
            July 9, 2022

            I knew I would get you going again. Hahahahah!
            Now mash Rex, back in your dog house and lick your wounds.

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          • Wesley Girl
            July 9, 2022

            ‘nuesens’ hahahahahah!
            You embarrassed yourself again, old goat. A five year old child in DA has a better command of English than you! University education, hahahahahah. Mash Rex, you are full of it. Stop barking!

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    • Toto
      July 7, 2022

      Nothing to do with Patricia Scotland, you myopic bird but everything with the British people using their democratic rights and free speech. Don’t twist this story, Boris Johnson never cared one bit about the Baroness trust me.

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    • Dominican
      July 8, 2022

      The British Commonwealth is headed by the Queen and entirely in her purview. It has nothing to do with the British government of the day. Baroness Scotland, although elected by the member countries, is not appointed by the Queen and merely acts as the Queen’s representative. Her Majesty is aware of the Baroness’ insult to the people of Dominica, as disclosed by Angelo Allen in correspondence from Buckingham Palace some years ago, and certainly is not her kfavourite. The Baroness knows this too and has enveigled herself with likes of Prince Charles, the successor to the throne who himself is now embroiled In the unsavoury practice of accepting cash, €300,000 to be exact, in plastic bags from a prominent Qatari friend. It is claimed by this royal that they were contributions to his charity and passed straight on to his bank, Couts, in London. Contributions to an approved, registered charity are not subject to tax, neither in the U.K. or Dominica for that matter.

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      • Francisco Etinne-Dods Telemaque
        July 8, 2022

        I am sure that your theory that woman Scotland is Representatives of some Queen.
        In that case I would like to asks you what happens to the governor’s which represents her on the island of Antigua, and Barbados until recently?
        Although Dominica is within the commwealth of nations, Elizabeth, does not have any say in the political business in The Commonwealth Republic of Dominica, and that’s why we have a rubber stamp president Charles Saverin.
        Guyana, Trinidad, are Republic too with their president, and now Barbados, which laws are signed in for tabled law to take effect.
        In all of the other independent islands with a governor representing this so called queen signs anything into law on her behalf.
        Outside of Commonwealth matters she has no say over Republic such as ours.
        Sad to that corrupted crooked, Me Almost Nearly Cousin Roosevelt have all the power.
        If she has power independent Republic’s in America and the Caribbean, she would have it over America, former colony too.

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        • Francisco Etinne-Dods Telemaque
          July 8, 2022

          I see lots of errors which I need, that’s the tragedy when I use my smartphone.

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          • FiveMile
            July 9, 2022

            Smartphone, hahahahaha. You senile old goat. Your smartphone is smarter than YOU. What was the name of your University again? Kindergarten School of lower Mongolia, I fancy.

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  12. Beta
    July 7, 2022

    Not before time did we get rid of this shallow, disloyal, narcissistic phoney. Btw this attributes do apply also to the CM of DA.

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  13. dissident
    July 7, 2022

    Apparently his other party members aren’t as tainted as he is so they actually have a moral compass to guide their decisions. They just stepped away from him and booof he fall and hit his head. It even bleeding and nobody comes to his rescue especially de ones dat was partying with him in private parties during COVID-19. Disgraceful!!!
    In Dominica even after de Choksi debacle there is not 1 member of the dlp with enough morals to bravely walk away from Skerrit……they all took his bait and their hands dirty.
    come next election cycle when they come looking for vote they will have to answer dat question and more or else doh pass by my house.
    You coming for a job……I will ask de questions because is me dat hiring.

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