Originally published at: Key ministers quit Boris Johnson's government after yet another scandal and yet another constantly-changing story | Boing Boing
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Crosspost - containing their resignation letters.
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But m’lord! having scandal (after scandal) semi-detached from Boris is a dead-cat feature for Boris. Thereby distracting matters from fully Boris attached scandals. (keepeth fools aplenty at one’s heel that ye may look the better by it)
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An interesting Twitter thread on this pack of sociopaths known as the Tories.
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Very good thread. This is someone who knows his enemy well. An amoral gaggle of gaggle of aristocrats, ably assisted by their lickspittle toadies. A vile bunch, who conduct class warfare against the rest of humanity simply by existing as they do, with a reflex defence of their power, position and actual privilege.
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My favourite summary:
Thatcher’s Tories were selfish and cruel. Major’s were mired in ezaels and corruption.
Cameron’s were too posh to understand real life and too lazy to try, and May’s were a flailing, incompetent, squabbling mob.
Somehow, Johnson’s have managed to be all of those things at once.
This was from commentator Russ Jones who produces the inestimable #weekinTory thread that has become an invaluable reference source for all things you missed because you were too stunned by some of the others.
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Who are the absolute worst people Boris could replace them with? Because that’s who we’re going to get.
My money is on Gavin Williamson for one of them, and Grant Shapps for the other.
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If we’re looking for the worst of the worst, and to really ram the point home about us being led by a bunch of out-of-touch public schoolboys, how about a nice promotion for Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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I don’t think he’d take it, especially not the Chancellorship. It’d mean he’d have to do some actual work instead of cosplaying as President of the Board of Indigents in Lord Melbourne’s second administration.
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Steve Barclay (who he? — ed.) gets Health.
ETA: looks like it’s between Truss and Zahawi for Chancellor.
Boris wants Truss as Chancellor because it will destroy her instantly. She’s getting a lot of positives from the war in Ukraine right now (as is the Defence Secretary.)
How about Nadine Dorries as Foreign Secretary?
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Zahawi won:
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“Won” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. 
I mean, maybe Zahawi figures that he hasn’t pissed Truss off that much and he might be in with a shout of keeping the job if she wins the leadership?
(Also: fun notion - how about Durham Police issue a fine to Starmer on the day Johnson is forced out? That way both parties get to bloodlet simultaneously and it can only go downhill from there…)
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The brass of these shitweasels, suddenly pretending to have principles and honour.
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If anyone is finding the current state of UK politics too complex, this tweet reduces it to the basics:
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Damn! I had my money on the Chancellorship going to Carrie Johnson.
Anyway, chances are Zahawi will be the shortest lived Chancellor in history when the coup against Johnson is completed. Still, expect tax breaks for heating your stables at taxpayer expense.
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Not something one would include in their job resume or crow about in an interview.
person 1: “What would you say has brought you success so far?”
person 2: “I keep fools at my heel.”
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The American version:
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