Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have both quit the Government this evening, saying we “cannot continue like this”, bringing Boris Johnson’s premiership to the brink of implosion. MailOnline has more.
Boris Johnson is tonight teetering on the edge as Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid both dramatically quit his Cabinet within minutes of each other.
Shortly after the Prime Minister issued a grovelling apology over his appointment of shamed MP Chris Pincher, Mr Johnson was hit by the double blow.
In his resignation letter, Mr. Sunak told the PM that “we cannot continue like this”.
Acknowledging that he might be waving goodbye to his ministerial career for good, the outgoing Chancellor added: “The public rightly expect Government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.”
Meanwhile, Mr .Javid publicly questioned Mr Johnson’s integrity, competence and ability to act in the national interest.
He told the PM: “It is with enormous regret that I must tell you that I can no longer, in good conscience, continue serving in this Government. I am instinctively a team player but the British people also rightly expect integrity from their Government.”
It appeared Mr. Sunak and Mr. Javid had heeded calls from Tory rebel MPs – who had been demanding action from Cabinet ministers over the latest sleaze scandal battering Mr. Johnson’s Government.
Their double resignation sparked feverish speculation that other members of the Cabinet might soon follow suit in quitting Mr. Johnson’s Government.
But Deputy PM Dominic Raab, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel were all said to be staying in Cabinet.
Boris has been awful – a man of tissue-thin integrity, lacking focus who far too easily allows the assorted big spenders, Covidians and wokesters around him in the Tory party and the Civil Service to drive the agenda. But if he falls, will we get anything better?
Worth reading in full.
Here are the resignation letters in full.
Sajid Javid
Prime Minister,
It was a privilege to have been asked to come back into Government to serve as Secretary of State for Health & Social Care at such a critical time for our country. I have given every ounce of energy to this task, and am incredibly proud of what we have achieved.
The U.K. has led the world in learning to live with Covid. Thanks to the amazing rollout of our booster programme, investment in treatments, and innovations in the way we deliver healthcare, the British people have enjoyed months more freedom than other comparable countries.
We have also made important strides in the recovery and reform of NHS and adult social care. The longest waiters are down by 70% and, as you know, I have been working hard on wider modernisation of the NHS. I have also developed radical new approaches to dementia, cancer and mental health, and prepared the Health Disparities White Paper which will set out plans to level up health outcomes for communities that have been left behind for too long.
Given the unprecedented scale of the challenges in health and social care, it has been my instinct to continue focusing on this important work. So it is with enormous regret that I must tell you that I can no longer, in good conscience, continue serving in this Government. I am instinctively a team player but the British people also rightly expect integrity from their Government.
The tone you set as a leader, and the values you represent, reflect on your colleagues, your party and ultimately the country. Conservatives at their best are seen as hard-headed decision-makers, guided by strong values. We may not have always been popular, but we have been competent in acting in the national interest. Sadly, in the current circumstances, the public are concluding that we are now neither. The vote of confidence last month showed that a large number of our colleagues agree. It was a moment for humility, grip and new direction. I regret to say, however, that it is clear to me that this situation will not change under your leadership – and you have therefore lost my confidence too.
It is three years since you entered Downing Street. You will forever be credited with seeing off the threat of Corbynism, and breaking the deadlock on Brexit. You have shone a very welcome light on the regional disparities in our country, an agenda that will continue to define our politics. These are commendable legacies in unprecedented times. But the country needs a strong and principled Conservative Party, and the Party is bigger than any one individual. I served you loyally and as a friend, but we all serve the country first. When made to choose between those loyalties there can only be one answer.
Finally, I would like to put on record my thanks to ministerial and departmental colleagues, my admiration for NHS and social care staff, and my love for my family who have been immensely patient in these challenging times.
Yours ever,
S. Javid
Rishi Sunak
Dear Prime Minister,
It is with deep sadness that I am writing to you to resign from the Government.
It has been an enormous privilege to serve our country as Chancellor of the Exchequer and I will always be proud of how during the pandemic we protected people’s jobs and businesses through actions such as furlough.
To leave ministerial office is a serious matter at any time. For me to step down as Chancellor while the world is suffering the economic consequences of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and other serious challenges is a decision that I have not taken lightly.
However, the public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.
I have been loyal to you. I backed you to become Leader of our Party and encouraged others to do so. I have served as your Chancellor with gratitude that you entrusted me with stewardship of the nation’s economy and finances. Above all, I have respected the powerful mandate given to you by the British people in 2019 and how under your leadership we broke the Brexit deadlock.
That is why I have always tried to compromise in order to deliver the things you want to achieve. On those occasions where I disagreed with you privately, I have supported you publicly. That is the nature of the collective government upon which our system relies and it is particularly important that the Prime Minister and Chancellor remain united in hard times such as those we are experiencing today.
Our country is facing immense challenges. We both want a low-tax, high-growth economy, and world class public services, but this can only be responsibly delivered if we are prepared to work hard, make sacrifices and take difficult decisions.
I firmly believe the public are ready to hear that truth. Our people know that if something is too good to be true then it’s not true. They need to know that whilst there is a path to a better future, it is not an easy one. In preparation for our proposed joint speech on the economy next week, it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally too different.
I am sad to be leaving Government but I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we cannot continue like this.
Kind regards,
Rishi Sunak
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In short, long live tha AFD ,meloni, Penn etc
Give these lefty twats a bloody nose!
Sorry.. Dinger but Meloni’s a globalist posing as a populist and le Penn.. well le Penn just talks the talk and that’s about all. It was her father who was the real deal.. labelled a fascist of course
You’re dead right about Meloni.
Yeah.. Penn I know a bit about Mogs.. as France is my home at this moment in time. Its a shame because I supported her when she ran against Macron for the first round.. but she’s proved herself too be weak on so many points since..
This is what I’m finding, especially in the above two examples. They look promising initially, people dare to start believing what they say due to still having a glimmer of optimism and hope for change and that these people can deliver, and then further down the line you see where their loyalties lie and that they’re quite willing to shaft the people who voted for them. I just think it best to not trust any politicians ever, but that’s just me. Selective trust is a fool’s game. I mean, WTAF is Meloni responsible for letting into her country and unleashing on the citizens? Too many of these types of videos around to count;
https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1690408539552919553
Here you go.. Meloni in action. Talks the talk but not the walk..
Italian PM Meloni Under Fire As Illegal Immigration Soars To New Highs
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italian-pm-meloni-under-fire-illegal-immigration-soars-new-highs
Democracy in action.. coming to a place near you if this is allowed to continue in (democratic) Germany.. the Bolsheviks are running scared but brutal..
AFD’s Andreas Jurca below..
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/afd-bavaria-chief-beaten-up-in-organised-migrant-attack/
Sick, sick, sick. Nothing else to be said.
It’s important to realize that this was almost certainly done by hired thugs. That’s how the ‘democratic’ German government really deals with political opposition when it becomes too tiresome.
Maybe this is going off on a tangent, but it all seems linked to me….
I have never understood, from the moment they started what Germany, particularly, thought would happen when they followed the sanctions on Russia….how could Germany’s leaders who seemed to be at the forefront in Europe….invoke and engineer the draconian sanctions and not see that these same sanctions would boomerang and hit Europe on the head? ……and having seen it’s own economic instability in the process, still double-down on more?
Is it a case of extreme incompetence, or blind submission to external (US) dictates, or deliberate self-immolation????? Or a mix of all three?
Or like the ‘unpopular and destructive climate policies’..has the German Government outsourced its legitimacy in relation to its economy and military status to ‘outside sources?’….(again the US)….and like the rest of Europe …it’s health and well-being (WHO/UN)….in which case what is its function?
(Who’s in charge?….a question I would ask to all Western Governments?)
Because ebygum.. it was planned that way by the Club of Rome decades ago. The de-industrialisation/toppling of the West, and Germany being the powerhouse of Europe had to be brought to its knees.
All those in power now are infiltrators, or should I have spelt that infil-traitors. Merkel really got the ball rolling. The WEF’s Klaus Schwab has openly boasted about infiltrating cabinets/governments.
Read Gramsci’s ‘Long March through the Institutions’ its being adhered to like a manual by the scum that are taking our countries apart right now. In the UK they are represented by the likes of ‘Common Purpose’.
Who’s in charge.. maybe start your search with the City of London and Vatican.. the US is just the useful bully boy with the muscle..
I am going to ask a genuine question George. I have covered this ground in conversation with my son who is incredibly intelligent, well read and has a similar view to the one you expressed just now.
What is their end game in your opinion and why?
I personally do not understand why any human being would like to inflict misery on millions of people and cannot (for want of a better explanation) get my head around it
The end game Casual Observer is total control of the world and its people. To attain that they must desecrate the western world first, as people in the west have had a degree of wealth, individuality, and freedom not commonplace in the rest of the world, and won’t be to happy under communist rule. Communism being the perfect control system favoured by the elite capitalist oligarchy.
Once that’s achieved I believe the culling in earnest will begin. Why.. because they are psychopaths, its been their aim for millennia, passed on through the generations. They have wealth that’s unimaginable to the ordinary person which gives them immense power, and they are profoundly evil. We are no more than cattle in their eyes, we pose a threat because there are many of us, and now they have the technology and weapon systems available.. its time to get rid.
Of course you can’t get your head around it.. your not a psychopath..
I thought the most insightful comment in this useful analysis was the reference to the political class being the wrong one if a progressively authoritarian approach was to be followed. That thought might be what saves all the west as the left adopt ever more authoritarian policies to enforce their world view and energy illiteracy.
unfortunately it might take decades of increasing poverty and insecurity, at a time of great international threat, for the system to fall over. The hope is it might be sooner rather than later.
I don’t think there is much in the form of politics anymore. I see it all as the advance and final triumph of bureaucracy. There is no debate about what to do. The only discussion seems to be about how to get there and how quickly. All questions about what to do are shut down. Prohibited, essentially.
And that is pretty much the nature of bureaucracy. You don’t get a choice of whether to follow bureaucratic requirements. In every aspect of bureaucratic life you are obliged to do as you are told. At most you can moan about how inefficient it is. But never do you question whether you actually need it.
It seems to me like every aspect of our lives has been bureaucratised or is rapidly in the process of becoming so. They would have it so there is nothing left to debate. And if someone dares ask questions, like the AfD, well then they must be shut down. They must be mad or evil.
Good post Stewart..
…I don’t disagree, but honestly, where do ‘they’ think they will be in all of this? Are they going ‘off-world’ onto a spaceship?
Do they think we will all leave them in their comfy homes, having a great life? How will that happen?..where do they get their food if there isn’t any..is Bill going to grow it all on the land he’s bought? Does he thinks the unwashed millions will let him?
Too many questions!!!? LOL!
I see the bureaucracy as a cancer. It just expands because that’s its nature, unless it is held back or actively cut back.
Of course it is destined to kill itself off by killing off the host. Whether it’s slow and drawn out or fast depends on how aggressive the cancer/bureaucracy is.
I really can’t wait for the last neoliberal to scream a last Shrink the stateeeeee! while being smoked out of his house by hordes of foreign-born criminals with no policeman anywhere in sight. That would be poetically fitting: People who are incapable of learning that their mad (and originally radical) ideology which runs counter to everything mankind did for thousands of years is the cause of the problems and not their solution finally finding this out the hard way.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
What is laugable is that you think that neoliberals are getting their way.
The state isn’t shrinking. It’s expanding in every way. In power, In authority, in budget, in personnel.
If you find your country is being overrun by immigrants be assured its not happening because the state is being shrunk, because it isn’t.
What is laugable is that you think that neoliberals are getting their way.
I’ve been living through the sell-out of pretty much every natural monopoly service the state used to provide to private profiteers and hence, I’m immune to your delusion. To use a particularly poignant example, in former times, military guards used to guard government buildings. Nowadays, military barracks are guarded by by private security companies. Actually, everything is guarded by private security companies and these people are entitled to enforce a private reign of terror explicitly including use of unlimited violence for absolutey no reason against everyone the fancy targetting. Like come running after people peacefully walking on a public pavement and slamming them into bus stations.
Try fooling someone else.
Just because stuff is privatised or outsourced doesn’t mean the state is not interfering in it through laws and regulations.
I fail to see the point of that. Beyond the truism that laws affect private entities, that is. That’s what they’re meant to.
We have too many of the wrong sort of laws and regulations. Banks are private but are encouraged, facilitated or bullied into debanking people on flimsy criteria by the state, its laws and regulators. That’s not to say the private sector is beyond reproach and doesn’t need regulating. Large social media platforms should IMO be forced not to censor by law, instead they are encouraged to censor.
Recently, the state decided that it would arrest me if I left the house while I had a cold.
Recently, the state decided that it would arrest me if I left the house while I had a cold.
How much of that was We must keep this plandemic rolling until the (vaccine) product is ready? On a related note, are these industry-funded regulatory enablers really a sign of state overreach? Or rather of our health being monetized by private corporations which gained accces to what used to be sovereign functions of the state due to the drive to privatize everything which can conceivable make someone money?
I certainly agree there appears to be an overly cosy relationship between senior government officials, civil servants and large private firms
Government isn’t really “meant” to do anything more than have some basic laws, keep the peace and protect us from invasion (because they’ve forced us to live within a state, so presumably they have to protect the integrity of that state, at the very least).
And yet governments and their bureaucracies collect more money than ever, borrow more money than ever and spend more money than ever.
Just because they privatised industries doesn’t mean they’ve shrunk. They’ve obviously haven’t if they’re spending more than ever.
Tell me we don’t have more laws and regulations than we’ve had in generations.
They are banning the use of certain types of energy. They are telling you what form of money you have to use. For a while they’ve required a pharmaceutical intervention as a condition to engage in society, and they plan to do it again, no doubt.
If your measure of state activity is how many industries the state has public ownership of, then you’re missing a massive part of the picture.
Just the finances alone tell you the scale of it.
Also in Germany; I used to enjoy visiting Berlin years ago but not so much now by the looks of it. Who on earth would target Jews and women with such hatred and contempt…..?
”Gang rapes in parks, violence in outdoor swimming pools – reports from the German capital Berlin are shocking almost daily. Everything is not so bad, according to the official visitor website Visit Berlin. The city is “basically safe” – women and Jews are excluded.
Even the leader of the Green Party, Ricarda Lang, had to admit that she would not stroll alone through Görlitzer Park in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Due to a gang rape, the green space was recently in the focus of news coverage again.
Is visiting Berlin dangerous?, many tourists ask themselves. The city’s official visitor website emphasises that the city is “basically safe”, but crime cannot be ruled out and some safety aspects should be taken into account. This includes “avoiding dark parks and corners at night”.
Women report that harassment, insults, sexual assaults and attacks are by no means confined to the crowded inner city. “You actually only walk fast to your destination with blinders on,” two young women are quoted as saying in a report by the station RBB. “It’s not a problem of parks, it’s a problem everywhere: at every stop I get off at, in every street I walk through.”
Indeed, n-tv also reports: police are currently counting more assaults against women in public. From 2019 to 2022, the numbers of female victims of assaults, threats, sexual offences and robberies at night on streets and in parks rose from around 3000 to 4210.
But it is not only women that Berlin is not safe everywhere. Travel websites have long advised gay and lesbian couples or Jews to rather not walk through certain parts of the city at night clearly recognisable by behaviour or signs such as the Star of David, because there are always insults or attacks.”
https://medforth.biz/official-visitor-portal-alerts-berlin-is-safe-except-for-women-and-jews/
You made your bed, now lie in it.
These gullible idiots, with their rose-tinted glasses firmly in situ and wearing their denialism like a barrier to reality, make me so mad. If more of the harrowing sh*t that I read from these various websites, more often than not written by ex-Muslims or people born in the West to Muslim migrants who are vocal critics of Islam ( therefore being a damnsite more knowledgeable than these foolish MSM-following dingbats ), was shared or even covered by regular news outlets then these people most definitely would take a different view. To me it’s just another example of naive sheep supporting the current narrative. Nobody bothers to question the official line or scratch the surface and find easily-accessible contradictory information though, that’s the problem. Go look at any number of atrocities happening in Africa or India, for instance, and then ask yourself; what is stopping any of those perpetrators and those who share their vile attitude rocking up on our shores in a boat? Basically, nothing. Are people really so ignorant that they think this crap won’t arrive here and that these horrific acts only happen in far away continents? Jeez..
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19805/persecution-of-christians-june
The concept of the left to ban any parties which pose any kind of threat to their control of the country is extremely serious. It is straight out of the totalitarian conversion playbook, and must be resisted at all costs. Hitler did it, Mussolini did it, and Putin still does it. It does not bode well.