Liar, Liar

There have been many lies written about the EU over the past few decades. And many of them came from the pen or word processor of Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson.

He was employed by the Torygraph as correspondent to the EU, or whatever it was back then. And he soon got bored. And made shit up. And it turned out that Torygraph readers liked the lies than reports on endless parliamentary sessions, committees and sub-committees. So he wrote more lies. Bendy bananas, low wattage light bulbs, under powered vacuum cleaners.

And so on.

There is no evidence he believed any of this, he just wrote it.

And until three months before the referendum, he was fully in favour of remain.

And then he changed his mind.

And ended up being the lead figure for the whole leave campaign, and as well as the £350 million a week lie, he swung the referendum so leave won by a narrow margin.

He was Foreign Secretary during most of May's reign as PM, and he made shit up there, and failed to get a grasp on his briefs. He attended meetings and conferences underprepared and apparently bored as he sat and listened to speeches.

Previously, he had dropped out for the leadership contest when Michael Gove stabbed him in the back. And in the intervening time he did nothing to suggest he was getting better at anything. At all.

And yet he won 3:1 the vote to become Tory leader, and so became PM.

And he lies still.

The lie that, despite the CU and SM making frictionless trade possible, dropping out of both when leaving the EU would have no effect, in fact, things would be better. The UK would have a better deal than any of the remaining members.

To use a technical term, this was and is bollocks.

Clearly.

And now a "senior Number 10 official (Cummings)" says that the Queen cannot sack the PM.

Thing is, she doesn't need to.

Parliament can oust him via a VoNC, then have two weeks to find someone to lead Parliament they can by a simple majority, unite behind. The Queen then offers for that person to form a Government and become PM. Johnson can lock himself in Number 10 and not answer the door, but we will not be Prime Minister.

If no unifying leader can be found, there will be a general election. So, that means two weeks after a VoNC, plus about four weeks for an election campaign, the soonest there can be an election is the end of November.

The Pm or a Government official can make a request for there to be an extension, the EU can decide to grant this or not.

If not the Government or Parliament would have to revoke.

The EU have already extended the A50 time from 2 years to two ears and seven months, and the past seven months have been wasted. Do they really want to extend again?

For an election, maybe.

Otherwise, who knows......