The trouble is everyone is scared of everyone. I could solve Brexit in five minutes. You go on TV. Prime time.
"We've looked at Brexit for four years now, and there is no way to do it without destroying the country. And we're not willing to do that."
Johnson is now in the same position as Theresa May. He can't accept Europe's terms, can't get new terms, and can't leave with nothing.
He's losing the same game she already lost. And now he's going to resign.
I think the English have a great deal of difficulty coming to terms with the world around them.
They still don't understand that in voting for Brexit they've destroyed their own country.
You don't understand that England is experiencing a total system failure.
The country is being destroyed by the most expensively educated people you've got.
I am the very terror of a top attorney general
With beetle brows and booming vowels both baritone and tenoral,
I hold command of any court from magistrate's to coroners,
But practise mostly in the art of bellowing at foreigners
I’m told Geoffrey Cox’s appearance in Brussels was ‘the last straw.’
‘We couldn’t believe this buffoon out of Gilbert and Sullivan, even more comic,’ says a senior commission official
I started reading Michel Barnier's Brexit diaries. It confirms a lot of what I thought at the time and what the English media never tell you - just how abysmally ill-informed, half-arsed and incompetent the Tories have been throughout
I think Truss is going to go the same way as Theresa May. She's going to call an election to try and give herself a personal mandate, and lose the majority she had.
The United Kingdom won't survive Brexit
The Conservative Party won't survive no Brexit
The conservative Party won't survive the end of the United Kingdom.
Therefore, the Conservative Party must die
I'm not Scottish so I'm not driven by Scottish patriotism. I support Scottish independence in England because I think the United Kingdom is so dysfunctional, and England so incapable of governing it, that it has no viable future.
The United Kingdom is dying of embarrassment. An unelected prime minister in London telling a massively elected first minister in Scotland what a mandate is
Christ, English news is dense.
Johnson signed a treaty, forced it through parliament with minimal scrutiny, and then boasted it up to the entire country.
Now he's saying he can't live up to it.
That is a resignation offence.
The word is that Johnson's last throw of the dice is going to be to threaten to resign if Europe doesn't give him the deal he wants.
And if Europe says no he'll be finished
Johnson is a dead duck. He's put a border in the Irish Sea which he is now threatening to ignore.
This is untenable, and as he can't go back on it his only option is to resign
Boris Johnson hasn't planned for not getting his own way, just like Cameron never planned for not getting his own way in the referendum.
Again i remind you they both came from the same school.
The United Kingdom will not survive Brexit, and Britain won't survive long after.
I don't think the English have grasped this at all. They don't talk as if they have.
I reckon Theresa May now has a fair claim of worst prime minister of all time.
Lost an election, and now Scotland, Ireland, constitution and government falling apart, and her party in open mutiny.
And she did this in a year and a bit
The SNP can see an election coming.
i was against Scottish independence last time, but this time I'm not. I think England's behaviour has been so appalling you can't blame Scotland for wanting out.
The English need to dismantle the last rotted remnants of their aristocracy. All of it. Their ridiculous titles, their bloated parliament, their bare-arsed monarchy, their private schools.
All this cultural dead weight. All of it has to go.
The European Union cannot break its own legal system to accommodate the demands of an external country.
Four fucking years of this. Four years and three prime ministers and STILL it's not going in.
I'll tell you what the fuck is wrong with Brexiteers.
They've spent their whole life thinking anything must be better than Europe, and it turns out that Europe is better than everything else.
And they can't swallow it.
The Conservative Party has been hollowed out by extremists like one of these parasite beetles that eats its victim from the inside and then wears its dead skin as a hat
I've grown such contempt for the BBC I think it's permanent.
It's the way they've done Brexit. their disgusting and slavish devotion to government posture.
I keep puzzling why the Tories are still popular, and it can only be Brexit.
People have sunk so much into this Ponzi that they're clinging on in sheer desperation that it's going to pay off.
I'm still betting me against the world. The Tories are bare arse terrified of what they've done. They'll sack Johnson before the end of the year and then ask Europe to postpone Brexit again.
And after that we'll never leave
I still don't think the English have come to terms with the magnitude of Brexit.
They seem to think Brexit is an inconvenience but that all their attachments are pretty secure. But they're not.
Eton school should be confiscated and demolished, and its land sold off for car parks to compensate the country for the damage their ghastly children have done to the country.
The English are drowning in phoney politics at the moment. They're talking about anything except what matters.
They won't talk about Brexit, they won't talk about Scotland, and these are the biggest things of all.
I understand what Brexiteers want perfectly. They want a knackered. primitive, ugly, violent, racist, homophobic, corrupt world of intellectual brutalism
I'm not voting Labour as long as they're a Brexit party, not even local elections. It would be like voting for the Ku Klux Klan because they promised more bin collections. No.
If all UKIP 24 went to Brexit, then only 5 seats from labour and Tories can have gone to Brexit
Which means that 20 seats went from labour and Tories to Remain
"Show us the money"
Leave-supporting Labours MPs may vote for Theresa May's
#Brexit
plan if she offers "significant" funding for their constituencies, says
@JohnMannMP
- but "it's not a bribe"
Ha ha! Nobody expects the digital inquisition. Our chief weapon is surprise and devastating sarcasm. Our two weapons. Surprise and sarcasm and an ability to tweet at work. Our three weapons
Spectator editor Fraser Nelson says that Toby Young was the victim of a "digital inquisition". Otherwise known as people accurately quoting and criticising his own words.
If Ghenghis Khan invaded England with ravenous hordes and slaughtered his way across Kent he'd be 20 points ahead in the polls just because people had heard his name on the news
But it is already too late to save the union. Even if you sack Johnson and stay in the single market. It is still too late.
England has shown itself, and Scotland can't unsee it.
The English are now discussing the terms that the next Scottish referendum will be held under.
Without ever admitting it out loud, or even to themselves, the English have chosen Brexit over the union.
What Boris Johnson has to do in the next month and a half is find a way to leave the European Union with a trade agreement, free of obligation, while protecting the Good Friday Agreement, and maintaining the integrity of the United Kingdom.
This, of course, is impossible.