Boris Johnson was pictured laughing and joking last night as he canoodled with a bunch of elites on a Whitehall patio just hours after he announced his resignation.
The disgraced Prime Minister was seen hobnobbing with several coworkers and officials, giving out hugs and cracking jokes as the party drowned their collective sorrows on a balcony behind Dover House.
The ambience was light and friendly, according to witnesses, with the assemblage quickly gathering pace as the evening drew on.
One said it definitely wasn’t commiserations, they were in fine spirits as the group were spotted while attending a military band concert held on Horse Guards Parade a stone’s throw away from Dover House and Downing Street.
They said Boris Johnson gave someone a hug. It looked like a bad day at the office, let’s have a drink and cheer up, and they were laughing and chatting on the terrace.
They said it started just after 7 pm when Boris Johnson went inside and the party appeared to be in full swing.
Meanwhile less than half a mile away, several of the cabinet ministers and government officials whose resignations and criticism hastened the Prime Minister’s downfall enjoyed some schmoozing of their own at The Spectator’s summer bash.
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak and his successor Nadhim Zahawi, who accepted the position on Wednesday, then publicly told the Prime Minister to resign less than 24 hours later, were among those pictured in attendance at the grand press party on Old Queen Street, a mere 500 yards away from the Prime Minister’s gathering.
Ex housing and communities secretary Michael Gove, who was promptly sacked upon calling for the Prime Minister’s resignation, and former health secretary Matt Hancock also rocked up to the party whose guest list also included top political journalist Laura Kuenssberg and chairman of The Spectator Andrew Neil.
It comes as Tory MPs begin competing for Boris’ premiership in what’s set to be a painful shootout for the right to succeed the outgoing Prime Minister.
The friendly atmosphere displayed by Boris Johnson and co on the Dover House patio last night didn’t reflect the mood which hung in the air in Downing Street hours earlier.
Boris Johnson’s team were said to be in tears as the Prime Minister ultimately admitted he had run out of options, while the Conservative leader himself was said to have been optimistic rather than enraged upon realising they had tried everything around 8.30 am yesterday morning.
Boris Johnson clearly didn’t play a straight bat greeting the job, and he made sure he had his own people around the Cabinet table, but his version of reality became too much for them, with their constituents bearing the brunt of decline and collapse.
He is a disgrace, he broke the law, he lied to the Queen, lied to parliament and now he’s been forced out of his job because he lied again, but of course, after this Boris Johnson will be drowning in employment offers, he’s set for life, and now he can do whatever he wants to do because he will be free of the endless bellyaching.
Our politicians are elected to represent and act upon the best interests of the British people, not to cosy up to media honchos. This is part of the reason or reasons why our country’s in such a mess.
We can’t have a political system whereby the Prime Minister or indeed any politician has to dance to the tune of the media and then they’re penalised by the press itself, and if that’s the case we may as well do away with our electoral system and hand our country over to billionaire media moguls.
Neither lot is working in the best interest of the people of our country because they’re far too self-serving, manipulative and greedy to give the British people as much as a second thought.
The system is now run in the best interest of the elites and those who toe the line serve to feather line the already versus wealthy pockets who are presented to the people of our country as the good guys and that kind of clique has to go.
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