Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dropped out of the Tory leadership race and was met with a barrage of memes via social media.
Twitter users responded with hilarity at the news, following speculation about whether or not Boris Johnson had acquired the required 100 nominations from fellow Conservative MPs.
Only sixty-seven Parliamentarians were known for sure to have publicly supported the ex-Prime Minister, despite protestations from his supporters that he had further backers.
So, it’s happened. After all the different claims from the Boris Johnson headquarters, their man has dropped out of the latest Tory leadership race, and it looks like Rishi Sunak will effectively be our new Prime Minister.
Of course, it’s sad for Boris Johnson, but by a wide margin the best result for the country because the possibility of Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson going down to the wire was and is extremely alarming.
Now hopefully Britain has got what it sorely needs, a clear result, around which warring Tory factions can, with luck, settle and connect because a deal between the two contenders was never really on the cards.
Now scores of social media users have vowed to withdraw their Tory Party memberships after Boris Johnson bowed out of the race for No 10.
Some said they only joined the party because of Boris Johnson while others expressed their dislike for Rishi Sunak, who looks set to become the next prime minister.
One person wrote that they were revoking their membership. That they’d voted for Tory all their life but become a member of Boris Johnson and they were so disgruntled. Another said that Boris had dropped out and that they were no longer a Conservative voter.
A Scottish MP said Rishi Sunak will be just as bad for the people of Scotland after Boris Johnson pulled out of the race to become the next prime minister.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford’s comments came as the ex-chancellor has been dubbed the favourite to top the ballot of MPs after Boris Johnson’s theatrical departure from the bid on Sunday evening.
The candidates for the election to replace Liz Truss will now potentially be solely between Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House.
Commenting, the SNP’s Westminster leader said that no Tory Prime Minister can or will deliver for Scotland, and with his history of callous austerity from his time as chancellor we know Rishi Sunak will be just as bad as Boris Johnson was for the people of Scotland.
The monied men have already decided that Rishi Sunak is going to be Prime Minister, that’s why nobody else really stood a chance, but they don’t care about the common people, they just care about the money for them, and the British people didn’t vote for Rishi Sunak, and this just spells the end of the Tories.
Yes, Rishi Sunak is going to be the next Prime Minister, but he should be telling us how he’s going to deliver, and it will be cuts for the general population to suffer.
He will become the next Prime Minister, but the problem is people don’t trust him, and how can he know anything about poverty and what the general public is going through right now when his wife is worth a gigantic fortune? And he comes across as geeky, creepy and unrelatable.
I would have never voted Rishi Sunak in. I rather vote for the Raving Loony Monster Party.
Boris Johnson was a liar, and Liz Truss was catastrophically incompetent, and that’s all that the Tories are, and will continue to be, and they will also be a disaster for the economy.
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