This is what would most likely happen if you #BringBackBoris 🧵
The markets would immediately crash. They fell alarmingly when there was even a prospect of him returning after Truss, and Moody's said our credit rating would drop for an 8th time if he came back.
The markets would immediately crash. They fell alarmingly when there was even a prospect of him returning after Truss, and Moody's said our credit rating would drop for an 8th time if he came back.
Most Tories - including Hunt - would refuse to serve with him, cos he's a dangerous crank. So it would be a cabinet of maniacs and yes-men, each of whom would destroy what little confidence remains in Britain's economy. Investment, already awful, would stop dead
He'd also ride roughshod over the tentative attempts to fix the NI Protocol, because he doesn't care. Xenophobic showboating matters more.
He'd probably give pay rises to nurses, just to be popular, but not to anybody else, an unfairness that would bring far worse strikes.
He'd probably give pay rises to nurses, just to be popular, but not to anybody else, an unfairness that would bring far worse strikes.
He'd engage in increasingly dangerous brinkmanship with Putin cos he likes the attention, and would bring Europe to the edge of a full scale nuclear conflict.
Fuel costs up. Inflation would rise again, as would interest rates. Cost of living crisis would escalate massively.
Fuel costs up. Inflation would rise again, as would interest rates. Cost of living crisis would escalate massively.
In the middle of this he'd be found guilty (again) over Partygate. His popularity would plunge to single figures, and there would be endless party plots and schemes to oust him. Resignations by the score, both MPs and officials. Nothing would get done due to endless reshuffles.
And, being Johnson, he'd create some new scandals and crises to add to the ones we already know about. Constantly unstable government in the midst of the worst economy we've ever known, on the brink of war, and the union falling apart in disgust.
That's year one.
That's year one.
In year 2 there would be riots. Don't doubt it. Life would be unaffordable, and when warm weather comes people take to the streets more easily. His authoritarian instinct would kick in, and there'd likely be widespread violence by people and police. Troops on streets.
Political chaos like we've never known would break out. We lost 70 cabinet ministers in his last year in office. It's likely we'd lose even more as things become ungovernable at every level - internationally, the Union, Westminster, local govt, and at street level.
He'd refuse to resign. It's his habit - refuse to go, refuse to sack anybody. So he'd brazen it out, and in (at latest) 2024 the govt would collapse completely, as it did in the summer of 2022. Tories would lose the election so badly they'll be down to 30-50 MPs.
The party will be wrecked for a generation, the poor loves. The country, a far more important thing, will be in an absolutely appalling state that will take 30 or 40 years to dig its way out of. Infrastructure, trade, economics, education, investment, trust - all shattered.
And that's without factoring in the likely war he'd have embroiled us in, and the climate change he'd have ignored.
But Boris Johnson will be paid £10m to write his autobiography, and a group of his superfans on Twitter will have wanked themselves into a withered husk.
End.
But Boris Johnson will be paid £10m to write his autobiography, and a group of his superfans on Twitter will have wanked themselves into a withered husk.
End.
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