ephemerid wrote:ohsocynical wrote:yahyah wrote:To be fair to Cameron, Radio 4 reported it as he didn't want to do all the hard slog on Brexit then have to 'hand it on a plate' to Boris Johnson.
Can't help feeling some sympathy.
Boris Johnson helped create the chaos, he wants to sit back ruffling his hair and then cruise in to take the victor's laurels when the dirty work has been done.
He's a spoiled, lazy, arrogant, know nothing, thick s**t.
It's his fault we had a referendum, but oh dear, never mind about his duty to the country, Dave doesn't want to do the job. Why doesn't the little f****r admit he doesn't know how to and p**s off.
I agree with this - he said, originally, that he'd stay on and deal with the aftermath whatever the vote turned out to be.
Now he's running away. There are those who think he has done the only decent thing he's ever done for this country by resigning - I'm more inclined to think he is too lazy to do the hard yards, cares so little about what he has unleashed, and is so obsessed with his own image that he won't countenance the humiliation that is coming from the EU.
Not the first time he has demonstrated cowardice.
I'm flying a kite here of course, but....
If, as seems our general view, Cameron boo-boo'd woth the referendum because when he made the promise he never expected he's have to go through with it, is Boris in the same situation?
Attaches himself to Leave campaign which is popular with grassroots Tories, but like lots of other very well informed people expecting Remain to win by a narrow margin. Which it does.
Tory backwoods go incandescent, Dave forced out and in comes Boris as the self-proclaimed saviour of the euro-sceptics promising that unlike Dave he'll stand no nonsense from the EU which we "sadly" find ourselves still hitched to and claiming he's the only person trusted enough by both Tory factions to hold the party together.
Then in a single day the wheels came off Cameron's plan, Boris's plan and the UK's economy.
Or, looked at in another way, would you want to be Prime Minister for the next few years? When commercial lawyers are saying things like unravelling the UK law from the EU could easily use the entire resources of the civil service for several years and will include major constitutional fights with the devolved parliaments and assemblies.
Then there's the very real risk of HMG being sued if it fails to hold to any treaty obligations until after exit is complete. But to have a legal system in place at exit the UK will have to revoke and/or ignore treaty obligations before exit. Oh dear.
Incredible though it may sound, it seems despite four decades of euro-scepticism and demands for exit from the EU, none of the leading outers have ever put together a plan for exit beyond "Look into my eyes...... you are feeling very sleepy....... Repeat after me 'It will all be wonderful'."
I'm getting tired of calming down....