Reply to: Johnson Resigns

[SueEllen]

Will Priti Priti stay in the cabinet? A strong principilled woman - I do not necessarily agree with all the policies that are designed to target the migrant peoples but she was loyal to Mr Johnson to the end. This Gove, I do not like one little bit.

A certain Mrs May sacked Priti Patel for going behind the government's back and having secret meetings with the Israeli government. So she isn't that loyal. Also Home Secretaries aren't liked.

Gove isn't standing. He's already lost his marriage to being in politics.

[Fraidycat]

I've been here 15 long years and since day 1 people have been saying IT is dead, contracting is over, etc... here we all still are.

But the premium between contracting and perm has been shrinking over the years.
Was a time you could take home (after tax) 3 or even 4x what you could as a permie.
Now the take home ratio is about 2x if outside, and if inside IR35 it is about 1.5x.

[Baddish]

Will Priti Priti stay in the cabinet? A strong principilled woman - I do not necessarily agree with all the policies that are designed to target the migrant peoples but she was loyal to Mr Johnson to the end. This Gove, I do not like one little bit.

[Destiny2]

The doom-sayers can all get out and leave work for the rest of us then. I've been here 15 long years and since day 1 people have been saying IT is dead, contracting is over, etc... here we all still are.

Infosys and his wife?

[jamesbrown]

Not compared to the rest of them. A smart, educated and hard-working son of immigrants he isn't from a privileged background prior to marriage and both his siblings are pretty big achievers too seemingly on merit. He did back Boris and Brexit but nobody is perfect

I agree that it's a weak field, and he's probably the only one among them that could win the next election (largely due to his pandemic profligacy), although probably not very convincingly. However, he's shown himself to have very poor political judgement. He totally mishandled the aftermath of those revelations about his own status (GC) and his wife's status (non dom) - the peevish mind-your-own business crap was completely naïve and rather pathetic. His wealth is largely irrelevant IMHO, but probably not to much of the electorate during a cost of living crisis. Aside from that, he's evasive about his beliefs - it's total BS that he's an "instinctive tax cutter" etc. I think he is quite likely to melt in the spotlight - being PM is very different than any SoS, even Chancellor.

[d000hg]

Not to mention that he is also a liability.

Not compared to the rest of them. A smart, educated and hard-working son of immigrants he isn't from a privileged background prior to marriage and both his siblings are pretty big achievers too seemingly on merit. He did back Boris and Brexit but nobody is perfect

[jamesbrown]

I can't see Rishi getting the job. His wife is a liability

Not to mention that he is also a liability.

[d000hg]

I can't see Rishi getting the job. His wife is a liability

But she could fund the entire election campaign

[ladymuck]

If Rishi becomes PM, all of us who work in IT can kiss our employment goodbye and go work in retail!

I can't see Rishi getting the job. His wife is a liability

[d000hg]

If Rishi becomes PM, all of us who work in IT can kiss our employment goodbye and go work in retail!

The doom-sayers can all get out and leave work for the rest of us then. I've been here 15 long years and since day 1 people have been saying IT is dead, contracting is over, etc... here we all still are.

[Destiny2]

If Rishi becomes PM, all of us who work in IT can kiss our employment goodbye and go work in retail!

[SueEllen]

John Major has written to the 1922 Committee to tell them not let BJ stay on as caretaker -
https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/...iY05F10GQ&s=09

[SueEllen]

Still lying his way through his resignation speech

He can't tell the truth even when he has no reason to lie.

[TestMangler]

Still lying his way through his resignation speech

[DoctorStrangelove]