the Tories seem unable or unwilling to get rid of Boris the clown so the only other way is a general election - the time could just be right?
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As he was leaving the Commonwealth summit in Rwanda on Saturday, Johnson was asked if he intended to serve a second full term in office upon winning a general election, taking him to 2028 or 2029. Johnson replied: “At the moment I am thinking actively about the third term and you know, what could happen then. But I will review that when I get to it.” Asked what he meant by leaving after a third term, Johnson said that would mean staying in office until “the mid-2030s”. (1)
No 10 initially suggested that Johnson might have been joking, but on Sunday morning the PM said he was making a point about being focused on the long-term challenges facing the country. “What I’m saying is this is a government that is getting on with delivering for the people of this country and we’ve got a huge amount to do (2),” he told reporters at the G7.
Johnson was even more bullish in a subsequent interview with ITV News. When it was put to him that the Conservatives lost the byelections in Wakefield, and in Tiverton and Honiton, because voters had lost trust in him, and that this should be a source of shame, Johnson replied: “No – because I think if you actually look at what this government is doing, it’s pretty remarkable, it is quite exceptional.” (3) Attributing the byelection defeats to the decision of the media to focus more on his personal conduct than on policy, Johnson went on: “If you want to look at examples of my leadership, then I would point you to what we did to solve the Brexit problem, which was very, very tough; what we did was make sure we had the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, and what we are doing now to help people through a tough time.”
In his ITV interview, Johnson also refused to deny a report in the Times saying that he had discussed getting a Tory donor, Lord Brownlow, to fund the construction of a £150,000 treehouse at Chequers to be used by his son, Wilf. According to the Times, the plan was dropped after the police raised security concerns. Asked about the story, Johnson said: “There is no such structure.” Asked if he had discussed getting a treehouse built, he said “all sorts of allegations” had been made about his family in the past and he never discussed them.
(1) In his dreams … 
(2) This now BJ’s “shut-out” reply
(3) That is delusion on a grand scale - BJ’s government has an appalling record … 
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