Boris Johnson was announced as new Tory Party leader at 12.05 today though he technically does not become Prime Minister until he has seen the Queen tomorrow after Theresa May’s exit. He won by a 2 to 1 majority though it wasn’t quite as much of a wipe-out for Hunt as had been anticipated.
Johnson inherits a considerable mess, much of it his own making, having flannelled and lied his way through the Brexit referendum and more recently has been making all manner of promises which have little hope of being delivered – on Irish backstop, leaving come hell or high water on October 31st, easy-peasy trade deals etc. And he has even less of a slender majority than Theresa May with ministers resigning over his NO-Deal strategy and coups being planned left, right and centre.
Rachel Sylvester in the Times says what will undo him is his need to be loved. She quotes an MP who says he seems terrified at the thought of having to take responsibility for the consequences of his own actions. “Through his whole life Boris has had somebody who makes things OK. He’s always had a fixer but Brexit is unfixable. He knows he’s in trouble. I saw it in his eyes. He’s scared of failure and of being found out. He sold something that he knows he can’t deliver and now the facts are going to catch up with him. He can see the train coming down the track that’s going to destroy him.”
That pretty much sums up most of the comments about his elevation. He does have charm as well as a ferocious temper and a vengeful streak, but is bad with detail and invents facts to suit himself. He’ll be very exposed in Downing Street.
The chart of his election will be superseded tomorrow by his acceptance as PM by HM Queen, which will be the more significant, but for what it’s worth – there’s an unsettled, divisive Sun square Uranus with Uranus also in a volatile, argumentative square to Mars in flashy Leo. A vulnerable, dependent-on-support 7th house Aries Moon does trine Mars and Jupiter in the 3rd which could be inspirational, will certainly foster a strong sense of self-belief, is vitality plus, attention demanding, not humble, adventurous. There’s also a head-in-the-clouds, over-hopeful, over-promising Jupiter square Neptune. What will pull away from all the enthusiasm and general charm being sprayed around by a 10th house Venus, is Saturn on the IC conjunct Pluto and opposition the North Node. Domestic hardship and mutinous, resentful natives will take the shine off the hot air. And the Sun square the Mars/Saturn midpoint and conjunct Mars/Node does suggest major setbacks and running arguments.
His own chart, birth time of 2pm being accurate or thereabouts, does have his Solar Arc Midheaven moving to oppose his Saturn this year and then conjunct his Uranus (conjunct Pluto) which will be very stop-start and prone to sudden jolts and changes of direction. There’s nothing too secure or stable from that career-wise. And he’s got a considerable emotional shock coming next year with his Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Moon.
On transits to midpoints he does look marginally unnerved at the moment as well as trapped until late August; really tossed around mid September to mid October; and in a meltdown of panic mid November to mid December.
Best wait for tomorrow for the new Johnson Government chart.
Good morning Marjorie,
Know and you’re rightly focused on time BJ becomes UK PM.
Noting that Dominic Cummings has just been appointed as special adviser to BJ.
DC born 25 November 1971 in Durham.
I’m glad about Dominic Cummings. ?He expected someone to step up constructively after the referendum ‘reset’ and was disappointed no one did. Hopefully this appointment signals his engagement to lead.
One thing is for sure ,Marjorie, and that is he will be appointed Prime Minister under a Mercury R.
How does this compare with his predecessors who got to be PM under a Mercury R and how did it work out for them.
Hmm. Gordon Brown for one which makes sense. But Tony Blair’s first term was also MercR and he survived on for yonks.
I suppose they felt like big changes, Tony Blair coming to power after 18 years of Tories and in turn, Gordon Brown after a very long period of Tony Blair?
Thanks Marjorie
The Party within a Party.
The ERG, Boris Johnston and a No Deal Brexit:-
http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-the-files-that-expose-erg-as-a-militant-party-within-a-party/
Look forward to the new chart…..and not much else! But Saturn with the South Node suggests release, something being unravelled or chickens coming home to roost at Westminster. This is not a man with an eye for detail, and I suspect that the devil really is in the details now. And many of today’s aspects will be there tomorrow. Just imagine all the whispering in corners…..this was a boy who wanted to be “king of the world”. He will now realise that every “king” has a court filled with intrigue and plots.
How soon before he comes a cropper. Much has been said that his team have kept him under wraps for much of the leadership contest but now it is over and he is apparently answerable to nobody… time will tell. Astrology looks very interesting he’s gotten what he always wanted and it looks like a Pyrrhic victory indeed!
Well it looks as though he’s boxed himself into a corner, with his ERG cabal monitoring his every move and even with Trump now going to hold him to his promise of leaving the EU with No Deal on the 31st of October.
And if this happens it will auger the end of the United Kingdom as around 60% of Scots will want out … and that’s even before campaigning has begun.
How the UK can say that it’s a democratic nation is beyond me. We’ve had three Tory PM’s in the last 3 years. The first, Cameron, got in with around 37% of the vote, of those that actually voted that is, Theresa May was unelected by the people as is Boris Johnston. Around 90,000 people, of a 47 million UK electorate, voted for this man and to add insult to injury that included individuals as young as age 15 (16/17) who are Tory party members, whilst the Tories won’t allow anyone under the age of 18 to vote in any other type of UK election at all. To be honest, between one thing and another, I can’t think of anything bad enough to say about them anymore. I just thank the heavens that the rotten, corrupt Westminster electoral system’s, such as FPTP, days are numbered.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49083746
Thanks for the commentary. I’m watching this with interest.
Any bets as to who will resign the whip first or will they leave him to sweat for a bit?
Trump’s mini-me.
Will that be One scoop…or two?