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That picture, like everything else he does is completely contrived and manufactured to convey an impression as far removed from reality as possible that 'Boris' TM is 'just a normal bloke'. "Ha ha... look at his big baggy flowery shorts. He's a real character, isn't he?"
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if those shorts and the rest of the outfit had been chosen by a stylist, and then you ask yourself who took the photo? One of his team of taxpayer-funded official photographers? And why is it in the public domain?
It's all just part of the act. It just amazes me that anyone is still buying it
You mean he didn't buy them himself from tk maxx?
I'm dubious that anyone would contrive that image to be released for his benefit. Surely they'd choose something less unflattering.
Why? His image is all about wearing the unflattering. He's "good old Boris".
It’s all part of the “I’m just a regular guy who doesn’t have all the gear like all us other normal blokes for whom salad is effeminate” bullshit.
The lack of gear is done on purpose. Compare when Johnson dresses for something like shooting for instance (where he, and the people like him) wouldn't dream of not being dressed appropriately. This on the other hand is a sport done by "non U" folks, therefore someone like him cannot under any circumstances demean himself to dress properly. That way he can either beat the "Non U" at his own game thus demonstrating his superiority, or if he loses, well, he hasn't the right equipment, has he?
What's next, pictures of him on the bog?
Depends when the next fines are due, I suppose?
The story about Angela Raynor in the Mail on Sunday hints at a certain desperation at that rag and on the Tory benches. Absolutely pathetic, misogynist crap.
I suspect their anxiety to distance themselves from the story has more to do with it characterising Boris as being someone so sexually incontinent, that he can’t hold a train of thought when he sees a woman, rather than any distress caused to Angela Raynor
That way he can either beat the “Non U” at his own game thus demonstrating his superiority, or if he loses, well, he hasn’t the right equipment, has he?
I reckon that's absolutely part of it but it still doesn't explain why, at any important meeting like G12, he looks like a complete sack of shit compared to everyone else. Trump is the only other person I've seen with that similar look of zero style and looking like a pudding shoved into a condom.
But that is Boris’s style. The whole thing is made up bullshit. He’s been doing it since university age. I’ll fitting suit, sticky out hair, blundering nonsense. Thankfully or not the other uniform of a cricket jumper and a teddy bear was taken in his circle of chums.
Isn’t this essentially what the whole “call me Dave” thing was about? Just a mate you’d meet in the pub.
Trump is the only other person I’ve seen with that similar look of zero style and looking like a pudding shoved into a condom.
Their supporters distrust anyone who dresses well as they must, by definition, be elitist. This a major problem that Starmer has. The populist MO is that anyone competent must be an elitist member of some kind of cult.
And this is a failing of the electorate too - in falling for this crap they speak volumes about themselves.
looking like a pudding shoved into a condom
If only Stanley had shoved his pudding into a condom N years and 9 months ago.
What’s the point of that picture? If anything, it looks like he’s trying to improve his fitness by doing some exercise, and for that (alone) he gets a modicum of respect from me -don’t shame him for that.
Shame him for being a mendacious self-interested kleptocrat.
TBH he's been 'trying' to improve his fitness since the time he nearly died of covid.
I'm not sure he's really taken the exercise concept to heart.
I know twitter links are frowned upon in some quarters, but #TheWeekInTory is worth a read/follow.
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1518541475335790592
Some doubt has been cast over that nearly died story much in the same way that his claim of shaking hands with cv victims was a figtree of his imagination. The hospital said they had no cv patients at that time. His obesity reflects his neediness, greed, self-indulgence, alcoholism, I you can't look after youself.....
Some doubt has been cast over that nearly died story much in the same way that his claim of shaking hands with cv victims was a figtree of his imagination.
I've seen similar - a lot of doubt around the timings, the fact that some of his "illness" would have been a very convenient excuse to escape scrutiny, dodge a few PMQs, generate some sympathy...
the full Sue Gray report will be so “damning” for Boris Johnson that he’ll have little choice but to quit as PM
i'm not sure Boris is the resigning type.
#TheWeekInTory is worth a read/follow.
While funny it is also deeply depressing.
the full Sue Gray report will be so “damning” for Boris Johnson that he’ll have little choice but to quit as PM
i’m not sure Boris is the resigning type.
HIGNFY making much the same point this morning...
One thing we can all be absolutely sure of is that whatever happens, the end of Boris Johnson won't be coming with him resigning. He's only ever resigned once and that was as foreign secretary and done entirely for his own advancement. On every other occasion he's been sacked, usually for lying
The thing about Partygate is that so many other Tories will be hit by it too. That being the case, who won't be involved and therefore in a position to become the replacement Leader?
Hunt. Came second last time and is completely unattached to Johnson regime. Presumably he'd be a strong contender.
Not a chance! He's actually reasonably sane, by their standards
The Tory party that he was a member of doesn't exist any more. It became UKIP in 2016 when Boris's Brexit Cult madness took hold
The present Brexity intake of Tory MP's and the rich, elderly home-counties racists who constitute their membership would not entertain someone like Hunt for a millisecond
gardentiger
It’s all part of the “I’m just a regular guy who doesn’t have all the gear like all us other normal blokes for whom salad is effeminate” bullshit.
Yep. The red-faced gammony bloke who sits opposite me at work loves this sort of stuff - telling everyone how he goes for a run in his 25 year old RAF issue trainers when running comes up in the office, but then complains about how much his knees hurt on his 1.5 mile amble round the block.
That was only 2019 and although they purged some moderates they aren't all swivel-eyed loons. Obviously he wouldn't be the erg nutter choice.
There’s nobody standing against him as there’s 2 years to an election and they’re all compromised in one way or another, Boris has had luck in bucket loads the last few years.
Im sorry to tell you but the next leader will be Brexit Baker.
That was only 2019 and although they purged some moderates they aren’t all swivel-eyed loons. Obviously he wouldn’t be the erg nutter choice.
Boris Johnson absolutely walked the last leadership election against Hunt. He got 66% of the vote.
And the party has gone full on Brexit/Hang em and flog em/send em back/culture war since then
The next party leader will be none of the frontrunners, but it will be a right wing Brexit nutjob. Baker is probably a fair shout
The rule is that they get significantly worse each time so you're probably right. We'll be looking back on the Johnson years as a time of blissful naivety.
3rd time lucky for govey govey govey? Or did going dancing in Aberdeen ruin his chances for good?
Itll be truss
the membership will fall back on false memories of Thatcher the way they did with May
And theyll end up very dissapointed, the way they did with May (saying that Morduant on manuvers)
Someone in central Comms has realised how appalling badly that played and how it’s been taken to pieces in the press and some hasty damage limitation tweets have been ordered.
That can’t be true. Johnson and Dorris just arrived at the exact same wording for their tweets because they feel the same about this underhand deniable anonymous briefing that came as such a horrible surprise to them both…
https://twitter.com/jonrob5000/status/1518593088125808641?s=21
I don't believe the story about Angela Rayner. If Boris wanted to look at a **** he only needs to turn round. The benches are full of them.
Or just look in the mirror.
There's no doubt the Tories are trying to mobilise the nastier, more bigoted end of their support to vote - all this shizz about how big the fall might be is designed to scare the complacent old gammons into getting down the polling station, even if they have to shake off their carers.
Fingers crossed they'll get a shoe-ing and Johnson gets his marching orders. When a dyed in the wool Brexit nutter also fails due to the irreconcilable nature of their chosen flagship policy, even the duller brexies amongst Joe Public might have to face a few facts. Any payrises screwed by, for example, Brexity lorry drivers, are largely being wiped out by inflation. Knowing that other 'elitists' in other sectors are having it worse will only keep them warm for so long.
The latest is that football fans are to be allowed to drink on the terraces. Yeah throw the proles a bone and they'll forget all about the lies,corruption and Uturns. 😔
^^^^
Well, football violence comes with the territory with the new demographic the tories keep chasing.
🤷♂️
Meanwhile, in Slovenia another European country makes the UK look childish and stupid.
AC12 Interview
Sorry if this has been done but I've just seen it. Absolutely brilliant work
They have a new headline dominating crazy scheme Klunk, so that one was always going to quietly go… just like the wave machines.
Well, football violence comes with the territory with the new demographic the tories keep chasing.
The very worst sort. The ones who pretend to like kickyball when the national squad are amazingly doing ok...
...but might struggle to explain the offside rule, and why two weeks earlier they were accusing the very same players of being terrorist sympathisers and marxists for taking the knee in support of BLM
Like I said, its amazing anyone is still buying this shit, its all so transparently insincere
I note that they've committed to implement the recommendations of the 'Football Task Force' but not put any timescale on that. So somewhere between 2065 and never then?
Someone cynical might point out that Ed Woodward (Man Yoo CEO and the glazers representative on earth) was in a meeting with Johnson at number ten two days before they announced the breakaway European Superleague, so maybe the Tories might be siding slightly more with the dodgy, offshore, parasitic owners of the clubs rather than the fans. just a thought.
I note that they’ve committed to implement the recommendations of the ‘Football Task Force’ but not put any timescale on that.So somewhere between 2065 and never
If you commit to doing something but then haven't delivered on it, you can just repeat the same commitment in the next election cycle. You can probably also blame the opposition for delaying it, blocking it, etc thus scoring another win.
"We would have done xxxx but the opposition didn't allow us to so what you need to do is vote for us even more in order to kill off the opposition and we'll then deliver xxxx."
“We would have done xxxx but the opposition didn’t allow us to because they are unpatriotic and hate Britain so what you need to do is vote for us even more in order to kill off the opposition and we’ll then deliver xxxx.”
FTFY.
Who had the Passport Office in the post-austerity privatisation sweepstake?
BBC News - Boris Johnson threatens to privatise Passport Office
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61233206
Or ending the Elf'n'Safety nightmare with nurseries?
BBC News - Boris Johnson wants to relax safety rules to cut childcare cost
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61227622
Will reducing the number of staff reduce the cost to parents, or leave some minimum wage nursery staff unemployed?
Selling off state assets (after increasing the demand for their services and understaffing them) and lowering standards as the answer to increasing costs (resulting from policies they said would lower costs)... whoever would have predicted any of that?!?
Selling off state assets (after increasing the demand for their services and understaffing them) and lowering standards… whoever would have predicted that?!?
Shhhhhh. That's the plan for the NHS you've just let out of the bag there.
And the numpties who voted Leave actually thought it would be getting £350m a week!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I guess it's the way Boris tells 'em that does it.
Caught an interview with the actor in the recent canoe fraud drama, and he was asked who he'd like to play in the current government.
He said Boris,just to explore how you end up so narcissistic that you can stand at the despatch box and believe that if you keep telling people the party wasn't a party they will eventually believe you.
Boris Johnson wants to relax safety rules to cut childcare cost
and we know why he wants to do that!
To paraphrase...
Is there anyone left that him or Mad Nad haven't threatened with privatisation?
It's quite quaint, in an 80's retro sort of way, that they think that's going to solve anything. Thick as mince, the pair of them
Who says they think it'll solve anything? It's not about improving the service really, is it.
Fair point
Who says they think it’ll solve anything? It’s not about improving the service really, is it.
Precisely.
Ah, the muddy waters are becoming clearer 🙄
Serco have to be one of the front runners to operate a private sector Passport Office, no?
Anyway… that appointment…
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/home-office-names-new-passports-and-visas-dg
Note mention of the thing that must not be mentioned [begins with B] as regards the increased workload for a department known to be already understaffed.
Brainbox Grant Schapps has proposed - as part of this ‘innovative new thinking’ Boris requested - having an MOT every two years instead of every year to tackle the cost of living crisis
That’s it folks. Cost of living crisis sorted! Job jobbed!
We can all sit back and relax…
Christ on a ****ing bendybus!
Serco.
Nuff said.
Over-tender, under-resource, take a dividend / exec salary, under-deliver, repeat until you've totally screwed it up and then walk off into the sunset whilst the operation is nationalised in all but name, with the public purse footing the bill.
Truss will be wetting her knickers at this kind of thing.
Privatise the profits and nationalise the losses. Tory wet dream.
Grant Schapps
In any normal work environment he would have the nickname 'Taps'.
Thick
As
Pig
Shit
And he'd never figure it out.
Brainbox Grant Schapps has proposed – as part of this ‘innovative new thinking’ Boris requested – having an MOT every two years instead of every year to tackle the cost of living crisis
Great so the poorest (who could struggle to legally maintain a vehicle can run around for longer in a potential deathtrap) to save £50 every second year, meanwhile energy has doubled and food is up significantly
Great so the poorest (who could struggle to legally maintain a vehicle can run around for longer in a potential deathtrap) to save £50 every second year, meanwhile energy has doubled and food is up significantly
Yep, but they're appealing to idiots, so par for the course.
And he’d never figure it out.
He would just think its another name to use for a web spamming campaign.
Lets take half of every MOT test centres business away!
It’s like Alan Partridge shouting out programme ideas
The next Tory manifesto… literally Monkey Tennis
Note mention of the thing that must not be mentioned [begins with B] as regards the increased workload for a department known to be already understaffed.
Fancy that.
I saw something pop up on Facecloth from an acquaintance of mine. He's a Brexie, but of the cheerful nobhead kind who combines low grade oi oi nationalism with a totally unfounded optimism.
He was saying how we really ought to do more for St George's Day, get behind England blah blah, lots of English flags and roses etc.
I pointed out that, as St George was born in modern day Turkey it is likely that, if he appeared in England today, he would be sent to Rwanda for 'processing'.
I know he is basically a well-meaning peckerhead, but he has a lot of red-faced, angry footie mates who have not taken the bait yet. I'm surprised by this to say the least. And a little disappointed.
I’m going to watch only fools and horses all day today, justifying it at work that it’s definitely connected to my Sales function. I’m sure I’ll be fine…
even the Tories dont want you to vote Tory
https://twitter.com/cllralankopitko/status/1519101131640684545
^^^^
Unpatriotic traitor!
even the Tories dont want you to vote Tory
But not once does Alan Kopitko mention Johnson in that letter, his problem seems to be Dominic Raab.
Nor does he mention that last month he appeared perfectly happy to remain a Tory councillor, until the party decided not to select him as a candidate again.
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/councillor-claims-local-conservative-party-23324339
It comes after he received an email in October from the branch chair for Cobham & Oxshott Conservatives, Catherine Davies, about not being re-selected to stand in the local elections in two months time
I haven't had time to listen to R4 this morning. Too busy with work, but I'm a hand-wringing liberal elitist who doesn't drive a van, so that's tough on me I guess.
Anyhoo...
Who was rota'd in for 'Dick of The Day' today?
Shapps? Jenrick?
'Dick of the day'? Are you referring to the senior Tory MP watching porn on the green benches?
its only wednesday lunchtime and the guy that writes ThisWeekInTory must be exhuasted
Who was rota’d in for ‘Dick of The Day’ today?
The bit I caught was Raab lying that Covid caused the backlog of cases in the courts system and being allowed to get away with it.
The bit I caught was Raab lying that Covid caused the backlog of cases in the courts system and being allowed to get away with it.
Raab seems to have more leeway than the usual rent-a-tools like Shapps.
I presume it was a day that required using up one of Dildo Dom's enhanced 'do not scrutinise this bullshit' passes. They must be worried about something.
Steady on with the insulting of the base for bolognaise sauce there, Binners!
It's a black hole of ignorance, bright ideas will fail to escape.
Edit @Ernie Have a re-read of para 7 in the letter.
Thanks sandwich, yes indeed the last 2 words in his letter is "Boris's Conservatives", not exactly the most damning criticism of Johnson just as calling Labour "Starmer's Labour" wouldn't be a huge criticism of Starmer, but he does nevertheless mention Johnson.
However 5 weeks ago he claimed that he had resigned from the Conservative Group because they hadn't selected him. From the link at the top :
Cllr Kopitko, 64, tweeted after the meeting: "So tonight I publicly resigned from the Elmbridge conservative group. Why?.. In an email from a Conservative branch chair apparently thinks I'm too old to represent them."
He doesn't seem completely sure why he's resigned but I think it's probably fair to assume that had they reselected him he wouldn't have resigned. After all he himself says that was the problem.