The Thatcher-esque photoshoot was for the Only Fans subscribers. Can you imagine the levels of left-handed web browsing going on right now in the Tory heartlands?
Not sure if I've just spat tea or thrown up a little
I am discombobulated by how intellectually feeble these people are on top of coming from supposedly smart institutions. It is an indictment/revelation of the whole system.
Wait until you realise the quality of the electorate...
@MCTD - sorry, I owe you a new keyboard
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Johnson was/is an opportunistic bastard but unless my memory is fading I don’t recollect him campaigning to stay in the EU in 2016
Ok then, he was pro EU until there was a shot at the top job, and for a lot longer than the period he has not been. Does that satisfy your pedantry?
As a card-carrying Tory party member
How do you live with yourself?
I sleep like a log.
I paid 1 pence for the privilege of joining the Tory party and when they have a leadership election I, along with around c.60,000 others, get to choose the prime minister of the country while everyone else sits around gnashing their teeth.
Quite a good investment in my democratic power considering I live in Scotland and for most of my lifetime have had essentially no say in which party gets to rule the country and which person becomes prime minister.
Now that's what I call democracy!
Did it really cost 1p?
There is no cost to join the tory party, just a donation. They have a suggested donation of £25 or something, but you can paypal them 1p and still be a member. Definitely costs more in admin and posting you silly letters.
You have to have been in for at least 3 months to get to vote in leadership elections though. Rules is rules.
Are you sure? Their website says £2.09 per month, or maybe they put the price up if a leadership contest is approaching. Labour if more expensive at £4.42 per month.
Johnson was/is an opportunistic bastard but unless my memory is fading I don’t recollect him campaigning to stay in the EU in 2016
He didn't think leave would win and that Dave & any remain successor would continue to be plagued by ERG nut jobs & the loss of votes to UKIP. Campaigning for leave would boost his credentials with them next time the PM job arose, but the leave victory put a spanner in that plan and a bigger spanner in no10.
Oh right, join the Scottish Conservatives then.
Their members still get to vote in the UK tory leadership election
Still no pics from Dominic? Fingers crossed they appear today.
He was probably just winding us up! I'm sure he has better things than revenge to do on Christmas Eve.
Do we need a "Liz Truss!!!!" thread now? That'd be depressing
Still no pics from Dominic? Fingers crossed they appear today.
Yeah what a tease!
Either :
some next level 4d chess machivelian shit to ruin bojos xmas
Or
Hes been silenced by the man
Or
Hes full of crap
I’m sure he has better things than revenge to do on Christmas Eve.
Driving to Barnard Castle maybe...
He'll be waiting - there's no point releasing anything now when everyone is trying to get through Christmas without getting Covid and there's no (or greatly reduced) instant news feed to pick up on it and a reduced audience for it.
He didn’t think leave would win and that Dave & any remain successor would continue to be plagued by ERG nut jobs & the loss of votes to UKIP. Campaigning for leave would boost his credentials with them next time the PM job arose, but the leave victory put a spanner in that plan and a bigger spanner in no10.
This...
Johnson said what he needed to say to advance his career. Like any populist leader, he waited until it was clear which way the wind was blowing then leapt in front shouting "follow me!". The ideal scenario would have been a narrow Remain victory because that would have given the ERG the impetus to ditch Cameron for a "Leave" leader and once in place he could have carried on riding that populist bandwagon - after all he had a large part in creating it with his totally made up articles in the Telegraph! Sadly, the bus thing put paid to that plan and he was left with having to do Actual Work. Which is why we're all now screwed.
Drink fuelled chat with Conservative voting relatives… Johnson is not to be trusted, and Truss is as thick as two short planks… so it’s not just an echo chamber thing.
Sunak supporters?
I can imagine many Tory voters would strongly agree with that analysis, including sober ones.
so the Boris tribute got to no 5 🙂
there’s no point releasing anything now when everyone is trying to get through Christmas without getting Covid and there’s no (or greatly reduced) instant news feed to pick up on it and a reduced audience for it. there’s no point releasing anything now when everyone is trying to get through Christmas without getting Covid and there’s no (or greatly reduced) instant news feed to pick up on it and a reduced audience for it
Same reason as why the move to allow foreigners in to staff care homes was announced today - keep it under the radar a bit to stop the brexity types noticing it, or if they do notice they’ll soon forget etc.
So he's been nowhere to be seen for ten days, then when he does make a brief appearance his answer when asked where he's been is 'I've been in this country, where do you think'
Given that the man is a compulsive liar, I think it's probably safe to assume that he's been on his hols again, not in this country at all.
I wonder who's private island he's been staying on this time?
https://twitter.com/hewitson10/status/1476148576422182912?s=20
Another round of Dodge the question until it's revealed that he's stayed at some remote villa in the Maldives, then repeat until it's revealed that some-one else has paid for it, then repeat until it's revealed who paid for it....ad infinitum.
According to the Guardian he has been staying at Chequers. I suspect that as Prime Minister sneaking undetected out of a UK airport probably isn't feasible.
sneaking out of a military airfield is certainly possible or a private one.
I suspect that as Prime Minister sneaking undetected out of a UK airport probably isn’t feasible.
I doubt he'll have been in the Easyjet queue at Leeds/Bradford
You'd also have thought that at the height of lockdown last year it would be unfeasible to have a lot of parties, but there you go....
bloody odd answer, it's like he was expecting a more direct question like "have you been out of the country on holiday".
Of course he could get out of the country without being seen.
sneaking out of a military airfield is certainly possible or a private one.
A whole state conspiracy!...... including the Met and the RAF!
And all coz the geezer didn't fancy spending Xmas at Chequers.
Well it seems to have fooled the Guardian. Although not necessarily some punters on here.
Honestly. What a lot of fuss over nothing.
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I would say he's stayed in the UK and is now trolling the media/us.
We're now at the point where him telling the truth would be the shocking outcome.
What do you mean you've not been sunning it up in Mustique with a tory donor? You've been at home with your new child? Are you unwell, Prime Minister?
What do you mean you’ve not been sunning it up in Mustique with a tory donor? You’ve been at home with your new child? Are you unwell, Prime Minister?
This. "In the country" could well mean at Chequers. In "this country" would have made me suspicious.
With his wife out of action , having recently given birth , surely it’s more a question of “whose” country* he has been in…
*remove letters to suit 😉
Until I saw him deny it in such a shifty manner I didn't think he'd been out the country at all
But now I'm not so sure, no wonder he didn't want to recall parliament!
Until I saw him deny it in such a shifty manner I didn’t think he’d been out the country at all
Thats just Johnson though isnt it?
He isnt used to the media doing their job and asking him awkward questions so doesnt handle it very well even if there is a valid explanation. His default is to waffle and bluster.
Even Geidts response is tripping over itself to make it sound like he's bending over backwards to let him off
Insiders said much of the blame for the lack of clarity over the donation has been apportioned by Johnson and Geidt to the process surrounding Geidt’s first inquiry into the flat loan.
Did the Tories learn absolutely nothing from the Owen Paterson backlash?
I seem to post this with monotonous regularity.
They do not care.
The system is to be played and your opinion is nothing of worth. They can buy and sell you and they know that no matter what. They still do not care.
How much longer will the Tories put up with Johnson?
https://twitter.com/MoS_Politics/status/1477384439072182278?t=TmJVSApjWE3UGyxXBh0RjA&s=19
This'll upset the populist voters who saw Brexit as an answer to their perceived grievances about immigration https://twitter.com/AnthonyGlees/status/1477196691229057024
He’s a hypocritical little shit is Cummings – he had his fingers in most of the pies in Downing Street and now he’s trying to come out of it all smelling of roses. Acted like he ran the place while he was there, breaking rules left right and centre; now he’s on the outside he’s turned into a smarmy git by slagging off everyone who’s still there.
A pretty concise summing up, I’d say. Really couldn’t put it better myself.
The phone photo is photoshopped
As someone who used to do that stuff professionally, it’s a pretty good job, very convincing to most people, it helps that the photo is very ‘soft’, and I had to look very close, but there’s a definite light ‘halo’ around the bottom edge of the phone. I’m impressed, neat bit of work by someone or other. It did make me smile when I saw it.
That goes all the way back to the first talks with India about brexit- government said "no visa changes, that's a red line" and the Indian government simply said no worries, talks are over, there's nothing to discuss if that's a red line. They didn't negotiate or anything, just said, talk to us once you've folded.
