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This stinks.... Had echos of the DDR.
Mary Beard blocked by No 10 as British Museum trustee 'for pro-Europe views'
^^^
Looks like the British Museum are going to tell Johnson and his Brexity muppets to **** off and they are going to appoint her anyway. Good on them.
Funny how 99% of the wits and intellectuals are anti Brexit, eh?
It was May and her wannabe Brexity muppets who tried to block Beard, not Johnson and his original gangster Brexity muppets.
This is marginally interesting, if more lyin from a habitual liar is interesting.
Boris and his ministers had been defending his lack of activity on coronavirus saying he'd been on the front line against the disease at Ketering general hospital... only kettering isnt involved with coronavirus..
https://twitter.com/norock/status/1234826217922138117
Is that where he told Carrie he was?
Now that carrie is up the duff he'll be away shagging a new mistress, good old Boris, what a bloke.
Johnson has actually turned up for PMQs.
He is saying he "loathes bullying", as he defends Patel.
Er, yeah, right.
Also:
"The home secretary is doing an outstanding job delivering change," replies the prime minister.
"And I'm sticking by her," he adds.
reckon she's gone then?
A visit to "Leave.eu" is an interesting visit into what passes for the minds of these people...
Boris has changed his mind on the bridge, he now wants a tunnel (according to the Scottish Secretary). I pressume it means another consultancy earner for another of his mates with a commission stashed offshore to be collected at a later date.
Front page of Private Eye is excellent - go buy it.
Boris has changed his mind on the bridge, he now wants a tunnel
Makes sense. You wouldn't want to be building a bridge over all those dumped explosives ...
Hedge funds don't kill people,
Farmers do,
I read it in a secret memo from the government too.
Maybe now his birds got one in the oven he's looking at options.
Maybe he fancies a bit of brown, those Eton boys and their crazy kinks.
Ahem.
Well Poison Priti ticks a lot of boxes for this rabble.
She's BAME meaning an easy tokenistic refutation of accusations that the tories are riding a toxic far right project that is dangerously close to out and out racist thugs.
She's Brexity. Nuff said. Got to keep appealing to the prats.
She's a Bully. Cummings has a shitlist of senior civil servants he wants out. The only reason they don't get on personally is that they both have grotesquely huge egos. She has the natural confidence of a brash thicko, he has the conceit of someone who is convinced he is a genius.
She will probably stay.
Apologies to whoever’s twitter I’ve stolen this from, I can’t find it now...
Did you have an affair with Jenny Acuri?
“My private life is my own business”
How many children have you got?
“My private life is my own business”
How are the trade talks with the EU going?
“I’ve got engaged to my girlfriend”
Will you sack Priti Patel?
“And she’s pregnant”
My latest 'go-to' reflexive mental image whenever Joris Bohnson is mentioned is Swiss Toni.
There's a rumour among political circles that his recent absence from the media during the floods was due to a mark on his face caused by Carrie when she discovered he'd been giving the ferret a run.
Even if it's not true, it won't be long before it is.
Swiss Toni
He's more Rowley Birkin, QC.
He’s more Rowley Birkin, QC.
Crossed with Benny Hill.
And this is the man who 'we' have chosen to be our public face to the world.
I despair.
is this the cover ?
I though Grayling had been moved on from transport
And this is the man who ‘we’ have chosen to be our public face to the world.
Given the exercise in absolutely mind-bending foot-shooting stupidity that this country is presently committing all its resources too, surely he's perfect
I'm thinking of the Big Lebowski quote to describe the Dude...
Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.
Imagine a student flat.
Imagine a student coming back from a night out and throwing up down the side of their cooker.
Imagine that the gap between the cooker and the wall is small and makes it hard to get all the sick out.
Imagine the students can't be bothered moving the cooker so just leave it and put up with the smell for a bit.
Imagine months later a landlord doing a deep clean before the next rental, moving the cooker and scraping out all that has accumulated over the years.
See those scrapings, that's Boris Johnston, that is.
Copyright Newman & Baddiel.
Klunk, not that one; its the 6th March issue which was in shops yesterday.
In light of the hit job on Johnson in tomorrows times & his questionable health, I was just saying to my wife that Murdoch wants Johnson out & replaced with Gove (my wife politely humoured me)
then just saw this
https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1251588847319814147
johnson never been a fan of detail & hard work
I reckon he will duck out of this crisis happily , claiming brexit as a victory (before it crashes & burns)
even the likes of Andrew Neil & Iain Martin questioning whos in charge
The Heil, Mirror and Metro all seem to have gone all out anti-gov with todays lead headlines.
Daily Star, covering the important issues of the day, leads with 'Lobster saves Lifeboat'
I thought it was ok to lie and make things up provided it got stuff done?
Clearly Boris and his mates are allowed to lie but its not fair when they get questioned? Awww. Poor Boris. Nasty newspapers daring to question his competence rather than simply deifying him.
describing elements of its investigation as "plainly untrue" and "ridiculous"
Wonder how much restraint he had to use to not use the words "fake news"...
Wonder how much restraint he had to use to not use the words “fake news”…
About as much as I have my not saying 'Poundshop Trump'.
Oh, damn....
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-govts-lengthy-rebuttal-to-newspaper-claims-it-sleepwalked-into-crisis-11975703
/blockquote>I have to thank the government for continuing to make this a story and raise its profile.
Perhaps not what they intended?
Anyway, does this all mean the knives are being sharpened?
The real question is why would anyone be surprised by this. Boris's rise to power has been typified by his team him hiding him from anything difficult for fear he'd say or do something stupid - they deliberately kept him out of any situation that would see him tested. It was a successful way for them to run their campaign - with he full support of the media that is now turning on him..... but here we are - this is what their success looks like.
BloJo was always just the frontman. He doesn't really believe in the Brexit project other than a way for him to have a crack at the top job and do his 'Music Hall Churchill' routine for a bit. He is a convenient puppet for the real loons as he can always be cast later as the opportunist who didn't embrace the full project.
Johnson is the equivalent of Von Papen, but who is.......?
Must admit am surprised that Boris hasn’t done Telly recently, I get he’s recuperating but I still find it odd that he’s not given a few pep talks to the people.
He must be very unwell or hiding.
The whole deputy Rab type thing doesn’t smell right.
Johnson was much more unwell than the tories let on. He will be a while recovering yet
But yes - he is completely temperamentally unsuited to crisis leadership
But yes – he is completely temperamentally unsuited to
crisisany kind of meaningful leadership
He's just the frontman.
He must be very unwell or hiding.
Or they are still trying to sober him up.
Johnson was much more unwell than the tories let on. He will be a while recovering yet
An optimistic/naive part of me hopes that his own brush with the Covid-reaper might cause him to be a little less cavalier with other people's lives in future. And perhaps even value the NHS just a little more.
While I agree it would be great, and hope this happens too Graham... dream on.
BloJo was always just the frontman.
Traditionally a ‘Front man’ stands at the front. Even if it’s just as a public face while others are pulling the leavers. It’s baffling to chose a frontman that you then have to hide.
Even if it’s just as a public face while others are pulling the leavers.
See what you did there.
Ha!
while others are pulling the leavers.
+1 nicely done
Traditionally a ‘Front man’ stands at the front.
Joris is more of a 'reality show' part-scripted and part-ad-lib'd character actor, the sort of thing you'd expect on Oxford Shores or You're Not Even A D-List Celebrity So Get The F*ck Out Of My House or something. A useful idiot to have around during a somewhat easy to script campaign trail type scenario, now there's an actual job to do with actual crisis and so forth, ball achingly useless, a spare wheel, and a loose cannon at that. Best kept out of the way.
+1 nicely done
what’s the opposite of the Edinburgh Defence?
Edinburgh Deference?
A useful idiot to have around during a somewhat easy to script campaign trail type scenario,
he was hiding (being hidden) on the election campaign trail. He was even hiding during his own leadership campaign
An optimistic/naive part of me hopes that his own brush with the Covid-reaper might cause him to be a little less cavalier with other people’s lives in future. And perhaps even value the NHS just a little more.
He's already promised an austerity-enforced fire sale of public services (at least the profitable or cannot be allowed to fail bits) to the real power behind the Leave vote. He doesn't get to chose.
Edinburgh Deference?
It was an unintended funny.
Is anyone entirely convinced that he actually got C-19 rather than just used it as a smoke screen to hide behind while avoiding doing anything useful/showing himself up/preparing to rise Lazarus like from his death bed?
I can't get it out of my head that it's in fact just another Cummings PR trick.
I can’t get it out of my head that it’s in fact just another Cummings PR trick.
I don't think it is.
From Cummings point of view it has overshadowed him scuttling out of Downing Street like a rat - who remembers that now?*
It has also put the young Hannibal Lecter (aka Raab) front and centre to acclimatise us to him for when BloJo gets the chop when he winces once too often at restrictions on civil liberties on the wake of No Deal later in the year.
*The fanbois and swivel eyed loons will have either forgotten or be glad to be able pretend to have forgotten.
Is anyone entirely convinced that he actually got C-19 rather than just used it as a smoke screen to hide behind while avoiding doing anything useful/showing himself up/preparing to rise Lazarus like from his death bed?
Oh come on now. When he didn't have C19 he was far too busy not bothering to negotiate a trade agreement with the EU and not sorting out the flooding to do anything else, especially seeing as at the same time period he was busy not being told about the airstrike involving our new besties the USA, and Iraq, and also busy telling HS2 to "carry on as you were". These were all important things to not do. And don't forget, the plans for the Definitely Going To Be Built Boris Bridge to Northern Island must be taking up a significant amount of his free time, when he's not building and painting small cardboard models of London buses that is.
It has also put the young Hannibal Lecter (aka Raab) front and centre to acclimatise us to him for when BloJo gets the chop when he winces once too often at restrictions on civil liberties on the wake of No Deal later in the year.
I reckon you’ll be getting that US deal in June/July 🙂
(The one they’ve been secretly working on and been wetting their pants to do.)
The EU negotiations a sham, it’s one or ta other which is why they’re not bothering to extend the talks, they’ll whip out the beautiful US deal and not bother with the EU.
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Is anyone entirely convinced that he actually got C-19 rather than just used it as a smoke screen to hide behind while avoiding doing anything useful/showing himself up/preparing to rise Lazarus like from his death bed?I can’t get it out of my head that it’s in fact just another Cummings PR trick.
I mentioned this on another thread and got shot down!! Lying for political gain is so deeply rooted in this government that it would not surprise me in the slightest.
Comparing Boris' recovery to Jesus' resurrection was almost perfect for me, both the bible and that vile **** are both full of shit.
Lying for political gain is so deeply rooted in this government that it would not surprise me in the slightest.
Get a grip. This is taking conspiracy theories to the level of David Ike. It would require wholesale conspiratorial involvement by the NHS, with the full involvement of a multitude of healthcare professionals. Presumably with no one breaking rank.
Are NHS professionals really that committed to Tory governments that they would take the huge risks of blatantly lying? And for what?
ernies right, johnson is a mendacious liar, terrible PM & all round douchebag, even he wouldnt stoop to that, let alone all the medical staff involved
BJ didn't get Covid.
He is way to patriotic for a forrin virus to dare enter.
Dunkirk spirit and all that would see it straight off.
ernie - well said; too much conspiratorial bollocks.
The bloke behaved like a dick and, unsurprisingly, got ill.
Let's hope this brings about a change in his mindset.
Who was responsible for telling Dumbojo it was a good idea to shake hands with people in hospital?
Please be Domcum please be Domcum,
Get a grip. This is taking conspiracy theories to the level of David Ike.
I don't doubt he had Covid, and was very ill, but I'm sceptical about the exact severity of his illness. The Guardian quoted a couple of medical sources who suggested that the lily may have been gilded a bit. I think it suits him to lie low at present while things get worse and other people catch the direct flak.
If he's too ill to do his job, he should be formally handing over responsibility. The speed of current events are such that we can't wait a few weeks for Johnson to recuperate.
Domcum is exceedingly quiet these days?
He caught it to didn't he?
If he’s too ill to do his job, he should be formally handing over responsibility
Be honest, would you ever, in a million years, see Boris handing over anything, without being made to walk the plank first? He was never any good at any of his jobs in the first place, let alone after getting C19.
Who was responsible for telling Dumbojo it was a good idea to shake hands with people in hospital?
I thought earlier in this very thread we had debunked this story as he was at a hospital that wasn't treating Covid-19 folk?
Is anyone entirely convinced that he actually got C-19
I did raise an eyebrow when it was announced.
It was remarkably convenient that it occurred precisely at a time when they were imposing pretty harsh restrictions on the sceptical public's day-to-day lives and claiming we were "all in it together".
I think he probably did get ill, but I suspect that wasn't entirely unintentional.
I thought earlier in this very thread we had debunked this story as he was at a hospital that wasn’t treating Covid-19 folk?
really?
the virus was circulating in the country at the time, there could well have been undetected cases there, even if thy werent treating them- which ive seen no evidence of?, it was known to be incredibly contagious, hed been briefed the very morning of his visit of all of these things(a full month after the WHO declared an international emergency it was famously the first COBRA meeting he'd bothered to turn up to) , in fact he'd been told that the fatality rate was 0.5-1% & that likely 80% of the country would be infected, meaning ~400,000 UK citizens would die
he still gave this speech, where he himself clearly said there were COVID patients & he shook hands with everybody
so was Johnson lying about that as well?
ernie – well said; too much conspiratorial bollocks.
The fake covid as excuse thing is bollocks and a step too far. Crap like this degrades the many, many legitimate complaints about the Tories and their conduct.
The bloke behaved like a dick and, unsurprisingly, got ill.
He behaved like a dick because he is a dick. A bluff, crass oaf who genuinely thinks he is some kind of Churchillian figure.
Let’s hope this brings about a change in his mindset.
It is unlikely to, he's made a career out of insincere opportunism so why would it?
In any case, even if it did, he doesn't get to choose. He nailed his colours to the flagpole of convenience (to mix at least three metaphors). But the people who are really behind it have enough on him, the Tories and the influences and funding behind Leave that they can destroy the Tories anytime they like.
He is just the frontman.
I wonder if he had/ has mental health issues and that the reason for his disappearance. He sounded far too chipper for someone who needed to be in itu in his thank you speech
he was at a hospital that wasn’t treating Covid-19 folk
No covid-19 cases in St Thomas's Hospital? Well **** me, what a schoolboy error - you would expect them to have sent him to a hospital with covid-19!
They're not very good at conspiracies!
No covid-19 cases in St Thomas’s Hospital?
I'm only going by what I read on here. And this place never gets it wrong does it?
Edit: this is what was posted a page or so back:
Yes I think they might have got it wrong. I've just checked and the first death at St Thomas' Hospital from covid-19 was reported on March 15.
So it seems Johnson was just BSing in his press conference
We really shouldnt be amazed that Johnson would lie to the public about something like that!
Sorry Eddie, I see from your edit that you were referring to what hospital he was shaking hands, not were he was being treated. My apologies. This sort of misunderstanding is how false rumours start!
No it's not. Honest... 😉
The key word is '....reportedly'.
This 'story' has no value unless and until it is either verified or denied by the ST.
Just regurgitating random articles without verification adds nothing to the debate.
We need clarity, not confusion.
This ‘story’ has no value unless and until it is either verified or denied by the ST.
Are Channel 4 news kept out? If so, that’s Trump Jr enough for me, ST included or not. Ask awkward questions, get denied access to ask them.
Still no facts; WTF are you on about referring to C4 & trump minor?
Are you a journo with some inside information?
If so, please share with us.
If not, you're just regurgitating unsubstantiated press articles hence my comment about not adding to the confusion.
You appear to be all over every thread with even the slightest relevance to covid-19; are you trying to make a point or do you have too much free time?
Frankconway. I often see you popping up on posts decrying what others have to say whilst having nothing to offer yourself. Epitomise what you despise and all that.
The question isn't wether the government are trying to restrict media access to press briefings....it's wether theyre doing it... AGAIN.