"Making money" is business, however you make it. "Understanding what money is" is economics.
He wants the rich to be made richer, at the expensive of protections and quality of life for workers. And he’s getting his way.
Well if he's getting his way it suggests that understanding business and economics isn't particularly important.
I'm not sure that Kwasi has benefited from "an inheritance and an expensive education" btw, King's Scholar and Kennedy scholarship suggests not necessarily, at least not expensive for his parents.
So the latest pitch from another Brixiteer half-wit coming out to bat for Johnson is that yes, this unholy mess is all of Boris’s own making, but that means we should give him the opportunity to sort it out
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1490281659614306309?s=21
I think we can file that with Nadine’s ‘helpful’ contributions
Presumably then all he has to do when he runs out of his own messes to fix is make some new ones and hey presto, he gets some more time!
That seems to be the gist of it, yes
Genius really
A self-perpetuating, rolling shambles
I shared a clip of a certain Boris Johnson telling us that this was his plan… keep throwing gaff after gaff (his choice of words) and the media stay busy, the public tire and move on, continually… while the perpetrators just keep gliding on… every now and then it looks like this plan is getting to the point of running out… but then it doesn’t. There were plenty of “this is his last chance” type quotes and comments on TV and radio this morning, but it isn’t is it? They’ll be many more last chances yet to come.
His entire life has been one long, rolling series of last chances
I wonder how many other people could be sacked for dishonesty on multiple occasions and simply grift on to the next highly remunerated position?
He really does single-handedly personify everything that's wrong with the UK, its entitled elite and the gilded lives they lead
Couldn't resist linking to this, Mad Nad deserves her own thread really, so let's not give her one..
Still no word on this much publicized police investigation, it’s all gone a bit quiet.
Dick has already said words to the effect it's not a quick job that will take a few months. Even if the Police aren't complicit, No10 can bury them in 'evidence' under the pretence of "working fully with the Police". The longer the drag it out the less people will care when it finally arrives.
If Johnson somehow survives the next few weeks, he could even call an early GE in 2023 to beat the end of the investigation, it's the sort of thing he'd do, gamble on a better result for him personally, even if it means a greater risk for his party.
Urgh, that Nadine Dories spoof really nails her attitude. Are these people really the best and brightest we could put charge of the country? So depressing.
Are these people really the best and brightest
No.
That wasn't really the [ Brexit ] selection criteria.
Here's Brexit campaigner, Nadine Dorris, on May's "Brexit deal"....
https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1063844000766021632?s=20&t=30zUdADrXCC1F2jMMee29g
Time for a remake of that 1971 Play for Today: Nade, the inebriate woman
Doesn't matter how bright you are, if you are put in front of the cameras to defend the indefensible that necessarily means you're going to have to produce some weird and fanciful answers. That's 'politics' innit and Kwarteng has exemplified it. More worrying is the police not identifying fraud as a crime to investigate. How low can we go?
Presumably then all he has to do when he runs out of his own messes to fix is make some new ones and hey presto, he gets some more time!
That's his plan and it seems to be working. I knew he would get away with all of this somehow and this is the technique that is working.
How low can we go?
They always say they're World Beating at everything, we're on course to see how much lowered can go than anyone else and there's seemingly nothing to stop them doing so. It's all just far too depressing.
If Johnson somehow survives the next few weeks
50p says he does.
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1490679262449475585
Its always interesting to see what articles the FT leaves outside the pay wall.
EDIT Try clicking through the tweet if the URL is paywalled
I like your thinking, but it is behind the paywall for me (but you can always get round the FT paywall by Googling the article title and clicking through direct).
Couldn’t resist linking to this, Mad Nad deserves her own thread really, so let’s not give her one..
Off topic, but Sooz Kempner is a Dick.
So [url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60289339 ]according to the Beeb[/url] BoJo has been singing "I will survive" to his new advisor. Here's some lyrics for you Boris:
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anymore
He should have changed the ****ing lock then, shouldn't he, the idiot.
BoJo has been singing “I will survive” to his new advisor.
Who still, somehow, is prepared to say that he isn't a total clown...
I don't understand why he would sing lines from it to his newly appointed Comms chief. It's basically three verses of telling someone to piss off.
^ now that is funny. #MadNad
I don’t understand why he would sing lines from it to his newly appointed Comms chief
150,000 failed to survive so good on him for celebrating that he's still here. If I was his comms chief I'd think that was a really good thing to get out there.
Lord, she make Truss look superb on camera.
Nadz is savage. I'm voting her for PM
We were just talking today about people who fall into the unenviable position of having to try and defend the indefensible, although our discussion was regarding a woman friend of ours who's husband is just a knob, not the PM.
I guess at least Doris's defenders are getting paid (one way or the other) for their efforts, so no sympathy needed there.
Yep, Nadz for PM.
GoNadz!
This is what happens when that moron legitimises far right conspiracy theories by repeating them as fact, when they’re utter nonsense. Mimicking Trump in courting fascist thugs
https://twitter.com/davidlammy/status/1490761739759194117?s=21
He really is an utter disgrace of a human being
Chris Bryant is absolutely livid about this on channel 4 news now. He has every right to be
Chris Bryant was visibly upset and rightly, it’s not even 4 months since David Amess was murdered by an extremist.
It's the thin edge of the wedge.
A couple of years of this and you end up with the scenes we saw at the Capitol building Washington.
The speaker needs to intervene on this and force a significant apology.
^^One of the many things I find depressing about where our country is right now, is that we can see what's coming just by looking toward America.
Amazingly "we" actually seem to want to head in that direction with our own Fox News knock off etc. and politicians actively courting the far right and conspiracy nuts.
We can see where it's taking America and we are dead set on following.😟
FFS the guy in that video actually mentions Magna Carta. It would be funny if it wasn't so sinister.
FFS the guy in that video actually mentions Magna Carta. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sinister.
I've had enough of these idiots. The "why aren't you opposing the government" bollix directed at a man who achieved more in opposing the government than his predecessor strikes me as particularly deranged.
S'alright - Johnson has tweeted how disgraceful the behaviour of the 'protesters' was...
grum
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FFS the guy in that video actually mentions Magna Carta. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sinister.
Ah, but that's a "thing" now you see.
I can't find it or remember its name but there was an article on the BBC site about a conspiracy theory/cult that started in America in the 90's and has taken off over here in the past decade or so. The Magna Carta is something often cited by its members, amongst other things.
Wish I could find the article as yes, there is some very dark thinking behind this "new" conspiracy/cult.
Edit:
This isn't the article but it's these guys. They are considered a terror threat in the US. If I find the BBC article they are probably worth their own thread as they are particularly deluded/dangerous... and they are over here too.
^^ I couldn't resist starting a thread.
Chris Bryant was visibly upset and rightly, it’s not even 4 months since David Amess was murdered by an extremist.
Starmer needs to make Johnson squirm on a stake at this this weeks PMQs
Ex Conservative Councillor (& probably mate of Alexander dePJ) in heckling the Labour leadership shocker . . . .
Not a word about it on front pages of torygraph and sun.
Mail and express not in yet.
Johnson's not going, is he....? He'll hang on and everyone will have stopped foaming about this current shitshow because you'll be foaming about the new shitshow.
#bemorefrench
I think It's all about the by-elections in May now.
I still think there is a chance of a VONC soon... But he'll win it then limp into the elections.👍
