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It does seem that in modern UK politics, the number of Union Jacks you've generally surrounded yourself with is directly proportional to how casually you'll sell your country down the river to a dodgy foreign regime
Also today is an anniversary of the Dunblane shooting, shall we remind ourselves what out PM said at the time about the decision to heavily restrict peoples ability to own firearms?
“Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy.”
Thanks Boris for your kind words, I'm sure they're of immense comfort
Adam Bienkov in the Byline Times goes some way to describe Lebadev jnr and Bohnson’s relationship. The nuts and bolts of buying influence over a politician.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/12/boris-johnson-evgeny-lebedev-russia-ukraine-kgb-evening-standard/
Is there actually such a thing as a former KGB officer 🙂
Exactly!
The man has no shame whatsoever:
“Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the West made a "terrible mistake" and let President Vladimir Putin "get away" with annexing Crimea in 2014.”
That’d be down to people like Johnson then:
“Boris Johnson was accused of being a “Putin apologist” today after he placed some of the blame for Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea on the EU.”
The senior Tory was highlighting problems he claimed were caused by the EU having its own independent foreign policy, during a speech in which he challenged the prime minister’s argument that the bloc is a guarantor of security and peace on the continent.
Nicely put:
https://twitter.com/secrettory12/status/1503425858777894915
"Caligula, it is said, tried to appoint his horse, Incitatus, as consul, but it's unlikely that even he would have bestowed a knighthood on Gavin Williamson."
Is there actually such a thing as a former KGB officer 🙂
Fleetingly, perhaps.
The senior Tory was highlighting problems he claimed were caused by the EU having its own independent foreign policy, during a speech in which he challenged the prime minister’s argument that the bloc is a guarantor of security and peace on the continent.
Unfortunately, as with Brexit, it's just another example of the opinions of those on the right of the Tory party coming into broad alignment with those of the lot on the other extreme in the Labour party.
Their reasons are very different, but the end result is the same
The Russians have been extremely lucky in having useful idiots and apologists for their behaviour in charge of both main parties in this country over recent years. At least one of them was bright enough to be making a packet out of it, rather than doing it for free though.
James (not so) Cleverley is on Radio 4 now talking about sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Something he and his party had absolutely zero interest in up until about a week ago
the opinions of those on the right of the Tory party coming into broad alignment with those of the lot on the other extreme in the Labour party.
I think it is a bit unfair to accuse the whole blairite wing of the Labour Party simply because of Peter Mandelson's and Tony Blair's well-known friendship with the Russian oligarch.
Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but it is a great piece of work
https://mobile.twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1504439563019763714?cxt=HHwWhICyvfnz6-ApAAAA
That Victorian ****er telling it like it isn't at the Tory Conference and proving yet again how out of touch he is. From the Guardian:
Rees-Mogg, the Brexit minister, said the war was “a reminder that the world is serious” and that it showed the relative unimportance of things like rows about language. He went on:
I would say the same about Partygate. All of that is shown up for the disproportionate fluff of politics that it was, rather than something of fundamental seriousness about the safety of the world and about the established global order.
When we look back in 36 years at Partygate, people will think, ‘What were they on about? They were moving from Covid to Russia and Ukraine, yet they were distracted by whether or not the PM spent five minutes in his own garden.’ It’s fundamentally trivial.
S'alright Jacob I wasn't so bothered about five minutes in the garden - it's the serial lying, double standards and rapid erosion of trust in the government that I feel slightly more annoyed about. Can we agree that these are issues of 'fundamental seriousness'?
What a ****.
Agree completely, scuttler - it's too easy to belittle the whole thing by talking about how no-one should really be worried about the parties because no-one was seriously getting uptight about them, it's the lying about them and everything else that serious...
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1505193109340233736?t=mznepTQGan3L8oRPJ_ej3w
Such a petty, dismal excuse of a man. How low he is bringing this country.
Offensive on so many levels that it’s difficult to know where to start
Still… why not use a massive global crisis, with horrific bloodshed to back up your crass, racist views with the morons who voted for you
Every time I think I can’t possibly feel any more contempt for the ****, yet he consistently proves me wrong
Yeah, my opinion of him hasn't changed, he's still a colossal scumbag
Actually maybe a tiny bit lower
https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1505247361613844483?t=K6zwg_tx3VbUrsKxGRnH_g&s=19
If the Times lead with that as their big Sunday lead, could that finally be the nail in his coffin?
Every time I think I can’t possibly feel any more contempt for the ****, yet he consistently proves me wrong
Let me help you out.
He did try to claim the EU held some responsibility for the Russian invasion and seizure of the Crimea region of Ukraine.
If the Times lead with that as their big Sunday lead, could that finally be the nail in his coffin?
Nothing will be the final nail in his coffin, I don't think politics works like that any more, it's gone fully partisan football supporter stylee.
Do football supporters change team just because of bad publicity/bad behaviour by players/poor results, or more pertinently, Russian or Saudi ownership? Nope.
My wife just tuts now whenever I mention whatever the latest scandal is. I think the standard line for your average, disinterested voter is 'they're all at it' or 'labour would be worse' or 'something something Corbyn'...
A Tory peer has pulled apart his Brexit vote/Ukraine war analogy, partly by pointing out that Ukranians are fighting and dying for the right to try and join the EU.
Is Boris going to go full Putin, surrounded by idiots who parrot his version of reality? If Scotland votes for independence with an aim of EU membership will he invade to stop EU encroachment on our borders? I'm only half joking....
Is Boris going to go full Putin, surrounded by idiots who parrot his version of reality?
Isn't that the situation we have already?
I can't express how angry I am with this man, for everything he does. This is particularly bad, showboating his abhorrent views, twisting the truth and trashing the reputation and economy of this country. Brexit had more in common with Russia's actions, nationalistic, politically driven, not in the countries best interest and making multiple enemies abroad and then there's the torrent of disinformation.
Isn’t that the situation we have already?
Restrictions on legitimate protest, jerrymandering, and using Russian bots to spread false facts to support their position and affect the outcome of democratic processes?
Would never happen in the UK....oh, wait...
Johnson has to keep bringing up brexit because that is all he's got. He needs to stoke up brexit division to energise his voters.
More is emerging about how useless he was as Foreign Secretary in the Nazanin case - arguably making things a lot worse.
He really is utterly, dangerously clueless,
Johnson has to keep bringing up brexit because that is all he’s got.
He can't spout about the economy, because well, it's ****ed, he can't say 'We got Covid done', because, well, we currently have record hospitalisations in some parts of the UK partly thanks to his problems, and also the small matter of Sue Gray.
The Brexit = Ukraine comments are just outrage farming really, just say anything to get a reaction and stoke up your core support.
But imagine sitting in your basement in Kharkiv and hearing that. I'm not sure our international reputation could get any lower.
Apparently... according to ministers, he didn't say it.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Comparing the vote to leave the EU with the Ukrainian people fighting for their lives against a foreign invader..
Is that really what he did? Cos I listened to this on the news and what he said didn't compare anything with anything. It just made no ****ing sense whatsoever.
it is "the instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom every time”,
He is making a direct analogy between people in their comfortable UK lives placing a cross in a box for whatever reason, and those in Ukraine whose very existence as a sovereign nation is under threat.
Not only that, but the obvious implication is the that yoke of EU oppression is worthy of comparison with that offered in the form of bombs and bullets by Russia.
He could have chosen to qualify that statement to reflect the actual difference between having your relatives blown to bits and being unable to strike independent trade deals, but of course he did not. Either he is breath-takingly naive or, as I suspect, entirely cynical.
The kind of hyperbolic bollocks employed during the referendum about us being a 'vassal state' within the EU is entirely inappropriate when an attempt to create the real thing is going on within Europe.
Typical Johnson, say something to get tory core support gleefully frapping and at the same time 'poke the woke'. Making sure he uses fairly vague language so that when he gets called out, he can simply say his critics are misinterpreting his words.
He is an utterly deplorable populist that appeals to far too many voters in the UK, his only interest is winning elections to massage his own bloated ego...
Yes, but sadly the first thought is "Oh gods, what has the useless sack of sh*t done now?"
I did say what my ministers said I didn’t say, but I didn’t mean it… [ unless what I said works for you, in which case please ignore this non-apology ] …
https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1505910563783725056?s=21
I'm beginning to understand why people say they are ashamed of being English
he wants to be invited to the post Nato EU - Biden shindig He hates being left out.
He’s demonstrating by his typically graceless sulking that he understands the concept of having left the EU about as thoroughly as Nadine Dorres
One day it may possibly sink in with the pair of them the the post-Brexit UK is now, diplomatically, a complete irrelevance. He best get used to being missed off the invite list
Consider this latest episode, another example of things that Tory/Brexit voters couldn't care less about.
Anthony Browne, one of new Boris-cheerleading Brexity 2019 intake of MP's, is on the Five Live MP's Panel now
Even by the incredibly low standards of the Tory Party, he is unbelievably arrogant, pompous and obnoxious arse who is so detached from reality that he hasn't got the first clue about people struggling with rising living costs (the subject of discussion), and more importantly; clearly couldn't care less either. He did use the reframe on the issue: 'well, people are just going to have to live within their means'.
Look out for him getting a ministerial post very soon, no doubt. He'd fit right in with Patel, Raab and the rest of them who have all ridden into power on Boris's Brexity coat-tails. They really are another breed
Bojo is standing next to Biden sporting the Trump long tie look.
Caher
Bojo is standing next to Biden sporting the Trump long tie look.
If he's still doing this for effect, he needs to realise that it probably isn't being perceived as he hopes it is.
He just looks like an unprofessional, scruffy moron who can't dress himself as well as a 11 year old boy heading off to big school for the first time.
He can't even stand smartly.
He might as well turn up to these photoshoots wearing clown shoes & a fake flower that squirts water.
How are these photo ops choreographed? Surely our new found irrelevance coupled with his lack of aesthetics should have him up he back near the corner. What a ****ing shambles that man is.
**** me it's just awful. humiliating.
Have you seen the footage? He has his shameless smirk on but seems rightfully embarrassed and out of place. Biden has a quick chat then turns his back on him and he just stands there like the boy without a prom date.
It's one part quite satisfying but 99 parts utterly humiliating
Came along to post that pic, beaten to it.
Oh well, here's another one. Looks like he just rolled out of bed.
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