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I am beginning to view Johnson (are arguably the tories party) very much the way I view Trump – less the problem themselves and more of the litmus test of a societal problem.
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The problem is not him, but the people who vote for these shits. The problem are the arseholes or the pig shit thick knobbers we share the nation with who put them into power.
Careful with talk like that. They're just misunderstood.
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They are the people who should be hanging their heads in shame tonight.
Shame is for hand-wringing liberal pinkos who want to take us back into the EU.
Boorish stupidity is much more British.
Tsk, don’t worry it’s all ok because although he’s been caught openly lying again, breaking the ministerial code again, rubbing the publics face in it again it galvanised and energised him lead us and to level something up.
What a ****er, I can’t look at a picture of him it makes me feel physically sick.
Still no word from sunak. Could he really be considering bringing the temple down on their heads? He could redeem himself in the eyes of the nation. I know what I would do n his shoes 😀.
David Lammy was excellent on 5 Live tonight, referring to a refusal to be bound by the rules as Trumpian and pointing out that we cannot defend democracy and rule of law in Ukraine while undermining it here at home.
David Lammy was excellent. We have a track record of changing PM in times of crisis (WW1 WW2 Poll Tax Brexit x2).
Still no word from sunak.
Probably trying to translate it from American English.
Still no word from sunak. Could he really be considering bringing the temple down on their heads?
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They've realised how low a bar they have to hurdle with the UK electorate. They know Johnson is a reflection of a large enough segment of the 'us' that his presence guarantees electoral success.
The Tories have been proven right, twice, in their contempt for 'us'.
You don't ditch a winning formula, even if it is utterly incomprehensible to anyone with more than three brain cells.
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Roger Gale was on R4 saying that the conventions of resigning because of law breaking/lying effectively no longer apply, since people have now started ignoring them - he also believes now is the wrong time to think about changing leader because of the international crisis (and because of course kicking the can until no-one can be arsed to continue objecting is the Tory way).
Tin-pot third-world corruption is with us in the UK, friends.
And still the nuckle draggers at work continue to defend Johnson.
I can see myself loosing my sh#t with one in particular who is a fully paid up member of the sovereignty alliance.
Just watched the video statement, he really doesn't get it or care does he? He really does think that if he pays the fine(s) and reads out a waffly bit of crap for a minute or so than it'll all be done with and he can get on with doing whatever he actually does!
Can someone invade us to remove our corrupt, useless government please? Not Putin, someone like Ireland or Italy. We promise to welcome you with open arms and provide no resistance.
I can see myself loosing my sh#t with one in particular who is a fully paid up member of the sovereignty alliance.
I work in public sector with a broad cross-section of political leaders. It'll be a miracle if I have a job at the end of this month - there's a strong possibility that I'll end up making some highly unprofessional comments about Tories in general.
So the party who were funded by the Russians can’t afford to lose their leader at the current time of their essential support for the crisis in the Ukraine being invaded by …erm, Russia. I am absolutely baffled.
He really does think that if he pays the fine(s) and reads out a waffly bit of crap for a minute or so than it’ll all be done with and he can get on with doing whatever he actually does!
That's because he knows it will all be done with.
At what stage are you going to get down the streets and protest ?
Just after they've banned it.
Ok, I’m still angry. I try not to be angry these days, however I ration it. My much younger brother was very ill in the run up to Covid. He was on his way out when restrictions were announced for first lockdown, I said my goodbyes and didn’t visit him through his last week of life even though I’d been virtually living at the hospital for months. This wasn’t to protect him but out of respect for the staff.
The funeral was 20 of us spread out, no contact between us and our daughters, my sister in law, my niece’s and sisters. My parents, in their nineties had to sit outside. My Mum, with Alzheimers managed to get out of the car and walk to the crematorium door and try and get in - she’d not walked for months. We kept to the rules afterwards, minimal contact with parents, zero with sister in law, all following the rules.
This partying/meetings with alcohol in Government has the ability to make me angry, a feeling I’m trying to grow out of. However, I still swear when I see some politicians, mostly Tory, and I think “over privileged, under educated, arrogant, ugly (as in attitude, not appearance), *s *s
Sorry for the negativity.
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You’re probably right, but I don’t really get what the appeal of being Chancellor/PM is to Sunak?
Money - he could surely make more in finance than politics.
Power - arguably likewise.
It makes sense for vacuous morons like Johnson, Raab, Truss, Patel and Dorries etc., but Sunak appears relatively bright and normal compared to that shower of shite. Can’t see why he’d want to be involved really.
Just watched the video statement, he really doesn’t get it or care does he? He really does think that if he pays the fine(s) and reads out a waffly bit of crap for a minute or so than it’ll all be done with and he can get on with doing whatever he actually does
It’s far worse than that. Even with approaching 200,000 dead, he genuinely thinks he’s the victim here.
What that look on his face said was self-pity and despite a life of the most incredible privilege, he absolutely believes that it’s a completely affront that he has to justify himself to anybody, even the police, and certainly not the electorate
I've just written to my MP. Not sure it will do any good...
Dear 'Sir' (sic) Gavin
No doubt with your fresh gong for looking the other way you will, well, look the other way once again. I mean, you don't get where you have got without either a startling intellect or by being happy to sell your soul to the highest bidder...and from speaking to those that know you personally it seems that you weren't the brightest fire salesman...and that was before you have been sacked from pretty much every job you have ever had.
Anyway, 'Sir'. I want to place on record my disgust at the latest shitshow coming from no. 10, and as unfortunately for now you are my constituency MP, I expect a response to this email to tell me what you are going to do about it.
(let me guess. You'll grin awkwardly and do nothing, because let's face it, why change the habit of a lifetime?)
And to whichever unfortunate lacky is reading this before you (don't) pass it on to the idiot in chief...you might want to consider which side of history you are on.
He does think he's the victim in everything despite always coming out the other side smelling of roses. Who else could have multiple failed marriages, unknown offspring, have been sacked from multiple jobs for wrongdoing and lying then end up being PM and with a wife and two new kids and be looking at a career in the speaking circuit to pay for his pension?
You’re probably right, but I don’t really get what the appeal of being Chancellor/PM is to Sunak?
Rumoured to be approval from his father-in-law. Being a high politician carries great pride for a family over there.
Shall be emailing my neighbouring MP to sc-xc’s tomorrow, pointing out that I wasn’t even allowed to have a cup of tea with my colleagues at work during lockdowns
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& loads of govt deals for Infosys. Definitely will get F.I.Ls approval.
...with a wife and two new kids...
There's got to be some sort of media agreement not to photograph his kids cos they are literally never seen. It's like they simply don't exist.
Palmed off on some nanny? An entirely made up entity to boost his popularity?
Blair and Cameron both had children while in office and they were certainly in evidence, even if kept in the background a bit. His two? Absolutely no sign of them.
Just watched the video statement, he really doesn’t get it or care does he?
Why should he?
Just look at his entire life. He lies, gets caught out and then just keeps going after minor setbacks.
Most of us learn as toddlers or thereabouts that actions have consequences. We push our parents limits and sooner or later they enforce them heavily. Johnson though just keeps lying and has minor setbacks but nothing serious so why not keep chancing it?
Just take Max Hastings and his article about why Johnson is unfitted to being PM. Yes what he writes is correct but it skips over how he enabled him. He gave him a job after he was sacked for lying and then let him keep lying about the EU as the European correspondent.
Peston practically had a seizure on ITV news explaining that BJ is effectively damaging our constitution and democracy.
Lucky he doesn't work for the Beeb or Channel 4!
Anyone watching BBC news? Fight for your right to party by the Beastie Boys being played at full volume just outside Downing St while they do a live report
Just watching BBC trying to present the news live from Clowning Street whilst someone is playing the Beastie Boys fight for the right to party at full volume 😂😂
5 more fines to come
I'm not sure the shameless attempt at deflection by the mail will hold
https://twitter.com/CarolCooney7/status/1513967638556426242
https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1513989381757063179?s=20&t=LVCq12rFte7WQwnvkYiPxA
I’m not sure the shameless attempt at deflection by the mail will hold
I ventured into the hates comment section. It aint looking good for him there.
Rumoured to be approval from his father-in-law. Being a high politician carries great pride for a family over there.
Makes sense, ta.
They are hoping that people's memories of just how godawful a time it was are fading. The people who were at the sharp end of this need to carry on reminding them of how deep a betrayal this was.
https://twitter.com/Poppyjuice/status/1513957117488685071
The idea that nurses would clock off, gather round for a glass of vino and a giggle and chat over the stresses of the day is so utterly offensive.
This partying/meetings with alcohol in Government has the ability to make me angry, a feeling I’m trying to grow out of.
That IS the mature response to this.
And still the nuckle draggers at work continue to defend Johnson.
It’s not just the knuckle draggers. I’ve seen a few posts lately on Linkdin where middle class successful company owners are queuing up to defend his actions. One in particular was moaning about lying cheating business owners who had stung him for a fair few quid when they had gone bust recently….
Johnson is a rot accelerant.
We are a country in decline by most real world metrics and BJ is just hurrying us along.
Pretty remarkable how a democracy can be taken down so readily... and so cheaply.
Johnson is a rot accelerant.
Like trump he is a symptom not the cause. I am not sure dignifying him with the idea he is an accelerant is correct.
Sunak almost did the right thing....
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1513993135306727429?s=20&t=yOkh25RdSaOUG1mFgNqVZw
Sunak almost did the right thing….
Seems to have been deleted.
I do think he should have said sod it and resigned to undermine Johnson but then again it does depend on whether he thinks it was Johnson or Truss/one of the other competitors for tory leadership who leaked the stories.
it does depend on whether he thinks it was Johnson or Truss/one of the other competitors for tory leadership who leaked the stories.
I guess the parliamentary enquiry will soon determine that. 🤪🤣😱 Etc.
Looks like the usual suspects in the press are all four square behind their narcissistic sociopath and using Ukraine as the excuse for that
Ironic, given that it’s Ukraine which makes it clearly obvious what happens when an entitled, power-crazed lunatic is safe in the knowledge that he can do whatever he damn well likes with total impunity
Lost on them, I’m sure
What that Mail front page forgets is:
We're not officially at War.
We have changed PM during wars we are officially in before with no real issues.
I hate the Mail at the best if times but they really are a hateful organisation.
I don't understand why now is not the time to have a leadership contest - I mean if we were actually at war I'd prefer a slightly better class of Tory (war model not clown model) not one that would probably fall over in the war room and accidentally land on some buttons, spill coffee and grin like an idiot.
'Now is not the time.' File along side 'unprecedented times' for media repetition.
Now is always the time.
I don’t understand why now is not the time to have a leadership contest
The obvious answers seems to be that of the five front runners only one is from the Brexitty bit, and not to put too fine a point on it, she'd even more stupid than Johnson. Rishi hasn't a hope now, and Javid is tarred with the same brush (in many ways) and that leaves a 3 way (eeuuw) between Tom Tuenghat, Ben Wallace and Jeremy Hunt. None of whom have the right "qualifications". Keeping the Shopping Trolley in place is as much for the benefit of the Brexit project as it is for his own ego.
Although there are clearly more fines on the way and the full Sue Gray is rumoured to be out next week, so it may just all become unsustainable.
What that Mail front page forgets is:
We’re not officially at War.
We have changed PM during wars we are officially in before with no real issues.
The Daily Mail knows this full well, it's attempting to deliberatly mislead its readers not inform them. That's what it does...as do many other newspapers.