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When the whole south-east of England is one giant lorry park and the economy goes into freefall, Joris and chums will own this mess 100%. They’ll try and blame the EU, obviously, but I don’t think that’s going to wash with most people. So the real question is can this Brexit government survive what is going to be total chaos?
Oh how I wish I agreed with you, but we've seen clearly over the past few years just how many people buy-into the "it's all the Eu's fault" narrative. Maybe it won't be most, numerically, but it'll be enough. Remember, anti-Brexit parties got most of the vote last year, but with a unified blok in favour, a fat lot of good that did us. 🙁
enough of The public lapped it up and now they get the government they deserve.
The key, sad point, in a FPTP electoral system
The bookshelf made me smile but seems to be distracting from the fact that Johnson basically seemed to be having a nervous breakdown all the way through that speech.
Johnson basically seemed to be having a nervous breakdown all the way through that speech.
If he had a shred of conscience he would have done that already.
Johnson basically seemed to be having a nervous breakdown all the way through that speech.
Or perhaps his blood alcohol level dipped below the level where he is able function - or perhaps he had a cheeky extra snifter when Dom's man wasn't looking....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIv96reVlAE
I was thinking that Boris ‘speech’ looked somehow familiar...
Or perhaps his blood alcohol level dipped below the level where he is able function – or perhaps he had a cheeky extra snifter when Dom’s man wasn’t looking….
He came back from Scotland with a car bootful of buckfast, the real reason for the trip,but was too squeamish for the buckfast enema. Something about Dom standing there with a lubed dripping tube and a demonic smirk. So he downed some Drambuie liqueurs instead but they were too weak and...
Any more slips ups and he'll be going full class A like Donald trump jr
Any more slips ups and he’ll be going full class A like Donald trump jr
Or Michael Gove....
Pie Nailing it again NSFW
I particularly liked "The day I start taking lessons in morality from the likes of Boris Johnson is the day I start taking the ****ing smack".
Pretty much sums it up for me.
Oh, and.....
"Bunch of populist cockwombles"
Trouble is, much as I find this stuff funny, I also find it depressing because come election time all it has to be is "Labour are a soft touch and will let hoardes of forriners in" and the masses will vote for them. Again.
^^I totally agree, though in reality they just need the usual minority (not even the masses) to vote for them, dare I call it, their base.
It's all rotten as sh*t frankly.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/08/28/boris-johnson-the-anti-prime-minister/
Pretty devastating takedown of him here. The journo is the one who broke the story about BJ going round ambassadors dinners after the referendum telling European ambassadors that he was fully in favour of Freedom of Movement (in private) while basing his entire Leave campaign and his stint in the Foreign Office as being publicly very against it. When the story broke, Boris used the Sunday Telegraph to smear the journo and, because all the conversations with ambassadors were off the record, there was no proof so he got away with all his lies.
much as I find this stuff funny
You think it’s funny now, wait until many more of Our Own People ™ are jobless, hungry/further diminished and homeless because of this. Then the ongoing scapegoating of ‘minorities and the left’ will revisit murderous levels unseen for the better part of a century. The Tories’ recent decades of slow-grinding ‘austerity is good for you/cull the disabled/demonise the unemployed/dismantle public services/destroy trust/increase division’ will soon be remembered by comparison as slipping through sun-drenched meadows.
Once unemployment/reduction of care/further removal/defunding of mental health services reach critical tipping points then blood will flow and as ever, it won’t be the engineers of all this who get it in the neck. The tabloids and clickbait will as always provide the spin, lies and red rags. And who will they blame? Same old same old. Hello 1930’s.
80 years (a lifetime) seems just about long enough for a population to forget what Nationalistic populism and/or fascism is all about. Hypertabloidism (social media) is creating a morass of mistrust, moral malaise and the type of confusion that sends people cultwards to find something ‘solid’ to cling to. A return to fascism. So far of late the Twits and bad-actors are rewriting history. Social media/clickbait-driven independent media/conspiracy mines are places to unlearn facts and learn lies. Like wildfire. Get used to the word ‘traitor’.
Pretty devastating takedown of him here.
I agree with every word, but it was a bit of a verbose way of saying that he is a lazy, arrogant, self-obsessed and ineffectual shit.
Get used to the word ‘traitor’.
Many a truly brave person has been labelled a traitor by a perverted 'system'.
Get used to the word ‘traitor’.
I’m already using it repeatedit to refer to the senior British politicians accepting donations, bribes, hospitality and sexual favours from, and giving honours to, representatives of a state which has worked hard to undermine British democratic process and has killed British citizens on British soil using a weapon of mass destruction.
Ooohhh!, you meant I’d be the traitor. Enemies of the People springs to mind.
lazy, arrogant, self-obsessed and ineffectual
I forgot, crass, bluff, ****less, hypocritical, cynical, opportunist and contemptuous.
First rumblings? Rumblings that have always been there just gaining in volume?
The 1922 committee thing may well be the start of 'traditional' Tory MPs starting to get twitchy about 2021. They know full well that once No Deal is achieved and Johnson and his cronies have got their retirement pots sorted, they are going to be left owning this shitshow.
Of course, they were more than happy to ride the populist wave, no doubt hoping things might 'get back to normal' afterwards, but that was their conceit. You can't put the kind of forces Johnson et al are prepared to unleash (racism, xenophobia, intolerance) back in the bottle. Their arrogance is thinking they can control the parasite that is actually controlling them.
But, small victories and all that. At least it worries Johnson. It worries Johnson more than tens of thousands of excess covid deaths because it is a threat to his ego.
What happened to last year's Benn Act stopping a no deal Brexit?
IIRC that was just to stop "no withdrawal agreement" not "No deal" on future relations
What happened to last year’s Benn Act stopping a no deal Brexit?
Wasn't it effectively a one-shot deal? The act specifically mentions 31st Oct 2019, and Joris has since convinced enough Red Wall Racists to vote for him (and against their own interests). I don't think a new Benn Act would happen now.
I may be totally misreading this.
A good account of Joris and chums by Andrew Rawnsley in today’s Observer. It looks like the traditional Tory’s we’re prepared to stay quiet (a la Trumps republicans) while Joris was ‘winning’, but with Labour now level in the polls and Bohnsons ‘popularity’ in freefall, they’re no longer prepared to just shut up and go along with it
The Johnson method of government: total power with absolutely no responsibility
The shrewder people on the Conservative benches know that power without responsibility is a poisoned method of governing that will rebound on their party
Apparently even the morally-vacuous arch-opportunist, Gove, is now getting twitchy about the real-life implications of a No Deal Brexit
Looks like he got into a spot a bother in Bristol Harbour
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Damn, Binners just beat me to it, I’ve just finished reading that Guardian feature on Flipboard and was about to post it!
Apparently even the morally-vacuous arch-opportunist, Gove, is now getting twitchy about the real-life implications of a No Deal Brexit
The temptation, though, will be to go back to tried and tested methods. Double-down and blame forriners/experts/remoaners/asylum seekers etc.
The thing that illustrates this most is Gove and Johnson's faces after the referendum result came in. Writ large across their mugs was:
"Oh shit. I can't believe enough of the stupid buggers believed in this shit".
Ever since then, 'we' have exceeded their expectation of our stupidity. I imagine the likes of Gove in particular cannot really believe their luck when it comes to the sheer bovine thickness of their audience.
But they'll go to the well again and again and they'll most likely do it saying "we'll never get away with this" beforehand and "well **** me, they really more stupid than I thought" afterwards.
pinocchio on the crapper!
He really is a bit of a coward
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53994162
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice said it wrote to Mr Johnson five times to request a meeting.
Asked by reporters about the letters, the PM said he would "of course" meet anyone bereaved by Covid-19.
But days later he wrote to the group to say he was "unable" to meet them.
He really is a bit of a coward
A bit?
Talking of his cowardice, it’s the return of that one time he does have to come out from the fridge and actually answer for the shambles of the last couple of months.
I’m sure he’s really looking forward to it. Starmer must be wondering where he’s going to start? Which car crash he’s going to address first.
Two of the key steps that got him elected were avoiding any scrutiny whatsoever (hiding in a fridge only being the most ridiculous instance) and not being Jeremy Corbyn.
What a ****ing dire indictment of the UK.
Well Starmer rinsed Bojo and even the speaker had to tell Bojo to answer the question.
Rishi was visably squirming and staring at the car crash of PMQ.
I dont think anyone is preparing Bojo a defence? Against Starmers questions?
Opposition Q's on exams, CV19, furlough, etc.
Government MP's table questions asking Boris about I'm a celebrity being in North Wales and BBC licence fee reform
Critical issues being addressed right there......
Will he ever develop the ability to actually answer a question?
I dont think anyone is preparing Bojo a defence? Against Starmers questions?
I doubt he can remember them, probably too pissed.
When you’re only defence/deflection is to accuse the former DPP of being a terrorist sympathiser, you know he really is desperately flailing.
I see the government have just done another screaming u-turn even while Boris was still on his feet.
Trafford and Bolton have just been placed back under lockdown restrictions, having had them lifted about ten minutes before.
One of those constituencies is Graham Brady’s, head of the 1922 committee, who he’s got a meeting with now, and has already been quite vocal about how crap Boris is.
One of those constituencies is Graham Brady’s, head of the 1922 committee, who he’s got a meeting with now, and has already been quite vocal about how crap Boris is.
Where's a fridge when you need one?
😅🤣😅🤣😅
When you’re only defence/deflection is to accuse the former DPP of being a terrorist sympathiser, you know he really is desperately flailing.
Although the quarter-wits that make up a large part of his 'base' amongst the electorate will be told he 'landed a blow in return'.
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I really, really hope the fraud that is Joris is getting it from all sides.
Like every bullshit merchant who rocks into a new job claiming they are the best thing since sliced bread then epically fail, and then **** off leaving everyone else to sort their mess out.
I've had enough encounters with people like him in my lowly little working life to know how they operate. To get away with it at the level of Prime Minister (in the short term) means I have zero sympathy if every meeting he goes to someone takes him to pieces.
Prepare to be shocked.
When Joris replied to Starmers question at PMQ’s about refusing to meet the families of Covid victims, he said that he couldn’t as they were taking legal proceedings against the government
Turns out this is just another thing he made up on the hoof to cover his sorry arse. A complete lie.
There is no litigation. He won’t meet them simply because he’s a shithouse who doesn’t do accountability
John Crace summed up his ‘performance’ at PMQs today
Boris left flailing as his limitations become clear for all to see
Not having a cheering crowd behind him is absolutely killing Boris.
He's a stand up comedian in many ways and without the adoring crowd he just seems cringe worthy and flat.
Good stuff.👍
He’s a stand up comedian
He's starting to look a bit like Archie Rice.
Even to those who were happy to hitch themselves to the Bullshit Bus for their own electoral prospects.
Not having a cheering crowd behind him is absolutely killing Boris.
this exactly, somehow he’s managed to get himself the top job by appearing like an “Everyman” but now it’s apparent for all to witness, he’s a second rate after dinner speaker repeating the same jokes and quips to a crowd that is tired of the “Boris experiment”.
As for “absolutely killing Boris”, ‘tis a damn shame COVID didn’t finish him off, if I saw him crossing the road I dunno if if I’d bother braking
There's no litigation!? Jesus wept.
Apparently the group have sent a letter before action so...no litigation.
No response received yet.
There’s no litigation... yet.
They asked Boris to meet them to discuss things. According to the Guardian he said he was only prepared to do so if they made a commitment to there being no subsequent legal proceedings.
That in itself tells you everything you need to know about Boris’s confidence in the way he’s handled things.
Now he seems to have absolutely guaranteed litigation, but the payouts when they win will just be taxpayers money and he’ll just scapegoat civil servants, so who cares?
It really is incredible that such a truly abhorrent shit like him has made it to be PM.
He couldn’t give a flying **** about anyone but himself. You could see today at PMQ’s how outraged he was at the idea that he should be held accountable for anything
Yesterday's PMQs totally exposed him again. The Guardian take down is excellent.
On a side note, while I have huge sympathy for victims families, I'm not sure what litigation will solve. Any compensation will come out of already pressured public funds. Presumably any legal action in the courts could be a pretext to delay an enquiry. Scientific advisors/experts may be loathe to do the job if they risk getting dragged into litigation like this, so then who will be advising the incompetents?
The lawyers will get richer, but not sure - beyond an understandable desire to expose the dangerous incompetence of the government, which is already pretty obvious - what it will achieve
On a side note, while I have huge sympathy for victims families, I’m not sure what litigation will solve.
At some point there will be a public enquiry regarding the govt's handling of the virus response, and part of that will undoubtedly be the transfer of elderly patients from NHS beds into care homes, some people will be have been killed by that decision. The families of some those people will seek compensation, and some of that litigation will fall on insurance companies and medical indemnity providers. There will be litigation, and at some point, as grisly as it sounds, a tariff will have to be established to set those compensation rates. There has to be action in order for that to happen.
At some point there will be a public enquiry regarding the govt’s handling of the virus response
Probably with Joris giving evidence via video link from abroad where he is then domiciled. Having kicked the can down the road as far as possible.
I don't know if public enquiries will still be a thing when this lot are done.
Sorry, I wasn't clear - I understand what the aim of the litigation is for the individual families, but I can only see it causing a delay to an enquiry, more back covering and less chance for lessons to be learnt, and gives a smokescreen for the government to continue to hide behind when being pushed for answers and clear direction going forwards. Not sure how it will help the wider "us" in the meantime.
When Matt Hancock (well.... DominicCummings through the medium of Matt Hancock) effectively abolished Public Health England, he was sending out a clear message.
That message was “we’ve conducted our own enquiry and have concluded that we are completely blameless and all those deaths in care homes were entirely the fault of PHE so we’re winding them up”
It’s a flagrant attempt to pre-empt and put off a public enquiry. The families of the bereaved can see it for what it is and their litigation is to demand a public enquiry so that they don’t get away with this. It’s not about compensation, it’s about accountability.
This lot are going to do everything in their power to ensure there is no public enquiry.
This will be like Hillsborough. They’ll still be trying to hold them to account for this in 25 years time.
This will be like Hillsborough. They’ll still be trying to hold them to account for this in 25 years time.
The grass around any published findings will be very long indeed.
If Cumstains has anything to do with it, the grass will have become secondary forest by then. That is if some Tory donor spiv developers haven't built on it first.
Very inconsequential tangent here: can we drop the 'Cumstains' nickname? It's no better than 'Wee Nippy' which I thought had been agreed was just puerile and undermining the valid points otherwise being made.
No offence intended to those using the nickname, you're still contributing far more to the discussion than I am!
can we drop the ‘Cumstains’ nickname?
I'll think about it. The thing is I really struggle not to do this sort of thing when it comes to this useless shower:
Joris Bohnson
Dominic Cumstains
Little Matty Handjob
Little Liam Fox
Chris Fayling
Priti Vacant
Dominic Raaaaaaaaaaab
Poison Penfold (aka Mark 'Monster' Francois)
Private Pike (aka Gavin 'ooh Betty' Williamson)
They're just beyond belief. They are only where they are because of their professed belief in an utterly stupid 'project'. So we end up with risible characters like this whose chief 'quality' is their opportunism/stupidity.
But yes, I'll try better....
+1 13thfloormonk
Joris Bohnson
Dominic Cumstains
Little Matty Handjob
Little Liam Fox
Chris Fayling
Priti Vacant
Dominic Raaaaaaaaaaab
Poison Penfold (aka Mark ‘Monster’ Francois)
Private Pike (aka Gavin ‘ooh Betty’ Williamson)
It's a good list! I'll be honest actually, maybe it's just the dirty ones I can't be bothered with, the others are funny, but Cumstains and Handjob just seems a bit playground.
(sorry, sorry, not trying to critique someone else's humour, maybe there just needs to be a bar set or I need to look away for the rude bits 😀 )
I prefer Short Cummings. But Little Matty Handjob has to stay!
I don't really have a problem with a pejorative nickname as long as it actually reflects on the actions of the individual
So Failing Grayling is completely appropriate.
Dominic Cumstains and Joris Bohnson miss the mark
How about:
"Eye Test" Cummings and Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Bumboys Vampires Haircut Wall-Spaffer ****-Business ****-the-Families Get-Off-My-****ing-Laptop Girly-Swot Big-Girl’s-Blouse Chicken-frit Technology-Lessons Surrender-Bullshit French-Turds Dog-Whistle Get-Stuffed Get-Brexit-Done Bung-a-Bob-for-Big-Ben’s-Bongs I-Shook-Hands-With-Everyone Herd-Immunity Squash-the-Sombrero Johnson
Just call them by their surnames
Cumstains makes me wince
I'd vote for "short" Cummings, it seems to fit.
And yet we criticize Trump for his derogatory nicknames. Pot, kettle etc.
I agree completely with richmtb,nobody nailed a true description of Johnson better than Stewart Lee.
🙂
That John Crace takedown is a must read if you hate Johnson as much as most of us seem to do. It's devastating as it's just stating the obvious and isn't a wry look as you'd expect from a sketch writer but barely disguised contempt. I think he said recently it's a struggle to take a skewed satirical slant on parliament like some of his predecessors when this govt is now beyond satire.
Anyway, f you Johnson you fat *
I’ll think about it.
It may become easier for you when you reach 14 years old.
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I’ll think about it.It may become easier for you when you reach 14 years old.
Wasn't there a thread recently about getting old and being intolerant? 😉
It may become easier for you when you reach 14 years old.
Two more years?
I'll just carry on then. Just as soon as I've finished drawing that cock on the blackboard.
😘
Abbott got the job because they're sick of experts. He's going to be a bag of laughs.
I see Rees-Mogg is keen on getting numbers up in the Commons.
Normally I'd actually think this is the right thing do but I suspect Moggster is more keen to get a baying mob behind Boris to chortle and yell as appropriate rather than any commitment to democracy.
Have you seen what the haunted Victorian pencil has just done?
https://twitter.com/bbcpolitics/status/1301505990660153344?s=21
I’m presuming he played it on a wax cylinder on his gramophone
^^^^
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Rees-Mogg is a much of an actor as Johnson is.
But such pathetic panto acts are seized on by gullible twerps as 'character' and 'a bit of British'. Zero substance when the crunch comes, though.
Even poor Rishi will have feet of clay when the BoE say 'no more sweeties for you'.
It seems it’s perfectly fine to undermine the UK economy for personal profit as long as you wave your little Union Jack as you do so and talk like Mr Chumley Warner
If you’re a disaster capitalist then English Nationalism really is the gift that never stops giving
I'll second using correct surnames - de Pfeffel Johnson
shame it's not used a bit more widely to damage the 'I'm ordinary guv, honest' act........
Boris is still Teflon at the moment, whatever his name is.
On 1st January though all bets are off as the whole country wakes with an epic hangover that will last for years.
On 1st January though all bets are off as the whole country has an begins an epic hangover that will last years.
I'm planning to run naked across the lawns of chequers whilst waving a huge European Union flag, come the 1st Jan. Bollox to Boris & his Brexit.
I do like Hat Mancock as a nickname.
Him and Raaaaaaab remind me of so many people I worked with in the past who had smoke blown up them by gibbering managers and then single hand-idly failed to deliver a single thing of worth and everything they did deliver were just words written for them by the gibberer's.
All they've got left is the culture war lever, nothing else. It seems to underpin all their arguments now because reasoning and facts have left the building.
Hence fat man pushing the IRA and remainer buttons at pmqs, even though they had absolutely nothing to do with any issues
That's why that land of hope and glory nonsense was manna from heaven. It was a complete non issue but the media went crazy for it and the usual **** seized on it, funny that