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Theres a very good reason that every scientist & lab technician thinks brexit & Johnson is very bad idea for UK science
This picture had been picked up by some of the papers out today in regard to his Covid "management".
He looks and is, a total joke.
How long can he remain as leader? Even January looking a long time away at the moment.
Can't even do his shoe laces up. 🙄
I wonder if deep down after he leaves the job that he'll realise what a bad PM he's been. I hope he will and that it eats away at him. Sadly I don't think he'll give two hoots and he'll write books and do tonnes of TV work with the odd day spent on some industry board.
the look of a mam out of his depth on a wet pavement.
the look of a mam out of his depth on a wet pavement.
Now Prime Minister, *don't* stand there looking clueless and scratching your head or we all know what picture will be in the papers tomorrow don't we?!
Yes Dom, certainly Dom.
/scratches head.
Oh FFS...
I haven't been a fan of Piers Morgan, but he was pretty good on Good Morning Britain at about 6:40 today. Both Piers and Susanna Reid spent about 20 minutes rubbishing Johnson, and the rest of the Govt. There's some video of Johnson yesterday in a woodwork lesson, with no masks, no 2m etc (and some rubbish woodworking skills), which they had a go at as well.
His cake retention is no longer in remission. All the flack Foot and Corbyn got for their sartorial elegance and this walking clothes line gets away with it. It looks like he's had to scramble a suit from someone else's wardrobe. The chaotic, unkempt and couldn't-care-less appearance does however reveal his true essence. I used to think 'couldn't tie his own shoe-laces' was a metaphor.
I wonder if deep down after he leaves the job that he’ll realise what a bad PM he’s been
That requires the ability to reflect on the fact you may have done something wrong. That is a skill this guy really doesn't have. Never says sorry, feels like he needs to say sorry or that there is even a possibility he could be wrong.
Something of a slapping down for johnson and his cabinet by the Speaker just before PMQs.
Being explicitly clear that he will not tolerate the disrespect and contempt being regularly shown by johnson & co.
Speaker 1 - gov 0.
Marina Hydes description of him as looking like a fly tipped sofa is spot on.
Something of a slapping down for johnson and his cabinet by the Speaker
Another just now. "Just a reminder its Prime minster questions not opposition questions".
I am curious as to whether he is just shitslinging or whether he really does believe he should have unconditional support from anyone.
Normally I would think the former but with that Johnson the latter is equally likely.
"How dare the leader of the opposition ask me any questions... he should just be praising me."
Regarding PMQs (live now)
Johnson 1 - 0 Starmer (Labour leader keep criticising but has nothing new to offer).
I am curious as to whether he is just shitslinging or whether he really does believe he should have unconditional support from anyone.
Normally I would think the former but with that Johnson the latter is equally likely.
There's the now-famous letter from his former Headmaster to his father that states the latter:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/02/11/eton-letter-young-boris-johnson-went-viral-nails-perfectly/
Also of note in that same article is the last story about him thinking he'd win the piano prize.
Part of his act in PMQs is undoubtedly distraction-level stuff as well. It does stagger me though that he turns up there every week, gets torn to shreds for not knowing basic policy and then repeats it next week - no effort made to reverse the decline, to do some basic research. It is literally him sitting there showing total disrespect and disdain to absolutely everyone from SKS to Parliament to the overall public. He simply regards it as an embuggerance that he has to endure for an hour and then he goes back to swanning around.
chewkw, that's bollocks and you know it.
johnson and his acolytes have just been forcefully slapped down by the Speaker; that's the parliamentary equivalent of a punch in the face. He's effectively put them on notice for attitude and behaviour.
johnson is unable to answer any of Starmer's questions but dissembles - something at which he excels.
Ian Blackford refers to johnson '...yapping, bumbling, mumbling'; no tut tut from the Speaker; can't dispute the facts.
Speaker 1 - 0 johnson
Starmer 1 - 0 johnson
Blackford 1 - 0 johnson
In your distorted world view, that's another good day in parliament for the serial shagger, mr infidelity himself.
He’s effectively put them on notice for attitude and behaviour.
Out of interest, what's the sanction if, (likely when!) he he continues to behave in the same way?
‘Sniping from the Sidelines‘ is the line Dom has obviously given him to repeat this week.
I think this was his worst performance yet. And that’s saying something. All he did was repeat pre-prepared soundbites over and over and over
‘Sniping from the Sidelines‘ is the line Dom has obviously given him to repeat this week.
That and "inconsistent support". Wish they had pointed out that it would help if there was something consistent to support.
Out of interest, what’s the sanction if, (likely when!) he he continues to behave in the same way?
At the risk of sounding like hancock - that's a very good question.
I don't know but would be very interested to find out.
Out of interest, what’s the sanction if, (likely when!) he he continues to behave in the same way?
MPs can be suspended for a period of time, preumably that could happen here. There'd normally be a vote though, so given the Tory majority that probably wouldn't happen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_from_the_UK_parliament
I was surprised to read this:
Johnson 1 – 0 Starmer (Labour leader keep criticising but has nothing new to offer).
Until I saw this:
chewkw
Free Member
chewkw, that’s
bollockstrolling as per usual and you know it.
FTFY.
Do not engage. Repeat do not engage.
Or killfile.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/02/11/eton-letter-young-boris-johnson-went-viral-nails-perfectly/
The attitude described is that of a textbook narcissist/sociopath
Out of interest, what’s the sanction if, (likely when!) he he continues to behave in the same way?
Nothing concrete as far as I am aware but the speaker could direct him to answer the questions when he blusters and thats not a good look at all - and upsetting thre speaker is a bad move - so politically it could be quite damaging and makes good TV
Starmer asks question
Johnson Blusters
Starmer appeals to speaker
Speaker directs him to answer
Johnson blusters
etc etc
Looking shifty on TV is a real vote killer
Johnson 1 – 0 Starmer (Labour leader keep criticising but has nothing new to offer).
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that this was nonsense. All Johnson does is bluster and mumble, whilst repeating the line that he has been given about "sniping from the sidelines". He answered not one question today and I think that anyone with half a brain, sorry chewkw, could see that.
Blackford's description, at a different time with different players, could well have earned him a rebuke however, as frankconway says, you "can’t dispute the facts."
anyone with half a brain,
sorrychewkw
That's being over-generous to our resident troll.
I liked Blackfords line when Johnson had finally finished blathering some incoherent responce
"I have no idea what that was, Mr Speaker, but it certainly wasn't an answer to my question"
“I have no idea what that was, Mr Speaker, but it certainly wasn’t an answer to my question”
Bosh!
To be fair to BoZo BoJo, though, I struggle to be coherent when I'm pissed too....
Wish they had pointed out that it would help if there was something consistent to support.
I do think that lines like that would reinforce how crap the government is in the public mind. Bkackford seems to be delivering the punches today but may not get the attention they deserve.
This is good, reminds me of the librarian a few weeks back:
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Did anyone else catch Lindsay Hoyle's one-liner after johnson's witterings about Bolton, hospitals - A&E specifcally.
I paraphrase...'I hope that includes Chorley' which is his constituency.
He's used it before to jab at hancock when he's given windy answers which include references to A&E and '...our brave NHS'.
That's the Speaker off johnson's christmas card list.
That’s the Speaker off johnson’s christmas card list.
It's everyone who is tainted by association. Hoyle is a conservative, everyone knows that, and people are probably asking him how exactly this oaf of a PM represents him personally.
dannyh - Hoyle is labour so johnson does not represent him; he may have conservative, small c, views.
dannyh – Hoyle is labour so johnson does not represent him; he may have conservative, small c, views.
Bugger.
Thanks for trying to save me a bit of face - I'm just plain wrong on this one, though!
They don't let you into the Tory party with a regional accent as strong as Hoyle's!
Deputy speaker Nigel Evans is the Lancashire Conservative.
Can't quite believe how he started years ago as a Lib Dem then somehow transposed to being a Conservative doing thumbs up photos with the UKIP leader at Manchester Town Hall on EU referendum night 🙁
started years ago as a Lib Dem then somehow transposed to being a Conservative
Standard, politics seems to be about career and money, not politics. It's just a job to them. A well paid one with great benefits.
There isn't any such thing as PMQs any more. TBH I wish Starmer would respond to that, and not just like Blackford did but really go into a session ready to go to town. Find the ideal question, when you don't get an answer, ask it again, and again, maybe. Do a Paxman. Game out the responses and have quick take-downs before going back to "here's the question again since you've not answered it. Do you not know the answer? You should." "My constituent Mrs Y wants to know the answer. So do I, so do millions of people. Why are you afraid to tell teh british public the answer?" That sort of thing. Make a whole episode not about the questions, but about the Questions.
Determined to do something useful with the day I've been cataloging and clearing old drives and I found a bunch of photos of BJ reading one of my titles on his campaign bus.
This was the most flattering of the bunch.
Outstanding interview by Hannah Miller
https://twitter.com/hannahITV/status/1312079775180128262?s=19
Very disappointed with Susie Fowler-Watt’s interview with Joris today on Look East. She gave him a soap-box, which is inexcusable for a journalist in my opinion.
An embarrassing interview on Look North (Yorkshire version), announces "large investment" in Leeds hospitals and when asked how much doesn't have the figures to hand. Usual bluster ensues.
I take it that in a desperate attempt to pretend he's running the country Johnson has been on a media blitz
That interview with Hannah Miller was excruciating tbh. The way he just keeps on confidently giving wrong answers and doesn't even seem to realise what's happening
We had a jovial chat about NHS investment on East Midlands Today as well 🙄
I thought the best thing about the interview was telling us it’s all gone wrong because ‘we’ all got complacent
Imagine being accused of complacency by the laziest, most complacent, incompetent man in UK
He’s just trolling us now
The Hannah Miller interview on Granada is exactly how to interview Johnson, short concise, relevant questions and doesn't allow him to waffle some long winded reply with a bit of Latin thrown in. If he had been held up to scrutiny like this more often, things might have looked a bit different today.
^ ‘Scrutiny’ is so yesteryear
it's like a child giving a book report not having read the book.
'Science will ride to our rescue eventually.' Does this actually mean anything?
If he had been held up to scrutiny like this more often, things might have looked a bit different today.
Boris’s innate sense of entitlement means he doesn’t do scrutiny.
Born to rule, after all.
He only did these interviews yesterday because the rumblings from the Tory backbenches about him going AWOL all the time have become impossible to ignore. He wouldn’t normally even bother then, but at the same time they’re all cooing over Rishi, and he knows all too well what ruthless bastards they are.
‘Science will ride to our rescue eventually.’ Does this actually mean anything?
Yes it means do not expect the government to do anything useful, if it all goes wrong it is on the scientists.
‘Science will ride to our rescue eventually.’ Does this actually mean anything?
Wouldn't it be good if we could collaborate with scientists across Europe. We should look into that.
Oh wait a minute... 🤦
BillMC
Free Member‘Science will ride to our rescue eventually.’ Does this actually mean anything?
It means he knows we're doing badly enough to need rescued, at least, and he knows his government's not going to do anything about it
'kin Hell
Every one of these local interviews he's done has been a car crash
You'd think his handlers would've tried to get him sober first
https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1312333635308212224?s=09
'kin hell indeed.
He makes it look so easy ,what a pro.
I get the impression he's been rolled iut so people know he still exists.
It's evident he doesn't want to be in front of the cameras.
This is not the easy ride Premiership he signed up for.
You couldn't trust him if he said the sun was going to rise tomorrow.
He used to enjoy spouting his BS, he doesn't even seem to derive pleasure from that now.
I get the feeling that at any moment he will stop mid sentence and say "do you know what, I can't do this shit any more....." and walk off into the horizon. He's not even convincing himself
**** Johnson.
Freewheeling, contemptuous, arrogant, lazy, ****less, hypocritical, jazz hat turd that he is.
All of this (apart from covid) is down to Brexit and the fools that voted for it.
The UK is an international joke. Well done, Leave voters!
I see this becoming a new parlour game or rite of passage for aspiring journalists, see who can catch out the PM with the easiest question. Such gotcha questions may include:
"What does EU stand for?"
"Is Berwick upon Tweed part of England or Scotland?"
"What mode of transport did you use to get here"
"Is it okay to spoon-feed chicken vindaloo to a 6 month old provided you mash it up first?"
"Can you name the 6 members of the Beatles?"
"Has Dominic Cummings ever slapped you in the face and made you cry?"
“Is it okay to spoon-feed chicken vindaloo to a 6 month old provided you mash it up first?”
Yes. Especially if it is hormone injected, chlorine washed filth that we will soon have a 'tremendous opportunity' to import from Uncle Don. It is your patriotic duty, in fact.
He periodically looked lost and defeated and he is not being helped by his father (is there a trend here?). The problem is it's their politics that are wrong (privatisation, shrink the state, austerity) so the well-oiled replacement service means that even if he goes there will be no improvement but maybe a more polished presentation of the barefaced lies.
Being interviewed by Marr this morning, so he'll get an easier ride
Yes Kimbers, and he certainly did, unlike the shadow health secretary. To paraphrase; Joris contracted the virus because he, and a great majority of British people are too fat. Fatter than anywhere else in Europe apart from Malta (for some reason! His words) And other waffle about not lying to the British public etc.
Was he implying that being fat gives you a greater chance of getting it?!
Yep, because you can't outrun it.
I'm not a fan of Rawnsley, being the establishment hack that he is, but this is a corker.
The education secretary is the only cabinet member with a worse approval rating. That’s the verdict of Tory members on their own prime minister: “not quite as useless as Gavin Williamson”.
Ouch!
Rawnsley tells it straight.
All the backbenchers who are now wringing their hands and expressing dissatisfaction were more than happy to hitch a ride on Boris's Bullshit Bus to get/stay elected. Hypocritical, self-serving nasties only now 'realise' what an oaf Johnson is?
**** off. Do me a favour.
It is typical of their (well earned) contempt for the electorate that they knew full well enough nobheads would back Johnson because he is 'a bit of a lad'.
But the Bullshit Bus is running out of road. Even without covid, the inevitable truth is fast approaching. Brexit is a ****ing stupid, self-harming, pointless act. A pack of lies and bullshit wrapped up in a union jack. No sophistry, 'statecraft' (ha), threats, flouncing, begging or whatever can change that.
A pack of lies, sold by cynics to thickos.
The Hannah Miller interview on Granada is exactly how to interview Johnson, short concise, relevant questions and doesn’t allow him to waffle some long winded reply with a bit of Latin thrown in. If he had been held up to scrutiny like this more often, things might have looked a bit different today.
Absolutely this. The contrast with Marr's gentle lobs and Peston's windbag meanderings was striking. In fact "Johnson" got slaughtered on all the local news interviews he did last week that I saw.
A pack of lies, sold by cynics to thickos.
That needs to go on a t-shirt 👍
That needs to go on a t-shirt 👍
or a bus ?
Just watched that Hannah Miller interview on the tablet whilst simultaneously watching a HIGNFY re-run on the TV where Andrew Marr was interviewing Boris. The contrast was astounding. There's a technique to interviewing a turd like Johnston, she has it Marr doesn't.
She tripped him up before he ever got a chance to get going, really sharp, curt and a little dismissive. A bit like Brian Walden back in the day.
I suspect the big name interviewers are the very ones least able to interrogate the likes of Johnson.
They've been around politicians way too much, it becomes a dance. One that Johnson is all too willing to play.
For the small fry unknown to be allowed to let rip at a PM , particularly this PM, must also be like a lottery win. Where as Johnson stands to gain very little but lose a lot.
Just as politics and politicians have changed, it's possibly time to change how the media hold them accountable. The undermining of the BBC by government makes this even more necessary.