Cupid Stunt would be a better description, there’s nothing ‘Stunning’ about him
A shining wit?
A BJ?
I see the fly-tipped sofa’s desperate need for attention (please buy my book) has got him just randomly making shit up again. It’s ludicrous that anyone actually buys this shit any more, but apparently some gullible halfwits do
As many people have noted, it’s the sentence ‘Boris Johnson drew up detailed plans’ that nail it as a total fabrication
https://Twitter.com/iandunt/status/1839926270903103795?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Great idea.
SBS jump in their RIB's, charge up a Dutch canal, all the way until they come to the first lock gate.......
Totally made up shit to try and sell his book.
I posted on the COVID thread, his fanboys will lap this up.
If Johnson "drew to the plans" he invariably called it, "Operation: Finger in Dyke" didn't he?
Maybe he was in a coffee shop in Amsterdam at the time
As most of us on here have known for a very long time,he is, and always will be as described by Stewart Lee .
Was he ever really punished or held to account.?
No
Will he ever be?
Probably not.
So this horrible human will continue on his merry way,doing what he has always done.
Buy his book,buy his effin book!!
They should be ignored,then burnt when the charity shops skip them.
I will despise him and his kind forever
See the Mail is publishing yet more of his drivel to appease the swivel eyed loons.
I suppose it makes sense to write your fantasy’s down so you have a collected works to use for reference for answering questions in the future.
Anyone catch the interviews 🙁
Utterly, utterly deranged. Calling for a referendum on the ECHR. On occasion the ECHR directly affects my work & more often than not I refer the decision upstairs, so I like to think I at least have a little bit of awareness around it. Would I feel happy voting Y/N on it? Not remotely. It’s far too complex. The idea of asking your average Joe to choose is beyond comprehension. He’s a self serving muck raker & dangerous too boot.
It’s just the next McGuffin after Brexit, the usual grifters are all over it 🙂
It’s not like the U.K. gov would take away your rights and give you some watered down version that they have would have
The final rights of arbitration over 🙂
Freely admits that the whole Brexit thing was just to 'win an argument', like some massive sixth form debating society.
The man is a stain on our history, a degenerate narcissist, incapable of forming a proper human relationship, let alone run a country.
Freely admits that the whole Brexit thing was just to ‘win an argument’, like some massive sixth form debating society.
I stopped watching at that point, I may have been slightly irked, but what is it 8 years of shite we’ve endured and to him he was winning an argument.
I don’t think I have the words for what he said.
SBS jump in their RIB’s, charge up a Dutch canal, all the way until they come to the first lock gate…….
The rest of the plan was even better - return with the booty was via one of the channel ferries. It could be the first time a military strategy hinged on the use public transport since the French army arrived at the front line by taxi in 1914.
Would I feel happy voting Y/N on it? Not remotely. It’s far too complex.
Entirely the same as the Brexit referendum - It was a choice between thinking- this is all very complicated therefore I think its best if I don't interfere with it and thinking this is all very complicated therefore I should smash it. Destroying things is the only power many people have in their lives, the failure of everything that has followed Brexit hasn't lessened the thrill of the destruction for anyone who voted for it. So in the eyes of some the EHCR is the perfect subject for a referendum
TLDR: Johnson doesn’t want journalist to have a record of what he says to said journalist.
Two journalists who’ve had advance copies of his book - Matt Chorley on the BBC and John Crace in the Guardian - summed it up with the exact same comment
”it’s exactly what you’d expect from Boris Johnson”
The damage that man has done with his narcissistic need for constant attention and he doesn’t for a second give a thought to the lives he’s ruined. It’s all just a big game to him. I ****ing despise him!
The whole Beth Rigby thing was a PR stunt. Boris is a * but not a stupid *. He would have know that a Sky journo would never agree to an off record interview. He also knows that unlike LK, Beth can't stand him, is no tory shill and would probably ask some difficult questions which would be reported. Hence the impossible request which would obviously lead to cancellation but still give his dumb supporters plenty of material to use in order to construct their weird fantasies about how good old Boris is always slightly edgy and left field, doesn't want to be bound by the staid old rules and too quick for 'the establishment'.
There aren't many people I hate, its such a wasteful emotion but he's one. I wouldn't even give him one second of my time except that he's destroyed so much for so many people and actually properly impacted my life in a hugely negative way for no good reason other than his own vanity and narcissism whilst knowing full well the repercussions of his actions but not giving a frig.
Pretty sure that other people who did this much damage to the country got tried for treason....
He's a nasty piece of work.
Anyone that tells me politicians are all the same needs to remember Boris Johnson and what he normalised.
Freely admits that the whole Brexit thing was just to ‘win an argument’, like some massive sixth form debating society.
Then, like the entitled arse that he is, expecting someone else to do the hard work. Cameron spiked that by throwing his toys out of the pram and resigning!
Freely admits that the whole Brexit thing was just to ‘win an argument’, like some massive sixth form debating society.
I dont believe this though. The alternative argument put forward by various columnists etc is that he expected to lose the referendum but it would set him up nicely for a future leadership run seems convincing to me. He didnt exactly look happy to win.
His face said it all. He was never meant to ‘win’ the referendum. It was a leadership bid, pure and simple. Typical of him to re-write history though, with his own fantasy version of what happened. Who on earth believes a word that comes out of his mouth any more (if they ever did)? He’s a pathological liar who seems to inhabit some kind of alternative universe
It is the 21st century, heads don't get put on spikes here anymore.
Johnson should be grateful for this and shut up.
It is the 21st century, heads don’t get put on spikes here anymore.
Johnson should be grateful for this and shut up.
Generally speaking I am against things being revived or continued because 'tradition'. But in this case I am willing to make an exception.
Boris is a * but not a stupid *.
I disagree, his success is not built on intelligence and it definitely isn't built on hard work, like Trump he has created a myth of intellect mainly by self promotion. Reality is his success is built on luck and opportunity, he hides from being challenged and difficult interviews to avoid the mask slipping from the remaining believers.
A few years back when Boris was mayor, he was scheduled to call at the hospital dept I was then running. He turned up late, literally minutes before the press conference - he was handed a file to go through etc and he impressively proceeded to give a very thorough Q&A to the press .. the detail of what he read, and obviously understood, had my colleagues and myself surprised to say the least
It may not be what his detractors want to hear, but Boris is most definitely a very intelligent man ..
Maybe it was just a particularly good batch of charlie...?
TBH, I've never doubted a degree of intelligence - if you define intelligence as the ability to bluff convincingly with a brief to cover your inherent laziness and the ability to 'read' a potential mark and tailor your approach accordingly.
I'm sure there are many estate agents and second hand car salesmen who can do what you describe too.
I've no doubt that he is intelligent. That makes it all the worse really, that intelligence could have been used to good effect in whatever his chosen field was.
Instead, he's used that intelligence to damage, lie and further purely selfish goals to the detriment of people around him and many more he will never meet.
A lot of sociopaths are pretty intelligent.
bluff convincingly
I guess thats suggesting he was not able to understand what he was given - and just winged it. Which he did not .. he clearly demonstrated a very good understanding of a very complex situation. Which given his very brief time to read/scour it, proved a very good intellect.
Boris plays his own game to good effect. It's easy to underestimate him, and something I think is just part of his overall game.
A few years back when Boris was mayor, he was scheduled to call at the hospital dept I was then running. He turned up late, literally minutes before the press conference – he was handed a file to go through etc and he impressively proceeded to give a very thorough Q&A to the press .. the detail of what he read, and obviously understood, had my colleagues and myself surprised to say the least
It may not be what his detractors want to hear, but Boris is most definitely a very intelligent man ..
Are you absolutely sure you didn't just get taken in by his carefully curated 'appearance'.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-boris-johnson-story/
And I'm definitely not having a go at you if you did get taken in. Johnson has basically made a career out of creating the image of a bumbling idiot with a lethal intelligence just under the surface. Trouble is the lethal intelligence is more a sort of cunning whose only real genius is in being able to play the room like a fiddle.
Its a common mistake to dismiss and underestimate people we dislike. Intelligence, like beauty, is something we all consciously or unconsciously hold in high regard. And as such, is often the thing we instinctively claim the person we dislike lacks.
Its a common mistake to dismiss and underestimate people we dislike. Intelligence, like beauty, is something we all consciously or unconsciously hold in high regard. And as such, is often the thing we instinctively claim the person we dislike lacks.
It's also a common mistake to dismiss out of hand evidence that doesn't agree with your viewpoint.
It could be argued that becoming prime minister is evidence he is intelligent. But then it would also be evidence that Liz Truss in intelligent and I am simply not buying that.
After reading Jeremy Vine's account of basically the same thing you recounted, don't you think it's at least possible you got taken in by a performance that Johnson repeats almost everywhere he goes?
It's possible to be genius in a particular area. Some people can be have an incredible aptitude and intelligence when it comes to being a con-artist. However, there's a reason they make their living as con-artists and not as something better.
If there is any recorded evidence of this vast intelligence, I would be very interested in reading it.
Until then ,I will continue to believe that a lot of people were mugged by a world class bullshiter.
That's (probably) why he was such a successful sex pest.
In another life he would have been a fortune teller/palm reader.
A local lass that I know became a tory MP and worked quite closely with Johnson a few years ago. While I disagree with her politics I would regard her as fairly intelligent. I was chatting with her in the pub one night about Johnson at the time she was working with him and she was in no doubt at all that he was a highly intelligent man.
If anyone was ever in any doubt that the 'bumbling lovable rogue' image is anything but an act he puts on, have a read of this:
https://reaction.life/jeremy-vine-my-boris-story/
