Exactly.. the public were never sold a ‘crash out’ ‘hard brexit’ – it was always “we’ll stay in the customs union, we’ll do a ‘Norway type deal” etc, etc.
Which I is why I want starmer to deliver the brexit “we” voted for.
Which I is why I want starmer to deliver the brexit “we” voted for.
I thought it was pretty evil the way Starmer dismissed ideas from the EU to allow people under 30yo more freedom of movement, but also on the flip side, that could be construed as discrimination if UK citizens under 30 have more rights than those over 30...that would be a legal can of worms.
But that's the position we put ourselves in... at the end of the day 51% of UK voters voted to hurt the entire UK.
If Cameron, or indeed May, had any backbone, they would have played on the advisory aspect of the referendum, and the lack of checks and balances, and indeed the total lack of forward planning... (they were both 'remainers' afterall).
EDIT:
In fact, so was Johnson... they are all so bloody spineless and petrified over losing a few votes to UKIP, they shafted the entire country to save a bit of face in the press.
And now look at them, the UKIP/Reform vote cut the tory vote in half at the last GE, so they accomlished the net sum of sweet F*** all, and wasted an intangible amount of public money in doing so.
And Starmer seems to be following the tory playbook.. too scared of losing a few vote to the far right.
Be careful what you wish for….
Sorry to rejuvenate this thread, he really is the turd that won’t flush.
i was on a flight earlier and the lady next to me* was reading the Daily Mail app on her iPad. Johnson’s comment piece has the following headline :
Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Emanuel Macron for his jihad against Brexit
What the actual could he possibly be banging on about with that tosh? It’s literally like he thinks, oh bother, the Mail are expecting a column tomorrow. I must think of three things that the readers get furious about and put them together into one incomprehensible headline. And he gets paid for that. And, more worryingly, people read it.
*not my wife
It's a great attention-grabbing headline, you can't deny that !
It’s like a tick list of words that will send the gammons into an apoplectic rage
What the actual could he possibly be banging on about with that tosh?
I expect nowadays he just sticks a prompt into chatgpt "produce an article in the style of Alexander Boris Johnson that references the latest UK political news".
Does the mail still has its "this is the random Greek/Latin words the subeditors had to find two of so he could sound like he is clever".
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What the actual could he possibly be banging on about with that tosh? It’s literally like he thinks, oh bother, the Mail are expecting a column tomorrow. I must think of three things that the readers get furious about and put them together into one incomprehensible headline. And he gets paid for that.
He gets ‘well’ paid for it and it sells, all he does is write what people want to hear.
It’s entertainment but not truth, which is the problem as people don’t get the fact that it’s just entertaining prose.
He gets ‘well’ paid for it and it sells,
Johnson himself is flawed in so many ways - but his agent must be a ****ing magician!
Once again I open the thread and feel disappointed.
his agent must be a ****ing magician!
Although Johnson, like other very high profile former politicians such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, uses the Harry Walker Agency, I very much doubt that the Boris Johnson act has a personal agent as such.
As a highly successful columnist and former editor of The Spectator Johnson seems perfectly capable of generating his own publicity.
I have read the article in question and there is nothing of notable interest about it, just a daft allegation of vindictiveness from Macron, as if Macron doesn't have anything better to worry about, but with probably help from a Daily Mail headline writer it has given Johnson all the attention that he could wish for, including for at least a couple of days on an obscure MTB forum.
I suspect that the Daily Mail feels that paying Johnson large amounts of money to write nonsense is a sound investment.
Edit : To be sure people who read Johnson's inane musings don't necessarily agree with them, curiosity generated by the revival of this thread got the better of me as I thought "what the **** is that **** on about now". Credit needs to go to whoever wrote the headline.
I read somewhere, genuinely can't remember where, that his Mail salary was circa £250,000.
The £250k per year was for the Telegraph column, which he famously described as 'chicken feed'
His contract at the Daily Mail is understood to be around £1m a year, or about £20k per column. Nice work if you can get it...
Full title was edited, I believe.
Top ten reasons why you won't believe how Channel migrants are Climate Conspiracy Shock Troops recruited by Emanuel Macron for rewriting history in his Culture War Jihad against the NHS' Brexit Churchill Dambusters.
Sorry, I'm just sh*tposting really.
Maybe Boris' newspaper job(s) really is been written by a small AI agent. I doubt anyone would ever notice the difference. I doubt I ever would. He was pretty much a pastiche of his own character act even a short way into the political career.
I dunno, as laughable as it seems it feels a bit like when David Cameron started sounding out his return, first steps on a rebrand so he can come back but really go for the Reformer vote. Wouldn't be laughing too much at that.
I wouldn't trust him with my wallet...
Wallet? I wouldn’t trust him to clean my shoes - I’d probably find something nasty in one of them! 😣
I think as opposed to Farage you’d probably like him if you met him in a pub and had a few pints and then at the end of the night realise he’d not got a round in 🙂
I dunno, as laughable as it seems it feels a bit like when David Cameron started sounding out his return, first steps on a rebrand so he can come back but really go for the Reformer vote. Wouldn't be laughing too much at that.
Agree, getting Boris back as Tory leader before next election would give them the best chance they have while also taking back a lot of potential Reform votes. I hope they do because as much of a tosser Boris is I would rather have that than Farage.
Wallet? I wouldn’t trust him to clean my shoes - I’d probably find something nasty in one of them!
Probably his todger if you put a blonde wig on one of them. 🙄
