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
