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.
I suppose the only negative of Hannah Miller's approach is that it 100% felt like she was setting traps for Johnston, which tends to look a bit cynical/biased and generates sympathy when he inevitably falls into them. It's a totally valid tactic imo but it doesn't sit well with some people, they just see it as good old Boris being tricked and set up by a nasty journalist. The best traps are the ones the audience can't see either.
The absolute best killer interviews are the ones like Jonathan Swan's Trump interview, where it's the interviewee destroying themselves while the interviewee just sits back and watches.
Boris Johnson said he would "encourage people to go out to the cinema, enjoy themselves and support" movie theatres.
Quote from the BBC website, words fail me 🤔
Quote from the BBC website, words fail me
Well it worked so well in August why not get people out and about again?
It was good to see him doing another photo op today. He seems to be copying Trump by being in permanent campaign mode.
I'm sure we can imminently look forward to another catchy slogan
Maybe retain a sense of caution and go for:
Watch out whilst watching out.
Sit in the dark and be kept in the dark.
I’m sure we can imminently look forward to another catchy slogan
"Ignorance is strength"
"Turn on, tune in and cop out"?
**** granny save bond.
This could honestly be a good time to bring back drive-in cinemas. Car parks in towns are not that full now that people are not commuting and, it you want to show more than one film, you could take over a multistory.
Car park by day, cinema by night. I am a genius
