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Can we all just stick to ignoring @chewkw please?! Most do, but a few have indulged him on this thread. It only gives him a reason to come back.
From an outsider looking in, I find this a fairly tough situation. My initial reaction to the Brexit vote was to try to move to NZ.....at the same time I'd fallen head over heels with my current gf so that was a no go. Present day, if I was single I'd move to Scotland tomorrow, and vote Independence too! I feel like an absolute stranger in England, politically I just don't fit in with the majority apparently. However, if the whole Brexit shit show has taught us anything, it is to caution again nationalism/separatism and that working collaboratively is better than working apart (I totally get that 'working collaboratively with the current ****s in Westminster is a hilarious notion)
If we can just rejoin the EU, never vote Tory again and stick Johnson, Rees-Mogg and that rapist Francois in prison that'd be lovely.
I’d have made him a cuppa.
It would have been a waste of time if you did. He was well briefed by good old Dominic Cumstains that to be in public in one place more than thirty seconds might mean some scrutiny and thus must be avoided at all costs.
He'd also most likely be so pissed up that he'd mistake your tea cosy for a microphone and threaten to remove your charter or funding.
In any case, isn't making hot drinks with one hand dangerous? I mean, if the other hand is engaged in constant forelock tugging....
Have a like Danny!
When I saw the photos of him dressed in protective kit yesterday my immediate reaction was ‘Its alive’
I just thought f..me another photo op, he seems to be obsessed with dressing up playing at Doctor,Nurse,Scientist,Labrat waaaaay more times than he dresses up to play PM.
Scatoma moment actually meant Cameron's want lol that should cheer a few up.
I"m beginning to think Boris is a secret lefty. First we get a news report that he's going to spend shit loads of money over the next 10 years, now he wants to save the NHS from privatisation. Maybe the last year of having to implement the most leftwing policies in decades in response to covid has gone to his head? What next? Free broadband? Legalisation of drugs? Nationalisation of public transport?
Trying to shut them, or stop them being opened in the first place?
Dazh, don’t believe the lies hype.
Slight off topic but I only heard Camerons name in relation to the 2012 NHS restructuring, not Lansley. Though as I understand it Lansley was the main architect, Cameron was just too hands off to realise Lansley was ****ing up until it was too late. In fact I read somewhere that it was Osborne who spotted it was all going tits up but by that time things had already happened.
Twitter bots out in force on Bojo's account https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1358146112838905860
Twitter bots out in force on Bojo’s account
Love the 3rd one down's name
"We'll be driven by Data not Dates" says man who then goes on to to list a swath of dates when various restrictions will be relaxed then says the rules will be 'over from the 21st of June'
I would love to know how times he and his cohorts say absolutely each day. Almost every sentence has it in there somewhere
As I just posted on the other thread, he's ****ed it up again.
Data not dates my fat hairy arse.
"Let them eat cake"
He's trying to be the populist.
He’s trying to be the populist.
He IS the populist. That he gets away with it reflects very, very badly on us as a population.
It is difficult to imagine 21st Century Germany or France being taken in by a ridiculous fraud like Johnson.
He IS the populist. That he gets away with it reflects very, very badly on us as a population.
That's the worry.
Not sure my marriage can survive this.
“We’ll be driven by Data not Dates” says man who then goes on to to list a swath of dates when various restrictions will be relaxed then says the rules will be ‘over from the 21st of June’
Newsthump have nailed it
Boris Johnson unveils roadmap for going back into lockdown in the summer
It's a slow motion car crash. Vaccines will save us, here's the dates. All leads to folk hearing the "it's all over" narrative, he needs to temper the mood or people will be out and about within days because it'll be over in a week or two.
Holiday bookings have jumped on the back of his words. Freedom is coming.
Unlock the country, step down step away.
Jesus the poor man cant win! Everyone demanded a road map for how we come out of lockdown. He produced one and know every armchair expert on the web is criticising it for being a roadmap. (rolleyes)
To be fair Trailwagger, he doesn't deserve to win. The man is a proven liar, cheat, philanderer and adulterer. He is untrustworthy, ineffectual and corrupt; the last of which is directly the reason that the UK is in the current predicament with both Brexit and Covid.
Him getting a break instead of being held to account for his own naked self interest and shortcomings is what will enable him to justify doing it again and again and again.
It’s a slow motion car crash.
1706 days and counting.
Newsthump have nailed it
It’s a slow motion car crash. Vaccines will save us, here’s the dates. All leads to folk hearing the “it’s all over” narrative
I’m of average intelligence and I listened to Whitty and Valance. Together with my lived experience of the past 12 months I find it very simple to understand the current rules, the fact the dates are not carved in stone, and what we’ve all witnessed can happen when we don’t/there is a variant.
Yet, with my average brain I chose not to write a media article on any platform with no hard facts to act as a lever for adding doubt to the advice provided for those of lesser intelligence/a more selfish and/or political disposition, in the interest of getting this pandemic to an end. Perhaps some people could help our wider community by doing the same.
Him getting a break instead of being held to account for his own naked self interest and shortcomings is what will enable him to justify doing it again and again and again.
He's learned.
He hid in a fridge to avoid scrutiny and still won a 80 seat majority. Johnson and his masters hold the British public in utter contempt and rightly so.
That was the great discovery of Cummings et al. Back in the day Blair and Cameron at least thought they had to make an effort to spin their way past problems. Cummings demonstrated that there is no point even bothering. Just mutter something about Churchill every so often and give a knowing wink to the gammons every so often and you're home and dry.
Everyone demanded a road map for how we come out of lockdown.
No, 'Everyone' didn't. The far right, libertarian nut-jobs of the Tory backbenches did.
Most people with anything between their ears realise that you can't start giving definite dates when you're in the middle of a situation you can't predict.
What you can predict is that if you start setting arbitrary dates purely to satisfy a bunch of lunatics then we'll be back into lockdown 4 before we know it.
The man has learned nothing and has once again caved in to the headbanger fringe of his own party simply because its the path of least resistance.
No, ‘Everyone’ didn’t. The far right, libertarian nut-jobs of the Tory backbenches did.
Most people with anything between their ears realise that you can’t start giving definite dates when you’re in the middle of a situation you can’t predict.
What you can predict is that if you start setting arbitrary dates purely to satisfy a bunch of lunatics then we’ll be back into lockdown 4 before we know it
+1
its the path of least resistance
And that is the one that the terminally ****less and lazy will always take.
I would love to know how times he and his cohorts say absolutely each day.
And "incredibly" - mostly when talking about entirely credible things.
/grammarpedant
The man has learned nothing
Nothing of use to the people he is supposed to serve.
He has 'learned' in a similar way to a door to door conman doing the rounds of bungalowed estates conning the elderly out of their savings.
At first he dresses up, does his hair, shines his shoes and feels a bit nervous. But every time he finds a fresh mark he realises that they were always going to fall for it anyway. In the end he doesn't bother putting any effort in, just knocks on as many doors as possible, knowing it is all about the percentages and not the message.
When I first read Stewart Lee's description of him I thought "That is bang on".
Nothing in the last couple of years has changed my mind.
Johnston is a useless,out of his depth buffoon ,doggy paddling in a pond of shit.
Jesus the poor man cant win! Everyone demanded a road map for how we come out of lockdown.
As said - not everyone. He's had constant, firmly stated advice from people paid to give that advice that actual levels of serious illness and rates of transmission need to be the basis for policy and to avoid setting targets when those facts aren't known. And he's had mouthy backbenchers wanting to hear dates because they're concerned about that real life and death stuff like booking holidays or going to the pub.
Because he is, ultimately, a coward - he's firmly backed both positions and continues to lead the country through a crisis by letting things happen.
Because he is, ultimately, a coward – he’s firmly backed both positions and continues to lead the country through a crisis by letting things happen.
Nailed it.
Prevaricate, make sure to tell different people different things to get them of your back, kick the can down the road, avoid scrutiny if at all possible, mumble something about Dunkirk/Churchill/Blitz, get the hell out of there as a quick as possible....
Hell of a way to lead a country through a pandemic.
Most people with anything between their ears realise that you can’t start giving definite dates
A roadmap doesnt require dates. Its just a clearly defined plan of action including options and how to choose between them.
So I would say anyone familiar with the terminology would have wanted a roadmap. Sadly though instead we got a travel itinerary.
One thing that rattled my cage last night as regards these dates... the BBC not only removed the governments careful caveat of "no sooner than", but added their own "by".
Boris the ape narrated by David Attenborough
https://twitter.com/BThroughParty/status/1363067190891675650?s=20
A roadmap doesnt require dates. Its just a clearly defined plan of action including options and how to choose between them.
It also has to be difficult to fold back up again.
Because he is, ultimately, a coward – he’s firmly backed both positions and continues to [s]lead the country[/s] [b]let the country stumble blindly[/b] through a crisis by letting things happen.
FTFY.
He's done no leading at all. Prevaricate until [the thing] has happened anyway, fumble around for a response.
Followed paying maintenance until they're 18 and taking out a super injunction to prevent it reaching the papers?
NewsThump is rather accurate if you look at the SAGE report. You need to be very bored to actually read it though Bedtime Reading
Twitter bots out in force on Bojo’s account
There is definitely another spike of "he's doing his best" stuff on Twitter. Yet again I'm left wondering what they're trying to hide.
Rubbish defence anyway. I could stand in the street busking and "do my best", I'd still be monumentally shit. However at least I recognise that so I don't attempt it.
To be honest, if this is his best, then it's an even more damming indictment of his capabilities. His best appears to be well below what a leader should have and what the UK needs.
