Johnson (& Sunak) have a lot to answer for
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1373565283215024129?s=19
"Nuremberg Radisson"
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Nailed it.
Perhaps the proposal to grant immediate leave to stay for political refugees is in the hope of getting the stereotypically 'right' immigrants. Possibly fewer have applied than hoped from HK and the people turning up in boats can be repatriated is the thinking. I didn't hear they were opening up the gates for the Uigers. HKers are used to living in nasty overcrowded skyscrapers (anyone remember flying in to the old airport and seeing what people were watching on the telly?) and blimey, Manchester alone will have loads of them standing empty plus vacant premises on the high street. Just a thought.
possibly the best was Disraeli; he said that ‘half the cabinet are knaves’ and then withdrew it and replaced with ‘half the cabinet are not knaves’
Brilliant.😂
With a tweak
"Half the time the PM is telling barefaced lies"
"Withdraw please"
"Half the time the PM is not..."
Let's hope the poor love is not having any horrible reactions to his jab.
Let’s hope the poor love is not having any horrible reactions to his jab.
I imagine the procedure would have been reminiscent of this....
Little prick, nurse? Phwoar!
Is it true what they say about little fat fellas?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lgkg
Interesting listen and certainly rings a few bells....
'Charisma', 'sense of disillusionment', put-on physical affectations.....
This was a post from 23rd of March 2020. A year later it’s difficult to disagree with a single word of it, particularly the damning conclusion
I see you, Boris Johnson.
I see you at the daily conference, your carefully tousled hair conveying none of its usual charm, its contrived wobbling instead betraying the frantic panic of the man it straddles. This isn’t quite the carefree lark you were promised, is it? You were meant to ride a wave of nationalist glory all the way into the history books and instead you’re governing a nation suffering through the apocalypse. This isn’t what Dominic promised you, is it? What on Earth are you paying that weird basement full of super-forecasting eugenicist thumbsuckers for exactly? Those pasty ****s couldn’t see a train coming if they stood on the tracks and felt their feet rumbling.
Anyone who buys into the nonsensical notion that this is somehow your Churchill moment obviously hasn’t been paying much attention. It's quite the opposite - never before have so many chosen to do **** all about protecting the vulnerable few. As a result the drastic measures you didn’t foresee becoming necessary have become necessary on a daily and rolling basis. They might be big, bold, sweeping changes to the very way we live our lives but your every move has been cautious and reactive, communicated poorly and delivered without authority. Just a few short days ago businesses were left flapping in the wind as you scrambled to clarify your position under pressure and the self-employed are currently very much abandoned. All they've got so far is the humiliating admission that it turns out you always knew universal credit was a pathetic amount to ask anybody to live on in the first place.
At least they’re finding ways to amuse themselves for now. The self employed are about 15% of the workforce and sales of sex toys have gone up by 13% so it seems like most of them are taking your advice to go and **** themselves literally.
The messaging has been an absolute mess, cloudier than a syphilitic’s piss when what everyone desperately needs right now is simple, direct clarity. Half the country rushed out for a last hurrah at the pub on Friday night because you couldn’t even order them to close with any conviction. You’re still muddying the waters by waffling and ad-libbing, grabbing for the most obscure words you can think of in a hopeless bid to charm our facemasks off on the way into bed with you. False information continues to spread like wildfire and while I’ve no doubt Chris Witty is the expert and adult in the room, actual government policy is still being influenced by the sort of untested behavioural science Cummings has long advocated. Relying on him to predict the citizenry’s mass reaction to your every move is like asking a Terminator to define love. This isn’t a referendum to manipulate with big data. It’s a national emergency and your trembling at the tiller endangers people’s lives every single ****ing day.
That you’re already visibly bored of the weight of all this responsibility should be a surprise to no-one, Boris Johnson. The jokes and witty aphorisms have reappeared in the daily briefings as you attempt to pratfall your way to rising to the occasion. They elicit no chuckles in the room when the national mood is so anxious - in fact, they make us want to squash the sombrero with your head still in it. You can’t catchphrase your way out of this one no matter how hard you try. Just a day after you glibly promised us we’d all be over the worst in three months the ugly reality was splashed all over the headlines. ‘Get Coronavirus done’ just isn’t selling no matter how hard you struggle to push it uphill.
We all have our part to play moving forwards. The unbelievably dedicated staff in the NHS, the overwhelmed teaching staff being asked to act as guinea pigs for an untested hypothesis that they won’t be at risk of infection from the children they work with, the stressed shop workers and the cleaners and the refuse collectors. Just a month ago they were unskilled undesirables and now they’re the only ones propping us up. Who knows - maybe we can expect a reckoning at the end of all this and we’ll start giving them the respect and wages they deserve before you rush to deport half of them.
And you, Boris Johnson? Your part is to lead from the front and to actually make some ****ing decisions. While you umm and ahh and drag your feet all that happens is that those who couldn't give a **** about the elderly or vulnerable see the lockdown coming a mile off and make a beeline for the beach or park for one last selfish jolly. There's no way you can write two letters and wait to see how the wind blows on this one.
For Christ’s sake, you’re being eclipsed by Rishi Sunak, a man who I suspect might be three six year olds sat on each other’s shoulders in a Savile Row suit. A month ago he couldn’t pose with a sack of teabags without looking like he’d just shat himself and now you look positively terrified in comparison when stood next to him. Is it so much to ask that for the next few months you put your ego aside, stop with the ****ing clown act and turn your ear away from Dominic Cummings’ dangerous Iago impression before he gets thousands of us killed?
I see you, Boris Johnson. I ****ing see you.
I'm hearing about think tanks/advisors to the tories being made 'part of the civil service' like Serco was the NHS. Tax payer pays, advisors on contractor rates not civil service rates, nice bit of privatisation on the qt and peeing off the mandarins. All of this should come out in an enquiry. Doubt it though, they will probably be appointed to lead it.
but possibly the best was Disraeli; he said that ‘half the cabinet are knaves’ and then withdrew it and replaced with ‘half the cabinet are not knaves’
Thanks theotherjonv. Brilliant.
Lest we forget, Disraeli made the 'Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire' and opposed Gladstone's doctrine of equality of opportunity.
I haven't read most of this thread, mostly because it's always been abundantly clear who and what Boris Johnson is - a narcissistic sociopath in a clown suit - but while I don't think I've ever actively wished death on anyone, I do wonder if things might have turned out differently if he had died from covid in hospital last year. Would 30,000 people have died in January because he couldn't bear to cancel Christmas? Would every ****ing measure have been late and half-arsed? Would we now have something approaching a competent government?
I hold Johnson personally responsible for the 12 months of long covid that have basically stolen a year of my life from me. And for the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. And for the unnecessary suffering to come at the hands of a tanked economy and a ****ed-up welfare state. Like I said, I've never actively wished death on anyone, but I think I could probably make an exception for him, because if it had happened, thousands of others might have lived.
And finally, I remember a lot of guff being spouted about Johnson having covid maybe changing him for the better and thinking, no, narcissistic sociopaths don't change for the better. If he survives, he's more likely to weaponise the experience than learn anything from it. I don't think I was wrong there either, he used it to stir up fake, insincere support for the NHS staff - the ones he's just treating to a pay cut - and distract from his own dismal performance.
It's incredible how they expect the plebs to survive on fresh air but they and their chums deserve squillions and people are resigned or confused enough to accept it. Jenrick tried to deprive one of London's poorest boroughs to bung a billionaire pornographer £40m, £500m for a failed satellite company, £40k RISE for Cummings, Cameron asking Sunak to write a big cheque for a failing (now failed) investment trust he works for, £37bn for failing Serco when we're expected to applaud the successful roll-out after it had been put in the hands of the cash-starved NHS. How long can it go on?
Let us not forget that the plebs voted for brexit and nationalism.
Yep, part of the confusion. Anyone seen any of the 40 hospitals going up?
I see our glorious leader has chosen the moment of over 126,000 people dead to release some of the images carefully posed today for one of the pack of personal photographs he employs at taxpayers expense. Him stood in front of the now compulsory Union Jack, looking somber and thoughtful.
Not at all the kind of thing Colonel Gadaffi or Kim Jong-un would have done.
What a ****!
Anyone willing to bet on how long it is until he starts awarding himself medals and having military parades featuring his new nuclear warheads?
Brexit? They thought they voted for £230m pw going into the NHS.
I really struggled to bite my lip over the rank hypocrisy of the government having a day of reflection in memory of 126,000 people, most of whom died due to said governments incredible incompetence.
No one appears willing to say it, but I know sure as hell that a lot of us are thinking it.
No one appears willing to say it, but I know sure as hell that a lot of us are thinking it.
I'm thinking it and 'reflecting' on the UK's covid death toll has made me think a more appropriate way of marking it would be some kind of people's coup d'etat with Johnson and his rabble being chased down the street.
Remembrance is about the ultimate self-sacrifice, doing your duty, saluting your superiors, glorifying war and Johnson is parting the waves leading the people to freedom.
Remembrance
I think Boris Johnson is a Country Member.
Yep, part of the confusion. Anyone seen any of the 40 hospitals going up?
with that extra £350 million a week to the NHS that Boris assured us would be there after Brexit, I’m sure they’ll all be sorted in no time
What an embarrassment to the human race. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5650454 6">Greed led to vaccine success.
Remembrance is about the ultimate self-sacrifice, doing your duty, saluting your superiors, glorifying war and Johnson is parting the waves leading the people to freedom.
Yup, we're on Boris's Roadmap to Recovery. Honours and accolades waiting in the wings as we eventually beat the virus back.
He'll probably get a knighthood out of this.
'The UK’s successful vaccine roll out was thanks to “greed” and “capitalism”'
The UK’s successful vaccine roll out was thanks to “greed” and “capitalism”’
Typical of him to shoot his mouth off and put both feet in it. Remember his spell as Foreign Secretary?
Though the selfish part of me doesn't really care so long as friends and family get vaccinated, for which I feel suitably embarrassed.
The UK’s successful vaccine roll out was thanks to “greed” and “capitalism”’
I did wonder what was motivating all those volunteers at the Brighton Centre when I went for my jab on Saturday. I shall be sure to remember to insult the filthy capitalist running dogs when I go back for my second.
One MP said: "I have never seen anyone withdraw something so fast."
I bet Johnson has never heard that before
What a guy !!
“Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy".
He's the guy a significant proportion of English voters like. And he's never been very good at hiding what he is. Whenever I wonder why people keep supporting him, it leads me to the horrible conclusion that there a lot of pure _____ in this country.
From Popbitch;
As a man who has clearly put in his 10,000 hours – working with a wide range of partners and producing an indeterminate number of offspring as a result – you’d expect Boris Johnson to be an expert shag. Not the case according to friends of his private technology tutor, Jennifer Arcuri.
Her experience? Over in seconds and “like having sex with a boulder”.
The UK’s successful vaccine roll out was thanks to “greed” and “capitalism”’
I mean because those are always nice traits to have as a person. Its not wonder priti patel is such an idiot with him as her boss. I think its unfair to say I hate boris I don't know him to hate him, but he and I are so far apart with fundamental values I just don't get what people see in him.
Greed and capitalism are what saw us take over the world and that ended well didn't it and left us with a nice reputation across the globe.
I think its unfair to say I hate boris I don’t know him to hate him, but he and I are so far apart with fundamental values I just don’t get what people see in him.
Watch that Eddie Mair clip and it just gets more unfathomable.
How on earth Mair restrains himself from diving out of his chair and smacking that smug grin off of his face, I don't know.
That is why he hid in a fridge to avoid scrutiny - because every time he doesn't have a pre-arranged 'show' interview he comes across as exactly what he is. A fat, smug, lying shit who holds everyone else in contempt for not being him.
Aaaaaaaaaaargh!
The UK’s successful vaccine roll out was thanks to “greed” and “capitalism”’
When the virus first emerged china's efforts to try and contain it had two motivations - one to protect its own population and economy and the other to prevent it spreading to the third world where it would go unchecked - causing both death, destruction and hardship locally and creating an incubator for new strains that would threaten everyone else for years to come.
Senegal and Uganda seem to be keeping a lid on Covid quite effectively
Meanwhile one of the most dangerous new strains bubbled up in the petridish of Boris's bungled leadership and It turns out China was wrong and the ideal breeding ground for Covid was instead..... Greed and Capitalism.
in vino veritas ex adipem illegitima
As a man who has clearly put in his 10,000 hours – working with a wide range of partners and producing an indeterminate number of offspring as a result – you’d expect Boris Johnson to be an expert shag. Not the case according to friends of his private technology tutor, Jennifer Arcuri.
Her experience? Over in seconds and “like having sex with a boulder”.
That's pretty ungrateful from Arcuri. She could have said it was amazing given that we as a public stumped up £100k for the privilege.
If 'seconds' amounted to 1 minute, her hourly rate is £6m an hour...
Not at all surprising that a self-centered oaf is a crap shag...
Over in seconds and “like having sex with a boulder”.
Shame. In every other respect he'd be your dream date.
I think Boris Johnson is a Country Member.
Ok, I'll remember
Ok, I’ll remember
Thank you, sir...
According to todays Sunday Mirror 'exclusive', they'd been shagging for four years and she loved him. Which is nice.
