Mercer’s comments about all the lying in office cut through with him.
Mercer resigning, especially over supporting troops, did hit a sensitive nerve with Tory supporters, from what can gather. It could be those quiet issues in the background that erode his support in the party, rather than the "public" set piece scandals
That Guardian article is interesting, this particularly struck me
pessimism is an understandable state of mind for non-Tories; but it risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, as low turnouts in next week’s English local elections may demonstrate.
The anti Tory majority in this country need something to unite behind for things to change
BJ comes across as a jack-the who couldn't care less about his waistline, height or hair: you can be a bonsai bloater and still pull the birds, get the top job, have loads of money and a free doer upper. They imagine his classical allusions and bluster are a mark of superior intelligence (they assume it must be clever stuff because, like us, they don't know what it means). You stereotype the opposition as vegetarian, effete, tinfoil helmeted, pure of thought, world-class victims are there you have the perspective. There's a gammut of people not doing very well at all but relate to the Johnsonian buffoonery and collaborate in their own undoing. Once the small matters of jobs, incomes and housing strike the fan, you do wonder how long can this last. Corbyn, immigrants, EC, trades unionists, republicans, protesters can't be used forever to explain away Tory failures. The worm will turn.
The worm will turn.
Maybe one day but at the moment it seems to be well set in the Tory direction
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He’s a sociopath, pure and simple
That’s just Hear’Say.
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Maybe one day but at the moment it seems to be well set in the Tory direction
See my quote from the Guardian about our pessimism becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
Who ARE these 44%?
The Guardian makes a good stab at explaining it.
It's a stab, but a poor one imo.
I think the claim that Thatcher's premiership was threatened by the Liberal-SDP Alliance is particularly misleading. On the contrary, it very much saved her bacon imo - it divided the opposition and let her continue far beyond what might have been the case had there been a strongly United opposition.
The Guardian opinion piece also completely ignores the elephant in the room, ie how the Labour Party, and its capability to govern effectively, is seen. There is really not much point in ceasing support for a political party if you don't believe that the alternative is any better.
Why did the article not address the issue of something as critical as the alternative to the Tories when it is analysing why the Tories appear to be remaining so popular?
The one point I do agree with in the article though is the possible change in attitudes towards Johnson from the right wing press. I have been taken back by the tone of headlines and articles concerning Johnson's scandals in the Daily Mail recently.
The Daily Mail hasn't done Johnson a lot of favours in the way it has been reporting to its readers his recent difficulties. I'm not sure what that's about but I have no doubt that it is deliberate and calculated. I just don't know what their bigger picture is.
He does display some classic characteristics of malevolent narcissism: need to control, doesn't get things finished, uninterested in detail, insatiable appetites, no empathy, systemic lies, bullying, verbal trickery to evade responsibility, smearing both Corbyn and Carrie's curtains. Lots like it though.
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I’m not sure what that’s about but I have no doubt that it is deliberate and calculated. I just don’t know what their bigger picture is.
Simple really. They want someone else in charge probably Gove and they will be disappointed when they are more likely to get Sunak instead.
They have actually dialled it back today since I think they got concerned it might be too damaging just before the elections.
That’s just Hear’Say.
Very well done.
As regards Daily Mail bashing up Boris recently, is it purely a coincidence that Gove's wife (Sarah Vine) works there? IIRC, there's more than a few of these coincidental links between MPs and the UK press network.
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He’s a sociopath, pure and simple
That’s just Hear’Say.
Deserved more credit....
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I’m struggling with the Hear’Say joke?
EDIT - It’s that band isn’t it. As you were.
So the ultimate authority over the parliamentary standards advisor is..... Boris Johnson!
Ffs, just when think they couldn’t get away with much more.
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Applies for those searching for Pure&Simple, as well as the curtains thing.
See my quote from the Guardian about our pessimism becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
It isn't pessimism, it is the reality of living in the UK.
All Hail the mighty Roger for he did bequeath the Profannisauraus for our delectation
Every word of this article
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/30/scandal-charge-sheet-johnson-wallpaper-lying
The Guardian is great for hypocrisy and volte face given what AC they spewed to help get Johnson elected.
So the ultimate authority over the parliamentary standards advisor is….. Boris Johnson!
Ffs, just when think they couldn’t get away with much more.
Heard this to absolute joke. I think he also has the final word on if they even do an investigation at all.
'I said I wanted a Gaudi spaffing sofa.'
Boris Johnson: What is the PM's relationship with the truth?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56624437
Some real laugh out loud moments in that BBC piece. Not sure if they were meant to be.
Bercow on R4 now skewering fatso.
No doubts anymore about who’s pocket LK is in. Not that there were many before
Reports starting to appear that donors we're asked to stand the costs of the bairns childcare now. 😁
Apparently he requires a £300k salary to keep his head above water. Whats that, about 10x median salary? Incredible.
Here we have an unmarried mother, living in sin, with a divorcee who can't pay his bills, at tax-payers expense, in a Wren designed mansion tarted up in the Michael Jackson fashion, and they want someone else to foot the bill. Kippers and curtains.
When the gullible and the liars come together to gaslight the country with the “it’s not tax payers’ money, so why should voters care”, then it’s time to repeat … again and again … “what do they get out of bribing giving money to the prime minster and his party?” … “and who pays the real price of such corruption?”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/builders-grenfell-cladding-give-tories-2-5m-5c9gwvhrb
Boris Johnson has personally received £50,000 from individuals with links to the cladding debacle.
Bercow on R4 now skewering fatso
And thoroughly enjoying the task, I expect!
And thoroughly enjoying the task, I expect!
Basically calling Johnson a liar in every sentence....without actually saying it definitively.
Doubt it will make a difference. The dickheads think Bercow is a pinko commie traitor or something...
Doubt it will make a difference. The dickheads think Bercow is a pinko commie traitor or something…
True, I still think they'll do well at the locals next week
I suppose tory turnout might be down, the daft thing is that if all this sleaze bad press does hurt then, it all goes back to Johnsons daft decision to personally brief against Cummings a few weeks ago.
The dodgy donor flat refurb, now childcare and bodies piled comment are only news because Cummings released them.
What I dont get is that if Johnson already knows Carrie's mates was the chatty rat, why go after Cummings?
'cos he still wants some bedroom athletics
‘cos he still wants some bedroom athletics
Isn't he shagging the Russian violinist* for that?
*Not a euphemism.
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Yeah, I thought that too. Apparently not that newsworthy in the UK and therefore the subject of theories that it was the subject of a super-injunction.
I find it highly unlikely that the Kholodnaya stories are true, but the connections between Lebedev (now in the House of Lords) and Johnson (attended a party at Lebedev’s place in Italy, without his personal security team) are very much public knowledge, despite attempts to avoid them being so well known and easy to find.
Yeah, I thought that too. Apparently not that newsworthy in the UK and therefore the subject of theories that it was the subject of a super-injunction.
The genius of the super-injunction being that even stating that one exists breaches the injunction and renders you liable to prosecution. This level of protection doesn't come cheap, though. Now draw the dots to why Johnson needs a lot of cash and is prepared to trade influence for wonga. It is all connected.
Edit: Johnson is widely rumoured to have at least two super-injunctions live - both related (in one way or another) to his inability to keep his todger in his trousers.
Come on people, there are more important things to worry about other than whether the PM is crooked…
https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1388815153953746946?s=20
[ and let’s not get into how many of those “other things” can be laid at the feet of our lying Prime Minister… ask a farmer, or a someone in fishing, or those promised no border in the Irish Sea, or those he told he would lie in front of a bulldozer to stop Heathrow expansion, or those struggling to feed their children during the pandemic despite promises that ‘everything’ would be done to help them, or those struggling against institutional racism that he hired someone to ‘prove’ doesn’t exist, or those waiting for operations because he allowed to NHS to be swamped with Covid patients, lorry drivers getting used to spending longer waiting for Godo, businesses wasting millions of pounds dealing with “non-tariff barriers” that he claimed he’d negotiated to fully avoid, nevermind all the new tariffs being paid under his “tariff free” deal ]
Look, look over there, a squirrel!
Boris announces there's a good chance of a Covid rule change ~6 weeks in advance, days before the elections this week, while he is still in the hot seat about his own finances/actions...
One metre + social distancing to end on 21st June.
