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Boris Johnson for Prime Minister

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AllChangeNow · 21/10/2022 09:31

Eighteen Million (18M) people voted Conservative in 2019 because the Leader was Boris Johnson … THREE YEARS LATER … MP’s acted against British 🇬🇧 popular opinion and the economy went into meltdown … Seventy Two Percent (72%) of electors want Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak back at the helm -

BUT
struggling homeowners want to see mortgage payments fall and calm and stability return

AND
as Boris already has a mandate to govern from the British 🇬🇧 people …

WOULD it be sensible to put him and Rishi Sunak back in control and take the fight to Labour and their (Labour’s) announced plan on the 20th October 2022, to repeal the 2016 Trades Union Act and unleash unaffordable wage increases and strikes galore!!

WOULD
you feel happier if Boris was back as Prime Minister and Rishi as Chancellor?

#BringBorisBack #BackBoris

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lemmein · 22/10/2022 16:09

Why are posts supporting Johnson always peppered with '🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧'? It's all so cult-ish.

I don't care who gets in - I just want to fast forward to the bit where they're all booted out. A choice between tories isn't a choice.

Bit embarrassing to admit there's no viable alternative in the party that they're having to reinstate the same person they ousted 6 weeks ago though - just shameful.

Blossomtoes · 22/10/2022 15:36

The 'weight of money' as I describe it is from people who have real opinions

Opinions are like arseholes - everyone’s got one. What makes an opinion “real”?

akabluebell · 22/10/2022 15:35

Time for the people to have their say. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619781?fbclid=IwAR2hfDjbMq8PHD2WTaOm0QB6VbAezSlX9y8GAgssssuyPDlgAQbUHvAp5n0

cormorant5 · 22/10/2022 15:33

No steel!
Those prices are not reflecting an opinion by the betting company. But the weight of money being wagered and the amount the bookies might have to pay out when the result is declared.
The 'weight of money' as I describe it is from people who have real opinions. Probably employed somewhere commenting on Politics. Journalists, Party workers etc

Blossomtoes · 22/10/2022 15:27

Have the bookies got crystal balls?

cormorant5 · 22/10/2022 15:24

The Bookies are usually correct, BBC now saying that both Sunak ans Boris have 100, neither has declared.
Sunak 4/9
Johnson 2/1
Mordaunt 11/1

MyLovelyPen · 22/10/2022 12:44

@AllChangeNow can’t quite work out if you’re having fun with this or just very very stupid. You can’t seriously believe any of what you’ve written.

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AllChangeNow · 22/10/2022 12:34

Just seen a very one sided video clip on Twitter - produced by Mumsnet - an interview with Boris Johnson with no opportunity for him to have a right of reply in the video - clearly editorial impartiality is one sided - BUT WHAT’S THE AGENDA?

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Blossomtoes · 22/10/2022 12:12

A covid type war @AllChangeNow? Jesus wept.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 22/10/2022 12:10

*AllChangeNow · Yesterday 09:31

Eighteen Million (18M) people voted Conservative in 2019 *

No, they didn't, see the result below ⬇️ You can't even count.

Boris Johnson for Prime Minister
Volterra · 22/10/2022 10:56

Quite clear some people need glasses then ! I think there are small signs that many in the con party are recognising him coming back will not be viable for so many reasons I’m not going to write them as am prone to RSI.

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AllChangeNow · 22/10/2022 10:42

ChocFrog · 21/10/2022 23:54

Hi Nadine 👋

People voted Conservative because Corbyn was in charge of Labour at the time and, sadly, Corbyn was a complete loon. BJ seemed like the least bad of two terrible options.

Now, after having been shown to be a terrible terrible excuse for a leader (who by the way is currently in the Caribbean although taxpayers are paying him to be in Westminster), and having lied to the Queen, and to Parliament, and to the electorate, you are stark raving mad if you want him back. No one else is as guaranteed to lose the next election for the Conservatives by the way.

You may be happy to rewrite history because you fancy BJ but some people do actually remember the last three years.

A lot of people remember the last Seven Years before, during and after the Brexit vote and Boris Johnson (like Sir Winston Churchill) came to the rescue and ended the paralysis but made many enemies - they remember labour and the Libdems sitting on the fence whilst the clear cut leave message was stalled and held up/they remember Starmer’s failure to support emergency measures on Covid until the last minute when it was clear the disease wasn’t a flu like illness/they have just witnessesed Starmer (unreported by itv/bbc/sky) Promising at the TUC conference in Brighton on 20th October 2022, to fully repeal ALL Trade Union Legislation -
I think we can all see who we can trust and have confidence in and it’s NOT Starmer, Davey or Blackford and the SNP!

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AllChangeNow · 22/10/2022 10:31

remoteblanket · 22/10/2022 04:55

The Tories are one big very dysfunctional family hanging together by a thread - they are so utterly divided, nothing anyone can do will stop them self destructing. Johnson has a bit of the pied piper and the rats will follow him - while they fight with each other and the country limps on surviving on slogans, lies and broken promises. I think Johnson willl get back in - the soap opera that is modern British politics continues to shock and amuse the rest of the world. Any standing we did have is quickly melting away. It’s embarrassing, it’s depressing, it’ll have to endured - roll on 2024 when hopefully the electorate have truly had enough of the Tory shit show running Britain.

@remoteblanket i wonder what you would have written about Sir Winston Churchill in the 1930’s? AND THEN He came back to lead Britain 🇬🇧 through a Covid type war and succeeded only to be defeated in 1945 by the shallow little minds of expediency and look where that got us all … Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Denis Healey followed by that Clownish double act: Blair and Brown!

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remoteblanket · 22/10/2022 04:55

The Tories are one big very dysfunctional family hanging together by a thread - they are so utterly divided, nothing anyone can do will stop them self destructing. Johnson has a bit of the pied piper and the rats will follow him - while they fight with each other and the country limps on surviving on slogans, lies and broken promises. I think Johnson willl get back in - the soap opera that is modern British politics continues to shock and amuse the rest of the world. Any standing we did have is quickly melting away. It’s embarrassing, it’s depressing, it’ll have to endured - roll on 2024 when hopefully the electorate have truly had enough of the Tory shit show running Britain.

happinessischocolate · 22/10/2022 00:26

AllChangeNow · 21/10/2022 09:31

Eighteen Million (18M) people voted Conservative in 2019 because the Leader was Boris Johnson … THREE YEARS LATER … MP’s acted against British 🇬🇧 popular opinion and the economy went into meltdown … Seventy Two Percent (72%) of electors want Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak back at the helm -

BUT
struggling homeowners want to see mortgage payments fall and calm and stability return

AND
as Boris already has a mandate to govern from the British 🇬🇧 people …

WOULD it be sensible to put him and Rishi Sunak back in control and take the fight to Labour and their (Labour’s) announced plan on the 20th October 2022, to repeal the 2016 Trades Union Act and unleash unaffordable wage increases and strikes galore!!

WOULD
you feel happier if Boris was back as Prime Minister and Rishi as Chancellor?

#BringBorisBack #BackBoris

Good to see Joe Lycett on MN 😁

ChocFrog · 21/10/2022 23:54

Hi Nadine 👋

People voted Conservative because Corbyn was in charge of Labour at the time and, sadly, Corbyn was a complete loon. BJ seemed like the least bad of two terrible options.

Now, after having been shown to be a terrible terrible excuse for a leader (who by the way is currently in the Caribbean although taxpayers are paying him to be in Westminster), and having lied to the Queen, and to Parliament, and to the electorate, you are stark raving mad if you want him back. No one else is as guaranteed to lose the next election for the Conservatives by the way.

You may be happy to rewrite history because you fancy BJ but some people do actually remember the last three years.

HRTQueen · 21/10/2022 23:53

And yet we know he travelled economy

that’s convenient

ItisallPooh · 21/10/2022 23:25

Poor Boris has had to fly back to Britain in economy. How on earth will his ego have coped with that? He will probably need another holiday just to recover from that trauma.

HRTQueen · 21/10/2022 23:21

I agree that voters are easily manipulated we all will at times choose to believe what we want to believe rather than what is likely to happen

how many times have Labour have been due to win a landslide GE on here

how many of us supported to reverse Article 50 truly believing it would happen - looking back there was no chance it would but we wanted to believe it

how many blindly supported Corbyn and will still claim if only xy or z he would be PM now

and of course the referendum

Blossomtoes · 21/10/2022 23:09

AllChangeNow · 21/10/2022 23:00

Did anyone see that TV programme last night where members of the public bid to stand as Prime Minister - one lady told the truth and got booted out - the other man played the politician and everyone in the room (74%) voted for him even though he lacked substance - what is it with voters - they can’t be told the truth by politicians so they tell them what they want to hear because the public are stupid

This isn’t a game show.

jgw1 · 21/10/2022 23:09

AllChangeNow · 21/10/2022 23:00

Did anyone see that TV programme last night where members of the public bid to stand as Prime Minister - one lady told the truth and got booted out - the other man played the politician and everyone in the room (74%) voted for him even though he lacked substance - what is it with voters - they can’t be told the truth by politicians so they tell them what they want to hear because the public are stupid

Speak for yourself.

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AllChangeNow · 21/10/2022 23:00

Did anyone see that TV programme last night where members of the public bid to stand as Prime Minister - one lady told the truth and got booted out - the other man played the politician and everyone in the room (74%) voted for him even though he lacked substance - what is it with voters - they can’t be told the truth by politicians so they tell them what they want to hear because the public are stupid

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PrioritiseCalm · 21/10/2022 22:56

No fucking way!
GE NOW!!! 👏👏👏

Booklover3 · 21/10/2022 22:55

That you Carrie?

HRTQueen · 21/10/2022 22:49

jgw1 · 21/10/2022 21:51

If Johnson is so popular with the voters, how come the opinion polls 3 months ago when he was Prime Minister showed Labour with a significant majority?

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Opinion polls change, voters are fickle and they can be forgetful

if this was another politician caught out lying over and over they wouldn’t get the chance to run again but he has and he is also a vote winner. I’m not saying he will win the next election but voters are drawn to him he is manipulative and scheming but this doesn’t seem to matter so yes o do think he would pull back voters and I think this is why he has support with MP’s and the party

I’ve no doubt that the failures of Teuss will only serve well for him

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