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Just found myself stood next to David Cameron and said nothing

120 replies

booboo57 · 10/04/2023 17:27

Now rehearsing conversations in my head. What would you have said.

OP posts:
ShandaLear · 10/04/2023 17:52

‘You fecking eejit. What the hell were you thinking, you twat?’

SheilaFentiman · 10/04/2023 17:53

ShandaLear · 10/04/2023 17:52

‘You fecking eejit. What the hell were you thinking, you twat?’

Also works

AngeloMysterioso · 10/04/2023 17:54

There’s nothing I could say to him that he would give a tiny fuck about. Man’s living comfortably with his riches and doesn’t care about the havoc he’s wreaked on the rest of us.

Radiatorvalves · 10/04/2023 17:58

Someone I know was on a plane when Johnson and Carrie got on. Coming back from their honeymoon. No one said a word. Apparently he looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.

ugh.

DartholomewSpaceInvader · 10/04/2023 18:02

Loria · 10/04/2023 17:36

He does want nutting, though.

👌

booboo57 · 10/04/2023 18:32

Sorry to have disappeared. On hols in Cornwall and Internet is rubbish. He was so smug and jolly with his group of friends. I think " it's all your fault" said with venom would have made me feel better. Don't think he would have cared though he looked so smug.

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gazpachosoupday · 10/04/2023 18:34

cuntnugget
or
Wankbadger
or if I was feeling very clever
Tortoise on a post.

But I agree with PP, nothing I would say would get through to that ego

Simonjt · 10/04/2023 18:37

Nothing as I’m a wimp, but I would like to ask “why do you look like a raw richmonds sausage?”

Namechangedatheist · 10/04/2023 18:40

How about.
'It really doesn't matter what I think of you. History will write you off as the stupid, pointless nobody who destroyed the UK.'

mildlydispeptic · 10/04/2023 18:42

To my mind the best response was on Twitter after Cameron said something fatuous and someone said: "you broke the country and ran away".

MrMarkham · 10/04/2023 18:44

The moral high ground seems to be to say nothing at all. He knows exactly what he did. If he doesn't feel remorseful now he never will.

MissVantaBlack · 10/04/2023 18:44

How exciting! I suspect he regrets Brexit as much as I do, and it is punishment enough that that is what he'll be remembered for, because I don’t think he wanted it. As such, I would probably just smile sympathetically at him...money isn't everything and I think he probably wishes desperately that things had worked out differently.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 10/04/2023 18:46

I used to see/ meet him quite often in the local butchers.

The only conversation we ever had was about how to cook lamb. I wouldn’t take it on myself to address anyone out of context as you all suggest, and I suspect and hope most of these posters wouldn’t either in real life. because, you know, rude and intrusive.

His successor as MP was a great improvement

Exasperatednow · 10/04/2023 18:49

'What the fuck were you thinking?'

RosaBonheur · 10/04/2023 18:49

I'd have told him I have a mug with his "chaos with Ed Miliband" tweet printed on it.

Westfacing · 10/04/2023 18:50

'Well that didn't go well did it?'

Westfacing · 10/04/2023 18:52

mildlydispeptic · 10/04/2023 18:42

To my mind the best response was on Twitter after Cameron said something fatuous and someone said: "you broke the country and ran away".

Yep.

thecatsthecats · 10/04/2023 18:52

Oof, I know the feeling. Boris Johnson walked past me in 2017, and I failed to shout "Brexit wanker" at him like an angry drunk.

SomeRolyPolyLittleBatFacedGirl · 10/04/2023 18:54

thecatsthecats · 10/04/2023 18:52

Oof, I know the feeling. Boris Johnson walked past me in 2017, and I failed to shout "Brexit wanker" at him like an angry drunk.

I drove past Michael Gove at a similar time and didn't flip him the bird. A constant regret.

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 10/04/2023 18:55

Are you still scared of Nigel Farage?

NowZeusHasLainWithLeda · 10/04/2023 18:56

Shame you weren't in the "other" queue with him in Corfu or somewhere.

Westfacing · 10/04/2023 18:56

I stood next to Michael Heseltine many decades when he was in the Tory leadership contest again John Major. It was in the corner shop near his house in Belgravia and he was buying Cornflakes! (I worked in the next street).

'How's it going?' I asked. 'Very well I think' was the reply.

Turquoisesilver · 10/04/2023 18:57

Won’t be a popular post, but it is all about context.

Back in 2014, UKIP were gaining support at an unprecedented level. The Tories were voted in on the promise of a referendum. Had they not been, would they have won the election? Possibly, possibly not. Either way, it’s clear a question that almost resulted in a 50/50 answer wasn’t going to go away.

Remain voter, wish it had been different, but I do think the question needed asking.

ToBeOrNotToBee · 10/04/2023 18:58

I think I'd just oink

PurBal · 10/04/2023 19:01

Is he still a public figure enough to merit saying something? Was he there in a public capacity? I used to work with celebrities and many conversations with fans include “I am actually not working today / with my family / having some time off… so no you can’t have a photo / autograph / chat”. So likely I’d have said nothing or “hello” at best if required to be polite in the circumstances.