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Why do British people chant “Bring Back Boris”?

65 replies

Juliette96 · 17/09/2025 16:43

What do they mean and why do they enjoy doing so?

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Shayisgreat · 17/09/2025 18:21

In my area we have a slightly different chant that we sing to the Take That song
Bring Boris back, bring Boris back, bring him back for good!

It's nice when we stand under the George's Cross and Union Jack flags together as a community to do so.

MissyB1 · 17/09/2025 18:29

Because he kept promising something was “oven ready” I think they are all waiting for their lasagne.

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 17/09/2025 18:32

Embarrassingly I shouted it during the peak of an intimate moment. Turns out it was fine as DH joined in the chant.

LlynTegid · 17/09/2025 18:33

People have what is sometimes called gallows humour. Mass killers (which is what he is, indeed the worst in peacetime) are sometimes revered.

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 17/09/2025 18:43

I named my daughter Bring Back Boris just so I could say it even more often. And the dog. And the fish.

SeaAndStars · 17/09/2025 18:45

You've misunderstood I'm afraid OP. It's the tricky British accent I expect.
It's actually Reform supporters chanting Sling Back Dorries.

BitOutOfPractice · 17/09/2025 18:45

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 17/09/2025 18:43

I named my daughter Bring Back Boris just so I could say it even more often. And the dog. And the fish.

How utterly ridiculous. Bring Back Boris is clearly a boys name

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 17/09/2025 18:54

BitOutOfPractice · 17/09/2025 18:45

How utterly ridiculous. Bring Back Boris is clearly a boys name

Edited

Oh I know and I agonised over it but I just couldn't waste the opportunity.

LeticiaMorales · 17/09/2025 18:57

I would love to have triplets, because I think that would be a wonderful set of names for them

ImWearingPantaloons · 17/09/2025 19:00

TheOtherAgentJohnson · 17/09/2025 17:19

I scream it at the point of climax, as does my husband.

😂😂😂😂

Pedallleur · 17/09/2025 19:28

Apparently a person on Death Row in the US was asked about a last request and he said Bring Back Boris.

LeticiaMorales · 17/09/2025 20:47

An elderly person in my local hospital has been in a coma for 2 weeks. She woke up this evening and chanted "Bring Back Boris!"

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 17/09/2025 20:56

I sometimes find myself involuntarily chanting it whilst ‘spaffing money up the wall’ 🤷‍♀️.

Shr3dding · 17/09/2025 21:02

I hope this isn't a way of cheating on your British Citizenship Test @Juliette96 ?

You should be doing your homework independently

ormiwtbte · 18/09/2025 13:06

DinaofCloud9 · 17/09/2025 18:13

You have a lot of questions op.

Where have you gone?

Well she's supposed to be going to Cambridge on Monday to start her foundation year so I hope she's finally seen sense and is starting to pack her stuff rather than fannying around deciding whether to take yet another gap year and apply to Oxford.
How she thinks Oxford are going to offer her a place if these questions are indicative of her intellectual ability I don't know.

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