Boris Johnson

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AIBU to suggest Boris Johnson should think carefully before speaking about anything?

I know it wasn't his original comment about the Putin World Cup and Hitler Olympics comparison but he agreed the comment was valid. I don't think he should have done this. It has just stirred up more hostility between the UK and Russia. He can be reckless with his words.

At this point I’m in favour of making sure that Boris is PM.

Permanently Muzzled.

Amazingly apt poem phoebemac.

I think TM is definitely doing something along the lines of rubbing the puppies nose in it by keeping Boris in government.

I think of all the many offensive things about Brexit, what offended me most was the way all those posh boys who think they're born to rule (Osbourne, Cameron, Johnson) took one smart step backwards when the going got tough. Spineless, spineless cowards.

God knows I don't agree with TM much of the time, but at least someone with some experience of being in government stepped forward, even knowing what a poisoned chalice it would be.

I mean the alternative was Gove or Andrea fucking Ledsom.

The problem is we are here and the idiots are in charge (I don't necessarily include tm herself in that, I think she has a shit job and is making the best of it). But we seem to be in a very precarious situation from a number of different factors, Russia, North Korea, isis
Add into the mix brexit, trump and boris
We keep getting told the world has always been on the brink of something awful but has there ever been quite so many threats all at the same time and it led to nothing?
Please don't berate me for what I'm sure is a poor understanding of history on my part. Educate me.

Totally agree. He's only in a cabinet post because she doesn't want him wreaking havoc from the backbenches. Not really the way to successfully govern a country if important posts are decided on the basis of what's good for the party not what's good for the country.

yeah, but the fault here is Boris's, not TMs. He is a sociopath who doesn't give a shit about what's best for the country. She's been dealt a hand that contains this odious liar and has to do her best to spike his guns so she can get on with the job in hand.

Considering that the Red Army played a major role in defeating Nazism, and the Soviet Union lost 20 million of its citizens during WW2, I think BJ's latest comments were offensive and ill-considered.

And your comment about armchair housewives is highly mysogynistic NewYear.

Imho, what the Brexit debacle has exposed is BJ's overweening personal ambition, which he has chosen to prioritise over what is best for the country.

Am not a housewife, don't have a dressing gown or drink coffee. I plead guilty to having an armchair, though DH wants to take it to the tip.

congrats DailyWailEatsSnails, you may have an opinion according to the @NewYearNewMe18 system. Enjoy!

NewYear the dons at Oxford couldn't have thought he was that much of a genius, he graduated with a 2:1 (after begging them the night before his final exam to give him a first).

It's also not that hard to get onto Oxbridge to read Classics. The pool of potential applicants is much smaller than for say, History, as very few A level students study Latin or Ancient Greek.

I am not a housewife but I am still in my pyjamas and contemplating refilling the cafetière
I don’t trust Boris at all. His whole public image is a fake even his name. His family and friends don’t call him Boris. I remember watching an interview a couple of years ago when the mask slipped for a bit when he went for the interviewer jugular after some rather effective questioning. I suspect his first thought in any situation is how do I use this to my advantage.

interviewer’s

Whatever his intelligence or otherwise (and nothing about any of his behaviour, ever, has suggested that he's even moderately intelligent), he's an absolute diasater for the UK as foreign secretary - an international embarrassment on the scale on Donald Trump.

A few months ago it was reported that at an international meeting to discuss the horrific war in Yemen (god knows how many people killed, babies starving to death) Johnson thought it would be amusing to contribute to the discusssion by saying 'with friends like these, who needs Yemenis?'

I never thought I'd look back at Douglas Hurd with nostalgia for a lost golden age of diplomatic expertise but I do now.

yeah, I left the labour party over the Iraq war, but during the Cameron years I found myself looking back at Blair with some nostalgia. It was most disconcerting.

He is an extremely clever, devious, manipulative man. Boris is only interested in Boris and promoting brand "Boris"
He is biding his time until TM falters.
He promoted Brexit whilst personally not really agreeing with it, he is the worst Mayor London has ever had, all those schemes that the current office holder has had to get rid of because they are not economically viable and were just vanity projects for BJ.
He is dangerous I think TM is keeping her enemies closer!

I think TM should keep him under control after all the things he says. He is a loose cannon who shouldn't be Foreign Secretary. Too dangerous a role for him