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AIBU Boris? They wouldn't would they?

88 replies

longwayoff · 19/05/2019 08:16

I fear they will. Who else is there?

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ZaraW · 19/05/2019 08:17

Of course they would, he's a joke but better than JRM?!

TokyoSushi · 19/05/2019 08:23

Oh yes they would!

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 19/05/2019 08:24

I give you John Major, Jacob RM and that awful bloke who objected to the upskirting bill.

And Brexit.

And "are you thinking what we're thinking".

And worst of all, that awful green squiggly tree logo.

Of course they fucking would.

ForalltheSaints · 19/05/2019 08:26

The membership of the Tory Party given the choice of Boris and someone else probably would.

Though MPs may not give them that choice.

ZaraW · 19/05/2019 08:32

Ruth Davidson is probably their best option.

eddiemairswife · 19/05/2019 08:34

Someone said that everyone likes Boris except those who know him.

Acis · 19/05/2019 08:40

They see Boris as their only hope of retaining power. And, given Trump, they may be right.

Our only hope is that he's so fucking lazy he'll leave sensible people to do the actual work.

Reddedder · 19/05/2019 08:42

I’d take him over Corbyn any day. I’d take Trump as well tbh

TemporaryPermanent · 19/05/2019 08:43

Agree about Boris being so lazy he won't do much. Depends who he gets to do the work though...

MissGiddyPants · 19/05/2019 08:44

What's wrong with logo?

BertrandRussell · 19/05/2019 08:44

“I’d take him over Corbyn any day.”

Why?

birdonawire1 · 19/05/2019 08:48

Horrifying thought ☹️

78percentLindt · 19/05/2019 09:01

They could! I think he is seen as the antidote to Nigel. One is a man of the people and has Trump's illusion of being against the establishment, the other is a loveable toff.
Hopefully he won't make it past the MPs

Reddedder · 19/05/2019 09:04

Because Corbyn will destroy the country with his policies. He hasn’t a clue plus he’s a terrorist sympathiser. Hamas thanked him for his support ffs. The man is a disgrace.

JuneFromBethesda · 19/05/2019 09:05

So depressing. He was such an almighty embarrassment in his brief stint as Foreign Secretary, yet apparently ballsing that up means nothing.

Dragongirl10 · 19/05/2019 09:07

I'd take him over Corbyn any day too.......but that is no recommendation..

Why.....because Corbyn is a anti semetic, terrorist sympathiser.

Boris is not PM material and ineffectual but not nearly in the same league of vile as Corbyn.

needmorespace · 19/05/2019 09:08

How would Corbyn destroy the country - this is hysteria without founding. Like the tories have not destroyed this country with their policies.

BertrandRussell · 19/05/2019 09:09

“Why.....because Corbyn is a anti semetic, terrorist sympathiser.”

Better than a Islamophobic racist terrorist sympathiser?

BertrandRussell · 19/05/2019 09:10

“Because Corbyn will destroy the country with his policies.“

In what way precisely?

StoorieHoose · 19/05/2019 09:15

Ruth Davidson? Yes I can see English Tory members voting in a Scottish woman who isn't even an MP!

User10fuckingmillion · 19/05/2019 09:17

Lol at the idea of Corbyn destroying the country. Because the tories totes haven’t already done that (unnecessary austerity, unnecessary brexit)

User10fuckingmillion · 19/05/2019 09:19

I also like the way people paint Corbyn as both being completely incompetent and ineffective but also somehow a destroyer of civilisation. Hmm

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 19/05/2019 09:23

You know that ineffectual toff facade is just that? It's what he was bred for, it's what all these years of watching and waiting and denying he wants it have been for. Wolf in sheep's clothing.

Dragongirl10 · 19/05/2019 09:24

One example of many from the Independent 2017;

Labour plans the biggest revolution in industrial relations since the 1980s, with huge implications for private sector workers. What it means is that, say, all the journalists in the country, all the car workers, all the office support staff, say, will have to be involved in a national negotiation for the sector or industry they work in, rather than as now dealing with their own employer, whether individually or collectively. It implies an unprecedented advance in trade union power, especially among private sector employers, and will bring the private sector in line with the public sector, where this type of arrangement for, for example, NHS staff and teachers, is more usual.

The practical effect of this will be to make the weakest employers in an industry pay wages and other benefits on the same rates as the most successful and profitable players. The consequences of that are obvious: lower profitability or higher losses among the marginal companies, them going out of business and a net loss of jobs as a result. Those who manage to hang on will have done well; but those made redundant will be paying the price for the next man or woman’s pay increase. In the short term such pay arrangements would also be inflationary, especially if a Labour government “accommodated” these changes by stimulating the economy as unemployment edged upwards.

This is just one example of his ill thought out policies, he is anti business, and openly supports the idea of a communist type state.

But all of this pales into insignificance for me, beside the groups he has openly supported in the past, Hamas, the IRA etc, the character of the man horrifies me.

I think we need a whole new raft of people standing for office.

longwayoff · 19/05/2019 09:42

Hmm dragon, he may be all you say but as far as I can see, he isn't actually anti-people like the austerity implementers..

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