Boris supporters AIBU to ask why you think he should be PM?

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I would really like to hear the views of Boris supporters. I fully understand the anti-Boris arguments.

The eu wont want no deal. It will hurt them at least as much as it will hurt us.

Considering they'll still have access to all of the benefits of EU membership and we wont, I think they'll somehow manage to weather that hurt far better than we will.

Isn’t the £39 billion something we have to pay? So people think he is great for refusing to pay a debt we owe.

So people think he is great for refusing to pay a debt we owe

Yes. Can you imagine the spontaneous combustion if it were the other way round? Imagine the headlines? The outrage amongst the gammon types? Doesn't really bear thinking about does it?

God, do you really think other countries will want to do any business at all with the UK after fuckwittery like that?

Do you understand anything about hawking stuff?

I can only think of 2;

1. Entertainment value

1. If there is a general election Tories would be out, BJ will send lots of people running to other parties

Fear of Corbyn (someone at work said today).
The someone is mid or early 30s, divorced dad of a young kid in a high tech job.

Has commented he has no money his ex & his lawyer have it all.
I was surprised. He never before seemed like someone who would believe bullshitters.

Folk like BJ/Trump believe they can talk themselves out of or into anything they want. Their self-regard has no limits.

BJ could not win if he ran for Mayor of London today. Just saying.

BJ could not win if he ran for Mayor of London today. Just saying.

Agree 100 percent. But then London voted remain. Anyway Boris then wasn't this far right person who he now portrays himself as.

Do you understand anything about hawking stuff

Hawking what?

Hawking what?

Based on the current PM and his cabinet of horrors , snake oil.

@Fibbke do you understand how credit works and the history of countries who have defaulted on debts? Look them up. It didn't work out well.

His name is rather sweet, isn’t it? Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
His hair is delightful and he seems jolly fun. He’s a pretty mean rugger player too.
I think it’s really useful to our special relationship with the USA that he was born in New York and has America citizenship.

BJ renounced his American citizenship coz he didn't like paying capital gains tax.

Why should any pro-Boris people bother when the anti-Boris people are so venomous? People aren't interested in listening to other opinions they just want a fight. I think his cabinet is interesting. Corbyn is a marxist Jo Swinson doesn't know what a woman is, neither of them respect democracy because they are smug and righteous and the stupid masses are wrong and in need of "right think"and educating. Give me Boris any day. I've given up on the left because they have stopped listening and think they "know" what the people want.

@ForalltheSaints God bless you for urging your MP to vote for someone who can do detail. That’s one of Johnson’s (MANY) weak points.

Throughout this process I have been conscious that having a vote on who will be the next Prime Minister is a serious responsibility. I reflected carefully on how to cast my vote, taking on board the input I have received from constituents.

“I hope that you are content with the choice that I and about 17 other people in Surrey made in choosing the new Prime Minister”.

Oh what a pity. I rather thought being American might help him bond with his doppelgänger. Do we think he and the lovely Donald share a gene pool?
I suspect he’s very good at the game of Risk and can probably peel prawns with a fish knife and fork.

I don’t think they have CGT in the US do they? But they are pretty nasty in their extra territorial application of their tax laws. I would do the same, if I had no continuing ties with the country and no plans to live there again! You’d be nuts not to.

@LaurieMarlow on the NI border point, he was quoted as saying that if men can walk on the moon, there must be a technological solution to the NI border issue.

Now, on the “attention to detail” point, if I had the time or energy (which, alas, I don’t in this heat) I could draft a whole host of reasons why these two different problems are completely distinguishable and thereby explain why his statement is UTTER BOLLOCKS.

I think there’s just a lot of doomsayers and working against the de Pfeffel grand but vague plan. Just what this country needs - jingoistic rhetoric, no attention to detail and an extremist cabinet. Excellent stuff.
Even an equalities minister that voted against the upskirting laws.

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I think those of us who want Brexit are very happy with the result. I believe he will get us out of the EU, and not arse around like Teresa May. Don’t feel remotely threatened by Corbyn - let’s be honest, a goat could have got elected as the Tory leader and would still get more votes in a general election than the hapless Corbyn.

At least now we have a PM who believes in what he is fighting for.

He's fighting for Boris, but now he's won the prize of PM, what next? He doesn't do boring detail.

I don’t think they have CGT in the US do they?
Tax was due on a UK property - taxed on an 'arising ' basis, rather than a 'remittance' basis as I understand it.

If the tactic - as it seems this evening - is to ask for the undeliverable from the EU, so they can then be blamed for no-deal, and go into an early general election in September 'believing in Britain' with a no-deal strategy that means he picks up the Brexit Party vote, against a still not together remain alliance and a hopeless Labour party, I don't get what the plan is then. Is it still no deal? In which case he wholly owns the outcomes from that and the Conservatives are finished surely?

and so it begins

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Bloody hell @HelenaDove

There really is no going back.