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I'm wondering what boris is meant to do?

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hellenbackagen · 03/09/2019 19:01

The referendum result was leave .

The EU will not renegotiate but parliament wouldn't back the only deal available.

Now they won't back leaving at all.

The result was leave. Johnson promised to deliver that result.

So what now ?
There is No solution to this fuck up is there?

I know mn is primarily anti leave but for me the result was what it was and should be honoured. How many bites of the cherry should people get?

And not one party agrees with anything anyway. The EU will NOT negotiate so what are the options that the rebel MPs would like ?
Ignore the vote and pretend it didn't happen?

I am so sick of Brexit. David Cameron should be put in the stocks....

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Alsohuman · 10/09/2019 12:46

The kind of politicians we’ve never had @QualCheckBot, because they don’t and never have existed.

Juells · 10/09/2019 13:19

Its not a points scoring or popularity contest though.

It is with Boris, so you can't complain when he gets paid back in the same coin. Or is it only acceptable when your PM does it?

Cam77 · 12/09/2019 09:49

I utterly despise Blair for his decision to invade Iraq. But I’m terms of actual ability to persuade and lead those around him and getting stuff done efficiently he was the last decent PM we had. Johnson was ok as an eccentric jokey London mayor working on a few peripheral projects away from key policy. As foreign secretary he was obviously way, way out of his depth. As PM it’s just a sick joke.

Thymeout · 12/09/2019 10:42

When Johnson was mayor, he didn't have any policy or vision for London. He just surfed on the projects Ken Livingstone had done all the work on: the Olympics, Cross-Rail, 'Boris' bikes. All he was interested in was BEING Mayor.

He was not 'an ok' mayor at all. His vanity projects cost Londoners the best part of a billion quid, and we still don't know where the missing £60 million in the Garden Bridge accounts ended up.

So now he's PM. And, again, he has no idea what he wants to do. His main objective is to STAY at No 10. This means giving his base, the Tory members who elected him, the Brexit they want, 'by whatever means possible'.

In the last week, he's broken conventions that have been in place for centuries and taken us into extremely dangerous territory. It's now acceptable for Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning to question the independence of the Scottish judiciary and to condone a PM effectively lying to the Queen about his motives for shutting down Parliament for 5 weeks. If the Supreme Court endorses the Scottish verdict, it's a cast-iron certainty we'll have the 'Traitors' headlines in the Mail again.

Again and again, Tory MPs are popping up on the airwaves pretending that prorogation is the same as a parliamentary recess. It isn't. Everything shuts down for prorogation. During conference recess, the Lords continue working on bills and Select C'ttees can summon Ministers to explain themselves. Johnson himself escaped a timetabled grilling from all the chairs of all the Select C'ttees only yesterday.

It'll be interesting to hear what the Northern Ireland court says today. I'd like to know what HM the Queen thinks as well. Her advisers must be hopping mad.

BarbariansMum · 12/09/2019 11:03

@Thymeout Well said!

Juells · 12/09/2019 11:59

He has a cunning plan for a bridge between Scotland and NI, though.

Paddington68 · 12/09/2019 12:02

He could lie in that ditch.
So he is ready.

Ohflippineck · 12/09/2019 13:23

Juells

He has a cunning plan for a bridge between Scotland and NI, though.”

I heard that too, Juells. Fantastic isn’t it. Suppose it will be ready for 31st October?

Thymeout · 12/09/2019 14:15

I suppose he's only seen the Irish Sea from a plane. No distance at all. Flat as a millpond. No different from the Thames, really. People talking about unexploded armaments are just doomsters and gloomsters.

Now he says proroguement was endorsed by the English court. No it bloody wasn't. They said that it fell outside their remit. They couldn't pronounce on its legality. Like Muelller and Trump.

Thanks, Barbarian. Smile

Quartz2208 · 12/09/2019 14:25

@juells its almost like building a fence isnt it?

ContinuityError · 12/09/2019 15:35

He has a cunning plan for a bridge between Scotland and NI, though.

Which either goes to a pretty remote area of Scotland with few roads or has to cross Beaufort's Dyke - with its 1 million tonnes of dumped munitions.

Now there's a project Boris could get off with a bang.

RiskIt4Biscuit · 12/09/2019 16:02

He should stop lying to start with. I can’t even remember when he last told the truth...

Then release the full Yellowhammer and Black swan reports.

Based on that he should allow a new referendum with the options remain and the negotiated deal.

Then resign and call election.

And finally go to jail.

Ohflippineck · 12/09/2019 20:43

The Tower. Treason.

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