AIBU to be shit scared of BJ winning the next election?

[thentherewerefour]

Not sure how everyone else is doing, but I am just increasingly terrified about the idea that BJ and the likes of Jacob Rees-Morgan, Ian Duncan Smith (god they are just so disgusting ) are going to win this election. Got family in Australia and this morning it was raining ash and people literally can't breathe. The Tories are going to do nothing, zero, nada about climate change. And when I look at my kids I just don't know how we are going to survive another five years. and don't get my started about the state of the kid's school - the teachers are doing their best, but the reality is it's a shit show bc of how many cuts they have had. Friends are going canvassing for Labour and me and DH are doing our bit too - but it all just feels surreal - BJ talks shit, tells lies, and has reinvented himself as "new" when the fucker has been IN GOVT for years. Any got any ideas on how we can turn this around?

They used to say he had 'a bit of stardust', was 'charismatic' 'a great orator' and 'good with people'

That was before he became PM.

Now he hides from journalists, spouts terrible child-like slogans and has is clearly an arrogant corrupt arsehole with zero empathy.

He has no strengths or beliefs other than the strength of his belief that the world revolves around him and any ends justify the means of him staying in power so he can continue to abuse it.

"Despite what he says now, Johnson was one of the leading defenders of Britain staying inside the single market just a few short years ago."

"I would vote to stay in the single market," Johnson told Sky News in 2013.

"I'm in favour of the single market. I want us to be able to trade freely with our European friends and partners."

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www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-single-market-brexit-campaign-customs-union-2018-1?r=US&IR=T

Wonder when he decided to hitch his wagon to Brexit? There was that rumour about him writing two separate pieces depending on the outcome of the referendum..?

Can't quite remember the detail but made it obvious he wasn't at all commited to the 'cause' of leaving the EU, just liked the disruption it caused and attention/power it got him

still my favourite

Peter Oborne..I still can't get my head round it but I'm filled with admiration for someone with the strength of character to say he's not going to sell out our country in support of a wretch like Boris Johnson.

If only Tory MP's were as brave

Both scare me but JC scares me more

Terrified by Boris. Dishonest to the public, dishonest to his family. Self serving and lacking in morals. Racist, deeply sexist, prejudiced in so many ways and full of hate. Privileged and lacking the empathy to see any other perspective. Knows the price of champagne but not the price of bread.

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Johnson was the Telegraph's Brussels correspondent from 1989

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'Six months after he arrived in Brussels, Johnson began to churn out sly, exaggerated stories that cast the European project as bureaucratically insane. Snails were to be designated as fish, he wrote. Berlaymont, the European Commission’s headquarters, was to be blown up. Condom sizes were to be standardized.'

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“Everything I wrote from Brussels I found was sort of chucking these rocks over the garden wall and I listened to this amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over in England,” Johnson told the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs,” in 2005. “It really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of power.”

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www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/the-empty-promise-of-boris-johnson

"this lot [Labour] are more left-wing than ever and openly anti-Semitic, which we haven’t seen since Mosley"

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Jewish Voice for Labour:

'A list of fifty occasions on which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stood with Jewish people in the UK and other countries has been published by his supporters.

The list published today lays out some of Corbyn’s recorded solidarity with Jewish people over a period of more than four decades:

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The list starts with how Corbyn organised the April 1977 defence of Jewish populated Wood Green from a Neo-Nazi march.

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/fifty-times-jeremy-corbyn-stood-with-jewish-people/

Honestly, no point in being scared, although the situation is scary. Hopefully another 5 years of this awful party will be the end of them completely. That's the small glimmer of hope I hang on to.

I am more concerned about JC getting in, than anyone else. Not sure what JC will do this country and politics if he gets in.

Lovely
Nice to know what the left think women’s jobs should be.

Brilliant clip, Bertrand

I've not seen that one before, though I believe there are others with the same chap ... ?

Michael Spicer has been a godsend during this horrendous time

Not sure what JC will do this country and politics if he gets in

Reduce poverty and inequality. Do you think that’s a bad thing?

Brilliant clip, Bertrand

I loved it as well - still laughing - Boris is adorable!

Is being thick and devious 'adorable'?

If so, then, yes, Boris Johnson is really really adorable.

I can't bare the thought. I voted Labour, solely to prevent it.

God. I can't stand the suspense. When will we know?

We’ll have a fair idea by about 3am.

Nuneaton, that famous bellwether, will declare at about 2.

The worst part of this entire discussion is that everyone appears to be voting out of fear, rather than coming to a reasoned decision about which party's vision of our country most coincides with their own.

The entire system is broken.

When will we know?

The exit polls have been reasonably accurate for the last 5 elections, but really knowing will probably come in the early hours

www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50716626

BJ isn't great, but at least he's not JC

Bj isn't great

There's the understatement of the year.