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To think our Prime Minister is not on a camping trip

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toastmeahotcrossbun · 20/08/2020 18:18

Just wondering how many actually believe that?

YABU = He is on a camping trip

YANBU = He is not on a camping trip

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LarkDescending · 21/08/2020 22:08

@SusieOwl4

He never said he was? You are listening to the media. Perhaps his protection squad slept in the tent . Who cares .
Downing St did say he was going camping in Scotland.
ilovesooty · 21/08/2020 22:08

Apparently he's concerned for his and his family's safety and they're flying back to London.

eddiemairswife · 21/08/2020 22:14

Couldn't Dominic drive them back?

itsgettingweird · 21/08/2020 22:20

@eddiemairswife

Couldn't Dominic drive them back?
But soon for another eye test. Usually every 2 years but sometimes it only 1. Wink
Janaih · 21/08/2020 22:21

There are no words...

LittleBearPad · 21/08/2020 22:41

@ilovesooty

Apparently he's concerned for his and his family's safety and they're flying back to London.
Did he think the farmer was going to chase him with a pitchfork for lighting the unauthorised campfire
BluebellsareBlue · 21/08/2020 22:49

What a shit description of the area the cottage is in, near LAKE Maree? It's LOCH Maree, there is only one lake in Scotland and it's Lake of Menteith, and that's only a lake because of a mistake

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 21/08/2020 23:22

@GinWithASplashOfTonic

I thought it was bad enough when we discovered a cow in the garden. But imagine finding the prime minister and his family in your back yard

And the clean up op being a couple of lackiws wishing they'd gone to scouts as a kid

I was shocked when I found a smart silky haired blonde ferret in the drain covering outside the kitchen. Turned out to be a neighbours escaped pet. As I remember it's fur was the same colour as Boris's.
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toastmeahotcrossbun · 21/08/2020 23:57

Apparently he's concerned for his and his family's safety and they're flying back to London.

Hmm but surely it's the end of the holiday anyway, since he's been away for ages

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SockYarn · 21/08/2020 23:58

If he's staying in the property he's widely reported to be staying in, he's in the middle of NOWHERE. No shops, pubs, cafes, restaurants, takeaways. It really is very, very remote.

And the weather has been shocking up here today so I hope they've brought their waterproofs and big jumper.

Gottheteeshirtandlostit · 22/08/2020 00:04

I think he's stayed a couple of nights in St Andrews then got on a private flight from Leuchars airbase (v v nearby) to Greece and Daddy. He'll then fly back into Leuchars and pretend he's been in Scotland the whole time.

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toastmeahotcrossbun · 22/08/2020 00:12

If he's staying in the property he's widely reported to be staying in, he's in the middle of NOWHERE. No shops, pubs, cafes, restaurants, takeaways. It really is very, very remote.

Amazing how the Daily Mail suddenly found it really isn't it. I'm sure they weren't tipped off by no 10 at all.

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Gottheteeshirtandlostit · 22/08/2020 00:32

I'd bet any money he's not on the west coast (midges). If the super yacht has been seen in the Forth then I'm sticking with my original theory. Or else he did the fly out to Greece, came back, and then relocated to the West Coast. But again, midges.

CoffeeandCroissant · 22/08/2020 01:35

Yes, the midges. If he really was camping in Applecross in August he won't be doing that again in a hurry. Grin See video clip in Twitter link below:
mobile.twitter.com/alexnail/status/1296008758393556992

itsgettingweird · 22/08/2020 06:45

I think if he snuck off to Greece it would be obvious.

For a start we know he won't have got the suntan in Scotland this week Wink

ChavvySexPond · 22/08/2020 07:15

He's not furious. He's playing the victim so that becomes the story rather than where he's been, for how long and who with.

It's Barnard Castle Eye Test all over again.

Nobody drives 60 miles to a beauty spot to rest their eyesight.

And nobody sleeps outside in a tent in midge season when there's a perfectly good house with actual beds mere feet away.

This government lie about literally everything.

Dancingdeer77 · 22/08/2020 08:39

I strongly suspect he was having a nice cottage holiday, then hastily sent minders out to set up a tent so as not to have lied.... which is all a bit daft because most of us don’t really care where he goes on holiday. We care that he doesn’t have integrity.

borntobequiet · 22/08/2020 08:54

So it was Met Police who set up/took down the tent?
Poor buggers, it must be hard minding such an idiot. The local coppers must be having a good laugh.

KaptainKaveman · 22/08/2020 08:55

@SusieOwl4

He never said he was? You are listening to the media. Perhaps his protection squad slept in the tent . Who cares .
Many people care - those of us who believe that our politicians need to be held to account at any rate.

I care that he is a serial liar and has not said a single word about the exams fiasco - BTec students' grades have all but disappeared off the face of the planet. I think that merits a response.

I care that he is friends with thieves and cheats like Steve Bannon.

I care that he keeps proven liars and corrupt careerists like Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick in office.

I care that when he was mayor a whole load of cash - several millions - which he acquired for the failed Garden Bridge project went 'missing' and has never been accounted for.

Why don't you care?

FinnyStory · 22/08/2020 08:58

So what's really going on? What has all this ridiculousness been cooked up to hide this time?

chomalungma · 22/08/2020 09:18

I wonder what he would say if he was asked about it?

Such as how was it sleeping on a slope?
Did you use an air bed or an inflatable mattress?

Just a few questions is enough to expose a bullshitter.

Clavinova · 22/08/2020 09:22

I find it extremely hard to believe that he spent 2 weeks in that cottage.

Probably not.

He was in Belfast on the 13th August;

"Boris Johnson meets political leaders on visit to Northern Ireland;"

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/boris-johnson-meets-political-leaders-on-visit-to-northern-ireland-39446960.html

Here he is again last Saturday;

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets veterans following a national service of remembrance marking the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day at The National Memorial Arboretum on August 15, 2020 in Alrewas, Staffordshire."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8631429/Prince-Charles-shows-THIRTEEN-medals-leads-tributes-forgotten-heroes-VJ-Day.html

Where did the two weeks come from?

chomalungma · 22/08/2020 09:24

It gets better.
They took a pair of chairs from the cottage - climbed over a fence - and then put the tent up in the field.

Then lit a campfire.

Arrogance - on behalf of Johnson and his team

derxa · 22/08/2020 09:32

Apparently he's concerned for his and his family's safety and they're flying back to London. I don't blame him

Clavinova · 22/08/2020 09:33

I care that he is friends with thieves and cheats like Steve Bannon.

“Absolutely not. Complete codswallop. I met Mr Bannon in the White House when he was chief of staff to the president as you would expect, in the course of my duties as foreign secretary.”

"the so-called relationship" with Bannon was a "lefty delusion" and his office dismissed the latest claims of a working relationship as "totally preposterous to the point of a conspiracy".