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To think our Prime Minister is not on a camping trip

517 replies

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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itsgettingweird · 23/08/2020 12:40

@Peregrina

The trouble for Boris now is that because he has lied so often, no one is prepared to believe that he is capable of telling the truth. You have to admit that a camping holiday seems about the last thing he would be likely to want - unless it was glamping, which this didn't appear to be.
This 100%
EvilPea · 23/08/2020 12:42

Who took the pic? We don’t have. Any pictures of us all on holiday as someone’s always taking the pic

bettsbattenburg · 23/08/2020 12:49

And he'll probably want to spend time in his role as father.

Cough. Splutter.

Who took the pic? We don’t have. Any pictures of us all on holiday as someone’s always taking the pic

I'm sure the protection squad have a camera phone or two between them. Either that or Dominic Cummings is making use of his new improved eye sight and taking a few snaps.

AKissAndASmile · 23/08/2020 12:51

And Wilf seems to have shrunk? 😳

twitter.com/BettySea_/status/1297301259062579206?s=19

igot20joe · 23/08/2020 13:18

So all the posts speculating that Archie was a fake baby were taken down by MNHQ for being “not in the spirit” and yet all of this utter bollocks about a baby “shrinking” is allowed to stand?

Seriously if this thread had been about Meghan and Harry it would have been taken down days ago.

Some of the comments on here about a mother, father and their premature baby are absolutely vile. Some posters should be ashamed of themselves.

Janaih · 23/08/2020 13:29

Premature Grin very funny.

ChavvySexPond · 23/08/2020 13:59

@SabrinaThwaite

Perhaps if Johnson and Cummings didn’t have such a track record of lying and manipulating (including spreading “misleading” photos) then maybe there wouldn’t be any speculation? Just a thought.
Exactly.

You look for the lie because there normally is one.

Like the infamous picnic bench photo.

Peregrina · 23/08/2020 14:11

Only 'premature' in the sense that Carrie was pregnant a lot sooner than they were prepared to admit? Or like it use to be, that babies born 7 months after the couple's wedding were 'premature' - even when they were a pretty average 7 1/2 lbs at birth?

PiataMaiNei · 23/08/2020 14:21

Alas for the PM, he lies so fucking much that he's now got himself into a boy who cried wolf situation with a substantial chunk of the population. It's his own fault. He's demonstrated very clearly that he isn't to be trusted, so why the fuck would anyone anything he has to say if there isn't clear corroborative evidence?

Peregrina · 23/08/2020 15:23

I was just thinking the same, re the boy who cried wolf. Cameron and May, and others have been photographed on holiday and no one doubted that this was genuine because they weren't in the habit of lying.

wanderings · 23/08/2020 16:13

Absolutely. You can tell Boris is lying because his lips are moving. Yet people blindly believe his every word, hence me referring to him as "Saint Boris". And the paragon of truth Tony Bliar didn't do much to reassure us that honesty is a vital quality to be Prime Minister.

WiltedWillows · 23/08/2020 17:13

Our PM is a waste of space, in fact the whole lot of them are.

WiltedWillows · 23/08/2020 17:16

Posted too early, Boris seem your team clearly reads mN hence the obligatory photos to prove posters wrong from this post, when you and your colleagues all return to Parliament, then and only then will my kids return to school!

Noextremes2017 · 23/08/2020 17:50

Poor Boris. So lucky he had that Carribean holiday earlier in the year paid for by a generous Tory donor. (Funny how a millionaire needs another millionaire to pay for their holiday).

I seriously doubt whether Johnson could knock a tent peg in without causing a serious injury. And if that happened he would need at least 50 Intensive Care nurses and 25 doctors to look after him. Fortunately that would give him 75 names to use for future illegitimate children.....

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 23/08/2020 17:59

I don't know what Boris has got when it comes to attracting women......

Whiskyinajar · 23/08/2020 18:03

Is Carrie a 28 yr old violinist? Asking for a friend.

Notredamn · 23/08/2020 18:08

I fully believe that he's busy hammering his peg in somewhere.

PerkingFaintly · 23/08/2020 18:13

Some odd shadows going on there though?

I would never have noticed that, but now you've said...

The shadow of her right leg just... stops... Turns into grass. It looks for all the world as if something has been Photoshopped out.

How very odd.

I think I shall just file that under "Johnson lies for the sake of it, all the time, so his pictures will probably be lies too."

tapdancingmum · 23/08/2020 18:20

I presume he's at chequers as turned up at a local pub Friday. Stumbled out of the woods with 4 land rovers pulling into the car park. Posed for a picture with the landlord (friend of dh's) and sat and ate chocolate and sweets. Don't think he drank anything.

SabrinaThwaite · 23/08/2020 18:25

sat and ate chocolate and sweets

And is this why Johnson is so a anti sugar tax?

SabrinaThwaite · 23/08/2020 18:26

Mind you, I hear that Chequers has quite the well-stocked wine cellar.

Red wine anyone?

gnomeisland · 23/08/2020 18:32

No-one mentioned poor Wilfred's arm stuck over the top of the sling in the photo where a lone Boris is puffing along with the baby slung low in front of him?
Looks like the poor child was hastily thrown into the carrier for the photo.

PicsInRed · 23/08/2020 18:38

@Whiskyinajar

Is Carrie a 28 yr old violinist? Asking for a friend.
She's in her 30s and recently had a baby. Smile
gnomeisland · 23/08/2020 18:55

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To think our Prime Minister is not on a camping trip
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